Abstract: The light-fastness of an inkjet recording material having a support and an image-receiving layer containing a binder is improved if the image-receiving layer contains a water soluble inorganic thiosulphate, trithionate or tetrathionate or an organic thiosulphate in a quantity of 2 to 200 wt. %, relative to the quantity of binder in the image-receiving layer.

Abstract: A method for treating or preventing a cancer in a mammal which comprises administering to said mammal an amount of a drug, comprising an .alpha..sub.1 -adrenoreceptor antagonist or pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, effective for treating or preventing the cancer.

Abstract: A colour photographic silver halide material with a support, at last one silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler and at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler applied thereon, in which material the silver halide emulsion layer, of which there is at least one, containing at least one yellow coupler and/or the silver halide emulsion layer, of which there is at least one, containing at least one cyan coupler contains a compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 mean alkyl, alkenyl or acyl andn means 6, 7 or 8,is distinguished by improved stability of the image dyes produced by processing.

Abstract: The present invention provides polycarbonate moulding compositions containing polycarbonates, stabilisers of the general formula (I)R.sub.1 --X--(CHR.sub.4).sub.n --Y--R.sub.2and optionally polypropylene glycols.The present invention also provides use of these moulding compositions for preparing items for medical applications.

Abstract: A vibration pocket device is utilized for detecting severe neuropathy. The device is generally the size and shape of a conventional pen and includes a stimulus head or probe mounted at an end of the device. The head or probe is caused to vibrate and is applied to a patient's extremity in order to determine if the patient can feel the vibration.

Abstract: A colour photographic recording material, comprising of a transparent film base, red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer units which are disposed thereon and which contain colour couplers, and optionally of further light-insensitive layers, wherein the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer unit comprises at least two green-sensitive partial layers, the partial layer of which which is furthest from the film base has the highest sensitivity and is situated further from the film base than is each partial layer of the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer unit, and wherein each partial layer of the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer unit is situated further from the film base than is the highest-sensitivity partial layer of the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer unit, contains, in the highest-sensitivity partial layer of the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer unit, an organic yellow dye which can be decolorised during processing; the

Abstract: Fiber-reactive monoazo and disazo dyes, suitable for dyeing cellulose material, such as cotton, and also synthetic or natural polyamide material, such as wool, in high color depth and with good fastness properties, are described which contain a quaternary ammonium group, such as a trialkylammonium group, and contain, as a fiber-reactive group, a group of the vinyl-sulfone series, or a grouping containing a group of the vinyl-sulfone series, or a heterocyclic fiber-reactive group selected from a halogeno-substituted pyrimidine or triazine.

Abstract: A dye mixture comprising one or more disazo dyes composed of 1-amino-3,6-disulfo-8-naphthol as the coupling component and of two diazo components of the aniline series containing each a fiber-reactive group of the vinylsulfone series, one or more monoazo dyes composed of a carboxy-substituted benzoylamino-sulfo-naphthol coupling component and a diazo component of the aniline series, containing a fiber-reactive group of the vinylsulfone series and optionally one or two monoazo dyes with 1-amino-3,6-disulfo-8-naphthol as a coupling component to which is coupled in the ortho-position to the amino group a diazo component of the aniline series substituted by a fiber-reactive group of the vinylsulfone series. The dye mixtures yield on hydroxy- and/or carboxamido-containing fiber materials, such as cellulose fibers, in particular cotton, or on, for example, wool and synthetic polyamide fibers, deep black dyeings.

Abstract: 4-aminodiphenylamines are prepared by hydrogenating nitrosobenzene or mixtures of nitrosobenzene and nitrobenzene with hydrogen in the presence of bases containing hydroxide, oxide and/or alkoxide groups and heterogeneous catalysts in inert aprotic solvents at temperatures of from 0 to 200.degree. C. and at pressures of from 0.1 to 150 bar.

Abstract: A very effective catalyst system for olefin polymerization comprises a cocatalyst, preferably an aluminoxane, and a metallocene of the formula I ##STR1## in which, preferably, M.sup.1 is Zr or Hf, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are halogen or alkyl, R.sup.3 is alkyl, R.sup.4 to R.sup.10 are alkyl or hydrogen and R.sup.11 is a (substituted) alkylene or heteroatom bridge.

