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A method of employing a device as a resonator for electrons of an electrical circuit (800, 900, 920, 1000) or for a terahertz electromagnetic wave (602, 702, 1002, 1202), the device comprising: a heterostructure (200, 210); a bottom electrode arranged below the heterostructure (200, 210); and a top electrode arranged above the heterostructure (200, 210); wherein: the heterostructure (200, 210) comprises a plurality of dielectric layers, a plurality of ferroelectric layers, and an alternating stacking sequence of the dielectric layers of the plurality of dielectric layers and the ferroelectric layers of the plurality of ferroelectric layers, wherein: the ferroelectric layers comprise respective pluralities of ferroelectric polarization domains (108, 110) forming respective polarization patterns, and the polarization patterns are adapted to execute respective oscillations with resonance frequencies in a terahertz frequency range; wherein the method comprises: functionally coupling the oscillations of the polarization pattern and an oscillation of the electrons of the electrical circuit (800, 900, 920, 1000) or of the terahertz electromagnetic wave (602, 702, 1002, 1202) by the device. a heterostructure (200, 210); a bottom electrode arranged below the heterostructure (200, 210); and a top electrode arranged above the heterostructure (200, 210); wherein: the heterostructure (200, 210) comprises a plurality of dielectric layers, a plurality of ferroelectric layers, and an alternating stacking sequence of the dielectric layers of the plurality of dielectric layers and the ferroelectric layers of the plurality of ferroelectric layers, wherein: the ferroelectric layers comprise respective pluralities of ferroelectric polarization domains (108, 110) forming respective polarization patterns, and the polarization patterns are adapted to execute respective oscillations with resonance frequencies in a terahertz frequency range; wherein the method comprises: functionally coupling the oscillations of the polarization pattern and an oscillation of the electrons of the electrical circuit (800, 900, 920, 1000) or of the terahertz electromagnetic wave (602, 702, 1002, 1202) by the device.
A pharmaceutical composition in the form of an oral aqueous solution comprising ketoprofen lysine salt, sorbitol, sodium saccharin, mint flavour, licorice flavour, methyl-4-hydroxybenzoate sodium, and having a pH comprised between 5.5 and 6.5.
A method for authenticating a requestor of a remote mail client (154, 156) seeking access to a mail server, said method comprising: (a) receiving a password from the remote mail client; (b) retrieving a previously stored hashed password; (c) determining whether a hashed version of the received password matches the previously stored hashed password; (d) authenticating the requestor with the mail server based on the received password; and (e) further authenticating the requestor with an authentication server based on the received password when said determining (c) determines that the hashed version of the received password does not match the previously stored hashed password, the authentication server being associated with a private network that includes the mail server. (a) receiving a password from the remote mail client; (b) retrieving a previously stored hashed password; (c) determining whether a hashed version of the received password matches the previously stored hashed password; (d) authenticating the requestor with the mail server based on the received password; and (e) further authenticating the requestor with an authentication server based on the received password when said determining (c) determines that the hashed version of the received password does not match the previously stored hashed password, the authentication server being associated with a private network that includes the mail server.
A system for bilateral treatment of a patient, the patient having a head with a first ear and a second ear, the system comprising: a first device alignable with a target tissue of the first ear, the first device having at least one treatment delivery surface; and a second device alignable with a target tissue of the second ear while the first device is in alignment with the target tissue of the first ear, the second device having at least one treatment delivery surface; the first and second treatment delivery devices being actuatable to effect therapeutic remodeling of the target tissues, the target tissue including the tympanic membranes, wherein the treatment delivery surfaces of the first device and the second device each comprise tympanic membrane penetrators configured for a myringotomy, wherein the treatment devices comprise actuators for effecting movement of the penetrators, the actuators comprising springs biased to extend and/or retract the penetrators along an axis oriented along the ear canal, wherein the treatment devices further comprise tympanostomy tubes carried with the movement of the penetrators, the actuators inhibiting retraction of the tubes when the penetrators are retracted so that the therapeutic remodeling comprises the implantation of the tympanastomy tubes in the tympanic membranes. a first device alignable with a target tissue of the first ear, the first device having at least one treatment delivery surface; and a second device alignable with a target tissue of the second ear while the first device is in alignment with the target tissue of the first ear, the second device having at least one treatment delivery surface; the first and second treatment delivery devices being actuatable to effect therapeutic remodeling of the target tissues, the target tissue including the tympanic membranes, wherein the treatment delivery surfaces of the first device and the second device each comprise tympanic membrane penetrators configured for a myringotomy, wherein the treatment devices comprise actuators for effecting movement of the penetrators, the actuators comprising springs biased to extend and/or retract the penetrators along an axis oriented along the ear canal, wherein the treatment devices further comprise tympanostomy tubes carried with the movement of the penetrators, the actuators inhibiting retraction of the tubes when the penetrators are retracted so that the therapeutic remodeling comprises the implantation of the tympanastomy tubes in the tympanic membranes.
