Abstract: Composite inorganic particles and compositions containing silica particles are disclosed. Methods of making silica particles and methods of using composite inorganic particles are also disclosed.

Abstract: A colored composition comprising: a) NIR scattering TiO2 particulate material with an average crystal size of greater than 0.40 ?m and a particle size distribution such that 30% or more of the particles are less than 1 ?m; b) one or more non-white colorant; wherein the particulate material and the non-white colorant are dispersed within a vehicle. This material with a large crystal size has unusually high reflection of NIR radiation and, simultaneously, noticeably diminished reflectance of visible light. Also disclosed is a coated particulate TiO2 material, wherein the material has an average crystal size of greater than 0.40 ?m, and the coating comprises one or more oxide material; this provides low levels of photocatalytic activity that were previously unattainable. This coated TiO2 material may be provided in a composition.

Abstract: Embodiments may include the generation and use of content source rankings for improving playback quality of content streams. In embodiments, a merchant system may collect and aggregate multiple quality metrics for different content streams that various content sources provide to various clients. The merchant system may utilize the quality metrics to generate rankings of content sources for clients. In some cases, a client itself may generate a ranking of content sources for use in the selection of content sources. The merchant system may provide such rankings to clients to improve the content stream playback experience on the client. For instance, at content acquisition time, a client may request a content stream from a content resource ranked highest on a content source ranking provided by the merchant. If the content stream degrades, the client may source subsequent portions of the content stream from another highly ranked content source of the ranking.

Abstract: A multilayer film is disclosed, having at least two layers. A first layer includes a first interpolymer of ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin. The first interpolymer has a density of less than 0.925 g/cm3, and an average Mv and a valley temperature between the interpolymer and high crystalline fraction, The, such that the average Mv for a fraction above The from ATREF divided by average Mv of the whole polymer from ATREF (Mhc/Mhp) is less than about 1.95 and the first interpolymer has a CDBI of less than 60%. At least one other second layer includes a second inter-polymer of ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin, the second interpolymer having a density from 0.925 to 0.965 g/cm3. The interpolymer of ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin can have a high density fraction and an overall density such that % HD fraction <0.0168x2?29.636x+13036 where x=density in g/cm3.

Abstract: The present invention provides a powder for a magnetic member being excellent in moldability and difficult to oxidize, a powder compact produced from the powder, and a magnetic member suitable for a raw material of a magnetic member such as a rare earth magnet. A powder for a magnetic member includes magnetic particles 1 which constitute the powder for a magnetic member and each of which is composed of less than 40% by volume of a hydrogen compound 3 of a rare earth element, and the balance composed of an iron-containing material 2 which contains iron and an iron-boron alloy containing iron and boron. The hydrogen compound 3 of a rare earth element is dispersed in a phase of the iron-containing material 2. An antioxidant layer 4 having a low-oxygen permeability coefficient is provided on the surface of each of the magnetic particles 1.

Abstract: A gasket material including a steel plate and a foamed rubber layer formed on one or both sides of the steel plate, in which the foamed rubber layer is obtained from a rubber composition containing at least one of NBR, H-NBR or a functional group-modified NBR, as a rubber compound; and a crosslinking agent, and in which the foamed rubber layer has a quinoid crosslinking structure.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an antistatic pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film exhibiting excellent antistatic effect, optical properties, and water resistance and having excellent adhesion between the antistatic layer and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. An antistatic pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film, the optical film having an antistatic layer laminated on at least one side of the optical film, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer further laminated on the antistatic layer, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a conductive polymer and a sulfonic acid compound as raw material components, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is formed of an acryl-based pressure-sensitive adhesive containing nitrogen.

Abstract: Nano-fibrous microspheres and methods for forming them are disclosed herein. In one embodiment the microsphere includes a plurality of nano-fibers aggregated together in a spherical shape; and a plurality of pores formed between at least some of the plurality of nano-fibers. The nano-fibers are formed of star-shaped polymers.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for providing, using a processor of a computer, at least a portion of text that includes a link for use by a website. A plurality of posts associated with an online social network is monitored using the processor of the computer to determine whether the link is present in at least one post of the plurality of posts. A first user of the online social network that has the link included in the at least one post is identified using the processor of the computer, where the at least one post of the first user identifies a second user of the online social network. Information associated with the first user is recorded in a data store using the processor of the computer in response to identifying that the first user has the link posted in the at least one post.

Abstract: The present innovation provides a method of establishing a connection between two individuals using an interpersonal spacetime interaction system, including enabling a first user to specify a spacetime event and to provide annotations for the spacetime event, maintaining a spacetime database comprising data objects, each data object corresponding to a spacetime event, querying a spacetime database, using a query that includes at least a specification of a desired spacetime event, said query being initiated by a second user, retrieving information from those data objects in the spacetime database whose corresponding spacetime events are proximate to the desired spacetime event, and providing the retrieved information to the second user.

