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A decades-old mystery of why a naturally-occurring organic crystal fluoresces blue under ultra-violet light, yet when grown under laboratory conditions fluoresces with an intense green colour, has been solved by scientists …

India is in no imminent danger. Official data shows the economy expanding at well over a 7 percent annual clip, though the pace is slowing. The official inflation rate, below 4 percent, is not flashing emergency.

LyondellBasell is working with makers of consumer batteries — such as AA and AAA sizes — on a nylon 6/6 material that can replace nylon 6/12 and reduce leakage, Guilfoyle said. At Star Plastics, Ritchie said the firm is developing flame retardant and color technology and working to meet customer-focused needs based on market movement and availability of materials.

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The younger Belisle made national headlines with his post-game speech to the Little League team he was coaching was defeated in the Little League World Series.

In complex GPU-bound tests, such as a walk around the bustling Diamond City, we also see a divide in performance between the two consoles. Though most locations hold mostly steady at 30fps, this is one of the more densely packed, detailed spots in the game in terms of overall NPC count and geometry layout. As a result, both PS4 and Xbox One are prone to drops when walking around its centre, and Sony’s machine consistently gives us the smoother return. On overlooking the city as a whole, Xbox One lags behind at a sustained 25fps in this case, while PS4 delivers at 28fps until we leave the scene. There’s no question in this sense that PS4 leverages its raw hardware advantage into a performance lead – despite resolutions and assets being identical with Microsoft’s platform.

Analysis of crystal structures of HC8 and R-HC8 or S-HC8 further reveals unexpected –C-H—N motifs (dN—HC of 2.7 to 2.8 Å) between two orthogonally disposed imidazole moieties, resulting in the formation of imidazole dimers (Fig. 1D) reminiscent of the structures observed for the His37-quartet proton gate of the Influenza A M2 protein (19, 20). The oxygen atom of each water molecule is simultaneously strongly H-bonded to both imidazole NH groups (dO—H of 1.9 Å) and the vicinal water molecules (dO—H of 1.8 Å) (Fig. 1E). The symmetrical relative disposition of the imidazole dimers was previously observed for other compounds (12, 21) and regulates the water molecules to be statistically restricted to two orientations of opposite chiralities in such a way that the water wires within the same channel present a unique dipolar orientation. Here, on the other hand, the relative asymmetric structures of the imidazole dimers in the self-assembled HC8 and R-HC8 or S-HC8 compounds determine a unique dipolar orientation of the water molecules comprising a crystallographic 100% occupancy of both water H atoms bonded to N-imidazoles and neighboring water molecules (Fig. 1E). Each individual I-quartet channel is supramolecularly chiral and contains dipolar water wires oriented in one direction. The overall structure of achiral compound HC8 is centrosymmetric, so that the water wires of the opposite water dipolar orientations are present in successive enantiomeric water-filled channels, separated by water-free I-quartets (Fig. 1F). In contrast, the noncentrosymmetric structures of chiral compounds R-HC8 and S-HC8 show a unique dipolar orientation for all water-filled I-quartet channels (Fig. 1G).

Inventor(s): Abdelaziz Rahy (Waxahachie, TX), Raynard Rene Veldman (Mansfield, TX) Assignee(s): Magnablend, Inc. (Waxahachie, TX) Law Firm: Brinks Gilson Lione (7 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 15110545 on 01/07/2015 (1434 days app to issue)

Abstract: Recreational footballs with rotor assemblies are provided herein. An example football includes a plurality of struts forming a prolate spheroid frame; and one or more rotor assemblies each having a plurality of blades, the one or more rotor assemblies being disposed within the prolate spheroid frame, the one or more rotor assemblies changing at least one aerodynamic aspect of flight of the recreational device when air passes through the prolate spheroid frame and rotates the plurality of blades of the one or more rotor assemblies.

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