Innovative Self Locking Threaded Fasteners Provide New Electrical Design Options

Unique thread locking self locking fasteners are helping the electrical industry combat vibration and thread loosening in soft materials like copper, enhancing reliability and design innovation. (PRWEB) July 2, 2008 -- For electrical engineers combating seismic, shippin...

Roche Diabetes Care Announces Unique Coaching Program for Diabetes Educators as Part of Long-Term Commitment to Fight the Disease

...s Management,'" Vierstraete said. "We take this very seriously - in the U.S. alone we have invested more than $14 million in the overall campaign. By locking arms with these dedicated healthcare professionals and providing them with a forum to improve patient self-care, we feel certain this can be achieved....

Cyber Bullying Affects One in 10 Students

...ne of the first to examine the recent phenomenon of cyber bullying. The authors defined physical bullying as hitting, kicking, pushing, shoving and locking a classmate indoors. Verbal bullying included calling someone mean names, making fun or teasing in a hurtful way and saying mean things about a person...

Pacific Shore Holdings, Inc. Launches Burner Balm a Revolutionary, Energy-Boosting, Appetite-Suppressing, Fat-Burning Lip Balm - Natural, Green and Cost-Effective - Featured on NBC's Today Show

... internally and do not have any weight loss attributes. Burner Balm Lip Balm also helps provide a protective barrier from the harsh elements, locking in moisture on the lips, while preventing them from drying out and becoming chapped. It has the essential fatty acids, Shea Butter and Safflower Oil, ...

Schneider Introduces APO-Xenoplan 2.0/24mm Lens, Specially Designed for Kodak 4 MP Sensors Having Microlenses

...tures a precision iris (with the popular Schneider locking mechanism) that improves control of gray-scale cal...s mechanism enables very fine focus adjustment and locking without backlash. The robust design assures e...accurate alignment of the polarization axis. A new locking mechanism fixes the polarization orientation after...

Hubble Space Telescope Servicing In Orbit Monitored By Three Schneider Lenses

...ompact C-mount lenses feature precision irises having the popular Schneider locking mechanism. This improves control of grey-scale calibration, F-Stops and a w...tion range. A unique focus mechanism enables very fine focus adjustment and locking without backlash, and a broad range of filters can be accomodated. The ...

Rarely Used Closed Doors Slammed Again in U.S. Senate Health Care Reform; Sen. Max Baucus Must Publicly Answer 10 Questions About Mandatory Purchase of Health Insurance

...ch deference to the top lobbyists of the insurance industry, which bears a large share of the responsibility for the current health care crisis, while locking consumers and consumer advocates out of the debate? 3. The only guaranteed provision in the "policy options" report is that every American would ...

Life Spine(R) Announces Nationwide Market Introduction of KINETIC(R)-SL Dynamic Anterior Cervical Plating System

... anterior cervical plating system offers zero-step locking mechanism HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., May 19 /PRNe... cervical plating system and utilizes a zero-step locking mechanism allowing bone screws to be securely fixated without any additional locking components or implants. The self-retaining screw ...

Sen. Max Baucus: Answer 10 Questions About Mandatory Purchase of Health Insurance Including Why the Public Was Excluded From Today's Committee Meeting

...ch deference to the top lobbyists of the insurance industry, which bears a large share of the responsibility for the current health care crisis, while locking consumers and consumer advocates out of the debate? The only guaranteed provision in the "policy options" report is that every American would ...

MAXANT Launches MediPort 3000, The Next-Generation of All-In-One Workstations, on Its Newly Designed Website

... MediPort 3000 features: an unprecedented slim profile of just 3.8 inches, an internal slim DVD-ROM, a Core 2 Duo processor, an ultra quiet fan, and a locking keyboard tray. It comes in an attractive, all-new design and color scheme as well. The MediPort 3000 also continues and enhances the series miss...

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Locking in Medical Products

Uninsulated locking handle

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Company:Cardinal Health, Inc.

