Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Rose plant named ‘Evera208’, characterized by its upright and mounding plant habit; dark green-colored leaflets; fragrant double orange red-colored flowers; flowers held upright on strong and erect peduncles; and good postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which abundantly forms on a substantially continuous basis attractive long-lasting double lilac-colored flowers that bear a strong fragrance. The petals commonly detach cleanly without drying on the plant. The new variety was created by artificial pollination at Hyères, France. The growth habit is bushy. The vegetation is vigorous and good disease resistance to Blackspot and Powdery Mildew has been observed during observation to date. The new plant is well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape.

Abstract: A new and distinct Malus domestica (Borkh.) apple tree variety is provided which exhibits a columnar tree type, weakly vigorous compact growth, predominant bearing on spurs and Vf-resistance against scab. The new variety yields late maturing, medium-sized, globose-conical to conical fruits having good storage quality. The fruit color is yellow-green to yellow with a partial red to orange blush. The fruits have a yellow-colored firm flesh that is crisp and juicy with a good sweet/sour balance and very good eating quality.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘RLH1-3P3’, characterized by its compact, upright, outwardly spreading and globose plant habit; freely branching habit; dense, bushy and vigorous growth habit; small evergreen and persistent dark green-colored leaves that do not abscise during the winter; freely flowering habit during spring and from summer until frost in autumn; large white-colored flowers that are not persistent; single star-shaped flower form; and excellent garden performance.

Abstract: A new Hydrangea plant, which has abundant, pink colored double flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glass houses as a flowering pot plant. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: A new, distinct Geum plant as shown and described, characterized by semi double flowers of yellow with rose colored tips.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Dianthus plant named ‘FLORIJADE’ is characterized, inter alia, by pronounced spray habit, perennial and profuse bloom, and green foliage. Dianthus ‘FLORIJADE’ is suitable for use, for example, as a flowering plant in pots, containers, window boxes, and the garden, but is primarily suited for the production of cut flowers. Dianthus ‘FLORIJADE’ is not hardy and is typically grown in a glasshouse. These traits set ‘FLORIJADE’ apart from all existing varieties, lines, strains, or sports of Dianthus. In particular, Dianthus ‘FLORIJADE’ has bright purple/violet flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Deknyaka’, characterized by its small single-type inflorescences with white-colored ray florets and green-colored disc florets; strong and upright flowering stems; freely branching and flowering habit; early and uniform flowering response; and good postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Zonal Geranium plant named ‘Dueimpres’, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly spreading plant habit; freely basal branching habit; dark green-colored leaves with zonation pattern; freely flowering habit; semi-double red purple-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Zonal Geranium plant named ‘Duemarine’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; dark green-colored leaves with zonation pattern; freely flowering habit; semi-double dark red purple-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Zonal Geranium plant named ‘Duevifuchs’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; dark green-colored leaves with a distinct zonation pattern; freely flowering habit; semi-double red purple-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Zonal Geranium plant named ‘Dueviscar’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; dark green-colored leaves with a distinct zonation pattern; freely flowering habit; semi-double red-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant named ‘Reese’, characterized by its medium in size, upright, uniform and moderately vigorous growth habit; medium-sized to small dark green-colored leaves with crenate margins; uniform and freely flowering habit; medium-sized orange-colored flowers; and excellent postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct selection of Agapanthus africanus (commonly known as Lily of the Nile) which herein is referred to as Agapanthus africanus cv. ‘Ponto's Queen of the Nile.’ ‘Ponto's Queen of the Nile’ differs from its parent plant, Agapanthus africanus Queen Ann, by possessing a gold leaf with a dark green stripe in the middle rather than an all-green leaf. The flower stock is green with a gold stripe as well.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Sunbelsima’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching and flowering plant habit; early and long flowering period; yellow and red bi-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Duealhotor’, characterized by its compact, semi-upright and outwardly spreading to trailing and decumbent plant habit; freely branching growth habit; numerous large dark orange-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct Calibrachoa plant named ‘Wescadobl’ that exhibits double-flowers and a vigorous and trailing growth habit.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Helleborus plant named ‘HLR 140’, characterized by its upright plant habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; single light pink and greyed purple bi-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct Salvia cultivar named ‘FLAMMEN’ is disclosed, characterized by a long inflorescence, large individual flower size and early flowering. ‘FLAMMEN’ is highly floriferous and has an upright plant habit. The new variety is a Salvia, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Sedum plant named ‘Yellow Xenox’, characterized by its upright and compact plant habit; basally branching habit; dense and bushy growth habit; attractive light yellow green-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: In a wire drawing process for forming a wire rod containing iridium as a main component and which further contains nickel and at least one of platinum, rhodium and ruthenium, and having a cross-sectional area of not smaller than 0.05 mm2 and not larger than 1.2 mm2. The worked material is continuously heated red hot and/or white hot in a heating region 103 extending up to 60 mm from the work inserting surface 101a of a die 101 in a direction opposite that in which the work 102 moves, the work being heated to a temperature of 1000 to 1150° C. at a temperature measuring position 105 which is removed from the work inserting surface 101a by 20 mm. Furthermore, the temperature in the region 106 extending from the temperature measuring position 105 to the work inserting surface 101a is set to not lower than 1000° C., and the wire drawing rate is set to 300 to 1600 mm/min.

