Subject: Re: HELP! US Patents need
From: Roger Hage
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:57:57 +0100
Vladimir V. Nekrasov wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I live in Ukraine. I'm an engineer in radioelectronics and I'm interesting in
> the information concerning to electronics in medical applications. Sometimes I
> need in modern patent information in my field. This time I'm working on the
> project of multifunctional device for man's health diagnostics. So, its too
> necessary to obtain the full description of few US patents. I know their
> numbers, classes, etc., but there are no its copies in any ukranian library.
> May I get them by Internet? I found the server of the USA Patent Commitee,
> but only for abstracts of patents. But I need the full text including pictures!
> How to get them by ftp, www, e-mail, etc.?
> Help me, please.
> Thanks forward.
>
> Sincerely,
> ---
> Vladimir V. Nekrasov (nvv@spike.donetsk.ua)
> TEMP Association
> Sat, 11 Jan 97 15:49 -0300 GMT
Chemical Patents Plus offer a full text and image patent service. You can
find the link as well as other patent links on my homepage:
http://members.ping.at/rhage
Good luck!
Roger
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Subject: Student Paper Competition
From: Ron van Kaam
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:09:57 -0800
Student Paper Competition
The World Society of Victimology (WSV) invites students to join the
paper competition 1997. This competition is to promote
the scientific development of victimology and to encourage and to assist
young victimologists. It is open to all enrolled students
of institutions of higher education, including the students of the Inter
University Center Dubrovnik Post Graduate Courses 'The
Victim and the Criminal Justice System' - held in exile at the Free
University (VU) of Amsterdam and since 1997 in Dubrovnik
again.
It is not required that the participants are already members of WSV.
The WSV Awards Committee will split the total price of US $ 2,000 among
the two students ranking first and second in this
paper competition. The Award is granted to present the price winning
papers personally at the 9th International Symposium on
Victimology from August 25 - 29, 1997 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. If not
used this way, the Award is lost. The price winning
papers must not be published elsewhere, but will be published by the
World Society of Victimology. The copyrights in the
competition are with WSV. Legal action is excluded.
The papers, scholarly written, must have a topic of victimological
relevance, dealing with a problem in the area of theory,
research and victim assistance. The papers must be written in English,
footnoted and typewritten, may also be turned in by
diskettes (WordPerfect), not to exceed 20 pages double spaced.
WSV Awards Committee
Hans Joachim Schneider - University of Münster, Germany (Chairman)
Paul C. Friday - University of North Carolina, USA (Referee)
Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff - Fachhochschule Niederrhein, Germany
(Referee)
Zvonimir Paul Separovic - Sveuciliste u Zagrebu, Croatia (Referee)
Frans Willem Winkel - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
(Referee)
The participants will be notified of the reception of the papers.
The papers must be sent by April 1, 1997 (date of postal stamp) to:
The WSV Secretary General
Professor Dr. jur. G.F. Kirchhoff
School of Social Work
Richard Wagner Straße 101
41065 Mönchengladbach 1
Germany
For further information you can contact prof. Kirchhoff:
Tel.: [+49] 2161 186609
Fax: [+49] 2161 186633
Email:kirchh@mg.fh-niederrhein.de |
|WWW: http://www.victimology.nl |
Subject: Re: HELP! US Patents need
From: k-mckenna@nwu.edu (kevin)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:41:14 -0500
In article <1997Jan15.173730@spike.donetsk.ua>, nvv@spike.donetsk.ua wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I live in Ukraine. I'm an engineer in radioelectronics and I'm interesting in
> the information concerning to electronics in medical applications. Sometimes I
> need in modern patent information in my field. This time I'm working on the
> project of multifunctional device for man's health diagnostics. So, its too
> necessary to obtain the full description of few US patents. I know their
> numbers, classes, etc., but there are no its copies in any ukranian library.
> May I get them by Internet? I found the server of the USA Patent Commitee,
> but only for abstracts of patents. But I need the full text including
pictures!
> How to get them by ftp, www, e-mail, etc.?
