Abstract: Provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable compositions containing a selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor (coxib) and optionally buprenorphine. In particular, compositions containing a coxib formulated for oral, topical or subcutaneous administration to treat pain or inflammation are described.

Abstract: This disclosure pertains to the use of black liquors from kraft pulp mills as a source of catalysts for the thermochemical conversion of organic matter feedstocks to bio oils.

Abstract: A safety stock correction represents a number of units over standard inventory that will meet intense increases in demand. In the safety stock correction, an average present demand, a total present demand, a total past demand for each past day, and a standard deviation of total demand are obtained. Further, an average present lead time, an average past lead time for each past day, and a standard deviation of average lead time are obtained. A standard deviation of lead time demand is obtained, which is the square root of a sum of a product of the average present lead time and the square of the standard deviation of total demand and a product of the average present demand and the square of the standard deviation of average lead time. The safety stock correction is a product of a service level and the standard deviation of lead time demand.

Abstract: A turbine shroud of a turbine of a gas turbine engine and methods of making the turbine shroud are disclosed. The turbine shroud is configured to direct products of a combustion reaction in a combustor of the gas turbine engine toward a plurality of rotatable turbine blades of the turbine to cause the plurality of turbine blades to rotate.

Abstract: A turbine shroud of a turbine of a gas turbine engine and methods of making the turbine shroud are disclosed. The turbine shroud is configured to direct products of a combustion reaction in a combustor of the gas turbine engine toward a plurality of rotatable turbine blades of the turbine to cause the plurality of turbine blades to rotate.

Abstract: An electrical contact assembly has a plurality of formed elongate closed seam tubular elements attached to a carrier with each of the elongate tubular elements attached to the carrier via a tab. Scored creases are formed in the tabs for separating the elongate tubular elements from the assembly and scored creases are formed in the carrier for defining carrier strips. The carrier strip had a plurality of grouped elongate tubular elements. The electrical contact assembly is placed in a crimping die where at least one or more wires are inserting into selected elongate tubular elements. Pressure is applied to least one or more of the selected elongate tubular elements to produce bulk material deformation along a substantial portion of the elongate tubular elements to crimp the elongate tubular elements to the wires as electrical contacts.

Abstract: An electrical contact assembly has a plurality of formed elongate closed seam tubular elements attached to a carrier with each of the elongate tubular elements attached to the carrier via a tab. Scored creases are formed in the tabs for separating the elongate tubular elements from the assembly and scored creases are formed in the carrier for defining carrier strips. The carrier strip had a plurality of grouped elongate tubular elements. The electrical contact assembly is placed in a crimping die where at least one or more wires are inserting into selected elongate tubular elements. Pressure is applied to least one or more of the selected elongate tubular elements to produce bulk material deformation along a substantial portion of the elongate tubular elements to crimp the elongate tubular elements to the wires as electrical contacts.

Abstract: An electrical contact assembly has a plurality of formed elongate closed seam tubular elements attached to a carrier with each of the elongate tubular elements attached to the carrier via a tab. Scored creases are formed in the tabs for separating the elongate tubular elements from the assembly and scored creases are formed in the carrier for defining carrier strips. The carrier strip had a plurality of grouped elongate tubular elements. The electrical contact assembly is placed in a crimping die where at least one or more wires are inserting into selected elongate tubular elements. Pressure is applied to least one or more of the selected elongate tubular elements to produce bulk material deformation along a substantial portion of the elongate tubular elements to crimp the elongate tubular elements to the wires as electrical contacts.

Abstract: A method of chemically treating a substrate metal article on a carrier metal article by chemically treating a substrate article on a carrier article, wherein the carrier article is coated with a non-electrically conducting coating.