Abstract: Described herein is a fast-wearing grade-positioning wound-exposed multifunctional animal ear tag that includes a primary tag, a secondary tag, an UHF RFID chip, a half-duplex ULF RFID chip, an ambient temperature sensor, an animal body temperature sensor, a fast-wearing grade-positioning pin, and a bearing clamp. The ear tag measures animal ear root temperature and ambient temperature of a place where the animal resides. An ointment may be placed onto the UHF RFID chip, the half-duplex ULF RFID chip, and the ear tag in order to facilitate rapid wound healing.

Abstract: A pet tracking device, system and method using a kinetic motion energy generator to generate electrical energy that is used to power a pet tracking mechanism are provided. The pet tracking device may include a housing on a wearable item, such as a collar, attached to the pet or may be injected underneath the skin of the pet.

Abstract: A chip or carbon fiber substrate may be programmed to emit and/or augment energy tuned to interact with bodily functions. The chip or carbon fiber substrate may be programmed by using a pair of Tesla pancake coils, each coupled to a spherical electrode and driven to create an energetic field between the electrodes. Embodiments may include systems that include the programmed chip in a device (for example, a pet tag) worn on an animal's body. The systems may be wearable so that the effects of the programmed chip may be applied to selected areas of animals and pets.

Abstract: An animal enrichment tool is provided and includes a shaped frame, a first sensory head positioned at one end of the shaped frame, and a second sensory head positioned at another end of the shaped frame.

Abstract: An electronic retractable pet leash device includes a housing and a reel. The housing has a handle and an accommodating space inside the housing. The housing is formed with a leash hole communicating with the accommodating space. The reel is rotatably disposed in the accommodating space. A leash is wound about the reel. A free end of the leash passes through the leash hole to extend outward. The accommodating space is provided with a control board, a latching member and a motor-driven mechanism. The latching member is movably disposed beside the reel. When the latching member is moved to approach the reel, the latching member is engaged with the reel to lock the reel. When the latching member is moved away from the reel, the reel is unlocked. The motor-driven mechanism is electrically connected to the control board.

Abstract: EGGOIST multi-level floor equipment system for commercial poultry maintenance combining the advantages of poultry's free-range run with periodical automated manure removal feature of the cage housing method. The optimum dimensions of the aviary body frame are calculated as per special formulae for the length and width depending on the nest type and arrangement. EGGOIST equipment system allows to improve the microclimate parameters of the aviary, to ensure the consistently high sanitary and hygienic conditions and the lowering of egg-laying hens' morbidity rate, and to dramatically increase production rates per farmland area unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing food and water for consumption and digestion by: newly hatched birds or newly hatched reptiles undergoing incubation; and/or baby birds and baby reptiles being transported after incubation. The birds or reptiles are fed edible insects and/or edible parts of insects during their incubation or transport.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel queen monitoring cage system comprising a housing having a plurality of holes to provide ventilation, at least one egg laying plate, serving as an inner wall of the cage. The egg laying plate includes a plurality of hexagonal cells, and one or more ports to allow materials to be added to the housing. Additional embodiments of the system provides a removable drawer for the insertion and removal of bees, and inserts to prevent escape of bees while egg laying plates are added and removed. Experimental results show that the queen monitoring cage can be used to study queen egg laying behavior under laboratory controlled conditions.

Abstract: A hexagonal beehive includes a hive body having a hexagonal cross-section. The hive body has a front, a back, a top half, and a bottom half and defines an open interior. The front has a landing deck and defines an entrance opening above the landing deck. The bottom and rear have sealable vent portions. The beehive includes hexagonal frame members having outer peripheries that are sized and shaped to be positionable within the open interior. Each frame member has an outer frame having a first thickness and an inner frame having a smaller second thickness such that the inner frames of adjacent frame members are spaced apart from one another. Each hexagonal frame member includes a plurality of access channels. Each inner frame defines a central opening. The beehive further includes a base.

