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A process for reducing pitch in an aqueous medium generated in a papermaking or pulping process, comprising the following steps: a) providing an aqueous medium comprising pitch generated in a papermaking or pulping process; b) providing a ground calcium carbonate and/or a precipitated calcium carbonate, wherein the source of ground calcium carbonate is selected from marble, chalk, calcite, dolomite, limestone and mixtures thereof and/or the precipitated calcium carbonate is selected from one or more of the aragonitic, vateritic and calcitic mineralogical crystal forms; c) providing a hydrophobising agent selected from an aliphatic carboxylic acid having between 5 and 24 carbon atoms; d) contacting the ground calcium carbonate and/or the precipitated calcium carbonate of step b) with the hydrophobising agent of step c) for obtaining a hydrophobised ground calcium carbonate and/or a hydrophobised precipitated calcium carbonate; and e) contacting the aqueous medium provided in step a) with the hydrophobised ground calcium carbonate and/or the hydrophobised precipitated calcium carbonate obtained in step d). a) providing an aqueous medium comprising pitch generated in a papermaking or pulping process; b) providing a ground calcium carbonate and/or a precipitated calcium carbonate, wherein the source of ground calcium carbonate is selected from marble, chalk, calcite, dolomite, limestone and mixtures thereof and/or the precipitated calcium carbonate is selected from one or more of the aragonitic, vateritic and calcitic mineralogical crystal forms; c) providing a hydrophobising agent selected from an aliphatic carboxylic acid having between 5 and 24 carbon atoms; d) contacting the ground calcium carbonate and/or the precipitated calcium carbonate of step b) with the hydrophobising agent of step c) for obtaining a hydrophobised ground calcium carbonate and/or a hydrophobised precipitated calcium carbonate; and e) contacting the aqueous medium provided in step a) with the hydrophobised ground calcium carbonate and/or the hydrophobised precipitated calcium carbonate obtained in step d).
A method of sorting mailpieces in a postal sorting machine, said method comprising the steps consisting in loading the mailpieces into a feed inlet of said machine, and in unstacking them one-by-one to cause them, in series, to go past a camera that forms a digital image of a current mailpiece including a delivery address, and then in causing a monitoring and control unit of the machine to operate, which unit, on the basis of the digital image of the current mailpiece, is suitable for automatically reading delivery address data by OCR, and for comparing the result of that reading with a reference database so as to evaluate the delivery address that corresponds to said current mailpiece in order to direct the current mailpiece automatically to a corresponding sorting outlet of the machine, said method being characterized in that it further comprises the steps consisting in: • detecting loading in the feed inlet of the machine of a batch of mailpieces pre-sorted by a mailer of the mailpieces on the basis of their delivery addresses; • and, in response to said detection, loading, in the reference database, a lexicon comprising the delivery addresses for only the pre-sorted mailpieces of the batch, and, by means of the monitoring and control unit and for each current mailpiece, comparing the result of the OCR reading with said delivery addresses of the lexicon so as to detect similarity in order to evaluate the delivery address of said current mailpiece. • detecting loading in the feed inlet of the machine of a batch of mailpieces pre-sorted by a mailer of the mailpieces on the basis of their delivery addresses; • and, in response to said detection, loading, in the reference database, a lexicon comprising the delivery addresses for only the pre-sorted mailpieces of the batch, and, by means of the monitoring and control unit and for each current mailpiece, comparing the result of the OCR reading with said delivery addresses of the lexicon so as to detect similarity in order to evaluate the delivery address of said current mailpiece.
An anoscope (10, 50) having an outer wall (31, 33) dimensioned and configured for insertion into the anal canal, the anoscope having a proximal end, a distal end, a first channel (26, 53) internal of the outer wall and a second channel (28, 54) internal of the outer wall, the first channel (26, 54) extending longitudinally through the anoscope and having a proximal opening and a distal opening, the second channel (26, 54) positioned at an angle to a longitudinal axis of the first channel (28, 53) and having a proximal opening (30, 55) and a distal opening (32, 57), the distal opening of the second channel communicating with the first channel, the second channel dimensioned and configured to receive a treatment device, characterized in that the second channel is on a first side of the anoscope, and a distal end of the anoscope forms a window on a second side of the anoscope, wherein said first and second sides of the anoscope are on opposing sides of a longitudinal axis of the anoscope, and wherein a distal end of the first side is distal of an opposing distal end of the anoscope on the second side, wherein said angled second channel intersecting the first channel so a treatment device insertable through the second channel can extend into the first channel to the window to access tissue through the window.
