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An absorbent cellulosic sheet is formed by belt creping a nascent web at a consistency of 30% to 60% utilizing a generally planar perforated polymeric creping belt to form a sheet with fiber-enriched higher basis weight hollow domed regions on one side of the sheet joined by a network of lower local basis weight connecting regions forming a network where upwardly and inwardly inflected consolidated fibrous regions exhibiting CD fiber orientation bias form transition areas between the connecting regions and the domed regions. When formed into roll products, the cellulosic sheets exhibit a surprising combination of bulk, roll firmness, absorbency and softness. The consolidated fibrous regions are preferably saddle shaped and exhibit a matted structure on both their outer and inner surfaces.

The present invention relates to microparticles, particularly spherical silica microparticles, which may be useful in liquid chromatography. Specifically, the microparticles include a solid core and an outer porous shell surrounding and irreversibly joined to the core. The shell is composed of a plurality of colloidal nanoparticles, which are applied using an electrostatic multi-multilayering method. The resulting microparticles have a small particle diameter, such as about 1 μm to 3.5 μm, a high particle density, such as about 1.2 g/cc to 1.9 g/cc, and a high surface area, such as about 50 m²/g to 165 m²/g. These microparticles can be used to form packed beds and liquid chromatographic columns, which are more efficient and rugged than conventional liquid chromatographic columns.

The invention features a method of treating at least one sign of aging on the skin selected from the group consisting of (i) thickening the skin, (ii) enhancing the barrier function of skin, and/or (iii) treating at least one sign of aging on the skin selected from the group consisting of enhancing the elasticity of said skin, enhancing the firmness of said skin, smoothing the surface of the skin, and reducing the appearance of wrinkles on the skin, wherein the method includes applying to skin in need of such treatment a skin care composition including a tensioning polymer, wherein the tensioning polymer has a contractile force greater than about 3 g/mg and a water resistance index from about 0.9 to about 1.9.

Therapeutic formulations adapted for positive-pressure application for controlling biological fluid at a desired site in a subject, absorbent articles comprising therapeutic formulations, and anti-infective devices coated with therapeutic formulations, said formulations comprising about 25% to about 99% by weight liquid-crystal forming compound and 0% to about 75% by weight solvent. In addition, methods of using said formulations including methods for controlling biological fluid at a desired site in a subject, methods for controlling blood loss, and methods for facilitating effective closure of a vascular wound or incision site at a desired site in a subject are disclosed, the methods comprising administering particular formulations comprising liquid-crystal forming compounds and solvents that are described herein.

Disclosed is a composition comprising at least two of the following ingredients: Magnolia extract, honokiol, humulus lupulus extract, hesperidin methyl chalcone, gotu kola, dipeptide valyl-tryptophane, palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3, corylus avellana bud extract, centella asiatica extract, cucumis sativa extract, morus alba extract, hibiscus sabdariffa flower extract, vitis vinifera extract, ascorbyl glucoside, citrus medica limonum extract, avena sativa kernel extract, hydrolyzed soy protein, aniseed myrtle extract, tasmania lanceolata leaf extract, artemisia abrotanum extract, or citrus grandis fruit extract or any combination thereof. Also disclosed are methods of treating skin conditions by topically applying the composition to skin.

When a friction stir weld tool penetrates the interface of two workpieces of dissimilar metal alloy materials, the resultant weld of the different alloy materials may produce a weak weld joint. Such weak joints are often experienced, for example, when attempting to form spot welds or other friction stir welds between a magnesium alloy sheet or strip and an aluminum alloy sheet or strip. It is discovered that suitable coating compositions placed at the interface of assembled workpieces can alter the composition of the friction stir weld material and strengthen the resulting bond. In the example of friction stir welds between magnesium alloy and aluminum alloy workpieces, it is found that combinations of copper, tin, and zinc, and other powders can strengthen the magnesium-containing and aluminum-containing friction stir weld material.

A topical skin care composition comprising kakadu plum extract or acai berry extract, or a combination of both, is disclosed. The composition can include a high oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) value. The composition can improve the skin's visual appearance, physiological functions, clinical properties, and/or biophysical properties.

Disclosed is a topical skin care composition that includes water, silymarin, hydrolyzed algin, palmitoyl tripeptide 8, ceramide 2, pomegranate extract comprising pomegranate sterols, glycerin, disodium EDTA, caprylic/capric triglyceride, shea butter, C12-15 alcohols benzoate, dimethicone, glyceryl stearate and PEG 100 stearate, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, stearic acid, butylene glycol, caprylyl glycol, and (s) a mixture of acrylamide/sodium acryloyldimethyl taurate copolymer, isohexadecane, and polysorbate 80.

An anti-snore neck-support pillow includes a molded foam body and a fabric covering. The body includes front, back and middle portions. The back portion is thinner than the front portion and thicker than the middle portion. The top surface of the body has a concave curve between the front and back portions. The molded foam conforms around a support member disposed within the front portion. Vertical holes pass completely through the middle portion. The body has a flat bottom surface with an indentation located opposite the concave curve of the top surface. The support member increases the firmness of the foam in the front portion, whereas the holes and the indentation decrease the firmness of the body in the middle portion. The user's head is tilted back when the support member lifts the user's neck, and the holes and indentation allow the user's head to sink into the middle portion.

