Abstract: An abandonment remarketing system streamlines the recovery of on-line abandoning consumers by financing incentives through other parties interested in conducting business with the abandoning consumer. The system may enhance the recovery of on-line abandoning consumers by offering an abandoning consumer an opportunity to receive an incentive redeemable with an abandoned on-line retailer while reducing or eliminating the cost of the incentive to the on-line retailer.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a method and apparatus for cooling and freezing of organic-comprised articles which makes use of liquid cryogen and of chilled gases from a mechanical refrigeration system to provide an economical process for reducing the temperature of the article. The article is contacted with a liquid cryogen and subsequently contacted with circulating cold gases in the mechanical refrigeration system. The improvement relates to the method and apparatus for producing the cold gases which are used in the mechanical refrigeration system; the method comprises using the cryogen vapors generated upon contact of the articles with the liquid cryogen as an indirect heat exchange fluid for removing heat from heat exchange fluids used in the mechanical refrigeration system. This indirect heat transfer using cryogen vapors supplements cooling of the mechanical refrigeration system cold gases by the mechanical refrigeration system chiller.

Abstract: The problem of characterizing metallic magnetic particles as suitable or unsuitable for use in a high density magnetic recording media is believed to have been solved by use of a figure of merit designated as "W/H.sub.c ", and defined herein.It has been found that metallic magnetic particles which exhibit a W/H.sub.c of about 1.2 or less offer the most desirable magnetic recording characteristics for high density magnetic recording media. With this characterization technique available, it has been determined that most quantities of metallic magnetic cobalt-phosphorus particles produced by chemical reduction have W/H.sub.c 's greater than 1.2, and are unsuitable for use in high density magnetic recording media. Using W/H.sub.c, it has been possible to recognize those metallic particles which are suitable for use in high density recording media, and to engage in experimentation to determine what methods of manufacturing are required for the production of suitable high density recording particles.