An engine anti-ice system, comprising: one or more heat sources configured to selectively heat one or more components on or within a gas turbine engine; one or more sensor data sources configured to supply data representative of one or more parameters related to ice crystal accretion; and a controller coupled to receive the data from the one or more sensors; characterised in that the controller is configured, in response to the data, to (i) determine if one or more criteria are met, and (ii) when the one or more criteria are met, selectively at least inhibit at least selected ones of the one or more heat sources from supplying heat to at least selected ones of the one or more components on or within the gas turbine engine, wherein the one or more criteria comprise one or more of aircraft altitude being at or above a predetermined altitude, a likelihood of ice crystal presence in the air, and ice crystal presence in the air has been detected. one or more heat sources configured to selectively heat one or more components on or within a gas turbine engine; one or more sensor data sources configured to supply data representative of one or more parameters related to ice crystal accretion; and a controller coupled to receive the data from the one or more sensors;
An electrosurgical electrode (110, 180) comprising: one or more pads (188, 192) configured to substantially prevent the creation of one or more pressure sores on a patient resting upon said electrosurgical electrode, said one or more pads comprising at least one pad having a first side and an opposing second side; a conductive element configured to conduct electrical current, said conductive element being positioned adjacent said first side of said at least one pad; a heating element positioned adjacent said opposing second side of said one pad, such that said heating element and said conductive element are spaced apart from one another by said at least one pad, said heating element being adapted to generate heat for warming a patient resting upon said electrosurgical electrode, wherein, said conductive element and said one or more pads have an effective bulk impedance equal to or greater than about 4,000 Ω·cm. one or more pads (188, 192) configured to substantially prevent the creation of one or more pressure sores on a patient resting upon said electrosurgical electrode, said one or more pads comprising at least one pad having a first side and an opposing second side; a conductive element configured to conduct electrical current, said conductive element being positioned adjacent said first side of said at least one pad; a heating element positioned adjacent said opposing second side of said one pad, such that said heating element and said conductive element are spaced apart from one another by said at least one pad, said heating element being adapted to generate heat for warming a patient resting upon said electrosurgical electrode, wherein, said conductive element and said one or more pads have an effective bulk impedance equal to or greater than about 4,000 Ω·cm.
A drug delivery device comprising a drug reservoir chamber containing a substance to be delivered in fluid connection with a drug administration means, a control cell that is constituted by a non-gassing sealed battery cell selected from the group consisting of a lead-acid battery, a dry cell battery, a nickel-cadmium battery, a lithium battery and a fuel cell, comprising electrodes, an electrolyte and a housing surrounding the electrodes, and electrical control means that includes an electric circuit connected via electrical contacts to said electrodes, wherein the electric circuit is to perform a controlled discharge of the sealed battery cell when expelling the substance from the drug reservoir chamber, wherein a part of the housing is a displaceable wall that couples the sealed battery cell to the drug reservoir chamber, wherein when the sealed battery cell discharges on application of a load across said electrical contacts, as its electrical charge is depleted the combined volume of said electrodes and electrolyte changes in the sealed battery cell, said volume change being conveyed by said displaceable wall to said drug reservoir chamber such that said substance is expelled from said drug chamber towards said drug administration means.
A catalyst composition comprising: a. twelve to sixty percent by weight Y-type zeolite; b. two to eight percent by weight rare earth (measured as rare earth oxide) based on the Y-type zeolite; and c. at least ten percent by weight pentasil and wherein pentasil and Y-type zeolite is present in a weight ratio (pentasil:Y-type zeolite) of at least 0.25 and no more than 3.0; and wherein the Y-type zeolite and pentasil comprise at least thirty-five percent by weight of the catalyst composition. a. twelve to sixty percent by weight Y-type zeolite; b. two to eight percent by weight rare earth (measured as rare earth oxide) based on the Y-type zeolite; and c. at least ten percent by weight pentasil and wherein pentasil and Y-type zeolite is present in a weight ratio (pentasil:Y-type zeolite) of at least 0.25 and no more than 3.0;
Ultrasound converter comprising a piezoelectric converter element with an upper side and a lower side, a cup-shaped housing with an upper side and almost closed lower side or cylindrical housing with an open underside, wherein an opening is formed at the upper side, a coupling element with a front side and a rear side, wherein the rear side of the coupling element is acoustically coupled with the upper side of the converter element in order in a transmitting mode to decouple out to the environment the ultrasonic waves generated by means of the converter element or in order in a receiving mode to pass on to the converter element the ultrasonic waves received from the environment by the coupling element, wherein the converter element and the coupling element are arranged in the housing, and a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is connected with a contact surface formed at the lower side of the converter element, the converter element is arranged in a cup-like screen device consisting of a metallic conductive material and the opening of the screening device is bridged over by a metallic conductive grid so that the screening device and the grid form a Faraday cage and a gap is formed between the housing and the screening device and the housing is acoustically decoupled from the screening device, characterised in that the grid is formed between the upper side of the converter element and the rear side of the coupling element and the converter element is spaced from the lower side and an acoustic decoupling material is arranged between the converter element and the lower side and the coupling element has a diameter smaller than the screening device so that acoustic decoupling material is arranged between the housing and the coupling element.
