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An apparatus for aligning a cutting instrument during a surgical procedure includes a guide having an elongated slot adapted to receive a cutting instrument for resecting a patient’s bone during the surgical procedure. There is also provided a method of fabricating the semiconductor device. Stylization may be based on parameters such as syllables, consonants, vowels, and punctuation andor applied by a lookup table against predefined strings. Each heater element includes solid material and is configured so that, when heated, a mass of less than 10 nanograms of that solid material is heated for heating the bubble forming liquid.

A holographic recording and reproduction system includes a servo optical path, which is used to provide a servo mechanism, so that holographic interference fringes can be stored continuously into a holographic recording medium, and when the reproduction signals are desired, they can be fetched and obtained swiftly and accurately by making use of the servo mechanism. In one embodiment, a task dependent unified language model is created. In this way a direct sale of goods is done with high reliability on the Internet between the authorized member and the authorized shop. Small diameter rollers, very closely spaced, are affixed to a surface of the first side plate to support the conveyor belt and reduce friction between the side plate and the conveyor belt.

Apparatus and devices for percutaneously extending an existing spinal construct ipsilaterally with an additional spinal construct in a patient are disclosed. The cap is characterized in that it has a closure plane, a circumferential outer skirt for engaging a container, and a circumferential resilient depending inner member. Specifically, a dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm operates from limits calculated based upon available ports per subscriber, expected user bandwidth, and parallel user bandwidth versus throughput. Actuators can pivot the bars from their rest positions into their working positions.

An actuator arrangement for a clutch of a drive train for motor vehicles. The coder is arranged to code the symbols using a code matrix, which can be expressed as a sum of 2K elements, in which each element is a product of a symbol or symbol complex conjugate to be transmitted and a N\xd7N representation matrix of a complexified anti-commutator algebra, extended by a unit element, and in which each matrix is used at most once in the formation of the code matrix. A limit value for the electrical drive current is determined on the basis of a desired speed andor on the basis of a desired acceleration with which the electric motor or the coordinate measuring device is intended to move. The software program also receives a URL address of a Web page on the Internet to be searched.

A data storage system connectable to a host unit which issues data readwrite requests to the data storage system, and which includes a plurality of disc units, and a controller connected to the disc units. The data acquisition unit acquires echo signals by echo planar imaging which generates the echo signals by applying plural phase-encoding gradient magnetic field pulses and by repeatedly inverting a readout gradient magnetic field after one nuclear magnetic resonance excitation. The first clamping piece is configured with a spring that is capable of moving relatively to the fan so as to enable a first protrusion formed on the spring to inset into the hollow section when the spring is moved to a first position, and detach from the hollow section when the spring is move to a second position. Switched channels maintain status information about their current status, allowing switched data communication when the channel’s status is active, and permitting the unswitched data path to utilize the channel when the channel’s status is idle. Whether the human body or an obstacle enters the monitoring space, which is surrounded by a detection wave between the main body unit of the image projection apparatus and the screen, or not is detected.

In an apparatus without a helical movement, a reconstruction error considerably increases as a radiation angle increases. At least a portion of the generated plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals may be simultaneously equalized in time domain and in spatial domain. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers andor determining a clustering of the consumers. The pedestals are formed in the area of the contact openings that will be etched in an overlying dielectric to form contacts to the wordlines. In particular, when the track jump command is input, a PLL of a wobble signal is inhibited, and a PLL-wobble signal is held to a previous value obtained before the track jump is performed, during the track jump, or a header mask signal is generated using a read channel signal which is not influenced by a wobble period, until a wobble signal becomes stable after a trackjump.

A developing member is provided which is capable of forming a high-quality image by simultaneously solving the problem of fogging in a high temperature and high humidity environment and the problem of ghosts in a low temperature and low humidity environment. The mesoporous carbon uses the mesophase pitch and the carbon precursor to reduce sheet resistance, and thus can efficiently transfer electric energy. The abrasive component further includes a network of interconnected pores substantially filled with an infiltrant.

Methods and compositions are provided for the direct catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction of aldehydes with donor molecules selected from ketones and nitroalkyl compounds. The vertical transistors are arranged in an alternating gate-facing orientation, with a common source formed on a first end and separate drains on their second ends. The shoulder harness features retractable shoulder straps that may be used to securely extend the detachable adjustable pouch system away from wearer without having to detach the pouch or remove the infant while simultaneously allowing the wearer face to face access with the infant. The demodulator is configured to demodulate the filtered receiver detect signal and produce a recovered receiver detect signal that is indicative of whether a receiver is electrically coupled to the data port. Two opposed longitudinal edges define the leading surface, with at least one of the edges being outwardly flared. The methods provide a ruthenium layer having good adherence to an underlying high dielectric layer while providing good step coverage over structures on the substrate.

Methods and systems for improving the reliability of C4 solder ball contacts performed at the design stage to reduce the incidence of thermally-induced failures, including those due to electromigration and thermal cycling. A pixel structure is determined so that even if a gap or a an overlapping portion is generated in a boundary between a plurality of semiconductor substrates, a single-crystal semiconductor layer does not overlap with the gap or the overlapping portion. Initiating comments and replies may be posted to a discussion topic for review by participants. Each of the longitudinal and lateral folds extends into an associated one of the pleats. A shank portion on each member is tuned to provide an appropriate spring force to hold the seal surfaces together. The invention also encompasses a class of the compounds with the novel property of anti-tumor activity against human breast cancer, which includes the following compounds 4–2–2-hydroxy-4-oxo-butyric acid methyl ester ; 2-N-1–ethylidene-hydrazino-4-oxo-4-phenyl-but-2-enoic acid methyl ester ; 2–4-oxo-4-phenyl-but-2-enoic acid methyl ester ; and 4-Chloro-4–2–but-3-enoic acid methyl ester.

A convenient frame has a stand the use of which can be selected between use in a state that the frame is hung on a wall and use in a state that the frame is stood on a table surface for displaying pictures, photos, diplomas, certificates and the like. Each rendering device has a color measurement instrument for calibrating the color presented by the rendering device. A plurality of electrically resistive elements, such as a first resistive element and a second resistive element, can be disposed on the substrate where at least one resistive element is exclusively within the non-flexible portion of the substrate and at least one resistive element is within the flexible portion of the substrate. A rotatable locking mechanism is disposed within said housing and is engageable with the first member to permit slidable movement of the first member and thereby allow slidable movement of the elongated member to different locked positions.