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Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Haig ; At a tank demonstration, 1916
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6911905 | Device and system for indicating rapid deceleration in vehicles A device and system for indicating rapid deceleration to warn the operator and/or others of an urgent deceleration condition is provided. The device includes one or more sensors that are responsive to acceleration in the primary direction of vehicle motion. The cont... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6808742 | Preparation of thin silica films with controlled thickness and tunable refractive index A method of forming a porous silica film includes the following steps: a) providing a substrate; b) coating, on a surface of the substrate, a layer of charged polyelectrolyte; and c) applying an aged silica-bearing non-colloidal solution to the coated surface of the... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6671494 | Small, battery operated RF transmitter for portable audio devices for use with headphones with RF receiver A portable FM stereo RF transmitter having an audio plug extending therefrom directly or via a cable and which mates with the earphone or output jack of an audio source such as a portable battery operated CD or tape player and having no external antenna. ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6180399 | RNA ribozyme polymerases, dephosphorylases, restriction endoribonucleases and methods RNA enzymes or ribozymes can act as endoribonucleases, catalyzing the cleavage of RNA molecules with a sequence specificity of cleavage greater than that of known ribonucleases and approaching that of the DNA restriction endonucleases, thus serving as RNA... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6048394 | Method for growing single crystals from polycrystalline precursors A method is disclosed for forming a single crystal relaxor based material, including the following steps: providing a seed single crystal plate, providing a first and second polycrystalline structure, bonding the top surface of the seed crystal plate to t... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6022590 | Stepwise formation of multilayered nanostructures from macromolecular precursors A two-step adsorption process for producing ordered organic/inorganic multilayer structures is provided. Multilayered films are formed on metallic and nonmetallic substrates by alternate adsorption of a cationic polyelectrolyte and anionic sheets of a sil... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5940542 | Encoding and decoding apparatus and method for analog and digital signals A method and apparatus is disclosed for encoding and decoding an input signal representative of video or audio information. A form of the method includes the following steps: processing the input signal to produce a sequence of vectors representative of t... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5750666 | Polynucleotide phosphorodithioate compounds The present invention relates to new and useful nucleoside thiophosphoroamidites and polynucleotide phosphorodithioate compounds as well as the processes whereby these compounds may be used for synthesizing new mononucleotides and polynucleotides having p... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5714576 | Linear analogs of alpha-msh fragments Linear and Cyclic Alpha-MSH fragment analogues of Ac-Nle4 -Glu5 -His6 -D-Phe7 -Arg8 -Try9 -Gly10 -NH2. The method of stimulating melanocytes by the transdermal application ... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5695979 | Inhibition of reverse transcriptase by phosphorodithioates The present invention describes a method for the inhibition of reverse transcriptase by contacting said reverse transcriptase with oligonucleotides having have at least one phosphorodithioate internucleotide linkage of the formula ##STR1## withi... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5683981 | Cyclic bridged analogs of -MSH and methods thereof A novel class of cyclic bridged analogs of -MSH are described herein. With the described analogs, when administered in pharmaceutical compositions, it is now possible to achieve normalization of hypopigmentation dysfunctions and to achieve darkenin... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5684148 | Nucleoside thiophosphoramidites The present invention relates to new and useful nucleoside thiophosphoroamidites and polynucleotide phosphorodithioate compounds as well as the processes whereby these compounds may be used for synthesizing new mononucleotides and polynucleotides having p... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5674839 | Cyclic analogs of alpha-MSH fragments Cyclic Alpha-MSH fragment analogues of Ac-Nle4 -Glu5 -His6 -D-Phe7 -Arg8 -Try9 -Gly10 -NH2. The method of stimulating melanocytes by the transdermal application of these ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5660459 | Illuminated assembly for a switch/outlet An illuminating apparatus for a wall switch or outlet that has a pair of terminals across which an electric potential is available, including an electroluminescent lamp plate having first and second electrode deposits on a surface thereof, and a contact p... | 08/26/1997 |