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A binding for a ski, the binding comprising: a) a toe unit for holding a toe end of a ski boot; b) a heel unit, comprising: a bearing structure; a heel retainer which can be moved back and forth relative to the bearing structure between a closed position and a release position, for holding a heel end of a ski boot in the closed position; and an opening mechanism (10; 30) which can be moved relative to the bearing structure and operated and which is coupled to the heel retainer in a binding opening position such that the heel retainer can be moved out of the closed position into the release position by operating the opening mechanism (10; 30), in order to open the binding, c) wherein the toe unit is configured such that when the ski boot is held by the toe unit, the ski boot can be pivoted about a pivot axis which extends transverse to the longitudinal axis and parallel to a lower side of the binding, in order to be able to pivot the heel end of the ski boot away from the ski; d) and a climbing aid (10; 30) which is arranged in the region of the heel unit and can be adjusted to a climbing position when the ski boot is pivoted away, in order to support the pivoted ski boot towards the ski, e) wherein the opening mechanism (10; 30) forms the climbing aid (10; 30), characterised in that f) the opening mechanism is arranged such that it can be selectively adjusted to each one of several different climbing positions. a) a toe unit for holding a toe end of a ski boot; b) a heel unit, comprising: a bearing structure; a heel retainer which can be moved back and forth relative to the bearing structure between a closed position and a release position, for holding a heel end of a ski boot in the closed position; and an opening mechanism (10; 30) which can be moved relative to the bearing structure and operated and which is coupled to the heel retainer in a binding opening position such that the heel retainer can be moved out of the closed position into the release position by operating the opening mechanism (10; 30), in order to open the binding, c) wherein the toe unit is configured such that when the ski boot is held by the toe unit, the ski boot can be pivoted about a pivot axis which extends transverse to the longitudinal axis and parallel to a lower side of the binding, in order to be able to pivot the heel end of the ski boot away from the ski; d) and a climbing aid (10; 30) which is arranged in the region of the heel unit and can be adjusted to a climbing position when the ski boot is pivoted away, in order to support the pivoted ski boot towards the ski, e) wherein the opening mechanism (10; 30) forms the climbing aid (10; 30), characterised in that f) the opening mechanism is arranged such that it can be selectively adjusted to each one of several different climbing positions.
An apparatus comprising means for: receiving, at a user equipment, UE, from a base station provisioning of a plurality of pre-configured radio resources for data transmission during an inactive state of the UE, wherein a pre-configured radio resource is associated with a set of one or more downlink transmission beams of the base station; acquiring at the UE validity information associated with one or more said pre-configured resources; using at least the validity information to determine, for use, a valid preconfigured radio resource. receiving, at a user equipment, UE, from a base station provisioning of a plurality of pre-configured radio resources for data transmission during an inactive state of the UE, wherein a pre-configured radio resource is associated with a set of one or more downlink transmission beams of the base station; acquiring at the UE validity information associated with one or more said pre-configured resources; using at least the validity information to determine, for use, a valid preconfigured radio resource.
An artificial esophagus for replacement of damaged tissue by implantation, said esophagus comprising: substantially acellular extracellular matrix formed as a tube of greater than 10 mm diameter, wherein the artificial esophagus has a suture retention of greater than 100 grams, wherein the extracellular matrix is produced and secreted by vascular smooth muscle cells grown in vitro on a tubular substrate. substantially acellular extracellular matrix formed as a tube of greater than 10 mm diameter, wherein the artificial esophagus has a suture retention of greater than 100 grams, wherein the extracellular matrix is produced and secreted by vascular smooth muscle cells grown in vitro on a tubular substrate.
A method of compressing higher order ambisonic,HOA, coefficients representative of a soundfield, the method comprising: determining whether to augment one or more foreground audio objects with ambient HOA coefficients based on one or more singular values obtained through decomposition of the HOA coefficients, the ambient HOA coefficients representative of an ambient component of the soundfield, and the foreground audio objects and the ambient HOA coefficients being obtained through the decomposition of the HOA coefficients; characterized in that determining whether to use the ambient HOA coefficients to augment the one or more foreground audio objects in the bitstream with the ambient HOA coefficients comprises: determining whether one or more ambient singular values of the one or more singular values are less than a threshold value, wherein the ambient singular values are associated with the ambient component of the soundfield; and when the one or more ambient singular values associated with the ambient component are less than the threshold value, determining not to use the ambient HOA coefficients to augment the foreground audio objects. determining whether to augment one or more foreground audio objects with ambient HOA coefficients based on one or more singular values obtained through decomposition of the HOA coefficients, the ambient HOA coefficients representative of an ambient component of the soundfield, and the foreground audio objects and the ambient HOA coefficients being obtained through the decomposition of the HOA coefficients; characterized in that determining whether to use the ambient HOA coefficients to augment the one or more foreground audio objects in the bitstream with the ambient HOA coefficients comprises: determining whether one or more ambient singular values of the one or more singular values are less than a threshold value, wherein the ambient singular values are associated with the ambient component of the soundfield; and when the one or more ambient singular values associated with the ambient component are less than the threshold value, determining not to use the ambient HOA coefficients to augment the foreground audio objects. determining whether one or more ambient singular values of the one or more singular values are less than a threshold value, wherein the ambient singular values are associated with the ambient component of the soundfield; and when the one or more ambient singular values associated with the ambient component are less than the threshold value, determining not to use the ambient HOA coefficients to augment the foreground audio objects.
