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A device for collecting airborne microorganisms, said device having: - an air collecting module, comprising: i. an upper element having an air admission duct permitting entry of an air stream into said module, said duct being provided, at its base, with means for disturbance of the air stream, ii. a lower element having means for evacuation of the air, permitting the air stream created to exit and said upper and lower elements can be made integral with one another so that the air stream can be created within said air collecting module; - a cartridge, of roughly cylindrical shape, having a microorganism retention zone, said retention zone having means for lysis of the microorganisms, said cartridge being positioned within said air collecting module. - an air collecting module, comprising: i. an upper element having an air admission duct permitting entry of an air stream into said module, said duct being provided, at its base, with means for disturbance of the air stream, ii. a lower element having means for evacuation of the air, permitting the air stream created to exit and said upper and lower elements can be made integral with one another so that the air stream can be created within said air collecting module; i. an upper element having an air admission duct permitting entry of an air stream into said module, said duct being provided, at its base, with means for disturbance of the air stream, ii. a lower element having means for evacuation of the air, permitting the air stream created to exit - a cartridge, of roughly cylindrical shape, having a microorganism retention zone, said retention zone having means for lysis of the microorganisms, said cartridge being positioned within said air collecting module.
A method performed by a first User Equipment, UE, for enabling Device-to-Device, D2D, communication with a second UE in a radio communications network, the first UE being configured to perform the D2D communication on downlink cellular resources in the radio communications network, the method comprising measuring received signal strengths of Reference Signals, RS, on downlink cellular resources from one or more network nodes (110, 111, 112) in the radio communications network; determining a first subset of downlink cellular resources for which the measured received signal strength of RS is above or equal to a threshold value; and transmitting information indicating the determined first subset of downlink cellular resources to a network node serving the first UE in the radio communications network in order to enable the D2D communication, characterised by: receiving, from the network node serving the first UE, information indicating a second subset of downlink cellular resources that is orthogonal to at least the determined first subset of downlink cellular resources, which said second subset of downlink cellular resources is to be used in the D2D communication with the second UE; and performing D2D communication with the second UE using the second subset of downlink cellular resources. measuring received signal strengths of Reference Signals, RS, on downlink cellular resources from one or more network nodes (110, 111, 112) in the radio communications network; determining a first subset of downlink cellular resources for which the measured received signal strength of RS is above or equal to a threshold value; and transmitting information indicating the determined first subset of downlink cellular resources to a network node serving the first UE in the radio communications network in order to enable the D2D communication, characterised by: receiving, from the network node serving the first UE, information indicating a second subset of downlink cellular resources that is orthogonal to at least the determined first subset of downlink cellular resources, which said second subset of downlink cellular resources is to be used in the D2D communication with the second UE; and performing D2D communication with the second UE using the second subset of downlink cellular resources. receiving, from the network node serving the first UE, information indicating a second subset of downlink cellular resources that is orthogonal to at least the determined first subset of downlink cellular resources, which said second subset of downlink cellular resources is to be used in the D2D communication with the second UE; and performing D2D communication with the second UE using the second subset of downlink cellular resources.
A method for the manufacture of a product from a bioplastic containing nanofibres of a naturally renewable raw material, wherein the nanofibres have a fibre diameter of less than 1 μm and a length of up to 30 μm, which comprises the following steps: a) applying and distributing a mass of the bioplastic containing nanofibres in a free-flowing state to a surface of at least one continuous belt moving in a revolutionary course, wherein in step a), the mass formed from bioplastic is sprayed or poured onto the surface of the at least one continuous belt, and b) transporting the mass of bioplastic containing nanofibres applied to and distributed over the surface of the at least one continuous belt (1, 9) in the direction of revolution of the at least one continuous belt, wherein it comprises the further steps of: c) at least partially drying the mass of bioplastic containing nanofibres applied to and distributed over the at least one continuous belt during transport of the distributed and applied mass formed from the bioplastic containing nanofibres on the at least one continuous belt, d) detaching the at least partially dried mass of the bioplastic containing nanofibres from the surface of the continuous belt while the continuous belt is moved in the direction of revolution, characterized in that the continuous belt is fabricated from metal and in step a), the mass formed from bioplastic is applied to the surface of the continuous belt (1, 9) fabricated from metal. a) applying and distributing a mass of the bioplastic containing nanofibres in a free-flowing state to a surface of at least one continuous belt moving in a revolutionary course, wherein in step a), the mass formed from bioplastic is sprayed or poured onto the surface of the at least one continuous belt, and b) transporting the mass of bioplastic containing nanofibres applied to and distributed over the surface of the at least one continuous belt (1, 9) in the direction of revolution of the at least one continuous belt, wherein it comprises the further steps of: c) at least partially drying the mass of bioplastic containing nanofibres applied to and distributed over the at least one continuous belt during transport of the distributed and applied mass formed from the bioplastic containing nanofibres on the at least one continuous belt, d) detaching the at least partially dried mass of the bioplastic containing nanofibres from the surface of the continuous belt while the continuous belt is moved in the direction of revolution, characterized in that the continuous belt is fabricated from metal and in step a), the mass formed from bioplastic is applied to the surface of the continuous belt (1, 9) fabricated from metal.
