Abstract: The invention concerns a method using a robot for an automatic treatment of a weed, the method comprises steps of capturing images of said weed with a camera on said robot; determining with said images a distance between the weed and a second vegetable organism; and selecting a treatment tool of said robot for a treatment of the weed from a group of treatment tools as function of said distance. The invention further concerns a robotic vehicle for carrying out the method for an automatic treatment of a weed.

Abstract: A system for washing red blood cells, comprising a separator configured to separate a quantity of blood into concentrated red blood cells having a hematocrit of at least 60% and a volume of 150-250 mL, and a supernatant component. The system comprises a flow controller configured to remove the supernatant component to provide an initial red blood cell concentrate; combine 50-500 mL of an additive solution with the red blood cell concentrate to provide an intermediate red blood cell product intended for storage for 42 days or less, wherein the intermediate red blood cell product at the end of storage has an osmolarity value between 202-479 mOsm/L; and wash the intermediate red blood cell product comprising the osmolarity value between 202-479 mOsm/L with a washing solution having an osmolarity value higher than that of the intermediate red blood cell product comprising the osmolarity value between 202-479 mOsm/L.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to an activated platelet preservation composition, a method for preserving activated platelet, and a preserved activated platelet using the same. According to at least one embodiment, there is provided an activated platelet preservation composition including a divalent cation, chloride, vitamin B, a selenium source and a solvent, a kit using the same, a method for preserving an activated platelet, and a preserved activated platelet using the same. According to various embodiments, it is possible to obtain and preserve platelets, which are positive for CD61 and CD62p and negative for PAC-1 among cell markers.

Abstract: Brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECS) can be generated from pluripotent stem cells, and possess membrane barrier functions along with capability for maturation into other developing tissues. This cell type has not been successfully frozen with loss of significant viability and/or BMEC functional properties. For example, BMECs can be used to model barrier function in blood brain barrier, by calculating the trans-endothelial resistance (TEER). However, thawed primary BMECs lose TEER resistance. By optimizing cell preparation, freezing media selection, and the controlled freezing, the Inventors have achieved complete recovery of frozen cells, achieving proper tight junction protein expression and physiologically relevant TEER. The freezing methods and compositions described herein, thereby allow for BMECs to be manufactured, frozen and distributed at scale.

Abstract: Composite materials that are palatable to a wood-destroying pest species and also pesticidal to the pest species can be used in pest control devices and can be used as wood substitutes for structural components, which are resistant to destruction by wood-destroying pests. The composite materials include a thermoplastic polymer, a food material for the pest and a pesticide. The composite material is formed by mixing a thermoplastic polymer, wood fragments or other cellulosic materials and a quantity of pesticide, and thereafter creating a molten material within a mixer, compounder, extruder or the like. The molten material is extruded or molded to form the desired shape.

Abstract: Spray drift during the application of an aqueous mixture of glyphosate and an auxinic herbicide is reduced by incorporating certain tertiary amine or tertiary amine oxide surfactants into the aqueous solution or mixture to be sprayed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising microcapsules, which comprise a polyurea shell and a core, wherein the core comprises a water-insoluble pesticide and the shell comprises a polymerization product of a tetramethylxylylene diisocyanate, an cycloaliphatic diisocyanate, and an aliphatic diamine; to a method for preparing the composition comprising the steps of contacting water, the pesticide, the tetramethylxylylene diisocyanate, the cycloaliphatic diisocyanate, and the aliphatic diamine; and to a method of controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired insect or mite attack and/or for regulating the growth of plants, wherein the composition is allowed to act on the respective pests, or the crop plants to be protected from the respective pest, on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or on their environment.

Abstract: A valve structuring designed for use in all water installations, water inlets for houses, kitchen installations and embedded shower filters as a stop valve, in the areas to perform on-off control, in faucets with the purpose of providing water savings and to use in domestic and industrial type kitchen faucets as a stop valve. The valve is designed for use as an on-off valve in air installations that operate with air.

Abstract: Pest-control compositions are variously described, including soaps as well as free fatty acids as active ingredients. The disclosed compositions may be constituted in a concentrated form, or the composition may be further diluted for application. Pesticidal compositions of the disclosure may be employed to selectively target pests without a systemic mode of action, and may be used to control a wide variety of insects, arthropods, and other pests, at and/or in a locus that contains or is susceptible to emergence thereof.

