Abstract: A storage device and a storage system employing the storage device. In one embodiment, the storage device comprises an electron emitter and a storage medium comprising an information layer having at least a first state and a second state for storing information. The storage device comprises a resistance measurement system coupled to the storage medium for reading the information stored at the information layer by measuring resistance to determine a state of a storage area on the information layer.

Abstract: The present invention comprises novel polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene block copolymers compositions and compounds. The compositions comprise block copolymers that are useful in gene therapy methods.

Abstract: A terminal block assembly includes a base assembly including a terminal block housing and a terminal stud extending through the terminal block housing. A filter assembly is coupled to one end of the stud, and a second housing is coupled to the terminal block housing over the filter assembly. The filter assembly is enclosed between the first and second housing, and a ground plate is coupled to the base assembly and the filter assembly for dissipating filtered signals.

Abstract: A terminal block includes a housing defining at least one bias compartment and at least one terminal compartment. A terminal plate is located within the housing and separates the bias compartment and the terminal compartment, and a bias element is positioned in the bias compartment. The bias element comprises a retainer portion extending through an opening in the terminal plate into the terminal compartment. The bias element is configured to retain a wire terminal to the terminal plate along a first direction and the terminal plate is configured to retain the wire terminal along a second direction when the wire terminal is received in through the retainer portion.

Abstract: The present invention comprises novel polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene block copolymer compositions and compounds. The compositions comprise block copolymers that are high molecular weight molecules, and are useful in gene therapy methods.

Abstract: The present invention includes novel polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene block copolymers as well as methods for making the block copolymers. The block copolymers are high molecular weight molecules and are useful as general surfactants and display enhanced biological efficacy as vaccine adjuvants.

Abstract: The present invention includes novel polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene block copolymers as well as methods for making the block copolymers. The block copolymers are high molecular weight molecules and are useful as general surfactants and display enhanced biological efficacy as vaccine adjuvants.

Abstract: To supply messages to an audience of Internet users, the messages are initially stored on an Internet server which is accessible by a group of Internet clients operated by Internet users, when a message is received at the server, it includes an information part and a data part. The data part includes at least one identifier specifying the intended audience of the message. In the server, the information part of the message is stored as an HTML file in a first store and the URL of the file containing the information part of the message together with the identifier or identifiers of the intended audience are stored in a second store. To view messages intended for a particular user on one of the clients, the client transmits requests automatically at periodic intervals to the server for new messages intended for the user. In response to each request, the server scans the fields in the second store to compile a list of URLs of messages intended for the user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and system for measuring three dimensional spatial coordinates and for external camera calibration necessary for that measurement. A simple pattern of light is projected onto a surface and used as a photogrammetric target. Images of the simple pattern are captured by two or more cameras, and processed by a computer provided with software using conventional algorithms to identify homologous points. Either, these points are used to calculate the external calibration of the cameras, or they are used in conjunction with previously calculated external camera calibration in order to calculate three dimensional spatial coordinates on the surface of an object to be measured.

Abstract: The present invention includes novel polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene block copolymers as well as methods for making the block copolymers. The block copolymers are high molecular weight molecules and are useful as general surfactants and display enhanced biological efficacy as vaccine adjuvants.

Abstract: The present invention includes novel polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene block copolymers as well as methods for making the block copolymers. The block copolymers are high molecular weight molecules and are useful as general surfactants and display enhanced biological efficacy as vaccine adjuvants.

Abstract: A high purity methane product is recovered from a feed gas mixture containing methane and one or more hydrocarbons heavier than methane by cooling, condensing, and rectifying the feed in a dephlegmator. The high purity methane product, containing at least 98 mole % methane, can be liquefied and stored for use as a fuel for internal combustion engines. A hydrocarbon product containing components heavier than methane is also recovered.Methane recovery and C.sub.2.sup.+ hydrocarbon product purity can be improved by the use of a combined stripping heat exchanger and feed gas cooler. External refrigeration is utilized and can be supplemented in part by autorefrigeration provided by vaporizing dephlegmator liquid.

