A method for monitoring a well operation comprises running a service tool 164 into the well, delivering a material through the service tool, and monitoring a characteristic of the material with the service tool.

The present invention provides a means of calculating and evaluating a premium financing program. The present invention provides an apparatus which takes into account factors and data such as various alternative sources of funding, various alternative inflows of assets, and various outflows of assets due to taxes, interest payments, selected insurance premiums, reinsurance costs, and transaction f...

In a method of controlling the drive train of a hybrid vehicle, an engine VM is started by an electric motor generator EM connected to a flywheel S. The vehicle has a parallel hybrid drive with a series arrangement of the engine VM, the motor generator EM and a drive gear G connected to a drive axle A. Controllable friction clutches K1, K2 are provided at the input and output sides of the motor ge...

The invention relates to products for, and methods of, monitoring and controlling work progress, and improving work productivity and work management, for example in highly variable and/or unpredictable work environments, and to products for, and methods of, interactive data processing particularly adapted for systems comprising a handheld mobile component

A system for detecting if an unknown email 101 is spam by testing if the email may be similar to previously encountered spain emails by a rapid first-pass filtering by a heuristics engine (102) followed by rapidly searching for the presence of signatures previously identified in clusters of related spain emails with a signature filter (103). Only emails which pass the heuristics engine (102) and a...

A building energy survey tool 1 comprises a processing module 2 (such as a personal digital assistant (PDA)), and a number of measurement devices (a laser range finder device 11, an electronic compass 12 and an electronic dampness meter 13) providing inputs to the processing module 1. The processing module 2 prompts a user to input required data (such as building dimensions, building materials, bu...

In a data communication system a SMS data communication client operates in known fashion. An additional communication channel is established and data being entered into the client is transmitted to a central server. At the server end the user is identified in a customer database which also stored a profile of the user. Information from an ad database is selected for transmission back to the client...

An apparatus is provided that uses a consumable item, of given type, requiring occasional renewal. The apparatus has a first operating mode in which it only works with a subset of consumable items of the given type; the apparatus also has a second operating mode in which it is not restricted to working with consumable items of the aforesaid subset. The apparatus is changed from its first mode to i...

A communication system for human communication comprises a sending computer system 11 , a receiving computer system 21 a and a translation web site 31 . The sending system 11 is arranged, when sending a communication, to determine a first human perceptible language associated with the sender and a second human perceptible language associated with the recipient and, if the first and second language...

A concrete composition comprises a Portland cement mix, coarse and fine aggregate, water and glass powder having a particle size distribution between 1mm and less than 35 microns, with more than 30% being less than 45 microns and 10% less than 35 microns. The Portland cement mix may comprise none, one or more of: pulverised fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag, metakaolin, silica fume and...

A method of skin rejuvenation involves subjecting the skin to a first course of phototherapeutic treatment using non-laser near-infrared light over a period of between 3 days and 2 weeks; subjecting the skin to a second course of phototherapeutic treatment using non-laser red light over a period of between 1 and 5 weeks; and subjecting the skin to a third course of phototherapeutic treatment using...

Web based interactive tool and method for assessing the compliance of a person or undertaking with the requirements of a statute comprising a computer data output device for presenting a first question to a user relating to a first requirement of statute. A storage device for receiving and storing the response of user to the first question. Processor arranged to select and present a second questio...

Un rociador (10) para inyectar un suministro de oxígeno en un reactor de lecho fluido (8), que comprende: un conducto (14, 16) para conducir el suministro de oxígeno, una tobera (18) conectada al conducto para el paso del suministro de oxígeno desde el conducto al exterior del rociador, incluyendo la tobera un orificio (52) y una cubierta (54), un aislamiento que rodea el conducto y también la cub...

Un género no tejido (10) que tiene alto alargamiento en una primera dirección y bajo alargamiento en una segunda dirección, teniendo dicho género no tejido una pluralidad de puntos de ligadura (20) que definen un área de ligadura total a lo largo de dicha segunda dirección mayor que a lo largo de dicha primera dirección y una baja resistencia a la tracción en la primera dirección y una alta resist...

Sonda para utilización con un elemento exterior que incluye una pared que define un orificio interior, comprendiendo dicha sonda: un cuerpo alargado (12), que define una zona distal (18), un extremo distal, una zona próxima (14) y un interior, adaptado para ser soportado dentro del orificio interior del elemento exterior; como mínimo un elemento operativo (20) soportado en la zona distal del cuerp...

Vehicle comprises an automatic transmission (1) switched by a shift-by-wire system having a device (5) for the electronic driver acquisition in the form of a running notch signal effecting the switching process. The switching process is carried out to insert a running notch selected by the driver via the device for the electronic driver acquisition depending on a release signal obtained in additio...

The stability management detects (EQUIL) that the vehicle is stationary on a slope, and holds the vehicle by activating the braking system (STAB), permitting the disengagement of the automatic clutch (SLGM). The braking system is activated initially by applying the dynamic braking system (STAB1) until the static braking system (STAB2) (the hand brake) is effectively engaged.

The invention relates to a method for treatment of water, permitting the physico-chemical treatment of water, including a ballasted flocculation stage using a granular ballast material with a density greater than water, followed by, a stage of gravity separation of the treated water and the flocculent mass, a stage of separation of the granular material, recycled for the flocculation stage and the...

The invention concerns a recording medium for optically readable data of the multilayer type, a method for making same and an optical system for reproducing said data for reading the medium. The medium (Sb) comprises a stack of layers (C1 to CN) whereof the interfaces constitute planes (P1 to PN) bearing slightly phase-shifting information elements. Said planes generate a relatively significant di...

The present invention is directed to a process for producing continuous filament nonwoven fabric which comprises the steps of providing a single polymeric resin having an MFR of between about 6 to 16, spinning said single polymeric resin using commercially available continuous filament spinning equipment, to yield a continuous filament nonwoven fabric exhibiting a tensile strength improvement of a...