Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a compound of formula (I) or a salt thereof for combating animal pests, where the symbols and indices are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A detector having a transversal optical sensor adapted to determine a transversal position of at least one light beam traveling from an object to the detector and a longitudinal optical sensor having at least one sensor region. The longitudinal optical sensor is designed to affect at least one longitudinal sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor region by the light beam. The longitudinal sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a beam cross-section of the light beam in the sensor region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel quaternized nitrogen compounds, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof as a fuel and lubricant additive, more particularly as a detergent additive; to additive packages which comprise these compounds; and to fuels and lubricants thus additized. The present invention further relates to the use of these quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel additive for reducing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, especially in common-rail injection systems, for reducing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common-rail injection systems, and for minimizing power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common-rail injection systems.

Abstract: Articles, compositions, and methods involving ionically conductive compounds are provided. The disclosed ionically conductive compounds may be incorporated into an electrochemical cell (e.g., a lithium-sulfur electrochemical cell, a lithium-ion electrochemical cell, an intercalated-cathode based electrochemical cell) as, for example, a protective layer for an electrode, a solid electrolyte layer, and/or any other appropriate component within the electrochemical cell. In certain embodiments, electrode structures and/or methods for making electrode structures including a layer comprising an ionically conductive compound described herein are provided.

Abstract: The presently claimed invention is directed to the novel use of polyester obtainable by reacting a mixture comprising adipic acid and an alcohol mixture comprising 1-nonanol, monomethyloctanols, dimethylheptanols and monoethylheptanols as lubricants and a lubricant composition comprising these polyesters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of novel oxadiazoles of the formula I or an N-oxide and/or their agriculturally useful salts for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, or to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi or the materials, plants, the soil or seeds to be protected against fungal attack, with an effective amount of at least one compound of formula I or an N-oxide or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one such compound and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for providing substituted phenyl ketones. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of substituted phenoxyphenyl ketones obtained by the inventive process for the preparation of triazoles.

Abstract: The present invention relates the use of a 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)benzotriazole compound of the formula R(QUV)n as an UV absorbing agent in coatings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous polyurethane-polyurea dispersion (PD) having polyurethane-polyurea particles, present in the dispersion, having an average particle size of 40 to 2000 nm, and having a gel fraction of at least 50%, obtainable by (I) preparing a composition (Z) comprising, based in each case on the total amount of the composition (Z), (Z.1) 15 to 65 wt % of at least one intermediate containing isocyanate groups and having blocked primary amino groups, its preparation comprising the reaction (Z.1.1) of at least one polyurethane prepolymer containing isocyanate groups and comprising anionic groups and/or groups which can be converted into anionic groups, with (Z.1.2) at least one polyamine comprising at least two blocked primary amino groups and at least one free secondary amino group, by addition reaction of isocyanate groups from (Z.1.1) with free secondary amino groups from (Z.1.2), (Z.

Abstract: An absorbent for selective removal of hydrogen sulfide from a fluid stream comprises an aqueous solution comprising a) a tertiary amine; b) an aminic pH promoter selected from the compounds mentioned in the description; where the molar ratio of b) to a) is in the range from 0.05 to 1.0; and c) an acid having a pKA of less than 6 in such an amount that the pH of the aqueous solution measured at 120° C. is 7.9 to less than 8.8. Also described is a process for removing acidic gases from a fluid stream, in which the fluid stream is contacted with the absorbent. The absorbent is notable for a low regeneration energy.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the order Pucciniales, preferably the family Phacopsoraceae, in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of a CASAR protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the order Pucciniales, preferably the family Phacopsoraceae, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding a CASAR protein.

Abstract: Aqueous formulations comprising (A) at least one organic complexing agent selected from (A1) alkali metal salts of aminopolycarboxylic acids and (A2) polymers bearing at least two —CH2—N(CH2COOH)-units per molecule, partially or fully neutralized with alkali, (B) at least one salt of at least one of the following acids: nitric acid, sulphuric acid, sulphamic acid, methanesulfonic acid, C1-C2-carboxylic acids, C2-C4-hydroxymonocarboxylic acids, C2-C7-dicarboxylic acids, unsubstituted or substituted with hydroxyl, and C4-C6-tricarboxylic acids, each unsubstituted or substituted with hydroxyl, (C) at least one compound selected from (C1) phosphoric acid C2-C10-monoalkyl esters, (C2) a C3-C10-alkynol, optionally alkoxylated with one to 10 alkoxide groups per hydroxyl group, and (C3) a C4-C10-alkynediol, optionally alkoxylated with one to 10 alkoxide groups per hydroxyl group, said aqueous formulations having pH values in the range of from 7.5 to 10.