Method for operating a flow-based switching system in a network, including at least one network node designed to transport incoming network packets, in particular a switch or a router, wherein said incoming network packets are matched to flows according to predefined policies, wherein a flow is defined as a collection of packets that share at least one or a set of common properties, wherein a dynamic flow table - primary flow table - containing information about said flows' properties is computed inside said network node or externally and stored in a memory of said network node, characterized in that another dynamic flow table - backup flow table - is computed and maintained in parallel, wherein said backup flow table is more coarse grained than said primary flow table, wherein a flow entry of said backup flow table substitutes or aggregates several flow entries of said primary flow table or wherein said backup flow table reduces the granularity of QoS handling or ceases load balancing, and wherein said network node switches between employing either said primary flow table or said backup flow table depending on the status of predefined observables.
Welding shoe with a contact surface, side surfaces and a rear surface, comprising a plastic-based base material with a welding zone for welding an object, an additive that increases the thermal conductivity being incorporated at least in a partial region of the welding zone, characterized in that the additive that increases the thermal conductivity is distributed inhomogeneously.
A contact switching device in which a movable iron core provided at one end portion of a movable shaft is attracted to a fixed iron core, based on excitation and degauss of an electromagnet portion including a fixed iron core, by which the movable shaft reciprocates in a shaft center direction, and a movable contact of a movable contact piece arranged at another end portion of the movable shaft contacts and departs from a fixed contact, a yoke insulating the fixed iron core and the movable shaft from each other, characterized in that at the time of return, an annular flange portion provided at an intermediate portion of the movable shaft abuts on a magnet holder to thereby restrict a position of the movable iron core, and a buffer material is disposed between a bottom-surface back side of the magnet holder and the yoke fixing the magnet holder.
A method in a wireless device for enabling trusted communication between a wireless device entity and a second network node via a first network node, wherein the wireless device and the first network node are adapted to communicate using a secure communication channel, the method comprising: transmitting (201, 302, 401) a message to the first network node using the secure communication channel, wherein the message comprises information indicating that the wireless device entity is comprised in a trusted zone of the wireless device, wherein the trusted zone is at least partly trusted by the first network node, wherein that the zone is trusted refers to that the first network node can be certain of that the wireless device entity, which is comprised in the trusted zone, is a real wireless device entity and not a fraud or fake third party entity; and providing (206, 309, 403) trusted communication between the wireless device entity and the second network node via a network node port comprised in the first network node, wherein the network node port is reserved for the trusted communication between the wireless device entity and the second network node. transmitting (201, 302, 401) a message to the first network node using the secure communication channel, wherein the message comprises information indicating that the wireless device entity is comprised in a trusted zone of the wireless device, wherein the trusted zone is at least partly trusted by the first network node, wherein that the zone is trusted refers to that the first network node can be certain of that the wireless device entity, which is comprised in the trusted zone, is a real wireless device entity and not a fraud or fake third party entity; and providing (206, 309, 403) trusted communication between the wireless device entity and the second network node via a network node port comprised in the first network node, wherein the network node port is reserved for the trusted communication between the wireless device entity and the second network node.
An aircraft comprising a fuselage, a pair of wings connected at a wing mounting point to an upper portion of the fuselage, and a pair of wing support struts, each wing support strut being connected between an underside of the adjacent wing and a portion of the fuselage lower than the wing mounting point, wherein the aircraft further comprises a nose landing gear and at least one centre main landing gear assembly, the at least one centre main landing gear assembly being connected to the fuselage and being configured to be retractable within the fuselage, and wherein a respective outrigger landing gear is connected to each wing support strut, each outrigger landing gear being configured to be retractable within the respective wing support strut.
