Disclosed is an intermediate film for laminated glasses which contains a polyvinyl acetal resin. This intermediate film for laminated glasses can be easily bonded to a glass and enables to obtain a laminated glass having excellent transparency. Also disclosed is a laminated glass using such an intermediate film. Specifically disclosed is an intermediate film for laminated glasses which contains 10...

The invention describes a method of monitoring the flow of fluid within or from an oil or gas reservoir in which a solid tracer is inserted into the reservoir according to known methods, the tracer comprising at least one metal selected from caesium, niobium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, lanthanum, gold, iridium, osmium, silver, platinum, palladium, rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, hafnium, indium a ...

The invention relates to service control in a telecommunications network which includes customer terminals (CT) and servers (SP) for offering services to the customers. The service is provided by transmitting information to the customer terminal, and the customer pays for the service by sending payment messages. To achieve a versatile control system for controlling the provision of the service, th...

The arrangement is for coupling together two rigid tubular objects and comprises a male part and a female part (1). The female part comprises a socket, which at its one end is provided with a recess (3). The male part is tubular and at its one end has a cross edge, formed by a deepened formation in the male part outer wall. A socket-shaped component (11) is placed between the male part and the fem...

The invention relates to the nitration of aromatic or heteroaromatic compounds, wherein an activated aromatic or heteroaromatic compound and a nitrating agent, in the presence, if desired, of a solvent, are mixed intensely in a microreactor, and wherein the proportion of the nitrating agent to the activated aromatic or heteroaromatic compound, the concentration of nitrating agent in the reaction m...

Bicyclic dione compounds of formula (I), and derivatives thereof, which are suitable for use as herbicides.

An implantable device having a body of matrix material made up of insoluble collagen fibrils, and disposed therewithin(a) a plurality of vertebrate cells; and(b) a plurality of microspheres each of which consists primarily of one or more of the following materials: collagen, polystyrene, dextran, polyacrylamide, cellulose, calcium alginate, latex, polysulfone, or glass.

There are provided method and apparatus for use in a multi-view video coding system. The apparatus includes an encoder (100) for encoding at least two views corresponding to multi-view video content into a resultant bitstream, wherein the resultant bitstream is encoded to include view specific information. The view specific information indicates a decoding interdependency between at least some of ...

The device for making popcorn comprises a cardboard container with a base, a compensation zone able to take up at least two positions, one folded and the other deployed and deployment tabs (38). The compensation zone comprises four faces, two retractable faces (26) and two stiffening faces (28) and folding lines (22,24).

A data access architecture is provided that includes a mapping architecture for mapping data as may be used by an application to data as persisted in a database. The mapping architecture makes use of two types of mapping views - a query view that helps in translating queries and an update view that helps in translating updates. Incremental view maintenance can be used to translate data between the...

Purpurin-carbohydrate conjugates and their method of preparation and use for treatment of cancer cells. The conjugates have the general formula: where R6 and R7 taken together are -NR11 or are independently -OR11 where at least one R11 is preferably a mono or polysaccharide moiety and R1 - R8 are various groups formed from carbon and hydrogen and optionally oxygen and nitrogen where R3 and ...

The present invention relates to an insulating layer for use in thermal insulation, including a radiation shield for reflecting thermal radiation and a spacer material which is attached to the radiation shield by means of a fastening material, from which insulating layer the air has been evacuated. The radiation shield of the insulating layer includes a plurality of through holes. The present inve...

La presente invencion describe y reivindica un metodo para tratar deficits cognitivos en un paciente que padece esquizofrenia, mediante la adminsitracion a dicho paciente de una cantidad terapeuticamente eficaz de un antagonista del receptor CB1 como se describe en est amemoria. En otro aspecto, esta invencion tambien describe y reivindica una combinacion de uno o mas antagonistas del receptor CB1...

A composite pressure vessel comprised of an inner fluid tight liner and an outer reinforced polymer layer. An end boss comprising a short pipe section arranged through an opening of the vessel and extending to a lower end with an outwardly extending flange on the pipe section arranged between the outer layer and the inner liner, and a lid arranged at an upper end of the pipe section. The inner lin...

El diseno ornamental par un dispositivo manual para lavada de ropa como se muestra y describe.

The present invention discloses coloured pencil leads comprising, in addition to pigments, from about 60% to about 80% by weight of a metal stearate, from about 15% to about 25% by weight of a cellulose polymer, and from about 1% to about 6% by weight of colloidal silica. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a coloured pencil having a coloured lead as a core, which comprises the...

Fig. ! es una vista frontal elevada de un "TOP SIZER" que muestra mi nuevo diseno en una posicion de uso, el gancho fragmentariamente mostrado a traves una linea invisible ilustrando el entorno unicamente, el cuak no forma parte del diseno reivindicado.

Amidas heterociclicas teniendo un grupo hidroxi adyacente a la funcionalidad amida de Formula (I) en donde (a) representa un anillo heterociclico aromatico de 5- o 6- miembros en el cual (i) cada uno de X1-X4 es O, S, NR, N, CR o un enlace ; (ii) no mas de uno de X1-X4 es O, S o NR; (iii) no mas de uno X1-X4, es un enlace; (iv) cuando cualquiera de X1-X4 es S, O o NR, uno de los X1-X4 debe ser O, ...

La Fig. 1 es una vista en perspectiva superior, lateral y frontal de una primera realizacion de un platillo con reborde descentrado que muestra el nuevo diseno.

Acidos 4-aminopicolinicos, que tienen substituyentes de trifluorometilo, heteroariloxi, ariloxi, alquiltio, alcoxi o halogeno en las posiciones 3, 5, y 6, y sus derivados de acido y amina de la formula (I) en donde X representa H, halogeno alcoxi C1-C6, alquiltio C1-C6, ariloxi, heteroariloxi o trifluorometilo; Y representa halogeno, alcoxi C1-C6, alquiltio C1-C6, ariloxi, heteroariloxi o trifluor...