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A method of processing receipts, including: obtaining transaction data including a plurality of categories of information necessary to describe a purchasing transaction of a customer at a store location; obtaining image data representing a receipt corresponding to the purchasing transaction of the customer at the store location; obtaining an e-mail address of the customer; providing an option to print the receipt at the store location and an option to e-mail the receipt to the customer; obtaining a selection of at least one of the provided options; if the option to print is selected, initiating printing of the image at the store location; and if the option to e-mail is selected, sending an e-mail to the e-mail address of the customer, the e-mail including providing at least one of the image data and the transaction data.

A mat with puzzle function is a four-sided pad. Each side has a tooth part with a succession of teeth. At least two cutting lines divide the mat into four blocks, in such a way that each block has an assembling part with the complementary shape to connect with others. The block of each mat can engage with another block of the mat to form a puzzle mat set.

A method for removing ammonia from a gas comprising HCN, ammonia and water, by first contacting the gas with aqueous ammonium phosphate to remove ammonia from the gas, and then passing the resulting ammonium phosphate solution through an electrolyzer to convert oxalates and formates into hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

A stopper includes a main body portion defining an open rearward end configured to receive the plunger rod, an engagement portion provided along an inner circumference of the main body portion configured to engage at least a top portion of the plunger rod, a closed front end forming a flexible roof, and a first perimetrical skirt extending around an outer circumference of the main body portion toward the closed front end of the main body portion. When fluid pressure is increased inside the syringe barrel during an injection, the flexible roof expands in a radial direction toward an inner wall of the syringe barrel, the first perimetrical skirt is forced against the inner wall of the syringe barrel, and an engagement between the plunger rod and the engagement portion forces the main body portion to expand in the radial direction toward the inner wall of the syringe barrel.

There are provided a metal copper clad laminate (MCCL) and a method of manufacturing a metal core printed circuit board (MCPCB) using the same. The MCCL includes a metal plate; a first polyimide adhesive layer laminated on the metal plate, the first polyimide adhesive layer having a shape corresponding to that of the metal plate so as not to expose an upper surface of the metal plate; a polyimide insulating layer laminated on the polyimide adhesive layer; and copper cladding laminated on the polyimide insulating layer.

An original business method that significantly improves the recorded music industry-standard street release method (a coined term) of selling recorded music in the open-source CD format, by reconfiguring the use of conventional and Internet distribution channels; including first obtaining ownership and/or distribution rights in and to groups of approximately 100 new sound recordings featuring artists generally recognizable to the public within a definable genre of musical style, then creating a Golden digital songfile(a coined term) for each new sound recording acquired, utilizing any one of a number of suitable data compression/decompression technologies, then storing the GDS(s) in an open-portal database, then promoting and marketing the GDS(s) over the Internet through first-click access (a coined term) to genre-specific main music menus on any number of retail website(s), then offering the GDS(s) for electronic purchase to the computer consumer, then selecting certain Golden digital songfiles for crossover distribution (a coined term) through industry-standard street release method, then expanding the above formula to other groups of approximately 100 Golden digital songfiles featuring recognized artists in all definable music genres.

The information processing system includes an accumulation unit for accumulating a print result as result data, an input acceptance unit for accepting input of color standard information indicating a standard of a print color and paper property information indicating a property of a print paper, an acquisition unit for acquiring print property information indicating a property of a printing apparatus that performs printing on the print paper, a determination unit for referring the color standard information and the paper property information, which have been input to the input acceptance unit, and the print property information, which has been acquired in the acquisition unit, to the result data of the accumulation unit, and determining whether printing complying with a standard based on the color standard information is possible in the printing apparatus, and a notification unit for notifying a determination result thereof.

A system for dispensing solvents removes the need for storing solvents in multitudes of small containers or containers which are not suitable for storing the solvents for a long duration. The system minimizes laboratory space requirements for the storage and handling of solvents. The system minimizes waste generation. With the system for dispensing solvents, the solvents are stored properly and are able to be dispensed in small quantities for use as needed. The system for dispensing solvents also includes leak detection, a spill tray, a fume hood and other precautionary measures to ensure a safe handling environment.

