Abstract: A monitoring service is described that allows flexible response through operators taken from a group of chosen individuals. When an alarm state is triggered the chosen individuals may act collaboratively as operators to manage alarm conditions for a particular user.

Abstract: A monitoring service is described that allows flexible response through operators taken from a group of chosen individuals. When an alarm state is triggered the chosen individuals may act collaboratively as operators to manage alarm conditions for a particular user.

Abstract: The invention is a dosing pump that can be worn on the body of a patient for subcutaneously delivering liquid with centi-micro liter accuracy to his/her body. The dosing pump comprises a pump unit, an internal control unit; and a reservoir containing the liquid. The pump unit comprises a pump block (12) comprising a pump chamber (118) with a pump diaphragm (107) stretched across its entrance and a pump pin cylinder (110) extending from the exterior of the pump block to the entrance to the pump chamber; a pump pin (20) that is located in the pump pin cylinder and a motor unit comprising a motor and gear system. When the motor is activated, the rotational motion of the motor and the gears in the gear system is transformed into cyclic back and forth linear motion of the pump pin in the pin cylinder pumping the liquid from the reservoir into the patient.

Abstract: A new process for the purification of lutein-fatty acid esters from marigold flower petals or marigold petal oleoresins based on alkanol precipitation is disclosed. The purified colorant thus prepared is suitable for coloring foods in the yellow to red region.

Abstract: A new anthocyanin recovery system from plant materials such as grape wastes based on tartaric acid-alkanol extraction followed by controlled precipitation of excess tartaric acid as potassium hydrogen tartrate is described. An artificial grape drink colored with the anthocyanin extract thus prepared was found to be acceptable.