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Method for a production of liquefied gas, performed by one or more apparatuses (110, 120, 130, 610, 620, 630), comprising: - reducing a pressure of natural gas stored in a gas storage (110, 610),, wherein after the reduction the natural gas has a predetermined constant pressure; - purifying natural gas stored and expanded in the gas storage (110, 610); and - producing liquefied gas based on the purified natural gas, wherein the producing of the liquefied gas is performed during the outputting of the natural gas out of the gas storage (110, 610) into a gas network connected to the gas storage (110, 610), and the gas storage (110, 610) is an underground gas storage, wherein the one or more apparatuses (110, 120, 130, 610, 620, 630) for performing and/or controlling the method are configured or comprise respective means for performing and/or controlling the steps of the method, characterized in that the one or more apparautses performing and/or controlling the method are located within the underground gas storage tank (110, 610). - reducing a pressure of natural gas stored in a gas storage (110, 610),, wherein after the reduction the natural gas has a predetermined constant pressure; - purifying natural gas stored and expanded in the gas storage (110, 610); and - producing liquefied gas based on the purified natural gas, wherein the producing of the liquefied gas is performed during the outputting of the natural gas out of the gas storage (110, 610) into a gas network connected to the gas storage (110, 610), and the gas storage (110, 610) is an underground gas storage, wherein the one or more apparatuses (110, 120, 130, 610, 620, 630) for performing and/or controlling the method are configured or comprise respective means for performing and/or controlling the steps of the method, characterized in that the one or more apparautses performing and/or controlling the method are located within the underground gas storage tank (110, 610). the gas storage (110, 610) is an underground gas storage, wherein the one or more apparatuses (110, 120, 130, 610, 620, 630) for performing and/or controlling the method are configured or comprise respective means for performing and/or controlling the steps of the method, characterized in that the one or more apparautses performing and/or controlling the method are located within the underground gas storage tank (110, 610).
A compound of formula (Ia), wherein the formula is wherein Q and X are, respectively, CH and C, CR 2 and C, CH and N, CR 2 and N, or N and C; R 1 is hydrogen, halide or optionally substituted linear or branched alkoxy having 1 or 2 carbon atoms; R 2 is independently selected from hydrogen, halide or optionally substituted linear or branched alkoxy having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, and R 3 is optionally substituted linear or branched alkoxy having 1-6 carbon atoms, haloalkyl having 1-6 carbon atoms, n-propyl, 2-propenyl, 2-propynyl, or n-pentyl, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, for use in the prevention or treatment of a bacterial infection. Q and X are, respectively, CH and C, CR 2 and C, CH and N, CR 2 and N, or N and C; R 1 is hydrogen, halide or optionally substituted linear or branched alkoxy having 1 or 2 carbon atoms; R 2 is independently selected from hydrogen, halide or optionally substituted linear or branched alkoxy having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, and R 3 is optionally substituted linear or branched alkoxy having 1-6 carbon atoms, haloalkyl having 1-6 carbon atoms, n-propyl, 2-propenyl, 2-propynyl, or n-pentyl, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, for use in the prevention or treatment of a bacterial infection.
An apparatus, comprising: a pressure regulator fluidly coupled to an inlet region and an outlet region and configured to reduce a pressure from a first value in the inlet region to a second value in the outlet region, where the second value is lower than the first value; and a variable area orifice disposed between the outlet region and an outlet opening of the apparatus, wherein a flow rate of a gas is controlled by the variable area orifice and is discharged from the apparatus to a gas supply line, wherein a free area of the variable area orifice that is disposed between a movable element and a surface of the variable area orifice is configured to change linearly in response to a translation of the movable element relative to the surface. a pressure regulator fluidly coupled to an inlet region and an outlet region and configured to reduce a pressure from a first value in the inlet region to a second value in the outlet region, where the second value is lower than the first value; and a variable area orifice disposed between the outlet region and an outlet opening of the apparatus, wherein a flow rate of a gas is controlled by the variable area orifice and is discharged from the apparatus to a gas supply line, wherein a free area of the variable area orifice that is disposed between a movable element and a surface of the variable area orifice is configured to change linearly in response to a translation of the movable element relative to the surface.
