Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of computer science and can be used for neural network emulation and digital signal processing. Increasing of the neural processor performance is achieved using the ability to change word lengths of results in program mode. The neural processor includes six registers, a shift register, a AND gate, two FIFOs, a switch, a multiplexer, two saturation units, a calculation unit and a adder circuit to execute operations over vectors of programmable word length data. Increasing of the saturation unit performance is achieved using the ability to process vector of input operands with programmable word length at a time. Increasing of the adder circuit performance is achieved using ability to sum two vectors of input operands of programmable word lengths.

Abstract: A method that first involves steeping whole wheat grains in water until the shoots appear, percolating the water not bound by the grains and grinding the grains in order to obtain an aqueous suspension of a grain mass having a particle size not exceeding 500 &mgr;m. The steeping process of the wheat flour is carried out using the water from the suspension of the grain mass by gradually pouring the wheat flour into the water during the dough mixing process. Before the grinding step, the wheat grains can be optionally rinsed with water and separated from the rinsing water by the free flow thereof. The wheat may consist of food-grade wheat of the hard or soft types, while the wheat flour may consist of a macaroni or baking flour having a humidity not exceeding 14.5%, a whiteness of at least 42 specific units and a gluten content of at least 28%.

Abstract: A booster comprises a body including tanks for an oxidizer and fuel, a nose compartment with a dome, a between-tank section and an afterbody, a rocket engine installation, an all-moving wing with a unit for turning it and fixing in a position along the axis of the booster during the ascension step and in a position turned by 90° during the return flight, horizontal and vertical fin assemblies, a triple-point support landing gear, aerodynamic control organs and units for jointing to the second stage of the launch vehicle. The booster is provided with an air-feed jet engine installation, comprising two engines with air intakes mounted in the nose compartment, and with gas-line extensions with exhaust nozzles extending beyond the bypasses of the external contours of the nose compartment, and a propellant system with propellant tanks in the wing, working and balancing tanks in the nose compartment. A wing is mounted on the upper surface of the booster body in the area of the between-tank section.

Abstract: A method and apparatus produce short-wave radiation from a gas-discharge plasma, comprising pre-ionization of the gas in the discharge region between coaxial electrodes achieved through an axial aperture formed in one of the electrodes and initiation of a pinch-type discharge. In order to increase the efficiency, energy, average power and stability of the radiation of the gas-discharge plasma, pre-ionization is achieved by a flux of radiation having wavelengths from the UV to X-ray range and by a flux of accelerated electrons from the plasma of a pulsed sliding discharge initiated in a region not optically communicating with the axis of the pinch-type discharge, with a rate of growth of the discharge voltage across the region of more than 1011 V/s, the fluxes of radiation and electrons being formed axially symmetrically and directed into the part of the discharge region outside the axis.

Abstract: A device for use with a repetitively pulsed gas laser provides self-initiated UV preliminary ionization of the active volume of a laser, which has extended high-voltage and grounded electrodes disposed parallel to one another, to which peaking capacitors distributed along the length of the electrodes are connected in a low-inductance manner. The low-voltage contacts of the peaking capacitors are either connected directly to the grounded electrode or, if this connection is interrupted, dielectric plates are inserted that are disposed either on one side or on both sides of the grounded electrode. If the capacitors are charged rapidly, a surface discharge which effects UV pre-ionization of the volume of the main discharge and is uniformly distributed over the whole surface of the dielectric plates is produced on the surface of the dielectric plates.

Abstract: A method of toroid writing and reading of information, consisting in that from toroid-like patterns made from a magnetic material the structures are organized, comprising information and reference patterns, having a closed magnetic flux of the appropriate twisting direction. When writing the alternative information, on changes the twisting direction of the closed magnetic flux in appropriate information patterns by exposing them to the coordinated in the time and magnitude action of mutually intersecting biasing and magnetic reversal alternating magnetic fields, and when reading the information, one acts on the information and the reference patterns by an alternative biasing magnetic field, afterwards detects the output signals and on the character of their responses determines the value of the information unit written into the information pattern.

