Abstract: Techniques described herein include providing payment and access infrastructure for an array of transportation services, such as a set of transit or mobility services that might be provided by one or more governments, public agencies, and/or other public entities. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes enabling, by a computing system, a user to register for mobility benefits using a verification system, wherein the mobility benefits are provided by a provider entity; receiving, by the computing system and from the verification system, information about the user; establishing, by the computing system, an account linked to the provider entity; detecting, by the computing system, a request to access mobility benefits; allocating, by the computing system, funds from the account to pay for the mobility benefits.

Abstract: An article of footwear includes an adjustable element. The adjustable element includes a bladder that defines an interior void. A compressible component that is disposed within the interior void and is operable between an expanded state and a contracted state. The adjustable element also includes a lock strip including a first end anchored at a first location within the bladder and a second end disposed at an opposite end of the lock strip than the first end. A lock receives the lock strip and is operable between a locked state restricting movement of the lock strip relative to the bladder and an unlocked state permitting movement of the lock strip relative to the bladder.

Abstract: An article of footwear can include a sole structure, an upper, and a printed layer. The upper can be coupled to the sole structure. The printed layer can be disposed on the upper and include a plurality of printed materials each having a different hardness than an adjacent printed material. The plurality of printed materials can be arranged on the upper such that a stiffness of the upper is gradated from a toe portion of the upper to a heel portion of the upper, and a stiffness of the heel portion is greater than a stiffness of the toe portion.

Abstract: Amino-formaldehyde resins may be prepared using formulations including formaldehyde, glycerin and at least one amino compound selected from the group consisting of urea, melamine, and mixtures thereof; under reaction conditions sufficient to prepare a resin, wherein; the amino-formaldehyde resin is prepared in a substantial absence of a sulfonating agent, ethylene glycol, and polyalkylene glycols. If the amino compound is urea, then the urea is present in a molar ratio of formaldehyde to urea ranging from 0.70 to 1.30; if the amino compound is melamine, then the melamine is present in a molar ratio of formaldehyde to melamine ranging from 1.3 to 2.2; and if the amino compound is a mixture of urea and melamine, then the mixture of urea and melamine is present in a molar ratio of formaldehyde to urea and melamine ranging from 0.35 to 1.3.

Abstract: An adhesive binder comprising a phenol-formaldehyde resin, polyvinyl ester resin, and a protein is disclosed. The adhesive binder is useful for preparing wood composites.

Abstract: An adhesive composition substantially free of formaldehyde, comprising at least one bio-derived component, at least one multivalent cation and at least one polymer having a crosslinkable group, wherein the polymer having at least one crosslinkable group is substantially free of epichlorohydrin.

Abstract: Amino-formaldehyde resins may be prepared using formulations including formaldehyde, glycerin and at least one amino compound selected from the group consisting of urea, melamine, and mixtures thereof; under reaction conditions sufficient to prepare a resin, wherein; the amino-formaldehyde resin is prepared in a substantial absence of a sulfonating agent, ethylene glycol, and polyalkylene glycols. If the amino compound is urea, then the urea is present in a molar ratio of formaldehyde to urea ranging from 0.70 to 1.30; if the amino compound is melamine, then the melamine is present in a molar ratio of formaldehyde to melamine ranging from 1.3 to 2.2; and if the amino compound is a mixture of urea and melamine, then the mixture of urea and melamine is present in a molar ratio of formaldehyde to urea and melamine ranging from 0.35 to 1.

Abstract: A Silicibacter sp. strain useful for genetic transformation of marine algae and production of antibiotic agents is described. Silicibacter sp. TM1040 is a genetically tractable member of the marine Roseobacter clade of bacteria that forms an intimate and obligate interaction with algae, and is useful as a probiotic for producing antibacterial agents that are cidally effective against pathogenic bacteria such as Mycobacterium marinum, Vibrio anguillarum, V. coralliilyticus, and V. shiloi bacteria.

Abstract: Hybrid resins formed of an acylated phenol-formaldehyde (PF) resin and a polymeric phenyl isocyanate (pMDI) resin have extended shelf stability, yet cure at a rate faster than any of its components when used in conventional flakeboard, strandboard or other board making processes.

Abstract: Hybrid resins formed of an acylated phenol-formaldehyde (PF) resin and a polymeric phenyl isocyanate (pMDI) resin have extended shelf stability, yet cure at a rate faster than any of its components when used in conventional flakeboard, strandboard or other board making processes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of wood composite products consisting of combining wood particles with a binder composition, and molding or compressing the combination of wood particles and binder composition. Suitable binder compositions comprise (1) an aqueous dispersion of a blocked polyisocyanate component and (2) an aqueous solution of a phenolic resin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel blocked polyisocyanates that are soluble or dispersible in water and which contain phenolate anions in a chemically bound form as groups which provide their solubility or dispersibility. It also relates to a process for the preparation of these blocked polyisocyanates in the form of a solution or dispersion in water, optionally in the presence of coreactants, and to their use as hardeners in two-component lacquers, binders and/or adhesive formulations.