Abstract: Use of an aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive for producing self-adhesive articles, wherein the aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises a water-dispersed polymer binder (polymer for short) and a water-dissolved polymer containing hydrophilic groups selected from primary amino groups and hydroxyl groups (solution polymer for short).

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for applying at least two chemically different, flowable media, particularly solutions of polymers, dispersions or combinations thereof as adhesives, coating materials or coatings. By means of a multiple cascade die 1 at least two chemically different, flowable media 30, 32 are applied to web-form substrates 20; 40, 41 continuously in one operation. The total amount within a multilayer application 51 is between 2 g per m2 to 200 g per m2. The ratio of the individual layers 31, 33 within the multilayer application 51 to one another is between 0.1 to 100.

Abstract: Method of enhancing the performance properties of aqueous polymer dispersions comprising water-soluble ionic compounds, which comprises removing at least 50 mol % of the water-soluble ionic compounds from the polymer dispersion and then adding at least one salt of a monoalkyl or dialkyl ester of a sulfonated dicarboxylic acid.

Abstract: The application relates to isolated regions and genes from the Y chromosome which encompass the Y specific growth gene GCY. Probes and primers are also provided.

Abstract: A distortion compensation method includes determining an undisturbed phase for at least one of a first position indication signal and a second position indication signal. The method includes determining an undisturbed ratio that relates the amplitude of the first position indication signal at a first frequency to the amplitude of the second position indication signal at a second frequency. The method also includes determining a disturbed amplitude of the position indication signal and adjusting a position indication based on the disturbed amplitude and phase, the undisturbed amplitude ratio, and the undisturbed phase. The method further comprises determining a relationship between the eddy current phase of the first position indication signal and the second position indication signal.

Abstract: A distortion compensation method includes determining an undisturbed phase for at least one of a first position indication signal and a second position indication signal. The method includes determining an undisturbed ratio that relates the amplitude of the first position indication signal at a first frequency to the amplitude of the second position indication signal at a second frequency. The method also includes determining a disturbed amplitude of the position indication signal and adjusting a position indication based on the disturbed amplitude and phase, the undisturbed amplitude ratio, and the undisturbed phase. The method further comprises determining a relationship between the eddy current phase of the first position indication signal and the second position indication signal.

Abstract: A system for determining the position, orientation and system gain factor of a probe includes a plurality of magnetic field sources and at least one magnetic field sensor, such that a combination of a magnetic field sensor and a magnetic field source generates a unique measured magnetic field value. The system includes a probe whose gain, position, and orientation affect these unique measured magnetic field values. A processor is configured to receive and iteratively process these unique measured magnetic field values to determine a system gain factor indicative of the gain of the probe and a plurality of location factors indicative of the position and orientation of the probe. The number of unique measured magnetic field values generated must be at least equal to the sum of the number of gain and location factors calculated.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of composite particles composed of addition polymer and finely divided inorganic solid and obtainable by free-radical emulsion polymerization on a mixture of ethylenically unsaturated monomers including at least one ethylenically unsaturated alkoxysilane monomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of a dispersely distributed, finely divided inorganic solid and at least one dispersant are used to prime mineral substrates.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an aqueous polymer dispersion by means of radically initiated aqueous emulsion polymerisation of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer in a polymerisation container comprising an external circuit leading away from said polymerisation container and back thereto.

Abstract: Binder formulations based on aqueous polymer dispersions having a minimum film-forming temperature of below 10° C. and comprising at least one binder polymer P in the form of an aqueous dispersion comprising at least one anionic emulsifier and at least one nonionic emulsifier.

Abstract: The present invention provides paper coating slips comprising a low-crosslink copolymer as their binder.

Abstract: A device for determining the position of objects (T) inside a space (P), in particular for locating a tumor inside a human body. At least one emitter unit (SE) and at least one receiver unit (S11, . . . S22) are provided and, in a first embodiment, the emitter unit(s) (SE) are located inside and/or as close as possible to the object (T) under observation and the receiver units(s) (S11, . . . S22) are located preferably outside the space (P). In a second embodiment, the receiver unit(s) (SE) are located inside and/or as close as possible to the object (T) under observation and the emitter unit(s) (S11, . . . S22) are located preferably outside the space (P).

Abstract: The present invention provides paper coating slips comprising a low-crosslink copolymer as their binder.

Abstract: A system for determining spatial position and/or orientation of one or more objects. The system includes an optical subsystem and a non-optical subsystem. The optical subsystem includes optical subsystem light sources mounted to one or more of the objects and an optical subsystem sensor adapted to detect energy from the optical subsystem light sources. The optical subsystem has an optical subsystem coordinate system in a fixed relationship with the optical subsystem sensor. The optical subsystem sensor produces position and/or orientation signals relative to the optical subsystem coordinate system in response to optical subsystem light source detected energy. The non-optical subsystem has a non-optical coordinate system and is adapted to produce position and/or orientation signals of one or more of the objects relative to the non-optical subsystem coordinate system.