An isolated double stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) comprising first and second nucleic acid strands wherein each of the first and second nucleic acid strands is at least 25 nucleotides in length and together form a duplex region of at least 25 base pairs, wherein said second strand of said dsRNA is complementary to at least 20 nucleotides of a target β-catenin sequence, the target β-catenin sequence being SEQ ID NO: 2348 and said dsRNA reduces β-catenin target gene expression when said double stranded nucleic acid is introduced into a mammalian cell.
Tool for insertion of thin tubular objects in the cochlea, comprising a gripping tool (1;101) forming a handle adapted to be held in a user's hand, said gripping body being terminated by a tubular guide (2,102) in which the thin tubular object will be placed, said insertion tool comprising a pusher (6;106) engaged in the tubular guide to push the thin tubular object outside the guide so that it can be inserted in the cochlea, said insertion tool being characterised in that it is fitted with: - an electronic control unit - driving means (10;110) placed in the gripping body and controlled by the control unit to move the pusher, - force measurement means (14,114) placed in the gripping body, connected to the control unit and arranged so as to be sensitive to a resistive force applied on the thin tubular object as it is being inserted into the cochlea and outputting a signal that can be used to estimate said resistive force, - means (5;105) of indicating said resistive force placed on the gripping body and connected to the control unit. - an electronic control unit - driving means (10;110) placed in the gripping body and controlled by the control unit to move the pusher, - force measurement means (14,114) placed in the gripping body, connected to the control unit and arranged so as to be sensitive to a resistive force applied on the thin tubular object as it is being inserted into the cochlea and outputting a signal that can be used to estimate said resistive force, - means (5;105) of indicating said resistive force placed on the gripping body and connected to the control unit.
A method for refining polyoxymethylene dialkyl ethers by catalytic hydrogenation using a slurry bed, characterized in that, performing catalytic hydrogenation using a slurry bed reactor and in the presence of a Raney-Ni or Raney-Cu catalyst, of an equilibrium system containing polyoxymethylene dialkyl ether products and formaldehyde, wherein the amount of said Raney-Ni or Raney-Cu catalyst is equal to 3-8wt% of the polyoxymethylene dialkyl ether products to be refined by hydrogenation, and wherein the amount of formaldehyde contained in said equilibrium system containing polyoxymethylene dialkyl ether products is 0.5-20wt%, to produce refined polyoxymethylene dialkyl ether products having formaldehyde contained therein removed, and performing separating and purifying operations on the refined products after formaldehyde removal.
An antistatic agent, characterized by comprising a polymer compound having a structure in which a block polymer and a polyhydric alcohol compound are bound via an ester bond formed by a carboxyl group of said block polymer and a hydroxyl group of said polyhydric alcohol compound, said block polymer having a structure comprising carboxyl groups at both ends, in which structure a block constituted by a polyester having carboxyl groups at both ends and a block constituted by a compound having hydroxyl groups at both ends are repeatedly and alternately bound via ester bonds formed by said carboxyl and hydroxyl groups, and said polyhydric alcohol compound comprising three or more hydroxyl groups.
A method (800; 900) for wireless communications, comprising: determining (805; 905) a utilization of a transmit opportunity, TXOP, for a transmission of data from a wireless communication device; determining (810; 910) a difference between the utilization of the TXOP and a TXOP limit; aggregating (815; 915) the difference with a previous accumulated difference between at least one other TXOP and a TXOP limit for the at least one other TXOP to obtain an accumulated difference; determining a relative excess between the accumulated difference and a minimum contention window value; and adjusting a contention window value for a subsequent transmission from the wireless communication device based at least in part on the relative excess being greater than a predetermined value. determining (805; 905) a utilization of a transmit opportunity, TXOP, for a transmission of data from a wireless communication device; determining (810; 910) a difference between the utilization of the TXOP and a TXOP limit; aggregating (815; 915) the difference with a previous accumulated difference between at least one other TXOP and a TXOP limit for the at least one other TXOP to obtain an accumulated difference; determining a relative excess between the accumulated difference and a minimum contention window value; and adjusting a contention window value for a subsequent transmission from the wireless communication device based at least in part on the relative excess being greater than a predetermined value.
