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A method for performing a switchover of at least one application (130..132, 133..135) to an active preferred node group (110, 111) in a distributed telecommunication system, comprising: collecting respective sets of performance parameters of a first plurality of nodes (120, 122) disposed in a first node group and a second plurality of nodes (123..125) in a second node group; evaluating service capabilities of the first node group and the second node group based on the sets of performance parameters; responsive to evaluating the service capabilities, designating one node group of the first node group and the second node group as a preferred node group for potentially performing a switchover of at least one application from any other node group, wherein the preferred node group includes the one node group which is determined to have greater service capabilities than the any other node group based on a most recent service capabilities evaluation; repeating the steps of collecting, evaluating, and designating a plurality of times; designating the preferred node group as an active preferred node group in the event that the preferred node group is consecutively evaluated as, and retains the designation as, the preferred node group after repeating the steps of collecting, evaluating, and designating the plurality of times, wherein the active preferred node group comprises a preferred node group that includes applications that support application switchover to the preferred node group; and performing the switchover of at least one application to the active preferred node group from the any other node group. collecting respective sets of performance parameters of a first plurality of nodes (120, 122) disposed in a first node group and a second plurality of nodes (123..125) in a second node group; evaluating service capabilities of the first node group and the second node group based on the sets of performance parameters; responsive to evaluating the service capabilities, designating one node group of the first node group and the second node group as a preferred node group for potentially performing a switchover of at least one application from any other node group, wherein the preferred node group includes the one node group which is determined to have greater service capabilities than the any other node group based on a most recent service capabilities evaluation; repeating the steps of collecting, evaluating, and designating a plurality of times; designating the preferred node group as an active preferred node group in the event that the preferred node group is consecutively evaluated as, and retains the designation as, the preferred node group after repeating the steps of collecting, evaluating, and designating the plurality of times, wherein the active preferred node group comprises a preferred node group that includes applications that support application switchover to the preferred node group; and performing the switchover of at least one application to the active preferred node group from the any other node group.
A method for allocating a computer server load depending on a suitability of environmental conditions, comprising a) generating a space information value for each of a plurality of spaces (132, 134, 136, 138) based on at least one environmental condition measurement for the corresponding space (132, 134, 136, 138), each space (132, 134, 136, 138) including one or more computing devices (104 1 - 104 18), the space information value including information regarding the relative suitability of a corresponding space (132, 134, 136, 138) for accepting computing load, and b) determining an allocation of additional computing load based on the space information values, wherein the at least one environmental condition measurement comprises at least one of the group consisting of: a temperature measurement, a humidity measurement, an air flow measurement and a pressure measurement, and wherein the space information value is calculated as a function of a measured temperature, a calculated current or predictive computing load value, and a pre-cool status; the method being characterized by c) distributing the additional computing load to the one or more computing devices (104 1 - 104 18) on one or more of the plurality of spaces (132, 134, 136, 138) based upon the determined allocation of additional computing load in a manner proportional to the relative suitability of the respective spaces (132, 134, 136, 138) for the computing load, with a suitability index of the relative suitability increasing inversely as a function of the measured temperature within a space (132, 134, 136, 138), inversely as a function of the current loading of the server computers within a space (132, 134, 136, 138), inversely as a function of predicted server load within the space (132, 134, 136, 138), and directly as a function of pre-cool status. a) generating a space information value for each of a plurality of spaces (132, 134, 136, 138) based on at least one environmental condition measurement for the corresponding space (132, 134, 136, 138), each space (132, 134, 136, 138) including one or more computing devices (104 1 - 104 18), the space information value including information regarding the relative suitability of a corresponding space (132, 134, 136, 138) for accepting computing load, and b) determining an allocation of additional computing load based on the space information values, wherein the at least one environmental condition measurement comprises at least one of the group consisting of: a temperature measurement, a humidity measurement, an air flow measurement and a pressure measurement, and wherein the space information value is calculated as a function of a measured temperature, a calculated current or predictive computing load value, and a pre-cool status; c) distributing the additional computing load to the one or more computing devices (104 1 - 104 18) on one or more of the plurality of spaces (132, 134, 136, 138) based upon the determined allocation of additional computing load in a manner proportional to the relative suitability of the respective spaces (132, 134, 136, 138) for the computing load,
Method for management of reception in a terminal of a digital content which is transmitted in the form of a data stream over a network; said digital content being received by said terminal with a reception rate; a nominal reproduction duration being associated with the digital content; said method for reception management comprising the following steps in the terminal: /a/ detecting an activation of a trick mode corresponding to a modification of the nominal reproduction duration according to a modification factor associated with said trick mode; /b/ determining data to be requested depending, on the one hand, on the modification factor and, on the other hand, on a representative value of reception rate; /c/ requesting said data from the network; and /d/ receiving the requested data, wherein the data correspond to a series of reproduced units of the digital content, time-stamp addresses being associated with said reproduced units of the series, each corresponding to a time position of the reproduced unit with which it is associated within the series, relative to the nominal reproduction duration of the series; the step /b/ being repeated n times, n being a natural integer, at one iteration of the step /b/, the data determined correspond to a reproduced unit of the series having a time-stamp address deduced as a function of the modification factor, of the representative value of reception rate and of the time-stamp address of a reproduced unit corresponding to the data determined in the iteration of the preceding step /b/; and at the step /c/, a request comprising the deduced time-stamp address is sent. /a/ detecting an activation of a trick mode corresponding to a modification of the nominal reproduction duration according to a modification factor associated with said trick mode; /b/ determining data to be requested depending, on the one hand, on the modification factor and, on the other hand, on a representative value of reception rate; /c/ requesting said data from the network; and /d/ receiving the requested data,
Method for determining the efficiency of an exhaust gas purification device of an internal combustion engine, in particular of a diesel internal combustion engine, having a first NOx sensor, arranged ahead of an oxidation catalyst and/or of a particulate filter, and a second NOx sensor, arranged downstream of a reduction catalyst, and having a device for the metered supply of a reducing agent, wherein the signals from the two NOx sensors (7, 8) are fed to a control unit, by means of which at least one feed quantity of the reducing agent is specified, characterized in that, to determine an efficiency of the oxidation catalyst and/or of the particulate filter, the NO and NO2 concentration and/or the NO2/NO ratio of the exhaust gas flow at the measurement position of the second NOx sensor are determined by the control unit solely by means of the NOx signal values acquired by the two NOx sensors (7, 8), wherein the NO2 cross sensitivity of the second NOx sensor is used for the efficiency determination.
An in vivo supporting device, comprising: a biodegradable metal scaffold comprising a magnesium alloy having a magnesium content of at least 96 wt.%, a manganese content of at least 1 wt. %, and at least one metal from the rare earth metal group in the amount of at least 0.5 wt. %; and a biodegradable polymer coating covering at least a portion of said biodegradable metal scaffold, wherein said biodegradable metal scaffold constitutes less than 50 wt. % of said supporting device. a biodegradable metal scaffold comprising a magnesium alloy having a magnesium content of at least 96 wt.%, a manganese content of at least 1 wt. %, and at least one metal from the rare earth metal group in the amount of at least 0.5 wt. %; and a biodegradable polymer coating covering at least a portion of said biodegradable metal scaffold, wherein said biodegradable metal scaffold constitutes less than 50 wt. % of said supporting device.
A porous nanofiber filtration medium for removing retroviruses from a liquid sample, giving a retrovirus Log Reduction Value when assayed against PR772 bacteriophage of greater than 6, the medium comprising: a porous nanofiber mat formed by electrospinning nylon, the mat having a thickness from 1 μm to 500 μm; a porosity from 80% to 95%;a water permeability at 0.69 bar differential pressure of greater than 1450 LMH/bar (100 LMH/psi) and an average fiber diameter of 25-30nm.
