Abstract: A system for tracking school buses and schoolchildren to enhance the security and safety of schoolchildren and provide real-time information about the location of students and buses to teachers and administrators and parents by utilizing GPS components and fingerprint scanning technology. In some embodiments, the system is comprised of the following parts: a client software component, hosted on a data storage unit and executed by a client microprocessor.

Abstract: A communication device, user equipment, and a communication system are provided. The communication device comprises a Context ID check module to check a Context ID (CID) of a current default bearer in response to a disconnect command from a host; wherein, if the Context ID check module determines that there is only a first default bearer activated, the Context ID check module releases the connection between the communication device and the host without deactivating the first default bearer; and if the Context ID check module determines that there are two default bearers activated, the Context ID check module releases the second default bearer.

Abstract: The present invention provides vapor deposition methods that overcome the kinetic restrictions imposed by more conventional vapor deposition processes and liquid-cooling techniques to form amorphous molecular solids with greatly enhanced stabilities. The present methods produce amorphous molecular solids having stabilities, as measured by fictive temperature, that cannot be achieved using liquid-cooling methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides surface-stabilized amorphous pharmaceuticals comprising an amorphous pharmaceutical substrate coated with a biocompatible immobilizing material. Amorphous pharmaceutical substrates that are prone to surface enhanced crystallization benefit from the present coatings. The coated amorphous pharmaceuticals of the present invention maintain their amorphous state and, therefore, their solubility over extended periods of time, relative to uncoated pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: The present invention provides vapor deposition-methods that overcome the kinetic restrictions imposed by more conventional vapor deposition processes and liquid-cooling techniques to form amorphous molecular solids with greatly enhanced-stabilities. The present methods produce amorphous molecular solids having stabilities, as measured by fictive temperature, that cannot be achieved using liquid-cooling methods.

Abstract: There is provided a method for regulating the absorption of a nutrient in a subject, including administering to the subject an effective amount of a ginsenoside compound purified from Panax notoginseng for modulating transportation of the nutrient across gut cells of the subject.

Abstract: There is provided a method for enhancing the absorption of a nutrient in a subject, including administering to the subject an effective amount of a astragaloside compound purified from Astragalus membranaceus var. mongholicus for facilitating transportation of the nutrient across gut cells of the subject.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for analyzing reactions involving nucleic acids. The invention utilizes nucleic acids immobilized on a defined substrate in such a manner that the nucleic acid can participate in enzymatic and chemical reactions. These reactions are carried out in the presence of labeled reagents, thereby enabling the progress of the reactions to be analyzed using various techniques, such a fluorescent microscopy. The invention is particularly well suited for investigating transcription phenomena and generating genome-wide maps based upon reactions of individual nucleic acid molecules.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for analyzing reactions involving nucleic acids. The invention utilizes nucleic acids immobilized on a defined substrate in such a manner that the nucleic acid can participate in enzymatic and chemical reactions. These reactions are carried out in the presence of labeled reagents, thereby enabling the progress of the reactions to be analyzed using various techniques, such a fluorescent microscopy. The invention is particularly well suited for investigating transcription phenomena and generating genome-wide maps based upon reactions of individual nucleic acid molecules.

Abstract: A tire-safety sensing device includes a supporting rod having one end connected to the body of the vehicle, located beside a tire, a fixing peg to pivotally connect the sensing device to a sensing rod to provide swinging motion, a contacting wheel with a bearing mounted onto the top end of the sensing rod, a spring (tortional spring) being mounted to the fixing peg, the two ends of the spring being mounted to a protrusion within a notch provided at the supporting rod and a protrusion of the sensing rod, the spring urges the sensing rod towards the tire such that the contacting wheel is in contact with the tire.