Systems and Methods for creating and providing a user interface for displaying advertiser defined groups of advertisement campaign information is disclosed. In one implementation, a quality score associated with an ad group is calculated based at least in part on a historical performance of the ad group. Ad campaign information associated with the ad group is then sent to a user interface for disp...

Hydrostatic gear for a vehicle has at least a hydraulic pump and hydraulic motor (5) with an adjustable intake volume. The gear is operated in an open loop and is driven by the motor, which is accelerated or slowed using an electronic controller (8). The controller is set so that a desired vehicle matches a measured vehicle velocity, by adjustment of the intake volume to the hydraulic motor.

A system and method for obtaining information about a media object being rendered on a remote device is returned in response to a parental monitoring query. Specifically, a query is issued via a monitoring device through a network connection. In response to such a query, information is returned back to the monitoring device indicating a multicast address and port number to which the remote device ...

A device for determining at least one parameter of a medium flowing in a line, particularly the intake air mass of an internal combustion engine, having one part which has at least one measuring channel for conducting at least one partial flow of the medium flowing in the line in a main flow direction and which can be inserted into the line with a predetermined alignment with respect to the main f...

The invention relates to a separator made of elastic plastic and suitable for use in a lead storage battery, and consisting of sheet material with an inner region and two peripheral regions and having ribs running in the longitudinal direction on at least one side, the ribs in the inner region being more widely spaced than those in the peripheral region, characterized in that at least the first 3 ...

A composite material includes a polymer matrix and a pigment dispersed in the polymer matrix. The pigment includes an alumina hydrate particulate material and a dye. The dye is covalently bonded to a surface of the alumina hydrate particulate material.

A battery having a current collector constructed of carbon foam. The carbon foam includes a network of pores into which a chemically active material is disposed to create either a positive or negative plate for the battery. The carbon foam resists corrosion and exhibits a large amount of surface area. The invention includes a method for making the disclosed carbon foam current collector used in th...

A channel estimator is configured to determine channel estimate parameters indicative of characteristics of a wireless communication channel based on a received signal comprising a known transmitted signal and a noise signal. The channel estimator is configured to apply, to the received signal, a frequency domain representation inverse of a combination of a known signal factor as a function of fre...

A downconversion mixer with IM2 cancellation includes a mixer, an IM2 generator, and a scaling unit. The mixer frequency downconverts an input RF signal with an LO signal and generates an output baseband signal. The IM2 generator includes first and second field effect transistors (FETs) that receive the input RF signal and generate an intermediate signal having IM2 distortion. The scaling unit sca...

The present invention provides a recording material comprising a plastic layer and an ink receiving layer sequentially laminated on a supporting body in such a manner that the supporting body and the plastic layer are delaminatable. By having such a structure, the recording material enables high-quality printing even when printing such as inkjet printing is performed on a substrate which is compos...

A flow control valve 70 is provided in a primary pulley that is a rotor, and includes a first port 71; a second port 72; a working fluid channel 73 formed between the first port 71 and the second port 72 and through which the working oil passes; a check valve 74 that is formed in the working fluid channel 73 and is opened toward a first-port-side channel 73a from a second-port-side channel 73b of ...

Agglomerated molecular sieve compounds based on a 3 degreesA zeolite and one or more agglomeration binders with an iron content (as ferric oxide), relative to anhydrous wt. of sieve, less than or equal to 0.3% and titanium content(as oxide) less than or equal to 0.1%. Independent claims are also included for the preparation of the adsorbent and uses.

Process comprises impregnating a metallic hydrotreatment catalyst (A), in oxide form, with at least one phthalate diester (I), optionally dissolved or dispersed in a liquid. The esters residues in (I) are same or different 1-18C linear or branched alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkaryl, or aralkyl, optionally containing one or more heteroatoms. An Independent claim is also included for a method for sul...

A printing apparatus free from contamination of dust into a coated layer is provided. A printing apparatus of this application includes a first ejecting head and a printing head. The first ejecting head is located on a leading side in a moving direction D of the printing head. Since electric charge is removed from an object to be printed and dust is removed therefrom, by blowing an electric charge...

A free-flowing, stable liquid flame retardant mixture comprised of or formed by mixing together components comprised of: A) at least one organic halogen-containing reactive flame retardant in which the halogen is bromine, chlorine or both; and B) a liquid additive that is comprised of at least one aliphatic polyepoxide of the formula R(EP)n, wherein R is a straight chain or branched chain aliphati...

A method for growing large single crystals of metals is disclosed. A polycrystalline form of a metal specimen is initially heated in a non-oxidizing environment. A minimum plastic strain is then applied to the heated metal specimen to initiate the growth of a selected grain within the heated metal specimen. Additional plastic strain is subsequently applied to the heated metal specimen to propagate...

The present invention relates to a static pressure slider including a stationary member 2, and a movable member 3 configured to be movable relative to the stationary member 2 under a condition that a static pressure fluid layer is provided between the stationary member 2 and the movable member 3. The static pressure slider further includes a first conductive layer 25 (26-28), and a second conducti...

An apparatus and method are provided which execute a data acquisition process over a network by selecting an optimum configuration from various transmission modes. In the configuration that a data reproduction process request is transmitted to a network-connected node and a data reproduction process based upon return data is executed, one or more data transmission modes to be adopted as data trans...

A structure for use in a semiconductor processing environment is provided, including a first plate a second plate bonded to the first plate. A distal end of the second plate extends beyond a distal end of the first plate. The distal end of the first plate is tapered along a length at least one-half of a width of the first plate adjacent the tapered distal end of the first plate.

A vulcanizable rubber composition comprises (a) a rubber component; (b) a methylene donor compound; and (c) a methylene acceptor comprising a blend of a high ortho-ortho bonded phenolic novolak resin and a resorcinolic resin. The resin blend can be made by a number of methods. For example, it can be prepared by first reacting one or more phenolic compounds represented by the following formula:wher...