A non-symmetric polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification method employing a limiting primer in low concentration whose concentration-adjusted melting point at least equals, and preferably exceeds, that of the excess primer, the latter in turn not being more than 25.degree. C. below the melting temperature of the amplicon. Assays employing such amplification and labeled hybridization probes, including assays that include a detection step following primer extension or a low-temperature probe,...

An early-late gate for a high resolution range tracking system of a radar ing a high frequency double-balanced mixer in conjunction with a bi-polar pulse gate allows simplified early-late gating for a range error measuring system.

A rake receiver tracks a multi-path signal transmitted from a base station to a mobile station. The rake receiver comprises rake fingers each assigned to a multi-path component. Typically a rake finger performs an early late detection using early and late component of the energy of the component taken before and after a presumed occurrence of an optimum of the energy. An early-late signal is generated from a comparison between a product of a first integer and the early component and a product of...

Polyglycolate compounds are provided having the general structure: ##STR1## wherein n is an integer from 2 to about 10; R is C.sub.1-20 linear or branched alkyl, alkoxylated alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, substituted aryl; R' and R" are independently H, C.sub.1-20 alkyl, aryl, C.sub.1-20 alkylaryl, substituted aryl, and NR.sub.3.sup..alpha.+, wherein R.sup..alpha. is C.sub.1-30 alkyl; and L is a leaving group displaceable in a peroxygen bleaching solution by perhydroxide anion. When this co...

Method of processing a transmitted encoded media data stream is received. If a data element arrives prior to, or at, a predetermined playout deadline, the data element is decoded, the media represented by the decoded data element is played, and the data element is provided to a decoder state machine to update a decoder state. If a data element arrives after the predetermined playout deadline, the data element is provided to the decoder state machine to update the decoder state. In one embodiment...

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for providing virtual identifiers corresponding to physical registers in a computer processor. According to the embodiments, the virtual identifiers may be used to represent the physical registers during operations in a pipeline of the processor.

A computer including a base and a member superposed over the base and movable with respect to it. The base may be a card and the member may be a continuous flexible band surrounding the card. The band is slidable along the length of the card and also movable in the direction of its continuity. A series of dates, each including a month and day, is carried by one of the base and member, and a series of numbers is carried by the other. The dates are arranged in day-by-day sequence, and the numbers ...

A control system is provided for energizing an electrical load, in the form of a spark ignition transformer, so that the load is energized for a portion of a half wave of the applied alternating current voltage. The control circuit utilizes a capacitor in series with the primary winding of a pulse transformer with this combination paralleled by a Zener diode for triggering a solid state switch such as a Triac or silicon controlled rectifier. The capacitor is charged through the pulse transformer...

This device generates clock pulses which are synchronized with the bit data rate of an input antipodal bit pattern. The device can be used with multiple input data channels whenever such channels are synchronized, i.e., the periodicity of each channel is the same and the phase relationship between channels is fixed. For example, it can be used with QPSK modulation with two input basebands; or with biphase shift keying, frequency shift keying, or other types of modulation with only one baseband i...

Method of processing a transmitted encoded media data stream is received. If a data element arrives prior to, or at, a predetermined playout deadline, the data element is decoded, the media represented by the decoded data element is played, and the data element is provided to a decoder state machine to update a decoder state. If a data element arrives after the predetermined playout deadline, the data element is provided to the decoder state machine to update the decoder state. In one embodiment...