Abstract: Peroxyformic acid compositions for treatment and removal of biofilm growth and mineral deposits on membranes for energy services applications are disclosed. In particular, peroxyformic acid compositions are generated in situ or on site generation for the reduction and prevention, of biofilms and the mitigation of mineral buildup on the membranes. The compositions according to the invention are compatible with the membranes under application of use conditions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for attracting Lepidopterous insects comprising a vapour blend of acetic acid and one or more compounds of formula (I), (I) wherein R is selected from the group comprising —CH2OH, —CN, —NC, and —OH; and to methods of using the composition to attract, detect, survey, monitor and/or control Lepidopterous insects.

Abstract: An agrochemical composition containing dicamba or its salt, a sulfonamide herbicide free acid and a solid base. A method of controlling field weeds with the use of the composition. A method of reducing and/or removing agrochemical composition residues in an application tank, as well as a method of preparing an agrochemical composition, including the mixing of a solid base with dicamba or its salt and a sulfonamide herbicide free acid.

Abstract: Coloring of fruits is promoted by applying a one or more the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and/or phenylalanine, in combination with abscisic acid to a fruit plant, such as those of the genus Vitaceae or Rosaceae. The amino acid(s) and abscisic acid may be present in a solution(s) having concentrations of 0.2 mM to 100 mM and 0.1 ?M to 10 mM, respectively.

Abstract: Compounds of the Formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as plant growth regulators, particular in seed germination.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the combined use of the nematicide Fluopyram and at least one biological control agent selected from the group consisting of Paecilomyces lilacinus, Paecilomyces lilacinus strain 251, Bacillus firmus, Bacillus firmus strain I-1582 for controlling phytopathogenic nematodes or increasing yield. The invention relates further to a method for controlling phytopathogenic nematodes, which comprises at least two treatment blocks, where in at least one treatment block the plants are treated with at least Fluopyram and in at least one treatment block the plants are treated with at least one biological control agent selected from the group consisting of Paecilomyces lilacinus, Paecilomyces lilacinus strain 251, Bacillus firmus, Bacillus firmus strain I-1582.

Abstract: There are provided a soybean disease control composition containing, as active ingredients, (a) fluazinam or a salt thereof and (b) at least one fungicide selected from the group consisting of carboxamide-based compounds and azole-based compounds; and a method for controlling a soybean disease, which includes applying the soybean disease control composition to a soybean plant or soil.

Abstract: The present invention relates to combinations of zinc pyrithione and food-approved antimicrobials which provide a synergistic antimicrobial effect. The food approved antimicrobials are selected from sodium sulfite, sodium bisulfite, potassium metabisulfite, potassium sulfite, calcium sulfite, calcium hydrogen sulfite, potassium hydrogen sulfite, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, and lysozyme. These combinations are useful for the protection of any living or non-living material, such as food, crops, plants, fruits, wood, wood products, leather, natural or synthetic textile, fibers, non-wovens, technical textile, plasticized materials and non-plasticized thermoplastics as polypropylene, polyvinylchloride, etc. . . .

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of increasing crop yields as well as reducing pest damage to crop plants through anthranilamide seed treatment compositions. Chlorantraniliprole combinations with other insecticides, fungicides, nematicides and biological components are disclosed. Cyantraniliprole combinations with other insecticides, fungicides, nematicides and biological components are disclosed.

Abstract: An agent for controlling noxious arthropods has an exceptional noxious arthropod controlling effect, said agent containing an amide compound represented by Formula (I) and an inactive carrier. In formula (I), R2 represents a C1-C3 chain hydrocarbon group, etc., R5 and R6 represent a hydrogen atom, etc., R9 represents a C1-C4 alkyl group, etc., R10 represents a C1-C4 alkyl group or hydrogen atom, etc., R11 and R12 each independently represent a C1-C4 alkyl group, etc., and Y represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, or S(O)u; when Y is a single bond, m represents 0, and Q represents a C1-C8 chain hydrocarbon group, etc.; and when Y is an oxygen atom or S(O)u, m represents any integer of 0 to 7, Q represents a C1-C8 chain hydrocarbon group, etc., a and b represent 0, 1, 2, or 3 (the sum of a and b representing any integer of 1 to 6), and u represents 0, 1, or 2.

