Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote phosphor light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of phosphors provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote phosphor light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of phosphors provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of luminescence materials provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output. The remote light converting appliances may be provided as frustoconical elements directly adjacent to the LEDs within frustoconical reflective cavities. An index matching compound can be disposed between the light converting appliances and the associated LEDs.

Abstract: Lens device that includes converging lens having light output surface being spaced apart along lens axis from light input surface. Converging lens has total internal reflection side surface being spaced apart around lens axis and having frusto-conical shape extending between light input and output surfaces of the converging lens. Portion of light input surface of converging lens includes light input cavity being bounded by perimeter and having central axis and being generally shaped as portion of spheroid. Light input cavity has plurality of grooves each respectively following spline along light input surface that intersects with central axis of light input cavity and with respective point on perimeter, wherein each of respective points are mutually spaced apart around perimeter of light input cavity. Lighting system including lens device.

Abstract: An aqueous composition comprising basic aluminium chloride salt of formula Al2(OH)4.4Cl1.6 to Al2(OH)4.9Cl1.1, calcium chloride at a molar level of 0.020 or greater relative to the aluminium present, and glycine at a molar level of 0.050 or greater relative to the aluminium present, characterised in that the molar ratio of aluminium to the sum of the molar amounts of the calcium chloride and glycine is from 3.9:1 to 6.1:1 and in that the molar ratio of glycine to Al is greater than 1.7:10 and the molar ratio of Ca to Al is less than 0.35:10 or the molar ratio of Ca to Al is greater than 0.35:10 and the molar ratio of glycine to Al is less than 1.7:10.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote phosphor light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of phosphors provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output.

Abstract: Lighting system including mounting post, mounting body, first lighting module, and second lighting module. Mounting post has first end spaced apart along longitudinal axis from second end. Mounting body has first end being spaced apart along another longitudinal axis from second end. First end of mounting body is pivotally connected at first pivot axis by first pivot joint with first end of mounting post. First lighting module includes first semiconductor light-emitting device in first housing and is pivotally connected at first pivot axis by first pivot joint with first end of mounting body and with first end of mounting post. Second lighting module includes second semiconductor light-emitting device in second housing and is pivotally connected at second pivot axis by second pivot joint with second end of mounting body.

Abstract: Lighting system including mounting post, mounting body, first lighting module, and second lighting module. Mounting post has first end spaced apart along longitudinal axis from second end. Mounting body has first end being spaced apart along another longitudinal axis from second end. First end of mounting body is pivotally connected at first pivot axis by first pivot joint with first end of mounting post. First lighting module includes first semiconductor light-emitting device in first housing and is pivotally connected at first pivot axis by first pivot joint with first end of mounting body and with first end of mounting post. Second lighting module includes second semiconductor light-emitting device in second housing and is pivotally connected at second pivot axis by second pivot joint with second end of mounting body.

Abstract: Lens device that includes converging lens having light output surface being spaced apart along lens axis from light input surface. Converging lens has total internal reflection side surface being spaced apart around lens axis and having frusto-conical shape extending between light input and output surfaces of the converging lens. Portion of light input surface of converging lens includes light input cavity being bounded by perimeter and having central axis and being generally shaped as portion of spheroid. Light input cavity has plurality of grooves each respectively following spline along light input surface that intersects with central axis of light input cavity and with respective point on perimeter, wherein each of respective points are mutually spaced apart around perimeter of light input cavity. Lighting system including lens device.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote phosphor light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of phosphors provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote phosphor light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of phosphors provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of luminescence materials provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output. The remote light converting appliances may be provided as frustoconical elements directly adjacent to the LEDs within frustoconical reflective cavities. An index matching compound can be disposed between the light converting appliances and the associated LEDs.

Abstract: Lighting system including mounting post, mounting body, first lighting module, and second lighting module. Mounting post has first end spaced apart along longitudinal axis from second end. Mounting body has first end being spaced apart along another longitudinal axis from second end. First end of mounting body is pivotally connected at first pivot axis by first pivot joint with first end of mounting post. First lighting module includes first semiconductor light-emitting device in first housing and is pivotally connected at first pivot axis by first pivot joint with first end of mounting body and with first end of mounting post. Second lighting module includes second semiconductor light-emitting device in second housing and is pivotally connected at second pivot axis by second pivot joint with second end of mounting body.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote phosphor light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of phosphors provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output.

Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of luminescence materials provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output. The remote light converting appliances may be provided as frustoconical elements within frustoconical reflective cavities with a void between the light converting appliances and the associated LEDs.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a plant of the genus cannabis that does not require flowering in order to produce trichomes comprising secondary compounds. Provided herein is a plant of the genus cannabis that has trichomes on non-flowering parts of the plant, such as leaves. The disclosed plants have a high mass % of secondary compounds and a high degree of trichome coverage on the surface of the plant. Also disclosed herein are methods of producing secondary compounds from a plant of genus cannabis without flowering the plant of genus cannabis. For example, the disclosed methods provide for inducing trichome development on a plant of genus cannabis without flowering the plant of genus cannabis.

Abstract: Lens device that includes converging lens having light output surface being spaced apart along lens axis from light input surface. Converging lens has total internal reflection side surface being spaced apart around lens axis and having frusto-conical shape extending between light input and output surfaces of the converging lens. Portion of light input surface of converging lens includes light input cavity being bounded by perimeter and having central axis and being generally shaped as portion of spheroid. Light input cavity has plurality of grooves each respectively following spline along light input surface that intersects with central axis of light input cavity and with respective point on perimeter, wherein each of respective points are mutually spaced apart around perimeter of light input cavity. Lighting system including lens device.

Abstract: [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyridine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, diseases involving cartilage degradation, bone and/or joint degradation, for example osteoarthritis; and/or conditions involving inflammation or immune responses, such as Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, allergic airways disease (e.g. asthma, rhinitis), juvenile idiopathic arthritis, colitis, inflammatory bowel diseases, endotoxin-driven disease states (e.g. complications after bypass surgery or chronic endotoxin states contributing to e.g. chronic cardiac failure), diseases involving impairment of cartilage turnover (e.g.