THE INVENTION RELATES IN PARTICULAR TO COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ONE OR MORE PESTICIDES AND ONE OR MORE ALKOXYLATED AMINES. THE COMPOSITIONS HAVE AN IMPROVED EFFECTIVENESS AND ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY ECONOMICAL, SIMPLE TO HANDLE AND WELL TOLERATED BY MAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

THE INVENTION REFERS TO A PICKUP (9) FOR OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIA HAVING INFORMATION TRACKS IN A LAYER, AND TO A DEVICE FOR ACCESSING OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIA HAVING SUCH PICKUP (9). THE PICKUP (9) HAS A FOCUSING SERVO FOR POSITION CONTROL IN A FOCUS DIRECTION (F) ORTHOGONAL TO THE LAVER, 10 AND A MOVABLE ACTUATOR (1) SUSPENDED BY SUSPENSION WIRES (3) WITH A FOCUSSING COIL DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTIAL C...

PROCESS FOR PREPARING HIGH-CONCENTRATION GASEOUS FORMALDEHYDE HAVING A MOLAR CH2O:H2O RATIO OF >= O.6 FROM AN AQUEOUS FORMALDEHYDE SOLUTION BY EVAPORATION OF AT LEAST PART OF THE SOLUTION, IN WHICH THE AQUEOUS FORMALDEHYDE SOLUTION IS HEATED TO A VAPORIZATION TEMPERATURE T AND THE GAS PHASE FORMED IS TAKEN OFF, WHEREIN THE EVAPORATION TEMPERATURE T OBEYS THE RELATIONSHIP:

THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A PLURALITY OF REAL-VALUED SUBBAND SIGNALS COMPRISING A FIRST REAL-VALUED SUBBAND SIGNAL AND A SECOND REAL-VALUED SUB BAND SIGNAL TO PROVIDE AT LEAST A COMPLEX-VALUED SUBBAND SIGNAL WITH A MULTI BAND FILTER FOR PROVIDING AN INTERMEDIATE REAL-VALUED SUBBAND SIGNAL AND A CALCULATOR FOR PROVIDING THE COMPLEX-VALUED SUBBAND SIGNAL BY COMBINI...

A COMPACT ENCODED REPRESENTATION (110) OF INFORMATION VALUES (106) NOT EXCEEDING A PREDEFINED SIZE CAN BE DERIVED WHEN A FIRST ENCODING RULE GENERATING AN ENCODED REPRESENTATION OF THE INFORMATION VALUES OF VARIABLE LENGTH IS COMPARED TO A SECOND ENCODING RULE GENERATING AN ENCODED REPRESENTATION OF THE INFORMATION VALUES OF FIXED LENGTH AND WHEN THE ENCODING RULE RESULTING IN THE ENCODED REPRESEN...

A PROCESS FOR PREPARING BUTADIENE FROM N-BUTANE, COMPRISING THE STEPS OF A) PROVIDING A FEED GAS STREAM A COMPRISING N-BUTANE; B) FEEDING THE FEED GAS STREAM A COMPRISING N-BUTANE INTO AT LEAST ONE FIRST DEHYDROGENATION ZONE AND NONOXIDATIVELY, CATALYTICALLY DEHYDROGENATING N-BUTANE TO OBTAIN A GAS STREAM B COMPRISING N-BUTANE, 1-BUTENE, 2-BUTENE, BUTADIENE AND HYDROGEN, WITH OR WITHOUT STEAM, WIT...

AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING A STRUCTURE FROM CORROSION, ACCORDING TO WHICH THE APPARATUS INCLUDES TWO PIVOTALLY CONNECTED MEMBERS (14), AT LEAST ONE ANODE DEVICE (22) CONNECTED TO AT LEAST ONE OF THE MEMBERS, AND A RESILIENT COMPONENT (48) ENGAGED WITH THE MEMBERS.

AN ADDITIVE FOR A CEMENTITIOUS SLURRY COMPRISING FLY ASH HAVING A PREDOMINANT PARTICLE SIZE OF UP TO 10 MICRONS, AND/OR ALUMINOUS MATERIAL HAVING A PREDOMINANT PARTICLE SIZE OF UP TO 150 MICRONS. THE ADDITIVE ACTS AS A WATER REDUCTION AGENT AND CAN REPLACE EITHER WHOLLY OR PARTICALLY A CONVENTIONAL PLASTICISER.

A PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM INCLUDES A NONMAGNETIC SUBSTRATE (1); A FIRST UNDERLAYER (3) PROVIDED ON THE NONMAGNETIC SUBSTRATE; A FIRST NONMAGNETIC INTERMEDIATE LAYER (4) PROVIDED ON THE FIRST UNDERLAYER; A SECOND UNDERLAYER (5) PROVIDED ON THE FIRST NONMAGNETIC INTERMEDIATE LAYER; A SECOND NONMAGNETIC INTERMEDIATE LAYER (6) PROVIDED ON THE SECOND UNDERLAYER; AND A MAGNETIC RECORDING...

