Abstract: ‘Huron’ is a new blueberry cultivar of primarily Vaccinium corymbosum from the Michigan State University breeding program. The rest of its parentage is from V. darrowii (12.5%) and V. angustifolium (3.15%). It is a productive, early ripening cultivar with very high fresh market quality and a long storage life. It is intended for areas where northern highbush cultivars are grown successfully. Plants of ‘Huron’ are vigorous and upright. Canes are numerous, moderately branched and the fruit are well exposed. Its berries are moderately large, have small, dry picking scars, medium blue color, excellent firmness and superior flavor, if allowed to fully ripen.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Hydrangea paniculata named ‘Bokrathirteen’ that is characterized by its compact plant habit and its inflorescences that are broadly conical in shape and comprised primarily of sterile flowers that open creamy white in color and change to a light pink color.

Abstract: A new and distinct Hydrangea plant having red-colored flowers and black-colored, strong stems.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Veronica plant named ‘Atomic Violet’, particularly distinguished by dark purple-violet colored flowers, compact habit, healthy foliage, and good mildew and rust resistance, is disclosed.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Carnation or Pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Sangria Splash’ with long-blooming, fragrant, single flowers, with petals that begin deep red with fuchsia spots and then becomes lighter in both the center petal portion and the margin portion. Dianthus ‘Sangria Splash’ is tolerant of high temperatures and resists center die-out.

Abstract: A new Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Frosty Yocheryl,’ particularly distinguished by the medium sized inflorescences with white colored mature ray florets, good floriferousness, dark green foliage with a well mounded plant habit, and a natural flowering season of early October.

Abstract: A new Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Yogigi Snow,’ particularly distinguished by the small white flowers with strong stiff plants, short, compact and mounded plant habit with a natural flowering season about the middle of September.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Prima White’, characterized by its compact, upright, outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plant habit; uniform, freely and early flowering habit; and decorative-type inflorescences with white-colored ray florets.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Allegra Yellow’, characterized by its compact, upright, outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plant habit; uniform, freely and early flowering habit; and large decorative-type inflorescences with golden yellow-colored ray florets.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Amadora Red’, characterized by its compact, upright, outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plant habit; uniform, freely and early flowering habit; and large decorative-type inflorescences with dark red-colored ray florets.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Phlox, ‘Aureole’, characterized by its flowers that are bright pink in color with yellow-green margins at the apex of each petal, its large flowers, its healthy foliage with a high degree of mildew resistance, and its compact plant habit with sturdy stems.

Abstract: A cultivar of Miscanthus sinensis called ‘Tiger Tail.’ This cultivar is characterized by its long green leaves banded by yellow portions. It is tall in stature with thick, strict culms giving it an appearance of being tall and leafy throughout the growing season. The culms are green and less visible due to its color being similar to the leaf color.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Zoysia macrantha plant named ‘MAC03’, characterized by its faster speed of growth, stronger plant density, broader leaf width, broader thickness of stolon internode and a longer stolon length.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘White Mist’, particularly distinguished by white-colored ray florets, floriferous, compact habit, healthy, abundant foliage, and good mildew resistance, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lobelia plant named ‘USLOB0901’, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit; continuously and freely flowering habit; dark blue-colored flowers; and relatively high temperature tolerant.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a A display device capable of narrowing the area of the frame. In order to achieve this object, the display device according to the present invention has a substrate having a plurality of arranged display elements and a wiring layer of a power source on the peripheral side; a bank layer for mutually separating the display elements; an electrode layer for covering the plurality of display elements and the bank layer; and a sealing substrate for further covering the electrode layer by joining the peripheral portion of the substrate and the sealing portion circling around the periphery via a joining element such as an adhesive; wherein the adhesive. The periphery of the sealing substrate is positioned inside the periphery of the substrate, and the peripheral portion of the electrode layer is connected to the wiring of the power source within the sealing portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are an upper substrate structure for a plasma display panel including a dielectric layer reinforcing color properties and a fabricating method thereof. The upper substrate structure comprises a sustain electrode formed on an upper glass substrate, a bus electrode formed on the sustain electrode, and an upper substrate dielectric layer formed over a lower part of the surface created by two electrodes and the glass substrate. There is also included a colorant having color properties of red, blue, and green colors, and a protection layer formed on the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer may include one or more colorants so that important properties of PDP such as selective brightness of desired color, color temperature, and color purity improvement can be controlled.