Abstract: A substrate for use in a flooring system which has a subfloor and a decorative upper layer. The substrate is made in a continuous sheet which has a bottom surface, a top surface, side surfaces and end surfaces. The top surface and the oppositely facing bottom surface are essentially parallel to each other and are spaced apart by the thickness of the substrate. Voids are provided in the substrate, the voids are provided between particles of rubber or other similar material. When the substrate is positioned between the subfloor and the decorative top layer, the particles of rubber provide the strength required to prevent deformation of the substrate in the direction of the thickness and the voids contribute to the sound dampening characteristics required to provide decibel reduction across the thickness of the substrate.

Abstract: A portable device that includes a plurality of test modules for analyzing preselected concentrations of various body fluids of a patient. The portable diagnostic device interfaces and utilizes disposable cartridges and reagent diagnostic test strips and other fluid sample diagnostic devices to determine the amounts of preselected parameters in a patient's blood through either electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis. The disposable fluid sample diagnostic devices may include sample chambers with inlet ports, electrical, physical, or chemical sensors, in situ calibration media, a plurality of electrical interface terminals, and temperature control elements. An electrical interface interconnects the various test modules with one or more corresponding integrated circuits which in turn are electrically coupled to a common interactive display, printer, power supply, and communication ports.

Abstract: This invention is a variable orifice for controlling the mass flow rate of nitrous oxide used as an engine oxidizer, this orifice having an effective size, or area, which changes with changes in the nitrous oxide pressure applied to it. Several design parameters can be changed to provide the desired effective orifice area as a function of pressure. This variable orifice can be designed to maintain an essentially constant nitrous oxide delivery rate over a wide range of nitrous oxide pressures.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a first insulating film, a first wiring layer formed in the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed above the first wiring layer and the first insulating film, the second insulating film including a low dielectric constant film, a second wiring layer formed in the second insulating film and coupled to the first wiring layer through a first connection section, and a third insulating film formed above the second wiring layer and the second insulating film and serving as one of an interlayer insulating film and a passivation film, and at least one of the first and third insulating films being one of a film formed mainly of SiON, a film formed mainly of SiN, and a laminated film being the films formed mainly of SiON or SiN respectively.

Abstract: A system and method for the detection and three dimensional imaging of absorption and scattering properties of a medium such as human tissue is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, the system directs optical energy toward a turbid medium from at least one source and detects optical energy emerging from the turbid medium at a plurality of locations using at least one detector. The optical energy emerging from the medium and entering the detector originates from the source is scattered by the medium. The system then generates an image representing interior structure of the turbid medium based on the detected optical energy emerging from the medium. Generating the image includes a time-series analysis.

Abstract: An EEPROM having a memory cell array in which electrically programmable memory cells are arranged in a matrix and each of the memory cells has three storage states, includes a plurality of data circuits for temporarily storing data for controlling write operation states of the plurality of memory cells, a write circuit for performing a write operation in accordance with the contents of the data circuits respectively corresponding to the memory cells, a write verify circuit for confirming states of the memory cells set upon the write operation, and a data updating circuit for updating the contents of the data circuits such that a rewrite operation is performed to only a memory cell, in which data is not sufficiently written, on the basis of the contents of the data circuits and the states of the memory cells set upon the write operation.

Abstract: A method for padding interlaced texture information on a reference VOP to perform a motion estimation detects whether said each texture macroblock of the reference VOP is a boundary block or not. After the undefined texture pixels of the boundary block are extrapolated from the defined texture pixels thereof by using a horizontal repetitive padding, a transparent row padding and a transparent field padding sequentially, an undefined adjacent block is expanded based on the extrapolated boundary block.

Abstract: A modulator, and demodulator, apparatus and method for use in a multiple sub-channel communication system is taught. A commutator is employed for fractionally sampling, or distributing, signals from, or to, a multiple channel polyphase filter. The filter is coupled with a discrete Fourier transform, or its inverse, such that the relationship between the base-band sampling rate of a plurality of sub-channel signals, the frequency spacing of the sub-channel signals, and the sampling rate of a composite signal can be related by any rational number, thereby freeing designers to optimize system design respecting channel spacing, bandwidth, and signaling rates. The advantages of the present invention are realized by adjusting the interpolation and decimation rates of the filter, and by adjusting the resolution and decimation rates of the transform.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a variety of masks for the removal of the block/ring effect. Thus, one mask is select for a pixel to be filtered. Moreover, candidate pixels to be averaged with the pixel to be filtered is selected from the pixels of the selected mask to better maintain the details of the image, and a weight is applied to improve the calculation speed of the averaging operation. More particularly, the masks according to the present invention have longer tabs toward adjacent blocks at boundaries of the given block to remove the block and ring effect. In an embodiment, the decoding apparatus includes a filtering unit configured to determine a value of a pixel of an image.

