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A method of making an extract of fruit of the Solanaceae family wherein fruit is processed to optimise the platelet aggregation inhibiting activity of the extract comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a start mix of homogenised fruit, wherein the pH of the start mix does not exceed pH 5.5 and the holding temperature of the start mix does not exceed 35oC; (b) separating a water soluble fraction from fruit solids by a procedure that does not raise the temperature of the fraction above 60 oC; (c) filtration of the water soluble fraction; (d) removal of free sugars from the filtered water soluble fraction wherein: AmberliteTM FPX66 resin is employed to absorb extract components, with the exception of free sugars, organic acids and salts; absorbed extract components are recovered from the resin by elution with ethanol/water mixtures; and ethanol is removed from the eluant by evaporation under reduced pressure or by reverse osmosis; and (e) concentration of active agents in the eluant by a procedure that does not raise the temperature of the fraction above 60 oC; and wherein the extract is a concentrated aqueous solution containing < 1% sugar and containing > 95% of the bioactive components contained in the start mix. (a) preparing a start mix of homogenised fruit, wherein the pH of the start mix does not exceed pH 5.5 and the holding temperature of the start mix does not exceed 35oC; (b) separating a water soluble fraction from fruit solids by a procedure that does not raise the temperature of the fraction above 60 oC; (c) filtration of the water soluble fraction; (d) removal of free sugars from the filtered water soluble fraction wherein: AmberliteTM FPX66 resin is employed to absorb extract components, with the exception of free sugars, organic acids and salts; absorbed extract components are recovered from the resin by elution with ethanol/water mixtures; and ethanol is removed from the eluant by evaporation under reduced pressure or by reverse osmosis; and AmberliteTM FPX66 resin is employed to absorb extract components, with the exception of free sugars, organic acids and salts; absorbed extract components are recovered from the resin by elution with ethanol/water mixtures; and ethanol is removed from the eluant by evaporation under reduced pressure or by reverse osmosis; and (e) concentration of active agents in the eluant by a procedure that does not raise the temperature of the fraction above 60 oC; and
Method in the manufacture of an elevator, in which is formed an elevator arrangement, which comprises - an elevator hoistway, - at least one elevator unit (1,2) to be moved in the elevator hoistway, said unit(s) including at least an elevator car, - a movable supporting structure in the elevator hoistway above the elevator car, characterized in that in the method, the elevator comprises: - roping suspended from the supporting structure for supporting the aforementioned at least one elevator unit (1,2) to be moved, and in that in the method these phases are performed: a) the elevator car is used to transport passengers and/or freight, after which b) the supporting structure is lifted in the elevator hoistway, after which c) the elevator car is used to transport passengers and/or freight, wherein in the method between phase a and c additionally a phase x is performed, in which the section (A, A', A") of the roping is lifted, separately from the lifting of the supporting structure, higher up in the elevator hoistway, and in phase x the section (A, A', A") of the roping is supported to be suspended in the elevator hoistway from a structure (7, 7', 7") which is separate from the supporting structure and which is a rope pulley and the roping on the first side of the rope pulley travels down to an elevator unit (1,2) and the roping on the second side of the rope pulley travels to the supporting structure, and is fixed to it at least during phase c. - an elevator hoistway, - at least one elevator unit (1,2) to be moved in the elevator hoistway, said unit(s) including at least an elevator car, - a movable supporting structure in the elevator hoistway above the elevator car, - roping suspended from the supporting structure for supporting the aforementioned at least one elevator unit (1,2) to be moved, a) the elevator car is used to transport passengers and/or freight, after which b) the supporting structure is lifted in the elevator hoistway, after which c) the elevator car is used to transport passengers and/or freight, wherein in the method between phase a and c additionally a phase x is performed, in which the section (A, A', A") of the roping is lifted, separately from the lifting of the supporting structure, higher up in the elevator hoistway, and in phase x the section (A, A', A") of the roping is supported to be suspended in the elevator hoistway from a structure (7, 7', 7") which is separate from the supporting structure and which is a rope pulley and the roping on the first side of the rope pulley travels down to an elevator unit (1,2) and the roping on the second side of the rope pulley travels to the supporting structure, and is fixed to it at least during phase c.
