594 results about "Composition methods" patented technology

Methods and compositions for treating or preventing a skin condition, an inflammation, an irritation or an allergy associated with an ectoparasitic infection or infestation on an animal. The methods involve applying to the skin of the animal a pharmaceutical composition that contains a therapeutically effective amount of one or more than one avenanthramide, an optional ecto and / or endo-parasiticidal agent, and a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent or carrier

Method and apparatus for correction of spelling errors in text composition is provided. Correctly spelled words may be determined for an incorrectly spelled word in accordance with a common error approach. Corrections to the incorrectly word are applied using common typographical and spelling errors. Resulting words which are correctly spelled may be offered as replacements or automatically used to replace the incorrectly word. Corrections may be applied in response to a frequency of the error in text composition to generate correct words that are more likely to be the word intended to be composed. The specific order of application may be configurable to meet a user's preference or a learned behavior for a user.

Methods, compositions and arrays for non-random loading of single analyte molecules into array structures are provided.

Methods, kits, apparatus, and compositions for inhibiting a cerebral neurovascular disorder, a muscular headache, or cerebral inflammation in a human patient are provided. The methods comprise intranasally administering to the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising a local anesthetic, and preferably a long-acting local anesthetic ingredient. A composition useful for practicing the methods of the invention is described which comprises at least one local anesthetic in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the composition is formulated for intranasal delivery. Cerebral neurovascular disorders include migraine and cluster headache. Muscular headaches include tension headaches and muscle contraction headaches. A kit comprising the composition and an intranasal applicator and a method of systemically delivering a pharmaceutically active agent to an animal are also included in the invention. Apparatus for directed intranasal administration of the compositions of the invention and for performing the methods of the invention are also described.

Method for producing an hydrophobically associative polymer is provided which is characterized by forming a monomer solution comprising a surfactant, at least one hydrophobic ethylenically unsaturated monomer, at least one hydrophilic monomer selected from nonionic ethylenically monomers, cationic ethylenically unsaturated monomers, anionic ethylenically unsaturated monomers or mixtures thereof, and water; forming a salt solution comprising a multivalent salt and water; mixing the monomer solution and salt solution to form a mixed solution; and charging the mixed solution with an initiator, thereby polymerizing the monomers to form the hydrophobically associative polymer in a dispersion. Aqueous dispersion containing the hydrophobically associative polymer formed by the method. The aqueous dispersion containing the hydrophobically associative polymer may be used in a paint formulation, in a mobility control fluid useful in enhanced oil recovery, in a secondary or tertiary oil recovery system, in an enhanced oil recovery method, in a cementious composition, in an oil well drilling mud formulation, in a fracturing fluid formulation, in a wastewater treatment system, or in a dewatering sludge system.

The invention discloses an urban environment composition method for unmanned vehicles. Under the condition of being independent of external positioning sensors such as speedometers, GPS and inertial navigators, the trajectory tracking and environment map building of an unmanned vehicle are completed by just using few particles for 3D laser-point cloud data returned by a vehicle-mounted laser radar, thereby providing basis for the autonomous running of the unmanned ground vehicle in an unknown environment; and according to the invention, an ICP algorithm is applied to adjacent two frames of data so as to obtain a coarse estimation on the real position and posture of a vehicle, and then redundance is performed near the coarse estimation based on gaussian distribution. Although the coarse estimation is not the real position and posture of the vehicle, the coarse estimation is a high-probability area of the real position and posture of the vehicle, so that an effect of relatively accurate positioning and composition is achieved by using a small amount of particles in the process of subsequent redundance, thereby avoiding the fitting of a vehicle trajectory by using a large amount of particles in a traditional method, improving the efficiency of the algorithm, and effectively restraining a phenomenon of particle degeneracy caused by bad particle estimation.

Methods and compositions for wellbore treating fluids, especially remedial compositions such as pills, that include zeolite and at least one carrier fluid.

Methods of controlling the durability of and / or the amount of air in concrete formulations that include combining cement, water, and optionally aggregates, admixtures and / or additives to form a cement mixture; and adding prepuff particles to the cement mixture to form a concrete formulation. The prepuff particles have an average particle diameter of from 0.2 mm to 3 mm, a bulk density of from 0.015 g / cc to 0.35 g / cc, an aspect ratio of from 1 to 3, and a smooth continuous outer surface. The cured and hardened concrete formulation typically has a relative dynamic modulus of at least 70% determined according to Procedure A of ASTM C666 (2003). The amount of air in the concrete typically increases over the amount of air in similar formulations not containing prepuff particles, as determined according to ASTM C231, based on the volume percent of prepuff. The concrete formulations can be used to make articles.

