All Prior Art

A nasal plug for preventing excessive fluid discharge from a nasal passage includes a plug element fabricated from an absorbent material. The article includes a body member configured and dimensioned in an ornamental shape and having a first magnetizable portion for attractive or repulsive magnetic association with at least one other magnetic jewelry-forming component and at least one further element for magnetically coupling to the at least one other magnetic jewelry-forming component. The housing body has locking arms that flex during installation and lock the electric component into place by mating with the lock surfaces. The mold-moving assembly, when so actuated, moves inserts between the insert-forming station and the overmolding station. A photo-sensor is mounted adjacent the light chopper.

The invention relates to a method of treating at least one symptom of irritable bowel syndrome selected from the group consisting of: abnormal stool frequency, abnormal stool form, abnormal stool passage, passage of mucus and feeling of abdominal distension in a subject in need thereof. The coded data may be printed somewhere appropriate on the physical item. When the value of the vibration signals falls below a trigger level, a work table direction of motion is reversed. A scatter sensor is directed towards the absorbing coating, and an integrating detector is configured to detect radiation directly from the entire Lambertian surface. The support structure thus gains significant strength as the number of folds increase.

In order to provide a safe means for the direct purification of groundwater, which enables the efficient use of carbon source and the concentration of nitrificans, while requiring no addition of heavy metals, a starch-derived biodegradable plastic is used as a single carbon source and immobilizing carrier of denitrificans, and contacted with nitrate-polluted groundwater. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes applying a DND with respect to a telephone apparatus associated with a telephone number for a first party, and obtaining a first indication of a first new attempt by the first party to establish contact with a second party. The apparatus also includes a pivotal cradle which is placed over the conveyor. The information may be provided in real time through a secure site on a network, such as the Internet. The image data may be edited to increase an overlap length of the first and second sides.

In a bidirectional ring network, in which nodes are mutually connected by network segments, a method of fault protection includes constructing a general mask indicating which of the segments can be reached. The tire may also include a support structure including an inner circumferential portion associated with the hub and an outer circumferential portion radially spaced from the inner circumferential portion. Said invention is characterized in that said base is embodied in the form of an cationic organic base whose molecular weight is greater than 150.

A back plate having a stationary back electrode is secured to a substrate. The battery can be attached to and detached from the battery support in a length direction of the battery. The capacity adjustment unit may operate in association with the size adjustment guide so as to define the loading position based on the size of the printing media. The macroinstructions are rewritten as strings according to a second computer system language. In accordance with the various aspects of the present invention, metal-containing pregnant leach solutions from pressure leaching operations need not be significantly diluted to facilitate effective metal recovery using solvent extraction and electrowinning. The cover may be removed to allow debris and the like to be placed in the interior of the at least partially spherical outer member.

An object toss game has a ball connected to an elastic cord. An object image is displayed in the aspect ratio of 4:3, and a user can carry out photographing by carrying out a shutter operation using a first side switch with the right forefinger while holding a portable telephone with the right hand. The core and at least one of the support components are provided with a smooth sliding surface upon which the core and support component may slide relative to each other, enabling a corresponding movement of the bones. For example, the selected partitions may be determined based at least in part on the access rates of the partitions by the media identification system. At least one stabilizer pad is disposed between the bit leg and the fixed blade, the stabilizer pad extending radially outward to substantially the gage surface. A mobile station identifies a base station using at least one of the preamble, the pilot arrangement pattern, and the pilot signal pattern.

A speech coder that performs analysis-by-synthesis coding of a signal determines gain parameters for each constituent component of multiple constituent components of a synthetic excitation signal. More particularly, the ultrasonic holographic imaging system may use a reference wave introduced on the side of a thin detector that acts as a wave guide; to introduce the reference wave to a liquid-to-gas interface or alternatively, from the topside of the detecting surface through a liquid-to-liquid interface. In some embodiments, the second function is simply the second input signal to the XOR function. The coating includes in cross-section a fin with a bulbous region. The plasma display device, which has a plasma display panel and a circuit unit for supplying a driving signal to the panel, includes a cavity-type heat dissipator having a plate which is located near a portion of the circuit unit to dissipate heat generated at the circuit unit, and wings which are affixed to the plate and extend from the edges of the plate inward.

An apparatus and method that prevents unauthorized extraction of content on a webpage is provided. The invention relates to isolation of CD8+ cell lines and cell clones that produce that antiviral activity and to the development of assay systems for detection of the antiviral activity. A fixer lamp applies ultraviolet rays of a predetermined range of wavelength to the recording sheet being conveyed, for optically fixing the recording sheet. These undesirable fringe fields pull toner away from image edges and cause other \u201cslow toner\u201d effects, particularly in high speed systems. The formulation of the ink includes an adhesion promoter and is adaptable to adhere to the surface of the protective coating with the adhesion promoter. A filter is disposed within each of the filter housings.

The invention provides rubber composition usable for the manufacture of tires, comprising at least one diene elastomer, one white filler as reinforcing filler and one coupling agent, the white filler comprising a titanium oxide having the following characteristics: it comprises more than 0. A semiconductor device includes a dielectric film over a dielectric layer. The outer sleeve has an open proximal end and an open distal end. The flange attaches to the subject’s head, firmly holding the ear coupler in place over the ear. The assembly and method achieve a highly uniform thickness and composition of deposition material or uniform etching or polishing on the semiconductor substrates by retaining the semiconductor substrates on a moving cathode immersed in an appropriate reaction solution wherein a wire mesh anode rotates about the moving cathode during electrochemical reaction. Specifically, the positional relationship between the image pickup element and the lens is fixed by adhesion of organic solvent or the like.

The procedure consists of the catalytic thermal decomposition of a carbamate in the presence of natural or synthetic carbamates as catalysts. Turbo encoders receive a sequence of input data tuples and encode them. The interior cooling surface includes micro-bumps that protrude from the interior cooling surface into the cooling passage. A tamper detection circuit is coupled to these memory cells in order to sense a condition when each bit associated with the plurality of memory cells is programmed to the state opposite the default state. These compounds have excellent inhibitory activity against interleukin-1 production, and are useful as preventives and therapeutics for immune system diseases, inflammatory diseases, ischemic diseases and the like. The sealing element is produced such that any actuating mechanisms are installed and held in place in the shaft and then a curable plastic material is injected into the shaft such that the material encloses the actuating element along a length that is greater than the inside diameter and smaller than its length.