Abstract: A method of modulating some or all copies of a gene in a cell is provided including introducing into a cell one or more ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequences that comprise a portion that is complementary to all or a portion of each of the one or more target nucleic acid sequences, and a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a Cas protein and maintaining the cells under conditions in which the Cas protein is expressed and the Cas protein binds and modulates the one or more target nucleic acid sequences in the cell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-human mammalian animal which has been modified to have in the blood, plasma and/or serum (a) an increased number of leukocytes and/or neutrophils, and (b) a reduced activity of the DNase 1 and/or DNase 1-like 3 enzymes. The non-human mammalian animal is particularly suitable for studying inflammation and/or a disease associated with inflammation. In a further aspect, the invention relates to the use of the non-human mammalian animal as a model for identifying therapeutic or diagnostic targets of inflammation and/or a disease associated with inflammation. In a still further aspect, the invention relates the use of the non-human mammalian animal as a model for drug candidate testing. In addition, a method for testing an anti-inflammatory drug candidate against extracellular DNA is provided. Finally, a method for testing an anti-inflammatory drug candidate for modifying the formation or degradation of neutrophil extracellular traps is provided.

Abstract: This application provides a novel mouse model (PLA2g6 KOEx2) in which genetic deletion of the N terminus of PLA2g6 results in a loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in substantia nigra (SN), and development of PD-like motor deficits that can be significantly improved by L-DOPA. Based in part on experimental results demonstrated with this model, this disclosure provides genetically modified animals and genetically modified animal cells that comprise a mutant allele of PLA2g6 and in which store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) is impaired and ER Ca2+ stores are depleted. This disclosure also provides methods of screening a compound for an effect on the SOCE pathway and/or ER Ca2+ by administering the compound to such a genetically modified animal or genetically modified animal cell.

Abstract: Disclosed generally is a tamper evident lobster trap. In use, the invention may operate to detect and alert a user to theft of lobsters and tampering of the harvesting process.

Abstract: A fishing rod tip comprised of a tapered wire in a single formed assembly. The wire of the rod tip comprised of a Nickel Titanium alloy and specifically adapted to maintain its shape in extremely cold temperatures.

Abstract: A spinning reel configured such that when a rotor rotates in a line-winding direction, the attitude of a bail arm is switched from a line-releasing attitude to a line-winding attitude. The spinning reel includes a reel body and a bail reversing mechanism. The bail reversing mechanism includes an engagement member and a switching member. The reel body has an accommodation recess for accommodating at least a portion of the switching member. The engagement member engages the bail arm. The switching member is disposed on the reel body. The switching member switches the attitude of the bail arm via the engagement member by contact with the engagement member.

Abstract: A method for trimming equine hoofs is disclosed that takes care to measure all four hooves of an equine for symmetry of trimming, then carefully trims regions of the hooves to ideal measurements. In another embodiment, the trimming is done in a specific order and in incremental iterations to ensure a perfect hoof trimming. Used properly, the method realigns the keratin tubules found in the make up of the hoof horn, or wall, which subsequently has the effect of stimulating healthy formation of laminae. By realigning the hoof improves the equine's: skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, nervous, skin, muscle, digestive, urogenital, and lymphatic systems resulting in their healthy operation.

Abstract: An adhesive-type insect trap includes a body having a hole for insertion of an adhesive sheet; a light source mounting unit disposed on the body; and a cover which is detachably mounted on the body and has a through-hole in at least a part thereof. The body further includes a light source seating unit provided so as to correspond to the light source mounting unit, and a light source may have one side thereof mounted on the light source mounting unit and the other side thereof seated on the light source seating unit.

Abstract: An insect trap and a method of using the same. The insect trap includes a housing. The insect trap also includes a glue board receiving space located inside the housing. The insect trap further includes one or more light sources for attracting insects into the housing. The insect trap also includes a camera having a lens. The lens has a front element. The camera is positioned to capture images of a glue board when the glue board is received in the glue board receiving space. There is no line of sight between the or each light source and the front element of the lens. This may prevent light from the or each light source reaching the front element directly. The method can include using an image captured by the camera to determine that a glue board received in the glue board receiving space needs to be replaced.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for a pest control device mounting system configured for mounting pest control devices in a building and using them to control pests. The pest control device mounting system including a mounting bracket, which may have a circumferential portion defining a portal. In some examples, the mounting bracket includes a flange portion suitable for attaching to the perimeter of a cavity in a building surface. The pest control device mounting system including a plug configured to be removably attached to the mounting bracket and to substantially close the portal when attached to the mounting bracket, wherein the plug is configured to accommodate a pest control device.

