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A surgical system, comprising: a surgical tool configured to be coupled to a cutting element; a force system configured to provide at least some force to the surgical tool; and a controller programmed to generate control signals that cause the force system to: provide a first constraint on a user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a first cutting element; and provide a second constraint, in addition to the first constraint, on the user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a second cutting element, thereby providing two constraints on the user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a second cutting element, characterized in that the first constraint is configured to constrain, along a reference axis (R-R), at least one point associated with the cutting element, and wherein the second constraint is configured to constrain an orientation of the surgical tool relative to a reference axis (R-R). a surgical tool configured to be coupled to a cutting element; a force system configured to provide at least some force to the surgical tool; and a controller programmed to generate control signals that cause the force system to: provide a first constraint on a user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a first cutting element; and provide a second constraint, in addition to the first constraint, on the user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a second cutting element, thereby providing two constraints on the user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a second cutting element, characterized in that the first constraint is configured to constrain, along a reference axis (R-R), at least one point associated with the cutting element, and provide a first constraint on a user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a first cutting element; and provide a second constraint, in addition to the first constraint, on the user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a second cutting element, thereby providing two constraints on the user's manual movement of the surgical tool when the cutting element is a second cutting element, characterized in that the first constraint is configured to constrain, along a reference axis (R-R), at least one point associated with the cutting element, and wherein the second constraint is configured to constrain an orientation of the surgical tool relative to a reference axis (R-R).
Method for treating a silicate type glass comprising alkali and alkaline earth metal oxides or d 10 or IIIA metal oxides, wherein the method comprises at least the following steps: (a) Incorporation of nitrogen into the surface of the glass, (b) Thermal poling treatment of the material from (a) under a chemically inert controlled atmosphere. (a) Incorporation of nitrogen into the surface of the glass, (b) Thermal poling treatment of the material from (a) under a chemically inert controlled atmosphere.
A stent graft having a radially compressed configuration and a radially expanded configuration, comprising: a tubular graft body having a first end opening and a second end opening; a stent structure coupled along the graft body, wherein an end of the stent structure that is in closest proximity to the first end opening of the graft body is spaced from said first end opening to define a clearance region of the graft body; and an annular mesh top stent having a first portion coupled along an inner surface of the graft body along the clearance region below the first end opening at attachment locations, and a second portion extending beyond the first end opening outside of the graft body, wherein, during radial expansion, the first portion is retracted to a retracted longitudinal length, and the second portion expands to a bulbous shape having a greater cross-sectional area than the first portion, wherein the attachment locations are circumferentially spaced from one another at non-axially adjacent locations, whereby tearing of the graft body is inhibited during retraction of the annular mesh top stent. a tubular graft body having a first end opening and a second end opening; a stent structure coupled along the graft body, wherein an end of the stent structure that is in closest proximity to the first end opening of the graft body is spaced from said first end opening to define a clearance region of the graft body; and an annular mesh top stent having a first portion coupled along an inner surface of the graft body along the clearance region below the first end opening at attachment locations, and a second portion extending beyond the first end opening outside of the graft body, wherein, during radial expansion, the first portion is retracted to a retracted longitudinal length, and the second portion expands to a bulbous shape having a greater cross-sectional area than the first portion, wherein the attachment locations are circumferentially spaced from one another at non-axially adjacent locations, whereby tearing of the graft body is inhibited during retraction of the annular mesh top stent.
A static mixer for homogenizing a mixture of at least two liquids, in particular after injection of an auxiliary liquid into a main liquid, comprising: - a container closed by walls comprising a top, a bottom and lateral walls; - an input duct, starting from a first wall of the container, and extending as far as the vicinity of the opposite wall; and - an output duct, substantially parallel to the input duct, which starts in the vicinity of the first wall and extends as far as the opposite wall, each duct being provided with a device (3a, 4a) for connection to the exterior through a wall of the container, characterized in that the container has an oval horizontal cross-section, which in particular is elliptical, and the input duct is situated in the vicinity of an end of the large axis of the cross-section, whereas the output duct is situated substantially against the input duct, on the side of the center of the cross-section. - a container closed by walls comprising a top, a bottom and lateral walls; - an input duct, starting from a first wall of the container, and extending as far as the vicinity of the opposite wall; and - an output duct, substantially parallel to the input duct, which starts in the vicinity of the first wall and extends as far as the opposite wall, each duct being provided with a device (3a, 4a) for connection to the exterior through a wall of the container, characterized in that the container has an oval horizontal cross-section, which in particular is elliptical, and the input duct is situated in the vicinity of an end of the large axis of the cross-section, whereas the output duct is situated substantially against the input duct, on the side of the center of the cross-section.