A molecule comprising: (i) a human MHC-restricted peptide capable of eliciting a memory response when present in the molecule, (ii) a first peptide linker, (iii) a human β-2 microglobulin, (iv) a second peptide linker, (v) a HLA-A2 chain of a human MHC class I molecule, and (vi) a tumor-specific antibody targeting domain, wherein segments (v) and (vi) are bound to each other directly by a peptide bond or by a third peptide linker and wherein the carboxyl terminus of each of segments (i) through (v) is bound to the amino terminus of segments (ii) through (vi), respectively. (i) a human MHC-restricted peptide capable of eliciting a memory response when present in the molecule, (ii) a first peptide linker, (iii) a human β-2 microglobulin, (iv) a second peptide linker, (v) a HLA-A2 chain of a human MHC class I molecule, and (vi) a tumor-specific antibody targeting domain, wherein segments (v) and (vi) are bound to each other directly by a peptide bond or by a third peptide linker and wherein the carboxyl terminus of each of segments (i) through (v) is bound to the amino terminus of segments (ii) through (vi), respectively.
An upper member (10, 60) for a suspension that integrally includes a plate-shaped basal end support section configured to be attached to an upper portion of a suspension mechanism and a distal end cylinder section (18, 64) projecting downward from the basal end support section, wherein: an inner hole is formed vertically penetrating through the basal end support section and is connected to a center hole of the distal end cylinder section (18, 64); at least one recess is provided that opens onto an upper surface of the basal end support section in a location on an outer circumferential side that is separated from the inner hole; an outer peripheral wall is formed on the outer circumferential side of the recess of the basal end support section, and extends continuously in a circumferential direction; an inner peripheral wall is formed between the inner hole and the recess of the basal end support section, and extends in the circumferential direction; the recess is connected to the inner hole via at least one drainage cutout provided in the inner peripheral wall; the upper member (10, 60) characterized in that: a center recess, which is separated from the recess by the inner peripheral wall, is formed; and the bottom surface of the recess, the bottom surface of the center recess and the bottom surface of the drainage cutout are positioned on substantially the same linear plane. an inner hole is formed vertically penetrating through the basal end support section and is connected to a center hole of the distal end cylinder section (18, 64); at least one recess is provided that opens onto an upper surface of the basal end support section in a location on an outer circumferential side that is separated from the inner hole; an outer peripheral wall is formed on the outer circumferential side of the recess of the basal end support section, and extends continuously in a circumferential direction; an inner peripheral wall is formed between the inner hole and the recess of the basal end support section, and extends in the circumferential direction; the recess is connected to the inner hole via at least one drainage cutout provided in the inner peripheral wall; the upper member (10, 60) characterized in that: a center recess, which is separated from the recess by the inner peripheral wall, is formed; and the bottom surface of the recess, the bottom surface of the center recess and the bottom surface of the drainage cutout are positioned on substantially the same linear plane. a center recess, which is separated from the recess by the inner peripheral wall, is formed; and the bottom surface of the recess, the bottom surface of the center recess and the bottom surface of the drainage cutout are positioned on substantially the same linear plane.
A head-mounted display apparatus comprising: a display; an optic block defining a beam splitter and a transparent convex surface, in optical communication with the display, to transmit light emitted by the display; a concave reflective surface, in optical communication with the beam splitter and the transparent convex surface, to receive the light emitted by the display and transmitted by the beam splitter and to reflect an image of the display to a wearer of the head-mounted display apparatus via the beam splitter, wherein the transparent convex surface has a radius of curvature different from a radius of curvature of the concave reflective surface; and a tunable lens comprising electro-active material, the tunable lens being disposed between the transparent convex surface and the concave reflective surface and having a variable optical power, to vary a focus of the image of the display reflected to the wearer. a display; an optic block defining a beam splitter and a transparent convex surface, in optical communication with the display, to transmit light emitted by the display; a concave reflective surface, in optical communication with the beam splitter and the transparent convex surface, to receive the light emitted by the display and transmitted by the beam splitter and to reflect an image of the display to a wearer of the head-mounted display apparatus via the beam splitter, wherein the transparent convex surface has a radius of curvature different from a radius of curvature of the concave reflective surface; and a tunable lens comprising electro-active material, the tunable lens being disposed between the transparent convex surface and the concave reflective surface and having a variable optical power, to vary a focus of the image of the display reflected to the wearer.
An actuator system for actuating movement of a control surface of an aircraft wing, said system comprising: a common input rail connectable to a means for providing movement to said input rail; a plurality of rotary geared actuators "RGAs"; a common output rail connectable to said control surface; characterised in that each of said plurality of RGAs is connected to said input rail by an individual input clutch and also connected to said output rail by an individual output clutch, and in that the input clutch. functions independently of the output clutch. a common input rail connectable to a means for providing movement to said input rail; a plurality of rotary geared actuators "RGAs"; a common output rail connectable to said control surface; characterised in that each of said plurality of RGAs is connected to said input rail by an individual input clutch and also connected to said output rail by an individual output clutch, and in that the input clutch. functions independently of the output clutch.