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A system including instructions recorded on a computer-readable medium, the system comprising: a topology reader configured to determine a topology of a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture including a number of, and connections between, a plurality of sockets (104, 106), each socket including one or more cores (108, 110, 114, 116) and at least one memory configured to execute a plurality of threads of a software application; a core list generator configured to generate, for each designated core of the NUMA architecture, and based on the topology, a proximity list listing non-designated cores in an order corresponding to a proximity of the non-designated cores to the designated core; and a core selector configured to determine, at a target core and during the execution of the plurality of threads, that the target core is executing an insufficient number of the plurality of threads, and further configured to select a source core at the target core, according to the proximity list associated therewith, for subsequent transfer of a transferred thread from the selected source core to the target core for execution thereon; wherein the core selector is configured to select the source core including inspecting execution threads in at least one private queue thereof, wherein the at least one private queue includes a new nested thread queue and a suspended thread queue, and wherein the core selector is configured to prefer the new nested thread queue when inspecting the source core. a topology reader configured to determine a topology of a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture including a number of, and connections between, a plurality of sockets (104, 106), each socket including one or more cores (108, 110, 114, 116) and at least one memory configured to execute a plurality of threads of a software application; a core list generator configured to generate, for each designated core of the NUMA architecture, and based on the topology, a proximity list listing non-designated cores in an order corresponding to a proximity of the non-designated cores to the designated core; and a core selector configured to determine, at a target core and during the execution of the plurality of threads, that the target core is executing an insufficient number of the plurality of threads, and further configured to select a source core at the target core, according to the proximity list associated therewith, for subsequent transfer of a transferred thread from the selected source core to the target core for execution thereon; wherein the core selector is configured to select the source core including inspecting execution threads in at least one private queue thereof, wherein the at least one private queue includes a new nested thread queue and a suspended thread queue, and wherein the core selector is configured to prefer the new nested thread queue when inspecting the source core.
An additive for improvement in safety of an electrochemical device, comprising: an inner core and an outer coating layer, wherein the inner core is formed using a volume-expandable material fused at more than a predetermined temperature while the outer coating layer is formed using a conductive material with higher conductivity than that of the inner core and covers an outer face of the inner core, wherein the volume-expandable material comprises a polymer and a foaming agent, the polymer being at least one or more selected from a group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene, wherein the outer coating layer comprises at least one or more selected from a group consisting of carbon materials, electron-conductive metals, electron-conductive inorganic materials and electron-conductive polymers, and wherein a thickness of the outer coating layer ranges from 50 to 150nm. an inner core and an outer coating layer, wherein the inner core is formed using a volume-expandable material fused at more than a predetermined temperature while the outer coating layer is formed using a conductive material with higher conductivity than that of the inner core and covers an outer face of the inner core, wherein the volume-expandable material comprises a polymer and a foaming agent, the polymer being at least one or more selected from a group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene, wherein the outer coating layer comprises at least one or more selected from a group consisting of carbon materials, electron-conductive metals, electron-conductive inorganic materials and electron-conductive polymers, and wherein a thickness of the outer coating layer ranges from 50 to 150nm.
Plugging device comprising a plug pin and a contact sleeve with a cavity extending in the direction of a insertion axis for receiving the corresponding plug pin, containing: - at least two contact fingers which are arranged parallel to one another around the cavity, the contact fingers moving elastically apart when the plug pin is inserted, widening the cavity; - at least one depression in the inner side facing the cavity of at least one contact finger, characterized in that the depression is located in a contact area at the inner side and forms therewith an edge angle (α) of less than about 100°, wherein the contact area is that surface at the inner side of the contact finger, which comes into contact with the plug pin when inserting the plug pin. - at least two contact fingers which are arranged parallel to one another around the cavity, the contact fingers moving elastically apart when the plug pin is inserted, widening the cavity; - at least one depression in the inner side facing the cavity of at least one contact finger,
A computer-implemented method of proving automatic quality control of a clinical diagnostic process, the method comprising: acquiring test data from one or more laboratory instruments; analyzing said test data by applying a patient monitoring rule to said test data; generating an internal alert signal when said test data exceeds a predetermined error threshold as calculated by said patient monitoring rule, wherein said patient monitoring rule comprises a Biometric Quality Control process, an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) rule, a cumulative sum control chart (CUSUM) rule, or combinations thereof; applying a confirmation rule to said test data in response to said internal alert signal; and generating an operator alert signal if said confirmation rule confirms said internal alert signal as valid. acquiring test data from one or more laboratory instruments; analyzing said test data by applying a patient monitoring rule to said test data; generating an internal alert signal when said test data exceeds a predetermined error threshold as calculated by said patient monitoring rule, wherein said patient monitoring rule comprises a Biometric Quality Control process, an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) rule, a cumulative sum control chart (CUSUM) rule, or combinations thereof; applying a confirmation rule to said test data in response to said internal alert signal; and generating an operator alert signal if said confirmation rule confirms said internal alert signal as valid.
