Abstract: The present invention provides chemical processes for the preparation of disaccharide and trisaccharide C6 to C12 fatty acid esters having a high alpha content. Yet still further, the invention provides materials prepared by the processes disclosed herein.

Abstract: The invention relates to fiber compositions that can be pumped and metered in the fashion of fluid chemical admixtures into a concrete mix, thereby enabling the fibers to be dispensed by concrete ready-mix plant operators who can provide verification of fiber administration and dosage. The fibers, particularly plastic shrinkage control fibers having large cumulative surface area, are suspended in an aqueous or non-aqueous medium such that their surface area is already wetted out, thereby virtually assuring that substantial uniform fiber dispersion can be achieved without clumping and the delay that is usually required by fiber intermixing.

Abstract: An entertainment center system comprises a cabinet having a planar bottom, a top panel, side panels, an open back with vertical edges, a front formed of an opening extending there through with horizontal shelving there within supporting electronic entertainment equipment. A pair of similarly configured generally rectangular pivotal plates each have a front face, a rear face, an interior edge and a parallel exterior edge. Hinges are coupled to the rear face of each pivotal plate adjacent to the interior edge and are also coupled to an associated vertical edge of the cabinet.

Abstract: The present invention provides chemical processes for the preparation of disaccharide and trisaccharide C6 to C12 fatty acid esters having a high alpha content. Yet still further, the invention provides materials prepared by the processes disclosed herein.

Abstract: This invention relates to the regulation of vascular endothelium biocompatibility and to the inhibition of vessel wall cell and other types of cell hyperplasia following vessel wall dysfunction and/or injury. More particularly, the invention relates to the dietetic and pharmaceutical preparations of 13-hydroxyoctadeca-9Z, 11E-dienoic acid (13-HODE) and its use in reducing or inhibiting vessel wall hyperlasia and restoring vessel wall biocompatibility.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions, paper, thermoplastic sheets, and medical paper containing cellulose ester, alkylpolyglycoside (APG) or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol, and, optionally, cellulose. The process of incorporating APG or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol in paper composed of cellulose ester fibers and cellulose fibers and to calendaring of such paper is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions, paper, thermoplastic sheets, and medical paper containing cellulose ester, alkylpolyglycoside (APG) or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol, and, optionally, cellulose. The process of incorporating APG or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol in paper composed of cellulose ester fibers and cellulose fibers and to calendaring of such paper is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions, paper, thermoplastic sheets, and medical paper containing cellulose ester alkylpolyglycoside (APG) or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol, and, optionally, cellulose. The process of incorporating APG or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol in paper composed of cellulose ester fibers and cellulose fibers and to calendaring of such paper is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions, paper, thermoplastic sheets, and medical paper containing cellulose ester, alkylpolyglycoside (APG) or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol, and, optionally, cellulose. The process of incorporating APG or a mixture of APG and polyether glycol in paper composed of cellulose ester fibers and cellulose fibers and to calendaring of such paper is also disclosed.

Abstract: A novel process for making an alkylpolyglycoside comprises reacting a monosaccharide with an alcohol in the presence of a binary sulfate catalyst under heat. The particular binary sulfate catalyst is a mixture of H.sub.2 SO.sub.4 and inorganic base at a normal ratio of about 0.7:1 to 1.1:1 of H.sub.2 SO.sub.4 to inorganic base. Also the alkylpolyglycoside product from the reaction mixture can be isolated so that the alkylpolyglycoside process contains less than 5 weight percent free alcohol, and further separated into a white, free flowing powder of high DP (degree of polymerization) alkylpolyglycoside and a low DP alkylpolyglycoside paste.

Abstract: A composition for bleaching or bleach-fixing a silver halide photographic material has a pH of from 2 to 9. The composition comprises a bleaching agent which is either a persulfate or polyvalent metal complex of an aminopolycarboxylic acid, and from 0.01 to 2M of a sulfo-substituted carboxylate represented by Formula I(MO.sub.3 S).sub.n --R--(COOM).sub.m (I)wherein R is a benzene ring or a straight, branched or cyclic saturated aliphatic group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms;M is hydrogen or an organic or inorganic cation; andn is 1 to 7;with the proviso that if R is an aliphatic group, m is 2 to 4 and m and n combined cannot equal more than the number of carbon atoms in R plus two, and if R is a benzene ring, m is 2 to 5 and m and n combined cannot equal more than six.

Abstract: A simple and effective bleaching method includes the use of a bleaching solution including a peroxide bleaching agent and chloride ion in an amount of at least 0.35 mol/l. An organic phosphonic acid or tertiary aminocarboxylic acid can also be present for stability. The method is useful for bleaching color photographic films containing at least 20 mol % silver bromide and from 0 to about 0.5 mol % silver iodide in at least one silver halide emulsion.

Abstract: A variable strength clock signal driver circuit and method of manufacturing the same are provided that accommodate either full or reduced drive strength of a generated clock signal. The clock driver circuit includes a package bonding option to select the desired strength of drive. Thus, the clock driver circuit may be operated at either fast or slow clock frequencies as determined by the system requirements. As a result, both high performance, high drive versions and low cost, low drive versions of a digital circuit such as a microprocessor may be provided that differ only in package bonding. The same set of masks may be used to produce either version of the circuit, thus permitting greater manufacturing flexibility and reducing cost. Furthermore, electromagnetic interference may be reduced by selecting the low drive strength option for cost sensitive applications.

Abstract: A photographic element containing a dye which when released from a coupler has a sufficiently low pKa, generally less than about 5, such that the dye remains substantially or fully ionized during coating of the film and in the produced film, results in an element containing a dye which has the desired hue without the use of additional additives, such as mordants, to keep the dye ionized. The dye is also useful in photographic elements without release from a coupler, for example, as a filter dye.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for developing an image in a photographic element comprising a support, a silver halide emulsion containing an imagewise distribution of developable silver halide grains, and a blocked photographically useful compound comprising a photographically useful group and a blocking group capable of releasing the photographically useful group upon processing the photographic element in the presence of a peroxide, wherein the blocking group comprises an electrophilic group which is solely capable of undergoing a nucleophilic displacement reaction, the electrophilic group being bonded directly or through a releasable timing group to the photographically useful group, with the proviso that when the photographically useful group is a development inhibitor, the blocking group is bonded to the photographically useful group through at least one releasable timing group. The method comprises the step of contacting the photographic element with a processing solution comprising a peroxide.

Abstract: Lipids obtained from blackcurrant seed are used for reducing thrombogenicity of blood vessels in humans.

Abstract: Lipids obtained from blackcurrant seed are used for preventing proliferation and dissemination of cancerous metastases in patients.

Abstract: A process for functionalizing methane comprising:(a) reacting methane with a hydridoalkyl metal complex of the formula:CpIr[P(R.sub.1).sub.3 ]H(R.sub.2)wherein Cp represents a cyclopentadienyl or alkylcyclopentadienyl radical having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms;Ir represents an iridium atom;P represents a phosphorus atom;R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group;R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group having at least two carbon atoms; andH represents a hydrogen atom, in the presence of a liquid alkane R.sub.3 H having at least three carbon atoms to form a hydridomethyl complex of the formula:CpIr[P(R.sub.1).sub.3 ]HMewhere Me represents a methyl radical.(b) reacting said hydridomethyl complex with an organic halogenating agent such as a tetrahalomethane or a haloform of the formulas:CX'X"X'"X"" or CHX'X"X'";wherein X', X", X"', and X"" represent halogens selected from bromine, iodine and chlorine, to halomethyl complex of step (a) having the formula:CpIr[P(R.sub.1).sub.