Abstract: Disclosed is an electrokinetic soil decontamination system that uses special electrode wall configurations, treatment wall configurations, and a combination electrode/treatment wall. A special emplacement method for all the flowable wall materials is used and special wall material compositions are disclosed.

Abstract: A coating composition that forms a finish that is soil resistant and easily cleaned having a binder of(A) an acrylic polymer of polymerized hydroxyl containing monomers of hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylates having 1-4 carbon atoms in the alkyl groups and polymerized monomers from the group of alkyl (meth)acrylates having 1-18 carbon atoms in the alkyl groups, styrene or any mixtures of the above and the acrylic polymer has a weight average molecular weight of about 2,000-20,000 determined by gel permeation chromatography,(B) an acrylic polymeric additive of polymerized hydroxyl containing monomers of hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylates having 1-4 carbon atoms in the alkyl groups, polymerized monomers from the group of alkyl (meth)acrylates having 1-18 carbon atoms in the alkyl groups, styrene or any mixtures of the above and polymerized fluoro alkyl containing monomer represented by the formula ##STR1## where R is selected from the group of hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1-2 carbon atoms, X is a divalent radical and

Abstract: TM.sub.0i0 mode (i=1, 2, 3, . . . ) planar high temperature superconductor resonators useful in high temperature superconducting filters, filter banks and multiplexers comprise a shaped high temperature superconductor film and a high temperature superconductor ground plate deposited on opposite sides of a dielectric substrate, wherein the shaped high temperature superconductor film has an aperture in the center thereof and has a shape selected from the group consisting of circles and polygons.

Abstract: An umbilical cord cutting and clamping device includes two clamps abutted in a side-by-side relation and a blade connected to an arm of one of the clamps and positioned between the two clamps. Both clamps have an upper arm and a lower arm, and a hinge coupling the proximal ends of the upper and lower arms. The clamps are held in relative position by frictional engagement and by a latch means which is automatically disengaged when the clamps are moved into a closed position. Both the upper and lower arms include clamping surfaces for clamping the umbilical cord. The proximal end of one of the clamping surfaces is provide with a retention tab which retains the umbilical cord between the clamping surfaces; i.e., the tab prevents the cord from migrating proximally off the clamping surfaces and into the hinge area.

Abstract: Epoxides containing a perfluorovinyl group, and polymers made therefrom by polymerization of the epoxy function are disclosed. Such epoxides form polymers and copolymers useful for coatings, adhesion control agents, surface modifiers and crosslinking agents.

Abstract: An improved closed cell polymer foam and foaming agent involving the use of a hydrogen-containing halocarbon blowing agent (e.g., HCFC-22) in combination with an effective amount of a hydrogen bond forming blocking agent (e.g., organic ether, ester or ketone). The presence of the blocking agent is shown to significantly reduce the escape of blowing agent from and entry of air into the foam resulting in low thermal conductivity over a longer period of time and improved thermal insulation value. A closed cell thermoplastic foam such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, among others, is disclosed produced by means of an environmentally friendly nonflammable blowing agent substantially free of halogen substituents other than fluorine and comprising HFC-134 (1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane).

Abstract: A seal layer formed from a thermoplastic polymer blend comprising (a) a non-polar, non-ionomeric polyolefin, and (b) a polar ethylene copolymer having carbon monoxide functionality, and its use to adhere adjacent thermoplastic films together to form a package. Since the bonding strength of the thermoplastic films to one another and to the seal layer is greater than the internal cohesion strength of the seal layer itself, the seal layer provides for an easy open package.

Abstract: Water-fastness of inks containing pigment and a polymeric dispersant is improved by the addition of core-shell or tetrafluoroethylene emulsion polymers. The printed ink images exhibit improved resistance to smudge or smear when handled or marked with highlight pens.

Abstract: Four chimeric genes are disclosed. A first chimeric gene encoding a plant cystathionine .gamma.-synthase (CS), a second chimeric gene encoding feedback-insensitive aspartokinase, which is operably linked to a plant chloroplast transit sequence, a third chimeric gene encoding bifunctional feedback-insensitive aspartokinase-homoserine dehydrogenase (AK-HDH), which is operably linked to a plant chloroplast transit sequence, and a fourth chimeric gene encoding a methionine-rich protein, all operably linked to plant seed-specific regulatory sequences are discussed. Methods for their use to produce increased levels of methionine in the seeds of transformed plants are provided.

Abstract: Fabricated articles of fluoropolymer are foamed by heating the articles to a deformable state, pressurizing the heated article with supercritical CO.sub.2, depressurizing the pressurized heated article while still in the foamable state, whereby said CO.sub.2 foams said article, and cooling the resultant foamed article.

Abstract: Polyester is depolymerized by methanolysis and methanol is recovered in a process that uses methyl benzoate and/or p-methyltoluate as an azeotropic agent while the methanol is present.

