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Nutritional compositions delivered in vivo in a time controlled manner sustainable over long periods of time, provide enhancing athletic performance, increased hand/eye coordination and concentration on the task at hand.

A magnetic toner includes: magnetic toner particles each comprising at least a binder resin and magnetic toner, and inorganic fine powder. The magnetic toner has an average circularity of at least 0.970, and a magnetization of 10-50 Am2/kg at a magnetic field of 79.6 kA/m. The magnetic powder comprises at least magnetic iron oxide. The magnetic toner particles retain carbon in an amount of A and iron in an amount of B at surfaces thereof as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, satisfying: B/A<0.001. The binder resin comprises a resin formed by polymerization of a monomer comprising at least styrene monomer. The magnetic toner has a residual styrene monomer content of less than 300 ppm, and contains at least 50% by number of toner particles satisfying a relationship of: D/C<=0.02, wherein C represents a volume-average particle size of the magnetic toner, and D represents a minimum distance between the surface of a magnetic toner particle and magnetic powder particles contained in the magnetic toner particle. Owing to the above features, the magnetic toner can exhibit good electrohotographic performances, including excellent chargeability and little transfer-residual toner, even in a cleanerless-mode image forming system.

A method of flushing a nozzle of an inkjet recording head so as to recover an ink-ejection performance of the nozzle. The nozzle ejects, in a recording mode of the inkjet recording head, a plurality of droplets of an ink to record dot images, such that each of the droplets has an arbitrary one of a plurality of volumes. The flushing method includes causing the inkjet recording head to perform, for a first time, a plurality of continuous flushing actions in each of which the nozzle attempts to eject a droplet of the ink whose volume is larger than a smallest volume of the plurality of volumes, and causing the inkjet recording head to repeat, at least one more time, the plurality of continuous flushing actions while interposing a pause time between each pair of consecutive times out of the first time and said at least one more time.

A fuel cell system is provided having at least one fuel cell including an oxidant electrode, a fuel electrode, and an electrolyte membrane interposed between the oxidant electrode and the fuel electrode. The fuel cell system includes a temperature detector which detects a temperature of the fuel cell and a controller which operates the fuel cell, controls a potential of the oxidant electrode, and determines whether to perform a performance recovery operation in which an impurity on the oxidant electrode is oxidized. When the performance recovery operation is to be performed, the controller controls the potential of the oxidant electrode to be a desired potential based on the temperature detected by the temperature detector.

This invention seeks to provide a novel device for removing membranous lead sulfate deposited on electrodes of a lead-acid battery by dissolving the lead sulfate into fine particles without causing the membranous lead sulfate to fall off or be suspended in the electrolytic solution, thus to recover the performance of the battery in a deteriorated state and prolong the battery life. This invention further seeks to provide a novel device for removing membranous lead sulfate deposit on the electrodes, which can emit little noise to the outside environment. To attain the objects as noted above according to the present invention, there is provided a device for removing membranous lead sulfate deposited on electrodes of the lead-acid battery due to sulfation by using a phenomenon bringing about a conductor skin effect of intensively dissolving the surface layer of the membranous lead sulfate deposited on the electrodes with the pulse current having a short pulse width, which device is attached to a lead-acid battery and provided with a voltage detector, reference voltage generator, voltage comparator, oscillator, amplifier, waveform shaping circuit, negative pulse generator, and electrfying indicator. The pulse width of the pulse current is preferably 1 μs or less.

This invention seeks to provide a novel method for removing membranous lead sulfate deposited on electrodes of a lead-acid battery by dissolving the lead sulfate into fine particles without causing the membranous lead sulfate to fall off or be suspended in the electrolytic solution, thus to recover the performance of the battery in a deteriorated state and prolong the battery life. This invention further seeks to provide a novel method for removing membranous lead sulfate deposit on the electrodes, which can emit little noise to the outside environment. To attain the objects as noted above according to the present invention, there is provided a method for removing membranous lead sulfate deposited on electrodes of the lead-acid battery due to sulfation by using a phenomenon bringing about a conductor skin effect of intensively dissolving the surface layer of the membranous lead sulfate deposited on the electrodes with the pulse current having a short pulse width. The pulse width of the pulse current is preferably 1 μs or less.