An internal combustion engine including a balancer which is driven by a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine via a gear drive device and rotates in a direction reverse to a direction in which the crankshaft rotates, and an electric motor which is driven by the balancer via a belt drive device and rotates in a direction reverse to the direction in which the crankshaft rotates, wherein the internal combustion engine comprises: a flywheel provided to a rotary shaft of the electric motor via a clutch; and a control unit configured to control torque to be transmitted to the gear drive device via the belt drive device by engaging or disengaging the clutch in accordance with an operating condition of the internal combustion engine, and power-driving or regeneratively driving the electric motor in accordance with a crank angular acceleration at least when the operating condition of the internal combustion engine is for normal running and idling. a flywheel provided to a rotary shaft of the electric motor via a clutch; and a control unit configured to control torque to be transmitted to the gear drive device via the belt drive device by engaging or disengaging the clutch in accordance with an operating condition of the internal combustion engine, and power-driving or regeneratively driving the electric motor in accordance with a crank angular acceleration at least when the operating condition of the internal combustion engine is for normal running and idling. engaging or disengaging the clutch in accordance with an operating condition of the internal combustion engine, and power-driving or regeneratively driving the electric motor in accordance with a crank angular acceleration at least when the operating condition of the internal combustion engine is for normal running and idling.
A refrigerant compressor, comprising a hermetically sealed housing, in whose interior a drive unit, which compresses a refrigerant, and comprises a piston-cylinder unit including an electric motor driving it, operates, which is mounted using an arbitrary number of spring elements on a mounting area of the housing preferably situated on the housing floor, a first end area of the spring element enclosing a pin-shaped upper mounting element situated on the drive unit, while a second end area of the spring element encloses a pin-shaped lower mounting element situated on the housing, characterized in that end areas (5, 6) of the two mounting elements (7, 8), which face toward one another and are enclosed by the spring element, overlap one another in the installed position of the drive unit in the axial direction of the spring element, front sides (5a, 6a) of the mounting element end areas (5, 6) facing toward one another.
An optical sensor, comprising: an optical assembly comprising a sensor element, a spacer and a lens arranged along an optical axis, the sensor element spaced from the lens by the spacer; an optical fibre coupled to the optical assembly for illuminating the sensor element; a housing (140, 142) to provide mechanical protection to the optical assembly, wherein the optical assembly is resiliently mounted in the housing such that the optical assembly is insulated from shock to the housing, characterised in that the optical assembly is coupled to the housing by a resilient ring and the optical assembly is not coupled to the housing at another point. an optical assembly comprising a sensor element, a spacer and a lens arranged along an optical axis, the sensor element spaced from the lens by the spacer; an optical fibre coupled to the optical assembly for illuminating the sensor element; a housing (140, 142) to provide mechanical protection to the optical assembly, wherein the optical assembly is resiliently mounted in the housing such that the optical assembly is insulated from shock to the housing, characterised in that the optical assembly is coupled to the housing by a resilient ring and the optical assembly is not coupled to the housing at another point.
A method of performing memory operations, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising: receiving, a cache instruction specifying one or more ranges of addresses of a main memory, the one or more ranges of addresses of the main memory corresponding to a plurality of cache lines in a cache memory of the one or more processors, wherein the cache instruction indicates that at least a portion of data stored in the cache memory is to be stored in the main memory wherein the cache instruction includes a particular address and a mask; determining the one or more ranges of addresses of the main memory based on determining which addresses match the particular address in bit positions specified by the mask; identifying a set of cache lines of the cache memory based on the one or more ranges of addresses of the main memory, so that data stored in the identified set of cache lines of the cache memory can be stored in the main memory; and for each cache line of the identified set having data that has been modified since that cache line was first loaded to the cache memory or since a previous store operation, causing data stored in that cache line to be stored in the main memory; and wherein the main memory corresponds to a non-volatile memory having a first address range and a volatile memory having a second address range, and wherein the determined one or more ranges of addresses is within the first address range. receiving, a cache instruction specifying one or more ranges of addresses of a main memory, the one or more ranges of addresses of the main memory corresponding to a plurality of cache lines in a cache memory of the one or more processors, wherein the cache instruction indicates that at least a portion of data stored in the cache memory is to be stored in the main memory wherein the cache instruction includes a particular address and a mask; determining the one or more ranges of addresses of the main memory based on determining which addresses match the particular address in bit positions specified by the mask; identifying a set of cache lines of the cache memory based on the one or more ranges of addresses of the main memory, so that data stored in the identified set of cache lines of the cache memory can be stored in the main memory; and for each cache line of the identified set having data that has been modified since that cache line was first loaded to the cache memory or since a previous store operation, causing data stored in that cache line to be stored in the main memory; and wherein the main memory corresponds to a non-volatile memory having a first address range and a volatile memory having a second address range, and wherein the determined one or more ranges of addresses is within the first address range.
