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Mutation/Genetic Engineering Techniques is compensated for by an offset value determined on the base of a value readout from a memory table storing therein characteristic offset values varying with the internal temperature of the sensor body.
5270957 COMPOSITE RANDOM SAMPLING L Craig Murray assigned to Southern California Edison Co
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An element is sampled from a defined group so that targeting can be effected within a range between a range greater than a first desired frequency and not more than a second desired frequency. Two data bases are established. The second data base contains elements not selected from the first data base. The element set for targeting is defined between element sets from the first data base and the second data base, thereby creating a composite random sampling of the elements. Testing can be effected on the target elements.
BACILLUS THURINGIENSIO N R R L B-18721 A C T I V E A G A I N S T DIPTERAN PESTS Jewel M Payne assigned to Mycogen Corporation Disclosed and claimed is a novel Bacillus thuringiensis isolate designated B.t. NRRL B18721 which has activity against dipteran insect pests. Thus, this isolate, or mutants thereof, can be used to control such insect pests. Further, genes encoding novel delta-endotoxins can be removed from the isolate and transferred to other host microbes, or plants. Expression of the delta-endotoxins in such hosts results in the control of susceptible insect pests in the environment of such hosts.
5270960 TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION DEVICE FOR AN ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR Masayuki Ikegami, Fumitaka Takahashi, Akira Iiboshi, Tomoyuki Nishio, Sinichi Tomiyama, Hirotatsu Tsuchida, Ryoichi Tsuchiya, Saitama, Japan assigned to Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
5275933 TRIPLE GRADIENT PROCESS FOR RECOVERING NUCLEATED FETAL CELLS FROM MATERNAL BLOOD
An angular velocity sensor wherein an internal temperature of the sensor body is sensed by a temperature sensor and adjusted to be equal to a preset value; an offset value is obtained from an output of the angular velocity sensor at the preset internal temperature with no angular velocity acting thereon and an angular velocity signal at the preset internal temperature is compensated for by the obtained offset value; and also an angular velocity detection signal obtained before the internal temperature reaches the preset value
Nelson N H Teng, Neelima M Bhat, Marcia M Bieber assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Nucleated fetal cells such as nucleated fetal red blood cells are separated from maternal blood with a discontinuous triple gradient gel and centrifugation. Nucleated fetal red blood cells are collected at an interface between a gel layer 557