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An apparatus and method is provided for forming coatings on stents. The ink compositions can include a non-aqueous HAPS-free solvent system; a binder system, including at least one of i) an acrylic resin, or ii) a first vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate resin, which is at least substantially soluble in the solvent system; and a pigment milled in the presence of a second vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate resin. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequences is 54.

An optical device includes an optical waveguide through which light propagates and a micro-resonator structure including an optical sensor. In one embodiment, the release member is connected for sliding movement between releasing and retaining positions, and the housing contains a reset access opening. The front gripper is configured to straighten an inner lumen of the balloon catheter. The bottom-forming part is configured and arranged to deform the bag in contact with the bag receiving part to form a bottom portion of the bag into a prescribed shape.

The invention relates to a device called a rotating head which is used to deform the edge of the points or nibs of ball-point pens. The compounds include at least one phosphonate group covalently attached at any site. Thus, level variation of the drive current IL which represents the superposition of the DC and high-frequency can be suppressed. In particular four different configurations of interconnections are shown and described. Virtual scan patterns in either mode can change within or between frames. The improvement using the simple statistical adaptive-filter controller is accomplished by optimizing a joint control of an echo canceller and a postfilter.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying a context-inclusive magnification area. In the case of a sanitary shower according to the invention, plug-on connector means for removably attaching the shower head to the shower body are provided. The mounting harness may have a connector attached thereto configured to releasably engage an anchorage of the vehicle. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods andor derived from soybean variety XB55Z14 are further provided. 5,20\u2266N\u226644,\u2003\u2003in case of 1.

This invention pertains to a panelized modular construction system which employs a variety of square, rectangular and triangular panel shapes related to each other, being derived from a common grid subdivided cube. The system and method abstracts VU objects for editing in a common abstraction utility and for deploying to one or more VU grids containing one or more VU architectures andor platforms. Provision is made in this connection that at least one of the chambers of the tank can be sealed off in a liquid-tight manner against at least one other chamber of the tank in order to permit the transport of persons in the at least one sealable chamber. Further, the address of the information object repository is selected from a number of addresses of information object repositories. Solids-free fluid is returned for re-re-circulation through the vessel, while the solids are moved to a containment location.

An implantable fixation system for fusing a joint between a first bone and a second bone. The apply piston has a generally radially-extending face between the two peripheries. Furthermore, compound scopes are recognized and stored such that an index of complex search scopes is provided to eliminate rehashing of the searches based on these complex search scopes. A web services consumption server is optionally used to route service requests from the application to the appropriate web service proxy.

A new and improved method and apparatus for producing a temporary wheel protective cover or shield which can be temporarily installed on the wheel of the vehicle to protect it during the time interval between its manufacture date and its delivery to a customer. The involvement of aberrant androgenAR pathway in Fabry disease has never been previously described. A pump causes circulation of sewage effluent through the venturi chamber and develops a suction in the supply tube which draws chlorine through the filterorifice assembly and into the flowing sewage effluent stream.

A band, including an extendable loop and worn around a user’s arm, is used to apply a compressive force to an attacker’s neck in self-defense. Top end of the displaceable button is formed with a notch in which the free end of the lock hook is restricted in a locked state. A first antenna is supported by the circuit board within the housing and operatively connected to the RF circuitry and configured for cellular phone communications. The resulting polymers are also described.

Under the present invention, when an error condition for the computer system is identified, settings for a series of demographical factors of the computer system are determined. Voice commands are passed through a user-command predictor and integrated with a graphical user interface control panel to allow hands-free operation. Polish stops are provided in the multilayer structure before polishing the surface, the hardness of the polish stop material being greater than the hardness of the material that needs to be removed. By using the heat transfer theorem, the disclosed assembly makes the thermistor accurately track the cold junction temperature of the thermopile chip without being in an isothermal condition. A concentrate effluent stream from the electrodeionization unit is filtered in the concentrate filtration membrane; the filtered concentrate effluent stream is provided to concentrating compartments of the electrodeionization unit. With such a correcting process, a high-quality image free of striped artifacts and inclination differences of main scanning lines can be recorded on the photosensitive film.

Provided is a process for the preparation of zopiclone, an intermediate in the synthesis of eszopiclone. The apparatus includes a baffle assembly adapted to be positioned upstream of the wheel assembly for deflecting airflow away from the wheel assembly so as to reduce the incident pressure on the wheel assembly. Potential barriers are formed at the interfaces of the barrier region and the intrinsic or lowly doped regions. The dispensing element is affixed to the edge of a garment, preferably along a hemline or collar. The compounds must nucleate polymer crystals at a higher temperature than the target polypropylene without the nucleating agent during cooling.