A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a first underlayer formed on the substrate and including an amorphous alloy containing Ni, a crystalline second underlayer formed on the first underlayer and including simple Cr or an alloy containing Cr, and a magnetic recording layer formed on the second underlayer and including at least one element of Fe and Co and at least one element of Pt and...

There is disclosed a device for reducing real power consumption associated with a load that is connected to a power distribution system. In general, the device is to be arranged at the input terminal of the load. The device is of a compact construction that requires less material to fabricate compared to the prior art. The device includes used of an autotransformer (1) to reduce the power supply v...

The palm-based oil spray composition comprises 60-85 wt.% palm product, 12-38 wt.% propellant and 2-10 wt.% non-stick material. The oil spray composition comprises 60-75 wt.% palm product, 22-38 wt.% propellant and 2-10 wt.% non-stick material, if the oil spray composition used in temperate or cold climate countries.

SE PROVEEN INHIBIDORES DE HEPATITIS C (HCV) DE FORMULA (I) Y SUS N-OXIDOS, SALES Y ESTEROISOMEROS, DONDE LA LINEA DE PUNTOS REPRESENTA UN DOBLE ENLACE OPCIONAL ENTRE LOS ATOMOS C7 Y C8; R1 ES HIDROGENO O ALGUILO C1-6; R2 ES HIDROGENO O ALQUILO C1-6; Y N ES 3;4; 5; O 6; COMPOSICIONES FARMACEUTICAS QUE CONTIENEN COMPUESTOS (I), Y PROCESOS PARA LA PREPARACION DE COMPUESTOS (I). SE PROVEEN TAMBIEN COM...

The invention relates to an acoustic insulating glazing unit.This glazing unit comprises two glass sheets (12, 14) joined together around their periphery by means of an assembly (16) forming a seal (163) and an insert frame (161) which defines, with the two glass sheets, a flat cavity filled with a gas, and a waveguide fastened between the glass sheets, internal to the insert frame. The waveguide ...

A vehicular wiper frame and a rubber blade that mounts to the frame are provided. The frame allows the rubber blade to exert vertical pressure again st a windshield for a secure contact between the two surfaces. The frame includes a slot in which a mounting portion of the rubber blade is mounted, creates a predetermined offset between the centers of the mounting portion and a wipin g portion of th...

Methods, systems, and arrangements enable packet scheduling in accordance with quality of service (QoS) constraints for data flows. In a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network environment (100), for example, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer (320) schedules packet transmission of various data flows to meet stipulated criteria, including permitted transport format combinations ...

A wireless electronic parking meter control system, comprising: a vehicle detection system for determining the presence or absence of a vehicle in a plurality of vehicle parking spaces; a number of electronic parking meters, each associated with a given vehicle parking space; a number of ICMs, at least one of which is interconnected with said vehicle detection system and said and number of electro...

Novel aminoalkylphenols, intermediates and processes for the preparation thereof, and methods of relieving memory dysfunction utilizing the aminoalkylphenols or compositions thereof are disclosed.

A hydrolyzed marine protein product, a method for the production of the product, a feed product for animals, including humans, and a culture medium including the hydrolyzed marine protein product. The protein product may be hydrolyzed by enzymatic activity, bacterial activity, acids, cooking or any combination of these. The protein product may also include stickwater peptide fraction containing bi...

A display processor includes an interface unit, an instruction processor, a synchronization unit, at least one processing unit, and a device buffer. The interface unit receives input image data (e.g., from a main memory) and provides output image data for a frame buffer. The instruction processor receives instructions (e.g., in a script or list) and directs the operation of the processing unit(s)....

Disclosed is a positive resist composition containing a base resin component (A) having an acid-cleavable dissolution inhibiting group whose alkali solubility is increased by the action of an acid, and an acid generator component (B) which generates an acid when irradiated with radiation. The component (A) contains a resin having an absorbance of not more than 1.0 (1/mum) at 193 nm and a dispersit...

The invention discloses a solution for synchronization of media items between a mobile terminal and another terminal device. The metadata structure (and metadata associations to media items) in the mobile terminal is updated based on the categorization work a user does in the storage system in assigning files to folders. Correspondingly, media items are rearranged in the storage system based on ne...

An apparatus for polishing the inner circumferential surface of the product (pipe) such as a pipe made from a stainless steel, which is used in a semiconductor pipe, food and drinks pipe and sanitary pipe, etc., is disclosed. An apparatus for polishing an inner circumferential surface of a pipe includes a base one end of which is changeable in an inclination with respect to the other end thereof. ...

A pixel adaptive image color adjusting device, including: a channel separation unit for separating an input image into a plurality of color channels by pixels; a conversion unit for converting the value of an adjustment target color channel based on an adjustment value for at least one of the plural color channels to be adjusted; a channel ratio calculation unit calculating a channel ratio of the ...