All Prior Art

A network based trading system and method are provided which combine economies-of-scale enjoyed by institutional investors and mutual funds with direct ownership of securities to permit individual investors to participate in the bond market in a cost effective manner. In one embodiment, characteristics describing a user’s web browsing history may be used to identify objects that are of interest to the user. The reference signal cycles are counted, creating a first binary count. A pressing mechanism is provided on the main frame and presses a bottom surface of the developing unit in a pressing direction along a straight line orthogonal to a rotational center shaft of the electrostatic latent image carrier and a rotational center shaft of the developer carrier.

An apparatus and method for imaging a shear modulus within a body is disclosed. The method involves continuously introducing molten metal into an inlet of a casting cavity defined between advancing casting surfaces, cooling the metal in the cavity to form a metal slab, and discharging the slab from the cavity through an outlet. In the power saving mode, the wireless terminal wakes up every listen interval and listen the beacon to check whether any buffered packet for it.

A MEMS electrostatic actuator includes a bottom plate affixed to a substrate and a top plate suspended above the bottom plate. The variable resistance layer is formed by stacking a first oxide layer including an oxide of a first transition metal and a second oxide layer including an oxide of a second transition metal which is different from the first transition metal. Images obtained from the video cameras may then be analyzed to determine what golf club dimensions will provide improved results in combination with the golfer’s individual swing characteristics. The receiver further includes a multi-stage low noise amplifier that receives the filtered signals from the filter.

Product R, a novel therapeutic composition for treating viral infections and stimulating the immune system, comprises a unique peptide having 31 amino acids and another unique peptide having 21 amino acids and connected with an oligo-nucleotide through a diphosphodiester or diphosphodithioate ester linkage. The leakage current is controlled by adjusting a switching speed of switches in the output inverter. The plurality of contacts of the card connector are arranged to correspond to respective plural external contact points of the SIM card. If the attempt to store-mark the cache line fails because a second thread holds a store-mark on the cache line, and if obtaining the store-mark will ensure forward progress for the first thread, the system forces the second thread to release the store-mark, so the first thread can acquire a store-mark for the cache line. The upper body is installed at its front surface with a display device. Furthermore, the porous layer of the hydrogen permeable material bonds to the solid layer, thereby greatly increasing the effective surface area of the solid layer that is exposed to hydrogen gas.

An optical disc has a first transparent substrate, a second substrate, and at least a first and a second recording layer formed between the substrates. Each of the plurality of reamer cutters may be replaceable by removing at least one of the plurality of ball and socket connectors from the reamer body. Such improvement in magnetic characteristics decreases deviation in switching characteristics in arrays of such magnetoresistive devices such as those present in MRAMs. In another form, the disks are axially spaced apart flat plates of progressively greater diameter extending from drive shafting at the axis of rotation. The conveyor belt includes a first region that is to receive the part of the recording medium and a second region adjacent to the first region.

There is described a duplex image-forming apparatus having a function of forming images onto both sides of a transfer material. According to the invention the conversion phase comprises at least: one first sub-phase during which the amplifier is connected to the input stage and the amplifier is disconnected from the output stage; followed, by a second sub-phase during which the amplifier is disconnected from the input stage and the amplifier is connected to the output stage. The metal oxide particles may be coated with a hydrophilic coating, and the pre-dispersion may contain at least one surfactant to aid in the dispersion of the metal oxide particles. A jam access cover pivots on the main transport cover from a closed to an open position. Code configured to transform the content page from the first state to a second state may be received.

A cylinder valve for use with a cylinder containing fluid under pressure includes a valve body configured for releasable connection to the cylinder. The opposite ends of the resonator, the mode-locking element and the solid-state laser medium are disposed to provide an average beam diameter of lasing light of not more than 150 \u03bcm on the mode-locking element and an average beam diameter of the lasing light of not more than 200 \u03bcm within the solid-state laser medium. LED lights displayed on the housing may be of different colors and may be arranged in a multitude of ways.

A kit for organizing a plurality of images obtained from a predetermined source. The apparatus can include a planarizing medium having a relatively hard polishing pad and a planarizing liquid disposed on a generally non-porous planarizing surface of the polishing pad. The reading unit reads out recorded data from a recording medium on which a plurality of data and index data of a plurality of data have been recorded. Both the pistons and shafts are preferably contained inside an actuator bar, which is mounted parallel to a printing plate cylinder. The connecting unit includes a second engaging member and a connecting member.

A support electrode and a counter electrode constituting parallel plate electrodes are disposed in a process vessel. Each of a plurality of processes is defined as a 3-tuple including a noun, a verb and an attribute, and a selected process is displayed as a point in navigation space. The chassis frame is provided with two longitudinal sole bars and with at least one cross-member located therebetween and connected to the sole bars via at least two articulations. In another feature, the first and second arrays of stiffening elements can be configured to substantially avoid intersecting in the medial section of the deformation-control member. An incoming call redirected through the GML is also processed as collectively paid by the GML. A key-type member is connected to the focal adjustment member and is electrically connected to the light-emitting element, controlling operation of the light-emitting element and adjusting luminous brightness thereof.

Ratchet socket for fitting onto a screwed member. For a constructively simple and quick return, the discharge means is connected directly with the entry side of the orientation section via the return conveyor. A stress liner is formed over at least each of a plurality of sidewalls of the at least one semiconducting fin and the gate stack. Analysis of the properties of the process activities as well as application of the optimization procedure is performed dynamically during execution of the process model by a workflow engine. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing the transparent conductive layer and a photoelectric device. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and method for providing interactive dialogue and iterative search functions to find information on a large network of servers such as the world wide web.