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US20120107921 MODEL BASED CONTROLS FOR USE WITH BIOREACTORS  
Embodiments of the present invention include model-based controls to control photobioreactor operation and the growth of algae for use as a biofuels feedstock. In some embodiments, the model-based...
8164512 Gaussian model adaptive processing in the time domain  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a Gaussian adaptive filter for ground clutter filtering and signal parameter estimation for weather radars in the time domain. In some embodiments, the...
US20120088239 Detection of Chromosomal Inversions  
A method and a kit for the identification of chromosomal inversions are described. Chromosomal inversions are difficult to detect unless they are quite large. The improved ability to detect...
US20120088215 INTEGRATED MODEL FOR OTOSCOPIC PROCEDURES  
An otoscopic model is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the otoscopic model includes an artificial ear, an artificial head and at least one tympanic membrane portion. The artificial ear includes...
8153684 Use of equol for treating androgen mediated diseases  
Equol (7-hydroxy-3(4′hydroxyphenyl)-chroman), the major metabolite of the phytoestrogen daidzein, specifically binds and blocks the hormonal action of 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in vitro and in...
8148605 Biological systems input-output response system and plant sentinels  
A eukaryotic input circuit: computationally designed receptors, synthetic eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, and a synthetic signal sensitive promoter that allow highly specific...
US20120073971 SELF-ASSEMBLY OF COATINGS UTILIZING SURFACE CHARGE  
An apparatus and method for measuring the isoelectric pH for materials deposited on or otherwise affixed onto and in contact with an electrode surface, and a method for utilizing the isoelectric pH...
US20120068848 MULTI-SENSOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITOR SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE  
A system and method for monitoring the condition of a human, companion animal, or livestock animal in an extreme environment is disclosed. In particular, a system and method to process at least one...
8133168 Remediation of functional cardiac mitral valve regurgitation  
A dynamic device for reducing functional mitral regurgitation is described. The device is disposed externally to the heart and effectively acts as a splint for reducing further dilation of the...
US20120058475 Detection of Chromosomal Inversions  
A method and a kit for the identification of chromosomal inversions is described. Chromosomal inversions are difficult to detect unless they are quite large. The improved ability to detect...
US20120058150 Methods for Delivering Compositions by Electrospraying a Medical Device  
Methods are provided for administering a phospholipid composition to a subject, comprising coating a medical device with at least one layer of a phospholipid composition, wherein the coating is...
US20120051084 TRANSMISSION OF LASER PULSES WITH HIGH OUTPUT BEAM QUALITY USING STEP-INDEX FIBERS HAVING LARGE CLADDING  
An apparatus and method for transmission of laser pulses with high output beam quality using large core step-index silica optical fibers having thick cladding, are described. The thick cladding...
US20120040247 LAYERED COMPOSITE MATERIALS HAVING THE COMPOSITION: (1-x-y)LiNiO2(xLi2Mn03)(yLiCoO2), AND SURFACE COATINGS THEREFOR  
A straightforward and scalable solid-state synthesis at 975° C. used to generate cathode materials in the system Li(3+x)3Ni(1-x-y)CoyMn2x/3O2 {a combination of LiNiO2, Li2MnO3, and LiCoO2 as ...
8116566 Unknown pattern set recognition  
A pattern recognition system compares a set of unlabeled images (or other patterns) having a variation of state in a set-by-set comparison with individual data sets of multiple labeled images (or...
US20120028980 USE OF NK-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS IN MANAGEMENT OF VISCERAL PAIN  
Methods for managing visceral pain in mammalian subjects are described, in which a NK-1 receptor antagonist is administered to the subject before, during or after administration of general...
8097432 Method for diagnosing hemangiosarcoma in canine using detection of thymidine kinase activity  
The disclosure relates to a method for detecting hemangiosarcoma in canines. The method includes the steps of: (1) obtaining a quantity of blood from the subject canine; (2) separating the quantity...
US20120006809 SUBLIMATION CRUCIBLE WITH EMBEDDED HEATER ELEMENT  
Systems, apparatus and methods for in-line evaporative deposition are described herein that include a nickel chromium wire based heating system that can reach desired operating temperatures while...
US20110319988 Device and System for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement  
This invention relates to the design and function of a compressible valve replacement prosthesis which can be deployed into a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation using a transcatheter...
8080421 Method for determining crystallization parameters and apparatus for use with the same  
The present disclosure provides a method to allow a user to pre-screen numerous crystallization conditions in the crystallization space to identify those conditions with the highest probability of...
8077074 Networked waveform system  
Certain embodiments provide a network waveform system that can include multiple radars disposed at different geographical positions within an environment. The multiple radars may be configured to...
US20110287425 Assays to Detect Small-Scale Mutations in Individual Cells  
Methods, compositions, and assays are described which are useful in identifying point mutations, identifying cancer cells, and diagnosing cancer.
US20110284379 DIRECT DETERMINATION OF CARBOHYDRATES, AMINO ACIDS AND ANTIBIOTICS BY MICROCHIP ELECTROPHORESIS WITH PULSED AMPEROMETRIC DETECTION  
The present invention provides a microchip for performing electrophoresis with pulsed amperometric detection (PAD) for the separation and detection of underivatized carbohydrates, amino acids,...
US20110281299 Recombinant Pokeweed Antiviral Proteins, Compositions and Methods Related Thereto  
The present invention provides novel, modified pokeweed antiviral proteins, nucleic acids that encode the proteins, conjugates that incorporate the proteins, and methods to make and use the...
8046200 Nonlinear function approximation over high-dimensional domains  
An algorithm is disclosed for constructing nonlinear models from high-dimensional scattered data. The algorithm progresses iteratively adding a new basis function at each step to refine the model....
