Abstract: The invention relates to a device which comprises a channel (1) carrying a flowable medium. The due operation and/or maintenance of the device is associated with the formation of inclusions (3) inside the channel (1) of a fluid or gas distinct from the aforementioned medium. The channel (1) is configured in such a manner that the inclusions are moved towards a channel exit (4) by capillary forces. The invention also relates to a method for removing inclusions (3) from corresponding devices.

Abstract: A composition is disclosed which comprises an aryl perfluoropolyether, optionally a halogenated oil, and further optionally a thickening agent. The composition can be used as a lubricant itself or as an additive to an oil or grease lubricant and can withstand temperatures higher than 300° C. without decomposition. The halogenated oil can be a perfluoropolyether, a fluorosilicone, a polytrifluorochloroethylene, or combinations of two or more thereof. The thickening agent can be finely divided silica, boron nitride, clay, soap, poly(tetrafluoroethylene), clay, talc, silica, titanium dioxide, polydimethylsiloxane, polyurea, polyurethane, or combinations of two or more thereof.

Abstract: A composition is disclosed which comprises an aryl perfluoropolyether, optionally a halogenated oil, and further optionally a thickening agent. The composition can be used as a lubricant itself or as an additive to an oil or grease lubricant and can withstand temperatures higher than 300° C. without decomposition. The halogenated oil can be a perfluoropolyether, a fluorosilicone, a polytrifluorochloroethylene, or combinations of two or more thereof. The thickening agent can be finely divided silica, boron nitride, clay, soap, poly(tetrafluoroethylene), clay, talc, silica, titanium dioxide, polydimethylsiloxane, polyurea, polyurethane, or combinations of two or more thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for implementing a system for detecting the observance by a patient of an oxygen-therapy treatment involving an oxygen supply, and for recording the data of said treatment and transmitting said data. The invention also relates to the use of said device, and to a method for tracking the observance of an oxygen-therapy treatment.

Abstract: An electro-optic display comprises, in order, a backplane comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes; a layer of a solid electro-optic medium; a main adhesive layer; and at least one of a light-transmissive protective layer and a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer. The electro-optic layer may be in direct contact with the backplane or separated therefrom by a thin auxiliary layer of adhesive. The main adhesive layer may be colored to provide a color filter array. An inverted front plane laminate useful in forming such a display comprises the same layers except that the backplane is replaced by a release sheet. The display combines good low temperature performance and good resolution at higher temperatures.

Abstract: The promoters of a soybean SC194 polypeptide and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described.

Abstract: A process for coating water-swellable hydrogel microspheres with various coating materials is described. The coating process described herein is a fluidized bed process, which utilizes inert, cofluidization particles to aid the fluidization of the microspheres. The use of the cofluidization particles increases the efficiency of the coating process and improves the quality of the coating obtained.

Abstract: A laminate useful as an allergen barrier structure, and process for making said laminate, comprising in order, a woven fabric layer having a thread count of 180 to 400; a nonwoven allergen barrier layer having a basis weight of from 6 to 10 g/m2 and consisting of fibers having average diameter of from 100 to 450 nanometers; and a tricot knit fabric layer; wherein the layers are attached by at least one adhesive distributed in discrete areas on the allergen barrier layer and penetrating into at least 70% of the thickness of that layer and also penetrating into but not through the woven and knit fabric layers. The laminate has a total basis weight of from 50 to 300 g/m2 and a filtration efficiency after 35 washings of 95 percent or greater for a 1 micrometer particle challenge of up to 1.6 liters per minute airflow.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided wherein microorganisms are used to alter the interface of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon-coated surfaces to increase oil recovery, for improved bioremediation and/or pipeline maintenance.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments comprising precursor miRNA, and artificial miRNAs and their use in down-regulating gene expression are described.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of general formula (I), which can be used particularly as structural mimetics of proline-rich peptides and are therefore capable of binding PRM binding domains (proline-rich motif binding domains) of proteins. The invention also relates to the use of said compounds as pharmaceutical active agents and the use of these pharmaceutical active agents for treating bacterial diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and tumours.

