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Compositions and methods for removal of toxic metals and radionuclides
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-12-18)
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the removal of toxic metals or radionuclides from source materials. Toxic metals may be removed from source materials using a clay, such as attapulgite or highly ...
Vapor-compression evaporation system and method
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-08-07)
According to one embodiment of the invention, a vapor-compression evaporation system includes a plurality of vessels in series each containing a feed having a nonvolatile component. A first set of the plurality of vessels ...
Recombinant virus expressing foreign DNA encoding feline CD86 and uses thereof
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-10-09)
The present invention involves a recombinant virus which comprises at least one foreign nucleic acid inserted within a non-essential region of the viral genome of a virus, wherein each such foreign nucleic acid encodes a ...
Method for characterising particles in suspension from frequency domain photon migration measurements
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-09-11)
Methods are provided for measuring isotropic scattering coefficients of suspensions using multiply scattered radiation that is modulated in amplitude at selected modulation frequencies. The radiation may be light. Quantities ...
Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-08-07)
The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as JAS promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. ...
Advanced optics for rapidly patterned laser profiles in analytical spectrometry
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-10-16)
The present invention is directed to a novel arrangement of optical devices for the rapid patterning of laser profiles used for desorption and/or ionization sources in analytical mass spectrometry. Specifically, the new ...
Data encoding and decoding using Slepian-Wolf coded nested quantization to achieve Wyner-Ziv coding
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-08-14)
A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) applying nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encoding the ...
Data encoding and decoding using Slepian-Wolf coded nested quantization to achieve Wyner-Ziv coding
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-11-13)
A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) apply nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encode the ...
Probabilistic boolean networks
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-08-14)
Embodiments of the invention encompass methods for modeling of complex systems, which include, but are not limited to gene regulatory networks, biological systems, and the like. Other embodiments of the invention include ...
One-pot reductive acetamidation of aryl nitro compounds
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007-02-06)
The present invention provides a method for the reductive acetamidation of an aryl nitro compound by reacting a substituted acid with an aryl nitro compound and adding a catalytic amount of a base with the substituted acid ...