The present invention is an electronic device or chronometer for use by women of various ages to monitor their menstrual, ovulation and menopausal cycles. The chronometer displays information relating to a woman's menstrual cycle readily useful to the woman, including the dates of her last and next menstrual cycles, the number of days that have elapsed since the last menstrual cycle, and the next ovulation day. If desired, the day(s) a woman expects PMS can also be displayed, such as for those w...

A connector connects sound conduction tubing from a hearing aid to a sound conduction bore in an earmold. The connector is an elbow-shaped member with one end receiving a filter and an end of the sound conduction tubing while the other end has latching means that latchably mate with an entry section of the sound conduction bore. The inside diameter of the sound conduction tubing, the diameter of a sound conduction tubular passage in the elbow-shaped member and the diameter of the sound conductio...

This Generalized Processor Sharing (GPS) is the basis for the packet scheduler of choice in IP routers and ATM switches of the future. The currently accepted approach for the design of GPS schedulers is based on deterministic QoS guarantees, which, it is generally accepted, is overly conservative and leads to limitations on capacity. To address this problem we develop a framework for GPS scheduling which is based on statistical QoS guarantees and statistical multiplexing. We give the design of G...

The present invention is an electronic device or chronometer for use by women of various ages to monitor their menstrual, ovulation and menopausal cycles, as well as their pregnancy. The device displays information relating to a woman's menstrual cycle or pregnancy readily useful to the woman, including the dates of her last and next menstrual cycles, the number of days that have elapsed since the last menstrual cycle, and the next peak ovulation day. If desired, the day(s) a woman expects PMS c...

The present invention is an electronic device or chronometer for use by women of various ages to monitor their menstrual, ovulation and menopausal cycles. The chronometer displays information relating to a woman's menstrual cycle readily useful to the woman, including the dates of her last and next menstrual cycles, the number of days that have elapsed since the last menstrual cycle, and the next ovulation day. If desired, the day(s) a woman expects PMS can also be displayed, such as for those w...

The present multi-functional, visual test instrument is realized by integrating miniature, close-proximity displays, such as LCDs, with viewing optics, which is constructed in the form of preferably a unitary housing. In a preferred embodiment, the multi-functional, visual test instrument includes two viewing assemblies, and displays, which are all enclosed in the housing that is slidably or pivotally attached to a movable mount, such as a slit lamp base. In operation, various optical test objec...

A technique for evaluating the topography of a cornea in which a virtual object of a keratoscope pattern isured. The topography system includes a structured light source to create the keratoscope pattern or another diagnostic pattern, an optical assembly to focus the created pattern upon or behind the cornea, and for capturing the image reflected off the patient's eye and directing the reflected image toward an imaging system for processing. Light emitted by the light source is preferably not in...

A novel psychophysical visual test is proposed for testing a person for glaucoma, and based on the discovery that a frequency doubling phenomenon is produced by isoluminent color visual stimuli. More specifically, it is proposed to construct a visual stimulus for which alternating colors in a grating pattern is the only basis for producing the frequency doubling phenomenon. That is, the colors are of the same luminance or intensity level, i.e., isoluminent, but each grating or pattern alternates...

The invention relates to a vaccine suitable for the prophylaxis and control respectively of Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae, advantageously of all the serotypes of H. pleuropneumoniae, which vaccine is based on an effective content of a mixture of extracellular proteinaceous material derived from the culture medium of strains of at least two different serotypes of H. pleuropneumoniae preferably derived from the culture medium of at least one H. pleuropneumoniae strain selected from the group of ser...

The present invention relates to an "IMPROVED SAFETY DEVICE FOR SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL". The safety device comprises a three-position safety register in which a raised position (A) actuates a pistol locking mechanism and a lowered positioned (B) actuates an uncocking mechanism of a hammer with automatic return to a horizontal neutral position (C) allowing shooting with the pistol.