Abstract: An airborne time domain electromagnetic surveying system is provided. The system includes a tow assembly with a flexible support frame. The flexible support frame spaced apart from the aircraft includes a transmitter section with a transmitter loop and a receiver section with a sensor aligned with the central axis of the transmitter section. The flexible support frame has a lightweight modular structure that enables the surface area of the transmitter section to be increased and decreased to suit particular survey applications. The transmitter loop sends a pulse in an “ON” interval, and in an “OFF” interval the sensor measures the earth response to the pulse. The tow assembly also includes a sensor for generating selected survey data in the “ON” interval. A transmitter driver enables the creation of earthbound pulse. The system components are linked to a computer and control computer program linked thereto for controlling the functions thereof.

Abstract: In a first preferred embodiment, an underwater alert system (10) includes a transmitter assembly (12), carried by a first diver (14), that transmits a predetermined wireless signal (36) to a receiver assembly (16), carried by a mask (18) worn by a second diver (20), that generates an alert to gain the attention of the second diver (20). In a second preferred embodiment, the underwater alert system (10) includes a first transceiver assembly (232), carried by a mask worn by a first diver (14), communicating a predetermined wireless signal (36) with a second transceiver assembly (254), carried by a mask (18) worn by a second diver (20), to permit the first diver and second diver to gain each other's attention.

Abstract: A system and method for transmitting a plurality of spread-spectrum signals over a communications channel having fading. The plurality of spread-spectrum signals are radiated by a plurality of antennas, with each antenna preferably spaced by one-quarter wavelength. A plurality of receiver antennas receive the plurality of spread-spectrum signals and a plurality of fading spread-spectrum signals. Each receiver antenna is coupled to a plurality of matched filters having a respective plurality of impulse responses matched to the chip-sequence signals of the plurality of spread-spectrum signals. A RAKE and space-diversity combiner combines, for each respective chip-sequence signal, a respective plurality of detected spread-spectrum signals and a respective multiplicity of detected-multipath-spread-spectrum signals, to generate a plurality of combined signals. The symbol amplitudes can be measured and erasure decoding employed to improve performance.

Abstract: A method of telemicroscopy comprises the step of preparing a specimen on a microscopy slide. The slide is placed upon the stage of a microscope equipped with digital imaging apparatus and motorised stage and the specimen imaged to obtain a composite high resolution image of the whole specimen. A relatively low resolution copy of that image is obtained and stored in a datastore. The method further comprises the steps of allowing access to the datastore from a terminal transferring the low resolution image to the terminal and displaying the image upon a monitor selecting by means of the remote terminal, as desired, an area of the low resolution image and transferring corresponding high resolution image data for that area from the datastore to the terminal.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing compounds represented by the formula (1-1) and the formula (1-2), compounds represented by the formula (2-1) and the formula (2-2), and a compound represented by the formula (3-1): the polymerizable liquid crystal composition having homogeneous, homeotropic, or hybrid alignment, which can be coated on a support substrate, for example, of a transparent plastic film such as a triacetyl cellulose film or cycloolefin polymer film, or glass, and is aligned on a substrate as a polymer film while maintaining the alignment.

Abstract: Phase-change type, reversible optical information recording medium, being possible for recording, reproducing, erasing, and rewriting of information, by use of a laser beam. This invention, consists of recording thin film of ternary elements, for example, containing Ge, Te, Sb/or Bi or quaternary elements containing the fourth element of Se with which a part of Te is replaced, which is established on such surface—flat substrates as glass or plastics. In this case, the component ratio of Te and Se is selected not to be excess for other elements, such as Ge, Sb/or Bi so as to be fixed as stable compounds of stoichiometric compositions of GeTe, Sb2Te3/or Bi2Te3, or GeSe, Sb2Se3/Bi2Se3 when crystallized. Strictly speaking, a concentration of each component is selected to have proper ratio of the number of atoms each other so as to represent whole composition as the sum of each component. By this treatment, it is possible to have high crystallization speed and long cyclability of recording/erasing.

Abstract: Conventionally, when an electric potential of a supporting substrate is fixed, there arises a problem in that impact ions are generated even in the vicinity of embedded insulating film in the proximity of a drain due to generation of a parasitic transistor using the supporting substrate as a gate so as to be likely to cause a parasitic bipolar operation.

