There is herein described a method for treating lignocellulosic material and lignocellulosic material formed from such a method. More particularly, there is described a method for treating lignocellulosic materia! which introduces organic material into the lignocellulosic material and which produces a modified lignocellulosic material which has increased strength and is highly durable.

A valve having a sleeve comprising a sleeve wall including an inner surface; and a plug positioned within the sleeve, the plug comprising at least one portion that is elastically deformable. The plug forms a blind hole extending into the plug from one end thereof to define a plug side wall, and a flow passage that extends through the plug side wall that is either open or openable. The plug defines...

Described herein are compositions and methods of treating and/or preventing inner ear conditions by administering to a patient in need thereof a modulator of a metabotropic glutamate receptor.

A container (100) with a carbonated fluid therein. The container (100) may include a base (120) and a sidewall (130) positioned about the base. The base (120) and/or the sidewall (130) may include a number of nucleation sites (170) thereon. The nuclealion (170) sites may be positioned to form a number of bubbles (180) in a pattern (200) when the container is opened.

The present invention provides methods, compositions and kits for using a transposase and a transposon end for generating extensive fragmentation and 5'-tagging of double-stranded target DNA in vitro, then using a DNA polymerase for generating 5'- and 3'-tagged single-stranded DNA fragments without performing a PCR amplification reaction, wherein the first tag on the 5'-ends exhibits the sequence ...

A CO2 refrigeration system comprises a refrigeration circuit in which circulates CO2 refrigerant between a compression stage in which the CO2 refrigerant is compressed. A condensation stage is provided in which the CO2 refrigerant releases heat and is accumulated in a condensation reservoir. An evaporation stage is provided in which the CO2 refrigerant is expanded to a gaseous state to absorb heat...

A CO2 refrigeration system comprises a refrigeration circuit in which circulates CO2 refrigerant between a compression stage in which the CO2 refrigerant is compressed. A condensation stage is provided in which the CO2 refrigerant releases heat and is accumulated in a condensation reservoir. An evaporation stage is provided in which the CO2 refrigerant is expanded to a gaseous state to absorb heat...

The invention provides a process for producing alcohol from a cellulosic material, said process comprising the steps of : (i) hydrolyzing said cellulosic material with an aqueous acid to produce a hydrolysate; (ii) extracting acid and water from said hydrolysate with a water-miscible organic extraction solvent to yield (a) a first aqueous acidic solution containing said extraction solvent and (b) ...

A system and method reducing pollution in a body of water using biological processes is provided. The system includes a hydraulic dam generated by an induced downwelling of effluent water from a plurality of water circulating devices. A series of linearly arranged treatment sub-systems are disposed upstream of the hydraulic dam. The treatment sub-systems include a water sterilization sub-system fo...

The invention relates to an analytical test strip instrument comprising an exchangeable test strip unit (14) with a test strip (16) that is provided with a plurality of test elements (18) for exposure to a bodily fluid, and comprising a strip drive (12) for advancing the test strip (16), said drive capable of being coupled to the test strip unit (14), such that the test elements (18) can be prepar...

The player is given the further enjoyment after the completion of a game and encouraged to participate in the next game. The relationship between characteristic parameters used for displaying a character and ability parameters of the player that are computed based on the execution of a game is defined for each character. The relationship between the characteristic parameters and the ability parame...

A cubic boron nitride sintered material where wear resistance is suppressed from decreasing having excellent chipping resistance and a cutting tool made thereof are provided. The sintered material is constituted from cubic boron nitride particles that are bound by a binder phase, while the binder phase contains a carbide of at least one kind of metal element selected from among metals of groups 4,...

Disclosed is a head gimbals assembly for a hard disk for use in a thermally assisted magnetic disk recording medium, in which a laser diode is applied so as to record information with high density, and a method of assembling such a head gimbals assembly. The head gimbals assembly for a hard disk comprises: a plurality of suspensions, each of which is provided with a magnetic head positioned adjace...

A water insoluble, water swellable absorbent composition exhibiting a free swell absorbency of at least 15 g/g and an Absorbency Change of greater than or equal to 15% upon saturation. The absorbent composition includes both permanent crosslinking points and transitional crosslinking points. The absorbent composition has a high free swell capacity as well as a high absorbency under load.

An audio signal having at least two channels can be efficiently down-mixed into a downmixe signal and a residual signal, when the down-mixing rule used depends on a spatial parameter that is derived from the audio signal and that is post-processed by a limiter to apply a certain limit to the derived spatial parameter with the aim of avoiding instabilities during the up-mixing or down-mixing proces...

A mobile communication device ( 100 ) contains a local wireless controller ( 114 ) for operating with a remote audio processor ( 124 ). The remote audio processor is used for listening to and speaking with remote parties via the mobile communication device, and operates in a mode having a relatively long latency in communicating with the mobile communication device. Upon receiving a dispatch call ...

A manufacturing method of a synthetic resin hollow body in which a molten resin is injected for an over-molding outside a hollow molding body made of a resin provided with a hollow body and at least an opening portion to form a resin sheathing body in an integrating manner with the hollow molding body. The method includes the step of injecting the molten resin for an over-molding under the state i...

In a fuel cell system equipped with a fluid supply device, such as a pump, in a fluid supply system to fuel cells, an insufficient supply of a fluid to the fuel cells is avoided by taking into account a fluctuation in fluid supply induced by operation of the fluid supply device. A procedure of gas supply to the fuel cells makes an increasing correction to increase supply amounts of hydrogen gas an...

A one read/two write SRAM circuit of which memory cell size is small, and high-speed operation is possible. The SRAM circuit includes first and second flip-flop circuits which are connected in parallel to a common write word line; a first write control circuit which is connected to said first flip-flop circuit, is conducted by a write control signal supplied to said write word line, and supplies a...