Abstract: A reagent and method for the quantitative of serum triglycerides which involves the alcoholic saponification of serum lipides using a low molecular weight chlorinated hydrocarbon as a catalyst. The saponified lipid is then mixed with an enzyme preparation for hydrolysis. After hydrolysis, the triglyceride is quantitatively analyzed in a conventional manner.

Abstract: An oxidation catalyst having the general formula:Co.sub.a Fe.sub.b Bi.sub.c B.sub.d Sb.sub.e Ni.sub.f J.sub.g Mo.sub.h O.sub.iin which J represents at least one of the elements potassium, rubidium, and cesium, and the suffixes a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, and i represent the numbers of cobalt, iron, bismuth, boron, antimony, nickel, J, molybdenum, and oxygen atoms, respectively, when h is 12, a is 1 to 15, b 0.3 to 8, c 0.1 to 7, d 0.1 to 3, e 0.01 to 1, f 0 to 5, g 0 to 1 (exclusive of 0), and i is 38 to 92 and is determined by total valences of other elements. There is also provided a process for manufacturing methacrolein by oxidizing isobutylene and/or tertiary butyl alcohol with molecular oxygen, characterized in that the reaction is carried out in the presence of the catalyst as defined above.

Abstract: Canine ear implant for strengthening the defective auricular cartilage of the canine ear is formed of a sheet of flexible porous polymeric material adapted in size and shape to be positioned adjacent to either side of the auricular cartilage. The polymeric material comprises a network of interconnected pores throughout its volume having an average pore diameter of between 20 .mu.m - 300 .mu.m, the average pore volume being at least 30%.

Abstract: A positioning drive with an electronic regulator for controlling the r.p.m. of a working shaft has a regeneratively coupled amplifier with variable negative feedback adjustable from a normally high value to a minimum value for the final braking action, whereby the shaft is abruptly brought to rest at a predetermined angular position.

Abstract: Lightfast and waterfast azo dyes suitable for dyeing fibers and paper, particularly cellulosic materials, and having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein A is a group selected from 4-methoxy-2-sulfophenyl, 4-methoxy-3-sulfophenyl, 2- or 3-sulphonyl, tolyl, 4-nitro-2,2'-disulfostilbyl, sulfonaphthyl and 4-(4-sulfophenylazo)-2-sulfophenyl;B is selected from monoethanolamino, diethanolamino, morpholino, and N-methylamino;W is hydrogen or sulfonic acid; andZ is sulfonic acid attached at the meta or para position relative to the pendant diazo.

Abstract: N-(4-fluorophenyl)-2,3-dichloromaleimide of uniform grain size is produced either by reacting 2,3-dichloromaleic acid, an anhydride or an ester thereof with 4-fluoroaniline in an aqueous medium or by dehydrative-cyclization of either N-(4-fluorophenyl)-2,3-dichloromaleamic acid or 4-fluoroanilinium 2,3-dichloromaleate in an aqueous medium. The N-(4-fluorophenyl)-2,3-dichloromaleimide of uniform grain size provides improved fungicidal activity and is convenient for preparing an agricultural fungicidal composition.

Abstract: A calcinating device, or calcinator, is provided with a rotatable drum, the axis of which is slightly inclined with respect to the horizontal, and is adapted to be mounted inside a furnace and to be used for mixing and heating a mixture of sintered glass pieces and of radioactive wastes. The calcinator has, at the extremities thereof, two flanges to which are respectively fixed an upper sleeve on a level with which open an inlet conduit for the radioactive liquids, a conduit connected to a hopper for feeding sintered glass and a gas exhaust conduit, and a lower sleeve, the extension of which away from said drum is provided with an opening for expelling the calcinate obtained and transferring it to a smelting furnace. The calcinator is further provided with means for rotating and sealing same.

Abstract: A carbon fiber is oxidized to form oxygen-containing functional groups on the entire surface of the fiber and then contacted with ammonia, an organic amine, a lactam, or an amino carboxylic acid at a temperature of 100.degree.-500.degree. C whereby the surfaces of the carbon fiber obtain good affinity for a synthetic resin.

Abstract: A self-aligning pod bearing assembly includes a cylindrical casing forming a socket for a bead-shaped porous bearing which is urged against the socket by means of a resilient bearing retainer which fits between a shoulder portion of the casing and the spherical bearing. The inside of the casing is filled with wicking material exposed through the bearing retainer to an oil slinger mounted for rotation with the shaft adjacent the end of the bearing contacted by the retainer and another oil slinger rotationally mounted on the shaft adjacent the other end of the bearing. In the preferred embodiments the outer diameter of the casing is formed by the same casing member which forms the interior bearing socket thus insuring coaxiality of the nominal bearing axis and the outer diameter of the casing.

