Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed, inter alia, to novel methods for producing substrates and articles of manufacture that possess a passive barrier to the passage of crawling insects and the related substrates and articles of manufacture. An exemplary article of manufacture can be a pet food bowl, a pet food container, a kitchen cupboard, a trash receptacle, a garbage receptacle, a foundation of a structure, a bee hive, a bird feeder, a plate, a bowl or a pedestal suitable for cake, cupcakes or other food item. The crawling insects can be, for example, an ant (leaf eater, Argentine, carpenter, pharaoh, fire), a spider, a cockroach, a bed bug, termites, an aphid, an arthropod, a tick, a flea, a silver fish, a thrip, a gnat, an aphid, a Japanese beetle, a beetle (potato and bean), a flea beetle, a fleahopper, a squash bug, a slug, a leaf hopper, a harlequin bug, a milk weed bug, a mite, a louse, a scorpion, a millipede, a centipede or a gypsy moth.

Abstract: This invention pertains to mixtures and methods that can be used to produce materials comprising an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating as well as compositions that are materials that possess an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating. The mixtures and methods can be used to fabricate transparent conductive films and other transparent conductive materials.

Abstract: This invention pertains to mixtures and methods that can be used to produce materials comprising an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating as well as compositions that are materials that possess an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating. The mixtures and methods can be used to fabricate transparent conductive films and other transparent conductive materials.

Abstract: This invention pertains to mixtures and methods that can be used to produce materials comprising an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating as well as compositions that are materials that possess an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating. The mixtures and methods can be used to fabricate transparent conductive films and other transparent conductive materials.

Abstract: A water based solution having a controllable gel time is disclosed. The solution has predetermined ratios of a water soluble silicate solution having at least one alkali metal, a predetermined ratio of a water dispersible polymer, and a predetermined ratio of a water soluble initiator containing a reactive carbonyl compound.

Abstract: This invention pertains to mixtures and methods that can be used to produce materials comprising an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating as well as compositions that are materials that possess an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating. The mixtures and methods can be used to fabricate transparent conductive films and other transparent conductive materials.

Abstract: Roller cutting die comprises a body with substantially cylindrical outer surface defining a cutting pattern extending outwardly from the surface and a recess. Secured within the recess is a data recorder sensor module adapted to count rotations past the anvil roller. The sensor module includes an electromagnetic proximity sensor for generating a signal responsive to passage near the anvil roller, a processor coupled to the proximity sensor, a power use manager at least partially defined by the processor and the proximity sensor, and a power source for the processor and the sensor. A count of rotations is stored in a substantially non-volatile memory coupled to the processor.

Abstract: A water based solution having a controllable gel time is disclosed. The solution has predetermined ratios of a water soluble silicate solution having at least one alkali metal, a predetermined ratio of a water dispersible polymer, and a predetermined ratio of a water soluble initiator containing a reactive carbonyl compound.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for inserting a sheet pile (10) into an earth formation using a protective housing (12) releasably connected to the sheet pile (10). The protective housing has a fluid gallery and conduits for releasing fluid such as water onto the base of the sheet pile without jetting water into the earth formation. The method and apparatus are particularly suited for driving vinyl and plastic sheet piles into highly resistant soils.

Abstract: A data processing system is provided including an arithmetic logic unit 20, 22, 24 receiving input operands from M X-bit registers to produce output data words stored within N Y-bit registers, where M/N=3, 8.ltoreq.Y-X.ltoreq.16 and 3X=2Y. This arrangement is particularly suited for digital signal processing and in situations where each input operand is used a plurality of times before a new input operand is loaded in its place in a register.

Abstract: A data processing system having a plurality of registers 10 and an arithmetic logic unit 20, 22, 24 is responsive to program instruction words. At least one program instruction word includes a destination register bit field <dest> specifying a destination register of a result data word and a destination register write disable flag for disabling writing of that result data word to the destination register.

Abstract: A data processing system having a plurality of registers 10 and an arithmetic logic unit 20, 22, 24 includes program instruction words having a source register bit field Sn specifying one of the registers storing an input operand data word together with an input operand size flag indicating whether the input operand has an N-bit size or (N/2)-bit size together with a high/low location flag indicating which of the high order bit positions or low order bit positions stores the input operand if it is of the smaller size. It is preferred that the arithmetic logic unit is also able to perform parallel operation program instruction words operating independently upon (N/2)-bit input operand data words stored in respective halves of a register.

Abstract: A digital signal processing system is described in which a microprocessor unit 2 operating under control of microprocessor program instruction words controls data transfer to and from a data storage device 8 and the supply and fetching of data to and from a digital signal processing unit 4.

Abstract: A data processing system incorporating an arithmetic logic unit 20, 22, 24 having an N-bit data pathway and supporting parallel operation program instruction words in which to independent arithmetic operations are carried out in parallel by the arithmetic logic unit upon (N/2)-bit input operand words. Two sets of condition code flags N, Z, C V, SN, SZ, SC, SV responsive to the separate arithmetic logic operations are provided.