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Enabling supply chain 4.0: iristick smart safety eyewear

Iristick develops innovative assisted reality enhanced eyewear for industrial applications. Empowering desk-less workers with wearable hands-free technology is paramount for enterprise 4.0. Currently the technology is still nascent: our competitors struggle to pack processing power into glasses, resulting in bulky products that overheat and expose the user to unhealthy radiation.   Unlike our competitors that struggle to pack processing power and features into glasses, our smart glasses are designed as a peripheral add-on to the mobile device. Safety certified, they feel just like regular glasses: comfortable, light, balanced and stable, without compromising the wearer’s mobility, safety or field of view. Iristick outperforms the state of the art assisted reality smart glasses in each technical performance indicator that matters.  We begin our go-to-market by disrupting the logistics and warehousing industry, where Iristick will enable 8h hands-free operation with full video streaming performance. Iristick radically reduces costs by lowering error rates and eliminating costly return and correction flows.  Logistics and warehousing industry presents a great opportunity for Iristick to secure large-scale deployments. Market trends indicate the total addressable market for Iristick is about 1.21 million units in the sector by 2020, with a vast upside potential in a variety of other industrial applications. To secure the market, we already partner with the key players in this emerging ecosystem, such as application developers and integrators.  Iristick technology is backed by more than €2.5 million seed investments, appraised by leading enterprises and proven in complex logistic environments. Our ambition is to become the EU leading counterpart for US smart glass manufacturers. The SMEI project is a crucial next step for accelerating our time to market. The main objective of Phase 2 is to prepare for mass scale market entry, leading to 3% penetration of our TAM by 2023.
A comparison of quality of life and satisfaction of women with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast conserving therapy vs. mastectomy in southern China

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life (QoL) and overall satisfaction with treatment of women with stage T1-2N0M0 breast cancer treated with breast conserving therapy (BCT) or mastectomy (MAS) in southern China.Functional assessment of cancer therapy-breast, traditional Chinese version 4 (FACT-B), was administered to 180 patients with stage T1-2N0M0 breast cancer (82 BCT and 98 MAS) treated between July 2000 and July 2008.The two groups differed in tumor pathology and how axillary lymph nodes were treated (sentinel node biopsy vs. dissection), while other disease and socioeconomic characteristics were similar. The median follow-up after completion of radiotherapy was 60 months in the BCT group, and 65 months in the MAS group. The scores of the physical, functional, and emotional domains and breast-specific concerns of FACT-B were not significantly different between the groups. The social domain score of the BCT group was significantly greater than those of the MAS group.Patients who underwent BCT did not report better QoL than those who received MAS, but BCT patients experienced easier social adjustment.
The New Logic of Hypertext: Electronic Documents, Literary Theory, and Air Force Publications

Abstract : Hypertext systems offer electronic links that can instantly join related documents with the click of a mouse. Some observers predict that in the next few years hypertext will become the predominate technology of communication. Such a revolutionary transformation of our culture's basic system for sharing information is bound to have a profound and wide-ranging impact. At this early stage in hypertext's evolutionary development, no empirical study can be expected to capture the long-term implications of this new technology. An exploratory survey was distributed to 100 large corporations to gather their initial assessment of the revolutionary implications of hypertext. The results suggest that hypertext will lead to dramatic changes in users' experience of text. At this point, the nature of these changes can only be explored philosophically. This thesis examines the potential consequences of moving from a printed text to a hypertext environment in light of the literary theory known as 'deconstructionism'. This theoretical approach to the interpretation of text emphasizes the breakdown of the boundaries that seem to separate documents from one another. The illusion of isolated, self-contained, authoritative meaning gives way to an all-inclusive intertextual conversation. Hypertext provides the physical connections necessary to implement the interactive dialogue central to the deconstructionists' vision. These issues directly concern the Air Force because it is developing a plan to disseminate its operating directives on-line in a system with hypertext features. This study concludes that the Air Force should implement this plan without delay.
POWER FRAME ASSEMBLY FOR RECIPROCATING PUMP

A plate segment for a reciprocating pump power end frame assembly, the power end frame assembly having a pair of end plate segments and at least one middle plate segment disposed between the end plate segments. The plate segment consists of the middle plate segment or one of the pair of end plate segments and includes a plate having a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and a pair of sidewalls and at least one opening forming a bearing support surface, the opening extending through the plate. The plate segment further includes at least one extension extending from at least one of the sidewalls of the plate at a position to align with and contact a corresponding extension on an adjacently positioned plate.
Verfahren zur Datenübertragung zwischen einem Datenträger und einer Datenstation mittels Übertragen von Energie durch Licht und Übertragen von Daten durch Licht, Datenträger und Datenstation zur Verwendung in dem Verfahren

