Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for generating business reports. According to one or more embodiments, information corresponding to a business entity is received. Such information may include a particular category of the business entity and financial information about the business entity. The financial information of the business entity is then compared to financial information collected from one or more businesses in the particular category. A predictive success score for the business entity is then generated based on the comparison. Additionally, descriptive text and financial forecasts, performance reviews and/or a dated Certificate of Performance with unique numbering are also automatically generated.

Abstract: A package consists of a plastic "card" made up of a flat, rectangular piece of material having a centrally located scoring allowing the piece of material to be folded upon itself to provide an inner enclosure. The card includes two halves to either side of the scoring, a first half including cut-outs forming two tabs that enmesh with two slots formed in the second half so that when the card is folded about the scoring, the tabs may be inserted into the slots to hold the card in the folded configuration. The second half has a series of slots of various configurations and located in desired locations to allow retention of a guide wire, suture and suture anchor in a desired configuration.

Abstract: A universal dispenser for implants or other items includes a lightweight, thin housing made up of two clamshell halves pivoted together at a hinge. One of the halves has two laterally spaced recesses and the other of the halves has two laterally spaced projections configured to be frictionally retained within respective ones of the recesses when the halves are pivoted to a closed position. At least one of the clamshell halves has an elongated recess to form a chamber when the clamshell halves are pivoted to the closed position. The ends of the clamshell halves most remote from one another may include halves of an opening which is formed when the halves are pivoted to the closed position.

Abstract: A flexible surgical screw retainer and method for holding a surgical screw within a sterilizable package and dispensing the screw in a controlled manner at a selected site. The retainer has an elongated recess into which a surgical screw may be placed in order to be retained by frictional engagement with the side walls of the recess. The recess is sized to any of a variety of screw sizes. When the package is opened, the surgical screw retainer may be removed and grasped by a user and squeezed in order to disengage the screw from the recess and enable it to fall to a selected surface.

Abstract: Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp suitable for use in photo-therapy and having a glass discharge tube which is opaque to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation and bears a luminescent layer on its inside surface. A problem in such lamps is to produce a useful quantity of radiation which is effective for photo-therapy in combination with as low a quantity of erythema-producing radiation as possible. The luminescent layer comprises a luminescent material having the characteristic line emission of gadolinium at 312 nm, and the glass has an absorption edge located between 280 and 305 nm.

Abstract: A low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp for radiation purposes having a discharge tube made of glass with selective transmission, the tube being coated on the inside with a luminescent layer. This layer contains a luminescent material which has the characteristic line emission of gadolinium at 312 nm. The discharge tube is made of glass having an absorption edge located between 260 and 280 nm and the tube has at 312 nm a transmission of at least 80%.

Abstract: Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamps provided with a luminescent layer and having a relatively high power consumption. Lamps are loaded by at least 500 W per m.sup.2 surface area of the luminescent layer. In some embodiments the lamps have a nominal length of 60 to 150 cm and consume a nominal power of 0.25 to 0.50 W per cm length of the discharge tube.

Abstract: A low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp provided with a luminescent Eu-activated rare earth oxide, a luminescent aluminate with hexagonal crystal structure activated by Ce or by Ce and Tb, or a luminescent aluminate with hexagonal crystal structure activated by Eu or by Eu and Mn. Not more than 5% by weight of the luminescent material has a grain size smaller than 1 .mu.m and the maximum of the grain size distribution curve is located in the range from 2 to 8 .mu.m.