Closure for a container, in particular for fluids, in particular liquids, comprising a connecting element for connecting the closure to a container, a sealing device for sealing the access to a container content and an interface to an adapter, which interface comprises a coupling receptacle, wherein the closure has a delivery position and a use position, wherein in the delivery position the sealing device is closed in a gas- and liquid-tight manner, and wherein in the use position the sealing device is opened, wherein channels for the supply and discharge of air are designed to be closable by the sealing device, characterized in that the coupling receptacle is designed to be movable along a longitudinal axis of the closure from a delivery position into a use position and the coupling receptacle comprises engagement grooves, wherein the engagement grooves are aligned in such a way that engagement elements of a coupling element of an adapter can be inserted along the axis in an insertion direction into the engagement grooves of the coupling receptacle of the closure.
A fuel cell system comprising a cartridge having a first valve component and containing a fuel, a receptacle attached to a fuel cell, wherein the receptacle comprises a key way opening, wherein the key way opening includes an enlarged portion opening and a reduced portion opening wherein when the first valve component connects to the receptacle a flow path is established so that the fuel is transportable from the cartridge to the fuel cell to be converted into electrical energy, and the fuel cell system further comprising a resistant system to increase the operational resistance to the connection or separation of the cartridge to or from the fuel cell, wherein the resistant system comprises a connection portion of the cartridge adapted to be received in the enlarged portion opening and to be rotated and moved translationally -along the reduced portion opening to open the first valve component.
A protective mask comprising an ultrafine fibrous coating on a first microfibrous substrate, said ultrafine fibrous coating comprising: electrospun partially gelled submicron fibers having an average diameter of 300 - 999 nm, interweaved with electrospun nanofibers having an average diameter of 10 - 99 nm; and a biocide which is encapsulated into, surface-attached onto, blended with, physically trapped, and/or chemically linked to said submicron fibers and nanofibers. electrospun partially gelled submicron fibers having an average diameter of 300 - 999 nm, interweaved with electrospun nanofibers having an average diameter of 10 - 99 nm; and a biocide which is encapsulated into, surface-attached onto, blended with, physically trapped, and/or chemically linked to said submicron fibers and nanofibers.
A method of capturing color image data, the method comprising: capturing (13N; 450), by a monochrome camera of a device, monochrome image data of a scene; capturing (13A; 450), by a color camera of the device, color image data of the scene; registering the color image data to the monochrome image data to spatially align the color image data and the monochrome image data; determining (46; 452, 454), by a processor of the device, a parallax value indicative of the amount of parallax remaining after registration of the color image data and the monochrome image data; determining (46; 452; 454), by the processor, that the parallax value is greater than a parallax threshold indicating that the scene was captured using a macro mode; and in response to the determination that the parallax value is greater than the parallax threshold: computing a parallax mask based on the luma component of the color image data and the monochrome image data; and performing (48; 88; 456), based on the parallax mask, a weighted average of the luma component of the color image data with the monochrome image data to generate a luma component of enhanced color image data. capturing (13N; 450), by a monochrome camera of a device, monochrome image data of a scene; capturing (13A; 450), by a color camera of the device, color image data of the scene; registering the color image data to the monochrome image data to spatially align the color image data and the monochrome image data; determining (46; 452, 454), by a processor of the device, a parallax value indicative of the amount of parallax remaining after registration of the color image data and the monochrome image data; determining (46; 452; 454), by the processor, that the parallax value is greater than a parallax threshold indicating that the scene was captured using a macro mode; and in response to the determination that the parallax value is greater than the parallax threshold: computing a parallax mask based on the luma component of the color image data and the monochrome image data; and performing (48; 88; 456), based on the parallax mask, a weighted average of the luma component of the color image data with the monochrome image data to generate a luma component of enhanced color image data. computing a parallax mask based on the luma component of the color image data and the monochrome image data; and performing (48; 88; 456), based on the parallax mask, a weighted average of the luma component of the color image data with the monochrome image data to generate a luma component of enhanced color image data.