Abstract: There is provided a system, for simulating a heat and power supply facility, that is capable of easily constructing a heat and power supply facility, and that performs a simulation so as to approximate operating conditions including a load factor to an actual situation, by approximating, to a high accuracy, any item included in a total combined energy to a target value. A system configuration setting section (30) associates in advance the heat and power supply devices with each other and associates in advance the heat and power supply devices with the total combined energy, and selects any of the heat and power supply devices with an operation of an operating condition section, to thereby freely construct a system configuration of the heat and power supply facility in which the heat and power supply devices are associated with each other and the heat and power supply devices are associated with the total combined energy.

Abstract: A laminate useful as an allergen barrier structure, comprising in order, a first nonwoven fabric layer having fibers comprising a first thermoplastic polymer and having a basis weight of at least 15 g/m2; a nonwoven allergen barrier layer having a basis weight of from 6 to 10 g/m2 and consisting of fibers comprising a second thermoplastic polymer and having an average diameter of 100 to 450 nanometers; and a second nonwoven fabric layer having fibers comprising a first thermoplastic polymer and having a basis weight of at least 15 g/m2; wherein the layers are thermally point-bonded together with a plurality of uniformly spaced thermally bonded points with the maximum spacing between adjacent bonded points being from 2 to 5 mm; and wherein the laminate has a filtration efficiency after 15 washings of 95 percent or greater.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent barrier layer system on a substrate, wherein the barrier layer system comprises a sequence of individual layers, wherein the individual layers are composed alternately of a layer A and a layer B and wherein a layer A differs from a layer B in terms of the activation energy in the permeation of water vapor with a difference of at least 1.5 kJ/mol.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, HCFC-244db and/or HFO-1234yf and at least one additional compound. For the composition comprising 1234yf, the additional compound is selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFO-1243zf, HCFC-243db, HCFC-244db, HFC-245cb, HFC-245fa, HCFO-1233xf, HCFO-1233zd, HCFC-253fb, HCFC-234ab, HCFC-243fa, ethylene, HFC-23, CFC-13, HFC-143a, HFC-152a, HFC-236fa, HCO-1130, HCO-1130a, HFO-1336, HCFC-133a, HCFC-254fb, HCFC-1131, HFO-1141, HCFO-1242zf, HCFO-1223xd, HCFC-233ab, HCFC-226ba, and HFC-227ca. Compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, and/or HCFC-244db are useful in processes to make HFO-1234yf. Compositions comprising HFO-1234yf are useful, among other uses, as heat transfer compositions for use in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a magenta inkjet ink comprising a combination of pigments which provide favorable hue, chroma and optical density. The invention also pertains to a process of making the magenta ink and an inkjet ink set comprising this magenta ink.

Abstract: Bulk material solids are packaged in a shaped block and the packaged block is irradiated on two sides using high-energy electron beam radiation to uniformly irradiate the solids in the package.

Abstract: A laminate comprising a solid electro-optic medium and an electrically conductive layer is tested by passing it over a pair of electrodes at different potentials, with the electrically conductive layer lying on the opposed side of the electro-optic medium from the electrodes. An article which can be tested by this method, and which is useful in the manufacture of electro-optic displays, comprises a layer of a solid electro-optic medium and a release sheet comprising an electrically conductive layer.

Abstract: There are provided electrically conducting polymer compositions comprising an electrectically conductive polymer or copolymer and an organic solvent wettable fluorinated acid polymer. Electrically conductive polymer materials are derived from thiophene, pyrrole, aniline and polycyclic heteroaromatic precursor monomers. Non-conductive polymers derived from alkenyl, alkynyl, arylene, and heteroarylene precursor monomers. The organic-solvent wettable fluorinated acid polymer is fluorinated or highly fluorinated and may be colloid-forming. Acidic groups include carboxylic acid groups, sulfonic acid groups, sulfonimide groups, phosphoric acid groups, phosphonic acid groups, and combinations thereof. The compositions can be used in organic electronic devices.

Abstract: Degradable, crosslinked aminated dextran microspheres are described. The microspheres contain aminated dextran crosslinked with a crosslinking agent having two or more functional groups that are capable of reacting with the primary amine groups of the aminated dextran to form covalent bonds. The degradable, crosslinked aminated dextran microspheres may be useful for temporary therapeutic embolization and drug delivery.