Abstract: An emergency call recognition system which is activated when an off-hook situation occurs, which recognizes when an emergency number is dialed with or without the presence of a dial tone, and which provides the caller a communication channel to complete such a call. The present invention is used to give priority to emergency telephone calls. Typically the present invention is used in wireless local loop systems, however the present invention can also be incorporated into a conventional telephone system. The present invention uses an emergency call recognition system to determine if a person is dialing an emergency telephone number. If the emergency call recognition system recognizes a dialed telephone number as an emergency telephone number, then the caller is provided with a communication channel to complete the telephone call. The caller is provided a communication channel even if all of the communication channels are in use. This is accomplished by disconnecting calls that are not of an emergency nature.

Abstract: A system that provides a wireless broadband connection between base stations and customer sites is described. The system includes indoor units within the base stations and customer sites and communicate across cables to outdoor units. The indoor units link to routers, switches and other devices and services. The outdoor units transmit and receive wireless data and send it to the indoor units. The indoor units control the timing of detector measurements in the outdoor unit by transmitting a regular, repeating control message at a predetermined time. Once the outdoor unit receives the control message, it samples its detectors and reports measurements back to the indoor unit.

Abstract: An apparatus and procedures for percutaneous placement of surgical implants and instruments such as, for example, screws, rods, wires and plates into various body parts using image guided surgery. The invention includes an apparatus for use with a surgical navigation system, an attaching device rigidly connected to a body part, such as the spinous process of a vertebrae, with an identification superstructure rigidly but removably connected to the attaching device. This identification superstructure, for example, is a reference arc and fiducial array which accomplishes the function of identifying the location of the superstructure, and, therefore, the body part to which it is fixed, during imaging by CAT scan or MRI, and later during medical procedures.

Abstract: A system and method is described for connecting a logic circuit simulation to a hardware peripheral that includes a computer running software for communicating data to and from the hardware peripheral. The software transmits the data received from the hardware peripheral to the device being simulated by the logic circuit simulation. The computer also transmits the data received from the device being simulated by the electronic circuit simulation to the hardware peripheral. This allows the user to test the device being simulated using real hardware for input and output instead of simulated hardware.

Abstract: Cyclic-redundancy-code (“CRC”) information that is received along with a frame from a fiber-channel is stored in an on-chip frame buffer, and later checked to ensure the integrity of the data while in the frame buffer. In various embodiments, data frames, along with their CRC information, are stored into a data-frame buffer, and/or non-data frames along with their CRC information are stored into a receive-non-data-frame buffer. The improved communications channel system includes a channel node having dual ports, each port supporting a fiber-channel arbitrated-loop serial communications channel. The serial communications channels each include CRC on data transmissions on the channel, an on-chip frame memory located on-chip in the channel node that receives a data frame and the frame's associated CRC from the communications channel, and an integrity apparatus that later uses the received associated CRC for data-integrity checking of data in the on-chip frame memory.

Abstract: A uni boxing glove for use in boxing practice and matches is provided. The uni glove covers the left and right hands, fingers, thumb, and a portion of both wrists of a user. The glove comprises a punching portion, protrusion formed in the punching portion, and hand receiving portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an apron or bib, and in particular, to a pocket-forming device that bends to form a pocket in an apron for catching and holding material. The pocket-forming device comprises an elongated base with a plurality of elongated members extending away therefrom. The elongated members have ends connected to the base at different positions along the base's length, and at least one of the elongated members can be configured to be bent to cause the portion of the apron to form a pocket for catching debris.

Abstract: This invention comprises of one-time single-use gloves made from latex or vinyl that have a built in pocket space on the outside surface (the term “outside surface” refers to the surface of the glove that is distal from the body of the wearer) of the glove in palm and fingers areas that have tiny surface holes on the outside surface of the pocket to allow dispensing of solution that is sealed under a plastic pull back tab. Once the tab is pulled back, the solution can be forced out of the pocket's tiny holes located on the outside surface of the pocket, by squeezing the hands gently for small amounts or firmly to allow larger amounts of solution. These gloves can be produced to be sterile or non-sterile, depending on the need of the product. The purpose of these gloves are to provide a one time use solution to administering topical solutions, medication and shampoos to human and animal patients, providing a sterile approach when necessary, provide a barrier to disease between the caregiver and patient.

