Abstract: Methods of operating a refrigerator appliance are provided. The refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining a food storage chamber with a drawer slidably mounted within the food storage chamber. The refrigerator appliance also includes a sensor operable to detect an atmospheric condition within the food storage chamber of the drawer and a camera assembly positioned and configured for monitoring the drawer. The methods generally include obtaining an image using the camera assembly and analyzing the image to identify a first food item and a second food item in the food storage chamber of the drawer.

Abstract: An intravascular catheter for peri-vascular and/or peri-urethral tissue ablation includes multiple needles advanced through supported guide tubes which expand around a central axis to engage the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the injection an ablative fluid for ablating tissue, and/or nerve fibers in the outer layer or deep to the outer layer of the vessel, or in prostatic tissue. The system may also include a means to limit and/or adjust the depth of penetration of the ablative fluid into and beyond the tissue of the vessel wall. The catheter may also include structures which provide radial and/or lateral support to the guide tubes so that the guide tubes expand uniformly and maintain their position against the interior surface of the vessel wall as the sharpened injection needles are advanced to penetrate into the vessel wall.

Abstract: Methods for operating an oven appliance, as provided herein, may include various steps for activating top and bottom heating elements (e.g., at overlapping times) prior to limiting activation of one of the heating elements based on one or more received temperature signals.

Abstract: A method of operating a cooktop appliance includes receiving a rice cooking mode initiation signal. The method also includes operating a heating element to provide a first target temperature at a utensil during a preheat stage and measuring the temperature at the utensil during the preheat stage. The method further includes exiting the preheat stage when the measured temperature at the utensil reaches a temperature threshold. The method also includes operating the heating element to provide a second target temperature at the utensil during a simmer stage after the preheat stage. The second target temperature is different from the first target temperature. The method further includes operating the heating element to provide a third target temperature at the utensil during a sensing stage after the simmer stage and providing a user notification that the rice cooking mode is complete.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a personal care composition comprising from about 12% to about 25% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.01% to 10% of one or more soluble scalp health active; from about 0.1% to about 4% of a thickening polymer wherein the thickening polymer is selected from the group consisting of homopolymers based on acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or other related derivatives, alkali swellable and hydrophobically-modified alkali swellable acrylic copolymers or methacrylate copolymers, soluble crosslinked acrylic polymers, associative polymeric thickeners and mixtures thereof; from 0.01% to 0.8% of a cationic polymer; wherein the personal care composition has a pH of about 4.5 to about 6 and wherein the personal care composition has a Haze value less than or equal to 25.

Abstract: A method of operating a cooktop appliance in a sauce reduction mode includes operating a heating element of the cooktop appliance at a first power level during a preheat stage and operating the heating element at a second power level during a reduction stage after the preheat stage. The second power level is different from the first power level. The method further includes determining that the reduction stage has ended and decreasing the power level of the heating element because the reduction stage has ended. The method also includes providing a user notification that the sauce reduction mode is complete.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for preparing a personal care composition comprising sulfur, wherein the method comprises a) Providing a composition comprising a surfactant, a stabilizing agent(s) and water, wherein the composition comprises at least about 3.0% surfactant and a stabilizing agent(s) sufficient to build a yield stress of at least 0.06 Pa; b) Mixing the composition in Step (a) wherein an agitation mechanism tip speed (as calculated by {agitator outer circumference [m/revolution]}*{agitator revolution rate [revolutions/s]}) is between about 1.5 m/s and about 2.7 m/s; with a recirculation turnover rate (as calculated by {recirculation pump rate [L/hour]}/{full turnover volume [L/turnover]}) of greater than 1.8 turnovers/hour; c) Adding sulfur to the composition of Step (b)—wherein the conditions of Step (b) are maintained while adding sulfur and until the personal care composition is prepared.

Abstract: A composition having one or more leak resistant capsules.

Abstract: An oven appliance or method may provide for directing a pre-cooking setting of a first heating element and receiving a first-sensor temperature signal from a first temperature sensor. Receiving the first-sensor temperature signal may occur during the pre-cooking setting of the first heating element. The method may also include determining a first progress value based on the first-sensor temperature signal and a first fractional constant. The first fractional constant may be a predetermined proportion of a pre-cooking phase. The method may further include receiving a second-sensor temperature signal from a second temperature sensor and determining a second progress value based on the second-sensor temperature signal and a second fractional constant. The second fractional constant may be a predetermined proportion of the pre-cooking phase. The method may still further include directing display of a progress icon based on the first progress value and the second progress value.

