Abstract: The present invention relates to chlorine resistant polyelectrolyte multilayer membranes which can be used as reverse osmosis, forward osmosis or nanofiltration membranes for applications such as desalination and water purification and methods of making membranes of this type.

Abstract: The present invention relates to chlorine resistant polyelectrolyte multilayer membranes which can be used as reverse osmosis, forward osmosis or nanofiltration membranes for applications such as desalination and water purification and methods of making membranes of this type.

Abstract: The invention provides oil emulsion droplets and a general and facile method for providing same through the use of templating multilayer capsules. The oil emulsion droplets are further useful in fabricating liquid crystal droplet-based biosensors for the detection of target analytes such as bacteria or viruses in a sample.

Abstract: A world timepiece dial comprising a first ring (2) for minutes, with a first series of digits marked thereon, a second ring (4) for hours, with a second series of digits marked thereon, a third ring (6) with a plurality of time-zone indicating geographical site markings, such markings being adapted to be angularly aligned with the numbers of the first and second series, for instant and simultaneous reading of the time in the geographical sites. The second ring (4) is divided into twelve angular sectors (8, 8?, 8?, . . . ) each bearing one digit of the second series marked thereon. The markings of the third ring (6) are arranged over at least two concentric circular areas (9, 10), each marking of one of the areas (9) being radially opposed to one marking of at least another area (10) to define respective pairs (11, 11?, 11?, . . . ). The geographical sites of each pair (11, 11?, 11?, . . . ) are selected for the time offset between their respective time zones to be twelve hours.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a multilayer film, in particular, a cross-linked multilayer macromolecular film.

Abstract: A world timepiece dial comprising a first ring (2) for minutes, with a first series of digits marked thereon, a second ring (4) for hours, with a second series of digits marked thereon, a third ring (6) with a plurality of time-zone indicating geographical site markings, such markings being adapted to be angularly aligned with the numbers of the first and second series, for instant and simultaneous reading of the time in the geographical sites. The second ring (4) is divided into twelve angular sectors (8, 8?, 8?, . . . ) each bearing one digit of the second series marked thereon. The markings of the third ring (6) are arranged over at least two concentric circular areas (9, 10), each marking of one of the areas (9) being radially opposed to one marking of at least another area (10) to define respective pairs (11, 11?, 11?, . . . ). The geographical sites of each pair (11, 11?, 11?, . . . ) are selected for the time offset between their respective time zones to be twelve hours.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a multilayer film, in particular, a cross-linked multilayer macromolecular film.

Abstract: The invention provides oil emulsion droplets and a general and facile method for providing same through the use of templating multilayer capsules. The oil emulsion droplets are further useful in fabricating liquid crystal droplet-based biosensors for the detection of target analytes such as bacteria or viruses in a sample.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer polymer assembly comprising polymer layers covalently bonded together by crosslinks comprising a cyclic moiety, and to processes for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to porous polyelectrolyte materials, particularly nanoporous polyelectrolyte materials and to methods of making such materials. In a preferred embodiment, the invention relates to nanoporous polyelectrolyte spheres. In a preferred form of the invention, the materials are manufactured with the use of mesoporous silica spheres as templates. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such materials, and in particular, to a method of manufacturing such materials by a layer-by-layer process.

Abstract: A system for adaptive notification in a data communications network. The system includes a data transport network in communication with a client and a server. The client comprises a client-side adaptive notification processor in communication with the data transport network. The server comprises a server-side adaptive notification processor in communication with the data transport network.

Abstract: A service architecture for the rapid development of next generation telephony services that overcomes the limitations of the current closed PSTN architecture and service model. In this architecture services are provided by multiple cooperating distributed service providers. This architecture is built upon an object-oriented call model which is defined as a small set of extensions to the standard Java Telephony API call model. This new object-oriented call model hides the detail of the underlying call-state management protocols and hardware from applications.

Abstract: This system for generating message transformation and validation software uses interface definition documents as inputs. An interface definition consists of an internally consistent set of message definitions, data dictionary entries, transformation rules, and validation rules. A user-friendly graphical user interface provides the requirements engineer or other user with the ability to specify these documents. This graphical user interface is a structured table and rules editor that allows the requirements engineer to enter and validate interface definitions to ensure that the definitions meet certain predetermined requirements. The generation system takes the interface definition documents as input and generates various software artifacts to transform and validate messages. W3C XML schemas are generated from an interface definition for assistance with code development, for use as standards-compliant interface definition that can be reused and composed with other schemas, and for validating messages.

Abstract: A system for adaptive notification in a data communications network. The system includes a data transport network in communication with a client and a server. The client comprises a client-side adaptive notification processor in communication with the data transport network. The server comprises a server-side adaptive notification processor in communication with the data transport network.

Abstract: A service architecture for the rapid development of next generation telephony services that overcomes the limitations of the current closed PSTN architecture and service model. In this architecture services are provided by multiple cooperating distributed service providers. This architecture is built upon an object-oriented call model which is defined as a small set of extensions to the standard Java Telephony API call model. This new object-oriented call model hides the detail of the underlying call-state management protocols and hardware from applications.