A process for the preparation of coloured or black polymer particles for use in electrophoretic devices, comprising the steps of a) forming a reverse emulsion comprising at least one polymer, at least one coloured or black inorganic pigment, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, b) removing the polar solvent or polar solvents by evaporative methods c) optionally removing the non-polar solvent or non-polar solvents. a) forming a reverse emulsion comprising at least one polymer, at least one coloured or black inorganic pigment, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, b) removing the polar solvent or polar solvents by evaporative methods c) optionally removing the non-polar solvent or non-polar solvents.
A method of recovering structural members from an absorbent article which comprises a front sheet, a back sheet and an absorbent body situated between the front sheet and the back sheet, wherein at least one of the front sheet and the back sheet includes a film as a structural member and the absorbent body includes an absorbent body material (6, 8) as a structural member, the method comprising: a pretreatment step (S 1) of swelling the absorbent article with water; a disintegration step of applying physical shock to the swelled absorbent article to disintegrate the absorbent article into at least the film and the absorbent body material (6, 8) while maintaining an original shape of the film; and a separating step of separating the disintegrated film and absorbent body material (6, 8) while maintaining the original shape of the film, characterized in that the disintegration step includes: a step of loading the swelled absorbent article into a horizontal-axis rotary drum, and a step of applying physical shock to the absorbent article by rotating the rotary drum, raising the absorbent article from a lower area that is further downward in a vertical direction inside the rotary drum to an upper area that is further upward, and allowing the absorbent article to fall by gravity from the upper area to the lower area, thus impacting with an inner wall of the rotary drum in the lower area. a pretreatment step (S 1) of swelling the absorbent article with water; a disintegration step of applying physical shock to the swelled absorbent article to disintegrate the absorbent article into at least the film and the absorbent body material (6, 8) while maintaining an original shape of the film; and a separating step of separating the disintegrated film and absorbent body material (6, 8) while maintaining the original shape of the film, characterized in that the disintegration step includes: a step of loading the swelled absorbent article into a horizontal-axis rotary drum, and a step of applying physical shock to the absorbent article by rotating the rotary drum, raising the absorbent article from a lower area that is further downward in a vertical direction inside the rotary drum to an upper area that is further upward, and allowing the absorbent article to fall by gravity from the upper area to the lower area, thus impacting with an inner wall of the rotary drum in the lower area. a step of loading the swelled absorbent article into a horizontal-axis rotary drum, and a step of applying physical shock to the absorbent article by rotating the rotary drum, raising the absorbent article from a lower area that is further downward in a vertical direction inside the rotary drum to an upper area that is further upward, and allowing the absorbent article to fall by gravity from the upper area to the lower area, thus impacting with an inner wall of the rotary drum in the lower area.