Abstract: An optical time delay apparatus comprises: a multi-wavelength optical source; a diffractive element set imparting a wavelength-dependent delay on signals routed from the source to a 1×N optical switch; and N diffractive element sets routing signals from the 1×N switch to an output port. The optical propagation delay between the source and the output port varies according to the operational state of the source and the 1×N switch. A photodetector may receive the time-delayed signal at the output port.

Abstract: A compressor system includes a pair of compressors located in a common shell. A common drive shaft drives both compressors and the drive shaft is powered by a single motor. One or both of the compressors can be equipped with a pulse width modulated capacity control system and a vapor injection system. When one compressor is equipped with these systems, the capacity can be varied between 50% and 110%. When both compressors are equipped with these systems, the capacity can be varied between 0% and 120%.

Abstract: A limiting mechanism which prevents the setting of a dose, which exceeds the amount of liquid left in a cartridge of an injection device, is disclosed. The injection device is the type where a dose is set by rotating a dose setting member relative to a driver and away from a fixed stop in the injection device. The dose setting member interfaces the driver such that the dose setting member can be rotated in one direction without rotating the driver. The dose is injected by rotating back the dose setting member which during the backward rotation carries the driver with it. Rotating the driver causes the piston rod to move forward inside the cartridge and expel some of the liquid contained in the cartridge. The driver is provided with a track having a length which is related to the total amount of liquid in the cartridge and which track is engaged by a track follower coupled to the dose setting member to follow rotation of this dose setting member.

Abstract: A play list comprising the names of music pieces broadcasted from a broadcast station and broadcast time information are accumulated in a data base. If a user likes a music piece broadcasted from the broadcast station, he activates a book marker which stores time information representing the time at which the book marker is activated. The time information is supplied through a gateway device to a search engine which searches the data base for those broadcast stations in the user's geographic area which broadcasted music pieces or the like at a time that matches the time information. The search results are transmitted to the gateway device and displayed.

Abstract: A cache and TLB layout and design leverage repeater insertion to provide dynamic low-cost configurability trading off size and speed on a per application phase basis. A configuration management algorithm dynamically detects phase changes and reacts to an application's hit and miss intolerance in order to improve memory hierarchy performance while taking energy consumption into consideration.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a program converting unit for generating a machine language instruction from a source program for a processor that manages an N-bit address while processing M-bit data, N being greater than M, and such a processor that runs the converted program. The program converting unit comprising: a parameter holding unit for holding a data width and a pointer width designated by a user; the data width representing the number of bits of data used in the source program while the pointer width representing the number of bits of an address; and a generating unit for generating an instruction to manage the data width when a variable operated by the instruction represents the data, and for generating an instruction to manage the pointer width when a variable operated by the instruction represents the address.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for receiving a timestamp from a caller via a telephone connection; receiving a device identifier from the caller, in which the device identifier identifies a device; determining a cryptographic key based on the device identifier; determining an indication of a time based on the timestamp and the cryptographic key; providing the indication of the time to the caller; determining an account; and charging a fee to the account.

Abstract: A method and device for securing a removable Attached Computer Module (“ACM”) 10. ACM 10 inserts into a Computer Module Bay (“CMB”) 40 within a peripheral console to form a functional computer such as a desktop computer or portable computer. The present ACM 10 includes a locking system, which includes hardware and software 600, 700, to prevent accidental removal or theft of the ACM from the peripheral console. While ACM is in transit, further security is necessary against illegal or unauthorized use. If ACM contains confidential data, a high security method is needed to safeguard against theft.

Abstract: The invention provides a face guard for a hockey helmet. The face guard comprises a contour wire and a plurality of wires made of stainless steel. The plurality of wires are arranged as a curved grid having a concave side for facing a face of a wearer, the plurality of wires comprising first, second, third and fourth vertical wires intersecting first and second horizontal wires, each of the first, second, third and fourth vertical wires and first and second horizontal wires having a portion to be at least partially located within a field of view of the eyes of the wearer, each of the first, second, third and fourth vertical wires and first and second horizontal wires having an inner surface facing the face of the wearer and an outer surface opposing the inner surface, wherein the inner surface is mat and the outer surface is shiny.

Abstract: An apron for use by dentists and the like is provided with a main body portion and a collar portion for securing the apron to the wearer in which the collar portion is adjustably securable at any position within a predetermined range such that it forms a close fit around the wearer wherein the collar and body portions comprise an absorbent side and a substantially waterproof.