Abstract: A synergistic microbicidal composition comprising: (a) 3,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinane-2-thione; and (b) dimethylol-dimethylhydantoin or tris(hydroxymethyl)nitromethane; wherein a weight ratio of dimethylol-dimethylhydantoin to 3,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinane-2-thione is from 20:1 to 1:6.4 and a weight ratio of tris(hydroxymethyl)nitromethane to 3,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinane-2-thione is from 150:1 to 1:6.4.

Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter provides a method for the micropropagation of black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa/Actaea racemose L.), using a combination of cytokinins and/or auxins to increase plantlet quality and accelerate plantlet production beyond what is observed in the wild.

Abstract: The present invention provides an extended release insecticide formulation, the formulation comprising: an insecticide on a substrate; a lipophilic wax, wherein the insecticide is incorporated into the wax forming a matrix; a release retarding polymer in the matrix; and a rate extending polymer embed the matrix. Methods of making the formulation and use of the formulation are also provided.

Abstract: A composite laundry additive made of composite particles. The composite particles comprising: a carrier component comprising one or more different inorganic support particles, wherein at least one of the inorganic support particles is a pigment particle; and a silver component comprising a silver metal or silver salt disposed on one or more of the inorganic support particles.

Abstract: Compositions comprising an inorganic particulate mineral and an antimicrobial metal, methods of making said compositions, use of said compositions in a coating composition or in a polymeric article, use of said compositions to inhibit the growth of one or more microbes and use of said compositions to eliminate one or more microbes, for example from a liquid.

Abstract: The present invention is compositions, methods of use, methods of treating, and articles of manufacture that include at least one silver iodate for imparting antimicrobial properties, particularly as it relates to the manufacture, use, and properties of medical devices. The invention also includes obtaining and using one or more silver iodate reaction products from a diperiodatoargentate, wherein the reaction products are obtained using a hydrothermal reaction.

Abstract: A species of Burkholderia sp with no known pathogenicity to vertebrates but with pesticidal activity (e.g., plants, insects, fungi, weeds and nematodes) is provided. Also provided are natural products derived from a culture of said species and methods of controlling pests using said natural products.

Abstract: Glomus iranicum var. tenuihypharum var. nov. strain deposited under BCCM deposit number 54871, comprising the sequence identified by SEQ ID NO: 1; composition having the strain and 2:1 smectite clays and use thereof as bio-stimulant. The invention also discloses a composition having the strain, fungicides, bio-fungicides, insecticides, bio-insecticides, nematicides and bio-nematicides.

Abstract: A seed treated with a fungal/bacterial antagonist combination and a seed assembly comprising a seed and a fungal/bacterial antagonist combination. The fungal/bacterial antagonist combination comprises a Trichoderma virens fungal antagonist and a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens bacterial antagonist for controlling plant pathogens as a biocontrol agent, bio-pesticide or bio-fungicide. In preferred embodiments, the invention produces an increase in plant yield. Control of early and late season stalk and root rot caused by fungi such as Fusarium, Phythium, Phytophthora and Penicillium in tomatoes, peppers, turf grass, soybeans, sunflower, wheat and corn is achieved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phytosanitary compositions with fungicidal properties that comprise a mixture of essential oils obtained from plants and agents with known fungicidal properties, such as alkali metal or ammonium bicarbonates, and compounds based on copper or the salts thereof, for use, principally, in contact-protection against fungal infections in cultivated plants and post-harvest, and also in other antifungal applications. In said compositions, the effect of the agents that have known fungicidal properties is potentiated synergistically by the aforementioned essential oils. The present invention also relates to the use of said essential oils as potentiators for agents with known fungicidal properties.

Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide seed, soil, and plant treatment compositions, and methods of making and using such products and compositions. The use of these products and compositions can act as a plant protectant and increase the growth, health, and yield of various seeds and plants such as crops and grasses, and further provide similar benefit to soils.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a food comprising a baked foodstuff based on flour and/or starch. The baked foodstuff comprises at least one first region and at least one second region in contact with the first region. The second region comprises a shaping auxiliary component in an amount of 0.5-15 wt % by the total weight of the flour and/or starch of the baked foodstuff. The shaping auxiliary component has a glass-transition temperature of less than 0° C. The second region is present in an amount of at least 1 wt % by the total weight of the food. The addition of the shaping auxiliary component is able to efficiently decrease the breakage of the multi-region food, especially multi-region food based on a baked foodstuff with a crispy texture.

