Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid peach-almond tree used as a rootstock that exhibits root-knot nematode resistance and compatibility with peach, nectarine, almond, and plum varieties.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Peach tree (Prunus persica). The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. The tree being a regular and productive bearer of large size fruit. 2. The tree with vigorous, upright growth. 3. Producing fruit with a high degree of attractive orange-red skin color. 4. Producing fruit with good storage and shipping quality. 5. Fruit with a mild, sweet, low-acid flavor and very good eating quality.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of citrus tree (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck), which has the variety denomination ‘Morgan Sunrise Navel’, and which produces a sweet fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately February 10 to April 15, under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Abstract: A new Eucalyptus grandis tree particularly distinguished by having a fast growth rate, good frost tolerance, and good coppicing properties, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new Eucalyptus grandis tree particularly distinguished by having a fast growth rate, excellent frost tolerance, and good coppicing properties, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new Eucalyptus grandis tree particularly distinguished by having a fast growth rate, good frost tolerance, and good coppicing properties, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Mahonia, ‘Cabaret’, characterized by its late bloom season flowering from late August/early September to mid November in The Netherlands, its compact plant habit, and its orange-red flower buds followed by red berries.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Neoregelia plant named ‘Maria’, characterized by its upright and outwardly arching growth habit; leaves of vegetative plants are green and red purple bi-colored becoming solid red purple with development; and good interiorscape and landscape performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct Guzmania cultivar named ‘Aureus’ is disclosed, characterized a compact plant habit, and unique bright yellow bracts.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of mushroom, named ‘Grifon 120’, is described, which mushroom is characterized by its cap with thick flesh and delicious-looking whitish undersurface, good qualitative character and appearance, good keeping quality and storage life and delicious tasting. The mushroom can be cultivated by gathering and repeated breeding of fungal strains having dominant traits and is exquisite in stability, reproducibility and uniformity when being produced.

Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant characterized by very free flowering and with a long bloom time (bloom from early spring to late fall in Canby, Oreg.), excellent warm pink flowers in dense clusters that fade to darker pink, leaf color pewter with dark veins, excellent tolerance to heat and humidity, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: The invention provides a building component comprising first and second high density foam panels each having inner and outer surfaces, top and bottom, and first and second ends, the panels arranged in spaced parallel relationship with their inner surfaces facing each other, and at least two bridging members extending between and through and molded into the panel members. Each bridging member comprises a pair of elongated end plates oriented vertically and abutting against the outer surfaces of the panels; a thin narrow strip member joining the mid-areas of the end plates; a series of first narrow bracing members extending from positions adjacent a mid-point of the narrow strip member to positions spaced a short distance from the ends of the end plates; and a series of second narrow bracing members extending from positions on the first bracing members to positions on the strip member intermediate the plates and the mid-point of the strip member.

Abstract: There is provided a very thin light guide plate for a surface light source device and a method of manufacturing it without the use of high-precision molding machine. A surface light source device using this light guide plate generates outgoing light having high uniformity. According to the manufacturing method, a light guide plate free from a weld line or warp can be manufactured with good transferring characteristics. The light guide plate is thick on an incident surface 1 side and thin on a lower surface 4 side. At the central portion of an incident surface 1 in a longitudinal direction, a projecting portion obtained by cutting an overhang portion 7 at a position a distance D apart from the incident surface 1 is formed. The cut surface of the projecting portion is not made specular and is kept rough. In molding of the light guide plate, a molten material is supplied from the position of a gate mark 9.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for improving cellular internalization of one or more compounds are disclosed. The compositions include a compound to be delivered and a biocompatible viscous material, such as a hydrogel, lipogel, or highly viscous sol. The composition also include, or are administered in conjunction with, an enhancer in an amount effective to maximize expression of or binding to receptors and enhance RME of the compound into the cells. This leads to high transport rates of compounds to be delivered across cell membranes, facilitating more efficient delivery of drugs and diagnostic agents. Compositions are applied topically orally, nasally, vaginally, rectally, and ocularly. The enhancer is administered with the composition or separately, either systemically or preferably locally. The compound to be delivered can also be the enhancer.

Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes timer for detecting the time of an incoming call, a caller number registration table for storing caller numbers, answer message ID numbers and time-dependent switching codes in relation to each other, the time-dependent control codes designating callers for whom answer messages are switched depending on a time zone in which the call is made. There is thus provided a capability of selecting an answer message for a caller based on the caller number included in the incoming call signal and switching between answer messages based on the time of call incoming detected by the timer.

Abstract: Sympathetically maintained pain is treated topically by administering to the site where sympathetically maintained pain is present an ?-1-adrenergic antagonist, ?-2-adrenergic agonist, or other drug that depletes or blocks synthesis of sympathetic norepinephrine, known collectively as sympatholytic agents. Chemical formulas for several sympatholytic agents are given.

Abstract: A method of real time field wide reservoir management comprising the steps of processing collected field wide reservoir data in accordance with one or more predetermined algorithms to obtain a resultant desired field wide production/injection forecast, generating a signal to one or more individual well control devices instructing the device to increase or decrease flow through the well control device, transmitting the signal to the individual well control device, opening or closing the well control device in response to the signal to increase or decrease the production for one or more selected wells on a real time basis. The system for field wide reservoir management comprising a CPU for processing collected field wide reservoir data, generating a resultant desired field wide production/injection forecast and calculating a target production rate for one or more wells and one or more down hole production/injection control devices.

Abstract: A method of formatting and normalizing continuous lip motions to events in a moving picture besides text in a Text-To-Speech converter is provided. A synthesized speech is synchronized with a moving picture by using the method wherein the real speech data and the shape of a lip in the moving picture are analyzed, and information on the estimated lip shape and text information are directly used in generating the synthesized speech.

Abstract: A computer system and a method is disclosed for determining a travel scheme minimizing which minimizes travel costs for an organization, where the organization expects to purchase travel trips for a plurality of travelers for a plurality of travel links. Each travel link comprises a travel origin and a travel destination, and is served by at least one of the carriers. The system comprises a data input device for receiving travel information relating to the carriers and the links, a data storage device for storing the travel information received by the data input device, a processor, and a data output device. From the travel information, the system constructs an objective function representing a travel cost to the organization to purchase travel trips for the plurality of travelers for the plurality of predetermined links, and a set of constraints comprising restrictions relating to the objective function.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for high speed transmission of data over a transmission line/medium/network telephone, wherein this high speed is achieved by simultaneously, or in a timed and marked relationship, transmitting multiple bits of data over parallel frequencies rather than serially transmitting one bit of data at a time over one frequency.

Abstract: Embodiments of a fixture secured, securable to, or integral with the outer shell of a helmet to facilitate convenient positional adjustment, attachment and removal of multiple accessories include a fixture, attachable to the helmet, for securely receiving an accessory, wherein the fixture comprises a rail for slidably and adjustably receiving a plural of accessories thereon.

Abstract: An article of apparel, which may be a pair of water shorts, includes a first textile and a second textile. The first textile forms a majority of an exterior surface and an opposite interior surface of the apparel, and the first textile exhibits at least thirty percent stretch prior to tensile failure. The second textile is located around a waistband portion of the apparel, and the second textile exhibits less than ten percent stretch prior to tensile failure.

Abstract: To make it easy for a rider to put on protective clothing provided with air bags and to effectively absorb an impact on the rider using the air bags. A wearable air bag system is provided wherein the rider puts on the protective clothing beforehand. An air bag for covering a chest portion of a rider in an undivided manner is provided on the back surface of a front main section of a jacket worn by the rider. The jacket has opening edges capable of being opened and closed by a fastener. The opening edges are provided on the front main section of the jacket to be closer to one sleeve of the jacket in such a manner that the air bag is avoided.

Abstract: A garment and a collar for such garment, the collar having a lower zone and an upper zone, the lower zone having a greater rigidity than the upper zone.

