Abstract: A plurality of remote terminals (A) are each disposed in a physician's office and are connected by telephone lines or other electronic data communication with a central processing system (B). Each terminal includes a data entry key board (10) and a magnetic tape reader (12) for entering physician, patient, medical service, insurance, and other medically related data. The entered data is processed by a terminal processor (20) to incorporate previously stored data from an electronic data memory and to transfer and store entered medical transaction data to memory.

Abstract: An efficient process employing cytoplasmic male sterility is provided wherein seeds capable of forming F.sub.1 hybrid Glycine max plants and restorer plants for the same simultaneously are formed in bulk in a single planting area and the seed harvest subsequently is segregated to form two substantially uniform seed assemblages. The parent soybean plants are provided with distinctly colored maternally-derived seedcoats wherein the genes for seedcoat coloration are homozygous dominant in one parent and homozygous recessive in the other parent. The resulting seeds are harvested in bulk and are separated on the basis of the soybean seedcoat coloration. Soybean plants resulting from the planting of the seeds capable of forming F.sub.1 hybrids upon self-pollination form seeds which substantially uniformly exhibit maternally-derived light-colored seedcoats in the F.sub.2 generation thereby enabling the grower to produce a substantially uniform soybean harvest.

Abstract: Peroxide vulcanizable chlorinated polyethylene compositions can, after being press cured at a temperature of 204.degree. Centigrade for a period of ten minutes, withstand ozone-induced cracking for a period of 168 hours or more when elongated 60% and exposed to 200 parts of ozone per hundred million parts of air at a temperature of 400.degree. Centigrade.

Abstract: Credit card blanks are manufactured with a plurality of random, secure codes (24) such as randomly applied infrared readable bits. A card encoding apparatus (B) includes a secure code reader (32) for reading the secure code from one of the blanks. The secure code and account information are operated on by an encoding algorithm (36, 38) to generate a verification code which is electromagnetically recorded (40) or embossed (42) on the card. In conjunction with a credit card transaction, the merchant passes the credit card past an electromagnetic read head (50) and an infrared read head (52) to read the electronically encoded account information, verification code, and secure code. A keyboard (54) enables the merchant to manually enter this data if the electromagnetic recording should be unreadable. The verification apparatus operates on the account information with a verification algorithm (66, 68, 70) to generate an answer corresponding to the verification code.

Abstract: An improved process is provided for forming seeds capable of yielding F.sub.1 hybrid soybean plants (i.e., hybrid soybean plants of the first filial generation) or maintaining male sterile soybean plants useful in the production of male fertile F.sub.1 hybrid soybean plants. Male sterile soybean plants (i.e., seed parents) and the male fertile soybean plants (i.e., pollen parents) are caused to undergo cross-pollination with the aid of pollen-carrying bees under conditions wherein pollen transport from the male parents to the female parents is significantly increased.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a kit box formed of electrostatically protective material comprising a housing of rigid material and a plurality of bins, preferably without sides formed of flexible material wherein the bins are stacked one atop the other and are releasable secured in the housing. The securing apparatus is a combination of mating locking elements in the housing and on the outer surface of the bins as well as the compressive force applied to the resilient bin structure by the housing wherein the bins are retained under compression.

Abstract: A credit card (10) has a layer (28) of high coercivity magnetic material which is of a sufficiently high magnetic coercivity that once its dipoles are polarized, they are unable to be returned to a randomized distribution. The card is embossed with a man-readable code (30) and is electromagnetically recorded with a man-nonreadable code. Particularly, the electromagnetically recorded code includes an account code (42, 44), a visual comparison algorithm code (50), a visual comparison code (52), an electronic comparison code (54), a card identification number (56), and a personal identification number (58). A reader (60) reads the account code and produces a man-readable display (102) of the electromagnetically coded account number. To verify that he has compared the display with the account number on a receipt, the merchant marks the symbols on the receipt which correspond to the highlighted symbols of the display.

Abstract: An improved procedure for forming F.sub.1 hybrid soybean plants (i.e., hybrid soybean plants of the first filial generation) is provided which is capable of being readily implemented on a commercial scale. Unlike processes proposed in the prior art the requisite cross-pollination needed to produce the F.sub.1 hybrid having hybrid vigor is precisely controlled. The seed parent upon which seeds capable of forming F.sub.1 hybrid plants are produced is fully male sterile (as described herein) thereby eliminating the possibility of self-pollination. It surprisingly has been found that the required male sterility is made possible in the seed parent by combining via a controlled plant breeding program previously widely dispersed factors comprising an atypical Cms cytoplasm and two distinct pairs of recessive genes for fertility restoration r.sub.1 r.sub.1 and r.sub.2 r.sub.2. For instance, the Cms cytoplasm conveniently may be derived from a Mandarin cytoplasmic source (e.g., the Elf variety), the r.sub.1 r.sub.

Abstract: The invention provides for a tablet for the treatment of various human disorders and deficiencies comprising hexahydrate magnesium chloride contained in an enteric coating. In a preferred form of the invention the enteric coating is derived from a solution of cellulose acetate phthalate, castor oil, alcohol and acetone and overlies a sub-coating derived from a solution of polyvinylpyrolidone in alcohol.