Abstract: Stem holders are attached to opposing sides of the headwear crown, each forming an opening extending from its front edge to its back edge. The front and back edges of each stem holder may be partially attached to the crown such that the opening is larger along the front than along the back. At least a portion of the opening may be angled downward from front to back. For brimmed headwear, a raised flair may be positioned on the brim to create a pocket between it and the crown. For brimless headwear, the raised flair may be attached to the front of the crown to form a pocket between it and at least a portion of the crown. In either the brimmed or brimless configuration, the lens portion of the glasses will rest in the pocket when the stems of the glasses are inserted into the stem holders.

Abstract: The present invention provides pads and padding systems for use in protective helmets, and particularly ballistic helmets. Generally, the pad includes a first, outer layer which provides substantial impact resistance and a second, inner layer which provides cushioning and comfort. The pad does not require the use of a moisture-proof, non-perforated, encapsulating layer since both layers provide little resistance to fluid flow. The pad may also include a cover made of moisture-wicking material.

Abstract: An ergonomic, contoured urinal floor mat for use with wall-urinals with the purpose of positioning a user center, up and toward a wall-urinal so as to prevent urine spillage and drippings from reaching floor below a wall-urinal. The floor mat consists of a heavy duty, permanent material with topside anti-slip and floor conforming anti-skid surfaces and is designed with three unique contouring angles which, in combination, elevates heels above toes, spreads legs, pushes toes outward, pulls heels inward, and creates a lift in the inner arch of the foot. The system also incorporates a replaceable drip tray, located between the users' legs and the urinal lip (to catch the inevitable last drops), a topside perimeter gutter (for complete urinal misses), and underside seal (to prevent liquids seepage under mat). If spills do occur, the overall contouring guides liquid into the gutter and keeps the topside foot areas dry.

Abstract: A water outlet assembly of a stool washing device comprises a water outlet head installed with a main portion and a sub-portion; an upper end of the water outlet head having a main inlet and a sub-inlet; the main inlet being communicated to the output hole of the main portion and the sub-inlet being communicated to the outlets of the sub-portion; an adjust portion having two insertion ends at a lower end thereof; each insertion end having a ball like shape; a lower end of each insertion end having a through hole; the insertion ends being engaged to the main inlet and the sub-inlet with the through holes being communicated to the main inlet and the sub-inlet; wherein rotation of the adjust portion will adjust the water output from the outlets.

Abstract: A device (1a) for positioning next to an existing sauna heater (3). Device (1a) is equipped with an air duct (2?) which is designed to conduct air from a level close to the floor in a sauna to a location close to the upper part of the sauna heater. The air from the floor (91) will be combined with the hot air from sauna heater (3?). The device will increase the airflow (92) down towards the lower parts of the sauna, which results in a more even temperature distribution and a more comfortable sauna experience.

Abstract: Computer implemented methods and apparatus for determining availability information for a first one of a plurality of products for publication via a wide area network. The availability information is calculated with reference to a delivery date, an available number of units, and a reserved number of units, the delivery date having been specified by a user via the network, the available number of units having been determined with reference to inventory information, and the reserved number of units having been determined with reference to current order information.

Abstract: An endboard such as a headboard or a footboard for a patient support is provided. The endboard is suitable for use in connection with care equipment, a service supply, and a service line operably coupling the service supply to the care equipment. The endboard includes at least one line support.

Abstract: The safety sheet of the present invention may include a bed sheet with sleeves along one or more sides. The sleeves may be continuous or slotted and may accommodate inserts constructed of a material soft enough to avoid injury yet sturdy enough to provide an effective barrier to lateral motion of a bed's occupant. The safety sheet may include solid or hollow inserts. Portability of the safety sheet may be maximized by the use of inflatable/deflatable inserts. Inserts may vary in size and shape, and the sleeves may vary in size to accommodate a range of insert sizes. Alternatively, the sleeves may be stuffed with soft materials such as socks or other clothing when inserts are unavailable. The safety sheet may be reversed with inserts in place for aesthetic and comfort purposes or without inserts to hide the sleeves when inserts are no longer needed.

Abstract: A vehicle for use in hospitals, and the like, giving better mobility, steering, braking and passenger handling while providing comfort to the passengers from the time they lay down until they are standing on the side through the rotation and tilting ability of the frame.