Abstract: In an adsorptive alternating pressure process for the enrichment of air with oxygen using a molecular sieve zeolite in an adsorber, wherein adsorbed components are desorbed under a pressure below the pressure at which air separation and N.sub.2 adsorption is effected and, after desorption, the molecular sieve adsorber is at least partly returned to the air separation pressure with oxygen gas produced in countercurrent to the air separation gas flow, the improvement which comprises cooling product gas and covering the molecular sieve adsorber with the cooled product gas.

Abstract: Pancreatic islet cell antigens (ICA) that bind with antibodies found in the sera of patients afflicted with insulin-dependent (Type I) diabetes mellitus (IDDM). ICA proteins are expressed by recombinant cloning vehicles comprising DNA inserts isolated from islet cells. Full sequence native ICA proteins, or protein or peptide fragments thereof, can be used in the diagnosis of IDDM and in detecting or blocking human immunoglobulin, T-cells, or B-cells involved in IDDM.

Abstract: The invention relates to known and to new acylaminosalicylamides, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides. The present application furthermore relates to new intermediates, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of 2',3'-dideoxycytidin-2'-ene (2',3'-dideoxy-2',3'-didehydrocytidine) in treating patients infected with a retrovirus.

Abstract: The novel title compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which Q.sup.1 represents oxygen or sulphur,Q.sup.2 represents oxygen or sulphur,R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, hydroxyl, amino or alkylideneamino or represents an in each case optionally substituted radical from the series consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkanoylamino, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, cycloalkylamino, aryl and arylalkyl,R.sup.2 represents in each case optionally substituted heterocyclyl or heterocyclylalkyl, andR.sup.3 represents an in each case optionally substituted radical from the series consisting of alkyl, aralkyl, aryl and heteroaryl,and salts of compounds of the formula (I), processes and novel intermediates for their preparation, and their use as herbicides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel fluoropropenyl heterocycles of the formula (I) foundCF.sub.2 .dbd.CX--CH.sub.2 -Het (1),in whichHet, X and R are each as defined in the description, to processes for their preparation and to their use for controlling animal pests.

Abstract: In the process for preparing an aromatic carbonate from an aromatic hydroxy compound, CO and O.sub.2 in the presence of a quaternary salt and a base, use is advantageously made of supported catalysts which, in the reaction-ready state, contain a platinum metal, a platinum metal compound or a complex containing a platinum metal compound on a support comprising a metal oxide whose metal can occur in a plurality of oxidation states.

Abstract: The invention relates to an extruded single-layer copolyetherester film with improved permeability to water vapor coupled with favorable mechanical properties, high elasticity and good surface slip so that it does not block on machinery.

Abstract: 4-Heterocyclyl-substituted dihydropyridines are prepared by reacting appropriate aldehydes with .beta.-keto esters and aminocrotonic acid esters, or by esterifying 4-heterocyclyl-substituted dihydropyridinecarboxylic acids. The 4-heterocyclyl-substituted dihydropyridines can be employed in medicaments, in particular for the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system.

Abstract: The invention relates to activators for the depolymerization of polysiloxanes which are crosslinked, optionally contain fillers and/or are uncrosslinked, a method for the depolymerization of polysiloxanes which are crosslinked, optionally contain fillers and/or are uncrosslinked, and their use.

Abstract: Communications equipment for use in a combat vehicle with at least one transmitting antenna and at least one receiving antenna and with more communications terminals than transmitting antennas or receiving antennas. Control logic accordingly contains a signal-path matrix by which any communications terminal can be connected, depending on its operating state "transmit" or "receive", either to a transmitting antenna along a high-frequency transmission path that includes a power adder or to the receiving antenna along a high-frequency reception path that includes a level distributor.

Abstract: Method for loading a column with a packing material by inserting one end of a column to be packed into a slurry of a packing material in a volatile solvent, allowing said slurry to be drawn into said end of said column by capillary action, withdrawing said end from said slurry, and removing said volatile solvent from the slurry that has been drawn into said end of said column, through the same end of the column at which the slurry entered, and sinteriing.

