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A microfluidic device for multiple reactions, comprising: a) a single reaction channel comprising serially arranged multiple reaction chambers connected to a chamber integrated within the microfluidic device having a wall comprising an elastic membrane, wherein the elastic membrane is exposed to the outside environment; and b) a single control channel comprising an elastic side wall, wherein the intersections between the side wall of the control channel with the reaction channel form serially arranged multiple pneumatic microvalves that separate the multiple reaction chambers, wherein the reaction channel comprises, at a first end, an inlet, and, at a second end, the chamber having the wall comprising an elastic membrane, and, wherein the control channel comprises a closed end, and an elastic end or an open end exposed to the outside environment. a) a single reaction channel comprising serially arranged multiple reaction chambers connected to a chamber integrated within the microfluidic device having a wall comprising an elastic membrane, wherein the elastic membrane is exposed to the outside environment; and b) a single control channel comprising an elastic side wall, wherein the intersections between the side wall of the control channel with the reaction channel form serially arranged multiple pneumatic microvalves that separate the multiple reaction chambers, wherein the reaction channel comprises, at a first end, an inlet, and, at a second end, the chamber having the wall comprising an elastic membrane, and, wherein the control channel comprises a closed end, and an elastic end or an open end exposed to the outside environment. wherein the intersections between the side wall of the control channel with the reaction channel form serially arranged multiple pneumatic microvalves that separate the multiple reaction chambers, wherein the reaction channel comprises, at a first end, an inlet, and, at a second end, the chamber having the wall comprising an elastic membrane, and, wherein the control channel comprises a closed end, and an elastic end or an open end exposed to the outside environment.
Use of at least one tetraphenylphosphonium halogenated salt as smoke-producing agent in a pyrotechnic composition for masking a target relating to electromagnetic radiation in a given wavelengths range.
A hermetic compressor, comprising: a hermetic container; a drive motor having a stator fixed to an inner wall surface of the hermetic container, and a rotor provided within the stator; a crankshaft combined with the rotor; a compression unit combined with the crankshaft to inhale and compress refrigerant; a first bearing provided at a lower side of the drive motor to support a lower portion of the crankshaft; and a second bearing to support an upper portion of the crankshaft, the second bearing includes a bearing support unit fixed to an inner wall of the hermetic container to support the second bearing, wherein a contact area between the stator and the hermetic container is lager than a contact area between the bearing support unit and the hermetic container, wherein an outer diameter of the stator is larger than an inner diameter of the hermetic container, characterized in that an outer diameter of the bearing support unit is larger than an outer diameter of the stator, and when a length of the hermetic container in an inner circumferential direction at a portion adjoining an inner wall of the hermetic container in the bearing support unit is I, and an inner circumference of the hermetic container is L, the compressor satisfies the relation of 0.2 ≤ I / L ≤ 0.7. a hermetic container; a drive motor having a stator fixed to an inner wall surface of the hermetic container, and a rotor provided within the stator; a crankshaft combined with the rotor; a compression unit combined with the crankshaft to inhale and compress refrigerant; a first bearing provided at a lower side of the drive motor to support a lower portion of the crankshaft; and a second bearing to support an upper portion of the crankshaft, the second bearing includes a bearing support unit fixed to an inner wall of the hermetic container to support the second bearing, wherein a contact area between the stator and the hermetic container is lager than a contact area between the bearing support unit and the hermetic container, wherein an outer diameter of the stator is larger than an inner diameter of the hermetic container, characterized in that an outer diameter of the bearing support unit is larger than an outer diameter of the stator, and when a length of the hermetic container in an inner circumferential direction at a portion adjoining an inner wall of the hermetic container in the bearing support unit is I, and an inner circumference of the hermetic container is L, the compressor satisfies the relation of 0.2 ≤ I / L ≤ 0.7.
A method, in a computer system, for adjusting a camera, receiving an original image captured by the camera, the original image having an original aspect ratio; receiving (220; 230) a first user input and a second user input, wherein the first and second user inputs define an area of interest of the original image (300; 500); adjusting the camera view based on the first user input and the second user input to provide a zoomed image (400; 600) of the defined area of interest; and displaying the zoomed image (400; 600) to the user on a display screen; characterized by: that the first user input defines a center point (310; 510) of the area of interest of the original image (300; 500); that the second user input defines a second location at a distance from the center point (310; 510), the distance defines a radius of an imaginary circle and the center point (310; 510) defines a center of the imaginary circle; computing a rectangle inscribed in the imaginary circle, wherein the rectangle defines a perimeter (320; 520) of the area of interest and this rectangle (320; 520) is set to the same aspect ratio as the original aspect ratio; and that the zoomed image is centered on the center point (310; 510) defined by the first user input.
