Abstract: A method for treating food in an appliance (14) by at least one treatment device of the appliance (14) comprises the steps of a. providing a food recognition system with at least one camera image of a food item to be treated by the appliance (14)(S1), b. picture data about the food item by extracting a number of at least one characteristic features of the food item from the at least one camera image (S2), c. assigning a food identification to the food item based on at least one of the number of characteristic features (S4, S6), d. executing a food treatment process or program allocated to the assigned food identification (S8). According to the invention, the camera image is provided during step a. (S1) by an external camera device (12, 14), wherein the camera image provision is executed—by data retrieval by the food recognition system, and/or—by data transfer by the mobile camera device (12, 20), and/or—on the operator's initiation.

Abstract: A system and process for capturing and rendering ink is described. An ink canvas object may contain none, one, or more objects or elements and may specify the z-order of the objects or elements. The ink canvas object may host a variety of objects or elements and, therefore, provide ink functionality to the objects or elements, even though the objects or elements themselves may not have ink functionality. The ink canvas object is attached to an ink editor that has an associated modifiable ink editor behavior, whereby ink specific behaviors are collected in the ink edit behavior.

Abstract: A system and process for capturing and rendering ink is described. An ink canvas object may contain none, one, or more objects or elements and may specify the z-order of the objects or elements. The ink canvas object may host a variety of objects or elements and, therefore, provide ink functionality to the objects or elements, even though the objects or elements themselves may not have ink functionality. The ink canvas object is attached to an ink editor that has an associated modifiable ink editor behavior, whereby ink specific behaviors are collected in the ink edit behavior.

Abstract: A system and method for erasing ink is described. Using an erasing contour, the system determines closest points which come close to or contacts the erasing contour when it encounters an ink stroke. Portions of an ink stroke may then be erased when the erasing contour contacts the ink stroke.

Abstract: A system and process for capturing and rendering ink is described. An ink canvas object may contain none, one, or more objects or elements and may specify the z-order of the objects or elements. The ink canvas object may host a variety of objects or elements and, therefore, provide ink functionality to the objects or elements, even though the objects or elements themselves may not have ink functionality. The ink canvas object is attached to an ink editor that has an associated modifiable ink editor behavior, whereby ink specific behaviors are collected in the ink edit behavior.

Abstract: A system and process for capturing and rendering ink is described. An ink canvas object may contain none, one, or more objects or elements and may specify the z-order of the objects or elements. The ink canvas object may host a variety of objects or elements and, therefore, provide ink functionality to the objects or elements, even though the objects or elements themselves may not have ink functionality.

Abstract: A catalyst is intended for the oxidative demercaptanization (sweetening) of hydrocarbons compositions including petroleum, petroleum distillates, gasolines, kerosenes, jet fuels, diesel fuels and heating oils, natural-gas liquids, etc. It may be used in a fixed-bed or fluidized-bed process. A catalyst consists of an active part and an inert component. The active part contains an oxide of a transition metal of Groups Ib, V-VIIb of the Periodic Table, either Ni, or Co oxide, or mixture of oxides of the indicated elements, and transition metal salts, and nitrogen-containing organics. The inert component is an oxide of an element of Groups IIa, IIIa, IV, or Fe oxide, or chemical compound including not less than 95% oxides of indicated elements, or mixture of the above compounds.

Abstract: A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.

Abstract: A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node.

Abstract: A catalyst for oxidative demercaptanization of hydrocarbon compositions, comprising 0.2–5% of an oxide selected from the group consisting of an oxide of a transition metal of group Ib, an oxide of a transition metal of group Vb, an oxide of a transition metal of group VIb, an oxide of a transition metal of group VIIb, a nickel oxide, a cobalt oxide, and a mixture of at least two of said oxides; 0.5–20% of a transition metal salt; 0.5–20% of a nitrogen-containing organic compound; and an inert component, the rest up to 100%; wherein, the above described catalyst is used for demercaptanization or sweetening of hydrocarbon compositions.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved method for disposing polychloro organic waste (PCOW) materials. The invention relates to a method of hydrogenating PCOW materials in a bi-phasic solvent system (comprising an aqueous solvent and an organic solvent) and filtering the mixture at an elevated temperature (e.g., 60-110° C.) through a filter of unwoven polymer fabric that is capable of separating waste particles of no less than approximately 1 micron in size. Thereafter, 1-20% by weight of a lower aliphatic alcohol is added to the waste mass and the solution is hydrogenated with molecular hydrogen at approximately 60-130° C. with a pressure of approximately 10-50 atmospheres in the presence of a catalyst (e.g., palladium on a carrier) and a quantity of an approximately 10-20% aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide.

