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Mechanical resonators are widely used in wireless receivers, bio sensors, and timing and frequency control. Besides industry, in recent years in academia there is also considerable interest for ultrahigh precision sensing and fundamental science. A mechanical resonator with the following three...

We propose a new form of artificial synapse based on dynamically reconfigurable superconducting Josephson junctions with magnetic clusters in the barrier. The spiking energy per pulse varies with the magnetic configuration. The critical current of each magnetic Josephson junction, which is...

Novel, attenuated H5 influenza vaccines have been developed that do not express either the M2 gene or the M42 gene found on viral segment 7. A single dose of either vaccine provides poultry with complete protective immunity against highly pathogenic avian influenza challenge. Following application...

A novel, recombinant dual vaccine against Marek’s disease and Newcastle disease has been developed using reverse genetics technology. This vaccine is safe and stable and can be lyophilized or stored and transported at an amble temperature. Vaccine generation and vaccination methods are included in...

When water-insoluble corn starch is combined with a water-insoluble fatty amine salt (from vegetable oil) at elevated temperature using a common industrial technique, an amylose inclusion complex is formed which acts as a nematicide. Benefits • Orders of magnitude safer than current nematicides •...

A cabinet style irradiator employing standard commercially available x-ray components in a novel configuration that allows for precise dosimetry in real-time along with unprecedented uniformity of radiation dose among samples. Benefits • Substitute for gamma irradiation using radioisotope-based...

Amatoxins are produced by some wild mushrooms, such as Death Cap mushrooms which could be mistakenly identified as one of the choice edible Amanitas. Amatoxin-producing Amanita are responsible for most of the serious mushroom poisonings. Most current methods to detect amatoxins are time consuming...

Insect dipteran pests damage a wide range of agricultural crops and livestock, and transmit a variety of vector-borne diseases to humans. Current control methods heavily depend on non-specific chemical insecticides which negatively impact the environment and human health and can lead to chemical...

Assays to determine that foodborne bacterial pathogens and other hazardous biological materials are adequately inactivated in food products. These assays/kits are time-temperature integrator assays that determine the inactivation of microbial food safety hazards in samples by quantifying the...

A device for making non-invasive measurements of nitrogen (N) elemental content in situ of N containing material. The device is a portable field unit using a neutron generator positioned near the material. The device makes measurements in a large volume and can determine the N content regardless of...

A novel hemoglobin/iron oxide composite for the removal of organic dyes and other contaminants from wastewater. The composite has high removal efficiency for all the different classes of dyes studied. It possesses the extra advantage of being easily recovered after use using a magnet. The used...

A process for treating manure slurries to concentrate manure particulate matter into solid form that is easily transportable. The process involves liquid-solid separation and chemical treatment where greater than 90% of the total phosphorous is concentrated into solid form while most of the...

Two novel cytochrome P450 genes isolated from sorghum, each gene encoding a protein having pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase activity. Expression vectors containing these sequences are made and used to elevate levels of pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase in transgenic cells and organisms...

Robust error detection techniques are vital for reliable and efficient digital communication. Commonly occurring digital communication errors and changes are often a result of factors such as noise and interference. Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error detection method for finding burst errors...