A chip for analyzing a medium, comprising: an organic light emitter for emitting a light signal; a photodetector comprising a detector area; a layer sequence made of dielectric layers of a CMOS structure in which conductive metal planes of the CMOS structure are formed, separating the organic light emitter and the detector area and serving as a substrate for the organic light emitter; and wherein the organic light emitter and the photodetector may be optically coupled by means of a path of rays of the light signal, and a reservoir is arranged within the path of rays of the light signal, characterized in that: the organic light emitter is implemented as a bottom emitter in order to emit the light signal through the layer sequence serving as the substrate, and in that the chip comprises the reservoir into which the medium may be introduced and which is implemented as a channel within the layer sequence made of dielectric layers (130a; 130b; 130c) of the CMOS structure. an organic light emitter for emitting a light signal; a photodetector comprising a detector area; a layer sequence made of dielectric layers of a CMOS structure in which conductive metal planes of the CMOS structure are formed, separating the organic light emitter and the detector area and serving as a substrate for the organic light emitter; and wherein the organic light emitter and the photodetector may be optically coupled by means of a path of rays of the light signal, and a reservoir is arranged within the path of rays of the light signal, characterized in that: the organic light emitter is implemented as a bottom emitter in order to emit the light signal through the layer sequence serving as the substrate, and in that the chip comprises the reservoir into which the medium may be introduced and which is implemented as a channel within the layer sequence made of dielectric layers (130a; 130b; 130c) of the CMOS structure. the organic light emitter is implemented as a bottom emitter in order to emit the light signal through the layer sequence serving as the substrate, and in that the chip comprises the reservoir into which the medium may be introduced and which is implemented as a channel within the layer sequence made of dielectric layers (130a; 130b; 130c) of the CMOS structure.
Water turbine and/or water pump having an impeller unit comprising a turbine and a rotor of an electric machine, which can be a generator and/or electric motor, wherein the rotor and the turbine are connected via a shaft and the impeller unit is arranged at an angle with respect to the horizontal, in particular vertically, and is rotatably mounted in a housing by a bearing, characterized in that the bearing consists of a torque bearing (9, 23), which is arranged at a point in an area underneath the rotor, directly adjacent to the latter as far as the top of the rotor.
A method in an apparatus (100, 500, 600, 800) for application of distortion shaping when using Peak-to-Average Ratio, "PAR", reduction, wherein the method comprises: - obtaining an input signal, and - applying, on the input signal, the PAR reduction and the distortion shaping, whereby an output signal is formed, wherein a bandwidth (403, 406, 411, 413, 414) associated with the distortion shaping covers multiple channel bandwidths (401a-c, 402) comprised in the input signal, which multiple channel bandwidths (401a-c, 402) are associated with Global System for Mobile Communications, "GSM", and an additional RAT in addition to GSM, wherein the distortion shaping is based on filtering and/or windowing and the bandwidth (403, 406, 411, 413, 414) associated with the distortion shaping is a filtering and/or windowing bandwidth that is a spectrum part that need not be protected to a same extent as other spectrum parts due to requirements regarding distorting emissions. - obtaining an input signal, and - applying, on the input signal, the PAR reduction and the distortion shaping, whereby an output signal is formed, wherein a bandwidth (403, 406, 411, 413, 414) associated with the distortion shaping covers multiple channel bandwidths (401a-c, 402) comprised in the input signal, which multiple channel bandwidths (401a-c, 402) are associated with Global System for Mobile Communications, "GSM", and an additional RAT in addition to GSM, wherein the distortion shaping is based on filtering and/or windowing and the bandwidth (403, 406, 411, 413, 414) associated with the distortion shaping is a filtering and/or windowing bandwidth that is a spectrum part that need not be protected to a same extent as other spectrum parts due to requirements regarding distorting emissions.