Abstract: A fingertip manipulation device is provided which gives the user the ability to manipulate items such as small controls on consumer electronic products while wearing gloves. The fingertip manipulation device includes a mounting disk that is placed inside a glove preferably at the fingertip, a projecting member extending substantially perpendicularly from the mounting disk and configured to extend through the glove material, and a tip that is attached on the exterior of the glove to the distal end of the perpendicular projecting member. A method of conveniently inserting the device into a glove fingertip, as well as an insertion device, is provided. While wearing gloves to protect the hands, the tip of the fingertip manipulation device is easily used to engage or manipulate switches, buttons, or items.

Abstract: An article of clothing that includes a snugly fitting inner portion having at least one connecting band extending along at least one limb (such as an arm, leg) of the body of the wearer, a more loosely fitting outer portion covering the inner portion, the inner and outer portions being assembled to one another by the connecting band extending along at least one limb.

Abstract: A stirrup for securing the end of a pant leg to the foot of a wearer. The stirrup has a base web and at least three arms projecting therefrom. Each arm has a fastener such as alligator jaws style, for engaging the pant leg at at least three points about its circumference, to avoid bunching. The base member may comprise an elastic fabric and may include a length adjusting mechanism. Alligator jaw fasteners may instead comprise buttons, hooks, hook and loop material, or snaps. The stirrup may be made from denim, leather, cotton, satin, lace, or nylon. The base web may optionally form a sock.

Abstract: A helmet has an outer shell, an inner lining configured for thermal communication with a wearer's head, an intermediary layer disposed between the outer shell and the inner lining with a layer of insulating material with a plurality of passageways therein and a cavity defined by the outer shell and the outer surface of the intermediary layer, and a fluid contained between the outer shell and the inner lining. In another variation, the insulating material includes a shape memory polymer operable to change the size of one or more of the plurality of passageways when activated. In yet another variation, the helmet has one or more selectively closeable pores in its outer shell and may have a fixed or detachable fluid reservoir.

Abstract: The present invention may comprise a helmet worn by a person, with additional elements to dampen, restrain or totally block rotational movement upon the sensing of severe rotational movement of the head. This device prevents serious brain and cervical spine injury by restraining or totally blocking rotational movement of the head in response to severe acceleration/deceleration.

Abstract: A toilet is provided which transports malodorous air from the bowl to the sewer line. The tank of the toilet is equipped with a fan which draws air from the bowl through the flush holes, located in the rim of the bowl, into a sealed fan box. An intake tube is used to channel air from the water inlet to the fan box, which leaves the overflow tube unobstructed. Air is diverted out of the fan box through an exit tube which attaches to the siphon at a point behind the water trap. A damper door disposed between the exit tube and intake tube prevents stale air from the siphon or sewer from entering the bowl or tank and escaping.

Abstract: A toilet apparatus is adapted to put the excrement produced each time by the user of the toilet into a bag to form a package of waste, treating the excrement into a state of combustible substance before putting it into a bag. The toilet apparatus is equipped with a long, flexible and folded continuous cylindrical member set in position below a toilet seat as packaging member that is adapted to receive the excrement produced by the user each time and become sealed and transferred downward in the toilet bowl, a processing material for absorbing liquid and semi-solidifying the excrement being arranged at a side of the toilet apparatus, a quantity of the processing material being fed into the packaging member for receiving the excrement each time of production of excrement so as to absorb liquid from the excrement, the packaging member being subsequently sealed at an opening thereof.

