Abstract: The present invention relates to managing advertising inventory. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and method for managing advertising inventory so as to enhance total ad revenue. In a preferred embodiment, one or more restrictions are selectively applied to limit the respective availability levels of one or more selected categories of advertisements within the advertising inventory. Typically, the selected categories of advertisements which are subject to the restrictions are at the lowest end of the pricing levels. By limiting the respective availability levels of selected categories of advertisements, unnecessary displacements of other categories of advertisements which are priced at the higher end of the pricing levels are reduced, thereby enhancing the total ad revenue that can be generated.

Abstract: A variable spaced conveyor belt includes a plurality of spaced tractive rods and a plurality of rows of wickets transversely disposed with respect to a direction of travel and interconnecting the plurality of spaced tractive rods, each of the rows of wickets including a plurality of first links and a plurality of second links, the plurality of first links have a first spacing and the plurality of second links have a second spacing, the first spacing being less than the second spacing.

Abstract: Plastic flat spiral units and plastic connecting rods are conventionally assembled with one another and secured to one another at respective ends, to provide a plastic woven spiral conveyor belt with rounds of turns nested in concave oblique crimp notches on the connecting rods.

Abstract: A method of modeling a combinatorial gate which includes providing a data signal input at the combinatorial gate, providing a clock signal input at the combinatorial gate, propagating the clock signal as an output signal when the output of the combinatorial gate corresponds to the clock signal, and propagating the data signal as an output when the output of the combinatorial gate corresponds to the data signal, the propagating the data signal modeling a near domino function.

Abstract: A method of using static timing analysis to extract implicit connectivity graph information. The method includes creating a unique clock waveform, defining a clock domain for the clock waveform, injecting the clock domain into a control node, propagating timing events from the control node to a transitively adjacent observation node, and retrieving transitively adjacent control node information to determine path delay information from the control node to the transitively adjacent observation node based upon propagation of timing events.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for a liquid which relies on molded components capable of being interchanged to provide, in addition to incremental adjustment within a range of dosages allowed by stroke limiting rotational adjustment of the relativity of escarpment and abutment members, the change of one or both the spread of the dosage range and at least one limit of the range.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for a liquid which relies on moulded components capable of being interchanged to provide, in addition to incremental adjustment within a range of dosages allowed by stroke limiting rotational adjustment of the relativity of escarpment and abutment members, the change of one or both the spread of the dosage range and at least one limit of the range.

Abstract: Photometric apparatus, for counting the particulate components in blood and for determining the degree of particulate agglutination is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a body provided with an absorbent well for holding the blood bearing solution. The body is further provided with a passage to allow communication between the well and a detector which is capable of detecting the response of the particulate material to stimulating radiation. The absorptive well has the characteristic of absorbing radiation at the wavelength which characterizes the response of the particulate material to stimulating radiation. The well advantageously prevents the detector from detecting radiation that would otherwise be reflected by the well, whereby the linearity of the response of the apparatus is greatly increased. Linearity is further enhanced by assuring full crenation of the cells with a specific reagent.