A plant which is homozygous for a Nax2 gene that confers enhanced tolerance to saline and/or sodic soils, and/or reduced sodium accumulation in an aerial part of the plant, wherein the plant is: (a) barley; or (b) hexaploid wheat or durum wheat, wherein said Nax2 gene is on the A genome, wherein said Nax2 gene is a sequence encoding a polypeptide that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 1; and said plant does not contain a Nax1 gene which confers enhanced tolerance to saline and/or sodic soils, and/or reduced sodium accumulation in an aerial part of the plant. (a) barley; or (b) hexaploid wheat or durum wheat, wherein said Nax2 gene is on the A genome,
An ink jet printhead comprising: a nozzle plate having an underside and comprising one or more nozzles in the underside configured to dispense drops of fluid in a dispensing direction; and a structure coupled to the nozzle plate such that a gap exists between a portion of the maintenance structure and the underside of the nozzle plate, the maintenance structure comprising: a first portion having a first upper surface suspended at a first distance (d 1) from the underside of the nozzle plate; and a second portion that is coupled to the first portion, wherein each of the first and second portions of the maintenance structure defines one or more openings extending in the dispensing direction, the one or more openings (360,362) aligned with the one or more nozzles in the dispensing direction and configured to allow drops of fluid dispensed by the one or more nozzles to pass through the maintenance structure; the printhead being characterised in that the structure is a multi-level maintenance structure, and the second portion has a second upper surface suspended at a second distance from the underside of the nozzle plate, which is greater than the first distance, the second upper surface laterally displaced relative to the first upper surface. a nozzle plate having an underside and comprising one or more nozzles in the underside configured to dispense drops of fluid in a dispensing direction; and a structure coupled to the nozzle plate such that a gap exists between a portion of the maintenance structure and the underside of the nozzle plate, the maintenance structure comprising: a first portion having a first upper surface suspended at a first distance (d 1) from the underside of the nozzle plate; and a second portion that is coupled to the first portion, a first portion having a first upper surface suspended at a first distance (d 1) from the underside of the nozzle plate; and a second portion that is coupled to the first portion, wherein each of the first and second portions of the maintenance structure defines one or more openings extending in the dispensing direction, the one or more openings (360,362) aligned with the one or more nozzles in the dispensing direction and configured to allow drops of fluid dispensed by the one or more nozzles to pass through the maintenance structure; the printhead being characterised in that the structure is a multi-level maintenance structure, and the second portion has a second upper surface suspended at a second distance from the underside of the nozzle plate, which is greater than the first distance, the second upper surface laterally displaced relative to the first upper surface.
A holding element for a protective device with a frame to be attached to a blind frame of a building opening, comprising - a fastening portion for fastening the holding element to the frame of the protective device, - a spacer web which is configured, in a state of the protective device attached to the blind frame, to extend from the frame of the protective device into the building opening and to be arranged at right-angles to the plane spanned by the frame of the protective device, and - a holding limb which is angled-back by approximately 90 degrees from the spacer web and which is configured, in the state of the protective device attached to the window frame, to engage behind a region of the blind frame, wherein the spacer web and the holding limb define a holding plane, wherein the holding plane, in the attached state of the protective device, is oriented at right-angles to the plane spanned by the frame of the protective device, characterized in that the fastening portion is arranged offset to the holding plane such that the spacer web and the holding limb are offset relative to the fastening portion in the direction of a frame interior. - a fastening portion for fastening the holding element to the frame of the protective device, - a spacer web which is configured, in a state of the protective device attached to the blind frame, to extend from the frame of the protective device into the building opening and to be arranged at right-angles to the plane spanned by the frame of the protective device, and - a holding limb which is angled-back by approximately 90 degrees from the spacer web and which is configured, in the state of the protective device attached to the window frame, to engage behind a region of the blind frame, wherein the spacer web and the holding limb define a holding plane, wherein the holding plane, in the attached state of the protective device, is oriented at right-angles to the plane spanned by the frame of the protective device, characterized in that the fastening portion is arranged offset to the holding plane such that the spacer web and the holding limb are offset relative to the fastening portion in the direction of a frame interior.
A vision system for a motor vehicle comprising - at least one light source arranged on an emitting side adapted to generate at least one light beam (3,29); - at least one receiving unit arranged on a receiving side with a light deflection device, wherein the light deflection device is adapted to redirect light which is incident on said light deflection device from a scanned surface in an environment of the vehicle, and a light sensing device to sense light redirected from the light deflection device; - a data processing device; wherein - said vision system comprises at least one optical fiber, which is adapted to guide said light beam (3,29) which exits the at least one optical fiber at an emitting end of the optical fiber; characterized in that - the emitting end of the optical fiber is angled-cut to separate the exiting light beam (3,29) from a reflected light beam portion of the light beam (3,29) and to redirect the reflected light beam portion into the receiving unit, said emitting end acting as a mirror receiving said reflected light beam portion and therefore acting as a beam deflector. - at least one light source arranged on an emitting side adapted to generate at least one light beam (3,29); - at least one receiving unit arranged on a receiving side with a light deflection device, wherein the light deflection device is adapted to redirect light which is incident on said light deflection device from a scanned surface in an environment of the vehicle, and a light sensing device to sense light redirected from the light deflection device; - a data processing device; wherein - said vision system comprises at least one optical fiber, which is adapted to guide said light beam (3,29) which exits the at least one optical fiber at an emitting end of the optical fiber; characterized in that - the emitting end of the optical fiber is angled-cut to separate the exiting light beam (3,29) from a reflected light beam portion of the light beam (3,29) and to redirect the reflected light beam portion into the receiving unit, said emitting end acting as a mirror receiving said reflected light beam portion and therefore acting as a beam deflector.
