A thermal isolating sheath for the beverage containers, which is integrally made by a kind of flexible and elastic thermal isolating material, and is comprised of a main gasket and a base gasket. The main gasket is of suitable width and length, which may be closed to form a cylindrical shape by two buttons on both side edges thereof. The base gasket extended integrally from the midpoint on one edge of the main gasket may be defined as the base of the sheath by snapping up together the individual...

A combination handbag including a rear bag unit and a front bag unit joined by a slide fastener, two top handles respectively and fixedly secured to the rear bag unit and the front bag unit at two opposite sides, the front bag unit having two zipper tapes respectively arranged at an outer side into a respective four-sided figure for mounting a respective small bag, which has a matching zipper tape, the rear bag unit having a zipper tape at an outer side along the border for mounting an outside c...

The present invention relates to a method for administering a corticosteroid to a posterior segment of an eye. In the method, a sustained release device is implanted to deliver the corticosteroid to the eye. The aqueous corticosteroid concentration remains less than vitreous corticosteroid concentration during release of the corticosteroid from the device.

A method and device for treating a mammalian organism to obtain a desired local or systemic physiological or pharmacological effect is provided. The method includes administering a sustained release drug delivery system to a mammalian organism in need of such treatment at an area wherein release of an effective agent is desired and allowing the effective agent to pass through the device in a controlled manner. The device includes an inner core or reservoir including the effective agent, an imper...

The present invention relates to a method for administering a corticosteroid to a posterior segment of an eye. In the method, a sustained release device is implanted to deliver the corticosteroid to the eye. The aqueous corticosteroid concentration remains less than vitreous corticosteroid concentration during release of the corticosteroid from the device.

A first user re-programmable interconnect architecture is provided wherein N switching elements are connected between selected interconnect conductors. The switching elements are controlled by M active storage elements, where M<N. A group of N switching elements are controlled by a group of M active storage elements, where M<N. The states of the M active storage elements are collectively decoded to identify the one of N switching elements to be turned on. A second user re-programmable inte...

An ion-selective electrode having an ion-selective membrane in direct contact with an electrical conductor is provided in which the membrane coats an uninsulated zone surrounded by insulation on the surface of a conductor which is coated with a layer of electrical insulation. The membrane overlays the insulation surrounding the insulation free zone and comprises a polymer which is generally of sufficiently similar composition to that comprising the electrical insulation layer so that it adheres ...

Polycarbosilane polymers are prepared from 1,3-butadiene or substituted 1,3-butadiene by reacting the butadiene with a dichlorosilane in the presence of a reducing metal. The polymers contain silicon hydride or other crosslinkable groups in the polymer chain.

The invention relates to a thermostable Bacillus stearothermophilus DNA polymerase which is capable of proofreading 3'-5' exonuclease activity during DNA sequencing of a DNA strand, such that the DNA polymerase functions to excise mismatched nucleotides from the 3' terminus of the DNA strand at a faster rate than the rate at which the DNA polymerase functions to remove nucleotides matched correctly with the nucleotides of the template, and which DNA polymerase does not exhibit 5'-3' exonuclease ...

A preparation method of silica, especially superfine silica, with water glass and carbon dioxide as major raw materials in a carbonization reaction conducted under a high gravity field, typically in a Higee reactor.