Method and system for querying a collection of unstructured and semi-structured documents in a specified database to identify presence of, and provide context and / or content for, keywords and / or keyphrases. The documents are analyzed and assigned a node structure, including an ordered sequence of mutually exclusive node segments or strings. Each node has an associated set of at least four, five or six attributes with node information and can represent a format marker or text, with the last node in any node segment usually being a text node. A keyword (or keyphrase) query is specified, the query is converted to a statement that is recognized and respondeed to by the specified database, and the last node in each node segment is searched for a match with the keyword. When a match is found at a query node, or at a node determined with reference to a query node, the system displays the context and / or the content of the query node.

Methods for forming doped silane and / or semiconductor thin films, doped liquid phase silane compositions useful in such methods, and doped semiconductor thin films and structures. The composition is generally liquid at ambient temperatures and includes a Group IVA atom source and a dopant source. By irradiating a doped liquid silane during at least part of its deposition, a thin, substantially uniform doped oligomerized / polymerized silane film may be formed on a substrate. Such irradiation is believed to convert the doped silane film into a relatively high-molecular weight species with relatively high viscosity and relatively low volatility, typically by cross-linking, isomerization, oligomerization and / or polymerization. A film formed by the irradiation of doped liquid silanes can later be converted (generally by heating and annealing / recrystallization) into a doped, hydrogenated, amorphous silicon film or a doped, at least partially polycrystalline silicon film suitable for electronic devices. Thus, the present invention enables use of high throughput, low cost equipment and techniques for making doped semiconductor films of commercial quality and quantity from doped “liquid silicon.”

A novel rapid-melt composition, including methods of making the same, and methods of using the same for the delivery of prophylactic and therapeutic active materials to a mammal. The rapid-melt compositions are formed by molding or compression, with an additional heating step being preferred.

Methods are disclosed of making linear and cross-linked, HMW (high molecular weight) polysilanes and polygermanes, polyperhydrosilanes and polyperhydrogermanes, functional liquids containing the same, and methods of using the liquids in a range of desirable applications. The silane and germane polymers are generally composed of chains of Si and / or Ge substituted with R′ substituents, where each instance of R′ is, for example, independently hydrogen, halogen, alkenyl, alkynyl, hydrocarbyl, aromatic hydrocarbyl, heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbyl, SiR″3, GeR″3, PR″2, OR″, NR″2, or SR″; where each instance of R″ is independently hydrogen or hydrocarbyl. The cross-linked polymers can be synthesized by dehalogenative coupling or dehydrocoupling. The linear polymers can be synthesized by ring-opening polymerization. The polymers can be further modified by halogenation and / or reaction with the source of hydride to furnish perhydrosilane and perhydrogermane polymers, which are used in liquid ink formulations. The synthesis allows for tuning of the liquid properties (e.g., viscosity, volatility, and surface tension). The liquids can be used for deposition of films and bodies by spincoating, inkjetting, dropcasting, etc., with or without the use of UV irradiation. The deposited films can be converted into amorphous and polycrystalline silicon or germanium, and silicon or germanium oxide or nitride by curing at 400-600 DEG C. and (optionally) laser- or heat-induced crystallization (and / or dopant activation, when dopant is present).

A method and apparatus to position photographed subjects so that the finished product has consistent artistic quality composition is disclosed. Photo templates will be generated implementing proven expert artistic photographic composition methods. The digital camera operator may choose the appropriate template to be displayed on the camera's view window as a superimposed overlay atop the image seen through the view lens. The operator should adjust the subject to mimic the chosen template. In the main embodiment of the invention, said photo template may be stored electronically or directly overlaid on the camera's view window. The composition information available by choosing the photo template can indicate to the camera the region of interest for exposing and focusing, thus eliminating the guesswork of the camera's computer. The primary purpose of the invention is to help the unskilled photographer to take better snapshots. The invention can also be used as a teaching aid in photography classes.

Methods for cleaning an article comprise contacting the article with a cleaning composition comprising a linear or branched volatile siloxane. In one embodiment, the method for cleaning the article comprises contacting the article with a cleaning composition comprising, based upon 100 pbw of the cleaning composition, 80 pbw to 99.99 pbw of a linear or branched volatile siloxane. In another embodiment, the method for cleaning the article comprises contacting the article with a cleaning composition comprising, based upon 100 pbw of the cleaning composition, 50.1 pbw to 99 pbw of a linear or branched volatile siloxane and a cyclic siloxane.

A system and method for composing application services includes an indexing module configured to index words in a request and available application descriptions to create a semantic similarity map. A semantic matcher is configured to determine semantic similarity between concepts / terms in both domain-independent and domain-specific ontologies for the semantic similarity map. A prefiltering module is configured to determine candidate compositions for the request based on the semantic similarity map and the available descriptions. A metric guided composition method is configured to run algorithms to generate a set of alternative compositions by determining which applications can be composed with which others using the semantic similarity map.