Abstract: Diffraction patterns in a focal region are governed by immersing the focal region in dielectric medium having an index of refraction higher than one. The pattern of the focal region is made small by causing the focal region to be immersed in a body having an index of refraction greater than 1. The resulting diffraction pattern sensed appropriately in the focal region is independent of traditional aperture limitations in resolving power. Microwave pictures are taken at the same resolution as optical pictures using the same aperture size when an appropriate dielectric immersion material is provided.

Abstract: A device operable to supply a force feedback to a physiological unit to be sed as an advanced interface for machines and computers, including an exoskeleton which includes kinematic elements articulated about articulation axes arranged coincident with or in close proximity to the physiological axes of the physiological unit such as, for example, the flexion-extension axes of the phalanges of the fingers of a hand of an operator. A series of electrical actuators controls the degree of tension on traction cables applying a force feedback to the kinematic elements and consequently to the physiological unit, so as to simulate an interaction between the operator and a virtual object. The device includes position sensors for detecting the configuration of the physiological unit and force sensors for measuring the strength of the force locally applied thereto by the actuators controlled by a processing system.

Abstract: A process for increasing the solvent resistance of calendered paper consisting of poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) short fibers and poly(m-phenylene isophthalamide) fibrids and the dimensional stability of laminates made therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention provides for multiple wavelength laser sources. The laser source has a pumping laser generating output at a wavelength, typically below 1500 nm, and a plurality of DBR fiber lasers or DFB fiber lasers, each having an output which is centered at a selected wavelength in the 1550 nm range. The fiber lasers are connected to the pumping laser such that the output light from said first pumping laser provides lasing energy for each of said fiber lasers. The fiber lasers may be connected serially or in series to each other. An optical fiber amplifier may be connected to the output of the serially-connected fiber lasers, or to the output of each one of the parallel-connected fiber lasers, to amplify the output from the fiber lasers so that the pumping laser provides energy for both the fiber lasers and the optical fiber amplifier.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropane and/or 1,1, 1,3,3-pentafluoropropene from (CF.sub.3).sub.2 CHCOOH and/or its water soluble salts. The process involves providing a mixture containing water and such carboxy compound(s) which has a pH of less than about 4, and reacting the mixture at a temperature of at least about 75.degree. C. Certain ether compounds may be included in the mixture along with (CF.sub.3).sub.2 CHCOOH and/or its water soluble salts. The reaction of the carboxy (and optionally ether) compound(s) with water may be employed in connection with a process for producing tetrafluoroethylene and/or hexafluoropropylene by pyrolysis, where by-product perfluoroisobutylene is reacted with water (and optionally an alkanol) to produce (CF.sub.3).sub.2 CHCOOH (and optionally one or more ether compounds).

Abstract: A process suitable for producing high purity alkaline earth fluoride product is disclosed which involves (a) mixing (i) MgO, CaO, BaO, Mg(OH).sub.2, Ca(OH).sub.2, and/or Ba(OH).sub.2, (ii) NaOH, KOH and/or NH.sub.4 OH, and (iii) water, to form an aqueous slurry having a temperature of at least 20.degree. C. and an aqueous phase pH of at least 13; (b) adding fluosilicic acid, optionally adding additional water and optionally adding additional NaOH, KOH and/or NH.sub.4 OH to the slurry of (a) at a rate which maintains an aqueous phase pH of 11 or above, and in an amount to provide a molar ratio of Si: (Mg, Ca, and Ba) of at least 1:3.3, a molar ratio of (Na, K, and NH.sub.4):Si of at least 2:1, and a molar ratio of water:Si of at least 20:1, and to obtain a precipitate comprising an alkaline earth fluoride (MgF.sub.2, CaF.sub.2 and/or BaF.sub.2), and an aqueous solution of a soluble silicon anionic compound; and (c) recovering the alkaline earth fluoride product.

Abstract: This invention comprises an impact-resisting glazing structure having a support frame and a multilayered composite secured in the frame wherein the composite comprises two sheets of glass spaced apart by an interior spacer positioned along the periphery of the glass sheets with a polyester film adhered to the interior surface of one of the glass sheets. The polyester film has an asymmetric orientation of crystals and molecules in the amorphous regions and having an in-plane distribution of crystalline and amorphous phases in which the (100) planes of said crystals lie in the film plane and wherein in the film, said crystals have chain axes oriented toward the transverse direction such that dominant physical properties are obtained in the transverse direction.

Abstract: Multi-layer puncture-resistant biaxially oriented coextruded films or tubings are disclosed for use in dilatation balloon catheters. The catheter balloons so formed comprise a first, inner layer of an orientable thermoplastic resin; a second layer of a thermoplastic inomeric olefin copolymer secured to the outside surface of the first layer; and an optional third layer of an orientable thermoplastic resin secured to the outside surface of the second layer. Processes for forming the dilatation catheter balloons herein are also disclosed.

Abstract: An improved aqueous electrocoating composition that contains an anticrater agent which is a reaction product of polyoxyalkylene diamine and isocyanto alkyl alkoxy silane which is hydrolyzed and has a number average molecular weight of about 2,000-5,000; electrodeposited finishes are formed that have a significant reduction in craters and are smooth and even finishes.