Verfahren zur Datenübertragung zwischen einem Datenträger (10) und einer Datenstation (12), mit folgenden Schritten:- Übertragen von Energie zum Datenträger (10), wobei die Energie durch Licht von der Datenstation (12) übertragen wird, und- Senden und/oder Empfangen von Licht, das entsprechend der zu übertragenden Daten moduliert ist,- wobei das Licht zum Übertragen der Daten in einem Wellenlängenbereich liegt, bei dem eine Glasfaserübertragung mit geringer Dämpfung möglich ist, und- wobei durch die Übertragung von Energie der Sende- und/oder Empfangsvorgang gestartet wird,- wobei im Datenträger (10) ein Lichtenergieempfänger, ein lichtsensitiver Bereich (32) und ein darüber angeordnetes Linsenarray (34) angeordnet ist,- wobei zwischen dem lichtsensitiven Bereich (32) und dem Linsenarray (34) eine Filtervorrichtung (36) vorgesehen ist,- wobei die Filtervorrichtung (36) eingerichtet ist, Licht unterschiedlicher Wellenlänge an unterschiedliche Bereiche des lichtsensitiven Bereichs (32) zu transmittieren.
Foundations of geometric statistics and their application in the life sciences

Invariance under gauge transformation groups provides the natural structure explaining the laws of physics. In life sciences, new mathematical tools are needed to estimate approximate invariance and establish general but approximate laws. Rephrasing Poincaré: a geometry cannot be more true than another, it may just be more convenient, and statisticians must find the most convenient one for their data. At the crossing of geometry and statistics, G-Statistics aims at establishing the mathematical foundations of geometric statistics and exemplifying their impact on selected applications in the life sciences. 

So far, mainly Riemannian manifolds and negatively curved metric spaces have been studied. Other geometric structures like quotient spaces, stratified spaces or affine connection spaces naturally arise in applications. G-Statistics will explore ways to unify statistical estimation theories, explaining how the statistical estimations diverges from the Euclidean case in the presence of curvature, singularities, stratification. Beyond classical manifolds, particular emphasis will be put on flags of subspaces in manifolds as they appear to be natural mathematical object to encode hierarchically embedded approximation spaces. 

In order to establish geometric statistics as an effective discipline, G-Statistics will propose new mathematical structures and theorems to characterize their properties. It will also implement novel generic algorithms and illustrate the impact of some of their efficient specializations on selected applications in life sciences. Surveying the manifolds of anatomical shapes and forecasting their evolution from databases of medical images is a key problem in computational anatomy requiring dimension reduction in non-linear spaces and Lie groups. By inventing radically new principled estimations methods, we aim at illustrating the power of the methodology and strengthening the ""unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics"" for life sciences.
Attenuation Correction Synthesis for Hybrid PET-MR Scanners

AbstractThe combination of functional and anatomical imaging technologies such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) has shown its value in the preclinical and clinical fields. In PET/CT hybrid acquisition systems, CT-derived attenuation maps enable a more accurate PET reconstruction. However, CT provides only very limited soft-tissue contrast and exposes the patient to an additional radiation dose. In comparison, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides good soft-tissue contrast and the ability to study functional activation and tissue microstructures, but does not directly provide patient-specific electron density maps for PET reconstruction.The aim of the proposed work is to improve PET/MR reconstruction by generating synthetic CTs and attenuation-maps. The synthetic images are generated through a multi-atlas information propagation scheme, locally matching the MRI-derived patient’s morphology to a database of pre-acquired MRI/CT pairs. Results show improvements in CT synthesis and PET reconstruction accuracy when compared to a segmentation method using an Ultrashort-Echo-Time MRI sequence.KeywordsPositron Emission TomographyAttenuation CorrectionLabel FusionAtlas DatabasePositron Emission Tomography ReconstructionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Technology for the improvement of sports performance in non-professional contexts

Realtrack Systems is a company specialising in the development and commercialisation of sports and health-oriented innovative technological solutions whose goal is to improve performance and well-being by monitoring and analyzing various parameters related to participation in sports activities.

The use of technology applied to sports has been a growing trend in the recent years, particularly significant among non-professional athletes who are increasingly interested in using technology to improve their personal performance. These individuals demand products in this line that are adapted to their needs, that is, products with high-tech features that are reasonably priced, easy to use and adapt to any sports discipline.  

