Month of July 2005

The use of silicone elastomer blends in personal care formulations has increased steadily since these blends were first introduced in the 1990's. A silicone elastomer blend consists of a crosslinked silicone polymer (elastomer) that is blended with a solvent that is sufficiently compatible with the silicone elastomer...

The invention describes a method to use a single solid and easy to use MOD precursor for slot-die coating or other suitable deposition process and conversion to epitaxial YBCO superconductor with high performance. The new method is expected to produce a high degree of consistency in the performance and also expected...

A system is disclosed that automatically adjusts the quality level of a program and its segments (clips). In particular, adjustments are made to individual program segments based on their presentation, text (e.g., Closed Captioning signal), content type and other relevant meta-data.

Based on the Balanced Scorecard theory (http://www.balancedscorecard.org/), Business Performance Management (BPM for abbreviation) systems can help company executives to link their long-term strategy to short-term objectives. Such a system provides an integrated view on strategies, objectives and measures of...

Disclosed is a system for prevent leakage of the company know-how embedded in CAD data. Using this method, enciphered PowerCopy files in CATIA V5* can be used only on the machine registered in advance.

This document describes an extension to the OSPF protocol to reduce periodic flooding of Link State Advertisements (LSAs) in stable topologies.