A display system for use in a vehicle, comprising: a display screen having a display area and configured to display an image corresponding to a surrounding area of the vehicle; and a surface configured to reflect at least a portion of the image displayed by the display screen to a viewer, characterized by a control circuit configured to control display of the image of the surrounding area, wherein the visible range of the surrounding area that is visible to the viewer from the image of the display screen reflected in the surface is changed according to a state of the viewer with respect to the surface. a display screen having a display area and configured to display an image corresponding to a surrounding area of the vehicle; and a surface configured to reflect at least a portion of the image displayed by the display screen to a viewer, characterized by a control circuit configured to control display of the image of the surrounding area, wherein the visible range of the surrounding area that is visible to the viewer from the image of the display screen reflected in the surface is changed according to a state of the viewer with respect to the surface.
A post-processing apparatus which performs post-processing for a plurality of sheets received from an image forming means, the apparatus comprising: sheet conveyance means (502, 503, 504) for conveying a sheet received from said image forming means, along a conveyance path; sheet stacking means for stacking a plurality of sheets conveyed by said sheet conveyance means (502, 503, 504); post-processing means for performing post-processing for a sheet bundle including the plurality of sheets stacked by said sheet stacking means; buffer means, arranged upstream of said sheet stacking means, for retaining one or more sheets up to a sheet of a predetermined number from a first sheet that form a next sheet bundle during the post-processing for the sheet bundle, and overlaying the one or more sheets retained and a succeeding sheet; acquisition means for acquiring sheet information for determining whether a sheet is inhibited from the buffer processing by said buffer means; and control means for controlling, based on the sheet information of an Nth sheet and the sheet information of an (N+1)th sheet out of the sheets of the predetermined number, whether to retain the Nth sheet, characterized in that in a case in which the Nth sheet is a sheet for which the buffer processing is not inhibited, when the (N+1)th sheet is a sheet for which the buffer processing is inhibited, said control means controls not to retain the Nth sheet, and when the (N+1)th sheet is not a sheet for which the buffer processing is inhibited, said control means controls to retain the Nth sheet. sheet conveyance means (502, 503, 504) for conveying a sheet received from said image forming means, along a conveyance path; sheet stacking means for stacking a plurality of sheets conveyed by said sheet conveyance means (502, 503, 504); post-processing means for performing post-processing for a sheet bundle including the plurality of sheets stacked by said sheet stacking means; buffer means, arranged upstream of said sheet stacking means, for retaining one or more sheets up to a sheet of a predetermined number from a first sheet that form a next sheet bundle during the post-processing for the sheet bundle, and overlaying the one or more sheets retained and a succeeding sheet; acquisition means for acquiring sheet information for determining whether a sheet is inhibited from the buffer processing by said buffer means; and control means for controlling, based on the sheet information of an Nth sheet and the sheet information of an (N+1)th sheet out of the sheets of the predetermined number, whether to retain the Nth sheet, characterized in that in a case in which the Nth sheet is a sheet for which the buffer processing is not inhibited, when the (N+1)th sheet is a sheet for which the buffer processing is inhibited, said control means controls not to retain the Nth sheet, and when the (N+1)th sheet is not a sheet for which the buffer processing is inhibited, said control means controls to retain the Nth sheet.
A modular tester for testing elongated textile test material such as yarn, roving or sliver, wherein the tester comprises a test material path extending along a front of the tester and a turret-like setup with a plurality of functional modules (41 to 46) which are arranged in succession along the test material path for measuring various parameters of the textile test material, characterized in that the functional modules (41 to 46) are formed as slide-in modules, slots (71 to 76) for the functional modules (41 to 46) are arranged on the turret-like setup in such a way that each of the functional modules (41 to 46) is insertable into one of the slots from the front and is slidable out of the slot (71 to 76), and each of the functional modules (41 to 46) is detachably fastenable in one of the slots (71 to 76) by means of fastening means which are accessible from the front. a test material path extending along a front of the tester and a turret-like setup with a plurality of functional modules (41 to 46) which are arranged in succession along the test material path for measuring various parameters of the textile test material,
An internal combustion engine for a saddle-ride type vehicle, the internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder head, the cylinder head including a camshaft, a rocker arm rocked by the camshaft, an engine valve closed/opened by being push-pressed by the rocker arm, and a rocker arm shaft swingably supporting the rocker arm, characterized in that the cylinder head is provided separately from a holder member, and the holder member being provided adjacently to the cylinder head, the camshaft is rotatably supported by the holder member, and the holder member includes a rocker arm shaft supporting portion and an internal combustion engine supporting portion, the rocker arm shaft supporting portion supporting the rocker arm shaft, the internal combustion engine supporting portion being supported by a vehicle body frame.