A braking system comprising a first braking demand signal generator (14b, 14b'), a modulator (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d) which is connected to a source of pressurised fluid (20, 20') via a first fluid flow line, the modulator (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d) being connected to and having an input for receipt of a braking demand signal from the braking demand signal generator (14b, 14b') and further connected to a first braking chamber in a fluid operated brake actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) via a second fluid flow line, the modulator (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d) being adapted, on receipt of a braking demand signal from the first braking demand signal generator (14b, 14b'), to allow pressurised fluid to pass from the source of pressurised fluid (20, 20') to the actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d), the actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) being configured such that passage of pressurised fluid from the modulator (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d) into the first chamber causes the actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) to move to a brake apply position, the system further comprising a second braking demand signal generator which is connected to an electrically operated controller (22, 22'), the controller (22, 22') having an input for receipt of a braking demand signal from the second braking demand signal generator, and controlling flow of fluid from the source of pressurised fluid (20,20') to a second chamber of the brake actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d), the brake actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) being further provided with a mechanical biasing element which biases the actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) into the brake apply position, and being configured such the passage of pressurised fluid into the second chamber causes the actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) to be moved against the force of the mechanical biasing element out of the brake apply position, characterized by the controller (22, 22') being adapted to release pressurised fluid from the second chamber of the actuator (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) on receipt of a braking demand signal, but not in the event of failure of the electrical power supply to the controller (22, 22').
A non-therapeutic use of a mixture formed from a proportion of vitamin C, a proportion of allicin or degradation products or metabolites thereof, a proportion of citric acid corresponding to more than 10 mg of whole lemons in 100 mL of the mixture, a proportion of plant polysaccharides as well as a proportion of flavonoids, as a hair growth agent for application to parts of the skin on which hair growth is to be stimulated, wherein these proportions of the mixture are prepared via a proportion of plant components of the genus Allium or their metabolites or degradation products and via a proportion of more than 10 mg of whole lemons in 100 mL of the mixture.
A porous hollow-fiber membrane comprising a fluororesin-based polymer, wherein the porous hollow-fiber membrane has a columnar texture oriented in a longitudinal direction of the porous hollow-fiber membrane, a molecular chain of the fluororesin-based polymer is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the porous hollow-fiber membrane, and an orientation degree π of the molecular chain calculated based on the following formula is 0.4 or more and less than 1.0 at 80% or more of the measurement points: Orientation degree π = 180 ° − H / 180 ° provided that H is a half-width (°) of a diffraction intensity distribution in a circumferential direction of a wide-angle X-ray diffraction image, orientation degree π and half-width H being determined as described herein, wherein the wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurement is performed at measurement points at 1 cm intervals in the longitudinal direction of the porous hollow-fiber membrane, and the half-width H is a half-width of an intensity distribution obtained by circumferentially scanning a crystal peak (2θ=20.4°) derived from a plane of polyvinylidene fluoride in wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurement, the columnar texture has a short-side length of from 0.5 μm to 3 μm, and has an aspect ratio of 3 or more, determined by scanning electron microscopy, and the columnar texture has a thickness uniformity of 0.60 or more and less than 1.00, determined as described herein, wherein the proportion of the columnar texture is 80 wt% or more, and the porous hollow-fiber membrane has a pure-water permeation performance at 50 kPa and 25°C of 0.7 m 3 /m 2 /hr or more and a breaking strength of 25 MPa or more.
A method for decoding a document comprising at least one textual part, said textual part being represented in a graphic form, the character determination of which cannot be obtained by directly analysing the content of the file but has to be indirectly retrieved from images that this document allows to reconstitute, by a specific font including, for at least one so-called encodable character, an original written form and at least one variant, each of the variants being associated with a different encoding value, the original written form and the variant(s) being arranged to be, during a decoding phase, identified as a same character by an optical character recognition process not having said specific font available, referred to as a conventional OCR process, said specific font having been used within a watermarking process to encode a piece of information in said textual part of the document, by replacing at least one original written form by a variant, for one or more encodable characters, a strict order relation being defined on the encodable characters in order to establish in which order the encodable characters will be processed during the decoding phase, said decoding method comprising the steps of: - applying to said textual part a first character recognition process forming a conventional OCR process, so as to recognise at least the character sub-set including said encodable characters, and to provide an image of each of the characters thus identified, said images being called thumbnail images, - establishing the "strict order relation" on the characters thus recognised, - applying to said thumbnail images a second character recognition process using a statistical classification, referred to as particular OCR, in order to determine whether the represented character is the original written form or one of its variants and in the latter case determining the variant represented, in said specific font, as well as its corresponding encoding value, - data thus deduced allowing the encoded piece of information to be reconstituted. - applying to said textual part a first character recognition process forming a conventional OCR process, so as to recognise at least the character sub-set including said encodable characters, and to provide an image of each of the characters thus identified, said images being called thumbnail images, - establishing the "strict order relation" on the characters thus recognised, - applying to said thumbnail images a second character recognition process using a statistical classification, referred to as particular OCR, in order to determine whether the represented character is the original written form or one of its variants and in the latter case determining the variant represented, in said specific font, as well as its corresponding encoding value, - data thus deduced allowing the encoded piece of information to be reconstituted.