A method for diagnosing or detecting colorectal cancer in a subject, the method comprising: i) determining the presence and/or level of three biomarkers, wherein the three biomarkers are: (a) DKK-3 (dickkopf homolog 3), M2PK (pyruvate kinase muscle 2), and IGFBP2 (insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2); (b) M2PK, IGFBP2, and EpCAM (epithelial cell adhesion molecule), (c) M2PK, IGFBP2 and IL-13 (interleukin-13); or (d) M2PK, IGFBP2 and IL-8 (interleukin-8) in a sample from the subject, wherein the presence and/or level of the three biomarkers is indicative of colorectal cancer. i) determining the presence and/or level of three biomarkers, wherein the three biomarkers are: (a) DKK-3 (dickkopf homolog 3), M2PK (pyruvate kinase muscle 2), and IGFBP2 (insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2); (b) M2PK, IGFBP2, and EpCAM (epithelial cell adhesion molecule), (c) M2PK, IGFBP2 and IL-13 (interleukin-13); or (d) M2PK, IGFBP2 and IL-8 (interleukin-8) (a) DKK-3 (dickkopf homolog 3), M2PK (pyruvate kinase muscle 2), and IGFBP2 (insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2); (b) M2PK, IGFBP2, and EpCAM (epithelial cell adhesion molecule), (c) M2PK, IGFBP2 and IL-13 (interleukin-13); or (d) M2PK, IGFBP2 and IL-8 (interleukin-8)
A method of making a medical device comprising: a. providing a contact lens comprising at least one surface; b. depositing one or more coatings on at least a portion of said at least one surface, wherein said one or more coatings comprises; 1) at least one drug reservoir layer produced at least in part by printing on said at least one surface, wherein said at least one drug reservoir layer comprises at least one drug; and 2) at least one barrier layer comprising one or more three dimensional structures deposited at least in part by additive digital three dimensional printing on at least a portion of said at least one drug reservoir layer. a. providing a contact lens comprising at least one surface; b. depositing one or more coatings on at least a portion of said at least one surface, wherein said one or more coatings comprises; 1) at least one drug reservoir layer produced at least in part by printing on said at least one surface, wherein said at least one drug reservoir layer comprises at least one drug; and 2) at least one barrier layer comprising one or more three dimensional structures deposited at least in part by additive digital three dimensional printing on at least a portion of said at least one drug reservoir layer. 1) at least one drug reservoir layer produced at least in part by printing on said at least one surface, wherein said at least one drug reservoir layer comprises at least one drug; and 2) at least one barrier layer comprising one or more three dimensional structures deposited at least in part by additive digital three dimensional printing on at least a portion of said at least one drug reservoir layer.
A method of estimating a temperature of a material being heated, the method comprising: supplying electrical power to a heating element in dependence on a measured temperature; calculating a rate at which the amount of electrical power supplied changes over time; comparing the calculated rate with a plurality of known values of the rate in order to determine the value of a parameter relating to thermal properties of the material being heated, the known values of the rate being stored with corresponding known values of the parameter in a memory; and calculating an estimated temperature of the material being heated based on the determined value of said parameter. supplying electrical power to a heating element in dependence on a measured temperature; calculating a rate at which the amount of electrical power supplied changes over time; comparing the calculated rate with a plurality of known values of the rate in order to determine the value of a parameter relating to thermal properties of the material being heated, the known values of the rate being stored with corresponding known values of the parameter in a memory; and calculating an estimated temperature of the material being heated based on the determined value of said parameter.