A golf system comprising: - a computing device associated with a user at a physical playing surface having at least one landmark object, the computing device including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to: - obtain topography data representing playing surface characteristics between a virtual golf hole and a virtual golf ball; - determine a plurality of ball placement locations respectively suitable for representing the virtual golf ball on the physical playing surface based on a combination of the topography data and an anticipated virtual golf ball trajectory, the anticipated virtual golf ball trajectory emulating, on the physical playing surface, the virtual golf hole; and - generate signals for communicating a selected ball placement location from the plurality of determined ball placement locations to emulate, on the physical playing surface, the golf ball trajectory to a target destination location. - a computing device associated with a user at a physical playing surface having at least one landmark object, the computing device including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to: - obtain topography data representing playing surface characteristics between a virtual golf hole and a virtual golf ball; - determine a plurality of ball placement locations respectively suitable for representing the virtual golf ball on the physical playing surface based on a combination of the topography data and an anticipated virtual golf ball trajectory, the anticipated virtual golf ball trajectory emulating, on the physical playing surface, the virtual golf hole; and - generate signals for communicating a selected ball placement location from the plurality of determined ball placement locations to emulate, on the physical playing surface, the golf ball trajectory to a target destination location. - obtain topography data representing playing surface characteristics between a virtual golf hole and a virtual golf ball; - determine a plurality of ball placement locations respectively suitable for representing the virtual golf ball on the physical playing surface based on a combination of the topography data and an anticipated virtual golf ball trajectory, the anticipated virtual golf ball trajectory emulating, on the physical playing surface, the virtual golf hole; and - generate signals for communicating a selected ball placement location from the plurality of determined ball placement locations to emulate, on the physical playing surface, the golf ball trajectory to a target destination location.
A composite implantable prosthesis (10, 20, 50, 60, 70), comprising: a scaffold (150, 250, 550, 650, 750) including a plurality of axially spaced apart circumferential sections (152, 154, 156, 252, 254, 256, 552, 554, 556, 652, 654, 752, 754) circumscribing a longitudinal axis from a first end to a second end to define a portion of essentially a cylinder, the scaffold comprising an elastic first material; and one or more bridges (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700) connecting adjacent circumferential sections along the longitudinal axis, and comprising a flexible second material distinct from the first material, and characterised in that each bridge is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the prosthesis and each bridge includes a plurality of bridge sections (120, 330, 332, 334, 336, 338) and a plurality of hinges (130, 320, 322, 324, 326, 360, 420, 422, 530), the hinges connecting adjacent bridge sections to one another, and wherein the second material is a polymer, and each bridge is disposed over a portion of the scaffold, and wherein long polymer molecules in each of the one or more hinges are aligned across a width of the hinges. a scaffold (150, 250, 550, 650, 750) including a plurality of axially spaced apart circumferential sections (152, 154, 156, 252, 254, 256, 552, 554, 556, 652, 654, 752, 754) circumscribing a longitudinal axis from a first end to a second end to define a portion of essentially a cylinder, the scaffold comprising an elastic first material; and one or more bridges (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700) connecting adjacent circumferential sections along the longitudinal axis, and comprising a flexible second material distinct from the first material, and characterised in that each bridge is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the prosthesis and each bridge includes a plurality of bridge sections (120, 330, 332, 334, 336, 338) and a plurality of hinges (130, 320, 322, 324, 326, 360, 420, 422, 530), the hinges connecting adjacent bridge sections to one another, and wherein the second material is a polymer, and each bridge is disposed over a portion of the scaffold, and wherein long polymer molecules in each of the one or more hinges are aligned across a width of the hinges.
