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Biocompatible polyelectrolyte complexes and methods of use
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An article comprising a polyelectrolyte complex comprising an interpenetrating network of at least one predominantly positively charged polyelectrolyte polymer and at least one predominantly negatively charged polyelectrolyte polymer, ...
Stock ranking predictions based on neighborhood model
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A system and method of aggregating and predicting stock ranking stocks. The novel system and method uses a neighborhood model to aggregate a plurality of “neighboring” or related stocks having similar pricing trends. The...
Process for the preparation of baccatin III analogs bearing new C2 and C4 functional groups
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Process for the preparation of a derivative or analog of baccatin III or 10-desacetyl baccatin III having a C2 substituent other than benzoate and/or a C4 substituent other than acetate in which the C2 benzoate substituent and/or the C4...
Serial safety bearing assembly includes two concentric bearing sets and an actuatable device for selectively switching to engage either the inner or the outer of the two concentric bearing sets upon failure of one set or to alternate to...
Accelerated methods of oxidizing organic contaminants in aqueous mediums using corona induced reactions and particles therewith
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Novel accelerated methods involving corona discharge, and preferably pulsed streamer high voltage corona discharge, in combination with an effective amount of suitable particles to break down organic contaminants, such as phenol and...
Method for producing freestanding high Tc superconducting thin films
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A process for producing a freestanding high Tc superconducting thin film is disclosed, which comprises providing a carbon substrate, depositing a high Tc superconducting thin film on the substrate and removing the carbon substrate by...
Electromagnetic interference shielding structure including carbon nanotube or nanofiber films and methods
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A composite material for electromagnetic interference shielding is provided. The composite material comprises a stack including at least two electrically conductive nanoscale fiber films, which are spaced apart from one another by at...
Method of detecting compromised computers in a network
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A method of detecting a compromised machine on a network. The method receives an email message from a machine on the network and classifies it as either spam or non-spam. A probability ratio is then updated, according to whether the...
Electromagnetic interference shielding structure including carbon nanotube or nanofiber films
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A composite material for electromagnetic interference shielding is provided. The composite material comprises a stack including at least two electrically conductive nanoscale fiber films, which are spaced apart from one another by at...
An actuator configured to rapidly vary the throat geometry of a microjet nozzle. Varying the throat geometry rapidly changes the characteristics of the microjet produced by the microjet nozzle. The inventive device is capable of...
Mutants of human fibroblast growth factor having increased stability and/or mitogenic potency
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Mutants of human FGF-1 are disclosed having increased stability and mitogenic potency. In the FGF-1 polypeptide, primarily residue 12 is substituted with threonine and/or residue 134 is substituted cysteine, valine or threonine to render...
A taxane having a cyclopentyl ester substituent at C10, a keto substituent at C9, a hydroxy substituent at C2, a 2-thienyl substituent at C3′ and an isopropoxycarbamate substituent at C3′.
Composite materials and method for making high-performance carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composites
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Nanocomposite materials and methods of making composite materials reinforced with carbon nanotubes are disclosed. The composite material includes an array of functionalized and aligned carbon nanotubes having a degree of...
Modular cell culture bioreactor and associated methods
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An apparatus and method for a modular cell culture bioreactor comprises a plurality of chambers for cell culture; at least one reservoir containing a cell support medium; a plurality of conduits fluidly connecting the at least one...
Method of controlling effective impedance in a superconducting cable
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A method of controlling the effective impedance of a low-impedance high-temperature superconducting cable (“HTS cable”). Passive or active control circuitry is used to create a current in the shielding conductor of the HTS...
Method for functionalization of nanoscale fibers and nanoscale fiber films
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A method is provided for functionalizing nanoscale fibers including reacting a plurality of nanoscale fibers with at least one epoxide monomer to chemically bond the at least one epoxide monomer to surfaces of the nanoscale fibers to...
Dipeptide acetylene conjugates and a method for photocleavage of double strand DNA by dipeptide acetylene conjugates
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Photoreactive DNA cleaving conjugate compounds are provided comprising a DNA cleaving moiety which comprises an aryl alkyne group and a polyfunctional pH-regulated DNA-binding moiety which comprises at least one or two amino groups.
Heteroaryl substituted oxazinone compounds for the preparation of taxol
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Process for the preparation of a taxol intermediate comprising contacting an alcohol with an oxazinone having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is aryl, heteroaryl, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or OR.sub.7 wherein R.sub.7 is alkyl, ...
A device and method for sheathing shrink tubing onto materials such as wire, tape, or cables. The device cannot only sheath short lengths of shrink tubing onto material, but also sheath long lengths shrink tubing onto material. Varying...
Mutants of human fibroblast growth factor having increased stability and/or mitogenic potency
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Mutants of human FGF-1 are disclosed having increased stability and mitogenic potency. In the FGF-1 polypeptide, primarily residue 12 is substituted with cysteine and/or residue 134 is substituted cysteine, valine or threonine to render...
Solid scintillators for detecting radioactive ions in solution
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A scintillator for absorbing and concentrating radioactive ions within a solution, the scintillator including a solid scintillator and an ionic layer on a surface of and in contact with the solid scintillator. When radioactive ions are...