Abstract: This invention provides metal oxide particles surface-treated with a hydrophobicity-imparting agent, methods of making such, and toner compositions comprising the same.

Abstract: A colored composition comprising: a) NIR scattering TiO2 particulate material with an average crystal size of greater than 0.40 ?m and a particle size distribution such that 30% or more of the particles are less than 1 ?m; b) one or more non-white colorant; wherein the particulate material and the non-white colorant are dispersed within a vehicle. This material with a large crystal size has unusually high reflection of NIR radiation and, simultaneously, noticeably diminished reflectance of visible light. Also disclosed is a coated particulate TiO2 material, wherein the material has an average crystal size of greater than 0.40 ?m, and the coating comprises one or more oxide material; this provides low levels of photocatalytic activity that were previously unattainable. This coated TiO2 material may be provided in a composition.

Abstract: A laminate film including a first polyolefin heat sealable resin layer and a second core layer including of a blend of 5-15 wt % of a metallocene-catalyzed butene-propylene or ethylene-propylene thermoplastic elastomer or ethylene-propylene plastomer or blends thereof which exhibit an isothermal crystallization temperature of 60° C. or less and 95-85 wt % of a crystalline propylene homopolymer is disclosed. The laminate film may include additional layers such as a third polyolefin resin-containing layer disposed on the side of the core layer opposite the heat sealable layer, a metal layer, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver/polydiguanide complex and derivatives thereof including silver and polydiguanide having at least two biguanide moieties, wherein the silver is stabilized in an oxidation state of an integer of 0 to 4, a mole ratio between the silver and the polydiguanide is 1:1-4, an average particle diameter of the complex is micrometer or nanometer, and zeta potential of the complex is greater than or equal to zero, a preparation method thereof, and an antibacterial composition for burns or wounds treatment including the same as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to abrasive grain agglomerates composed of fine-particle primary abrasive grains which are held together by means of a binder based on an aluminosilicate having a molar ratio of Al2O3 to SiO2 of from 1:2 to 1:20. The particular advantage of these abrasive grain agglomerates is that the binder cures fully at below 450° C., preferably below 400° C., to form abrasive grain agglomerates having an extraordinarily high strength.

Abstract: Multi-layered carbon nanoparticles of the fulleroid type having an inter-layer distance in a range of from 0.34 to 0.36 nm, wherein the nanoparticles have a toroidal shape, a ratio between an outer diameter and a thickness of a multi-layered body of said toroidal nanoparticles being comprised in a range of from 10:1 to 3:1, and an averaged size being in a range of from 15 to 100 nm as measured by transmission electron microscope.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-shrinkable polyester film which, even when stored in an outside warehouse which is not temperature-controlled during a hot summer, does not result in the film shrinking (so-called natural shrinkage); which further has a low decrease in shrinkage rate in the main shrinkage direction, and which can be attached aesthetically and efficiently without changing the temperature conditions for causing heat shrinkage when attaching as a label by heat-shrinking the same to a container (e.g., a plastic bottle). The disclosed heat-shrinkable polyester film comprises a polyester resin having ethylene terephthalate as a main component and containing at least 7 mol % of at least one monomer capable of forming an amorphous component in the whole component of polyester resin. In the heat-shrinkable polyester film, the 80° C.-120° C.

Abstract: Laminates in which a layer of a polar resin (C) is laminated with a layer of a polyolefin (D) or a recovered resin (E) via a layer of an adhesive resin composition (A), including an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, the adhesive resin composition (A) is produced by mixing a resin having an unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydride or derivative thereof (a1) with a ring-opening polymer or condensation polymer (a2) having a hydroxyl group or an amino group at both ends or at one end; or partially grafting the (a2) with the (a1).

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel process for preparation of darunavir that involves reduction of [(1S,2R)-3-[[(4-nitrophenyl)sulfonyl](2-methylpropyl)amino]-2-hydroxy-1-(phenylmethyl)propyl]carbamic acid (3R,3aS,6aR)-hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-yl ester, of formula (5). The present invention also provides darunavir ethanolate of particle size wherein d0.9 is less than 130 ?m, d0.5 is less than 30 ?m, d0.1 is less than 10 ?m and process for its preparation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel process for preparation of darunavir that involves reduction of [(1S,2R)-3-[[(4-nitrophenyl)sulfonyl](2-methylpropyl)amino]-2-hydroxy-1-(phenylmethyl)propyl]carbamic acid (3R,3aS,6aR)-hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-yl ester, of formula (5). The present invention also provides darunavir ethanolate of particle size wherein d0.9 is less than 130 ?m, d0.5 is less than 30 ?m, d0.1 is less than 10 ?m and process for its preparation.