A piezoelectric substrate attachment structure comprising: a cable-shaped piezoelectric substrate; a press section; and a base section provided adjacent to the piezoelectric substrate on an opposite side from the press section, a ratio Eb/Ea of a Young's modulus Eb of the base section to a Young's modulus Ea of the press section being 10 -1 or lower, characterized in that the piezoelectric substrate includes an elongate conductor and a helical chiral polymer wound around an outer periphery of the conductor and having optical activity, and the press section is provided adjacent to the piezoelectric substrate and pressed from an opposite side from the piezoelectric substrate. a cable-shaped piezoelectric substrate; a press section; and a base section provided adjacent to the piezoelectric substrate on an opposite side from the press section, a ratio Eb/Ea of a Young's modulus Eb of the base section to a Young's modulus Ea of the press section being 10 -1 or lower, the piezoelectric substrate includes an elongate conductor and a helical chiral polymer wound around an outer periphery of the conductor and having optical activity, and the press section is provided adjacent to the piezoelectric substrate and pressed from an opposite side from the piezoelectric substrate.
An anatomical pad of a riding saddle, comprising a flexible body defining a first body surface configured to abut against a seat surface of said saddle, and a second body surface intended to support a user of said saddle and separated from said first surface by the thickness of said pad; wherein the anatomical pad comprises at least one portion made of a yielding material to at least partially cushion the stresses between said saddle and said user, said portion defining one or more pressure relief sites wherein the thickness of the yielding material is at least partially decreased to reduce, in a localized way, the contact pressure between the seat surface and an anatomical area of the user, such as the coccyx and/or the pubis of the latter, wherein the yielding material is absent in the pressure relief site, and wherein said portion made of yielding material extends annularly to circumscribe a pressure relief cavity, and characterized in that the pressure relief cavity is perforated through and through, and in that the thickness of the pad is penetrated at least in part by a plurality of ventilation perforations or ventilation micro-perforations, said perforations having a cross-section of at least 0.5 mm2 at the portion made of yielding material. wherein the anatomical pad comprises at least one portion made of a yielding material to at least partially cushion the stresses between said saddle and said user, said portion defining one or more pressure relief sites wherein the thickness of the yielding material is at least partially decreased to reduce, in a localized way, the contact pressure between the seat surface and an anatomical area of the user, such as the coccyx and/or the pubis of the latter, wherein the yielding material is absent in the pressure relief site, and wherein said portion made of yielding material extends annularly to circumscribe a pressure relief cavity, and characterized in that the pressure relief cavity is perforated through and through, and in that the thickness of the pad is penetrated at least in part by a plurality of ventilation perforations or ventilation micro-perforations, said perforations having a cross-section of at least 0.5 mm2 at the portion made of yielding material.
A memory controller, MC, comprising: an output interface; and an execution engine, EE, the memory controller being characterised to: identify, based on field test results of an non-volatile memory, NVM, die coupled to the MC, initial test results of the die using an artificial neural network, ANN, trained to identify the die from a set of NVM dies coupled to the MC based on initial test results of the set of NVM dies obtained at a time of manufacture of the set of dies, the initial test results of the die including a first useful life prediction and the field test results of the die including a second useful life prediction, wherein the initial test results of the die are regenerated by the ANN to protect their confidentiality; compare the second useful life prediction with the first useful life prediction, to determine, based on the comparison, a deviation between the two predictions; and output, via the output interface, the deviation to a user. an output interface; and an execution engine, EE, the memory controller being characterised to: identify, based on field test results of an non-volatile memory, NVM, die coupled to the MC, initial test results of the die using an artificial neural network, ANN, trained to identify the die from a set of NVM dies coupled to the MC based on initial test results of the set of NVM dies obtained at a time of manufacture of the set of dies, the initial test results of the die including a first useful life prediction and the field test results of the die including a second useful life prediction, wherein the initial test results of the die are regenerated by the ANN to protect their confidentiality; compare the second useful life prediction with the first useful life prediction, to determine, based on the comparison, a deviation between the two predictions; and output, via the output interface, the deviation to a user. identify, based on field test results of an non-volatile memory, NVM, die coupled to the MC, initial test results of the die using an artificial neural network, ANN, trained to identify the die from a set of NVM dies coupled to the MC based on initial test results of the set of NVM dies obtained at a time of manufacture of the set of dies, the initial test results of the die including a first useful life prediction and the field test results of the die including a second useful life prediction, wherein the initial test results of the die are regenerated by the ANN to protect their confidentiality; compare the second useful life prediction with the first useful life prediction, to determine, based on the comparison, a deviation between the two predictions; and output, via the output interface, the deviation to a user.
