Abstract:
Energy beams with different wavelengths or wavelength ranges may be passed through a gas sample in a test chamber. Ones of the energy beams may have wavelengths or wavelength ranges that are absorbed by particular gases. To determine whether any of those particular gases are in the gas sample, the loss of energy, if any, as the beams pass through the gas ample may be determined. The presence of one or more gases that do not absorb the energy beams may be determined by placing a chemical reactant that reacts with those one or more gases and then detecting a chemical reaction between the chemical reactant and the gas sample.
Abstract:
A paperboard having improved strength and water resistance comprises a standard paperboard furnish modified by adding 5-60 lbs/ton alum, 3-40 lbs/ton of liquid size, and 16-50 lbs/ton modified cationic starch. A more preferred formulation has a paperboard furnish, 4-40 lbs of alum per ton of furnish, 3-12 lbs of liquid size per ton of furnish, and 30-40 lbs of cationic starch per ton of furnish Other additives such as a dry strength agent and microparticle silica may be added. Paperboard cores spirally wound from the paperboard of the invention exhibit shorter cure time, higher strength, improved dimensional stability, and reduced moisture migration.
Abstract:
The security system involved in the arming and disarming of a car alarm, includes a transmitter and a receiver. Both transmitter and receiver includes oscillators incorporating a highly accurate and stable quartz time base. Each oscillator drives a respective encoder to develop a pseudo random succession of codes. Reset switches are provided for both transmitter and receiver to synchronize the two oscillators and therefore to synchronize the succession of codes. The receiver includes a decoder for decoding the received signals and a comparator for comparing the decoded signal with the signal generated by the encoder. When equality is detected an arm/disarm circuit is triggered. Because the codes of the transmitter and receiver are continually changing, it makes it very difficult for a thief to produce a coded signal which will trigger the arm/disarm circuit.
Abstract:
The wiring of system contacts (18) to board probes (20) on a fixture (16) that is used to connect nodes of a board under test to system pins (14) of a multiplexed circuit tester (10) is performed independently of test generation for the type of circuit board with which the fixture (16) is associated. Conflict lists that the pin-assignment program uses to determine which system contacts to wire to which board probes are generated without using the output of the program for generating the board test. For driver/sensor probes, a conflict list for the in-circuit test of a given device includes all input and output nodes of that device as well as all input nodes of devices whose output terminals are connected to nodes of the device under test. The resulting wiring results in few conflicts without requiring many more tester resources than conventional pin-assignment approaches do, and it can be employed without adding to manufacturing lead time.
Abstract:
A recombinant gram-negative bacterial cell comprising one or more of the following mutated protease genes: a) a mutated Tsp gene, wherein the mutated Tsp gene encodes a Tsp protein having reduced protease activity or is a knockout mutated Tsp gene; b) a mutated ptr gene, wherein the mutated ptr gene encodes a Protease III protein having reduced protease activity or is a knockout mutated ptr gene; and c) a mutated DegP gene encoding a DegP protein having chaperone activity and reduced protease activity; wherein the cell is isogenic to a wild-type bacterial cell except for the mutated Tsp gene and/or mutated ptr gene and/or mutated DegP gene and optionally a polynucleotide sequence encoding a protein of interest.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a recombinant gram-negative bacterial cell comprising a mutant spr gene encoding a mutant spr protein and wherein the cell comprises a non-recombinant wild-type chromosomal Tsp gene.
Abstract:
A method of selecting potential hires for progression through a hiring process is provided. The method comprises selecting at least one performance indicator for a position, obtaining the at least one performance indicator for a plurality of incumbents in the position, and placing each incumbent in the plurality of incumbents along a performance continuum according to their performance indicator. The method also comprises surveying incumbents from at least both halves of the performance continuum, generating an ideal profile for the position based upon the incumbent survey and the at least one performance indicator of the incumbents, using a survey to generate a candidate profile of a potential hire, comparing the candidate profile of the potential hire with the ideal profile for the position to determine a result for the potential hire, and determining whether to progress the potential hire to a next stage in the hiring process based upon the result.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a transcriptionally active recombinant linear polynucleotide encoding a multimeric protein comprising in the following order, a first promoter sequence, a first encoding polynucleotide sequence, a bidirectional regulatory sequence, a second encoding polynucleotide sequence and a second promoter sequence, wherein the first and second encoding polynucleotide sequences are in convergent transcriptional orientation, each encoding polynucleotide sequence encodes a component of the multimeric protein and the bidirectional regulatory sequence is operably linked to the first and second encoding polynucleotide sequences and the multimeric protein is an antibody or fragment thereof and each encoding polynucleotide sequence encodes one or more antibody domains or fragments thereof.
Abstract:
Unlike other drum tensioning systems, this drum tensioning system has no component directly involved with the tension and tuning of the drum head coming into contact with the shell of the drum. This drum tensioning (tuning) system tunes the drum in an industry standard fashion while greatly reducing the quantity of material in direct contact with the drum, and greatly reducing the area of holes drilled into a drum's shell. In addition, this system eliminates the need for springs, which are the cause of hum and vibration when drum sounds are amplified.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a game, including a first module having a housing, a processor, a display operably coupled to the processor and an electrical contact positioned such that access is available to the electrical contact of the first module through the first module housing, and a second module having a housing, a processor, a display operably coupled to the processor and an electrical contact positioned such that access is available to the electrical contact of the second module through the second module housing, the electrical contact of the second module configured to contact the electrical contact of the first module, allowing the processor of the first module to communicate with the processor of the second module. Wherein when the processor of the second module is in communication with the processor of the first module, the first module display and the second module display are configured to each display a portion of a the game, each such portion configured to not overlap each other such portion.