An apparatus for processing an image, the apparatus comprising: a ghost information acquisition unit to acquire, from an overlapping region of a left image and a right image, ghost information by binarizing with an optimal threshold a cost map expressing a similarity between images, wherein the similarity between images increases as a cost decreases; a tone correction map generator to generate a tone correction map, based on a global tone correction function generated using the ghost information for excluding an area or a pixel from tone correction in which a difference between the left image and the right image is greater than the optimal threshold value, and based on a local tone correction level generated using local information of an optimal seam; and a bidirectional corrector to correct the left image and the right image using a final tone correction map generated by applying, to the tone correction map, a weighting based on the left image and a weighting based on the right image. a ghost information acquisition unit to acquire, from an overlapping region of a left image and a right image, ghost information by binarizing with an optimal threshold a cost map expressing a similarity between images, wherein the similarity between images increases as a cost decreases; a tone correction map generator to generate a tone correction map, based on a global tone correction function generated using the ghost information for excluding an area or a pixel from tone correction in which a difference between the left image and the right image is greater than the optimal threshold value, and based on a local tone correction level generated using local information of an optimal seam; and a bidirectional corrector to correct the left image and the right image using a final tone correction map generated by applying, to the tone correction map, a weighting based on the left image and a weighting based on the right image.
A composite bonded repair method for an aircraft, the method comprising: scanning, with a scanning unit coupled to a computing device, a portion of an outer skin of an aircraft; generating a doubling patch of the portion of the outer skin of the aircraft from topographic data scanned by the scanning unit; filling damage at the portion of the outer skin of the aircraft with filler material; applying adhesive to the portion of the outer skin of the aircraft and the filler material (30; and adhering the doubling patch to the adhesive, characterized in that the generating of the doubling patch comprises three-dimensional printing. scanning, with a scanning unit coupled to a computing device, a portion of an outer skin of an aircraft; generating a doubling patch of the portion of the outer skin of the aircraft from topographic data scanned by the scanning unit; filling damage at the portion of the outer skin of the aircraft with filler material; applying adhesive to the portion of the outer skin of the aircraft and the filler material (30; and adhering the doubling patch to the adhesive, characterized in that the generating of the doubling patch comprises three-dimensional printing.
Process for modifying isocyanates, in which at least one organic isocyanate having an NCO functionality of > 1 is oligomerized in the presence of at least one catalyst, characterized in that the catalyst comprises at least one cyclic ammonium salt having a cation of the formula I as catalysts for the isocyanate modification, wherein the N-substituents R 1 and R 2 are mutually independently identical or different aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic C 1 -C 20 radicals, which are saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, optionally substituted and/or interrupted by heteroatoms from the group of oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen and Y is a substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched C 2 -C 20 segment optionally interrupted by heteroatoms from the group of oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen and also by aromatic rings, and optionally comprising further rings.
A method of producing a tampon that can be introduced into a body cavity, in particular into a woman's vagina, comprising a substantially cylindrical absorbent body which has a summit that tapers towards an axial end of the absorbent body, which summit is equipped with a recess extending towards the opposite axial end of the absorbent body in its apex region, a material web made of absorbent material being wound into a winding, and the winding being pressed at least in sections in the radial and/or axial direction such as to form the recess, characterised in that a front face of the winding running approximately perpendicular to the winding axis is totally covered with a liquid-permeable covering material before the pressing, and before the winding process a retrieval string is looped around the material web and the material web around,which the retrieval string is looped runs through a knotting apparatus, the longitudinal projection being folded around a folding line running approximately co-linearly to the longitudinal edge before passing through the knotting apparatus, and being re-aligned after passing through the knotting apparatus.
A method of assisting a user in installing a light source array at a display, the light source array comprising multiple individually controllable lighting units, the method comprising: - receiving, by a processor, first information indicative of dimensions of the display, - receiving, by the processor, second information indicative of dimensions of the light source array, - virtually segmenting, by the processor, the light source array into a plurality of segments based on the dimensions of the display and the dimensions of the light source array, wherein each segment comprises a plurality of individually controllable lighting units of the multiple individually controllable lighting units, wherein a length of a first segment corresponds to at least a part of a length of a first side of the display, and wherein a length of a second segment corresponds to at least a part of a length of a second side of the display, - controlling, by the processor via a communication unit, lighting units of the first segment according to a first light setting, and - controlling, by the processor via the communication unit, lighting units of the second segment according to a second light setting different from the first light setting. - receiving, by a processor, first information indicative of dimensions of the display, - receiving, by the processor, second information indicative of dimensions of the light source array, - virtually segmenting, by the processor, the light source array into a plurality of segments based on the dimensions of the display and the dimensions of the light source array, wherein each segment comprises a plurality of individually controllable lighting units of the multiple individually controllable lighting units, wherein a length of a first segment corresponds to at least a part of a length of a first side of the display, and wherein a length of a second segment corresponds to at least a part of a length of a second side of the display, - controlling, by the processor via a communication unit, lighting units of the first segment according to a first light setting, and - controlling, by the processor via the communication unit, lighting units of the second segment according to a second light setting different from the first light setting.