Abstract: A configurable nozzle includes a nozzle body having a reception chamber configured to receive an application mixture. The nozzle body includes a nozzle orifice. At least one orifice assembly is coupled with the nozzle body, the at least one orifice assembly includes an orifice plate movably coupled with the nozzle body. The orifice plate extends along at least a portion of the nozzle orifice, and movement of the orifice plate changes one or more of the size or shape of the nozzle orifice. An orifice actuator is coupled with the orifice plate, and the orifice actuator is configured to move the orifice plate.

Abstract: An agricultural product application implement includes a system and method for indicating an amount of fluid stored. A pressure transducer installed at the sump of a fluid tank electronically measures and displays a fluid depth. Instrumentation, such as an instrument cluster unit for the implement, is programmed via software to convert the voltage output of the pressure transducer to a volume measurement displayed in the operator's line of sight. Software within the instrument cluster unit for self-calibrating accounts for varying densities of different chemical solutions. The pressure transducer is used in conjunction with a transfer medium to prevent corrosive chemical solutions from contacting the pressure transducer.

Abstract: A vegetation saw assembly for sawing a root system of an undesired plant includes a pole and a mount that is attachable to the pole. A blade is coupled to the mount and the blade is extendable underground and is positionable between a desired plant and an undesired plant. The blade has a distal end with respect to the mount and the blade is concavely arcuate between the mount and the distal end of the blade. In this way the blade may saw a root system of the undesired plant at an approximately horizontal angle when the blade is extended underground for removing the undesired plant.

Abstract: A bait station for use with trapping rodents, including a housing, a ballast located within a base of the housing to inhibit movement of the bait station, at least one rodent trap retention area located above the ballast, and at least one rodent access to an interior of the housing though a side panel of the base at a height greater than that of the ballast. The bait station may include a removable tray disposed above the ballast that includes the rodent trap retention area to facilitate rodent removal and cleaning. Opposing first and second rodent access openings may be located on opposite side walls of the base to facilitate rodent entry from multiple directions.

Abstract: A window apparatus that can either be retrofitted in an existing blind or have the dimensions to fit into a new blind to allow a hunter to hunt with either a firearm or a bow. The window apparatus is made up of a frame having at least two panels. One of the panels is substantially transparent to allow a hunter to look for game. The second panel has a slotted aperture that is made up of at least one elastomeric membrane. The slotted aperture allows a hunter to protrude a portion of a firearm through the membrane, creating a barrier to stop scent from egressing, heat from escaping in cold seasons, and precipitation and insects from coming into the hunting blind. The elastomeric membrane can conceal the firearm further by matching the color of the portion of the firearm.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition and method for organ perfusion and cell culture.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device and a method for storing and transporting at least one human or animal tissue with a view to transplantation or ex vivo experimentation. The device can store such tissue in a specific storage medium until the transplantation or the ex vivo experimentation, and in particular to storing a sample of human or animal cornea, such as a corneal graft. This device for storing at least one human or animal tissue comprises at least one chamber which is suitable for receiving and storing the tissue in a liquid storage medium and which comprises means for continuous renewal of the medium in said at least one chamber. The device additionally comprises means for adjusting at least one physicochemical parameter of said medium, including its pH, by continuous circulation of a buffer gas in said at least one chamber outside of and in contact with said medium.

Abstract: A process of forming a sustained-release pesticide coating, a process of forming a sustained-release pesticide capsule, and a sustained-release pesticide coating are disclosed. The process of forming the sustained-release pesticide coating includes depositing a first layer that includes a first pesticide onto a surface, and depositing a second layer that includes a photodegradable material onto the first layer. The process of forming the sustained-release pesticide coating also includes depositing a third layer that includes a second pesticide onto the second layer. The process of forming the sustained release pesticide capsule includes selecting a pesticide, selecting a photosensitive compound, and encapsulating the pesticide in a photosensitive capsule that includes a polymer formed from the photosensitive compound. The sustained-release pesticide coating includes a pesticide and a material having a photosensitive component.

