Novel hydraulic cements are disclosed that include reactive magnesium oxide prepared by low temperature calcination. The cements can be formulated to suit a large number of applications with various setting times, strength and levels of sustainability either by adding iron salts such as ferrous sulfate or blending with other compatible faster setting hydraulic cements such as Portland cement or by...

Methods are taught for manufacturing a press molded article (1) that comprises a profiled substrate layer (10) and a foamed layer (20). A substrate material (12) may be press molded with a foamable material (22) under pressure in order to join or attach the foamable material to the substrate material. In addition, a profile may be imparted to the substrate material during the press molding step, t...

A one-piece, hollow, continuous wall pallet (10) having a deck (12) and underside structural features that function in conjunction with the deck (12) for support and reinforcement when a load is placed on the pallet (10) or when a side of the pallet (10) is impacted. The structural features may include an arched bottom recess (70, 71), side impact depressions (72-77), and kiss-off structures (198)...

The invention relates to self-regulating systems for the integrated biological waste water treatment by activated sludge in the suspension state thereof. The inventive method consists in presetting time intervals of two alternating phases of a device operation. The first operation phase consists in carrying out the aeration of a sludge stabilising chamber and an aeration tank and in actuating a la...

The push chair has a seat (1), a backrest (2), holders (3,4) for one front (5) and two rear wheels (6), and a push bar (8). These are all fastened to one side of a folding unit (7), and are pivoted around it via pivot joints. The folding unit can occupy a first position, corresponding to working position of the push chair, in which all components are arranged around the unit in a star formation, a...

An oil or fat composition according to the present invention contains a LCPUFA supply compound as a first component, and phospholipids as a second component, the LCPUFA supply compound containing LCPUFA in its structure and being hydrolyzable to remove its LCPUFA, wherein respective proportions of the first component and the second component are determined according to the number of hydrolyzable f...

The invention relates to a rotor comprising: an armature disc (36); a flange which is parallel to the disc (36); a first radially-inner ring of cooling fins (40A) forming axial spacers, some of which extend in order to form a series of arms (62) for fixing the rotor (14); and at least a second ring of fins (40B), which is concentric and radially external to the first ring of fins (40A). The invent...

The present invention relates to automated chromatography systems and software for controlling such automated systems for optimising the purification of a protein from a sample. The software is adapted to monitor the signal from a detector in the system, determine two signal parameters and to control the components of the system depending on the actual values of the two signal parameters.

For eigenmode transmission with minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver spatial processing, a transmitter performs spatial processing on NS data symbol streams with steering vectors to transmit the streams on NS spatial channels of a MIMO channel. The steering vectors are estimates of transmitter steering vectors required to orthogonalize the spatial channels. A receiver derives a spatial filter...

To authenticate a mobile node, a Mobile IPv6 registration request is received from the mobile node, where the registration request contains authentication information. One example of the Mobile IPv6 registration request is a Mobile IPv6 Binding Update message. A procedure to authenticate the mobile node is performed based on the authentication information contained in the registration request.

A method and system for routing high-speed data to and from SANs (Storage Area Networks and Server Area Networks) via optical burst-switched (OBS) networks. OBS network components, including edge nodes and switching nodes, are coupled between SAN islands. In one embodiment, the OBS network comprises a photonic burst-switched (PBS) network. Under one scheme, a PBS edge node and SAN gateway are co-l...

Securing a heat sink to an electronic device, such as an integrated circuit package, includes applying an adhesive layer to only a periphery of a surface on a thermal interface material. The thermal interface material is applied to the heat sink and/or integrated circuit package using the adhesive layer. The heat sink is in thermal contact with the integrated circuit package to extract heat during...

The present invention discloses a porous polypropylene modified fibre for explosion-proof concrete. It is characterized by that said fibre is made up by using polypropylene chip whose melting index is 16-60 as main body raw material, adding 0.1-1% of distearic amide surfactant and 0.1-6% of inorganic ceramic micro-powder and making all the above-mentioned materials undergo the processes of mixing,...

The present invention relates to a method for measuring weight of clothes by utilizing feed-water amount and washing machine using said method. Said method includes the following several steps: (1), mounting water amount sensor in feed-water channel of washing machine; setting a fixed water level height capable of completely soaking all the clothes; and solidifying correspondent identification pro...

In an ink jet recording apparatus, at least one main tank (10) stores ink therein, A plurality of subtanks (20) are communicated with each main tank. Each subtank stores ink supplied from the main tank. Each subtank is communicated with at least one recording head (5). A method of initially filling the subtank with ink stored in the main tank is also provided, wherein the steps of applying negativ...

Wastewater treatment in which excess sludge from a membrane bioreactor (1) is treated with a polyelectrolyte in a dewatering unit (4) comprises contacting the sludge with water from the dewatering unit to transfer polyelectrolyte from the water to the sludge and then recycling the water to the bioreactor and passing the sludge to the dewatering unit.

A method is provided for managing a group of two or more operations within a software system. The method includes initiating a group context including a sub-context for each operation in the group context, wherein each operation is supported by one of a transactional resource and a messaging component, performing the operations within the sub-contexts, each operation resulting in an outcome, coupl...

A semiconductor integrated circuit including a digital circuit and an analog circuit which are integrated on a single semiconductor chip comprises a first electrostatic destruction protection circuit (1022a,1022b), connected to a digital circuit, for protecting the digital circuit from destruction caused by ESD therein by an influence of an input digital signal (1020a,1020b) and a second electrost...

Se describe un proceso para elaborar destilados medios y olefinas inferiores. El proceso incluye el craqueo catalítico de la fuente de gasoil dentro de la zona del reactor de salida mediante el contacto bajo condiciones de craqueo catalíticamente adecuadas dentro de dicha zona del reactor de salida de la fuente de gasoil con el catalizador de craqueo selectivo de destilacion media que incluye alum...

A method of preparing a hydrophobic mineral and/or filler compries contacting the mineral and/or filler in powder form with a hydrolyzable organosilane, water and a catalyst for hydrolysis and condensation of the organosilane under conditions such that the organosilane is hydrolysed in the presence of the mineral and/or filler and the organosilane hydrolysis product condenses to form polyorganosil...