A device for delivering an implant to a patient's pelvic region comprising: a guide tube with a proximal end, a distal end and a first radius of curvature; and a shaft slidingly interfitted in the guide tube with a proximal end and a distal end, said shaft adapted to extend from the distal end of the guide tube in a first position and retract into the distal end of the guide tube in a second position; wherein the shaft has a radius of curvature substantially equal to the first radius of curvature when retracted in the guide tube, and wherein at least a section of the shaft assumes a second radius of curvature (r) smaller than the first radius of curvature of the guide tube, when the section of the shaft extends from the guide tube. a guide tube with a proximal end, a distal end and a first radius of curvature; and a shaft slidingly interfitted in the guide tube with a proximal end and a distal end, said shaft adapted to extend from the distal end of the guide tube in a first position and retract into the distal end of the guide tube in a second position; wherein the shaft has a radius of curvature substantially equal to the first radius of curvature when retracted in the guide tube, and wherein at least a section of the shaft assumes a second radius of curvature (r) smaller than the first radius of curvature of the guide tube, when the section of the shaft extends from the guide tube.
A pesticidal composition comprising an ester compound of Formula: wherein R 1 and R 2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom, methyl group, trifluoromethyl group and chlorine atom; and R 3 is hydrogen atom, methyl group or methoxymethyl group, a glycol ether selected from the group consisting of an ethylene glycol ether of Formula: R 4 O-[CH 2 CH 2 O] n -H wherein R 4 is methyl group, isopropyl group, butyl group, isobutyl group, hexyl group, 2-ethylhexyl group, allyl group, phenyl group or benzyl group; and n is an integer of 1 to 10; and a propylene glycol ether, and water wherein the glycol ether content is from 15 wt% to 40 wt% of the total amount of the composition and the water content is from 20 wt% to 85 wt% of the total amount of the composition.
A method for video decoding, comprising: decoding prediction information of a chroma coding unit in a segment of a current picture from a coded video bitstream, the segment being a slice, a tile or a group of tiles, and the segment lacking a temporal reference picture and having separate coding tree structures for luma and chroma components; detecting a prediction mode flag associated with the chroma coding unit from the coded video bitstream; and determining, based on the prediction mode flag, a prediction mode to be an intra block copy mode for the chroma coding unit, characterized by detecting an omission of a block vector for the chroma coding unit by the coded video bitstream; in response to (i) the detection of the omission of the block vector and (ii) the determination of the intra block copy mode for the chroma coding unit, determining a prediction mode of a predetermined set of luma blocks as the intra block copy mode; and reconstructing at least one sample of the chroma coding unit according to the determined prediction mode. decoding prediction information of a chroma coding unit in a segment of a current picture from a coded video bitstream, the segment being a slice, a tile or a group of tiles, and the segment lacking a temporal reference picture and having separate coding tree structures for luma and chroma components; detecting a prediction mode flag associated with the chroma coding unit from the coded video bitstream; and determining, based on the prediction mode flag, a prediction mode to be an intra block copy mode for the chroma coding unit, characterized by detecting an omission of a block vector for the chroma coding unit by the coded video bitstream; in response to (i) the detection of the omission of the block vector and (ii) the determination of the intra block copy mode for the chroma coding unit, determining a prediction mode of a predetermined set of luma blocks as the intra block copy mode; and reconstructing at least one sample of the chroma coding unit according to the determined prediction mode.
Method for sphering a cell of a medical sample by means of heating in an automatic analyser for analysing a medical sample, the sample comprising a cell, the analyser comprising an analysis cell for the sample, wherein the analysis cell is a microfluidic flow cell, a piezo element and an analysis device, wherein the piezo element can be operated by application of a voltage and a frequency and generates an acoustic wave field, wherein a sample situated in the analysis cell is situated in the acoustic wave field during operation of the piezo element and is heated by the wave field to at least 48 degrees Celsius, particularly preferably to at least 50 degrees Celsius, wherein the cell is situated in the analysis cell, and wherein an acoustic wave field is generated by means of the piezo element operated at a voltage and a frequency and wherein the cell is situated in the wave field and is heated by the wave field to at least 48 degrees Celsius, particularly preferably to at least 50 degrees Celsius, and thereby sphered, wherein the cell is analyzed and/or imaged by means of the analysis device comprising an optical microscope after the sphering, wherein the cell is analyzed and/or imaged immediately after the sphering, preferably within 0.05 to 1 second after the sphering.
