Abstract: A client stores a first set of workspace data, and is coupled via a computer network to a global server. The client may be configured to synchronize portions of the first set of workspace data with the global server, which stores independently modifiable copies of the portions. The global server may also store workspace data which is not downloaded from the client, and thus stores a second set of workspace data. The global server may be configured to identify and authenticate a user seeking global server access from a remote terminal, and is configured to provide access to the first set or to the second set. Further, services may be stored anywhere in the computer network. The global server may be configured to provide the user with access to the services. The system may further include a synchronization-start module at the client site (which may be protected by a firewall) that initiates interconnection and synchronization with the global server when predetermined criteria have been satisfied.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing alkenylsilanes whereby a gaseous mixture consisting essentially of an acetylenic hydrocarbon and a silane containing a silicon-bonded hydrogen atom is directed into contact with a reaction medium in the form of a relatively thin moving liquid layer or film. The reaction medium comprises a solubilized hydrosilylation catalyst and the alkenylsilane produced as a product of the reaction. The reaction medium can optionally include an organic liquid that is a solvent for the catalyst, alkenylsilane and acetylenic hydrocarbon reactant.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a process for the rearrangement of cylcoorganopolysilazanes to cycloorganotrisilazanes using quaternary ammonium halides as a catalyst. The quaternary ammonium halide has the formula R.sup.i.sub.4 NX where at least one R.sup.i is a group containing greater than 11 carbon atoms and X is a halogen atom. The rearrangement process is ran either as a batch or a continuous distillation procedure.

Abstract: A method, and an apparatus for performing the method, are described, for imaging a region of a body using NMR in which part of the region is moving with a motion such that its displacement with respect to time is a nonmonotonic function during the time period over which NMR data signals are collected. The data signals are collected in an order dependent on the motion such that motion artifacts are reduced.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a process for converting polydiorganosiloxanes to cyclopolydiorganosiloxanes with reduced cleavage of organic groups from silicon atoms. The process comprises (A) feeding a mixture of the polydiorganosiloxanes, a catalyst, and an organic solvent to a device in which water is formed as the polydiorganosiloxanes react in the presence of the catalyst and the organic solvent, the water formed being driven out of said device as a two-phase organic solvent/water azeotrope; (B) reacting the polydiorganosiloxane/catalyst/organic solvent mixture from (A), essentially free of water, to convert the polydiorganosiloxanes to the desired product cyclopolydiorganosiloxanes; and (C) recovery of the desired product cyclopolydiorganosiloxanes.

Abstract: A method of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of a body in which the spins of a chosen nucleus in a selected slice of the body are rotated through an angle appreciably greater than 90.degree.. Two r.f. pulses, each accompanied by a magnetic field having a gradient in a direction parallel to the equilibrium axis of magnetic alignment of the spins are applied in sequence. Each r.f. pulse is at the Larmor frequency for the nuclei in the slice in the presence of the associated field gradient and each r.f. pulse is effective to rotate the spins by not greater than 90.degree.. The r.f. pulses together are sufficient to rotate the spins through the desired angle, the gradients of the magnetic fields being in opposite directions.