The invention concerns method and a tool for designing an optimal hardware structure of a process control system and configuring a given control function onto the optimal hardware structure of the process control system. The method and the tool of the invention comprises three main parts that can be used in conjunction or be used separately together with other solutions for the remaining part or parts of the system.

A reader for wirelessly receiving a signal from a tag, the signal having a portion on a first side, a portion on a second side and a synchronization sequence to be detected between the first and the second side, wherein the portion on the first side, the synchronization sequence and the portion on the second side are serially arranged with each other, has a processor. The processor is configured for storing the received signal, for detecting the synchronization sequence in the received signal, for calculating a transmission characteristic between the tag and the reader, using the portion of the received signal on the first side and for extracting a payload information from the portion of the received signal on the second side, using the calculated transmission characteristic.

A method for operating a fuel cell, which is capable of recovering the performance of the fuel cell when the performance of the fuel cell is degraded. The fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly having an electrolyte film, an anode, and a cathode. The anode and the cathode sandwich the electrolyte film and carry a catalyst metal. An oxidizing agent is fed to the cathode and fuel is fed to the anode to generate power. After a predetermined period of time has passed, two sides of the membrane electrode assembly are inverted to carry out a changing operation of changing the anode before inverted to a cathode, and changing the cathode before inverted to an anode. After the changing operation, an oxidizing agent is fed to the cathode after changed and fuel is fed to the anode after changed, thereby starting a power generation again.

A composite material for water or wastewater treatment is described. The composite material has a buoyant substrate, an adsorbant for adsorbing organic compounds, a photocatalyst for degrading organic compounds, and an enhancer for facilitating mass transfer between the adsorbent and the photocatalyst, increasing the selectivity of the composite material, or for proving the photocatalytic efficiency is described. The adsorbent, photocatalyst, and enhancer are immobilized on the substrate.

A method for recovering performance of a fuel-cell stack is provided. When hydrogen used as fuel of the fuel-cell stack is contaminated, air is supplied to an anode instead of hydrogen to remove impurities and recover the performance of the fuel-cell stack. The method includes supplying air to an anode of the fuel-cell stack in an operation stop state of the fuel-cell stack to decrease a stack voltage.

In various embodiments, the present disclosure describes processes and systems for recovery of styrene from a styrene-rich feedstock. The processes and systems maintain performance of an extractive solvent used in the styrene recovery. In general, the processes include introducing a styrene-rich feedstock to an extractive distillation column, removing a styrene-rich stream from the extractive distillation column, introducing the styrene-rich stream to a solvent recovery column, removing a styrene-lean stream from the solvent recovery column, separating and treating a portion of the styrene-lean stream to form a treated extractive solvent and recycling the treated extractive solvent. In some embodiments, the treating process also includes steam stripping. Styrene-recovery systems including an extractive distillation column, a solvent recovery column, a solvent treatment apparatus having at least one equilibrium stage and a continuous circulation loop connecting these components are also disclosed herein.

Fast cross direction caliper control recovery time in a sheet making machine during startup of the machine after a sheet break is achieved provided that a preselected time duration measured from the occurrence of the sheet break to the clearing of sheet break has elapsed. One or more of three operations, namely, open loop calender stack conditioning, a conditioning of a measurement from a sensor for measuring caliper of the sheet and a closed loop change in a set of control tuning parameters of a PI controller for providing feedback caliper control of actuators associated with the calender stack can be selectably performed. The operations have an order of precedence. The first and second can be performed concurrently if the selected time duration for both are identical, the first is performed before the third if both are selected and the second is performed before the third if both are selected.