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This patent from Kimberly-Clark Worldwide teaches using silica or alumina nanoparticles in a high sensitivity bad breadth testing device. Claim 1 reads:

1. A breath testing device comprising nanoparticles and a visual indicating agent disposed on a substrate, wherein the visual indicating agent is color sensitive to at least one odorous compound present in the breath of a user, wherein the visual indicating agent is 4,4′-bis(dimethylamino)-benzhydrol.

Hi folks. I would like to share with you the following simple script to show us jobs duration report in SQL Server 2005. I manipulated with INTERGER values stored by SQL Server to convert them into DATETIME/CHAR(8) datatypes to represent the data.
Thanks to SQL Server MVP Peter Ward provided me with StartTime calculation.

WITH job_duration_view
AS
(
SELECT name,
StartTime = CONVERT(DATETIME, RTRIM(last_run_date)) +
(last_run_time * 9 + last_run_time % 10000 * 6 + last_run_time % 100 * 10 + 25 * last_run_duration) / 216e4 ,
CONVERT(CHAR(8),DATEADD(ss,last_run_duration,CAST(last_run_date AS CHAR(8))),114)
AS duration
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobservers js
JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs j ON j.job_id = js.job_id
WHERE last_run_date >0 AND last_run_time >0
) SELECT name AS job_name,StartTime,
StartTime -’19000101′+Duration AS EndDate ,Duration
FROM job_duration_view

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This patent from SAIC is fairly basic to the incorporation of nanoparticles in polymers (priority: Nov. 1, 2001) and teaches methods of fabrication in which the agglomeration of the nanoparticles is avoided. Claim 1 reads:

1. A composition of matter comprising a polymer fiber with a plurality of controllably spaced nanoparticles integrated into the polymer fiber; wherein the nanoparticles are derivatized to function as a monomer in the polymer fiber.