The present invention provides cantilevered structural support systems subjected principally to lateral-load conditions, such as guard rail systems, which are made of solid materials and which are designed to remove drifting snow from the road surface. The present invention identifies the design lateral-load plus vertical design loads imposed via installation activities plus design torsional load requirements plus design required soil-matrix resistance development then matches the structural requirements by way of either material mass and/or shape. The post and block section of the rail are combined into one curved object and divided into two or more branches, connecting the post/block object to the rail. The branch' median curve is above the highest point on the rail's surface. The sectional shape of the rail is elliptical and the axes are declined towards the surface of the road. The present invention can be of homogeneous material such as, but not limited to, wood and/or steel and/or aluminium and/or plastic and/or rubber. The present invention can also be of a composite nature of two or more materials.

The methods for producing a UV-curable acrylic copolymer is disclosed. The method includes polymerizing a mixture of monomers comprising (i) 40-95 wt % of at a (meth)acrylate monomer, (ii) 5-60 wt % of a copolymerizable monomer, wherein said monomer is selected from those whose homopolymers have a glass transition temperature of higher than −30° C., and (iii) optionally 0.5-20 wt % of a copolymerizable functional monomer having a functional group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group to form an acrylic copolymer. The method includes reacting the acrylic copolymer with at least one type of monomer comprising a UV-curable functional group in the presence of a catalyst to form the UV-curable acrylic copolymer. Also encompassed are UV-curable acrylic copolymers thus formed, adhesive composition comprising the UV-curable acrylic copolymers, methods for manufacturing adhesive sheets comprising the UV-curable acrylic copolymers, and use of the UV-curable acrylic copolymers.

The present invention encompasses compositions and methods for the prevention and treatment of age related conditions in animals, particularly in companion animals, in need thereof. The methods for treating or preventing an age-related condition in an animal in need thereof, comprise administering to the animal an effective amount of a composition comprising at least one of a protein source, a carbohydrate source, a vegetable source, a fruit source, or a combination of two or more thereof. In this method, the protein source is selected from the group consisting of chicken, egg protein, corn gluten meal, and combinations thereof; the carbohydrate source is selected from the group consisting of millet, brewers rice, oat groats, and combinations thereof, the vegetable source is selected from the group consisting of carrots, spinach, tomato pomace, and combinations thereof, wherein the fruit source is citrus pulp.

A cleaning system that utilizes an organic cleaning solvent and pressurized fluid solvent is disclosed. The system has no conventional evaporative hot air drying cycle. Instead, the system utilizes the solubility of the organic solvent in pressurized fluid solvent as well as the physical properties of pressurized fluid solvent. After an organic solvent cleaning cycle, the solvent is extracted from the textiles at high speed in a rotating drum in the same way conventional solvents are extracted from textiles in conventional evaporative hot air dry cleaning machines. Instead of proceeding to a conventional drying cycle, the extracted textiles are then immersed in pressurized fluid solvent to extract the residual organic solvent from the textiles. This is possible because the organic solvent is soluble in pressurized fluid solvent. After the textiles are immersed in pressurized fluid solvent, pressurized fluid solvent is pumped from the drum. Finally, the drum is de-pressurized to atmospheric pressure to evaporate any remaining pressurized fluid solvent, yielding clean, solvent free textiles. The organic solvent is preferably selected from terpenes, halohydrocarbons, certain glycol ethers, polyols, ethers, esters of glycol ethers, esters of fatty acids and other long chain carboxylic acids, fatty alcohols and other long-chain alcohols, short-chain alcohols, polar aprotic solvents, siloxanes, hydrofluoroethers, dibasic esters, and aliphatic hydrocarbons solvents or similar solvents or mixtures of such solvents and the pressurized fluid solvent is preferably densified carbon dioxide.

The invention relates to a process for the synthesis of a Ziegler Natta procatalyst, the process comprising first treating magnesium alkoxide with a twice used mixed solvent of TiCl₄ and chloro benzene to form a first stage product, then treating the first stage product with a once used mixed solvent of TiCl₄ and chlorobenzene to form a second stage product and finally treating the second stage product with mixed solvent recovered by treatment of effluent from the first treatment with benzoyl chloride so as to convert contaminant of formula TiCl₃OR in the effluent to an addition complex which is precipitated, filtered off and hydrolyzed to recover ethyl benzoate and to form Ti(OH)₄ as a side product, the product after final treatment being subjected to a plurality of successive washing steps with used as well as recovered hexane.

A control device that controls a heating device having a plurality of heating zones, has a monitoring unit configured to monitor a temperature of at least a first heating zone in the plurality of heating zones, and a control unit configured to perform heat-up starting control, in which heat-up of at least a second heating zone is started in the plurality of heating zones, based on the temperature of the first heating zone.