Abstract: The system for the recovery of water from urine aboard spacecraft includes a urine intake and pretreatment unit, a unit for water reclamation from urine and a condensate purification unit. The unit for water reclamation from urine is made on the basis of a rotary multistage vacuum distiller, each stage of which is formed by at least one heat-transfer plate and comprises an evaporation zone and a condensation zone. The stages of the distiller are separated from each other by separation plates, a chamber for collecting condensate and noncondensable gases being disposed downstream of the last stage and communicated with all the condensation zones of all the stages through water seals of condensate overflow and openings for the removal of noncondensable gases in disks mounted in the condensation zones.

Abstract: A hybrid integrated circuit of a gas sensor, comprising a substrate (1) in the form of a ring-shaped peripheral portion (2) and a disk-shaped central portion (3), both being interconnected through three jumpers (4) spaced 120° apart and having three branchings (10) arranged at 120° at the peripheral portion (2). The central portion (3) carries a gas-sensitive film (7), a film heater (6), and a film electrode (8) of the circuit for measuring the resistance of the gas-sensitive film (7). The heater (6) and the electrode (8) are electrically connected along the jumpers (4) to bonding pads (5) located in the peripheral portion (2). The thickness of the jumpers (4) and of the central portion (3) is 0.15-0.25 mm, and the width of the jumpers (4) is 0.05-0.15 mm.

Abstract: A method of preparing a membrane is disclosed, which includes the step of impregnating an inorganic proton-conductive material into matrices of porous ceramic membranes. The inorganic proton-conductive material may include an inorganic poly-acid, such as polyphosphates or poly-antimonic acids. The inorganic proton conducting material may include Zr (zirconium).The invention further provides a porous ceramic membrane, which includes an inorganic proton-conductive material impregnated into a porous ceramic membrane matrix.The ceramic membrane may be a tubular ceramic membrane, which includes pores with a diameter of at least 0.3 .mu.m, and depositions of electroconductive coatings onto its surface on which externally applied potential can be applied as a driving force for hydrogen separation.

Abstract: Greater efficiency in a water-alkaline emulsion cumene oxidation process using a cascade of reactors is obtained by splitting the reactor cascade into 2 stages with the first stage utilizing NH.sub.4 NaCO.sub.3 as the active carbonate in the stage containing less than 18% by weight cumene hydroperoxide and using Na.sub.2 CO.sub.3 as the active carbonate in the stage containing more than 18% by weight cumene hydroperoxide. By directly injecting ammonia into a recycle stream organic acids are efficiently neutralized. A counter current water wash of the second stage also increases process efficiency by scrubbing out unwanted impurities. Control of pH in the process improves efficiency and reduces impurity levels.

Abstract: A process for the production of radiostrontium consists in that a target of metallic rubidium is bombarded by a flow of accelerating charged particles. The target of irradiated rubidium is melted, whereas the extraction of radiostrontium is carried out by sorption on the surface of a sorbing material immersed into the irradiated molten metallic rubidium. As the sorbing material, use is made of materials selected from the group consisting of heat-resistant metals or metallic oxides or silicon which are inert with respect to rubidium. The resultant radiostrontium is extracted from the irradiated rubidium. The temperature of the sorbing material is selected to be close to the optimum one for the sorption of radiostrontium which is within the range of from the melting point of metallic rubidium to 220.degree. C. And the temperature of molten rubidium is selected to be close to the optimum one for the desorption of radiostrontium within the range of from 220.degree. C. to 270.degree. C.

Abstract: Greater efficiency in a water-alkaline emulsion cumene oxidation process using a cascade of reactors is obtained by splitting the reactor cascade into 2 stages with the first stage utilizing NH.sub.4 NaCO.sub.3 as the active carbonate in the stage containing less than 18% by weight cumene hydroperoxide and using Na.sub.2 CO.sub.3 as the active carbonate in the stage containing more than 18% by weight cumene hydroperoxide. By directly injecting ammonia into a recycle stream organic acids are efficiently neutralized. A counter current water wash of the second stage also increases process efficiency by scrubbing out unwanted impurities. Control of pH in the process improves efficiency and reduces impurity levels.

Abstract: A new chemical compound, ketopantoyl aminobutyrate of formula I: ##STR1## and its salts. The compound is obtained by interaction of ketopantolactone and a salt of .gamma.-aminobutyric acid.It was shown that the new compound exhibits sedative, anti-amnesic and antihypoxic properties.

