Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to acquire fluid image information from an imaging device having a field of view including fluid, the fluid image information including fossil image information. Additional activities may include processing the fossil image information to identify fossil types in the fluid as data that associates the fossil types with a formation from which the fluid was acquired, determining the location of a first borehole in the formation based on the data and offset records associated with a second borehole, and publishing the data in conjunction with indications of the location. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: A cosmetic composition includes as active agents, a first active agent consisting of an amber extract, and at least one other cosmetically active agent selected from the group consisting of extracts of Bertholletia excelsa, extracts of Potentilla erecta, magnesium aspartate, peptides acting on muscle contraction, particularly acetyl hexapeptide 3, peptides and their derivatives grafted with a fatty acid, particularly a C16 fatty acid, promoting collagen synthesis, particularly palmitoyl oligopeptide pentapeptide 3 or palmitoyl tetrapeptide 7, soy flour hydrolyzates and plant glycolipids, particularly cereal glycosphingolipids and more particularly wheat glycosphingolipids.

Abstract: This invention concerns a binder for the production of a layer for road works or civil engineering. It comprises, with respect to the total weight of the binder.

Abstract: The invention relates to the inhibition of crystallization in rosin and rosin-based materials through the use of crystallization inhibitors. More specifically, the crystallization inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acids and the salts of carboxylic acids. The invention also relates to the process of inhibiting crystallization in rosin and rosin-based materials.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extracting the natural juice of ligneous plant material, a device for carrying out said method and the use of said method in the production of dried ligneous plant material. The method for extracting the natural juice of ligneous plant material comprises the following: a pressurization step in which a sealed enclosure containing the plant material is pressurized, whereby the pressure thereof is greater than that of the atmosphere; a stage in which saturating water vapor is created or injected; a stage in which the plant material is heated to the core by means of electromagnetic waves; a step in which the liquid exudates from said plant material are gravitationally recovered.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a highly reactive modified phenolic resin, which comprises mixing a heavy oil or pitch with 0.3 to 10 mol of a phenol, 0.2 to 9 mol in terms of formaldehyde, of a formaldehyde compound and 0.01 to 3.0 mol of an acid catalyst, each amount being based on 1 mol of the heavy oil or pitch calculated from an average molecular weight; and heating the resulting mixture with stirring, thereby to polycondensate the heavy oil or pitch, phenol and formaldehyde compound. According to this invention, there can be provided a process for producing simply and stably a highly reactive modified phenolic resin having low melt viscosity, excellent heat resistance and high reactivity with an epoxy resin, in one step.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a highly reactive modified phenolic resin, which comprises mixing a heavy oil or pitch with 0.3 to 10 mol of a phenol, 0.2 to 9 mol in terms of formaldehyde, of a formaldehyde compound and 0.01 to 3.0 mol of an acid catalyst, each amount being based on 1 mol of the heavy oil or pitch calculated from an average molecular weight; and heating the resulting mixture with stirring, thereby to polycondensate the heavy oil or pitch, phenol and formaldehyde compound. According to this invention, there can be provided a process for producing simply and stably a highly reactive modified phenolic resin having low melt viscosity, excellent heat resistance and high reactivity with an epoxy resin, in one step.

Abstract: Toluene-soluble modified natural-resin acid esters which can be prepared by reacting at least one compound from each of the component groups: A) natural resins or natural-resin acids; B) .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids or their anhydrides; C) phenols which are polyfunctional with respect to oxo compounds; D) aldehydes or aldehyde acetals; E) alcohols having at least two hydroxyl groups; and, if desired, further compounds from the substance groups: F) fatty acids or fatty acid esters; G) ethylenically unsaturated monomers; H) ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon resins in the presence of: I) monovalent or divalent metal compounds or mixtures thereof at a temperature of from 100.degree. to 300 .degree. C., with elimination of water, to an acid number of less than 100 mg of KOH/g of resin, and then reacting the resulting products with: J) carboxylic acids which contain at least two carboxyl groups and are not .alpha.,.beta.

Abstract: An improvement in enzyme linked immunoassays is disclosed wherein the enzyme is in the form of a water soluble polymer saccharide conjugate which is stable in hostile environments. The conjugate comprises the enzyme which is linked to the polymer at multiple points through saccharide linker groups.

Abstract: A process for making a water-insoluble, graft copolymer of lignite-(ethene or substituted ethene monomer) having a central lignite network and at least one grafted side chain, R, having "m" repeating units of (1-phenylethylene), 1-methyl-1-(1-oxo-2-oxypropyl)ethylene, a polymerized 2-methyl-3-oxo-4-oxybut-1-ene-(p-ethoxy-(3*p+3)-ol), or any other substituted ethene monomer which has a dipole moment of less than 1.2 or a water solubility of less than 5 g/100 g water at 30.degree. C. The ethene monomer forms the sidechain by free radical polymerization and, in the sidechain, m and p vary from 1 to 300,000 such that the central lignite network has a molecular weight of about 1,000 to 1,500,000; the total number of random units in a grafted side chain is in the range of 1 to 300,000 units; and the total number of sidechains attached to lignite, x, is in the range of 1 to 500; such that the total copolymer molecular weight is in the range of 1,500 to 30,000,000.

Abstract: Amber-based drying oil varnish of improved clarity, colorless and transparency characteristics is provided by a process in which coarsely comminuted amber particles are first heated in drying oil until the amber particles soften, swell and rise to the surface of the heated drying oil, the hot amber particles are strained from the hot drying oil which has become discolored and is discarded, the hot strained amber particles are then finely comminuted to a powder in a small amount of hot drying oil and thereafter, after the addition of additional hot drying oil to the finely comminuted amber powder, the resulting admixture is heated to a temperature at which the amber powder melts and fuses into the heated drying oil to form an essentially homogeneous varnish solution.

Abstract: This invention is directed to water soluble protein polymer conjugates which are stabile in hostile environments. The conjugate comprises a protein which is linked to an acrylic polymer at multiple points through saccharide linker groups.

Abstract: A process for making a water-insoluble, graft copolymer of lignite-(ethene or substituted ethene monomer) having a central lignite network and at least one grafted side chain, R, having "m" repeating units of (1-phenylethylene), 1-methyl-1-(1-oxo-2-oxypropyl)ethylene, a polymerized 2-methyl-3-oxo-4-oxybut-1-ene-(p-ethoxy-(3*p+3)-ol, or any other substituted ethene monomer which has a dipole moment of less than 1.2 or a water solubility of less than 5 g/100 g water at 30.degree. C. The ethene monomer forms the sidechain by free radical polymerization and, in the sidechain, m and p vary from 1 to 300,000 such that the central lignite network has a molecular weight of about 1,000 to 1,500,000; the total number of random units in a grafted side chain is in the range of 1 to 300,000 units; and the total number of sidechains attached to lignite, x, is in the range of 1 to 500; such that the total copolymer molecular weight is in the range of 1,500 to 30,000,000.