Abstract: This invention relates to a catalyst and process for simultaneous preparation of chloroform and chlorinated paraffins from carbon tetrachloride and paraffins. The catalyst is a liquid preparation of a complex of copper compound and nitrogen-containing organic compound in a liquid phase base. In embodiments of the invention, the catalyst includes 1) a copper(I) or copper(II) compound; 2) a tertiary ammonium salt, amino acid, amide, alkanolamine, urea, or derivative thereof; and 3) an alcohol, hydroxyl-containing organic compound, or water. The process for the preparation of chloroform and chlorinated paraffins according to the present invention includes hydrogenating carbon tetrachloride by one or more n-paraffins in a liquid phase at 150-170° C. in the presence of the catalyst. The hydrogenating is carried out at a molar ratio of carbon tetrachloride to paraffin equal to at least approximately 1:1 with the catalyst present in an amount equal to approximately 1-10% by volume.

Abstract: A system and method for erasing ink is described. Using an erasing contour, the system determines closest points which come close to or contacts the erasing contour when it encounters an ink stroke. Portions of an ink stroke may then be erased when the erasing contour contacts the ink stroke.

Abstract: The invention relates to building construction and to the production of building products and can be used for constructing low rise residential, industrial and administrative buildings for different climatic zones. The invention increases the quality of products having a complicated configuration, extends the range thereof and makes it possible to obtain a precise geometrical shape of the products. The inventive general-purpose multicavity cassette mould for producing grouted building keyblocks comprises a frame provided with a tray (1) on which lodgements (2) are arranged, the number of the lodgements corresponds to the number of formed sections. A crossbeam (3) being the lower in the operative position thereof is provided with fixing elements. Rotatable coupled pull rods (4) are provided with clamping elements (5). A demountable crossbeam (6) being the upper in the operative position thereof is also provided with the fixing elements.

Abstract: The present invention describes the apparatus for aerobic liquid-phase fermentation. The present invention relates to the field of chemical, physical and physical-chemical processes carried out in apparatus with an aeration and intermixing of a liquid medium, namely: processes of biosynthesis of various biological products, processes of processing waste from various productions, processing of semi-products, and processes of clearing of waste water that could also can be used in food, medical, microbiological, petrochemical industries, and also in an ecological remediation of an environment from various wastes.

Abstract: The invention relates to building construction and to the production of building products and can be used for constructing low rise residential, industrial and administrative buildings for different climatic zones. The invention increases the quality of products having a complicated geometric configuration, extends the range thereof and makes it possible to obtain the precise geometrical shape of the products. The inventive universal multicavity cassette mould is embodied in such a way that it is multisectional and has the form of crest-forming elements rigidly fixed to a frame, articulated drop sides being also fixed to the frame. Groove-forming and crest-forming elements are fixed to the opposite longitudinal sides, respectively. The articulated drop sides are provided with locking elements, the upper groove-forming elements being disposed in such a way that they are dismountable.

Abstract: A catalyst is intended for the oxidative demercaptanization (sweetening) of hydrocarbons compositions including petroleum, petroleum distillates, gasolines, kerosenes, jet fuels, diesel fuels and heating oils, natural-gas liquids, etc. It may be used in a fixed-bed or fluidized-bed process. A catalyst consist of an active part and an inert component. The active part contains an oxide of a transition metal of Groups Ib, V-VIIb of the Periodic Table, either Ni or Co oxide, or mixture of oxides of the indicated elements, and transition metal salts, and nitrogen-containing organics. The inert component is an oxide of an element of Groups IIa, III, IV, or Fe oxide, or chemical compound including not less than 95% oxides of indicated elements, or mixture of the above compounds.

Abstract: The method of supplying voltage to an electrostatic precipitator, includes periodically reversing the polarity of a supply voltage; intermittently supplying voltage to the precipitator; and the supply voltage polarity being reversed during no-voltage intervals, with the reversing of polarity being delayed with respect to the beginning of the no-voltage interval.

Abstract: A device for converting the intensity of a magnetic or an electromagnetic field into an electric signal wherein movable elements are made as ferromagnetic plates rigidly fixed in supports so that their free ends overlap each other. Mounted on the deformation section in the immediate vicinity to the place where the ferromagnetic plate is fixed in its support is an element sensing the displacements of the free ends of the plates with respect to each other. The sensing element is made as at least one resistance strain gauge connected to a measuring circuit.