WIMU Active is the solution developed by Realtrack Systems for this market segment; consists of a small and robust wearable device with associated software, for enhanced data capture and advanced monitoring analysis used in performance improvement of key parameters related to participation in competitive team sports activities, cost effective to specifically fill the elite amateur and sub professional sportsman segment need.
Personalized, bio-engineered skin grafts for the permanent treatment of skin defects

Every year in the world, more than 50M patients suffer from skin defects (e.g. burns, excision, etc.) and need surgical intervention to restore skin function. Standard of care, skin autografting, very often leaves these patients with scars. Scars are permanent and disfiguring, and can also be painful and highly debilitating. Indeed, they may also impair movement and growth, and require several follow-up surgeries, intense homecare and psychosocial rehabilitation. Hence, scars significantly affect patient’s quality of life, along with the economic burden for the health-care system. Furthermore, in the case of large wounds, donor site shortage represents a real clinical issue.

denovoSkin™ is a patented, personalized, autologous bio-engineered human skin graft classified as Advanced Therapy Medical Product (ATMP). It is engineered in large quantities starting-off from a stamp-sized skin biopsy of the patient, thus solving the donor site shortage issue. Moreover, because of its dermo-epidermal structure, denovoSkin™ leads to minimal scarrring after transplantation. Its outstanding performance could considerably reduce or even avoids further corrective interventions, allowing for considerable savings in terms of costs. denovoSkin™ is also granted with Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of burns by Swissmedic, EMA and FDA.

So far, more than €17.5M have been invested over the last 16 years of research into the development and the clinical testing of denovoSkin™. To have denovoSkin™ fully projected at a European and global level we need a further investment of €3.57M to automate its production, de-risking the entire denovoSkin™ project by assuring a real delivery to patients worldwide while providing optimal logistics and quality of product.

The proposed work in Phase 2 of the SME instrument fits into our overall plan to reach the market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast sound wider deployment of denovoSkin™ and its market uptake.
BEAM-COLUMN JOINT

A joint for connecting a steel beam (2) to a steel column (1), which beam (2) and column (1) each have a web (20, 10) and flanges (21, 11) to form a double-T section, the joint comprising a plurality of clamp elements (5), i.e. at least one clamp element (5) arranged for clamping at least one flange (21) of the beam (2) and at least one clamp element (5) arranged for clamping at least one flange (11) of the column (1). The joint further comprises a plurality of external plates (50) which are placed in contact with the outer surface of the flanges (11, 21) of the column (1) or the beam (2). Each external plate (5) has at least two clamp elements (5), each clamp element (5) being composed of the external plate (50) and means for removable clamping with a corresponding internal plate (51), such that each external plate (50 ) is connected to a pair of internal plates (51), which are designed to contact the inner surface of both flanges (21, 11) of the beam (2) or column (1). One or more saddle elements (3) are further provided, which are composed of two external plates (50) fixed together in orthogonal arrangement and are adapted to contact the outer surface of the flanges (11, 21) of the column (1) and the beam (2) respectively.
Multi-Sensor Geomagnetic Prospection: A Case Study from Neolithic Thessaly, Greece

Multi-sensor prospecting is a fast-emerging paradigm in archaeological geophysics. Given suitable ground conditions for navigation, sensor arrays drastically increase efficiency in data collection. In particular, geomagnetic prospecting benefits from this development. Despite these advancements, data processing still lacks a best-practice approach. Conventional processing methods developed for gridded data has been challenged by sensor arrays “roaming” in the landscape. In realization of the issue, the Innovative Geophysical Approaches for the Study of Early Agricultural Villages of Neolithic Thessaly (IGEAN) Project explored various innovative techniques for the betterment of the multi-sensor geomagnetic data processing. As a result, a modular pipeline is produced with minimal user intervention. In addition to standard steps, such as data clipping, various other algorithms have been introduced. This pipeline is tested over 20 Neolithic settlements in Thessaly, Greece, three of which are presented here in detail. The proposed workflow provides drastic improvements over raw data. As a result of these improvements, the IGEAN project revealed astonishing details on architectural elements, settlement enclosures, and paleolandscapes, changing completely the existing perspective of the Neolithic habitation in Thessaly.
Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for recurrent fundal gastric variceal bleeding in an adolescent

Gastric variceal bleeding is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is a relatively new treatment used to control bleeding gastric varices that involves transvenous sclerosis of gastric varices through a spontaneous gastrorenal shunt. Here, we report on a 14-yr-old patient that underwent balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for refractory bleeding fundal varices in the setting of esophageal varices and cirrhosis, which did not respond to medical management or endoscopic injection. This case report serves as a reminder that balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration can successfully control fundal variceal bleeding in pediatric patients and may serve as a bridge to liver transplantation.
Stimulated brillouin scattering based rf to optical signal transduction and amplification

