Abstract: The presently claimed invention is directed to a feed composition comprising at least one living worm, wherein the worm is free of pathogens selected from the group consisting of species of Salmonella, species of Campylobacter, Histomonas meleagridis and any combination of two or more of the aforementioned.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of polymers which obtained by free radical suspension polymerization or free radical miniemulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in an oil-in-water emulsion whose disperse phase comprises at least one fluorescent dye dissolved in at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and has an average particle diameter of at least 1 ?m, in the presence of at least one surface-active compound and at least 0.5% by weight, based on the monomers, of at least one hydrophobic, nonpolymerizable, organic compound, of a hydrophobic polymer of at least one C2- to C˜-olefin having a molar mass Mw of up to 10000, of a siloxane having a molar mass Mw of up to 5000 and/or polystyrene having a molar mass Mw of up to 10000, and of the powders obtainable from these polymer dispersions in each case by drying and comprising at least one fluorescent dye for marking of materials.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of polymers which are obtainable by free radical suspension polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in an oil-in-water emulsion whose disperse phase comprises at least one fluorescent dye dissolved in at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and has an average particle diameter of at least 1 ?m, in the presence of at least one surface-active compound and at least 0.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of polymers which obtained by free radical suspension polymerization or free radical miniemulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in an oil-in-water emulsion whose disperse phase comprises at least one fluorescent dye dissolved in at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and has an average particle diameter of at least 1?m, in the presence of at least one surface-active compound and at least 0.5% by weight, based on the monomers, of at least one hydrophobic, nonpolymerizable, organic compound, of a hydrophobic polymer of at least one C2- to C6-olefin having a molar mass Mw of up to 10000, of a siloxane having a molar mass Mw of up to 5000 and/or polystyrene having a molar mass Mw of up to 10000, and of the powders obtainable from these polymer dispersions in each case by drying and comprising at least one fluorescent dye for marking of materials.

Abstract: The use of solid materials based on synthetic polymers and/or biopolymers (A) in natural gas and mineral oil extraction technology. The solid materials are produced by solubilizing at least one synthetic polymer and/or biopolymer (A), or at least one synthetic polymer and/or biopolymer (A) and at least one additive (B), in at least one substantially anhydrous chaotropic liquid (C). The solution or dispersion (AC) or (ABC) is contacted with a liquid (D1) which is miscible with the chaotropic liquid (C), but in which at least the synthetic polymer and/or the biopolymer (A) are substantially insoluble, resulting in a phase (E). The chaotropic liquid (C) is removed from phase (E) to result in a gel (G), which is impregnated with a liquid (D2). The two liquids (D1) and (D2) are removed from the gel (G) by evaporating, producing a solid material based on synthetic polymer and/or biopolymer (A).

Abstract: Process for the production of paper, board and cardboard by draining a paper stock with sheet formation in the presence of a retention aid system comprising (i) at least one polymer comprising vinylamine units, in the form of the free bases, of the salts and/or in quaternized form, as the sole cationic polymer, (ii) at least one linear, anionic polymer having a molar mass Mw of at least 1 million and/or at least one branched, anionic, water-soluble polymer and/or bentonite and/or silica gel and (iii) at least one particulate, anionic, crosslinked, organic polymer having a mean particle diameter of at least 1 ?m and an intrinsic viscosity of less than 3 dl/g, and use of the retention aid system comprising the components (i), (ii) and (iii) as an additive in the production of paper, board and cardboard.

Abstract: The use of solid materials based on synthetic polymers and/or biopolymers (A) in natural gas and mineral oil extraction technology. The solid materials are produced by solubilizing at least one synthetic polymer and/or biopolymer (A), or at least one synthetic polymer and/or biopolymer (A) and at least one additive (B), in at least one substantially anhydrous chaotropic liquid (C). The solution or dispersion (AC) or (ABC) is contacted with a liquid (D1) which is miscible with the chaotropic liquid (C), but in which at least the synthetic polymer and/or the biopolymer (A) are substantially insoluble, resulting in a phase (E). The chaotropic liquid (C) is removed from phase (E) to result in a gel (G), which is impregnated with a liquid (D2). The two liquids (D1) and (D2) are removed from the gel (G) by evaporating, producing a solid material based on synthetic polymer and/or biopolymer (A).

Abstract: Biocidal multilayered system, characterized in that it comprises at least the following layers: —an anionic or cationic carrier, preferably cellulose as anionic carrier, —on this carrier alternating polymeric cationic and anionic layers starting with a layer having a charge opposite to that of the carrier, —wherein at least one layer is hydrophobically modified.

Abstract: A process for the production of a multilayer fiber web from cellulose fibers by separately feeding at least two different fiber suspensions and water into a multilayer headbox, in which they are separated by separating elements from one another and from water and, after leaving the nozzle mouth of the headbox, reach an apparatus on which a web is formed, the water being transported in such a way that, after emerging from the nozzle mouth, it reaches the web-forming apparatus in the form of a layer between two layers of fiber suspensions and thus counteracts mixing of the different fiber suspensions, wherein, for improving the retention, drainage and formation, at least one retention aid and/or at least one drainage aid are metered into the fiber suspensions and/or into the water fed in.

Abstract: Process for finishing paper and paper products by treating the surface of paper or paper products with at least one finishing agent, at least one finishing agent being applied in the form of a pattern on the top and/or bottom of paper or paper products, and the papers and paper products obtainable by the process.