Abstract: A method for water recovery from the atmosphere of a habitable pressurized module laden with water vapors released by the inhabitants of said pressurized module, comprising the steps of condensing vapor to produce a gas-liquid mixture, filtering said mixture, carrying out catalytic oxidation of undissociating organic compounds contained in the gas-liquid mixture into dissociating ones by means of a metal-carbon catalyst containing at least one metal of the platinum group, separating condensate from said mixture, sorption-purification of condensate by passing it through activated carbon and ionites followed by disinfection, mineralization and preservation of purified condensate. The system for realization of said method comprises a successively arranged means for condensation of water vapors, a filter, a catalytic oxidation reaction vessel, a condensate separation unit, a sorption purification unit and a water conditioning unit.

Abstract: According to the invention, the central processing unit for numbers represented in a system of residual classes comprises registers of first and second operands which are connected to generators, a multiplier, a divider, a shift unit, a modular arithmetic unit, and an analysis system. The analysis system is connected to sign registers, a result sign register, an overflow attribute register, and a result register. The result register is connected to the multiplier, the divider, the shift unit and the modular arithmetic unit. The invention makes it possible to develop a fundamentally novel family of computers operating with numbers in the system of residual classes.

Abstract: A lighting installation for interior lighting of structures with pneumatic supporting members, comprising a hollow slotted light guide in the form of a supporting and shaping element of the structure. The hollow slotted light guide is of elastic film with a mirror light-reflecting coating provided on a portion of the interior surface over the entire length thereof. The other portion, which faces the interior being lighted, is a light-permeable slot. The luminous flux from one or more light sources arranged in an optical input device, which is mounted at least on one side of the light guide, is directed into the light guide, multiply reflected from the internal surface which has a light-reflecting coating and escapes through the optical slot into the interior of the structure to be lighted.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing high-melting-metal-oxide-based crystalline materials by melting a charge under the effect of a high-frequency electromagnetic field with the charge melting zone being maintained constant, the charge being loaded continuously and obtained crystalline material being withdrawn also continuously. The apparatus is a cooled mould, whose body is shaped as a truncated cone with an angle between its generatrix and cone height ranging from 2.degree. to 10.degree., and an induction coil encompassing the body of the cooled mould in the region of location of the constant melting zone.

Abstract: A freeze desalination and concentration apparatus comprising a desalination unit including mounted in the flow sequence a three-circuit heat exchanger, a condenser for a refrigerant and for melting ice mass, a cylindrical crystallizer having a separator with an auger arrangement mounted inside the crystallizer in a spaced relationship thereto and coaxially therewith. An ice-cutting device is accommodated between the crystallizer and separator, and another ice-cutting device is provided between the casing of the desalination unit and the outer ice-forming surface of the crystallizer, the lower part of the crystallizer having a perforated bottom plate, and the apparatus further comprises, directly adjacent to the desalination unit a refrigerator compressor, pumps, a pipeline for feeding a mixture of a starting solution and a part of recycled brine, the refrigerant condenser and the three-circuit heat exchanger being combined to form an integral heat-exchange system.

Abstract: A weight measuring apparatus, wherein a weight sensitive element is connected to a metallic moving member of a weight sensitive element displacement-to-electrical inductive transducer. The moving member is made as a plate positioned in the clearance between two inductance coils of said transducer secured on the casing, their windings being arranged on armour cores. The winding of the first inductance coil is connected to a high-frequency oscillator, whereas the winding of the second inductance coil is electrically connected to a metering circuit. The weight measuring apparatus is characterized by high accuracy of measuring, quick action and high resolution.

Abstract: The invention relates to the manufacture of seamless tubes by the method of tube rolling. According to the method of the present invention a hollow blank is deformed with regard to its wall thickness, the deformation being alternated at least twice with a reduction of the diameter of the blank by means ofa mandrel with alternating groups of grooves for deformation and groups for reduction. The mandrel diameter at the portions corresponding to the groups of reduction grooves is smaller than the mandrel diameter at the preceding portions corresponding to the groups of grooves designed for deformation of the hollow blank to change the wall thickness thereof. During the continuous rolling, this enables subsequent levelling out of bulges at the tube ends in grooves on the mandrel during the deformation of the blank wall. As a result, the range of rolled tubes is considerably enlarged with an increased production of small-diameter thick-walled tubes and large-diameter thin-walled tubes without bulged ends.