While the detection of weak signals (down to the single photon level) in the optical frequency range is routine on account of the high photon energy (compared to thermal excitation energy kBT) and the availability of efficient detectors, this is not the case in the radio frequency (RF) and microwave frequency regimes wherein thermal (Johnson) noise in detectors swamps out the faint RF signals (in applications from radio astronomy, MRI to radar) and requires the use of cryogenic amplifiers. The ability to map signals efficiently from the microwave to optical regime becomes paramount for distant systems to communicate with each other using low loss telecom fibers. Both classical (radio over fiber systems) and quantum (linking two superconducting qubit processors in two dilution fridges) information processing systems will benefit greatly from the development of an efficient RF to optical signal transducer.
 I have been developing efficient RF to optical transduction schemes in GaAs cavity optomechanical systems (KC Balram et al., Nature Photonics (2016)) by exploiting its favorable piezoelectric (for coupling RF signals to propagating acoustic waves) and elasto-optic (for engineering strong acousto-optic interactions) properties. In this project, I would like to extend this work and address the issue of weak RF signal detection by up-converting RF signals to the optical domain using integrated Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) and shot-noise limited optical detection. Piezoelectric SBS systems can also be used to build high frequency, high gain RF amplifiers with noise figures that can be lower than conventional RF amplifiers. Working in a novel GaAs on insulator platform helps provide some unique advantages (tightly confined acoustic and optical modes with large modal overlap and a large elasto-optic coefficient leading to significant Brillouin gain) while holding the potential for interfacing complex circuitry in a well-established III-V materials platform.
Canitest: proof-of-concept of a pcr test designed to identify the dogs carrying the more virulent strains of capnocytophaga canimorsus

The idea to be taken as proof of concept is drawn from the ERC Advanced grant N°293605-CAPCAN (2012-2016). This grant aimed at understanding the molecular and genetic bases of the dramatic human infections caused by Capnocytophaga canimorsus. One of the questions that we addressed in the frame of CAPCAN is why are there so few cases of human infections while so many dogs carry C. canimorsus?  In other words, are all C. canimorsus strains equally dangerous and, if not, could we prevent the disease by detecting the dogs carrying the more dangerous strains?  During CAPCAN, among others, we showed that C. canimorsus is endowed with a capsular polysaccharide (CPS) and its assembly pathway was characterized [1]. We also showed that the CPS of 25/25 strains isolated from human infections present a limited variability, with 3 dominant capsular serovars. In contrast, only 4 out of 52 C. canimorsus isolated from dog mouths did belong to these three serovars [2]. This implies that a small minority of dog-hosted C. canimorsus strains are virulent for humans than most strains and that these strains can be identified by capsular serotyping.  We also set up a PCR test to achieve this capsular serotyping [2].  The proposal to be taken to proof of concept is to market the PCR test designed to identify the dogs carrying the more virulent strains of C. canimorsus.
Extraction of information and reconstruction entropies from ultrafast X-ray tomography data in a bubble column

Abstract Due to the complex hydrodynamics of bubble columns, there are currently no reliable methods for identification of the main transition velocities. In addition, it is not clear, which type of signal is most suitable for flow regime identification. In this work, both the information entropy ( IE ) and reconstruction entropy ( RE ) have been extracted for the first time from tomographic raw images obtained by means of ultrafast X-ray tomography. The time series have been recorded with a sampling frequency of 1000 Hz in a bubble column (0.1 m in ID) operated with an air-deionized water system under ambient conditions. The main transition velocities U trans in two semi-rings (from the cross-section of the bubble column) have been identified based on both the IE and RE values as well as a new parameter, which has been calculated from each signal reconstruction. In the centrally located smaller semi-ring from the reconstructed raw X-ray images, the two U trans values have been successfully identified at 0.04 and 0.11 m/s. In the surrounding larger semi-ring the first and second U trans values occurred slightly earlier at 0.03 and 0.09 m/s, respectively. Although they do not play an important role for the determination of the degrees of mixing, mass and heat transfer, the boundaries of additional sub-regimes have been also identified. It has been found that when all newly developed identification methods are compared, they yield slightly different U trans values. In summary, this work demonstrates for the first time that the ultrafast X-ray tomography data measured at various superficial gas velocities can be used for flow regime identification in a bubble column provided that the hidden information in the time series is quantified by both the IE and RE algorithms.
Konzeption, Gestaltung, Konstruktion und Umsetzung von ERIC-Instrumenten für die europäische Spallationsquelle für wissenschaftliche Forschung (ESSource)

Die European Spallation Source (ESS) ist ein gemeinsames Projekt in 17 europäischen Ländern (einschließlich Estland). Ziel ist es, eine Neutronenstrahlungsquelle für die Erforschung von Materialien und Naturphänomenen aufzubauen. Das ESS wird in Lund (Schweden) gebaut und sein Rechenzentrum wird in Kopenhagen (Dänemark) stattfinden. Der Bau des ESS begann 2014 und soll 2020 abgeschlossen werden, Kapazitätssteigerungen und die Entwicklung aller Messstationen werden 2020-2025 stattfinden und das ESS wird seine Türen nach den ursprünglichen Plänen im Jahr 2065 schließen.