Methods for generating music are disclosed. A music data file is generated at a first node. The music data file is transmitted from the first node and received at a second node. Musical definition data that provides information regarding a data structure and data for musical parameters is extracted from the music data file at the second node. The musical definition data is processed and music is generated at the second node for playback in accordance with the data structure and the musical parameters. A modified music data file is generated at the second node and transmitted to the first node. Modified music is generated at the first node based on the modified music data file.

Methods and compositions are provided which comprise effective amounts of analgesic to treat a subject, including reducing or eliminating an adverse effect associated with the analgesic.

Methods and associated systems for improving the visual quality of real-time interactive multimedia presentations, by blending 2-D image data derived from a plurality of 3-D scene views associated with one or more 3-D scenes in accordance with presentation data modifiable by user input in real-time. The 2-D image data rendered from the perspective of the individual scene views are blended together using an associated blend mode in a back to front order producing a 2-D composite image for projection on a display device to a user of the real-time interactive multimedia presentation.

Disclosed herein are compositions for treating a respiratory condition, preferably by enhancing immune response in a mammal, the compositions including a therapeutic amount of a probiotic strain of bacteria and a therapeutic amount of an additional component. Also included are methods of treating a respiratory condition, preferably by enhancing immune response, in a mammal. Kits containing the compositions, and instructions for applying the methods are also included. The method includes orally administering to the mammal a therapeutic amount of a probiotic strain of bacteria and a therapeutic amount of an additional component.

The invention discloses a face image composition method and a device which support image composition containing background, and color change can not occur in facial features outline in the composited image. In the method of the method, an original face image and a face template image can be converted as a shape-changed original face centered image and a shaped-changed face template centered image, and a face masking image can be also generated, in the embodiment of the invention, the shape-changed original face centered image, the shaped-changed face template centered image and the shape-changed face masking image are composited, the background of the original face image and the background of the face template image can be adjusted in the face masking image according to the configured face gray parameters, so that the image composition containing background can be supported, skin color balancing is performed on the original face centered image, so that color change can not occur in the facial features outline in the composited image, and the composition effect of the image can be improved.

Provided are an image composition apparatus for composing color images with black-and-white images including infrared components, and an image composition method thereof. The image composition method includes generating a first image signal with color information and a second image signal including infrared components without color information, dividing the first image signal into a brightness signal and a color signal, composing the brightness signal of the first image signal with a brightness signal of the second image signal to generate a composed brightness signal, and composing the composed brightness signal with the color signal of the first image signal to generate a color image.

Methods for preparing particles and related compositions are provided. In some embodiments, the particles include at least one polynucleotide (e.g., mRNA), and in certain embodiments, the particles may include at least one ionizable molecule (e.g., a lipid). A method for preparing a suspension including the particles may comprise one or more filtration steps. In some such embodiments, prior to or during filtration, one or more properties of the particles (e.g., surface charge) and / or one or more properties of the suspension (e.g., pH) may be altered. In some embodiments, altering one or more properties of the particles and / or suspension may improve yield, improve a characteristic of the resulting composition, and / or prevent or reduce certain problems, such as fouling during the filtration process.

The present invention discloses a composition method of a gantry four-dimensional automatic measurement platform for detecting photochromic performance of display screens and a gantry four-dimensional automatic measurement platform using the method. The present invention relates to the automatic measuring technology of the photochromic performance of display screens, and comprises a platform base, a gantry frame, an X-axis moving mechanism, a Y-axis moving mechanism, a Z-axis lifting mechanism, and a display screen-carrying rotating platform. By moving the mechanisms to control the circuit, the four-dimensional automatic measurement platform for detecting photochromic performance of display screens is flexibly controlled to accomplish the three-dimensional move of the photochromic measuring instrument and the accurate one-dimensional rotation of the display screen to be measured, the present invention is characterized in stable movement of the photochromic measuring instrument, small rotation radium of the display screen, novel structure, small driving power needed, small size, light weight, low cost, rapid measuring speed, high reliability and so on. The present invention can be widely applied to the photochromic automatic detecting system of LCD or LED television screen, display screen, or mobile phone screen and so on, and the present invention can precisely adjust the coordinate position of the test points and the angle of the display screen intelligently according to the detecting requirement of photochromic performance of the display screens under the computer management, and rapidly accomplish the detection of photochromic performance.

The present invention comprises compositions methods and cell lines related to controlling insects. An embodiment of a composition comprises a plant essential oil and targets at least one receptor of insects chosen from tyramine receptor, Or83b olfactory receptor, and Or43a olfactory receptor, resulting in a change in the intracellular levels of cAMP, Ca2+, or both.

A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble.