A method for treating wastewater, the method comprising the steps of, distributing the wastewater into a disposal trench, percolating the wastewater through primar y filtration treatment material positioned within the trench, transferring the wastewater into a storage area filled with storage material, percolating the wastewater through secondary treatment material, transferring the wastewater awa...

The present invention is directed generally to track segments for track vehicles and, more specifically, to a track segment having an ethylene propylene diene monomer (EP(D)M) rubber based backer, and a method of making. In one embodiment, the track segment includes an EP(D)M rubber based backer including a rubber compound having 100 phr EP(D)M rubber wherein the diene component is optionally pres...

An ad-hoc secure communication network and methods of communicating with a fleet of vehicles using the ad-hoc communication network is provided. The method includes communicating relatively long range communication signals to a fleet router. The fleet router is a select one of the vehicles in the fleet. The method further includes formi ng an ad-hoc communication network between the fleet vehicles...

An ad-hoc communication network including at least two vehicles such as at least two aircraft. Each vehicle includes surveillance equipment, a surveillance transmitter, a surveillance receiver, a communication management function (CMF), a communication transmitter, and a communication receiver. The surveillance equipment is configured to generate at least position and ID information. The surveilla...

A valve means has a valve housing (12), in which an inlet duct (15) for pressure fluid extends, said duct opening into a valve chamber (17), in which a valve member (18) is held by spring means (19) in a closed position (20) engaging a valve seat (21), the valve member (18) opening at a predetermined opening pressure of the pressure fluid present so that pressure fluid arrives by way of an opening...

A method and system for arbitrary resizing of a compressed image in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. First and second scaling parameters P and Q a re determined in accordance with the block numbers L and M and the scaling rati o L/M or M/L. A non-uniform, or uneven, sampling in the DCT domain is then applied to coefficients of successive blocks in the compressed image in accordance with...

The present invention provides an offset folded polymeric bag. The offset folding polymeric bag defines a plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of layers is divided into two sets of layers and a primary opening is defined between the two sets of layers. T he first set of layers has a different width than the second set of layers to inform the consumer a s to particular order for unfolding the...

The invention relates to a process for improving the characteristics of nonwood pulp by using selective removal of fines.

The present invention provides a method for producing a 4-nitroimidazole compound represented by general formula (1) at high yield and at high purity by a safe method causing few dangers such as explosion. The production method of the present invention comprises iodinating a 4-nitroimidazole compound represented by general formula (2): wherein each of X1 and X2 represents a chlorine atom or bromin...

A probe for a magnetic remanence measurement method, in particular for detecting foreign material deposits and inclusions in hollow spaces, the hollow spaces being formed in a non-ferromagnetic material and the foreign material deposi ts and inclusions being made of a ferromagnetic material, wherein the probe include s at least one magnetic field sensor, at least one first and one second magnet, t...

The presence information of a presentity within a presence service includes a first presence attribute and a second presence attribute. The first presence attribute is published within the presence service only if at least one watcher within th e presence service has subscribed to it, while the second presence attribute is publish ed within the presence service regardless of whether any watcher ha...

The invention describes a system and method for hydrogen sulfide decontamination of natural gas using a scavenging reagent. The system uses a scavenging reagent within two reactors wherein the consumption of scavenging reagent is optimized by t he control of flow of clean and partially-consumed scavenging reagent within and betwee n the two reactors.

Methods and systems for progressive synchronization in real-time of stored copies of media transmitted between nodes on a network. The methods and systems include progressively transmitting available indexed media from a sending node to a receiving node with a packet size and packetization interval sufficient to enable the near real-time rendering of the indexed media, wherein the near real-time r...

This invention refers to a method for the production of integral elastic supports for the human body comprising the following phases: measurement of the tensional state exerted by a user sitting on a counter surface (10) so as to generate a set of signals (S), translation of the set of signals (S) in a first set of data (D1) so as to provide a map of said tensional state; processing of the first s...