> Help me, please.
> Thanks forward.
>
> Sincerely,
> ---
> Vladimir V. Nekrasov (nvv@spike.donetsk.ua)
> TEMP Association
> Sat, 11 Jan 97 15:49 -0300 GMT
IBM has just announced that it is putting its collection of US Patents on
the Web. They developed a database of patents so their engineers could
easily search them. The database consists of all US patents issued since
January of 1971. The server will eventually handle something like 1
trillion bytes of data. They claim the searchable database is proof of
their ability to deliver hugn the web. Check it out at:
http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/
I've looked at it a bit and done some simple searches and it is quite
impressive.
Subject: Re: Physical Meaning of Line Integral
From: Steve Gilham
Date: 16 Jan 1997 10:53 +0000
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Daryl McCullough wrote.....
> Now, in the case where the path is always timelike (such as the path of
> an observer), this quantity represents the proper time along the
> path. In the case where the path is always spacelike, then the
> quantity represents the ordinary notion of the length of a curve
> through space. However, if the path is sometimes spacelike, and
> sometimes time-like, is there any physical interpretation that
> can be given to the quantity L? (In those cases, L will be a complex
> number.)
Well, I can't off-hand think of any physical phenomenon that is sometimes
timelike, sometimes spacelike, so to that extent, I an unable to find a
physical interpretation.
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Subject: Re: HELP! US Patents need
From: genecham@ix.netcom.com(Gene Chamberlain)
Date: 17 Jan 1997 04:34:58 GMT
In <1997Jan15.173730@spike.donetsk.ua> nvv@spike.donetsk.ua (Vladimir
V. Nekrasov) writes:
>
>Dear friends,
>
>I live in Ukraine. I'm an engineer in radioelectronics and I'm
interesting in
>the information concerning to electronics in medical applications.
Sometimes I
>need in modern patent information in my field. This time I'm working
on the
>project of multifunctional device for man's health diagnostics. So,
its too
>necessary to obtain the full description of few US patents. I know
their
>numbers, classes, etc., but there are no its copies in any ukranian
library.
>May I get them by Internet? I found the server of the USA Patent
Commitee,
>but only for abstracts of patents. But I need the full text including
pictures!
>How to get them by ftp, www, e-mail, etc.?
>Help me, please.
>Thanks forward.
>
>Sincerely,
>---
>Vladimir V. Nekrasov (nvv@spike.donetsk.ua)
>TEMP Association
>Sat, 11 Jan 97 15:49 -0300 GMT
>
You can order copies of patents, including diagrams etc, over www from
the US patent office. The addres is: www.uspto.gov
The cost is $3.00 US dollars each.
Subject: Re: strength of hemp fibers
From: "Achim Recktenwald, PhD"
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:04:44 -0500
Alan "Uncle Al" Schwartz wrote:
[snip]
>
> >>Marijuana is utterly harmless, which is why it is so dangerous. A quick
> >>recombinant DNA knockout will control or end its cannabinoid synthesis.
> >
> >Is it really that simple?
>
> It has already been done. The genetic mechanism of cellulose fiber
> determination is also in hand. One could design a Douglas Fir or a
> cotton plant to spec - BUT IT WOULD BE WRONG!
>
> > Could it be made noticably different from a
> >narcotic version? If so, that's a great subject for research. Sure, >the hemp farmers will initially lose some product due to hippies raiding >the fields, but that shouldn't last long after they find out it's >useless for their purposes.
>
> Natural hemp is about 0.2 wt-% THC. British Columbia is hydroponically
> growing 30 wt-% THC flowerheads. One needn't change anything, only grow
> the original plant - BUT IT WOULD BE WRONG!
The weekly German news-journal 'Der Spiegel' reported in one issue
during the last month that hemp-farming is a very interesting and
growing market in Europe. The strains used have almost no marijuana at
all, so that the 'value' is purely agricultural.
