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US Patent 7413550 - Bad breath detector using nanoparticles

Yazan: admin | 30 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Intelectual Property, Patents

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7413550.html
This patent from Kimberly-Clark Worldwide teaches using silica or alumina nanoparticles in a high sensitivity bad breadth testing device. Claim 1 reads:
1. A breath testing device comprising nanoparticles and a visual indicating agent disposed on a substrate, wherein the visual indicating agent is color sensitive to at least one odorous compound present in the breath [...]

SQL Server Agent Jobs duration Report

Yazan: admin | 29 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Databases

Hi folks. I would like to share with you the following simple script to show us jobs duration report in SQL Server 2005. I manipulated with INTERGER values stored by SQL Server to convert them into DATETIME/CHAR(8) datatypes to represent the data.Thanks to SQL Server MVP Peter Ward provided me with StartTime calculation.
WITH job_duration_viewAS(SELECT [...]

US 7410697 - Nanoparticles derivatized as monomers in a polymer

Yazan: admin | 28 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Intelectual Property, Patents

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7410697.html
This patent from SAIC is fairly basic to the incorporation of nanoparticles in polymers (priority: Nov. 1, 2001) and teaches methods of fabrication in which the agglomeration of the nanoparticles is avoided. Claim 1 reads:
1. A composition of matter comprising a polymer fiber with a plurality of controllably spaced nanoparticles integrated into the polymer fiber; [...]

YouTube but who manages?

Yazan: admin | 28 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Data Management, Databases

Very interesting to hear today that Gordon Brown is to conduct a ‘Question Time style’ discussion forum with members of the general public via YouTube. Of course this isn’t the first time that there have been high profile users of the service, with both the Queen and The Archbishop of Canterbury using it to [...]

Online Language Barrier for networks

Yazan: admin | 26 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Communications

Community Information and Communication Support Centre (CAICC) a joint initiative of national organizations working in the field of community ICTs is still finding it difficult to access information beyond Brazil for its network online because most of the content online was not in Portuguese.
Polly Gaster Eduardo Mondlane University Information Communication Technology for development (ICT4D) [...]