A tobacco plant or a tobacco plant cell having a genome altered to inhibit the expression of at least the green-leaf nicotine demethylase set forth in SEQ ID NO:2, wherein said plant or cell comprises a green leaf nicotine demethylase having the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:12, wherein the gene encoding said green-leaf nicotine demethylase comprises a nucleotide mutation of G to A at the nucleotide corresponding to nucleotide 1266 of SEQ ID NO: 1, and wherein said plant or cell is homozygous for said nucleotide mutation.
Process for preparing an organic electronic device, comprising the steps of aa) depositing an insulator layer comprising a cross-linkable dielectric material onto a substrate, bb-1) exposing one or more, but not all, areas of the insulator layer to a first, lower, photoradiation dosage that causes partial but not complete cross-linking of the dielectric material, bb-2) exposing other areas of the insulator layer to a second, higher, photoradiation dosage that causes a higher degree of cross-linking of the dielectric material than the exposure to the first radiation dosage, wherein the sequence of the two exposure steps bb-1) and bb-2) can also be reversed, cc) source and drain electrodes are formed, with the channel region between the source and drain lying on top of the patterned area of the insulator layer, dd) depositing an organic semiconductor layer onto at least a part of the insulator layer and the source and drain electrodes, ee) an organic gate insulator layer is deposited onto the OSC layer, ff) a gate electrode is formed on the OGI layer, so that the OSC layer is in direct contact with at least a part of the areas of the insulator layer having a higher degree of cross-linking of the dielectric material. aa) depositing an insulator layer comprising a cross-linkable dielectric material onto a substrate, bb-1) exposing one or more, but not all, areas of the insulator layer to a first, lower, photoradiation dosage that causes partial but not complete cross-linking of the dielectric material, bb-2) exposing other areas of the insulator layer to a second, higher, photoradiation dosage that causes a higher degree of cross-linking of the dielectric material than the exposure to the first radiation dosage, wherein the sequence of the two exposure steps bb-1) and bb-2) can also be reversed, cc) source and drain electrodes are formed, with the channel region between the source and drain lying on top of the patterned area of the insulator layer, dd) depositing an organic semiconductor layer onto at least a part of the insulator layer and the source and drain electrodes, ee) an organic gate insulator layer is deposited onto the OSC layer, ff) a gate electrode is formed on the OGI layer,
A process for producing ethylene from a carbonaceous containing feedstock the process comprising the steps of a) reforming the carbonaceous containing feedstock into a first product stream comprising carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen; b) fermenting the first product stream with an acetogenic anaerobic bacteria to produce a second product stream comprising ethanol; c) concentrating ethanol from the second product stream into a third product stream; and d) dehydrating ethanol in the third product stream to produce a first, ethylene enriched, carbonaceous fraction, a second, ethylene depleted, carbonaceous fraction and water and d1) recycling at least a part of the water, optionally after treatment, to step b) and/or to step a) and/or recycling at least a part of the second, ethylene depleted carbonaceous fraction as a feedstock to step a) a) reforming the carbonaceous containing feedstock into a first product stream comprising carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen; b) fermenting the first product stream with an acetogenic anaerobic bacteria to produce a second product stream comprising ethanol; c) concentrating ethanol from the second product stream into a third product stream; and d) dehydrating ethanol in the third product stream to produce a first, ethylene enriched, carbonaceous fraction, a second, ethylene depleted, carbonaceous fraction and water and d1) recycling at least a part of the water, optionally after treatment, to step b) and/or to step a) and/or recycling at least a part of the second, ethylene depleted carbonaceous fraction as a feedstock to step a)
A pharmaceutical composition comprising an isolated polypeptide capable of inhibiting the binding of syndecan-4 to human tissue transglutaminase for use as a medicament, wherein the polypeptide consists of: (a) an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a fragment thereof comprising or consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) an antibody capable of binding specifically to a polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 1. (a) an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a fragment thereof comprising or consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) an antibody capable of binding specifically to a polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 1.
Switching-device tripping apparatus for a switching device comprising contact pieces (2, 3) which are movable relative to one another, having a gear arrangement for generating a relative movement between the contact pieces (2, 3) comprising a pawl and comprising a tripping means (11, 12), which is movable against the pawl so as to actuate the pawl, wherein a first tripping means and a second tripping means drive the same pawl and the movement axes of the first and second tripping means (11, 12) are aligned coaxially to one another and wherein the second tripping means protrudes into, in particular passes through, a cutout in the first tripping means, characterized in that the second tripping means is guided on the first tripping means.