A dispenser for applying small amounts of liquid to a substrate, the dispenser comprising: a dispenser body; an actuator in said dispenser body; and a dispensing element including a dispensing element body removably coupled to said dispenser body and a valve stem mounted for reciprocating movement within said dispensing element body, said dispensing element body further including a liquid chamber and said valve stem including a tip mounted for reciprocating movement within said liquid chamber between open and closed positions, a valve seat engaging said valve stem tip in the closed position, a liquid dispensing outlet and a liquid supply passage, said valve seat positioned between said liquid chamber and said liquid dispensing outlet, and said liquid supply passage communicating with said liquid chamber, said valve stem further including an opposite end relative to said tip, said opposite end adapted to be operatively coupled to said actuator when said dispensing element is coupled to said dispenser body, characterized in that said valve seat is malleable and plastically deformed by the valve stem tip in the closed position. a dispenser body; an actuator in said dispenser body; and a dispensing element including a dispensing element body removably coupled to said dispenser body and a valve stem mounted for reciprocating movement within said dispensing element body, said dispensing element body further including a liquid chamber and said valve stem including a tip mounted for reciprocating movement within said liquid chamber between open and closed positions, a valve seat engaging said valve stem tip in the closed position, a liquid dispensing outlet and a liquid supply passage, said valve seat positioned between said liquid chamber and said liquid dispensing outlet, and said liquid supply passage communicating with said liquid chamber, said valve stem further including an opposite end relative to said tip, said opposite end adapted to be operatively coupled to said actuator when said dispensing element is coupled to said dispenser body,
A cooling structure for a stationary blade, comprising: an endwall coupled to a radial end of an airfoil relative to a rotor axis of a turbomachine, the airfoil including a pressure side surface, a suction side surface, a leading edge, and a trailing edge; a chamber positioned within the endwall and radially displaced from the radial end of the trailing edge of the airfoil, the chamber receiving a cooling fluid from a cooling fluid source, wherein the chamber includes a pair of opposing chamber walls, one of the pair of opposing chamber walls being positioned proximal to the pressure side surface of the airfoil and the other of the pair of opposing chamber walls being positioned proximal to the suction side surface and the trailing edge of the airfoil, and wherein the cooling fluid in the chamber is in thermal communication with at least a portion of the endwall positioned proximal to the pressure side surface and the trailing edge of the airfoil; and a plurality of thermally conductive fixtures positioned within the chamber and distributed substantially uniformly throughout the chamber. an endwall coupled to a radial end of an airfoil relative to a rotor axis of a turbomachine, the airfoil including a pressure side surface, a suction side surface, a leading edge, and a trailing edge; a chamber positioned within the endwall and radially displaced from the radial end of the trailing edge of the airfoil, the chamber receiving a cooling fluid from a cooling fluid source, wherein the chamber includes a pair of opposing chamber walls, one of the pair of opposing chamber walls being positioned proximal to the pressure side surface of the airfoil and the other of the pair of opposing chamber walls being positioned proximal to the suction side surface and the trailing edge of the airfoil, and wherein the cooling fluid in the chamber is in thermal communication with at least a portion of the endwall positioned proximal to the pressure side surface and the trailing edge of the airfoil; and a plurality of thermally conductive fixtures positioned within the chamber and distributed substantially uniformly throughout the chamber.
Method for separating heterogeneous material layers of a composite component which comprises at least one material layer transparent to visible light, having a transparency of more than 40%, and at least one further material layer, where the light from an external source falls through the at least one transparent material layer into the at least one further material layer, where it is at least partially absorbed, so that the heating of the light-absorbing further material layer causes separation of at least two material layers of the composite component from one another, characterized in that the light from the external source is provided by means of at least one flash lamp and is used to irradiate and heat the light-absorbing further material layer in an exposure field which encompasses at least a portion of the surface of the composite component, in less than one second, and in that the radiation in the exposure field has a constant intensity at one moment of the exposure period.