Carbon fiber locking handle (with cautery)

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Company:Cardinal Health, Inc.

Insulated stainless steel locking handle (with cautery)

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Company:Cardinal Health, Inc.

Uninsulated stainless steel locking handle

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Company:Cardinal Health, Inc.

2376 ANKLE STABILIZER WITH HEEL LOCKING STRAPS

Description: This cool, lightweight ankle stabilizer is an example of advanced technology resulting in superior performance. It combines the compression and comfort of a soft ankle brace with the rigid stability of an ankle stirrup. A plastic exoskeleton is formed directly onto the soft breathable fabric, for...
Company:Truform-OTC

S.S.T.® Small Bone Locking Nail

Description: Closed intramedullary nailing techniques have largely replaced the use of plates and screws in the treatment of long bone fractures. The use of rods or pins in the forearm or ankle is not a new concept, however, there has been no way to lock the pins or hold them in place. A common worry associated...
Company:Biomet Orthopedics, Inc

Heavy Duty Locking Pliers

Description: Heavy Duty Locking Pliers...
Company:MSI Precision Specialty Instruments

Stainless Steel Locking Pliers

Description: Standard locking pliers....
Company:Beere Precision Medical Instruments, Inc.

12 Frame Locking Rod Display

Description: Stainless steel lockable wall display for up to 12 frames....
Company:Delectable Display

Hydroview Locking Forceps

Description: Hydroview insertion forcep with very thin jaws to allow insertion through tunnel or clear cornea incision. Locking. Made in titanium....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

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Locking in Biological News

UC Davis researchers visualize formation of a new synapse

... (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) A protein called neuroligin that is implicated in some forms of autism is critical to the construction of a working synapse, locking neurons together like "molecular Velcro," a study lead by a team of UC Davis researchers has found. Published online in the June issue of the journ...

Capturing the birth of a synapse

... Researchers have identified the locking mechanism that allows some neurons to form synapses to pass along essential... building a scaffold to hold the synapse components in place. The moment of locking is captured in a video (link below) that will appear with the paper's final...

Locking parasites in host cell could be new way to fight malaria

...rs have focused on developing ways to keep parasites from entering host cells, but Greenbaum's group was curious about an alternative route of attack: locking the parasites inside the host cell. These studies began with Plasmodium falciparum , which causes the most deadly form of human malaria. Each year,...

Ocean islands fuel productivity and carbon sequestration through natural iron fertilization

...n experiment to study the effects of naturally deposited iron in the Southern Ocean has filled in a key piece of the puzzle surrounding iron's role in locking atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ocean. The research, conducted by an international team led by Raymond Pollard of the National Oceanography Ce...

New synthetic form of protein holds promise to stop cancer spread

...te the molecular model for CXCL12 binding to CXCR4, Drs. Volkman and Veldkamp discovered that it was necessary to link two CXCL12 molecules, in effect locking it into a form that could not be chemically separated. This locked form of the protein, known as a dimer, could still bind to the CXCR4 receptor. ...

Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet

...we know it would be impossible. Sugars used to safeguard protein-based drugs act like cement, taking the place of water by bonding to the proteins and locking them in place. By rapidly freezing liquid sugar, its molecules have no time to form the usual orderly crystal patterns typically found in sugars that ...

Rice lab finds molecular clues to Wilson disease

...r bodies need a small amount for key enzymes involved in, for example, respiration and brain functions. ATP7B acts something like a warehouse manager, locking up bulk quantities of copper and handing it out for use in these proteins. Wilson disease is a genetic disorder that alters the ATP7B protein's abi...

bioMETRX, Inc. Gun Storage Products Endorsed by the Handgun Club of America

...h memory and offers such accessories as a wall-mounting unit for extra security and more permanent placement. A security cable that is very similar to locking a bicycle to a bike rack is also available for more portable usage, allowing the bioVAULT 2.0 to be transported to different locations and easily lock...

bioMETRX, Inc. Files for Several New Patents

...hat are the subject of the filings can all, to some substantial measure, benefit from the integration of biometric technology that will allow for easy locking and secure access. The company currently owns several patents integrating biometrics into padlocks, thermostats and garage door openers, as well as th...