A method of heating a food product using a package having an openable top, a bottom and opposed side panels (206, 208, 218, 220), microwave susceptor surfaces (240, 242) on two major panels forming said top and said bottom, and microwave susceptor surfaces on the opposed side panels comprising the steps of: opening the package to expose the food product; selecting one of two heating techniques; where the first technique is selected, closing the package to enclose the food product, applying microwave energy to the package to generate radiant heat from the susceptor surfaces directed toward the food product, so as to radiantly heat the food product, where the second technique is selected, separating the openable top from the package, inverting the package so that the major panel forming the bottom faces upwardly, placing the openable top on the inverted package with the susceptor surface of the major panel forming the top facing upwardly, placing the food product on the openable top, and applying microwave energy to the package to heat the food product to a predetermined temperature substantially with microwave energy while causing a bottom surface of the food product to be heated by conduction from the susceptor surface of the major panel forming the top; and removing the heated food product from the package for serving. opening the package to expose the food product; selecting one of two heating techniques; closing the package to enclose the food product, applying microwave energy to the package to generate radiant heat from the susceptor surfaces directed toward the food product, so as to radiantly heat the food product, from the susceptor surfaces directed toward the food product, so as to radiantly heat the food product, separating the openable top from the package, inverting the package so that the major panel forming the bottom faces upwardly, placing the openable top on the inverted package with the susceptor surface of the major panel forming the top facing upwardly, placing the food product on the openable top, and applying microwave energy to the package to heat the food product to a predetermined temperature substantially with microwave energy while causing a bottom surface of the food product to be heated by conduction from the susceptor surface of the major panel forming the top; and removing the heated food product from the package for serving.
Tyre comprising a tread band, wherein said tread band comprises a plurality of blocks (201, 202, 203, 204) formed among a plurality of substantially transverse grooves (208, 209, 210, 211) and a plurality of substantially longitudinal grooves (205, 206, 207), said substantially transverse (208, 209, 210, 211) and substantially longitudinal (205, 206, 207) grooves further forming a plurality of intersections among said blocks (201, 202, 203, 204), wherein said plurality of intersections comprises broad intersections, each broad intersection comprising a respective portion of a radially inner surface of said tread band having a significant dimension and being such as to allow an ellipse to be inscribed therein, said ellipse having axes (214, 215) longer than a width both of said substantially transverse grooves (208, 209, 210, 211) and of said substantially longitudinal grooves (205, 206, 207) forming said broad intersection, at least one of said axes (214, 215) having a length equal to at least 1.5 times the width both of said substantially transverse grooves (208, 209, 210, 211) and of said substantially longitudinal grooves (205, 206, 207) forming said broad intersection, and wherein in each broad intersection a stocky-shaped protrusion having a width greater than the height is arranged, projecting from said portion of the radially inner surface of said tread band, said protrusion having a volume smaller than a volume of the blocks (201, 202, 203, 204) surrounding said broad intersection and such as to provide said protrusion with a lateral stiffness greater than a lateral stiffness of said surrounding blocks (201, 202, 203, 204); said protrusion projects from said radially inner surface of said tread band by a height smaller than a depth of said broad intersection; characterized in that said height is between 25% and 75% of the depth of said broad intersection; a base surface of said protrusion has a size at least equal to 40% of the length of the minor axis of the ellipse inscribable in said broad intersection.
A process for cooking pasta with a humidity content of at least 20% by weight with respect to the weight of the pasta; the humidity percentages relate to the pasta before the process is implemented; the process comprises: a water feeding step, during which a given quantity of liquid water is fed to a container; and a vapour feeding step, during which a given quantity of water vapour is fed to said container containing a given quantity of pasta for an amount of time of at least 7 seconds up to 50 seconds; wherein the vapour feeding step is at least partially simultaneous with or subsequent to the water feeding step. a water feeding step, during which a given quantity of liquid water is fed to a container; and a vapour feeding step, during which a given quantity of water vapour is fed to said container containing a given quantity of pasta for an amount of time of at least 7 seconds up to 50 seconds; wherein the vapour feeding step is at least partially simultaneous with or subsequent to the water feeding step.