Abstract: Discrete carbon microspheres having a particle diameter on the order of 1-20 .mu. are obtained by a process involving the steps of homogeneously mixing a pitch having a softening point of 70.degree. - 250.degree. C, a nitrobenzene-insoluble content of not more than 25% and an H/C ratio of 0.2- 1.0 with an aromatic solvent compatible with said pitch and dispersing the resultant mixture in an aqueous solution of a surface active agent with agitation and at a temperature to maintain the viscosity at 200-5000 cps to form microspheres of the pitch/solvent mixture. The dispersion is then cooled to solidify the microspheres. The microspheres 1-20 .mu. in diameter are then separated from the solution and from the finer particles and contacted an organic solvent which is incompatible with the pitch to extract the first-mentioned aromatic solvent from the microspheres.

Abstract: A method and device for use in detecting a precise focussing point, which comprises the steps of: placing a photoelectric element on an optical path or optical axis of a lens of a camera; converting the information of the precise focussing point for a photographic object into a frequency variation of an A. C. signal; feeding said signal having varying frequency to a highly sensitive frequency detector such as a resonance circuit, a tuned amplifier, or frequency-amplitude convertor having acute frequency characteristics; and detecting the precise focussing point with high sensitivity by means of the output thus obtained; whereby the aforesaid functions may be satisfactorily performed, irrespective of the variation in the luminance of the object and whereby the focus of the lens may be brought into precise conformity to the predetermined plane (i.e., the position corresponding to a film).

Abstract: 1,1-BIS(1'-METHYL-2'-VINYL-4',6'-HEPTADIENOXY)ALKANE IS OBTAINED BY ACETAL FORMATION OF 1-METHYL-2-VINYL-4,6-HEPTADIENOL WITH AN ALDEHYDE. The 1,1-bis(1'-methyl-2'-vinyl-4',6'-heptadienoxy) alkane is a novel curing compound.

Abstract: A method of liquid scintillation counting utilizing a combustion step to overcome quenching effects comprises novel features of automatic sequential introduction of samples into a combustion zone and automatic sequential collection and delivery of combustion products into a counting zone.

Abstract: A cap for covering the exposed end of an excised bone including a head adapted to abut the exposed end. The outer surface of the head is free from sharp corners, at least the portion of the head adjacent to the exposed bone end being interspersed with a network of interconnected pores adapted for human tissue to grow therein and anchor the cap to the bone. The cap further includes means for preventing the pores from communicating with the outer surface of the head.

Abstract: In a first step, the semiconductor material is doped in a known manner with impurities having a given conductivity type and a given concentration profile. In a second step, the material is maintained at a high temperature, bombarded with a beam of particles which are accelerated with a given energy so as to penetrate into the crystal during a predetermined time interval. The resultant migration of impurities produces an increase in the impurity concentration irrespective of the sign of the initial concentration gradient within a zone adjacent to the zone of stopping of the particles.

Abstract: A method of descaling a rod comprises forming at least one bend in the rod and rotating the bent portion in an appproximately circular path while maintaining it in a space having a distribution of separated cleaning particles therein in a suspended relationship relative thereto. The rotating bent portion strikes the distributed particles and is cleaned thereby.

Abstract: Carbonless copying paper comprising paper coated with microcapsules containing a dye solution which is composed of a solvent, a dye which gives color under acidic conditions and a mineral oil, said dye solution including as solvent one or more of alkylnaphthalenes of the general formula ##STR1## WHEREIN R represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, n is an integer of 1-4, and R may be the same or different when n is 2-4, the total number of carbon atoms in R's being 4-6. Such carbonless copying papers exhibit excellent color development and are non-toxic and biodegradable, thus causing no environmental pollution when they are discarded.

Abstract: The donning of surgical gloves is facilitated by inflating the surgical glove with the cuff open so that the surgeon may insert his hand into the glove while inflated and then deflating the glove around the surgeon's hand. The glove is mounted in a glove package with the cuff of the elastomeric surgeon's glove stretched around a ring. The ring with the glove so mounted is mounted at the mouth of a tube which telescopes into a larger tube making a sliding air seal with the larger tube. When the smaller tube is withdrawn from the larger tube, the reduced air pressure that results within the chamber defined by the tubes sucks the glove into the chamber and inflates it in the chamber. After the surgeon has inserted his hand into the inflated glove, the inner tube is then reinserted into the outer tube to increase the pressure within the chamber above atmospheric causing the cuff of the glove to explode off the ring on which it is mounted and snap around the surgeon's wrist.

Abstract: A sample radioactivity measuring system has a conveyor for moving a plurality of sample receiving locations in succession to a working position. A device for selecting the measuring program to be executed on the samples comprises a plurality of marker plugs each adapted to be removably located in the conveyor for movement by the conveyor. Each marker is provided with a different address code. Each address code corresponds to a location in a card reader. Cards insertable into the addressed locations each carry one of the programs and the program read from the card at the addressed location is used for processing the associated samples.

Abstract: In an apparatus for local surface analysis of a target sample in which an ion probe is directed to the target for sputtering particles. A chamber having walls heated to a high temperature (above 2200.degree. K as a rule) collects sputtered particles. The particles entering the chamber are subjected to successive adsorptions and desorptions before they leave the chamber for entry into a mass spectrometer. Scanning may be provided as in conventional SIMS systems.