Abstract: A new and distinct Heucherella plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by lime green to yellow green leaves with red to dark brown marks on the main veins and a light white veil, large, shallowly lobed leaves, a medium large semi-trailing habit, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Sedum plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by rose red flowers from pink buds, blue green leaves tinted lavender in the summer, rose pink stems, red carpels when the seed is developing, a dense, spreading habit, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Sedum plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by medium size, oblong, serrated leaves that are red brown in summer sun and olive green in spring, burgundy red stems, a high crown count that will grow or fill a container more quickly, an upright, round, tight habit like a topiary, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Sedum plant substantially as shown and described, with blue green leaves, spring growth with opening leaves that look like cabbages, cream colored flowers in medium inflorescences, a medium, upright, arching habit, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct Heucherella plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by gold leaves with reddish centers, reddish centers following the darker veins, a low dense trailing habit with good branching, medium size, ovate to orbicular leaves with shallow palmate lobing, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct Heucherella plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by large, rose plum to silver leaves with prominent dark veins, attractive inflorescences with white flowers in the spring, a large mounding plant habit, grows equally well in full sun or filtered shade in the Pacific Northwest, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct Heucherella plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by red colored leaves with a pinkish veil and dark pattern along veins, a low dense trailing habit with good branching, medium size, ovate to orbicular leaves with shallow palmate lobing, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: An ethylene oligomerization catalyst which contains a bridged diphosphine ligand having the formula (R1)m(X1)nP1-bridge-P2(R2)X2 wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbyl and heterohydrocarbyl; X1 is selected from the group consisting of halogen, hydrocarbyl and heterohydrocarbyl; m is 1 or 2; n is 0 or 1; m+n=2; bridge is a divalent bridging group bonded to P1 and P2; and X2 is halogen. The present ligands differ from prior diphosphine ligands used in olefin oligomerization processes in that at least one halide substituent is directly bonded to at least one P atom of the ligand.

Abstract: A dual reactor solution process gives high density polyethylene compositions containing a first ethylene copolymer and a second ethylene copolymer and which have good processability, toughness, and environmental stress crack resistance combined with good organoleptic properties. The polyethylene compositions are suitable for compression molding or injection molding applications and are particularly useful in the manufacture of caps and closures for bottles.

Abstract: A method and system are presented for use in characterizing properties of an article having a structure comprising a multiplicity of sites comprising different periodic patterns, where method includes providing a theoretical model of prediction indicative of optical properties of different stacks defined by geometrical and material parameters of corresponding sites, said sites being common in at least one of geometrical parameter and material parameter; performing optical measurements on at least two different stacks of the article and generating optical measured data indicative of the geometrical parameters and material composition parameters for each of the measured stacks; processing the optical measured data, said processing comprising simultaneously fitting said optical measured data for the multiple measured stacks with said theoretical model and extracting said at least one common parameter, thereby enabling to characterize the properties of the multi-layer structure within the single article.

Abstract: A plastic may be selected for a thin web application by finite element analysis of the part including the properties, including Poission's ratio of potential polymers from which the part may be made and subjecting the computer model of the part to loads to determine the deflection of the part under a specified series of loads or when the part breaks or subjecting the part to a number of use cycles to determine when the part fails. The process is iteratively repeated for each plastic and the results are compared to select a preferred plastic for the part.

Abstract: A highly active, supported phosphinimine catalyst is fed to a gas phase reactor as a slurry in a liquid hydrocarbon. Feeding the catalyst to a gas phase reactor in a viscous liquid hydrocarbon modifies catalyst initiation kinetics.

Abstract: Olefin polymerization is carried out with a supported phosphinimine catalyst which has been treated with a long chain substituted amine compound.

Abstract: A new P-N-P ligand is useful in ethylene oligomerizations. In combination with i) a source of chromium; and ii) an activator such as methylalumoxane; the ligand of this invention may be used to prepare an oligomer product that contains a mixture of high purity alpha olefins. In a preferred embodiment, the ligand of this invention enables a selective oligomerization in which the majority of the liquid product is a mixture of hexene and octene. The amount of by-product polymer that is produced in preferred oligomerization reactions is advantageously low.

Abstract: Alignment of layers during manufacture of a multi-layer sample is controlled by applying optical measurements to a measurement site in the sample. The measurement site includes two diffractive structures located one above the other in two different layers, respectively. The optical measurements include at least two measurements with different polarization states of incident light, each measurement including illuminating the measurement site so as to illuminate one of the diffractive structures through the other. The diffraction properties of the measurement site are indicative of a lateral shift between the diffractive structures. The diffraction properties detected are analyzed for the different polarization states of the incident light to determine an existing lateral shift between the layers.

Abstract: A method of measuring lactate in a blood sample taken from capillary blood using a skin lancing procedure includes disposing onto an area of skin on an animal a predefined amount of a skin treatment compound that is capable of suppressing and/or eliminating and/or preventing and/or blocking any sweat from the skin in the area of a lanced wound site, the compound being disposed on the skin either before lancing the area of skin that provides a droplet of capillary blood for measurement of blood lactate concentration or after lancing the area of skin but before a droplet of capillary blood forms on the skin in order to prevent contaminating the blood sample, and then measuring the lactate concentration of the blood sample with a disposable lactate sensor strip.

Abstract: A new and distinct Echinacea plant named ‘Big Kahuna’ characterized by large inflorescences of melon orange to bicolor melon orange and peach ray florets, red orange cones, early bloom time, a compact, upright habit with excellent stem count, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct form of Begonia plant characterized by deep forest green leaves with a satiny sheen, leaves with dark red backs, dark red stems and petioles, a shrubby habit, and clusters of cherry pink flowers above the foliage in winter to early spring.

Abstract: A new and distinct form of Agastache plant characterized by violet blue flowers in large inflorescences, a long bloom time, a short, compact habit, good winter hardiness, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct form of Begonia plant characterized by maple-like palmately lobed leaves with showy interveinal silvering turning plum in warm temperatures, red leaf backs, a bushy habit, small clusters of large bright pink flowers in winter to early spring, hardy to USDA Z7, and excellent vigor.