Digital video borescope for drilled shaft inspection
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Visual inspection of an interior surface of a borehole. A housing adapted to be lowered in the borehole supports a portable camera for generating images of a portion of the interior surface of the borehole and a light source for...
Method for continuous fabrication of carbon nanotube networks or membrane materials
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Methods and devices are provided for the continuous production of a network of nanotubes or other nanoscale fibers. The method includes making a suspension of nanoscale fibers dispersed in a liquid medium, optionally with surfactant and...
Method of applying high temperature compatible insulation to superconductors
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There is described a method of applying insulative coating on high temperature superconductors and low temperature superconductors from sol-gel solutions prepared from Zr, or Zr with one of Mg, Y, Ce, In and Sn based precursor materials....
This invention relates to actuators having biologically-based components, and methods of making and using the same. The actuator of the invention has a movable member that moves substantially linearly as a result of a biomolecular...
A dynamic cavity air flow system reduces the highly unsteady flow over exposed aircraft cavities by incorporating a series of microjets proximate the leading edge of a cavity. The microjets, which may articulate, issue a supersonic jet...
An article for controlling the attachment and growth of cells on a surface of the article, and a method for the use of the article is provided. The article comprises a substratum having a surface and a film on the surface, the film...
Catalytic electrode with gradient porosity and catalyst density for fuel cells
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A membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for a fuel cell comprising a gradient catalyst structure and a method of making the same. The gradient catalyst structure can include a plurality of catalyst nanoparticles, e.g., platinum, disposed on...
Polymer mechanical damping composites and methods of production
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An article comprising a polyelectrolyte complex, the polyelectrolyte complex comprising an intermolecular blend of a predominantly positively-charged polyelectrolyte and a predominantly negatively charged polyelectrolyte and being free...
Method of removing SO.sub.2, NO.sub.X and particles from gas mixtures using streamer corona
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A method for converting sulfur dioxide and/or nitrogen oxide gases to acid mist and or particle aerosols is disclosed in which the gases are passed through a streamer corona discharge zone having electrodes of a wire-cylinder or wire...
RNAi therapeutic for treatment of hepatitis C infection
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Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) or small hairpin RNA (shRNAs) and compositions comprising same are provided that specifically target human cyclophilin A (CyPA) to effectively inhibit Hepatitis C(HCV) infection in a cell. Such siRNA and...
Voltage profile based fault location identification system and method of use
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The present invention provides a method to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist...
Dynamic microtunable MIDI interface process and device
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A software solution to the pitch limitations inherent in the MIDI standard. The invention uses the Polyphonic Aftertouch (also known as “Key Aftertouch”) messages available in the basic MIDI standard to retune selected...
Multiple parabolic trough solar collector having a focus-tracking pipe array
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A trough collector for solar energy, with multiple parallel troughs preferably being contained within a single unit. The collector does not use conventional azimuth tracking in order to keep the sun's rays directed toward the parabola's...
Methods of constructing alkene-based copolymer polyolefins having reduced crystallinity
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The invention is a novel family of polyolefins characterized by chain-walking defects of the type that add extra backbone carbons per monomer. These polyolefins display a large decrease in crystallinity relative to polyolefins known in...
Methods are provided for fabricating graphene nanoribbons. The methods rely on laser irradiation that is applied to a carbon nanotube film to unzip one or more carbon nanotubes of the carbon nanotube film. Graphene nanoribbons can be...
Preparation of substituted isoserine esters using &bgr;-lactams and metal or ammonium alkoxides
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A process for preparing N-acyl, N-sulfonyl and N-phosphoryl substituted isoserine esters in which a metal or an ammonium alkoxide is reacted with a &bgr;-lactam.
Method for locating phase to ground faults in DC distribution systems
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A method for locating phase to ground faults in DC distribution systems. The method includes utilizing wavelet analysis using Multi-Resolution Analysis (MRA) as a signal processing tool for recognition of characteristic features in the...
Proton-transfer, low self-absorbing chromophores for use in scintillators
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Proton-transfer, low self-absorbing chromophores of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, cyano, nitro, halo or an ether group, R.sub.4 is O or N--H, and R.sub.5 is thienyl, naphthyl, ...
Processes for the preparation of taxol and other taxanes through selective derivatization of the C(7) and C(10) hydroxyl groups of 10-DAB, particularly a novel process using a new strategy in which the C(10) hydroxyl group is protected...
Single crystals of the new semiconducting oxychalcogenide phase were synthesized using a novel crystal growth method. The crystals had low defects and homogeneous composition as characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction and...
Nucleic acid and allergenic polypeptides encoded thereby in cashew nuts (
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The invention describes an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a degenerate variant of SEQ ID NO:1. The nucleic acid sequence encodes an Ig-E binding immunogenic polypeptide the amino acid...
A marking and cutting guide particularly adapted for use on large flat panels—such as pieces of plywood. The invention clamps onto large panels and remains in place while the user either uses it to mark a cutting line or uses is as...
System for locating a fault in a power distribution system comprising at least one distributed resource having a controllable voltage source converter
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The present invention provides a system to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist...
System for in-situ and on-line monitoring of a perform layup process for liquid composite molding
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A system for in-situ and on-line monitoring of a preform layup process for liquid composite molding allows for gathering of permeability measurements of a fabric preform for use in a liquid composite molding process after situation of...
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