Abstract:
There is disclosed herein a device for clamping and cutting an umbilical cord so as to enable blood samples from the umbilical cord to be collected and/or tested. The device provides for the clamping of a severed end of an umbilical cord and the automatic ejection of that clamped end. The device also provides for the cutting of an umbilical cord without using excessive force regardless of the size of the umbilical cord. Additionally, the device provides for the valved use of vacuum tubes to collect umbilical cord blood samples. Furthermore, the device enables the measurement of blood values at the moment of cutting the umbilical cord. Finally, the device also provides for the protection of users and others from exposure to sharps and blood.
Abstract:
A clamping device for securing a pair of clamps to the umbilical cord of a newly born infant includes pressure plates to remove blood from the section of the cord between the clamps. Thus, there is a greatly reduced risk of infection from blood squirting out upon the cutting of the cord during delivery of the infant.
Abstract:
There is disclosed herein a device for clamping and cutting an umbilical cord so as to enable blood samples from the umbilical cord to be collected and/or tested. The device provides for the clamping of a severed end of an umbilical cord and the automatic ejection of that clamped end. The device also provides for the cutting of an umbilical cord without using excessive force regardless of the size of the umbilical cord. Additionally, the device provides for the valved use of vacuum tubes to collect umbilical cord blood samples. Furthermore, the device enables the measurement of blood values at the moment of cutting the umbilical cord. Finally, the device also provides for the protection of users and others from exposure to sharps and blood.
Abstract:
A recombinant micro-organism producing resveratrol by a pathway in which phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) produces trans-cinnamic acid from phenylalanine, cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (C4H) produces 4-coumaric acid from said trans-cinnamic acid, 4-coumarate-CoA ligase (4CL) produces 4-coumaroyl CoA from said 4-coumaric acid, and resveratrol synthase (VST) produces said resveratrol from said 4-coumaroyl CoA, or in which L-phenylalanine- or tyrosine-ammonia lyase (PAL/TAL) produces 4-coumaric acid, 4-coumarate-CoA ligase (4CL) produces 4-coumaroyl CoA from said 4-coumaric acid, and resveratrol synthase (VST) produces said resveratrol from said 4-coumaroyl CoA. The micro-organism may be a yeast, fungus or bacterium including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli, Lactococcus lactis, Aspergillus niger, or Aspergillus oryzae.
Abstract:
A flash memory controller, a computer readable medium and a method for writing to a flash memory device, the method may include receiving multiple logical pages, each logical page having a logical address; determining to write a logical page into a selected physical page of the flash memory device; calculating a hash value for each logical page of the multiple logical pages in response to (a) a logical address of the logical page and (b) a physical page index, to provide multiple hash values of the multiple logical pages.
Abstract:
A method for generating a set of at least one row-specific reading threshold for reading at least portions of pages of data within an erase sector of a flash memory device, the method comprising predetermining at least one initial reading threshold; performing the following steps for at least one current logical page: generating bit error characterizing information regarding at least one corresponding bit error within at least one cell representing at least a logical portion of at least one successfully reconstructed previous logical page; and computing at least one row-specific reading threshold based on said bit error characterizing information and on a previous threshold initially comprising said initial threshold and subsequently comprising a row-specific reading threshold computed for a successfully reconstructed previous logical page; and reading at least a portion of said current logical page using said at least one row-specific reading threshold.
Abstract:
A method for decoding a plurality of flash memory cells which are error correction-coded, the method may include: comparing physical values residing in the plurality of flash memory cells to a first set of decision thresholds thereby to provide a first item of comparison information for each of the plurality of cells; comparing physical values residing the plurality of flash memory cells to a second set of decision thresholds, thereby to provide a second item of comparison information for each of the plurality of cells, wherein neither of the first and second sets of decision thresholds is a subset of the other; and determining logical values for the plurality of flash memory cells by combining said first and second items of comparison information.
Abstract:
Pulsed fiber laser including an electronic driver, a laser diode and a laser cavity, the laser cavity including a combiner, a doped optical fiber and a coupler, the laser diode being coupled with the electronic driver, the combiner being coupled with the laser diode, the doped optical fiber being coupled with the combiner, and the coupler being coupled with the doped optical fiber and the combiner, the electronic driver for providing a drive current, the laser diode for generating a pump pulse, the doped optical fiber for absorbing the pump pulse and for generating a circulating laser pulse, the coupler for outputting a first portion of the circulating laser pulse and for returning a second portion of the circulating laser pulse to the combiner, wherein the electronic driver operating the laser diode at a specific pump pulse repetition rate (PRR), a specific pump pulse shape and a specific pump pulse width and wherein the combiner providing the pump pulse and the second portion of the circulating laser pulse to the doped optical fiber.
Abstract:
A method for the production of a stilbenoid, such as resveratrol or pinosylvin, by fermenting plant material such a grape must using a yeast having a metabolic pathway producing said stilbenoid, separating a solids waste material from said fermentation and extracting said stilbenoid.
Abstract:
A method for determining thresholds useful for converting cell physical levels into cell logical values in an array of digital memory cells storing physical levels which diminish over time, the method comprising determining extent of deterioration of the physical levels and determining thresholds accordingly for at least an individual cell in said array; and reading the individual cell including reading a physical level in the cell and converting the physical level into a logical value using the thresholds, wherein the determining comprises storing predefined physical levels rather than data-determined physical levels in each of a plurality of cells and computing extent of deterioration by determining deterioration of the predefined physical levels.