Agalactia and associated disease problems have been recognized as major causes of economic loss in animal breeding, especially in such areas as swine raising. Nevertheless its importance in other fields, such as the breeding of horses, cows, sheep and dogs may not be underestimated. The loss is primarily manifested as stunting and mortality of young animals during the postnatal period. It is clear that virtually all losses attributed to starvation and many of the losses attributed to trauma, dia...

Method and compositions are provided for chemical analysis of an analyte which is a member of a specific binding pair of organic substances consisting of ligand and ligand receptor (antiligand). The method involves bringing together the following reagents with the analyte in an aqueous assay medium under mild conditions. The first reagent is a conjugate of a member of the specific binding pair with a chemical entity which provides a means for chemically changing the concentration of a compound w...

Process for the recovery of oil from a subterranean oil reservoir involving the injection into the reservoir of an aqueous solution of an amphoteric surfactant having an inner quaternary ammonium group linked to a terminal sulfonate or carboxylate group. The amphoteric surfactants may be employed in relatively low concentrations within the range of 0.0005 to 0.1 weight percent and injected in a slug of at least 0.5 pore volume. The invention may be applied in situations in which the reservoir wa...

This specification discloses method and apparatus for treating subsurface layers of the earth to build strength of the subsurface layers and control movement of the subsurface water characterized by slaking quicklime (CaO) in a mixing tank to form an elevated temperature, hydrated lime [Ca (OH).sub.2 ] slurry and injecting the resulting elevated temperature lime slurry at a predetermined plurality of spaced apart locations and at predetermined depths into the earth subsurface layers. This achiev...

A mild, non-irritating surfactant composition, which includes an anionic surfactant, an amine oxide, a nonionic surfactant having a relatively low melting point, and a nonionic surfactant having a high melting point relative to the low melting point nonionic surfactant.

An apparatus for feeding documents from a stack of documents, in single file, into a document track, with the apparatus employing an endless belt. The endless belt is mounted on a drive roller and an idler roller to provide a linear portion of the belt which is parallel to the first document to be fed from the stack. The apparatus also includes a retard mechanism which includes a first portion to engage the documents in the stack and also includes a second portion which is parallel to the linear...

A throwable disk is formed out of a wire ring and a thin fabric sheet in the space circumscribed by the ring. The ring concentrates the disk weight on the outer edge of the disk, so that the disk can be thrown comparatively great distances even though it is relatively light in weight.

The present invention provides methods and for the dealcoholization of alcohol containing solutions, especially fermented beverages. In preferred embodiments the methods employ a novel controlled-strip evaporative perstraction technique following initial clarification to remove biomass, wherein strip solutions, dealcoholized beverage, or both are recycled for use in the strip solutions for dealcoholization of subsequent batches of feed beverage. In further preferred embodiments additives are int...

A game of chance having a playing surface including a plurality of betting areas. The betting areas have a plurality of betting squares for wagering upon a selected result produced by a random result selector such as dice. In one embodiment, the random result selector comprises a plurality of dice having a plurality of faces, each face embossed with either a number or a special symbol. Each betting square contains result indicators that correspond to a selected one of the plurality of results. I...

This invention relates to processes which comprise reacting one or more reactants in the presence of a metal-organopolyphosphite ligand complex catalyst and optionally free organopolyphosphite ligand, and an amount of a sterically hindered organophosphorus ligand different from the organopolyphosphite ligand of said metal-organopolyphosphite ligand complex catalyst, to produce one or more products. The sterically hindered organophosphorus ligands are useful as indicators of organopolyphosphite l...