Abstract: Preparations consisting of 5 to 90%, relative to the total weight of the preparations, of mainly neutralized 1-hydroxy-benzotriazole of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, independently of one another, represent hydrogen or methyl andM.sup..sym. is one equivalent of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal cation or H.sup..sym., whereby M.sup..sym. is present in the range of 85-100 equivalent-% as alkali metal or alkaline earth metal cation and in the range of 15-0 equivalent-% as H.sup..sym.,and the remainder to 100% of water, whereby the water containing preparations have a pH value of from 3 to 11 are nonexplosive and can be handled without danger.For the preparation, unsubstituted 1-hydroxy-benzotriazole is neutralized with an aqueous solution or suspension of a hydroxide, bicarbonate or carbonate of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal. These preparations may be present as solutions, suspensions or pastes.

Abstract: An airbag module for motor vehicle steering wheels is proposed, having a gas generator (1), a folded together airbag (2), a dish-like generator support (3), a covering (4) which is connected to the generator support (3) at the edges and has predetermined breaking points (8) and also having a retaining plate (5) for fastening the airbag (2) on the generator support (3), all the elements mentioned forming a one-part structural unit which can be connected to a steering wheel.To be able to adapt the volume inside such an airbag module to various volume requirements, without losing the abutment formed for the covering (4) by the folded together airbag (2), it is proposed that there be arranged between the gas generator (1) and the folded together airbag (2) a displacement element (6, 7) which fills a predetermined proportion of the volume available between the gas generator (1), the generator support (3) and the covering (4) for the folded together airbag (2).

Abstract: The invention relates to new substituted biphenyloxazolines of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -halogenoalkylthio andR.sup.2 represents hydrogen, orR.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together with the carbon atoms to which they are bonded form a halogen-substituted 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring,X represents hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: A solenoid valve especially intended for wet-room fittings. It has a housing with an intake and an outlet sealed off from each other and prevented from communicating while the valve is closed by a body that rests on a seat. The housing is essentially flower-pot shaped and has a threaded section at the open end positioned concentric and coaxial to the intake and outlet, which are in turn rotationally symmetric and face the open end such that the incoming flow is opposite the outgoing flow.

Abstract: The invention relates to new combinations of dihydropyridines of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 to R.sup.5 have the meaning indicated in the description, for the prevention and treatment of vascular disorders, in particular of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders, containing dihydropyridines having calcium antagonist activity, acetylsalicylic acid nitroesters and vitamins, and, if appropriate, also further auxiliaries or active compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which X represents alkyl,Y represents halogen or alkyl andZ represents halogen or alkyl,with the proviso that one of the radicals Y and Z always represents halogen and the other alkyl,Het represents one of the groups ##STR2## in which A, B, D and G have the meanings given in the description,a plurality of processes for their preparation and their use as pesticides and herbicides.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel sulphonylaminocarbonyltriazolinones of the formula (I), ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, hydroxyl, amino, alkylideneamino or a respectively optionally substituted radical from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkanoylamino, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, cycloalkylamino, aryl, arylalkyl,R.sup.2 represents respectively halogen-substituted alkyl or alkenyl andR.sup.3 represents a respectively optionally substituted radical from the group consisting of alkyl, aralkyl, aryl, heteroaryl,and to salts of compounds of the formula (I), to processes and novel intermediates for preparing the compounds (I) and to their use as herbicides and/or fungicides.

Abstract: A process for preparing solutions of hemoglobin hyperpolymers by fractionating hemoglobin hyperpolymers having a nonuniform molecular weight distribution according to molecular weight using a polyhydroxy compound to precipitate different fractions of hemoglobin hyperpolymers, wherein each fraction has a different but more uniform molecular weight distribution as compared to the starting hemoglobin hyperpolymers. Preferably, the polyhydroxy compound is a polyalcohol, especially polyethylene glycol.