Stereolithography system comprising: - a stereolithography machine; - a stereolithography resin package, comprising a container, filled with a stereolithography resin and provided with an access opening; wherein said stereolithography resin package further comprises: a mixer element, arranged in: a removable manner in said container and provided with at least one magnet; a data support belonging to said container, containing information on the type and quantity of said stereolithography resin, associated with connection means suited to transmit said information to an external device; wherein said stereolithography system further comprises: - a duct for connecting said container to said stereolithography machine, suited to withdraw said stereolithography resin from said container; - a mixing device provided with: - a seat suited to accommodate said container; - an external magnet associated with motorisation means suited to set it moving; - reading means suited to acquire the information contained in said data support of said container, operatively associated with a logic control unit configured so as to control said motorisation means based on said information. - a stereolithography machine; - a stereolithography resin package, comprising a container, filled with a stereolithography resin and provided with an access opening; - a duct for connecting said container to said stereolithography machine, suited to withdraw said stereolithography resin from said container; - a mixing device provided with: - a seat suited to accommodate said container; - an external magnet associated with motorisation means suited to set it moving; - reading means suited to acquire the information contained in said data support of said container, operatively associated with a logic control unit configured so as to control said motorisation means based on said information. - a seat suited to accommodate said container; - an external magnet associated with motorisation means suited to set it moving; - reading means suited to acquire the information contained in said data support of said container, operatively associated with a logic control unit configured so as to control said motorisation means based on said information.
A method for securely inputting an access code for secure access to an electronic service, wherein the service is made available via or on a computer and wherein access to an electronic service is only granted if the input access code corresponds to a predetermined access code, with the following steps of: making available a random initial state of a plurality of user-selectable fields; displaying the plurality of user-selectable fields via a display device; inputting the access code by a user by changing the state of the displayed user-selectable fields; characterized in that for carrying out the method a portable data carrier is connected to the computer, the display of the plurality of user-selectable fields is effected on a display device of the portable data carrier, and the changing of the state of the displayed user-selectable fields is effected via an input device of the computer, after complete input of the access code either an authentication is effected on the portable data carrier or the input access code is transmitted from the portable data carrier to the computer for this purpose. making available a random initial state of a plurality of user-selectable fields; displaying the plurality of user-selectable fields via a display device; inputting the access code by a user by changing the state of the displayed user-selectable fields;
A method for preparing a composite transition metal compound of a transition metal precursor the transition metal precursor being a spherical particle, comprising a composite transition metal compound having a composition represented by Formula and a Mn content of 70 to 80 mol%: Ni a M b Mn 1-(a+b) (OH 1-x) 2 where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Co, Al, Cu, Fe, Mg, B, Cr and period II transition metals, 0.15 ≤ a ≤ 0.3, 0 ≤ b ≤ 0.1, and 0 < x < 0.5, the method comprising: (i) preparing an aqueous transition metal solution containing a transition metal salt for precursor preparation; (ii) mixing, with the aqueous transition metal solution, 0.01 to 10 mol% of a reductant relative to the molar quantity of the aqueous transition metal solution; and (iii) adding a strong base to the aqueous transition metal solution mixed with the reductant to induce coprecipitation. (i) preparing an aqueous transition metal solution containing a transition metal salt for precursor preparation; (ii) mixing, with the aqueous transition metal solution, 0.01 to 10 mol% of a reductant relative to the molar quantity of the aqueous transition metal solution; and (iii) adding a strong base to the aqueous transition metal solution mixed with the reductant to induce coprecipitation.