Abstract: An oven appliance may provide for a method of adaptive cooking. The method may include receiving an oven temperature signal to indicate an oven temperature and directing activation of a bottom heating element according to a first heating cycle based on the oven temperature signal. The method may further include receiving a bottom temperature signal to indicate a bottom temperature and directing activation of the bottom heating element according to a second heating cycle based on the bottom temperature signal, the second heating cycle being distinct from the first heating cycle.

Abstract: An oven appliance may include a cabinet, a plurality of chamber walls, a top heating element, an oven temperature sensor, and a controller. The plurality of chamber walls may define a cooking chamber. The oven temperature sensor may be disposed within the cabinet to detect a temperature within the cooking chamber. The controller may be configured to initiate a cooking operation that includes directing initial activation of the top heating element according to an initial offset temperature threshold, detecting a first temperature value at the oven temperature sensor that is greater than the initial offset temperature threshold, reducing heat output at the top heating element in response to detecting the first temperature value, and directing, following reducing heat output, reactivation of the top heating element according to a predetermined maximum threshold at the oven temperature sensor, the predetermined maximum threshold being distinct from the initial offset threshold.

Abstract: A method may include directing a top heating element according to a first cooking cycle that includes a high heat output of the top heating element. The method may also include detecting an oven temperature greater than or equal to the predetermined cooking threshold within the cooking chamber and directing, in response to detecting the oven temperature greater than or equal to the predetermined cooking threshold, the top heating element according to a second cooking cycle for a set time period. The second cooking cycle may include a periodic heat output and a second-cycle predetermined cooking temperature within the cooking chamber. The method may further include determining expiration of the set time period and adjusting heat within the cooking chamber in response to determining expiration of the set time period.

Abstract: Methods of operating a refrigerator appliance are provided. The refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining a food storage chamber with a drawer slidably mounted within the food storage chamber. The refrigerator appliance also includes a sensor operable to detect an atmospheric condition within the food storage chamber of the drawer and a camera assembly positioned and configured for monitoring the drawer. The methods generally include obtaining an image using the camera assembly and analyzing the image to identify a first food item and a second food item in the food storage chamber of the drawer.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a personal composition comprising a) a strobilurin; b) salicylic acid wherein the ratio of a:b is from about 1:1 to about 100:1; wherein there is a synergistic anti-inflammatory/cellular stress activity.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to hair care composition comprising from about 8 to about 17% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.01% to about 10% of one or more surfactant soluble antidandruff agents; from about 0.01% to about 5% of one or more polyacrylate or polyacrylamide based thickening polymer; from about 0.02-0.25% salicylate salts or acids; from about 0.02-0.25% benzoate salts or acids wherein there is a weight ratio of about 1:1 to 12.5:1 for the salicylate salts or acids to benzoate salts or acids.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a personal cleansing composition comprising from about 6% to about 50% of one or more sulfate free surfactants; from about 0.5% to 20% of lauramidopropyl betaine; from about 0.1% to about 10% of zinc pyrithione; from about 0.05% to about 3% of a cationic polymer; from about 0.05% to 10% of a stabilizing polymer from about 0.1% to about 2% of a preservative and having a pH of from about 5 to about 7.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a personal care composition comprising from about 10% to about 25% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.1% to 10% of sulfur; wherein the sulfur has a mean particle size (D50) of from about 5 ?m to about 150 ?m; from about 0.05% to about 10% of one or more stabilizing polymers; and from about 0.01% to about 4% of a suspending wax.

Abstract: A hair conditioner composition with a gel network, a soluble anti-dandruff active, and a preservation system. The preservation system can include an ingredient selected from the group consisting of glycol, glyceryl ester, glyceryl ethers and combinations thereof. There may be no visible crystals of the soluble anti-dandruff active in the condition composition.

Abstract: An oven appliance may include a cabinet, a plurality of chamber walls, a cooking surface, a heating element, and a controller. The plurality of chamber walls may be mounted within the cabinet. The plurality of chamber walls may define an oven chamber. The cooking surface may be defined in the oven chamber. The heating element may be mounted in thermal communication with the oven chamber to heat the cooking surface. The controller may be in operative communication with the heating element. The controller may be configured to initiate a cooking operation that includes determining a cooking stability state within the oven chamber, directing a preheating cycle within the oven chamber following determining the cooking stability state, selecting a parameter value according to the cooking stability state, and directing activation of the heating element in a cooking cycle according to the selected parameter value following the preheating cycle.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to hair care composition comprising from about 8 to about 17% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.01% to about 10% of one or more surfactant soluble antidandruff agents; from about 0.01% to about 5% of one or more polyacrylate or polyacrylamide based thickening polymer; from about 0.02-0.25% salicylate salts or acids; from about 0.02-0.25% benzoate salts or acids wherein there is a weight ratio of about 1:1 to 12.5:1 for the salicylate salts or acids to benzoate salts or acids.