摘要:
A land-based or mobile phone and methods are provided for receiving inbound communications as either voice or text, and then based on the user's configuration settings, the inbound communication is provided to the user as it was received or is automatically converted into a format that is desired by the user. The phone also takes voice or text that is input by the user of the phone and converts the user's input to either voice or text based on the configuration settings stored in the user's contact list or otherwise. The outbound communication is configured according to how the intended recipient wants to receive a communication based on the configuration settings stored in the user's contact list or otherwise. The phone includes a controller that determines how the phone will handle and process inbound and outbound communications. The controller includes a speech recognition engine.
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A surgical screw cartridge system apparatus and method is provided wherein the cartridge has a body for storing a plurality of surgical screws. A spring-biased plunger is positioned within the body for presenting the surgical screws head first to a driver. A tab within the body prevents removal of the surgical screws from the body in absence of a screwdriver.
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The present invention relates to methods and compositions which utilize binding relationships between detector molecules and their ligands for labeling molecules of interest in vivo. A “target” molecule is linked to a detector molecule (such as a protein or a nucleic acid) and the function and/or location of the target molecule is monitored by binding the detector molecule its ligand, which carries a detectable label. In particular embodiments of the invention, an intracellular fusion protein comprising a target protein and a detector protein is bound to a membrane-permeable, fluorescently-labeled ligand of the detector protein, thereby providing an adjunct or alternative to Green Fluorescent Protein.
摘要:
A system and methods through which incoming calls to and/or outgoing calls from a telephone can be controlled. The present invention utilizes an authorized caller list to determine whether an incoming call should be connected, and a similar list to determine whether an outgoing call should be connected. The present invention can also facilitate the use of new telephone user interfaces, including by iterating through telephone numbers associated with a contact, until communications with the contact are established.
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A blend of triglycerides having the general formula CH2(OOC-R1)—CH(OOC—R2)—CH2(OOC—R3), wherein at least about 50% of the R1, R2 and R3 groups have a chain length of C19 or more. The blend of triglycerides has less than about 50 parts per billion (ppb) of trimethyl amine, that is, they are substantially odor free. Also provided is a process for preparing an enriched blend of triglycerides by taking an oil comprising a mixture of polyunsaturated fatty acids and reacting the oil with a lower alcohol to form a mixture of esters. The mixture of esters is then distilled to remove a portion of the esters having a chain length of about C18 and below to form an enriched stream of enriched esters having at least about 50% of the esters with chain length of about C20 or more. The enriched stream of esters is then reacted with glycerine to form a triglyceride mixture, wherein the triglyceride mixture has less than about 10%, by weight of diglycerides and less than about 5%, by weight monoglycerides. The triglyceride mixture preferably comprises less than 5% diglyceride and less than 1% monoglyceride. The triglyceride mixture most preferably comprises less than 2.5% diglyceride and less than 0.2% monoglyceride. Finally, the triglyceride mixture may optionally be treated by water washing, bleaching, evaporation, steam stripping and mixtures of these, to remove residual free fatty acids, aldehydes, color bodies, odor bodies, peroxides and esters.
摘要:
A system and methods through which incoming calls to and/or outgoing calls from a telephone can be controlled. The present invention utilizes an authorized caller list to determine whether an incoming call should be connected, and a similar list to determine whether an outgoing call should be connected. The present invention can also facilitate the use of new telephone user interfaces, including by iterating through telephone numbers associated with a contact, until communications with the contact are established.
摘要:
A sports training system includes a supporting structure, a first moving element supported by the supporting structure so as to be moveable relative to the supporting structure along a first path, a second moving element supported by the first moving element so as to be moveable relative to the first moving element along a second path different from the first path, and a punching bag suspended below the first moving element by the second moving element. The punching bag is moveable to any point within an area defined by the first and second paths when a trainee strikes the punching bag, thereby mimicking movements of an opponent. One or more elastic elements can be attached between the punching bag and the supporting structure for returning the punching bag to a desired region within the area.
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An apparatus and method for penetrating bone marrow is provided. The apparatus may include a housing such as a handheld body, a penetrator assembly, a connector that releasably attaches the penetrator assembly to a drill shaft, a gear mechanism, a motor and a power supply and associated circuitry operable to power the motor. The penetrator assembly may include a removable inner trocar and an outer penetrator or needle. It may also include a grooved trocar that allows bone chips to be expelled as the apparatus is inserted into bone marrow. Various connectors are provided to attach the penetrator assembly to the drill shaft.
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A graphics driver and method is provided that facilitates graphics rendering time partitioning to provide improved resource allocation between multiple windows and/or multiple graphics clients. The graphics driver receives high level graphics data from multiple graphics clients and outputs a time-partitioned chain of graphics primitives to the graphics processor. The graphics driver includes a partitioning controller, a graphics translator, and a chain builder. The partitioning controller allocates processing time among the multiple graphics clients, with each of the multiple graphics clients being allocated a periodic budget. The graphics translator translates high level graphics commands received from the graphics clients into graphics primitives that can be processed by the graphics processor. The chain builder creates chains of the graphics primitives that are configured to give each graphics client its associated periodic budget in the graphics processor.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for accessing the bone marrow of a human's sternum is provided. The apparatus includes a tissue penetrator configured to penetrate the sternum, a trigger mechanism configured to engage when the tissue penetrator contacts the sternum and a depth control mechanism operable to limit the penetration of the tissue penetrator into the sternum to a pre-selected depth.