A method for configuring communication, the method comprising: instructing, by a first terminal, a first network-side device to configure a second terminal to communicate; and determining, by the first terminal, a target communication period of time according to a configuration information comprising configuration information for device-to-device, D2D, link Discontinuous Reception, DRX, for the first terminal and/or the second terminal over a Uu interface; determining, by the first network-side device, the configuration information for D2D link DRX for determining the target communication period of time, upon reception of the instruction transmitted by the first terminal to configure the second terminal to communicate; transmitting, by the first network-side device, the configuration information to the second terminal; receiving, by the second terminal, the configuration information for D2D link DRX for determining the target communication period of time from the network-side device; determining, by the second terminal, the target communication period of time according to the configuration information; performing a direct communication interface reception via a direct communication interface in the target communication period of time without listening constantly to any system broadcast or any preconfigured D2D receive resources; wherein the target communication period of time is a period of time in which the first and the second terminal can perform a direct communication via the direct communication interface. instructing, by a first terminal, a first network-side device to configure a second terminal to communicate; and determining, by the first terminal, a target communication period of time according to a configuration information comprising configuration information for device-to-device, D2D, link Discontinuous Reception, DRX, for the first terminal and/or the second terminal over a Uu interface; determining, by the first network-side device, the configuration information for D2D link DRX for determining the target communication period of time, upon reception of the instruction transmitted by the first terminal to configure the second terminal to communicate; transmitting, by the first network-side device, the configuration information to the second terminal; receiving, by the second terminal, the configuration information for D2D link DRX for determining the target communication period of time from the network-side device; determining, by the second terminal, the target communication period of time according to the configuration information; performing a direct communication interface reception via a direct communication interface in the target communication period of time without listening constantly to any system broadcast or any preconfigured D2D receive resources; wherein the target communication period of time is a period of time in which the first and the second terminal can perform a direct communication via the direct communication interface.
An antifouling polymer comprising a plurality of repeating units, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of repeating units comprises medetomidine, or an enantiomer, base or salt thereof, covalently bound to the repeating unit through a hydrolysable bond.
A humanized antibody which does not bind to an amyloid β protein monomer and binds to an amyloid β protein oligomer, wherein the antibody heavy chain variable region comprises the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:12 and the antibody light chain variable region comprises the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:14.
A method for visible light communication, the method comprising: - measuring (601, 703) a frequency spectrum (F spec) comprising light intensity frequencies in surrounding light; - generating (602, 704) a set of candidate light intensity frequencies by selecting light intensity frequencies which are unequal to frequencies or unequal to multiples of frequencies present in the measured frequency spectrum, wherein each selected frequency defines a candidate light intensity frequency; - selecting from the set of candidate light intensity frequencies a first sequence (F 1) of light intensity frequencies to represent a first symbol for embedding data, and selecting from the set of candidate light intensity frequencies a second sequence (F 2), different from the first, of light intensity frequencies, to represent a second symbol for embedding data; and - transmitting a light signal comprising a first time period (T 1) in which a light intensity of the light signal is sequentially controlled according to the first sequence of frequencies, and comprising a second time period (T 2) in which the light intensity of the light signal is sequentially controlled according to the second sequence of frequencies, thereby generating a frequency hopping light signal. - measuring (601, 703) a frequency spectrum (F spec) comprising light intensity frequencies in surrounding light; - generating (602, 704) a set of candidate light intensity frequencies by selecting light intensity frequencies which are unequal to frequencies or unequal to multiples of frequencies present in the measured frequency spectrum, wherein each selected frequency defines a candidate light intensity frequency; - selecting from the set of candidate light intensity frequencies a first sequence (F 1) of light intensity frequencies to represent a first symbol for embedding data, and selecting from the set of candidate light intensity frequencies a second sequence (F 2), different from the first, of light intensity frequencies, to represent a second symbol for embedding data; and - transmitting a light signal comprising a first time period (T 1) in which a light intensity of the light signal is sequentially controlled according to the first sequence of frequencies, and comprising a second time period (T 2) in which the light intensity of the light signal is sequentially controlled according to the second sequence of frequencies, thereby generating a frequency hopping light signal.