From that report and some other sources I would like to say that your
'BUT IT WOULD BE WRONG!' is a special situation in the US, where every
president or every other one has to start a 'War on Drugs' with the
Pentagon at the fore-front. (I am against the consumption of drugs, but
think this militaristic strategy is silly and futile.)
The politicians in Europe do and did not seem to mind; if I remember
correctly, the initial re-invention of hemp-farming and the development
of special machinery was even subsidized by the European Union and the
member states.
Achim
Subject: Re: Needless Loss of Eight Lives Working with High Pressure
From: *carrelda*@pore.dnet.dupont.com* (David Carrell)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 02:59:46 GMT
In article ,
kcb@phoenix.net (K. C. Bennett) wrote:
>Status report:
>
>There are currently three separate investigations going on: OSHA, the
>Wyman-Gordon company, and an independent investigation by lawyers for the
>family of one of the men killed in the accident. According to the Houston
>Chronicle, they expect some results within a week or two.
>
>There was a joint memorial service here in northwest Houston this past
>Sunday, attended by over 2000 people.
>
>K. C. Bennett
Having been through a refining incident where a fatality occurred, I have to
say at this point: 1) The private investigation (by the lawyers) will not be
release at this point (parts yes, at trial maybe, if settled probably not),
2) OSHA may be leaving the site but you will not see their final report for
at least 3 months (probably longer, and maybe never), and 3) Any report by
the company will be considered (rightly or wrongly) suspect and biased.
It is a shame that these events occur. If the company was truly at fault,
the fines should be heavy. Personally (based on almost no knowlege of the
event) my _GUESS_ is human error or not following an established procedure
was the root cause.
My condolences to friends and families of the victims,
DAC
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David Carrell All comments above are mine, and
Process Control Engineer do not necessarily reflect the
Conoco, Inc. opinions of Dupont and/or Conoco,
*carrelda*@pore.dnet.dupont.com* [and why should they]
(return address altered to reduce
adds, remove *'s for real address)
Subject: Re: JOB
From: adler@pulsar.wku.edu (Allen Adler)
Date: 17 Jan 1997 11:12:58 -0600
As Grady Russell has ably explained, looking for a job is itself a
full time job. Accordingly, those who wish to learn a subject
deeply face a conflict of interests which tends to divide them
roughly into two groups:
(1) the body builders
(2) the estate builders
The former keep their minds on the subject they are learning.
The latter keep their minds on their personal advancement.
It would be nice if one could focus on perfecting oneself in
the subject one is learning and be rewarded for it. Instead,
one is rewarded for neglecting the subject one is learning
and concentrating on administrative work; in the present
instance, the adminstration of one's job hunting and career
development.
There needs to be a place, and not a dismal one, for the idea
that it is worthwhile to develop oneself in ways that are not
specifically related to one's marketability.
Allan Adler
adler@pulsar.cs.wku.edu
Subject: Re: Needless Loss of Eight Lives Working with High Pressure
From: Rodney Taylor
Date: 17 Jan 1997 19:03:39 GMT
*carrelda*@pore.dnet.dupont.com* (David Carrell) wrote:
>Having been through a refining incident where a fatality occurred, I have to
>say at this point: 1) The private investigation (by the lawyers) will not be
>release at this point (parts yes, at trial maybe, if settled probably not),
>2) OSHA may be leaving the site but you will not see their final report for
>at least 3 months (probably longer, and maybe never), and 3) Any report by
>the company will be considered (rightly or wrongly) suspect and biased.
>
>It is a shame that these events occur. If the company was truly at fault,
>the fines should be heavy. Personally (based on almost no knowlege of the
>event) my _GUESS_ is human error or not following an established procedure
>was the root cause.
I have to comment that this is where I see a societal evil of lawyers - data
suppression. True facts revealed would save lives elsewhere, in other industries.
That they are not revealed (expected) means some one else gets to learn the hard
way. The company _might_ privately share this with local competitors, but the
learning then does not extend to other countries or industries with similar
pressurized systems for whatever purpose. This is not socially responsible use of
information obtained via loss of life.
Diligence by workers and supervisors is a required component of safety programs.
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