Abstract: A dispersion solution including a solvent which contains fine particles of a copper compound, a stabilizer, a fatty acid, a fatty acid ester of the fatty acid, and a polycarboxylic acid. The fine particles of the copper compound having antiviral property are homogeneously dispersed in the dispersion medium maintaining stability over extended periods of time.

Abstract: A composition comprising a microcapsule having a polyurea wall encapsulating a pyrethroid insecticide, wherein the polyurea wall of the microcapsule is made of polyurea polymers derived from a mixture of aromatic polyisocyanate (A) and aromatic diisocyanate (B), the weight ratio of (A) to (B) is 1:1, the polymer (or wall) content of each microcapsule is from 6 to 9% by weight, and the amount of the pyrethroid insecticide is from 15 to 60% by weight, each based on the weight of the microcapsule; such a composition providing improved worker exposure characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising microcapsules, wherein the micro-capsules comprise a polyurea shell and a core, wherein the core comprises cinmethylin and the shell comprises a polymerization product of a tetramethylxylylene and an aliphatic diamine diisocyanate, and, optionally, a cycloaliphatic diisocyanate; to a method for preparing the composition comprising the steps of contacting water, cinmethylin, the diisocyanate and the aliphatic diamine; and to a method of controlling undesired plant growth and/or for regulating the growth of plants, wherein the composition is allowed to act on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or on their environment.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a composition for the antimicrobial and/or antioxidative treatment of biofilms in water-containing liquids, comprising: (a) a micelle-forming solubilizate which comprises at least one plant extract, at least one emulsifier with an HLB number of 8 to 18, and water, and (b) at least one biodegradable antimicrobial agent selected from the group consisting of peroxides, including peroxycarboxylic acids and H2O2, hypochlorites, hypochlorous acid and a combination thereof.

Abstract: A synergistic antimicrobial composition containing bis-(3-aminopropyl)dodecylamine and sorbic acid is provided. Also, a method of inhibiting the growth of or controlling the growth of microorganisms in an aqueous medium and an aqueous based product is further provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to synergistic antimicrobial compositions comprising quaternary ammonium compound and antimicrobial active, process of preparing the same and their use. The compositions of the present invention possess activity at lower concentration of the actives and are environmentally benign.

Abstract: A synergistic microbicidal composition comprising a non-ionic surfactant and glutaraldehyde and a method for inhibiting the growth of microorganisms in an aqueous medium.

Abstract: Provided is a herbicidal composition comprising a compound of Formula (I) as a herbicidally active ingredient, and an agronomically acceptable additive, Also provided is a method of controlling undesirable vegetation using the herbicide composition.

Abstract: With the present invention it has now been found that certain 4-(trifluoromethyl)pyridine compounds and active compound compositions comprising such compounds are suitable for controlling nuisance, disease carrying or haematophagous (blood feeding) insects pests incl. dipteran, 5 triatominae and cimicidae insect pests by knockdown or by or blood feed inhibition. In one embodiment, dipteran pests are selected from flies and mosquitoes, including insecticide-resistant flies and mosquitoes, as well as fly and mosquito vectors of pathogenic disease. Target cimicidae insect pests are selected from bed bugs. Target triatominae pests are selected from kissing bugs Other aspects of the present invention will also be apparent in the detailed description which 10 follows.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel active substance combinations comprising specific heterocyclic trifluorobutenyls and previously known fungicidal agents. Said active substance combinations have a very good synergistic fungicidal, nematicidal, insecticidal, and/or acaricidal effect.

Abstract: A composite insecticidal composition is disclosed that contains three active ingredients, which are transfluthrin, prallethrin, and cypermethrin. The composite insecticide composition may further contain at least one of a solvent and a propellant. The weight percentage of each of the active ingredients may be about 0.05% to 0.5%.

Abstract: An herbicide composition, and method of use of the herbicide composition, for the prevention or minimization of growth and development of a plant species. The herbicide composition is a broad spectrum, non-selective, systemic herbicide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the fields of malaria and dengue virus. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods useful for the treatment and prevention of malaria and dengue virus. In particular embodiments, a composition comprises mosquito nectar feed and Chromobacterium sp_Panamam (Csp_P).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising saccharides extracted from blue-green algae biomass, the said saccharides comprising—from 55% to 60% of rhamnose by weight, —from 6.5% to 10% of uronic acid by weight, —from 5% to 15% of sulfate groups by weight, and—less than 10% of xylose, glucose and galactose or a mixture thereof calculated by weight upon the total of the composition being 100%.