Abstract: A baked shelf-stable cracker or snack product comprising a) a body comprising at least 60% by weight wheat flour, from 5 to 22% by weight fat, 0.7 to 7% by weight leavening agent and up to 5% by weight water, in each case based on the total weight of said body; and b) a surface dusting, on at least one surface of the body, of a particulate material, the particulate material comprising at least 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the particulate material, of wheat endosperm particles. The surface dusting is present on the product in an amount of at least 0.5%> by weight, based on the total product weight. Also provided is a process of making the cracker or snack product.

Abstract: A gambrel for hanging an animal to be butcher or skinned, the gambrel having an adjustable length suspension bar from which lines extend to be wrapped around the legs of the animal to be butchered or skinned. The adjustable length suspension bar consists of one elongated member inserted into another elongated member. Each elongated member has a slot through which each end of a gambrel suspension line is extended into and retained within each elongated member so that the geometry of the gambrel suspension line remains the same when length of the adjustable length suspension bar is changed to accommodate different sized animals.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method to transport liquid milk to obtain transported liquid milk during a supply chain time of more than 10 days wherein during at least a 90% of the duration of the supply chain time the liquid milk is kept at a temperature of less than 2° C. A ship is provided in the supply chain with one or more containers for carrying between 40 and 5000 M3 liquid milk. Raw milk is subjected to a pasteurization thermal treatment to obtain processed milk for transport by the ship in the supply chain.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an aqueous protein-containing milk or cream fraction, said method comprising using an enzyme having phospholipase C activity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-supporting food composition, having a total non-gelatin protein content of 8-15 wt. %, based on the total weight of the composition, at least part of the total non-gelatin protein content being casein, the casein content being 7-13 wt. %, based on the total weight of the composition; the composition comprising 0.2-10 wt. % fat, based on the total weight of the composition; the composition comprising a cold-set gelling agent, in a relative amount of at least 0.3 wt. %, preferably 0.5-5 wt. %, based on the total weight of the composition; the composition comprising water; and the composition having an about neutral pH.

Abstract: The invention relates to a beverage comprising 0.05 wt % to 3 wt % tea solids and 0.1 ppm to 600 ppm water-soluble soybean polysaccharide (SSPS), wherein the beverage is substantially free of exogenous protein.

Abstract: A method of brewing tea, includes the following steps: (1) obtaining tea leaves and placing the tea leaves in water at 0 to 70° C. to carry out washing, and draining; (2) adding the tea leaves in hot water at 70 to 100° C. in one or more times and brewing for 0.1 to 40 minutes; and (3) obtaining and adding an appropriate amount of water at 0 to 70° C. or an ice cube to tea after the brewing in step (2), so as to lower a temperature of the tea to a drinkable temperature. This method adopts a way of high-temperature brewing and rapid cooling, and may satisfy different people's preference in tea.

Abstract: A method for printing a three-dimensional crystalline structure such as a chocolate layer wherein, after printing, the material has a desired crystal structure. An embodiment can include printing a liquid first layer of material with a printer onto a second layer of material having a crystal structure. Subsequently, the printed liquid first layer is processed to solidify the first layer. During the processing of the printed liquid first layer, the second layer functions as a crystal seed layer through physical contact with the printed liquid first layer and the second layer crystallizes with the crystal structure.

Abstract: Package for a food product, comprising a first (2) and a second (4) half-shell of edible material, each having a respective annular edge (6, 8), said first and second half-shell of edible material being arranged with their respective annular edges in a mutually facing relationship, an openable container (12) of non-edible material interposed between said half-shells, having a wall that defines an internal volume for housing a product, article or accessory, wherein said first and second half-shell of edible material (2, 4) are accommodated in a respective wrapping (34, 36) of sheet material defining a cavity substantially complementary to the outer surface of the respective half-shell of edible material, said wrappings (34, 36) being connected to each other along their respective edges (40a, 40b) so as to maintain the half-shells of edible material (2, 4) in contact with the container wall, characterized in that the wall of at least one of said first and second half-shell of edible material (2, 4) has an openi

Abstract: A hard candy, namely lollipops, suckers or similar confectionary comestibles and a method of making and packaging the same by a depositing manufacturing process which produces a multi-colored and multi-flavored lollipop which colors and flavors extend entirely through the lollipop body and hard shell and are visible in the final packaging and particularly to a double depositing method and apparatus incorporating a soft chewy center into a deposited lollipop body which soft center is entirely surrounded by and of a different consistency and viscosity from the hard outer candy shell.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the preparation of a gummy and candy composition containing curcuminoids. Also disclosed is a gummy and candy composition containing effective concentration of curcuminoids that is palatable and bioavailable.