A method of managing network slices in a communications network, the method comprising: a domain manager of a Radio Access Network, RAN, determining (410; 510, 515) a change in cell composition of the RAN, wherein the change in cell composition comprises an addition of a new cell to the RAN or a removal of a cell from the RAN; the domain manager determining (420; 522, 524) neighbor cells within the RAN affected by the change in cell composition of the RAN; the domain manager determining (430; 532, 534) a set of RAN resource partitions affected by the change in cell composition of the RAN; and the domain manager adapting (440; 542, 544) the configurations of RAN resource partitions of the set of RAN resource partitions by introducing changes corresponding to the change in cell composition of the RAN, wherein a configuration of a RAN resource partition defines the network elements of the RAN that are assigned to the RAN resource partition of a network slice. a domain manager of a Radio Access Network, RAN, determining (410; 510, 515) a change in cell composition of the RAN, wherein the change in cell composition comprises an addition of a new cell to the RAN or a removal of a cell from the RAN; the domain manager determining (420; 522, 524) neighbor cells within the RAN affected by the change in cell composition of the RAN; the domain manager determining (430; 532, 534) a set of RAN resource partitions affected by the change in cell composition of the RAN; and the domain manager adapting (440; 542, 544) the configurations of RAN resource partitions of the set of RAN resource partitions by introducing changes corresponding to the change in cell composition of the RAN, wherein a configuration of a RAN resource partition defines the network elements of the RAN that are assigned to the RAN resource partition of a network slice.
A glaze for coating surfaces, comprising the following components by mass: 30 to 55% SiO 2, 0 to 7% Al 2 O 3, 10 to 30% R 2 O, 5 to 10% R'O, 0.5 to 15% B 2 O 3, 5 to 10% Bi 2 O 3, 1 to 10% P 2 O 5, 0 to 5% Sb 2 O 3, 0 to 5% SnO 2, 0 to 5% TiO 2 and 5 to 10% ZrO 2, wherein is one or several alkali metals and (R') is one or several bivalent metals from the group comprising alkaline earth metals and zinc, and wherein the glaze is obtained by melting or sintering the components. 30 to 55% SiO 2, 0 to 7% Al 2 O 3, 10 to 30% R 2 O, 5 to 10% R'O, 0.5 to 15% B 2 O 3, 5 to 10% Bi 2 O 3, 1 to 10% P 2 O 5, 0 to 5% Sb 2 O 3, 0 to 5% SnO 2, 0 to 5% TiO 2 and 5 to 10% ZrO 2,
A feeding device for a glass melting apparatus with a sealing mechanism and at least one kinetic mechanism, wherein, when the feeding device is in operation, the kinetic mechanism performs a cyclical movement and is guided through the sealing mechanism along at least one passage, characterized in that, adjacent to an open area of each passage, at least one gas nozzle (30a, 30b) is arranged on the side of the sealing mechanism facing away from the glass melting apparatus, so that the gas flowing out of the at least one gas nozzle (30a, 30b) reduces the amount of dust and/or exhaust from the glass melting apparatus that reaches the side of the sealing mechanism facing away from the glass melting apparatus through the corresponding passage, and in that a nozzle ring (30a, 30b) is provided, which extends around the preferably rod-shaped kinetic mechanism and includes a plurality of gas nozzles.
A method of determining a reachable set (R [t0, t1]) of states of a marine vessel, including a position of the marine vessel, that can be obtained by the marine vessel from an initial state x 0 at an initial time t 0, during a time range from the initial time t 0 to a later time t 1, the method being performed by a marine vessel control system, wherein the method comprises: a) discretizing a partial differential equation which is a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for which the Hamiltonian function is dependent on the model of the marine vessel, the discretizing being performed based on a subdivision of the time range, b) solving a minimisation problem of the discretized partial differential equation to obtain an approximation of a value function of the partial differential equation, the value function being the viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, c) determining the reachable set (R [t0, t1]) based on the approximation of the value function, the reachable set (R [t0, t1]) being defined by: R t 0 t 1 = x ∈ X | V t, x ≤ 0 where V(t,x) is the value function, and controlling the marine vessel based on the reachable set (R [t0, t1]), wherein step b) involves using a splitting method to decompose the minimisation problem into a plurality of sub-problems to obtain the approximation of the value function. a) discretizing a partial differential equation which is a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for which the Hamiltonian function is dependent on the model of the marine vessel, the discretizing being performed based on a subdivision of the time range, b) solving a minimisation problem of the discretized partial differential equation to obtain an approximation of a value function of the partial differential equation, the value function being the viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, c) determining the reachable set (R [t0, t1]) based on the approximation of the value function, the reachable set (R [t0, t1]) being defined by: R t 0 t 1 = x ∈ X | V t, x ≤ 0 where V(t,x) is the value function, and controlling the marine vessel based on the reachable set (R [t0, t1]), wherein step b) involves using a splitting method to decompose the minimisation problem into a plurality of sub-problems to obtain the approximation of the value function.