Abstract: The use of a cationic polymer as a biocidal active substance, wherein no other biocidal active substances, in particular no quaternary ammonium salts, are concomitantly used, the polymer is a polyethylenimine which comprises at least 95% by weight of units of the formula —CH2-CH2-N??I in which N is a primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary nitrogen atom, or a polyvinylamine which comprises at least 95% by weight of ethylenically unsaturated compounds capable of free radical polymerization and having a primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary amino group in polymerized form, and the polymer comprises from 0.1 to 22 milliequivalents of cationic groups per gram of polymer.

Abstract: Hydrophobically modified polymers containing vinylamine or ethylenimine units and obtainable by reacting (a) polymers containing vinylamine or ethylenimine units with (b) compounds of the formula R-A-(EO, PO, BuO)n—X??(I), where R is C4- to C26-alkyl or C4- to C26-alkenyl, A is O, NH or COO, EO is an ethylene oxide unit, PO is a propylene oxide unit, BuO is a butylene oxide unit, n is from 1 to 250 and X is a functional group which can be covalently bonded to an OH group, process for the preparation of hydrophobically modified polymers containing vinylamine or ethylenimine units by reacting polymers containing vinylamine or ethylenimine units with a water repellent of the formula I and use of the polymers thus obtainable as an additive to paperstock in papermaking.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymer scaffolds suitable for producing artificial tissues, in particular polysaccharide scaffolds, to processes for their preparation, to their use for producing artificial tissues, and to artificial tissues produced on the basis of such polymer scaffolds.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the absorption of water and water vapor and for increasing the dimensional stability of paper and paper products by treatment with an aqueous solution and/or dispersion of at least one reactive material which reacts with itself and/or cellulose fibers with crosslinking, cellulose fibers or a paper product obtained therefrom by drainage on a wire being compressed, the compressed paper product then being brought into contact with an aqueous solution and/or dispersion of the reactive material, the compression being eliminated with further action of the aqueous solution and/or dispersion and the paper product being dried and crosslinked, and to the use of the coated paper products thus obtainable and/or of the coated cellulose fibers which can be produced therefrom by defibrating as an additive to thermoplastics and as an additive to heat-curable plastics.

Abstract: Process for the production of paper, board and cardboard by draining a paper stock with sheet formation in the presence of a retention aid system comprising (i) at least one polymer comprising vinylamine units, in the form of the free bases, of the salts and/or in quaternized form, as the sole cationic polymer, (ii) at least one linear, anionic polymer having a molar mass Mw of at least 1 million and/or at least one branched, anionic, water-soluble polymer and/or bentonite and/or silica gel and (iii) at least one particulate, anionic, crosslinked, organic polymer having a mean particle diameter of at least 1 ?m and an intrinsic viscosity of less than 3 dl/g, and use of the retention aid system comprising the components (i), (ii) and (iii) as an additive in the production of paper, board and cardboard.

Abstract: A process for the production of paper, board and cardboard in the presence of a water-swellable polymer by adding the water-swellable polymer to a fiber suspension, the fiber suspension comprising water-swellable polymers being beaten.

Abstract: Method for determining the size concentration, the particle size and the particle size distribution of natural and/or synthetic sizes in a paper stock by staining a sample of the particles (Ti) of the size with a fluorescent dye, light being radiated into the sample of fluorescent or fluorescently stained particles and scattered light and/or fluorescent light from the sample being recorded and evaluated, and use of this method for determining the particle size distribution of reactive size particles in the paper stock or in the white water of paper machines during papermaking.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the marking of materials with coded microparticies, wherein coded microparticles which are obtainable by (i) polymerization of at least one water-soluble monoethylenically unsaturated monomer in the presence of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least two double bonds in the molecule by inverse water-in-oil suspension polymerization, doped nanoparticles being used as the suspending medium, (ii) emulsion polymerization of water-insoluble monoethylenically unsaturated monomers with from 0 to 10% by weight, based on the monomer mixture, of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least two double bonds in the molecule, doped nanopartices being used as an emulsifier for stabilizing the disperse phase, (iii) polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer together with a copolymerizable dye which has an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, and, if appropriate, agglomeration of these partices or (iv) agglomeration of at

Abstract: Paper, board and cardboard are produced by adding (i) at least one retention aid and (ii) ionic, water-insoluble, uncrosslinked, organic microparticles which have an average particle size of less than 500 nm and a content of polymerized ionic monomers of less than 1% by weight or water-insoluble, uncrosslinked, organic microparticles having an average particle size of less than 500 nm and a content of polymerized ionic monomers of not more than 10% by weight, which are obtainable by polymerizing the monomers in the presence of silica, waterglass, bentonite and/or mixtures thereof, to a paper stock and draining the paper stock over a wire.

Abstract: Packaging material comprises an at least two-layer laminate of a paper engine-sized in each case with a polymer size or sized cardboard and at least one water-impermeable film or foil for producing containers for packaging liquids, and paper products which are obtainable in each case by (i) engine sizing of a paper stock comprising an aqueous slurry of cellulose fibers with at least one polymer size or with a polymer size and an aqueous dispersion of an alkylketene dimer or a mixture thereof in the presence of a retention aid and, if appropriate, of a water-soluble aluminum compound and, if appropriate, at least one cationic polymer, (ii) drainage of the paper stock on the wire of a paper machine, (iii) drying of the paper product and (iv) lamination of the paper product on one or both sides with a plastics film or metal foil are used for producing containers for packaging liquids, in particular beverages.