A nucleic acid encoding a tailored recombinase, which tailored recombinase is capable of recombining asymmetric target sequences of SEQ ID NO:1 within the long terminal repeat of proviral DNA of a plurality of HIV-1 strains, wherein the amino acid sequence of the tailored recombinase has at least 95% sequence identity, more preferably, 99% sequence identity to a sequence according to SEQ ID NO:10, wherein said tailored recombinase comprises the defined amino acid exchanges as compared to SEQ ID NO:6 of V7L, P12S, P15L, M30V, H40R, M44V, S51T, Y77H, K86N, Q89L, G93A, S108G, C155G, A175S, A249V, R259D, E262R, T268A, D278G, P307A, N317T, I320S.
Device for actuating a laser diode which comprises an electrical circuit for generating a pulsed output signal and to which a trigger pulse can be applied, wherein the electrical circuit comprises: a charging capacitor which is charged from a high-voltage source; a passive pulse-forming network, PFN, with a plurality of, but at least two, components that are connected in parallel, each component consisting of a capacitive energy store (201..20x), a resistance element (210...210x), and an inductive resonance element (220...22x) which are connected in series; a plurality of, but at least two, re-charge resistors (240..24x) that are connected in parallel and via which the high voltage applied to the charging capacitor arrives; a plurality of, but at least two, MOSFETs (233..233x) that are connected in parallel, wherein the trigger pulse controls the MOSFETs; wherein, as a result of the trigger pulse being applied to the electrical circuit, the MOSFETs open and a current flows from the capacitive energy stores (201...20x), through the MOSFETs (233..233x), the resistance elements (210...210x), the inductive resonance elements (220...22x) and the laser diode, and at the end of the trigger pulse the MOSFETs are deactivated again, the electric circuit is interrupted, and the capacitive energy store (201...20x) is re-charged again. a charging capacitor which is charged from a high-voltage source; a passive pulse-forming network, PFN, with a plurality of, but at least two, components that are connected in parallel, each component consisting of a capacitive energy store (201..20x), a resistance element (210...210x), and an inductive resonance element (220...22x) which are connected in series; a plurality of, but at least two, re-charge resistors (240..24x) that are connected in parallel and via which the high voltage applied to the charging capacitor arrives; a plurality of, but at least two, MOSFETs (233..233x) that are connected in parallel, wherein the trigger pulse controls the MOSFETs; wherein, as a result of the trigger pulse being applied to the electrical circuit, the MOSFETs open and a current flows from the capacitive energy stores (201...20x), through the MOSFETs (233..233x), the resistance elements (210...210x), the inductive resonance elements (220...22x) and the laser diode, and at the end of the trigger pulse the MOSFETs are deactivated again, the electric circuit is interrupted, and the capacitive energy store (201...20x) is re-charged again.
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft, comprising: a high-pressure spool comprising an HP compressor and a first electric machine driven by an HP turbine, the first electric machine having a first maximum output power; a low-pressure spool comprising an LP compressor and a second electric machine driven by an LP turbine, the second electric machine having a second maximum output power; characterized in that it further comprises an engine controller configured to identify a condition to the effect that the LP turbine is operating in an unchoked regime, and, in response to an electrical power demand being between zero and the first maximum output power, only extracting electrical power from the first electric machine to meet the electrical power demand. a high-pressure spool comprising an HP compressor and a first electric machine driven by an HP turbine, the first electric machine having a first maximum output power; a low-pressure spool comprising an LP compressor and a second electric machine driven by an LP turbine, the second electric machine having a second maximum output power; characterized in that it further comprises an engine controller configured to identify a condition to the effect that the LP turbine is operating in an unchoked regime, and, in response to an electrical power demand being between zero and the first maximum output power, only extracting electrical power from the first electric machine to meet the electrical power demand.
A method for controlling an industrial robot comprising a manipulator and a control unit including program code for controlling the motions of the manipulator, characterized in that the method comprises: - defining a plurality of locations (10, 12; 20, 21, 22, 23) in the surroundings of the manipulator, each of the locations being assigned a part of the program code, - manually moving the robot to a new position when execution of the current program part has been interrupted, - automatically selecting which part of the program code to be executed next based on the closeness between the new position of the manipulator and the defined locations, and - upon command executing the selected part of the program code. - defining a plurality of locations (10, 12; 20, 21, 22, 23) in the surroundings of the manipulator, each of the locations being assigned a part of the program code, - manually moving the robot to a new position when execution of the current program part has been interrupted, - automatically selecting which part of the program code to be executed next based on the closeness between the new position of the manipulator and the defined locations, and - upon command executing the selected part of the program code.
