Miles Inc.

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Bayer Corporation

Michael Salvati

Michael J Pugia

Ronald G Sommer

Paul F Corey

James Arnold Murto

Gunter Franke

Angela A Michaels

Robert W Trimmer

Christos Galiatsatos

Shahriar Shamloo Aliabadi

Lois J Proud

A racking system is configured to install at least one photovoltaic panel on a rooftop. The racking system includes a plurality of rails. A splice bar is connected the plurality of rails and configured to mechanically strengthen the plurality of rails. A ground lug is attached to an extrusion of a side channel on each of the plurality of rails by sliding the ground lug through a rail opening. A ground wire is held in a serrated opening for safely grounding the racking system. A clamp is attached to a top channel of at least one rail such that the at least one rail and the at least one photovoltaic panel are operatively coupled to the clamp and such that the clamp is under pressure due to a spring but is able to freely rotate around a longitudinal axis.

Racking system for installing solar panels

Approaches are described for separating plasma from whole blood samples and include the use of magnetically attractable particles associated with an agglutinating agent. The magnetically attractable particles bind the cellular components in a whole blood sample. Application of a magnetic field gradient to a container with the blood sample and the magnetically attractable particles draws the particles to the surface of the container near the source of the magnetic field gradient. The plasma can be removed and stored or used for monitoring or detecting analytes in the plasma.

Methods and devices for processing blood samples

Disclosed is a dry reagent system involving an absorbent carrier incorporated with a dye precursor which undergoes a detectable response in the presence of creatinine under strongly basic conditions and which also contains a moderating agent for the strong base which is a polyglycol or a polymerized quaternary ammonium salt.

System for creatinine determination

A composition, test device and method of determining the presence or concentration of proteins, such as albumin, in a liquid test sample, such as urine. The test device includes a test pad with a carrier matrix incorporating a indicator reagent composition capable of interacting with proteins to produce a detectable response. The indicator reagent composition includes an indicator dye that is capable of interacting with albumin and undergoing a detectable color transition; a buffer; a hydrophobic polymeric compound having the general structural formula: ##STR1## wherein A is ##STR2## and PO is an oxypropylene unit, EO is an oxyethylene unit, y is a number in the range of 0 to about 20, z is a number in the range of 0 to about 20, the sum y+z is a number in the range of about 2 to about 20, and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are selected, independently, from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, and an aryl group; R.sub.1 is either methylene or oxygen; n is a number in the range of one to about 8; and E is hydrogen or methylol when R.sub.1 is methylene, or E is hydroxy when R.sub.1 is oxygen; and a suitable carrier which is water. The indicator reagent composition provides an improved color resolution in the test samples raving negative protein and trace amount of protein.

Composition and device for urinary protein assay and method of using the

The present invention provides a novel group of protein error indicators including nitro or nitroso substituent groups in the B and C rings of a partially halogenated triphenylmethane compound.

Nitro or nitroso substituted polyhalogenated phenolsulfonephthaleins as

A procedure for detecting proteins in fluids (particularly body fluids) which involves contacting such fluid with a composition comprising copper in a form capable of forming a copper/protein complex, a peroxide and a redox indicator which provides a detectable response when oxidized, together with an ionizable phosphate containing compound to prevent interference with the redox indicator from substances present in the fluid.

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Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Michael Salvati