Abstract: A therapeutic tub device for receiving water and a person to allow the person to soak in the water includes a tub being filled with water. The tub receives a person to allow the person to soak in the water. The tub is insulated to maintain a temperature of the water in the tub. The tub includes a bottom wall and a perimeter wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall to define an interior space of the tub. An upper edge of the perimeter wall defines an open top end to permit the water and the person to enter the interior space. A telescopic cover is coupled to the upper edge of the tub. The telescopic cover telescopically extends from a foot end of the tub to a head end of the tub to cover the open top end of the tub.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods include an array of a plurality of individual air injector nozzles are integrally connected to a common air flow tube. The individual nozzles include an integral attaching plate and an integral air injector tube in addition to the common air flow tube with the individual nozzles spaced along the common air flow tube. A plurality of arrays can be joined together to form an entire arrangement of any desired configuration of individual air injector nozzles that can be applied as a complete unit to a tub or spa. One or more of the arrays can be cut across the common air flow tube to achieve the exact number of individual nozzles required in accordance with the desired arrangement of air injector nozzles. The arrays, including the cut arrays can be joined together at a location other than at the tub or spa and then transferred as a complete unit to be attached to the tub or spa.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a household heat recovery device and more specifically to a wastewater heat recovery unit, which absorbs residual heat from the water flowing onto the floor and down the drain of an ordinary household shower or bathtub unit. In one embodiment, the heat recovery device adapts for ease-of-use and enables quick set-up in most existing and typical showers or bathtubs without any tools and without coupling to the existing plumbing. Internal passages direct the effluent shower water through a serpentine path to a discharge drain. Over time, the heat transferred from the water to the device then radiates into the environment—thus reducing the total energy cost for a household by reducing the thermal load on the main heating unit for the household.

Abstract: A shower system is provided that includes first and second panels that at least partially defining a shower space. The shower system also includes a basin sized to receive a lower edge of the first and second panels such that the panels are arrangeable with respect to the basin in one of at least two configurations.

Abstract: A movement assisting bed covering system includes a rectangular central panel of satin or sateen cloth having an upper surface, a lower surface, a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, a first end edge and a second end edge. Each of the first and second end edges has one of a pair of end panels attached thereto. The end panels have a higher coefficient of friction than the central panel. The central panel is positionable on the mattress to cover a central area of the mattress while leaving areas of an upper surface of the mattress adjacent to a head and a foot of the mattress at least partially exposed. Each of the end panels is positionable below the mattress and abuttable against a lower side of the mattress to retain the central panel on the mattress.

Abstract: An occupant transfer device 34 for use on a host mattress 20 having a top side 22 and a flank 24 is in the form of a fitted sheet. The device has a top 36 for covering the top side of the mattress and a skirt 38 extending from the top. The top and skirt each have an occupant side 40, 44 and a mattress side 42, 46. Substantially all of the mattress side of the top exhibits relatively low friction; the occupant side of at least the top exhibits relatively higher friction.

Abstract: A vented sleeping bag comprising an elongate shell defining an inner volume sized and shaped to receive a user therein. The shell has a head end, a foot end, left and right sides extending longitudinally of the shell, an overlying portion which overlies the user, and an underlying portion which underlies the user. The overlying portion of the shell has at least one vent. A closure is selectively movable between a closed position for closing the vent and an open position for creating a vent opening for ventilating the inner volume of the shell.

Abstract: A mat can be connected to a pillow, a sleeping bag, or other mats, and is comfortable to sleep on, sturdy, and convenient to carry around. A strap is provided on a mat body for attaching a pillow A mat may include multiple mat bodies each having first engaging members located near at least two corners located at the ends of a first diagonal line, and second engaging members for engaging with the first engaging members and located near at least two corners located at the ends of a second diagonal line intersecting with the first diagonal line, to connect mat bodies together. A mat body may be made of multiple laminated layers, with edges of an outer layer forming a joint distal from the mat edges on a surface where a user of mat lies down, or the reverse surface thereof.

Abstract: Underlay for single use for protection of e.g. chair cushions, bedclothes or changing tables, having a liquid-receiving coversheet intended to face away from the object requiring protection, a liquid impermeable backsheet intended to face the object requiring protection upon use, wherein the underlay can be attached to the user.

Abstract: A patient care equipment support includes an equipment supporting portion configured to support patient care equipment, and at least one arm pivotally coupled to the equipment supporting portion, and configured to support at least one IV container. The equipment support may include at least roller bumper rotatably coupled to the equipment supporting portion. The equipment supporting portion may include an upper horizontal member, a lower horizontal member and a pair of horizontally spaced vertical posts extending between the upper and lower members. Illustratively, the arm is pivotally coupled to one of the posts. The upper and lower horizontal members may define a space therebetween for receiving infusion management equipment.