The invention discloses mask liquid with multiple skin care effects and a preparation method thereof, aims at providing mask liquid which has effects of skin whitening, speckle removing, wrinkle smoothing, inflammation relieving and diminishing, long-lasting moisturizing and grease balancing, and belongs to the technical field of cosmetics. According to the technical scheme, the mask liquid is prepared from, by weight, 0.5%-3% of sericin, 3.011%-14.02% of a plant extract, 1.11%-8.35% of a moisturizer, 8%-15% of polyalcohol, 0.1%-1.5% of active peptides, 0.08%-0.15% of Carbomer, 0.08%-0.15% of triethanolamine, 0.02%-0.06% of disodium EDTA, 0.3%-0.5% of a preservative and the balance deionized water.

The invention discloses a needle amperometric determination type glucose sensor for subcutaneous tissue real-time monitoring and manufacturing method thereof. The sensor comprises a needle reference electrode (2) and at least one needle working electrode (1) including a conducting layer (8) and an enzyme membrane layer (6), and is characterized in that the working electrode (1) further comprises a polymer material inner membrane layer (7) and a polymer material control diffusion layer (5), and the conducting layer (8), the polymer material inner membrane layer (7), the enzyme membrane layer (6) and the polymer material control diffusion layer (5) are coated in turn from inner to outside. According to the manufacturing method in the invention, the glucose sensor has good stability, high flexibility, wide linear range of output current and glucose concentration, short response time, continuous real-time monitoring, good fastness and stability of enzyme bonding, high flexibility, selectivity and repeatability.

The present invention implements a strategy that combines an enzyme inhibition assay with a chemical dereplication process to identify active plant extracts and the particular compounds—diarylalkanes and/or diarylalkanols within those extracts that specifically inhibit binuclear enzyme function. Included in the present invention are compositions of matter comprised of one or more of diarylalkanes and/or diarylalkanols, which inhibit the activity of binuclear enzymes, particularly tyrosinase and which prevent melanin overproduction. The present invention also provides a method for inhibiting the activity of a binuclear enzyme, particularly tyrosinase and a method for preventing and treating diseases and conditions related to binuclear enzyme function. The present invention further includes a method for preventing and treating melanin overproduction and diseases and conditions of the skin related thereto. The method for preventing and treating diseases and conditions related to binuclear enzyme function and melanin overproduction is comprised of administering to a host in need thereof an effective amount of a composition comprising one or more diarylalkanes and/or diarylalkanols synthesized and/or isolated from one or more plants together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

Disclosed is a multi-beneficial topical skin care composition, and methods for its use, that can hydrate skin, increase the firmness of skin, reduce the appearance of fine lines or wrinkles on skin, and reduce the appearance of age spots on skin. The composition can include a combination of skin active ingredients comprising euterpe oleracea fruit extract, punica granatum sterols, caprooyl tetrapeptide-3, tocopherol or tocopherol acetate, and niacinamide, a combination of skin moisturizing agents comprising glycerin and butyrospermum parkii, a photo stable combination of sunscreen agents providing the composition with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least about 15, and a dermatologically acceptable vehicle which imparts a non-greasy feel when applied to skin.

The invention provides a tanning production process capable of recycling waste water repeatedly from soaking to dyeing, which is characterized in that waste liquid recycling is conducted in procedures of pre-soaking, main-soaking, liming, deliming and softening, pickling and chrome tanning, retanning, neutralizing and dyeing step by step, and waste liquid in all the procedures achieves full-closed circulation recycling. The technology is tested and verified in actual production in a tanning workshop of BIOSK (sq) Chemicals Co. Limited. The process achieves recycling of waste water from the pre-soaking to the dyeing, sewage discharging is greatly reduced, a problem of tanning pollution is solved thoroughly, quality of finished leather can be guaranteed simultaneously, loose side rate of the finished leather is effectively reduced, degree of compacting and fullness of the finished leather is improved, chemical materials can be saved by 15% to 55%, for example, chromium powder is saved by 35% to 65%, partial chemical materials can be saved by more than 90%, and exceptional chemical materials such as salt can be saved by 100%.

The invention discloses an audio lossless compression encoding and decoding method and belongs to the field of information source encoding and decoding. In the method, a signal is framed adaptively according to related conditions of the former frame and the later frame of the signal, wherein a frame signal after framing is a combination of signals with similar signal characteristics, so that an encoder can achieve higher compression efficiency and is good for later integer wavelet transform and linear predictive encoding. For lossless compression encoding, a signal can be completely reconstructed, and the complete reconstructed characteristic of the signal is guaranteed by adopting integer lifting wavelet transform. Compared with the prior art, after a related adaptive framing-based module and an integer lifting wavelet-based de-correlation module are introduced, redundant information in an original signal can be well de-correlated, and the generated compressed data contains less redundant information. Therefore, the audio lossless compression encoding and decoding method can greatly improve the compression ratio by low computation complexity.