A method of making a heat treated coated article, the method comprising: providing a glass substrate; forming at least one layer comprising diamond-like carbon on the glass substrate; forming a protective film comprising zinc on the glass substrate over at least the layer comprising DLC; heat treating the glass substrate with the layer comprising DLC and the protective film comprising zinc thereon so that during the heat treating the protective film prevents significant burnoff of the layer comprising DLC, wherein the heat treating comprises heating the glass substrate to temperature(s) sufficient for thermal tempering, heat strengthening, and/or heat bending; and removing at least part of the protective film comprising zinc during and/or after said heat treating; and wherein the protective film comprises a first layer comprising ZnO y and a second layer comprising ZnO x, where x>y, the first layer comprising ZnO y being located between the layer comprising DLC and the second layer comprising ZnO x; and wherein y is from about 0 to 0.9; and wherein x is from about 0.3 to 0.95. providing a glass substrate; forming at least one layer comprising diamond-like carbon on the glass substrate; forming a protective film comprising zinc on the glass substrate over at least the layer comprising DLC; heat treating the glass substrate with the layer comprising DLC and the protective film comprising zinc thereon so that during the heat treating the protective film prevents significant burnoff of the layer comprising DLC, wherein the heat treating comprises heating the glass substrate to temperature(s) sufficient for thermal tempering, heat strengthening, and/or heat bending; and removing at least part of the protective film comprising zinc during and/or after said heat treating; and wherein the protective film comprises a first layer comprising ZnO y and a second layer comprising ZnO x, where x>y, the first layer comprising ZnO y being located between the layer comprising DLC and the second layer comprising ZnO x; and wherein y is from about 0 to 0.9; and wherein x is from about 0.3 to 0.95.
Use of a single mutation to increase a lactonase catalytic activity of a hyperthermophilic phosphotriesterase which has a sequence defined by the consensus sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein the amino acid W in position 265 is substituted by an amino acid chosen in the group consisting of the amino acids isoleucine I, valine V, threonine T or alanine A, to obtain a mutated hyperthermophilic phosphotriesterase which has an increased lactonase catalytic activity in comparison of the lactonase activity of said hyperthermophilic phosphotriesterase defined by the consensus sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1.
A quantum dot-polymer micronized composite comprising a first polymer matrix comprising a polyacrylate, a polymethacrylate, polyacrylic acid, a polyacrylate salt, a polymethacrylic acid, a polymethacrylate salt, a polyolefin, a polystyrene, a poly(alkylene-co-acrylic acid), a poly(alkylene-co-acrylate salt), a poly(alkylene-co-methacrylic acid), a poly(alkylene-co-methacrylate salt), a poly(styrene-co-acrylic acid), a poly(styrene-co-methacrylic acid), a poly(styrene-co-thiol-terminated ethylene), a thiol-ene polymer, a polyamide, a polyimide, a polyisocyanate, a polythiol, a polyester, or a combination thereof; and a plurality of quantum dots, wherein a quantum dot of the plurality of quantum dots comprises a Group II-VI compound, a Group III-V compound, a Group IV-VI compound, a Group IV element or compound, a Group I-IV compound, a Group I-III-VI compound, a Group I-II-IV-IV compound, or a combination thereof, dispersed in the first polymer matrix; wherein the quantum dot-polymer micronized composite comprises at least one of an additive selected from a clay particle embedded in the first polymer matrix and a metal halide dispersed in the first polymer matrix, wherein the clay particle has a planate surface, an average thickness of less than or equal to 10 nanometers, and a lateral size of 50 nanometers to 10 micrometers and is modified with an organic compound selected from an amine, an ammonium salt, a phosphine, a phosphonium salt, an amine group-containing thiol, a mercapto group-containing silane, or a combination thereof, wherein the metal halide comprises a transition metal and a chloride anion, and wherein the quantum dot-polymer micronized composite has an average particle size of less than or equal to 100 micrometers.