Abstract: The present invention concerns orange dye mixtures of fiber-reactive azo dyes, suitable for dyeing hydroxy- and/or carboxamido-containing material, such as cellulose fibers, like cotton, or wool and nylon, which comprise one or more monoazo dyestuffs corresponding to the general formula (1) and one or more monoazo dyestuffs corresponding to the formula (2) ##STR1## in which D.sub.1 and D.sub.2 are each, independently from one another, a radical of a benzene or naphthalene nucleus, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each, independently from one another, hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, methoxy, ethoxy, sulfo or carboxy, M is hydrogen or an alkali metal and the groups Y.sub.1 --SO.sub.2 -- and Y.sub.2 --SO.sub.2 -- are each fiber reactive groups of the vinylsulfone series.

Abstract: Fusion cutting of thermoplastic sheets and textile webs involving bonding of the cut edges is achieved with excellent quality without the accumulation of dirt particles, if the material to be cut is subjected, in the area of the intended cut, to pre-stamping and cutting in immediate succession, under heat and with precise guidance of the separator device in relation to the pre-stamping device, said pre-stamping and cutting being effected in such a way that the plane of symmetry through the pre-stamping device, which plane of symmetry extends perpendicularly to and in the same direction as the material web, is identical to the plane of symmetry extending through the separator device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures, containing A) reaction products from isocyanates and NCO-reactive silanes and B) carbosilane dendrimers, a process for preparing powder coatings from the mixtures and their use.

Abstract: Process for the production of hydrogenated, ring-opened metathesis (co)polymers from cyclic olefins using the ruthenium-carbene complexes of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 mutually independently mean hydrogen, C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 alkenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl, aryl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 carboxylate, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkoxy, C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 alkenyloxy, aryloxy, C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 alkoxycarbon-yl,C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkylthio, which may optionally be substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkoxy or by phenyl optionally substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkoxy;X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 mutually independently mean any desired anionic ligand;L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 mutually independently mean any desired neutral electron donorand two or three of X.sub.1, X.sub.2, L.sub.1 and L.sub.

Abstract: A pivotable window sash assembly includes a pivot bar which engages a balance shoe for holding the sash to a master frame. The shoe has a recess in which a locking member is rotatably mounted. The locking member includes an exposed keyway which is selectively aligned with at least one slot in the shoe located at the recess. The pivot bar has an arm which functions as a key for fitting in the keyway and has at least one projection extending outwardly from the arm for fitting in each slot when the slot and keyway are aligned.

Abstract: An ionomeric modified poly-ether-ester plastic material combined with a small amount of silica is used as a substitute for the conventional uses of polyvinylchloride in such applications as tubing for medical applications, for bags and other medical containers, for tubing in food processing and as sheets and films for bacterial and virus exclusion. The ionomeric modified poly-ether-ester has various advantages which make it particularly suitable for such uses. The silica may be in the form of colloidal silica dioxide or silica oil.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of the formula IV or IVa ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 -R.sup.5 are preferably hydrogen or alkyl, which comprises reacting a compound I ##STR2## with a compound II ##STR3## in which X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are preferably halogen, to give the corresponding indanones, which are converted into the compounds IV and IVa by reduction and dehydration. The compounds IV and IVa are important intermediate products for the preparation of chiral metallocene complexes which are suitable catalyst components for olefin polymerization.

Abstract: This invention relates to easily conveyable and easily meterable mixtures having high stability in storage, containing aromatic mineral oils and phenylenediamines, the content of phenylenediamines in the mixture being 1 to 99 wt. %. The mixtures of mineral oils and phenylenediamines according to the invention are used in the production of rubbers and rubber articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to secondary and tertiary phosphines of the formula ##STR1## in which R is hydrogen, an aryl or benzyl group or a straight-chain or branched alkyl group, n is 1 or 2 and M is potassium or sodium.These phosphines are prepared by reacting either alkali metal salts of fluorobenzene-2,4-disulfonic acid with phosphine or with primary or secondary phosphines, or secondary phosphines of the type HP?C.sub.6 H.sub.3 -2,4-(SO.sub.3 M).sub.2 !.sub.2 with a compound RX in which R is an alkyl, aryl or benzyl group and X is a halogen, in an aprotic solvent in the presence of at least stoichiometric quantities of a solid, powdered alkali metal hydroxide at temperatures of from 0 to 100.degree. C.

Abstract: A knee/elbow cap, comprising:a cushion pad integrally made of injected plastics and having an curved upper layer, a curved lower layer, and a plurality of rib plates;a sponge layer adhering to said lower layer;an unwoven cloth layer adhering to said sponge layer; andtwo elastic bands fixing to said cap, each of said two bands having a Velcro latch attached at an end; whereinsaid plurality of rib plates extend from the upper layer to the lower layer in a form of crossing and connecting with one another and divide a space between the upper layer and the lower layer into a plurality of small rooms to make the cushion pad have a grid like structure.