The invention relates to a display device. The device comprises a wound sheet having a first portion and a second portion, a fixed support, a movable support and a reel mechanism, and the wound sheetcomprises a flexible display screen and a curtain support layer; the fixed support is used for supporting the first portion; the movable support is used for supporting the second portion; the movablesupport slides relative to the fixed support; the reel mechanism is used for winding the second portion; the reel mechanism is mounted at one end of the movable support; the winding mechanism includesa reel sleeve, a torsion spring for driving the reel sleeve to rotate and retract through pretightening force and a support shaft for supporting the torsion spring; the support shaft is fixed to themovable support. According to the above display device, when the wound sheet is unfolded, the flexible display screen can all be displayed, good rigidity can be maintained, and the requirements of touch control or other operations are met; when the second portion of the wound sheet is wound, the entire display device is reduced in size and easy to carry. The invention also discloses an electronicproduct.

The invention discloses adhesive emulsion for environment-friendly textile gilding printing paste and a preparation method thereof. The emulsion consists of the following components in percentage by weight: 0.5-3% of emulsifier, 30-50% of soft monomer, 6-15% of hard monomer, 2-5% of functional monomer, 0.1-0.3% of initiator, 40-60% of deionized water and 0.5-2% of neutralizer. The adhesive is prepared into gilding paste and is used for bonding textile gilding foil; and the shortcomings of the products on the market of low net operability, hard handfeel, unsatisfactory firmness, easy color losing after washing, environmental pollution and the like are overcome. Through the invention, the prepared adhesive has excellent initial viscosity and sustained viscosity and good water resistance, and can realize good adhesive force against different textile fabrics; and meanwhile, the adhesive has good cohesion permanent viscosity, is environment-friendly without releasing toxic substances such as formaldehyde and the like, and does not contain the alkylphenol additives. The adhesive emulsion disclosed by the invention is suitable for the cold and hot gilding technology of manual or mechanical printing, is easy to operate, and has soft handfeel, no sand hole and high yield.

The invention discloses low-fat and high-protein jam yogurt and a preparation method of the low-fat and high-protein jam yogurt. The low-fat and high-protein jam yogurt is prepared from the following raw materials based on 1000 parts by weight: 800-860 parts of low-fat milk, 1-10 parts of concentrated milk protein, 3-15 parts of whey protein powder, 80-120 parts of jam, 0.2-60 parts of a sweetening agent, 1-30 parts of inulin, 8-20 parts of a thickening agent and 0-1 part of edible essence; the low-fat and high-protein jam yogurt also comprises a leavening agent, and the dosage of the leavening agent is 50-200U in every 1000kg of raw materials. The low-fat and high-protein jam yogurt is prepared by the conventional yoghourt preparation method in the field. The low-fat and high-protein jam yogurt has the advantages of being good in texture, good in flavor, complete in nutrition and good in product stability, and being capable of realizing diversification of varieties.

Methods of making novel cheese curds and cheese products comprise the steps of providing a fluid milk protein source containing casein; mixing a milk coagulating enzyme into the fluid milk protein source; allowing the milk coagulating enzyme to react with the casein for a time sufficient for the fluid milk protein source to form coagulum while at a pH of 5.6 or above; heating the coagulum containing the enzyme treated casein to a temperature of at least 135° F., more preferably at least 150° F., while the fluid milk protein source is at a pH of 5.6 or above, for a time sufficient to cause syneresis of the coagulum and to form curds; and separating the curds from liquid remaining from the curd formation. In another embodiment, the milk coagulating enzyme is allowed to react with the casein for at least three hours while at a temperature at which a coagulum does not form; after which the fluid milk protein source containing the enzyme treated casein is heated to at least 135° F., for a time sufficient to cause the casein to form curds. The curds from either embodiment may be mixed with additional ingredients to make the cheese products, including processed and imitation cheese. A composition consisting essentially of a fluid milk protein source containing casein and milk coagulating enzyme in the form of a coagulum at a temperature of at least about 160° F., as well as ground curds having a weight average particle size of about 1.5 mm or less, are novel.

Splitboard boot bindings for backcountry splitboarding. Each of a pair of soft-boot bindings is provided with an integral boot binding lower that conjoins the two halves of a splitboard without the additional weight or height of an adaptor mounting plate, upper binding baseplate or “tray”, and extra fasteners of the prior art. The boot binding lower is formed as a box girder and provides improved torsional stiffness for splitboard riding. When subjected to a torque applied by the rider, the bottom mediolateral edges of the box girders are configured to contactingly engage the top face of the splitboard, thereby dynamically coupling the rider's boot sole and the board via a single rigid structure. In a preferred embodiment, the web or “spacer” members of the box girder are characterized by an aspect ratio or contour height that is varied from heel to toe.