The present invention provides resin beads that are capable of imparting stable water repellency and oil absorbency at a high level to products, and realizing good spreadability and excellent persistence of makeup without giving sticky feeling when added to, for example, cosmetic materials, the process for producing the resin beads, and various kinds of products using the resin beads and having excellent properties. Resin beads being resin particles obtained by subjecting a monomer mixture containing a plurality of monomers each having a copolymerizable functional group to suspension polymerization in a state where at least a non-polymerizable silicone compound is present, the resin particles each having a roughened surface, and a process for producing the resin beads, and various kinds of products each using the resin beads and each having excellent properties.

A door assembly. The door assembly may include at least one door panel and a door frame having a plurality of frame members including a header and a pair of side jambs. The invention may also be considered a frame member. The frame member may include a core; and a two-piece top piece adjoining the core to form a structural member. The core and the top piece may be a composite of cellulosic material and at least one other material. The door assembly may further include at least one adjacent panel. Also disclosed are door jamb frame members and mullion frame members.

This invention relates to a tire with tread for promoting a combination of wet traction and service at low temperatures of a rubber composition containing a styrene/butadiene elastomer, cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber, liquid high Tg styrene/butadiene polymer, resin and vegetable triglyceride oil.

Novel phantoms are provided herein that can accurately mimic the optical and/or acoustic properties of living tissue. The disclosed phantoms are constructed of one or more polyvinyl chloride plastisol (PVCP) gels comprising a PVC and a binary plasticizer. The phantoms can be used, for example, to calibrate or test an optical and/or acoustic detection system, such as a photoacoustic imaging system or an ultrasound imaging system.

The invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, to a vulcanizate and to a vehicle tire. The sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture contains at least the following constituents: 50 to 100 phr of at least one polyisoprene selected from the group consisting of natural and synthetic polyisoprene and 5 to 500 phr of at least one silica and at least one silane B having the general empirical formula I)
(R.sup.1).sub.oSiR.sup.2S.sub.nR.sup.2Si(R.sup.1).sub.o where the R.sup.2 radicals may independently be the same or different and are unbranched alkylene groups having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 6 to 10 carbon atoms, and where n is an integer from 2 to 10.

This invention relates to a tire with tread for promoting a combination of wet traction and service at low temperatures of a rubber composition containing a styrene/butadiene elastomer, cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber, liquid high Tg styrene/butadiene polymer, resin and vegetable triglyceride oil.

The present invention provides resin beads that are capable of imparting stable water repellency and oil absorbency at a high level to products, and realizing good spreadability and excellent persistence of makeup without giving sticky feeling when added to, for example, cosmetic materials, the process for producing the resin beads, and various kinds of products using the resin beads and having excellent properties. Resin beads being resin particles obtained by subjecting a monomer mixture containing a plurality of monomers each having a copolymerizable functional group to suspension polymerization in a state where at least a non-polymerizable silicone compound is present, the resin particles each having a roughened surface, and a process for producing the resin beads, and various kinds of products each using the resin beads and each having excellent properties.

Several embodiments disclosed herein pertain to polymer compositions with optical enhancing agents. In some embodiments, the compositions are provided as polymer (layers including medical films), devices, or parts of devices. Some embodiments provide methods of making such compositions and articles of manufacture comprising them, as well as methods of using polymer compositions or the articles made therefrom. In several embodiments, the polymer formulation includes a base polymer and an optical enhancing additive. In some embodiments, surprisingly, the optical enhancing additive confers upon the polymer film improved stability, including thermal stability.

A shoe member consisting of a material comprising a thermoplastic elastomer, wherein the material has a glass transition temperature Tg of no more than 10 C., a loss tangent tan of no less than 0.4 in a test of dynamic viscoelasticity, and a tan , which is the amount of change of tan , of no less than 0.15 when strain is changed from 5% to 100%.