A cationic cured resin system, comprising: A. at least one resin; B. at least one polyol; C. a photoinitiation system; D. at least one abrasion resistant material comprising diamond material and at least a second abrasion resistant material comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a second diamond material, (ii) a non-diamond material having a Mohs hardness value of at least 6, wherein the at least one abrasion resistant material comprising diamond material is a nanoparticle and the second abrasion resistant material is a microparticle or vice versa; and optionally E. at least one dispersing agent. A. at least one resin; B. at least one polyol; C. a photoinitiation system; D. at least one abrasion resistant material comprising diamond material and at least a second abrasion resistant material comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a second diamond material, (ii) a non-diamond material having a Mohs hardness value of at least 6, wherein the at least one abrasion resistant material comprising diamond material is a nanoparticle and the second abrasion resistant material is a microparticle or vice versa; and optionally E. at least one dispersing agent.
A method for imaging a radiation-sensitive substrate, in which a programmable template is projected onto the radiation-sensitive substrate using coherent radiation having a wavelength at which the substrate is radiation-sensitive, characterised in that an overall image of the programmable template with an image grid is displaced simultaneously by an acoustic-optical or electro-optical deflection unit such that multiple projections impinge at different positions on the substrate such that a fine partial grid is generated in the image grid on the substrate, wherein the overall image of the programmable template is reproduced multiple times on the radiation-sensitive substrate, wherein the length of the displacement for generating a partial grid is smaller than the width of the image grid, wherein the programmable template is constructed from a one-dimensional or two-dimensional grid of individually controllable modulator elements, wherein the exiting radiation field is expanded using optics such that all the controllable modulator elements of the programmable template can be illuminated, wherein each of the modulator elements generates a coherent light beam or radiation beam when it is activated, and wherein the amount by which the radiation beam is displaced between a first projection and a second projection is so small that intensity maxima are generated in the second projection in regions between adjacent intensity maxima of the first projection by the radiation beams which have contributed to the adjacent intensity maxima in the first projection.
A compound according to Formula for use in treating macular degeneration in a subject: wherein: R 1 is hydrogen, alkyl, or acyl; R 2 is -[(CH 2) n -O] x -R'; R 3, R 4, and R 5 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl, arylalkyl, or -OR 10; R 6, R 7, and R 8 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, or -OR 12; R 9 is -OR 11 or -SR 11; R 10 is hydrogen, alkyl, or acyl; R 11 is hydrogen or alkyl; R 12 is hydrogen or alkyl; R' is alkyl; n is 2 to 4; and x is 1 to 4; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, solvate, hydrate, or polymorph thereof. R 1 is hydrogen, alkyl, or acyl; R 2 is -[(CH 2) n -O] x -R'; R 3, R 4, and R 5 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl, arylalkyl, or -OR 10; R 6, R 7, and R 8 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, or -OR 12; R 9 is -OR 11 or -SR 11; R 10 is hydrogen, alkyl, or acyl; R 11 is hydrogen or alkyl; R 12 is hydrogen or alkyl; R' is alkyl; n is 2 to 4; and x is 1 to 4;
Use of a flower pot (1; 101) comprising a lateral skirt (3; 103) which is substantially centred on a longitudinal axis (A1; A101), the lower axial end of the lateral skirt (3; 103) being closed by a base (2; 102) and the upper axial end of the lateral skirt (3; 103) defining an opening for access to an interior volume of the flower pot (1; 101), the base (2; 102) comprising a wall (5; 105) and at least one hollow element (4; 104) which projects, starting from the wall (5; 105) and along the longitudinal axis (A1; A101), towards the opening of the flower pot (1; 101), an upper axial end of the hollow element being closed and a lower axial end of the hollow element (4; 104) being open towards the exterior, characterised in that the wall (5; 105) or the hollow element (4; 104) is pierced selectively.