Abstract: A wing profile has a glass package including several glass plates, wherein the wing profile has a reinforcement element made of plastic, which substantially is mounted on the wing profile below the entire support surface of the glass package. Between the reinforcement element and the glass package, a cohesive connection is provided by a plurality of adhesive elements.

Abstract: An optical data communication system may include one or more para-phenylenevinylenes, a receiver for an optical data communication system comprising para-phenylenevinylene(s), a transmitter for an optical data communication system comprising para-phenylenevinylene(s), the use of para-phenylenevinylene(s) in an optical data communication system, specific para-phenylenevinylene(s) and their preparation.

Abstract: A high performance wall assembly receives an exterior covering of a building. The high performance wall assembly includes a frame assembly having a top member, a bottom member opposite the top member, and a plurality of vertical members. The vertical members are coupled to and extend between the top and bottom members. The high performance wall assembly also includes a rigid foam insulating panel coupled to the frame assembly. A structural foam layer is disposed on the plurality of vertical members and on the rigid foam insulating panel. The structural foam layer couples the rigid foam insulating panel to the frame assembly and couples the plurality of vertical members to the top and bottom members such that the high performance wall is free of fasteners.

Abstract: Provided are multi-zone catalyst articles, methods of manufacturing multi-zone catalyst articles, and methods for controlling emissions in diesel engine exhaust streams with multi-zone catalyst articles, where the emission treatment system of various embodiments effectively treats diesel engine exhaust with a single multi-zone catalyst article.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a new cotton variety FM 2574GLT. The disclosure relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 2574GLT with other plants. The disclosure also relates to plants of variety FM 2574GLT reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from cotton variety FM 2574GLT.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicidal composition comprising pethoxamid. The invention also relates to methods and uses for controlling undesirable vegetation, in particular in crops.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a stabilized hot melt adhesive containing a) one or more hot melt adhesive materials and b) a stabilizer composition. The one or more hot melt adhesive materials a) include a polyolefin, a styrene-isoprene-styrene block co-polymer, a styrene-butadiene-styrene block co-polymer, a polyacrylate, an acryl-copolymer, an ethylene vinyl acetate, a polyamide, a polyester, a polyurethane, a polyimide, a silane terminated polyolefin, a silane terminated poly-ether, and a silane terminated polyurethane. The stabilizer composition includes a component (B), which is a polymeric sterically hindered amine, and a component (C), which is a specific sterically hindered phenol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to latex paints containing a) a multistage carboxylated polymer latex binder obtainable by multistage aqueous emulsion polymerisation of at least one non-ionic monomer which is selected from C1-C20-alkyl esters of acrylic acid, C1-C20-alkylesters of methacrylic acid, and vinyl aromatic monomers; one or more monoethylenically unsaturated monomers M2, which are selected from monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acids having 3 to 6 carbon atoms and monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, and where in at least one stage, monomers M2 added in this stage is at least 6% by weight; b) a titanium dioxide pigment; c) a polymeric dispersant selected from monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acids having 3 to 6 carbon atoms and monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, where the monomers make up at least 85% of the monomers forming the polymeric dispersant; and d) a thickener polymer.

Abstract: When a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a positive electrode active material comprising a layered lithium-composite oxide is used for a positive electrode is subjected to charge/discharge under a prescribed condition, in a graph showing the relationship between voltage “V” with discharge during 5th cycle and value dQ/dV from differentiation of battery capacity “Q” with discharge during 5th cycle by voltage “V”, peak intensity ratio “r” represented by the equation: r=|Ic|/(|Ia|+|Ib|+|Ic|) satisfies 0<r?0.25, in which |Ia| is absolute value dQ/dV for a peak top within a range of more than 3.9V to 4.4V or less, |Ib| is absolute value dQ/dV for a peak top within a range of more than 3.5V to 3.9V or less, and |Ic| is absolute value dQ/dV for a peak top within a range of 2.0V or more to 3.5V or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pigment composition which comprises (a) a pigment of formula wherein Ar1 is phenylene or C2-C6-heteroarylene, Ar2 is C6-C10-aryl or C2-C6-heteroaryl; and (b) a pigment derivative of formula (PM-C X1). (II), wherein P1 is a residue of a colorant chromophore, X1 is a group comprising an aliphatic carboxamide group, an aliphatic sulfonamide group, a carboxylic acid group or salt thereof, and m is 1, 2, 3 or 4. The pigment composition is suitable to color organic material, especially photosensitive resist formulations for use in color filter applications having high contrast ratios.

Abstract: A blend composition contains a mixture of petroleum coke and pyrolytic carbon. An electrode recipe, and the use of this electrode as an anode in the process of producing aluminum are described.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel and lubricant additive or kerosene additive, such as in particular as a detergent additive, for decreasing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in common rail injection systems, for decreasing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular of diesel engines having common rail injection systems, and for minimizing the power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in diesel engines having common rail injection systems; the invention further relates to the use as an additive for petrol, in particular for operation of DISI engines.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal-doped tin oxide which has a BET surface area of at least 30 m 2/g, and comprises at least one metal dopant which is Sb, Nb, Ta, Bi, W, or In, or any mixture thereof, wherein the metal dopant is present in an amount of from 2.5 at % to 25 at %, based on the total amount of tin and metal dopant atoms, and is in a mixed valence state containing atoms of oxidation state OS1 and atoms of oxidation state OS2, wherein the oxidation state OS1 is >0 and the oxidation state OS2 is >OS1 and the atomic ratio of the atoms of OS2 to the atoms of OS1 is from 1.5 to 12.0.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of alpha, beta unsaturated aldehydes by oxidation of alcohols in the presence of a liquid phase.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a new cotton variety ST 5818GLT. The disclosure relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 5818GLT with other plants. The disclosure also relates to plants of variety ST 5818GLT reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from cotton variety ST 5818GLT.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for separating at least one first material from a mixture comprising this at least one first material, at least one second material and at least one third material, which comprises at least the following steps: (A) providing a mixture comprising at least one first material, at least one second material, at least one third material and at least one hydrocarbon in an amount of more than 0.

Abstract: There is disclosed a multivalent cation containing copolymer derived from one or more ethylenically unsaturated acids. The copolymer has the following characteristics: (a) an intrinsic viscosity of at least about 3 dl/g when measured in 1 M Na Cl solution at 25° C.; (b) the copolymer is derived from a monomer mixture comprising an ethylenically unsaturated acid and at least one comonomer, the ethylenically unsaturated acid present in an amount in the range of from about % to about 65% by weight; and (c) a residual comonomer content is less than 1000 ppm when the comonomer is an acrylamide. The copolymer, inter alia, is useful as a flocculant for treating an aqueous slurry comprising particulate material, preferably tailings from a mining operation.

Abstract: Catalytic articles comprising a substrate having a catalytic coating thereon, the catalytic coating comprising a catalytic layer having a thickness and an inner surface proximate to the substrate and an outer surface distal to the substrate; where the catalytic layer comprises a noble metal component on support particles and where the concentration of the noble metal component towards the outer surface is greater than the concentration towards the inner surface are highly effective towards treating exhaust gas streams of internal combustion engines. The articles are prepared via a method comprising providing a first mixture comprising micron-scaled support particles and applying the first mixture to a substrate to form a micro-particle layer; providing a second mixture comprising nano-scaled support particles and a noble metal component having an initial pH and applying the second mixture to the micro-particle layer and calcining the substrate.

Abstract: A process is useful for producing a rigid polyurethane foam, also referred to as rigid PU foam, via mixing of three streams, rigid PU foams that are obtained by that process, and the use thereof as an insulation material.

Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.