Abstract: The present invention relates to magnetocaloric materials comprising manganese, iron, silicon, phosphorus, nitrogen and optionally boron.

Abstract: Provided is a plant or plant part comprising a polynucleotide encoding a wild type or mutated cellulose synthase (CESA) polypeptide, the expression of the polynucleotide confers to the plant or plant part tolerance to CESA-inhibiting herbicides, such an azines.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparation of intermediates (Z,2E)-5-hydroxy-2-methoxyimino-N-methyl-pent-3-enamides from 4-substituted 5-meth-oxyimino-2H-pyran-6-ones and their processing for example to (Z)-5-cyclyloxy-2-[(E)-methoxyimino]-3-methyl-pent-3-enic acid methyl amides. The invention also relates to a process for preparation of 4-substituted 5-imino-2H-pyran-6-ones and to novel intermediates for the preparation of fungicidal (Z)-5-cyclyloxy-2-[(E)-methoxyimino]-3-methyl-pent-3-enic acid methyl amides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula I wherein the variables are defined in the claims and the specification, to their preparation and their use as fungicides.

Abstract: A composition, which comprises a) an organic material susceptible to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation; and b) a compound of formula I (Formula I) (I) where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are independently from each other H, C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-cycloalkyl, phenyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or halogen; n is 1, 2, 3, or 4; and when n is 1 A is —C(=0)-OR?1, —C(=0)-N(R?2)(R?3), —CN, phenyl, which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-alkoxy, C5-C7-cycloalkyl or halogen, —H or —S02-phenyl; when n is 2 A is —C(=0)-0-Z1—O—C(=0)-, —C(=0)-N(R?1)—Z2—N(R?2)—C(=0)- or piperazine-N,N?-biscarbonyl.

Abstract: Process for the Manufacture of Paper and Paperboard The present invention relates to a process of making paper or paperboard in which a cellulosic thin stock is provided and subjected to one or more shear stages and then drained and a moving screen to form a sheet which is dried, wherein the process employs a retention system which is applied to the thin stock, said retention system comprising as components i) a blend of different cationic polymers and ii) a microparticulate material, in which the blend of cationic polymers comprises, a) a cationic polymer having a charge density of from 0.

Abstract: In a method of treating a particulate landscaping material, the material is fed into a mixing chamber and an additive mixture including a functional additive and a carrier is delivered to spray nozzles within the mixing chamber. At least one of the spray nozzles is operated to direct an atomized spray into the mixing chamber. The material is agitated within the mixing chamber during and/or after directing the atomized spray into the mixing chamber. The material is then conveyed with the additive mixture applied thereto to a mixing chamber outlet. During these steps, a volumetric flow rate of the particulate landscape material through the mixing chamber is intermittently determined. The determined volumetric flow rate is intermittently compared to a predetermined target flow rate of the particulate landscape material. Based on this comparison, the volumetric flow rate of the particulate landscape material through the mixing chamber is adjusted.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds of formulae (I) and/or (II) as colorless 1R absorbers wherein M is Ni, Pd, Pt, Au, Ir, Fe, Zn, W, Cu, Mo, In, Mn, Co, Mg, V, Cr or Ti, X1, X2 and X3 are each independently of the others sulfur or oxygen, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are each independently of the others hydrogen, NR7R8, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C18alkyl, C1-C18 alkyl wherein the alkylene chain is interrupted with oxygen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C18alkenyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl, unsubstituted or substituted arylalkyl or unsubstituted or substituted heteroarylalkyl, R7 and R8, each independently of the other, being unsubstituted or substituted C1-C18alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl, unsubstituted or substituted arylalkyl or unsubstituted or substituted heteroarylalkyl, a further IR absorber optionally being added to the compounds of formulae (I) and (II).