Abstract: Grounding assemblies for cables entering telecommunications enclosures. The grounding assemblies include a cable fixation subassembly and a grounding subassembly that are electrically coupled together to ground strength members and a conductive shield of a cable. The cable fixation subassembly can fixate the cable such that the strength members lie in a plane that is at a non-zero angle relative to each of a horizontal reference plane and a vertical reference plane.

Abstract: Grounding assemblies for cables entering telecommunications enclosures. The grounding assemblies include a cable fixation subassembly and a grounding subassembly that are electrically coupled together to ground strength members and a conductive shield of a cable. The cable fixation subassembly can fixate the cable such that the strength members lie in a plane that is at a non-zero angle relative to each of a horizontal reference plane and a vertical reference plane.

Abstract: Grounding assemblies for cables entering telecommunications enclosures. The grounding assemblies include a cable fixation subassembly and a grounding subassembly that are electrically coupled together to ground strength members and a conductive shield of a cable. The cable fixation subassembly can fixate the cable such that the strength members lie in a plane that is at a non-zero angle relative to each of a horizontal reference plane and a vertical reference plane.

Abstract: Grounding assemblies for cables entering telecommunications enclosures. The grounding assemblies include a cable fixation subassembly and a grounding subassembly that are electrically coupled together to ground strength members and a conductive shield of a cable. The cable fixation subassembly can fixate the cable such that the strength members lie in a plane that is at a non-zero angle relative to each of a horizontal reference plane and a vertical reference plane.

Abstract: Method for addressing non-stationary seismic data for data processing techniques (106) that assume that the data are stationary. In the present invention, windowing operations are applied, not in time and space as in traditional methods, but in frequency and wavenumber. This windowing in frequency and wavenumber is done implicitly by a cascade of separable one dimensional time and spatial filtering operations (104). These filters are Gaussian functions modulated by a complex exponential. By using a variety of these filters, the input data can be decomposed into a series of slopes and frequencies that can be reassembled to the original by applying the adjoint operation followed by a weighted sum (108). This decomposed domain of time, space, frequency and slope can be used as a domain where a priori information about the output can be applied in a straightforward manner.

Abstract: Method for addressing non-stationary seismic data for data processing techniques (106) that assume that the data are stationary. In the present invention, windowing operations are applied, not in time and space as in traditional methods, but in frequency and wavenumber. This windowing in frequency and wavenumber is done implicitly by a cascade of separable one dimensional time and spatial filtering operations (104). These filters are Gaussian functions modulated by a complex exponential. By using a variety of these filters, the input data can be decomposed into a series of slopes and frequencies that can be reassembled to the original by applying the adjoint operation followed by a weighted sum (108). This decomposed domain of time, space, frequency and slope can be used as a domain where a priori information about the output can be applied in a straightforward manner.

Abstract: An attention-focusing device (10) supplies sets of prompting signals for a plurality of related self-improvement regimens, and has a housing (12) of a structural form that fits within a closed hand, allows convenient portability, and camouflages use and purpose of device (10). The device has a visual sender (20) embedded within the housing (12) to shield the signal from direct observation by non-users, and an incurvate surface (22) formed in the housing (12) to further shield the visual sender (20) and provide a structural surface for kinesthetic contact.

Abstract: A line protector is provided which includes positive temperature coefficient resistors in the circuit which are thermally coupled to voltage clamping devices which require protection from failures caused by overheating from conducting excessive amounts of current for a time sufficient to cause device breakdown. This may compensate for the performance variability of the positive temperature coefficient resistors so as to improve the likelihood that they will experience a sufficient temperature increase to switch before the voltage clamping device reaches a breakdown temperature. Furthermore, a line protector which may provide protection against current flow to the communications circuit from overvoltage conditions on the circuit side of the line protector or by a ground potential difference between the line protector and the communications circuit is also provided including positive temperature coefficient resistors positioned between the overvoltage line protector circuits and the communications circuit.

Abstract: The invention is a device for teaching children about good nutrition, comprising a board divided into a plurality of regions and a plurality of tokens adapted to stick to the board. The tokens comprise at least:a) a plurality of first tokens, each of the first tokens corresponding to a single portion of a food or beverage item selected from a first specific food group; andb) a plurality of second tokens, each of the second tokens corresponding to a single portion of a food or beverage item selected from a second specific food group. The regions on the board comprise at least:a) a first region, where the first region is labelled as corresponding to the first specific food group; andb) a second region, where the second region is (1) labelled as corresponding to the second specific food group.

Abstract: A vent-safe protector for a telecommunications gas tube (102) includes two electrodes (108,140) (150',140) separated by a non-linear resistive material (134). Each electrode is connected to a gas tube protector terminal (108, 142) to provide an alternate discharge path if the gas tube (102) fails. The non-linear resistive material (134) is substantially non-conductive when the electrical potential between the electrodes is less than the material's breakdown voltage V.sub.B. Above that voltage it becomes conductive and supports a plasma discharge therethrough, effecting a sudden increase in conductivity between the electrodes for discharging high energy potentials with a voltage foldback functionally analogous to the foldback behavior of the gas tube protector.

Abstract: High purity isopropyl acetate and ethanol are recovered from a process stream containing isopropyl acetate, ethanol and water by a multiple step process including extracting substantially all of the ethanol from the stream using water as a solvent, stripping the extract stream to remove substantially all of the remaining isopropyl acetate as an overhead recycle stream, which is combined with the fresh feed stream prior to the extraction step, fractionating the ethanol-rich stripping column bottoms stream to produce a ethanol-water azeotropic overhead stream and using a portion of the fractionating column bottoms stream as the solvent for the extraction step.

Abstract: A mechanism for preventing removal of a ramp from its storage space beneath the floor of a truck body when the door for the truck body opening is latched closed. The ramp is insertable into and is removable from the ramp storage space through an opening beneath the truck body opening. The door latching mechanism includes a latch bolt movably mounted on the door and engagable with a catch pin in the truck body floor. The latch bolt carries a pawl which is engagable with a portion of the ramp to prevent removal of the ramp when the ramp is properly stored. The pawl also prevents the latch bolt from engaging the catch pin if the ramp is improperly stored.

Abstract: High purity isopropyl acetate and ethanol are recovered from a process stream containing isopropyl acetate, ethanol and water by a multiple step process including extracting substantially all of the ethanol from the stream using water as a solvent, stripping the extract stream to remove substantially all of the remaining isopropyl acetate as an overhead recycle stream, which is combined with the fresh feed stream prior to the extraction step, fractionating the ethanol-rich stripping column bottoms stream to produce a ethanol-water azeotropic overhead stream and using a portion of the fractionating column bottoms stream as the solvent for the extraction step.