Abstract: A tire tread and a pneumatic tire including the tread are described. The tread is formed from a vulcanizable rubber composition, which includes 50-70 phr of polybutadiene rubber, 30-50 phr of a solution-polymerized styrene butadiene rubber with a styrene content of 5-15 wt. % and a Tg of ?70° C. to ?50° C., at least 100 phr of silica, at least 6 parts by weight per hundred parts of the silica of an organosilane coupling agent, at least 2 phr of processing oil, at least 40 phr of resin, the resin including a hydrocarbon traction resin and a tackifier resin, and a cure package including a sulfur-based curing agent, zinc oxide, and a cure accelerator. The rubber composition provides the tire with a good balance of wet, dry, and cold performance characteristics.

Abstract: It has been found that a pneumatic tire comprising non-ground contacting tire components each independently formed from a rubber composition comprising greater than 89% sustainable material content can be manufactured. In one scenario the pneumatic tire is comprised of bio-renewable organic materials, wherein the bio-based content of the organic materials is verifiable, and wherein radiocarbon 14C dating according to ASTM method D6866 shows the level of bio-based content of the organic materials to be at least 40%. In a preferred embodiment the tire has an RFID tag affixed to the innerliner of the tire, wherein the RFID tag designates the level of bio-renewable organic materials in the tire.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising non-ground contacting tire components each independently formed from a rubber composition comprising greater than 89% sustainable material content.

Abstract: An esophageal ablation system including a positioner, an elongated, flexible shaft extending from the positioner, and a microwave emitter assembly disposed near the distal end of the shaft. The emitter assembly includes one or more microwave antennae and a balloon for spacing the antennae relative to target tissue. The device may have an inner balloon for deploying the antenna. The systems, devices and methods disclosed are useful for treating Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Abstract: An esophageal ablation system including a positioner, an elongated, flexible shaft extending from the positioner, and a microwave emitter assembly disposed near the distal end of the shaft. The emitter assembly includes one or more microwave antennae and a balloon for spacing the antennae relative to target tissue. The device may have an inner balloon for deploying the antenna. The systems, devices and methods disclosed are useful for treating Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Abstract: An esophageal ablation system including a positioner, an elongated, flexible shaft extending from the positioner, and a microwave emitter assembly disposed near the distal end of the shaft. The emitter assembly includes one or more microwave antennas and a balloon for spacing the antennas relative to target tissue. The device may have an inner balloon for deploying the antenna. The systems, devices and methods disclosed are useful for treating Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Abstract: An esophageal ablation system including a positioner, an elongated, flexible shaft extending from the positioner, and a microwave emitter, assembly disposed near the distal end of the shaft. The emitter assembly includes one or more microwave antennas and a balloon for spacing the antennas relative to target tissue. The device may have an inner balloon for deploying the antenna. The systems, devices and methods disclosed are useful for treating Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Abstract: An esophageal ablation system including a positioner, an elongated, flexible shaft extending from the positioner, and a microwave emitter assembly disposed near the distal end of the shaft. The emitter assembly includes one or more microwave antennae and a balloon for spacing the antennae relative to target tissue. The device may have an inner balloon for deploying the antenna. The systems, devices and methods disclosed are useful for treating Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Abstract: An esophageal ablation system including a positioner, an elongated, flexible shaft extending from the positioner, and a microwave emitter, assembly disposed near the distal end of the shaft. The emitter assembly includes one or more microwave antennas and a balloon for spacing the antennas relative to target tissue. The device may have an inner balloon for deploying the antenna. The systems, devices and methods disclosed are useful for treating Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Abstract: An esophageal ablation system including a positioner, an elongated, flexible shaft extending from the positioner, and a microwave emitter assembly disposed near the distal end of the shaft. The emitter assembly includes one or more microwave antennae and a balloon tor spacing the antennae relative to target tissue. The device may have an inner balloon for deploying the antenna. The systems, devices and methods disclosed are useful for treating Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Abstract: A combination pocket device (FIG. 8) is provided for holding a knife blade that pivots between a closed position where it lives inside the body of the device, and an extended position where it extends co-linear with the body in a locked state. The blade is held in position by a lock-back mechanism. The keys are held together by a bolt on one side of the blade and lives inside the body as well. The keys fold in opposite position of the blade, into one organized and compact unit.

Abstract: A system for controlling the operating lines of a gas turbine engine comprising a compression system which compresses an incoming flow of a gas, a bleed system which extracts gas from a bleed location in the compression system prior to the gas entering a throttling orifice, a recirculation system which reintroduces at least a portion of the gas extracted by the bleed system into a feed location in the compression system or upstream from it, a control system which controls the recirculated gas such that the operating lines of the compression system are changed such that the stall margin of the compression system is increased.

Abstract: A system for controlling the operating lines of a gas turbine engine comprising a compression system which compresses an incoming flow of a gas, a bleed system which extracts gas from a bleed location in the compression system prior to the gas entering a throttling orifice, a recirculation system which reintroduces at least a portion of the gas extracted by the bleed system into a feed location in the compression system or upstream from it, a control system which controls the recirculated gas such that the operating lines of the compression system are changed such that the stall margin of the compression system is increased.

Abstract: A fuel composition comprising (a) a major amount of an internal combustion engine hydrocarbon fuel containing at least one alcohol, it being provided that MTBE is substantially absent from the fuel and (b) a friction modifying amount of a reaction product of at least one natural or synthetic oil and at least one alkanolamine is provided. Also provided is a method for operating an engine employing the fuel composition therefor.