A glass article, comprising: a glass element (50; 50a; 50e) having a thickness from 25 μm to 125 μm, the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) further comprising: (a) a first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e); (b) a second primary surface (56; 56a; 56e); and (c) a compressive stress region (60; 60a; 60b) extending from the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) to a first depth in the glass element (50; 50a; 50e), the region (60; 60a; 60b) defined by a compressive stress of at least from 600 MPa to 2000 MPa at the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54b) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e), wherein the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) has: (a) an absence of failure when the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) is subject to 200,000 cycles of bending to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 10 mm, by the parallel plate method; (b) a puncture resistance of greater than 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm. a glass element (50; 50a; 50e) having a thickness from 25 μm to 125 μm, the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) further comprising: (a) a first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e); (b) a second primary surface (56; 56a; 56e); and (c) a compressive stress region (60; 60a; 60b) extending from the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) to a first depth in the glass element (50; 50a; 50e), the region (60; 60a; 60b) defined by a compressive stress of at least from 600 MPa to 2000 MPa at the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54b) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e), (a) a first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e); (b) a second primary surface (56; 56a; 56e); and (c) a compressive stress region (60; 60a; 60b) extending from the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) to a first depth in the glass element (50; 50a; 50e), the region (60; 60a; 60b) defined by a compressive stress of at least from 600 MPa to 2000 MPa at the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54b) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e), wherein the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) has: (a) an absence of failure when the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) is subject to 200,000 cycles of bending to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 10 mm, by the parallel plate method; (b) a puncture resistance of greater than 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm. (a) an absence of failure when the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) is subject to 200,000 cycles of bending to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 10 mm, by the parallel plate method; (b) a puncture resistance of greater than 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface (54; 54a; 54e) of the glass element (50; 50a; 50e) is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm.
Package-collecting apparatus for a package-handling installation for unloading a plurality of packages from a transport supply means of the package-handling installation and for transferring unloaded packages to a transport discharge means of the package-handling installation, wherein the package-collecting apparatus comprises a collecting element, which has a bearing surface for at least one package during the transfer from the transport supply means to the transport discharge means, and at least one side element (8, 10) arranged thereon, which is transferable between a rest position and a working position and has a further bearing surface (9, 11) for at least one package, and, with the side element (8, 10) in the working position, the bearing surface (9, 11) of the side element (8, 10) flushly adjoins the bearing surface of the collecting element, characterized in that the package-collecting apparatus moreover comprises a coupling device for mechanical releasable coupling to the transport discharge means, and wherein the coupling device is designed for positioning the package-collecting apparatus in a substantially horizontal direction and is provided with an overload device which acts in a horizontal direction and which, below a preferably settable limit load, brings about fixed coupling of the package-collecting apparatus to the transport discharge means and, upon attainment of the limit load, in a horizontal direction, brings about automatic decoupling of the package-collecting apparatus from the transport discharge means. the package-collecting apparatus comprises a collecting element, which has a bearing surface for at least one package during the transfer from the transport supply means to the transport discharge means, and at least one side element (8, 10) arranged thereon, which is transferable between a rest position and a working position and has a further bearing surface (9, 11) for at least one package, and, with the side element (8, 10) in the working position, the bearing surface (9, 11) of the side element (8, 10) flushly adjoins the bearing surface of the collecting element, characterized in that the package-collecting apparatus moreover comprises a coupling device for mechanical releasable coupling to the transport discharge means, and wherein the coupling device is designed for positioning the package-collecting apparatus in a substantially horizontal direction and is provided with an overload device which acts in a horizontal direction and which, below a preferably settable limit load, brings about fixed coupling of the package-collecting apparatus to the transport discharge means and, upon attainment of the limit load, in a horizontal direction, brings about automatic decoupling of the package-collecting apparatus from the transport discharge means.
A polymer sheet whose main component is nanocrystals of a polymer, the polymer sheet satisfying the following conditions,,, and: having a crystallinity of not less than 70 %; having a tensile strength at break of not less than 100 MPa and a tensile modulus of not less than 3 GPa; having an average thickness of not less than 0.15 mm; and comprising a cylindrical high order structure having a diameter of not more than 300 nm. having a crystallinity of not less than 70 %; having a tensile strength at break of not less than 100 MPa and a tensile modulus of not less than 3 GPa; having an average thickness of not less than 0.15 mm; and comprising a cylindrical high order structure having a diameter of not more than 300 nm.
