The first to lapse will be patent 4,629,657 for a "biaxially oriented polypropylene film construction for special lamination," which was granted in 1986 and will expire in 2004.
Just beyond, not incidentally, is the sea itself, twinkling and lapping in Wallinger's new film Construction Site, receiving its UK premiere.
The layer-by-layer (LBL) self-assembled film construction of the biocompatible polymer hyaluronic acid (HA) and single heme redox protein, myoglobin (Mb) is described.
We were refused permission to film construction at a stadium, so I booked a hotel room to get a look at what is said to be the largest construction site in the world - Msheireb.
This belief in the primacy of the audiovisual stimulus for guiding attention and, assumedly subsequent comprehension, reflects the tone of practical filmmaking guides (Katz, 1991), accounts of the "rules" used in film construction (Bordwell & Thompson, 2001), and filmmakers' reflections on their craft (Murch, 2001; Reisz & Millar, 1953).
The film construction has the appearance of snippets taken from lost films of the 1940s; it uses surreal vignettes of nude men and women, stop-motion animated mannequin torsos, flickering film projections and dim light bulbs to create what devolves in a sense of nightmares, giving a result that feels more like an art installation than the expected film.
Either pDADMAC or PEI was used as the polycation for film construction.
Agreement with the film construction in terms of mania-related themes as detailed above (e.g., elevated or expansive moody, grandiosity, inflated self-esteem) was high.
Cells were seeded within the CF-LbL assembly device following LbL film construction at an initial density of 0.1 M/mL and allowed to settle for 30 min, after which media was exchanged to remove unattached cells.
In a tribute to socialist laborers, Solntseva films construction workers looking like specimens pinned to an enormous metal architectural framework that they're building.
