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A micro-sample prepared by processing with an ion beam is extracted by a probe and, in this state, a voltage is applied across the probe and a micro-sample holder by a circuit for sending electric current to probe. Thereafter, a probe driver is moved by a probe position controller to cause a portion of the probe distanced from the tip thereof by about 5 μm toward the root side thereof to approach an end surface of an ear portion of the micro-sample holder, so that the probe and the micro-sample holder are fixed together at a bonding point by current welding. Then, by cutting a root-side portion, relative to the bonding point, of the probe using an ion beam, fixation of the micro-sample to the micro-sample holder via the tip of the probe is completed.

The present invention provides a nucleic acid sequencing method. The method comprises enriching a nucleic acid sample for target nucleic acids, where the nucleic acid sample is enriched through at least a first round of hybridization selection and amplification, and a second round of hybridization selection and amplification. The enriched nucleic acids are in a form convenient for sequencing with the Cantaloupe sequencing technology, which employs shotgun sequencing by hybridization (SBH) of immobilized rolling circle amplicons.

A surface processor uses an environmental profile to determine the sub-surface length of tubing disposed in a well bore. Information relating to tubing properties is stored in a memory module of the surface processor. The environmental profile includes data relating to well bore ambient conditions and the operating parameters of well equipment. Surface processor calculates the tubing elongation or length reduction corresponding to the environmental profile. Surface processor may repeat this process to develop a measured depth chart for a well. Logging operations performed in conjunction with the sub-surface length calculations allows formation data to be associated with the measured depth chart.

A method (FIG. 3), corresponding call screening unit, and base station (FIG. 2), suitable for detecting cloned communication units (111 or 113), are operable to receive a first response message and a second response message (305); determine whether identification fields (ESNs, MINs) corresponding to the response messages are equivalent (307); and if so, assess whether message contents or message properties corresponding to the response messages are not correlated (311) thus indicating the response messages are from different communication units; and when not correlated, decide that one of the response messages corresponds to a cloned communication unit (313).

The present invention provides a mechanism for locking a shift lever of a vehicle equipped with a smart key system that can be applied to a vehicle equipped with a smart key system at relatively low cost and convenient to use, and can secure safety against possible accidents by children's misoperation and overcome the defects of mechanisms for locking the steering column in the related art

Provided are silicone microparticles including 100 parts by mass of silicone elastomer spherical microparticles having a volume average particle diameter within a range from 0.1 to 100 μm, and 0.5 to 25 parts by mass of a polyorganosilsesquioxane that coats the surface of the silicone elastomer spherical microparticles, in which the silicone elastomer is capable of absorbing not less than 30 parts by mass of at least one oily substance selected from the group consisting of sebum, hydrocarbon oils and ester oils per 100 parts by mass of the silicone elastomer. These silicone microparticles are capable of absorbing a large amount of the above oily substances, are able to ameliorate various problems caused by sebum such as changes in cosmetic make-up properties, changes in the color of cosmetic materials and increased shininess of cosmetic materials, and are also able to suppress the greasiness, stickiness, and oily film feeling of cosmetic materials containing at least one of liquid oils composed of hydrocarbon oils and ester oils. The silicone microparticles can be produced by hydrolyzing and condensing an organotrialkoxysilane in a water medium, in the presence of the above silicone elastomer spherical microparticles and an alkaline material, thereby coating the surface of the silicone elastomer spherical microparticles with a polyorganosilsesquioxane.

A system and method is configured to take a “snapshot” of data received by a meter or measurement device so that it may be later frozen or duplicated in a manner identical to that of the meter. The system includes recording a continuous stream of raw data into a format suitable for transport to a site better suited for debug and diagnosis, and replaying the data on a replay device such that time, as seen by the system, may be “frozen” at will and any instant of the stream examined.

A roller bearing utilizing a roller retainer, which has an excellent assemblability in the sense that the assembly line can be automated and which eliminates various problems inherent in the full complement roller bearing The roller bearing includes an outer race having a raceway, a plurality of rollers held in rolling contact with the raceway, and a ring-shaped roller retainer having a plurality of pockets, each rollingly receiving the respective roller, spacedly defined therein in a direction circumferentially thereof to form a ladder-like structure. The roller retainer has a plurality of slits that are spacedly defined in a direction circumferential thereof so as to extend from one axial end or the other axial end of the roller retainer to a position adjacent the other axial end or one axial end.

A child seat, which is configured to be secured to a seat of a vehicle, includes: a seat base; a child receiving portion supported by the seat base; at least one of a belt tensioning system incorporated into the seat base for receiving a belt and providing tension to the belt based on a signal from a controller and a leveling system incorporated into the seat base for leveling the child receiving portion relative to the seat of the vehicle based on a signal from the controller; and a manual override mechanism operatively coupled to at least one of the belt tensioning system and the leveling system to disengage at least one of the belt tensioning system and the leveling system and allow a user to at least one of manually apply tension to the belt and manually level the child receiving portion.

An apparatus and method for dilating a body canal such as a cervix is provided. The apparatus includes a threaded cylindrical rod with an inflatable member at one end. The apparatus also includes a tubular member with a threaded bore that is capable of threaded engagement with the threaded rod.

A method of activating an iron Fischer-Tropsch catalyst by introducing an inert gas into a reactor comprising a slurry of the catalyst at a first temperature, increasing the reactor temperature from the first temperature to a second temperature at a first ramp rate, wherein the second temperature is in the range of from about 150° C. to 250° C., introducing synthesis gas having a ratio of H2:CO to the reactor at a space velocity, and increasing the reactor temperature from the second temperature to a third temperature at a second ramp rate, wherein the third temperature is in the range of from about 270° C. to 300° C. The iron Fischer-Tropsch catalyst may be a precipitated unsupported iron catalyst, production of which is also provided.