PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a change of the fluid A comprising a backing injection material with the lapse of time, in particular a change of the flowability or viscosity, to enable use over a long period of time and to improve bleeding resistance. SOLUTION: The setting retarder for a backing injection material is based on an amylolysis product contg. >=40 wt.%, preferably >=60 wt.%, particu...

Compositions comprising a finely divided cellulosic material and an amount of a latex containing magnesium oxychloride and/or magnesium oxysulphate effective to impart water and fire resistance to the cellulosic material are disclosed. Methods to make a water and fire resistant product are also disclosed.

The invention concerns a method for making hybrid smart cards capable of operating with or without contact. The method is characterised in that it consists in producing a connecting terminal strip (110) by an operation which consists in printing a conductive substance on a first surface (510) of an insulating foil (500); then in producing first interconnecting pads (115, 116) and an antenna (120),...

A dispersion is made up of water refractory particles and material for forming pores and a polymeric dispersion. A water sensitive destabilising agent is added to increase the viscosity of the mix and cause it to solidify to form a green body which is removed from a mould and then heated and sintered.

A device for separating fluid from a biologic sample when the sample has a fluid and non-fluid component. The device is a point-of-care device through which data may be electronically collected and electronically transmitted for further evaluation. A method for separating fluid from a biologic sample is provided wherein the method comprises the step of bringing the fluid sample in fluid contact wi...

A two-component system is described, whose first component comprises an aqueous solution of an alkali silicate including sodium silicate, potassium silicate or lithium silicate or a mixture thereof, and whose second component comprises an aqueous solution of a calcium salt. Methods for manufacturing building elements and repairing building constructions using the two-component system are also desc...

Processes are disclosed for the use of subcritical compressed fluids, such as carbon dioxide or ethane, to reduce viscosity and to enhance atomization when spray applying coating compositions containing low molecular weight polymers to substrates, by using spray conditions that produce choked flow in the liquid mixture being sprayed, wherein the subcritical compressed fluid is a gas at standard co...

The present invention concerns methods and devices for creating and printing variable size and variable resolution holographic stereograms and holographic optical elements using computer rendered images of three-dimensional computer models or using computer processed images. The present invention is an apparatus and method for printing one-step, full-color, full-parallax holographic stereograms ut...

The present invention concerns methods and devices for creating and printing variable size and variable resolution holographic stereograms and holographic optical elements using computer rendered images of three-dimensional computer models or using computer processed images. The present invention is an apparatus and method for printing one-step, full-color, full-parallax holographic stereograms ut...

Quick setting hydraulic binder composition contains a binder component free from a sulfate carrier and a fluxing agent free from sulfonate groups.

A method of preparing filled plastic containers by preparing a formed plastic precursor by thermoforming, pressure molding, or tabletting in a precursor preparation station, heating the plastic precursor in a heating station to a compression molding temperature, preparing a plastic preform by compression molding the heat plastic precursor in a preform production station, blow molding the preform i...

Provided is an optical element comprising a biopolymer having an oriented structure and a photoresponsive compound, such as a photochromic compound, wherein at least a portion of the photoresponsive compound is incorporated within the oriented structure of the biopolymer and wherein the oriented structure is laminar with the planes of the laminar orientation being aligned perpendicular to a surfac...

A novel wallboard composition is disclosed comprising a unique combination of synthetic binders selected for their ability to establish a strengthened permanent bond in the final dry state in combination with an expanded mineral such as Perlite which largely reduces the amount of gypsum over current gypsum wallboard formulations, thus reducing the weight while maintaining the strength of the wallb...

Method and apparatus for treating a waste material containing gelatin in which the waste material stream (5) is combined with a solvent stream (2) which is capable of dissolving the gelatin and any softening agent contained therein and then treating the resulting product to obtain a recoverable and usable gelatin containing stream exiting receiver (34) and any components contained in the original ...

An imaging system includes an array of pixel sensors and a mode control circuit. The array of pixel sensors is adapted to furnish logarithmically encoded indications of light intensities during a first mode and furnish linearly encoded indications of the light intensities during a second mode. The mode control circuit is adapted to selectively place the array in one of the first and second modes. ...

The heat transfer path (the heat radiating portion) from a position very near the semiconductor device as the heat source to the surface of the semiconductor apparatus is made of a material having a large heat conductivity thereby to more rapidly transfer the heat generated in the p-n junction to the surface of the semiconductor apparatus or the outside. This arrangement can cope with that the cal...

A method and system are provided for processing instruction threads. Execution is initiated by a processing system of a first set of instructions including a particular instruction. The particular instruction includes an indication of a second set of instructions. In response to execution of the particular instruction and to the processing system being of a first type, the processing system contin...

One aspect of the invention relates to a method for operating a superscalar processor having an instruction cache, a sequencing unit, a load/store unit, a cache, an architectural register file and a rename register file. In one particular version of the invention, the method includes the steps of forwarding an instruction from the instruction cache to the sequencing unit operable to access multipl...

A method and device for enhancing the heating of a surface layer (426) of an article being heated by microwave energy (E) is characterised by directing the energy through the surface layer into a main portion (427) of the article in such a manner that the modes of the energy (E min ) are in cut-off in the surface layer.

An aqueous coating composition comprising an anionically stabilized latex, a polyfunctional amine and a volatile base may be used in or as a road or pavement-marking paint. The compositions demontrate shelf stability and fast cure properties.