Abstract: The invention relates to an insect repellent composition including natural ingredients like witch hazel, alcohol and essential oils in predetermined percentage appropriate for repelling outdoor and indoor insects. The said composition is safer to be sprayed or applied on humans and cause no side effects when sprayed around food items. The said composition only comprises natural ingredients and is devoid of any synthetic or poisonous substances.

Abstract: A machine for making filled pasta includes first and second feeding devices for feeding first and second layers of pasta dough, and a shaping device for shaping the filled pasta, located downstream of the feeding devices. The shaping device includes a first and a second advancing and shaping roller for the first and second layers, respectively, disposed to face and be tangent to each other at a coupling station for coupling the first and second layers around a respective filling and a cutting roller acting in conjunction with one of either the first or second rollers, in particular with the second roller. The cutting roller and the roller of the shaping device it acts in conjunction with, in particular the second roller, are tangent to each other at a cutting station where each product is separated from the first and second layers.

Abstract: A foodstuffs preparation device suitable for preparing breadstuff-based goods, the device comprises a hollow cylindrical tube having an open first end, a second end and a side wall, the side wall defining a tube channel, the first end including a cutting arrangement, the side wall defining an elongate aperture with an anterior end proximal to the first end and a posterior end distal from the first end, wherein the aperture is suitable for the insertion of a foodstuff into the tube channel.

Abstract: A scribe saw assembly is provided for a loin puller and has substantially reduced wear and increased life of the assembly components. A pinion assembly includes a double keyway and opposing cutouts on the pinion shaft, with dual needle bearings. A bevel gear assembly includes pins for holding the scribe saw blade and dual bearings on the bevel gear shaft to eliminate shaft flex and blade wear. The standard is mounted to the motor housing with load bearing pins to prevent loosening of the mounting bolts. An adjustable ski is provided on the standard to control the cutting depth of the scribe saw blade.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method for producing food material for retorting, and to food material for retorting produced by the method, the method comprising: a curing step for mixing one or more base material, selected from the group consisting of meat and seafood, with a curing agent containing phosphate and starch, and curing; and a step for heating and sterilizing the base material by heating at the temperature of 110-130° C. for 10-60 minutes.

Abstract: The system and method for neutralizing pesticides or similar agents contained in foodstuffs and structural arrangement for implementing same relates to a system and method, as well as equipment for neutralizing pesticides or similar agents found inside or on the outside of contaminated foodstuffs; developed to address the problems caused by the frequent and abusive use of chemicals in agriculture, more commonly known as pesticides, as well as the problems caused by heavy metals contained in foodstuffs and other similar agents. The invention is intended to neutralize such pesticides present both on the surface and inside foodstuffs, given that there are already known solutions that neutralize these pesticides only superficially, and that do not effectively neutralize same inside the foodstuffs.

Abstract: According to a method of manufacturing kimchi of the present invention, there is provided high-quality kimchi which contains Dendropanax morbifera Lev. and one or more functional ingredients selected from among a dandelion, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Kalopanax septemlobus, Cuscuta chinensis Lamarck, and Sambucus williamsii var. coreana Nakai, so that an irritating odor is reduced, freshness is maintained over a long period of time, an improved mouthfeel is ensured, excessive fermentation caused by the occurrence of microorganisms is prevented, and storage stability is improved.

Abstract: Industrial butter with increased hardness is suggested, obtainable or obtained by (a) separating raw milk into a skimmed milk fraction and a cream fraction; (b) while adding water, separating the cream fraction of step (a) into a milk phase and an aqueous protein-lactose phase; (c) adding hard fat to the milk phase of step (b), and homogenising it; and (d) cooling the homogenised mass while shearing.

Abstract: A method for making a new food, feed or pharmaceutical product comprising addition of a composition comprising cross-linked, via intermolecular covalent isopeptide bonds, casein glycomacropeptide (CGMP) oligomers (CGMP oligomers) to the product.