A thermoplastic composition, comprising: a) from 1 to 30% by weight of polycarbonate; b) from 50 to 90% by weight of a polysiloxane block co-polycarbonate wherein the polysiloxane block co-polycarbonate has a polysiloxane block content of 10% by weight or less; c) from 1 to 30% by weight of an electromagnetic shielding agent; and d) from 0 to 20% by weight of at least one additive selected from a pigment, a processing additive or a combination including at least one of the foregoing additives; wherein the composition after molding has a shielding effectiveness of at least 10 decibels measured according to ASTM D4935; further wherein the composition after molding and painted or coated has improved delamination behavior as compared to a reference thermoplastic composition having an equivalent amount of polysiloxane block content but which comprises a polysiloxane block co-polycarbonate having a higher polysiloxane block content. a) from 1 to 30% by weight of polycarbonate; b) from 50 to 90% by weight of a polysiloxane block co-polycarbonate wherein the polysiloxane block co-polycarbonate has a polysiloxane block content of 10% by weight or less; c) from 1 to 30% by weight of an electromagnetic shielding agent; and d) from 0 to 20% by weight of at least one additive selected from a pigment, a processing additive or a combination including at least one of the foregoing additives;
A grating coupler, comprising: a substrate layer, a lower confining layer, a waveguide core layer, and an upper confining layer that are sequentially arranged; wherein the waveguide core layer comprises a submicron waveguide and a first tapered waveguide, characterized in that the waveguide core layer further comprises a waveguide array that forms a grating, wherein the waveguide array comprises at least two waveguide groups, each of the waveguide groups comprises at least one waveguide chain, each of the at least one waveguide chain consists of a plurality of cycles, each cycle comprises at least two waveguides that have different widths, the waveguides in the waveguide chain having different width are connected to each other alternately, all of the cycles in the waveguide chains comprised in a same waveguide group have the same at least two waveguides having different width and a same arrangement structure, and the waveguides in the waveguide chains comprised in different waveguide groups have different widths respectively, wherein the arrangement structure of the waveguides in the waveguide array is such that the waveguide chains in the waveguide groups are arranged in parallel or at a specific angle to form a sector ring waveguide array; and an end of each waveguide chain in the waveguide array is connected to a wide end of the first tapered waveguide, and a narrow end of the first tapered waveguide is connected to the submicron waveguide. a substrate layer, a lower confining layer, a waveguide core layer, and an upper confining layer that are sequentially arranged; wherein the waveguide core layer comprises a submicron waveguide and a first tapered waveguide, characterized in that the waveguide core layer further comprises a waveguide array that forms a grating, wherein the waveguide array comprises at least two waveguide groups, each of the waveguide groups comprises at least one waveguide chain, each of the at least one waveguide chain consists of a plurality of cycles, each cycle comprises at least two waveguides that have different widths, the waveguides in the waveguide chain having different width are connected to each other alternately, all of the cycles in the waveguide chains comprised in a same waveguide group have the same at least two waveguides having different width and a same arrangement structure, and the waveguides in the waveguide chains comprised in different waveguide groups have different widths respectively, wherein the arrangement structure of the waveguides in the waveguide array is such that the waveguide chains in the waveguide groups are arranged in parallel or at a specific angle to form a sector ring waveguide array; and an end of each waveguide chain in the waveguide array is connected to a wide end of the first tapered waveguide, and a narrow end of the first tapered waveguide is connected to the submicron waveguide.
An anti-connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) agent for use in a method of: a) treating a motor neuron disease; b) preventing the development or reducing the progression rate of a motor neuron disease; c) preventing or reducing a clinical symptom of a motor neuron disease; or d) improving muscle function, or preventing or reducing muscle damage in a subject with a motor neuron disease. a) treating a motor neuron disease; b) preventing the development or reducing the progression rate of a motor neuron disease; c) preventing or reducing a clinical symptom of a motor neuron disease; or d) improving muscle function, or preventing or reducing muscle damage in a subject with a motor neuron disease.
Mixing apparatus for mixing highly viscous media, in particular for a biogas plant, having a large-volume outer container and an agitator arranged therein, wherein the container has a supply of medium and a discharge line for discharging the mixed medium, wherein the agitator is formed as a vertical screw mixer, having an agitator screw and a sleeve encasing the agitator screw, characterised in that means are provided on the agitator screw and/or an inner surface of the sleeve which increase the coefficient of friction of the surface at least in surface sections, so that the highly viscous medium is comminuted, broken and/or defibrated as it passes the means and/or in that the turns of the agitator screw are interrupted in length sections.