| University of Durham Patent applications |
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| 20120079993 | BEHAVIOURAL APPARATUS - An apparatus for studying the behavioural, cognitive, neurobiological and/or muscular processes of an animal, the apparatus comprising an elevated platform with at least one panel extending from the platform, said panel providing a surface which has a gradient relative to the platform. A method of studying the behavioural, cognitive, neurobiological and/or muscular processes of an animal, the method comprising placing one or more animals on the apparatus according to the invention and recording the frequency and/or duration the animal is located at one or more positions on the apparatus and/or the latency of the animal to enter an area of the apparatus. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20110177255 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ALDEHYDE CONTAINING COATING - A method is provided for applying a reactive aldehyde containing coating to a substrate. The method includes subjecting a substrate to a plasma discharge in the presence of a compound of formula (I): | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110053236 | ETHANOL PRODUCTION - A method for increasing production of ethanol in an ethanologenic cell using an autoinducer molecule, for example AI-2. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20100184601 | Method and Means Relating to Multiple Herbicide Resistance in Plants - Methods for overcoming multiple herbicide resistance (MHR) in plants using inhibitors of GST suppression of Formula (I), novel chemical inhibitors of Formula (Ia), compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I), and uses and methods relating thereto. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100116690 | Detection of Chiral Alcohols and Other Analytes - Various methods, compounds and apparatus for the detection of analytes are provided. In one aspect, the direct oxidation of an alcohol is detected electrochemically. In another aspect, a reaction of an analyte is detected, wherein the reaction is catalysed by an enzyme and a cofactor, and wherein the cofactor comprises a moiety which is capable of acting as an electron mediator. In a further aspect, a chiral analyte is detected by resolving a enantiomeric mixture of the analyte and subsequently detecting at least one of the resolved enantiomers electrochemically. The invention is particularly relevant to the detection of alcohols, especially chiral alcohols. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100055413 | ARTICLE, AND A METHOD FOR CREATING THE ARTICLE, WITH A CHEMICALLY PATTERNED SURFACE - The invention relates to the provision of an article and a method of forming an article with a surface which can have at least one sub-layer and a top layer of material. At least one part of the top layer is selectively removed to expose at least one sub-layer and/or the surface of the substrate and allow the functionality of the sub-layer and/or surface to be utilised in the area(s) where it is exposed. The top layer, where it remains, acts as a barrier to the sub-layer and/or surface being exposed to the surrounding environment. Typically parts of the top layer are removed in a patterned manner to provide a series of predefined areas at which the sub-layer or sub-layers are selectively exposed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100036054 | NOVEL SURFACE ACTIVE POLYMERIC SYSTEMS - A polymer comprising a bulk polymer or copolymer P | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100009095 | Method and Apparatus for Producing a Coating on a Substrate - The invention is directed toward the use of an atomizer to inject a coating material typically in the form of a liquid/solid particulate slurry into a sub-atmospheric pressure plasma to generate a high flux of excited coating forming material that permits the rapid deposition of a composite coating onto a substrate. The use of plasma discharges at reduced pressures results in the more efficient consumption of process precursors and gases, a reduced risk of explosion compared to atmospheric pressure processes and facilitates the removal of volatile components from the deposited composite coatings prior to their use. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20090288227 | Improvements in or Relating to Starch Storage in Plants - The present invention provides an isolated fragment of the LEC1 promoter comprising a deletion, relative to the wild type LEC1 promoter, which isolated fragment possesses promoter activity in non-embryonic vegetative plant tissues in | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090268014 | Method and apparatus for generating a stereoscopic image - A method of generating a stereoscopic image is disclosed. The method includes defining at least two, three or more regions in a scene representing a region of interest, a near regions and/or a far region. This is followed by forming an image pair for each region, this image pair containing the information relating to objects in or partially in their respective region. The perceived depth within the regions is altered to provide the idea or best perceived depth within the region of interest and acceptable or more compressed perceived depths in the other regions. The image pairs are then mapped together to form a display image pair for viewing on a display device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090144853 | Control of Gene Expression in Plants - Disclosed is an isolated nucleic acid molecule, which molecule comprises at least 500 bases of the nucleotide sequence shown in FIG. | 06-04-2009 |