Abstract: A production pump & circulation tool (1, FIG. 1) used down-hole on the end of a production string (FIG. 10) including: a combined traveling valve assembly bottom connector (10) and fishing tool section (20) which engages gripping pins (51) for twisting the tool and is associated with a traveling ball valve (11/12); a sleeve (30); peripherally spaced, "J" slots (43) in an outer member (40) in which guide pins (52) move changing the tool's state with rotation about a longitudinal axis; a biasing spring (81); a standing valve assembly (50) which carries at its top a projector for unseating the traveling ball valve and to which the pins are attached and which encloses a standing valve ball (50A) and carries its seat (50B); a combined bushing (60) and top spring seat (70); a spring housing (80); and a standing valve projector (90) which can unseat the standing ball from its valve seat when the assembly 50 is lowered against the force of the spring. A pumping "valve locked closed" disposition (FIGS.

Abstract: An amorphous silica has a pore volume in the range of from about 1.6 to about 2.5 cc g.sup.-1, a mean pore diameter in the range of from about 8.0 to about 20 nm, a surface area in the range from about 450 to about 1100 m.sup.2 g.sup.-1 and an oil absorption in the range of from about 250 to about 350 cc/100g.

Abstract: A support device for a workpiece, such as a spectrophotometric flow cell is provided. The device includes a base plate, a mounting bar attached to the base plate, a support arm slidably mounted on the base plate/mounting bar assembly, an adjustment plug contained in an elongate cavity formed in the support arm, and a workpiece rotatably friction mounted on the adjustment plug. With the base plate mounted horizontally, the orientation and position of the work piece may be adjusted horizontally by sliding the support arm along the mounting bar, vertically by moving the adjustment plug within the elongate cavity and rotationally by rotating the workpiece, which is retained in its new position by the friction mount.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a pulling over and toe lasting machine and a side and heel seat lasting machine. The pulling over and toe lasting machine comprises two linear potentiometers (102, 104) for monitoring the movement of the heel rest (26) both lengthwise and heightwise of a shoe, a left/right sensor (PrS2) and a proximity switch (PrS1) which senses when the wiper plates (20) reach a predetermined position in their inwiping movement and causes output value information from the potentiometers (102, 104) and left/right sensor (PrS2) to be "read". The side and heel seat lasting machine comprises two side lasting assemblies (36) tiltable in a direction lengthwise of the shoe, to accommodate to the spring of the last, and two adhesive-applying nozzles (40) arranged to track along opposite portions of the shoe. A further linear potentiometer (146) monitors the nozzle movement, and stepping motors (66) are provided for effecting tilting movement of the assemblies (36).

Abstract: In a heel seat lasting machine (or combined side and seat lasting machine) the shoe is located lengthwise and heightwise in relation to the heel seat lasting instrumentalities (18) by first locating it lengthwise by the heel band (16), retracting it through a predetermined distance to separate it from the heel band, locating it heightwise against a holddown (20), and returning it to its lengthwise location, moving the holddown therewith during the return movement.

Abstract: The device locks the sliding panel against horizontal and vertical movement. The device is secured on one of the upraised walls of the panel track by an eccentric that works in opposition to a support flange. The support flange carries slide stops to prevent the panel from sliding in its track. The vertical movement of the window out of the track is prevented by a lift stop comprising a flat spring secured in the upper track or lift stop elements on the support flange.

Abstract: Novel complexes between (a) a compound of the formula ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl; and (b), salts of one of the cations Li, Na, K, Rb, Mg, Ca, Sr, Mn (II), Mn (III), Fe (II), Fe (III), Cu (I), Cu (II), Ag (I), Zn (II), Sn (II), Au (I), Au (II), Hg (I), Hg (II), Ni (I), Ni (II), Co (II), Co (III), hydronium, ammonium alkylammonium and pyridinium; optionally with solvent molecules in the crystal lattice, which complexes are useful as sources of highly pure salts and as soluble sources of certain inorganic reagents, e.g., KMnO.sub.4, NaNO.sub.2, NaSCN, etc., in hydrocarbon systems. For example, a 1:2 complex of sodium chloride and [CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O] .sub.4 is formed with 5 molecules of water per sodium cation in the crystal lattice of the complex.