A method for providing natural human-to-computer interaction based on a three-dimensional hand gesture recognition system, the method comprising the steps of: a) imaging a scene including at least one hand of at least one user; b) processing the imaged scene to determine at least three points of interest (501, 502, 503; 601, 602, 603, 604; 701, 702, 703; 1401, 1402) associated with said at least one hand, a first of said at least three points of interest being a palm centre of said at least one hand; c) tracking said at least three points of interest (501, 502, 503; 601, 602, 603, 604; 701, 702, 703; 1401, 1402) to provide a tracked movement of each point of interest with respect to time; d) analysing said tracked movement of each point of interest (501, 502, 503; 601, 602, 603, 604; 701, 702, 703; 1401, 1402); e) determining, from the analysis of said tracked movement, the simultaneous performance of an activation gesture based on two of said points of interest (601, 602; 701, 702) and a pointing gesture based on a single point of interest (603, 604; 703); and f) using said determined performance of said activation gesture and of said pointing gesture for human-to-computer interaction; characterized in that the position of the single point of interest used for performing the pointing gesture is interpolated from a weighted computation from at least two points of interest, a weighting factor of each one of said at least two points of interest being determined by a distance between the one of said at least two points of interest and said first point of interest, the weighting factor being larger when the distance is smaller. a) imaging a scene including at least one hand of at least one user; b) processing the imaged scene to determine at least three points of interest (501, 502, 503; 601, 602, 603, 604; 701, 702, 703; 1401, 1402) associated with said at least one hand, a first of said at least three points of interest being a palm centre of said at least one hand; c) tracking said at least three points of interest (501, 502, 503; 601, 602, 603, 604; 701, 702, 703; 1401, 1402) to provide a tracked movement of each point of interest with respect to time; d) analysing said tracked movement of each point of interest (501, 502, 503; 601, 602, 603, 604; 701, 702, 703; 1401, 1402); e) determining, from the analysis of said tracked movement, the simultaneous performance of an activation gesture based on two of said points of interest (601, 602; 701, 702) and a pointing gesture based on a single point of interest (603, 604; 703); and f) using said determined performance of said activation gesture and of said pointing gesture for human-to-computer interaction;
An olefin polymerization process, the process comprising: contacting a catalyst composition with an olefin monomer and an optional olefin comonomer in a polymerization reactor system under polymerization conditions to produce an olefin polymer, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a metallocene compound, an activator, and an optional co-catalyst, wherein the metallocene compound has the formula: wherein: M is Ti, Zr, or Hf; Cp is a cyclopentadienyl group with an alkyl and/or an alkenyl substituent; X 1 and X 2 independently are a monoanionic ligand; and R X and R Y independently are H, a halide, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 36 halogenated hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarboxy group, or a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbylsilyl group; wherein the activator comprises an activator-support, the activator-support comprising a solid oxide treated with an electron-withdrawing anion. contacting a catalyst composition with an olefin monomer and an optional olefin comonomer in a polymerization reactor system under polymerization conditions to produce an olefin polymer, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a metallocene compound, an activator, and an optional co-catalyst, wherein the metallocene compound has the formula: wherein: M is Ti, Zr, or Hf; Cp is a cyclopentadienyl group with an alkyl and/or an alkenyl substituent; X 1 and X 2 independently are a monoanionic ligand; and R X and R Y independently are H, a halide, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 36 halogenated hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarboxy group, or a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbylsilyl group; wherein the activator comprises an activator-support, the activator-support comprising a solid oxide treated with an electron-withdrawing anion. M is Ti, Zr, or Hf; Cp is a cyclopentadienyl group with an alkyl and/or an alkenyl substituent; X 1 and X 2 independently are a monoanionic ligand; and R X and R Y independently are H, a halide, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 36 halogenated hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarboxy group, or a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbylsilyl group; wherein the activator comprises an activator-support, the activator-support comprising a solid oxide treated with an electron-withdrawing anion.