Viruses, oxygen and our green oceans

...ms are also responsible for removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere and locking it away in their bodies, which sink to the bottom of the ocean when they di...rts of the oceans, the micro-organisms responsible for providing oxygen and locking away carbon dioxide are actually single celled bacteria called cyanobacteri...

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Locking in Biological Technology

Proximity Systems' LAN Based Electronic Lock Management System Offers Increased Security, Efficiency and Reporting Capability for Wall-Mounted WorkStations

...onference & Exhibition. The new patent-pending locking system simplifies and streamlines making user and ...and audit capability. The new cost-effective locking system can be ordered with Proximity Systems' retr... workstations can also be retrofitted with the new locking system. The...

BIOLOCK(TM) USA Launches Affordable Fingerprint door Locks for Homes and Offices

...rotect private offices and residences. http://www.biolockusa.com [BIOLOCK USA] has recently begun offering its signature biometric fingerprint door locking system to the public. Once only available to government institutions, hospitals, and schools, BIOLOCK(TM) unique electronic security access door l...

RADI Medical Systems Launches Next Generation PressureWire(R) Certus

...try funnel allows for fast and easy wire reconnection into the proximal connector, while also exhibiting less insertion friction. In addition, the new locking cap provides positive reinforcement when the wire and the connector are locked in place via a user intuitive on and off twist function. "The updated...

Microscopic 'clutch' puts flagellum in neutral

... devised two possible explanations for how EpsE acts. The first was that EpsE acts like a brake by pushing a non-moving part against a moving part and locking up the works. The other possibility, they imagined, was that EpsE acts like a clutch, disengaging one moving part from another. In this latter scenari...

Pioneer(R) Surgical Technology Announces First Human Implants of its NuNec(TM) Cervical Arthroplasty Device

.... Yuan, a designing surgeon team member for NuNec said, "This (NuNec) is truly a one-of-a-kind, next generation cervical TDR. It features a unique cam locking mechanism which provides optimum fixation without keel cutting as well as an HA coating on the outer surfaces of the PEEK plates to facilitate consist...

NIST imaging system maps nanomechanical properties

...e has been too slow to be practical. The NIST DSP-RTS system (for digital signal processor-based resonance tracking system) has the special feature of locking onto and tracking changes in frequency as the tip moves over a surface. Mechanical properties of a sample are deduced from calculations based on measu...

Small Bone Innovations Introduces New Distal Radius Plating System to Repair Complex Fractures

... introduced its PRECISE SD(TM) Volar Distal Radius locking Plate system to augment its Wrist Management portf...seum of Natural History. The result is an anatomic locking plate that provides optimized fit and improved art...nge of anatomic variations. The plate's poly axial locking screw technology is a patented, low profile design...

Taxol bristle ball: a wrench in the works for cancer

...which form the framework inside living cells. In order to divide, cells must break down their internal framework, and paclitaxel stops this process by locking the support into place. Since cancer cells divide more rapidly than healthy cells, paclitaxel is very effective at slowing the growth of tumors in ...

Wardrivers now exploiting your wireless service with ease

... about these issues. They should focus on the ease of being a wardriver. Now, specialized components or funky antennae could be considered old school. locking into a nearby companys wireless Internet access is as easy as turning on your computer. This creates some big security issues that few establish prote...

API Software installs security-card system at Rhinelander hospital

...hospitals director of information systems said the door management program was integrated into existing systems for human resources. In addition to locking areas down, APIs software allows the hospital to log and monitor the use of badges across the 240,000-square-foot campus. Logs of access and attempted...

Locking in Biological Dictionary

Identity

...ter than control group as shown in ... Equifax compiles credit reporting data from many sources and creates a credit ... Protect your identity by locking your Equifax Credit File ... Identity - Definition of Identity at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary ... identity . Identity theft. Per...