A ceramic circuit substrate having a metal plate bonded, by an Ag-Cu-Sn braze material, to at least one main surface of a ceramic substrate, wherein the Ag-Cu-Sn braze material contains, as metal components, 0.5 to 4.0 parts by mass of at least one active metal selected from among titanium, zirconium, hafnium, and niobium, with respect to 100 parts by mass, in total, of 93.0 to 99.4 parts by mass of Ag, 0.1 to 5.0 parts by mass of Cu, and 0.5 to 2.0 parts by mass of Sn; and in a 3000-times-magnified field of view in a SEM reflected-electron image of a bonding interface in a cross-section of the ceramic circuit substrate, Cu-rich phases in an Ag-Cu-Sn braze material layer structure between the ceramic substrate and the metal plate have an average size of 3.5 μm or less and a number density of 0.015/μm 2 or higher, phases that are observed as being black in accordance with the composition in the Ag-Cu-Sn braze material layer structure when a reflected-electron image of a cross-section of the ceramic circuit substrate is observed under a scanning electron microscope, were defined as being Cu-rich phases and the center-of-gravity diameters of the observed Cu-rich phases were measured and the average value thereof was defined as the average size of the Cu-rich phases. the Ag-Cu-Sn braze material contains, as metal components, 0.5 to 4.0 parts by mass of at least one active metal selected from among titanium, zirconium, hafnium, and niobium, with respect to 100 parts by mass, in total, of 93.0 to 99.4 parts by mass of Ag, 0.1 to 5.0 parts by mass of Cu, and 0.5 to 2.0 parts by mass of Sn; and in a 3000-times-magnified field of view in a SEM reflected-electron image of a bonding interface in a cross-section of the ceramic circuit substrate, Cu-rich phases in an Ag-Cu-Sn braze material layer structure between the ceramic substrate and the metal plate have an average size of 3.5 μm or less and a number density of 0.015/μm 2 or higher,
A system for detecting a traumatic brain injury, comprising: a sensing arrangement configured to collect eye movement data of a user; a control unit in communication with the sensing arrangement, the control unit being configured to: compare the eye movement data to a plurality of baseline measurements of eye movement dynamics, wherein comparing the eye movement data to the baseline measurements comprises calculating a current intersaccadic drift velocity of the user and comparing the current intersaccadic drift velocity to a plurality of threshold drift velocities of the baseline measurements, including a normal threshold drift velocity and a TBI threshold drift velocity; and if the eye movement data diverges from one or more of the baseline measurements by a threshold amount, generate an alert for an alerting arrangement configured to indicate a presence or a severity of the TBI for delivery to the user. a sensing arrangement configured to collect eye movement data of a user; a control unit in communication with the sensing arrangement, the control unit being configured to: compare the eye movement data to a plurality of baseline measurements of eye movement dynamics, wherein comparing the eye movement data to the baseline measurements comprises calculating a current intersaccadic drift velocity of the user and comparing the current intersaccadic drift velocity to a plurality of threshold drift velocities of the baseline measurements, including a normal threshold drift velocity and a TBI threshold drift velocity; and if the eye movement data diverges from one or more of the baseline measurements by a threshold amount, generate an alert for an alerting arrangement configured to indicate a presence or a severity of the TBI for delivery to the user. compare the eye movement data to a plurality of baseline measurements of eye movement dynamics, wherein comparing the eye movement data to the baseline measurements comprises calculating a current intersaccadic drift velocity of the user and comparing the current intersaccadic drift velocity to a plurality of threshold drift velocities of the baseline measurements, including a normal threshold drift velocity and a TBI threshold drift velocity; and if the eye movement data diverges from one or more of the baseline measurements by a threshold amount, generate an alert for an alerting arrangement configured to indicate a presence or a severity of the TBI for delivery to the user.
A method of processing a signal, comprising a real and an imaginary component, received through a channel and modulated according to a modulation scheme that involves a constellation of symbols representing groups of bits, comprising the steps of: • filtering and demodulating the signal; • extracting a sample of the demodulated signal; characterized by • splitting the constellation plane into sectors delimited by thresholds on the real component or on the imaginary component,, • identifying the sector boundary closest to the sample, • selecting the subset of the constellation points belonging to the two sectors adjacent the identified sector boundary, • compute the distances of the sample from the selected constellation points. • demapping the sample based on the computed distances without using the points of the constellation not included in said subset. • filtering and demodulating the signal; • extracting a sample of the demodulated signal; • splitting the constellation plane into sectors delimited by thresholds on the real component or on the imaginary component,, • identifying the sector boundary closest to the sample, • selecting the subset of the constellation points belonging to the two sectors adjacent the identified sector boundary, • compute the distances of the sample from the selected constellation points. • demapping the sample based on the computed distances without using the points of the constellation not included in said subset.