Abstract: A food delivery device for delivering food may include a food portion being edible; and a support device to support the food portion. The support device may be shaped as a cylinder. The food portion may be formed entirely from vegetables.

Abstract: A method of processing a chilled food product includes providing a product in a storage container, wherein the product has a frozen portion and a non-frozen portion in the storage container, and the frozen portion has a granular size. The method also includes mixing the frozen portion of the product with the non-frozen portion of the product within the storage container, flowing the frozen portion and non-frozen portion into contact with a shearing apparatus, and shearing at least the frozen portion with the shearing apparatus, thereby reducing the granular size of the frozen portion. This method and similar systems and machines may refine and process chilled food products such as smoothies and slushes to have a smoother and more even consistency.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for co-metering liquid and/or pasty products, including: a first metering unit (41) for metering a first product; a second metering unit (42) for metering a second product (P2); a nozzle (B) including a first duct (1) supplied by the first metering unit (41) and opening out into a first orifice (11), a second duct (2) supplied by the second metering unit (42) and opening out into a second orifice (21), and a third duct (3) opening out into a third orifice (31), the device being configured such that the third duct (3) is supplied by the first and second metering units (41, 42), such that a mixture of the first and second products is discharged by said third orifice (31). The invention also relates to an associated metering method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous composition in liquid form, which contains oil, milk protein, monosaccharides, disaccharides, and/or oligosaccharides, one or more emulsifiers, and a combination of water-insoluble cellulose-based fibres and one or more water-soluble hydrocolloids. The composition may be aerated, and may be used to be frozen quiescently to prepare a frozen confection. The invention also provides a method for preparation of the composition of the invention, and a method for freezing the aerated composition of the invention. The liquid composition can be distributed at temperatures above 0° C., and frozen at the point of use prior to consumption, such that much energy is saved as compared to distribution of frozen confections at temperatures below 0° C.

Abstract: Fluorine being present in the exoskeleton of crustaceans, and especially krill represents a problem for using krill as a source for food, feed, food additives and/or feed additives. There has been developed a process for removing such fluorine from krill material by subjecting the krill to disintegration and to an enzymatic hydrolysis process prior to or simultaneously with a removal of the exoskeleton particles producing a fluorine-reduced product. Inherent in the disclosed process is the ability to process krill material with a high polar lipid content for producing superior quality, low fluorine, products suitable for the food and feed as well as the pharmaceutical, neutraceutical and cosmetic industry.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for decreasing viscosity, increasing solubility and decreasing particle size of milk proteins by admixing milk protein with at least one transglutaminase.

Abstract: A use of texturized dairy proteins is suggested, obtainable or obtained by providing (a) a mixture, containing or consisting of (a1) about 25 to about 75% by weight dairy proteins, and (a2) about 75 to about 25% by weight a plant protein and/or a fibre material with the proviso that the quantities add up to 100% by weight, (b) the mixture is extruded in the presence of water and/or whey, applying a temperature gradient of about 20 to about 200° C. and a pressure in the range of 1 to about 200 bar, and (c) subsequently expanding the extrudate, as a substitute for carbohydrates and as a source of protein in foods.

Abstract: An animal feed composition includes a feed component made from corn, soy, corn or soy derivatives or byproducts, or grains and an added whole cell Euglena biomass, including beta-1,3-glucan having at least about 90 percent linear, unbranched beta-1,3-glucan polysaccharide polymers with an average molecular weight of about 1.2 to 580 kilodaltons (kDa). Beta-glucan polymer chains have a polymer length of about 7.0 to 3,400 glucose monomers. The whole cell Euglena biomass has at least 30 percent beta-1,3-glucan and residual media remaining from a heterotrophic fermentation process and is about 0.0001 to 0.0124 percent of the composition. It is possible to add a Euglena lysate.