AN OBJECT OF THE PRESENT INVENTION IS TO PROVIDE A PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A SOFT MAGNETIC BACKING LAYER (2) IN WHICH AMOUNT OF COBALT ELUTION IS SUPPRESSED WITHOUT IMPOSING RESTRAINT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTECTIVE LAYER (6). A PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM OF THE INVENTION COMPRISES AT LEAST A SOFT MAGNETIC BACKING LAYER (2), A MAGNETIC RECORDING LAYER (5),...

A PROCESS OF DOSING A STARTING MATERIAL (SM) FOR OPTICAL LENSES, INTO A FEMALE MOULD HALF (2), COMPRISES THE STEPS OF 5 - POSITIONING A DOSING TIP (1) AT A START POSITION (P2) ABOVE THE FEMALE MOULD HALF (2) AND CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF OR LATERALLY OUTSIDE THAT PORTION (20) DEFINING THE LENS-SHAPING SURFACE, - CREATING A CONTINUOUS FLOW OF STARTING MATERIAL (SM) THROUGH THE DOSING TIP (1) INTO THE FE...

THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO LITHIUM MANGANESE COMPLEX OXIDE WITH A SPINEL STRUCTURE USED AS AN ACTIVE MATERIAL OF A LITHIUM OR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY. SPECIFICALLY, THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO A PROCESS FOR PREPARING LITHIUM MANGANESE COMPLEX OXIDE HAVING IMPROVED CYCLIC PERFORMANCE AT A HIGH TEMPERATURE ABOVE ROOM TEMPERATURE, AND A LITHIUM OR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY USING ...

THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO A VINYL ESTER BASED POLYMER LATEX COMPOSITION OBTAINABLE BY FREE RADICAL EMULSION POLYMERIZATION IN SUBSTANTIAL ABSENCE OF A PROTECTIVE COLLOID AND IN THE PRESENCE OF NO OR SMALL AMOUNTS OF A SURFACTANT, AND TO A PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME. THE INVENTION FURTHER PERTAINS TO A DISPERSION INCORPORATING SAID VINYL ESTER BASED POLYMER LATEX COMPOSITION, PRODUCTS COMPRI...

A WATER INTAKE RISER (1) THAT CAN BE SUSPENDED FROM A VESSEL COMPRISING A RISER (3) CONNECTED TO A RISER HANGER (4), WHICH RISER HANGER (4) COMPRISES A FIRST TUBULAR ELEMENT (6), A SECOND TUBULAR ELEMENT (70 TO WHICH THE RISER (3) IS CONNECTED, A FLEXIBLE LOAD TRANSFER ELEMENT (16) JOINING THE TUBULAR ELEMENTS (6,7), AND A HOSE (17) OF WHICH THE ENDS ARE SECURED TO THE ADJACENT ENDS (20,22) OF THE...

THE INVENTION RELATES TO AN APPARATUS FOR PLAYING BOARD GAME COMPRISING A PLAYING BOARD (10), A PAIR OF DICE (20, 21), PLAYING PIECES (30) AND A TABLE (50). 5 THE PLAYING BOARD INCLUDES A PLURALITY OF GRIDS (101) ARRANGED IN LATERAL AND LONGITUDINAL AXIS WITH MARKINGS SELECTED FROM ADJOINING NUMBERS. THE PAIR OF DICE INCLUDES FACES MARKED EITHER WITH A NUMBER OR SYMBOL TO GENERATE RANDOM INDICATIO...

In order to charge and discharge parasitic capacitance of a source signal line sufficiently and program a predetermined current value into a pixel transistor, it is necessary to output a relatively large current from the source driver circuit. However, if such a large current is passed through the source signal line, the value of this current is programmed into the pixel, causing a larger than des...

A false inlay decoration is characterized in that a linear notch is formed in a surface of a base by laser processing; a first decoration face and a second decoration face are sectioned and formed by the linear notch; and a coating layer is formed on the inner surface of the linear notch.

An apparatus and a method for implementing a paging mechanism in a wireless LAN, for example, a wireless LAN according to the Hiperlan 2 Technical Specification, for allowing a base station, or an access point, to page a mobile terminal that is not connected with, or associated with, the access point. The present paging mechanism is implemented by transmitting a broadcast channel message that incl...

A semiconductor waveguide based optical receiver is disclosed. An apparatus according to aspects of the present invention includes an absorption region including a first type of semiconductor region proximate to a second type of semiconductor region. The first type of semiconductor is to absorb light in a first range of wavelengths and the second type of semiconductor to absorb light in a second r...

Isolated human monoclonal antibodies which bind to and inhibit human CD20, and related antibody-based compositions and molecules, are disclosed. The human antibodies can be produced by a transfectoma or in a non-human transgenic animal, e.g., a transgenic mouse, capable of producing multiple isotypes of human monoclonal antibodies by undergoing V-D-J recombination and isotype switching. Also discl...