US20110257950 Nonlinear function approximation over high-dimensional domains  
An algorithm is disclosed for constructing nonlinear models from high-dimensional scattered data. The algorithm progresses iteratively adding a new basis function at each step to refine the model....
US20110236949 Methods for Processing Biological Tissues  
Methods are provided for removing or separating the cellular and/or soluble macromolecular component of a biological tissue from the extracellular matrix component of the biological tissue,...
US20110224431 Triazolium Carbene Catalysts and Stereoselective Bond Forming Reactions Thereof  
Provided herein are triazolium carbine catalysts useful for asymmetric hydration, fluorination, and deuteration, and processes for their preparation. Also provided are synthetic reactions in which...
8012328 Non-fluidic micro-detection device and uses thereof  
The present invention provides a microchip for performing electrophoresis with pulsed amperometric detection (PAD) for the separation and detection of underivatized carbohydrates, amino acids,...
7991488 Apparatus and method for use in computational fluid dynamics  
An apparatus includes a parallel computation unit including an input port and an output port and a one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model. The input port is configured to sample at a...
US20110159116 BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES  
The present disclosure is directed to a method of producing nitric oxide comprising (i) providing a composition comprising a metal-organic framework, and (ii) exposing the composition to a nitric...
US20110140607 SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PLASMA  
A plasma generating system, related method and device are disclosed. The plasma generation system includes a plasma generation device, a source of ionizable gas and a driver network. The plasma...
US20110139751 PLASMA-BASED CHEMICAL SOURCE DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF  
The present disclosure provides for a plasma system including a plasma device coupled to a power source, an ionizable media source and a precursor source. During operation, the ionizable media...
US20110114074 Combustion Chamber for Charcoal Stove  
A combustion chamber may include an upper and a lower chamber. The chambers may be separable to aid in loading fuel and removing spent fuel. The cross-section of the upper combustion chamber may be...
US20110102250 SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM  
Sensitivity is a critical aspect of weather radar systems. Such systems not only detect atmospheric patterns but often need to precisely measure weak precipitation echoes. Embodiments of the...
US20110102249 RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM (RES) FOR NETWORKED RADARS  
Embodiments provide methods, systems, and/or devices that can provide measurements of the inherent reflectivity distribution from different look angles using N radar nodes. Doppler weather radars...
7931850 Nanometer-scale ablation using focused, coherent extreme ultraviolet/soft x-ray light  
Ablation of holes having diameters as small as 82 nm and having clean walls was obtained in a poly(methyl methacrylate) on a silicon substrate by focusing pulses from a Ne-like Ar, 46.9 nm...
US20110086384 IDENTIFICATION OF BACTERIAL SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES USING LIPIDS  
The use of free, extractable lipids found in bacteria for identification of bacterial species and subspecies is described. Bacteria have been found to differ sufficiently in their extracted lipid...
7917540 Nonlinear set to set pattern recognition  
Variations in the states of patterns can be exploited for their discriminatory information and should not be discarded as noise. A pattern recognition system compares a data set of unlabeled...
7898459 Adaptive specific differential phase in dual-polarization radar  
Systems and methods are provided for adaptively estimating the specific differential phase (Kdp) from dual-polarization radar data in the complex domain. Some embodiments adapt for wrapped...
US20110042353 NANOMETER-SCALE ABLATION USING FOCUSED, COHERENT EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET/SOFT X-RAY LIGHT  
Ablation of holes having diameters as small as 82 nm and having clean walls was obtained in a poly(methyl methacrylate) on a silicon substrate by focusing pulses from a Ne-like Ar, 46.9 nm...
7892816 Electrochemical detection of substrates  
The present invention provides a method for detecting probe-target substrate binding. In particular, the present invention provides a method for detecting a surface bound target complex by...
7861601 Measurement of liquid flow in porous media by tracer dilution without continuous mixing  
A natural gradient, single well, tracer dilution non-continuous mixing apparatus and method for measuring flow of liquids through porous media are described. The method has been applied to...
7858825 Acid and base stable diphenylmethanol derivatives and methods of use  
The invention provides compounds that are useful as linkers for solid phase synthesis and as protecting groups, and methods for producing and using the same.
US20100322534 OPTIMIZED CORRELATION FILTERS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING  
A system and method for generating and using a correlation filter. The method includes providing a plurality of training images, each training image being paired with an associated target...
7843378 Dynamic and adaptive radar tracking of storms (DARTS)  
Methods and systems for estimating atmospheric conditions are disclosed according to embodiments of the invention. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving reflective atmospheric data and...
7807182 Early detection of mycobacterial disease using peptides  
A number of protein and glycoprotein antigens secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) have been identified as “early” Mtb antigens on the basis early antibodies present in subjects inf...
7776341 Biomarkers of tuberculosis that distinguish disease categories: use as serodiagnostic antigens  
Mycobacterial proteins from culture filtrate or cytosol are disclosed as being useful B cell antigens for early diagnosis of mycobacterial disease, particularly in humans. These proteins include...
US20100150983 OUTER LAYER HAVING ENTANGLEMENT OF HYDROPHOBIC POLYMER HOST AND HYDROPHILIC POLYMER GUEST  
An outer layer having an entanglement comprising an intermingling of cloaked hydrophilic guest and a hydrophobic polymer host, wherein molecules of the guest have been crosslinked with each other....
7729403 High-order harmonic generation in a capillary discharge  
A pre-ionized medium created by a capillary discharge results in more efficient use of laser energy in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from ions. It extends the cutoff photon energy, and...
US20100112004 HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR INDUCER AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME  
The present invention provides vaccine compositions and methods for using the same. Generally, the vaccine is used to prevent infection of a microorganism that produces an HIF inducing compound....
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