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A steerable medical device, comprising: an outer flexible polymeric tubular member; an inner flexible polymeric tubular member disposed within the outer tubular member; a steerable portion comprising the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members, the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members are each configured to preferentially bend in the steerable portion, and wherein the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members are permanently axially fixed relative to one another at a fixation location distal to the steerable portion, wherein the inner flexible polymeric tubular member, in the steerable portion, includes first and second polymeric sections interfacing at a seam, the seam including a transition section that is not parallel with and not perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the inner flexible polymeric tubular member, the first and second polymeric sections having first and second stiffnesses, respectively, that are different than one another, and wherein the different stiffnesses contribute to the direction of the preferential bending of the inner flexible polymeric tubular member; and an external controller that is configured to, upon actuation, axially move at least one of the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members relative to the other at a location proximal to the steerable portion to cause relative axial movement between the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members in the steerable portion and thereby steer the steerable portion. an outer flexible polymeric tubular member; an inner flexible polymeric tubular member disposed within the outer tubular member; a steerable portion comprising the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members, the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members are each configured to preferentially bend in the steerable portion, and wherein the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members are permanently axially fixed relative to one another at a fixation location distal to the steerable portion, wherein the inner flexible polymeric tubular member, in the steerable portion, includes first and second polymeric sections interfacing at a seam, the seam including a transition section that is not parallel with and not perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the inner flexible polymeric tubular member, the first and second polymeric sections having first and second stiffnesses, respectively, that are different than one another, and wherein the different stiffnesses contribute to the direction of the preferential bending of the inner flexible polymeric tubular member; and an external controller that is configured to, upon actuation, axially move at least one of the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members relative to the other at a location proximal to the steerable portion to cause relative axial movement between the outer and inner flexible polymeric tubular members in the steerable portion and thereby steer the steerable portion.
A staple cartridge assembly, comprising: a cartridge body, comprising: a proximal end; a distal end; a deck; a longitudinal slot extending from said proximal end toward said distal end, wherein said longitudinal slot divides said deck into a first side and a second side; a plurality of staple cavities defined in said first side of said deck, wherein said staple cavities are arranged in: an inner staple cavity row extending along said longitudinal slot; an intermediate staple cavity row extending along said inner staple cavity row; and an outer staple cavity row extending along said intermediate staple cavity row; a plurality of staples removably stored in said staple cavities; a plurality of tri-staple drivers configured to eject said staples from said staple cavities during a firing cycle, wherein each said tri-staple driver is configured to eject three staples from said cartridge body consisting of an inner staple from said inner staple cavity row, an intermediate staple from said intermediate staple cavity row, and an outer staple from said outer staple cavity row; and characterised in that: at least one of the plurality of staple cavities comprises an empty staple cavity (460', 460") which does not have a staple positioned therein prior to the staple cartridge assembly being fired or partially fired during the firing cycle. a cartridge body, comprising: a proximal end; a distal end; a deck; a longitudinal slot extending from said proximal end toward said distal end, wherein said longitudinal slot divides said deck into a first side and a second side; a plurality of staple cavities defined in said first side of said deck, wherein said staple cavities are arranged in: an inner staple cavity row extending along said longitudinal slot; an intermediate staple cavity row extending along said inner staple cavity row; and an outer staple cavity row extending along said intermediate staple cavity row; a proximal end; a distal end; a deck; a longitudinal slot extending from said proximal end toward said distal end, wherein said longitudinal slot divides said deck into a first side and a second side; a plurality of staple cavities defined in said first side of said deck, an inner staple cavity row extending along said longitudinal slot; an intermediate staple cavity row extending along said inner staple cavity row; and an outer staple cavity row extending along said intermediate staple cavity row; a plurality of staples removably stored in said staple cavities; a plurality of tri-staple drivers configured to eject said staples from said staple cavities during a firing cycle, wherein each said tri-staple driver is configured to eject three staples from said cartridge body consisting of an inner staple from said inner staple cavity row, an intermediate staple from said intermediate staple cavity row, and an outer staple from said outer staple cavity row; and characterised in that: at least one of the plurality of staple cavities comprises an empty staple cavity (460', 460") which does not have a staple positioned therein prior to the staple cartridge assembly being fired or partially fired during the firing cycle.
A method for solvent deasphalting comprising: selectively separating one or more heavy deasphalted oils and one or more light deasphalted oils from one or more feedstocks, wherein the one or more feedstocks comprise crude oil, oil shales, oil sands, tars, bitumens, or any combination thereof, wherein the one or more heavy deasphalted oils have an API gravity at 15°C (60°F) ranging from 5° API to 30° API, and wherein the one or more light deasphalted oils have an API gravity at 15°C (60°F) ranging from 10° API to 60° API; cracking at least a portion of the one or more heavy deasphalted oils using a thermal cracker to provide one or more lighter hydrocarbon products; and combining at least a portion of the one or more lighter hydrocarbon products and at least a portion of the one or more light deasphalted oils to produce a synthetic crude oil. selectively separating one or more heavy deasphalted oils and one or more light deasphalted oils from one or more feedstocks, wherein the one or more feedstocks comprise crude oil, oil shales, oil sands, tars, bitumens, or any combination thereof, wherein the one or more heavy deasphalted oils have an API gravity at 15°C (60°F) ranging from 5° API to 30° API, and wherein the one or more light deasphalted oils have an API gravity at 15°C (60°F) ranging from 10° API to 60° API; cracking at least a portion of the one or more heavy deasphalted oils using a thermal cracker to provide one or more lighter hydrocarbon products; and combining at least a portion of the one or more lighter hydrocarbon products and at least a portion of the one or more light deasphalted oils to produce a synthetic crude oil.
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment, UE, in a 3GPP system, the method comprising: receiving semi-persistent scheduling, SPS, signaling from a base station semi-statically configuring the UE with a plurality of PUCCH resources to be used to transmit feedback, wherein each of the plurality of PUCCH resources is associated with a SPS group radio network temporary identifier, G-RNTI; receiving control information from the base station that indicates an identifier corresponding to a particular data service that the UE has requested to receive, wherein the identifier is SPS G-RNTI; receiving point-to-multipoint, PTM, data from the base station, the PTM data comprising error detection information scrambled by the identifier received by the UE; attempting to decode the PTM data including the error detection information based on the identifier; and determining whether to transmit feedback information to the base station based on the attempt to decode the PTM data, and wherein if determined to transmit feedback information, transmit the feedback information on one of the PUCCH resources received in the SPS signaling, wherein the PUCCH resource is selected based on the identifier. receiving semi-persistent scheduling, SPS, signaling from a base station semi-statically configuring the UE with a plurality of PUCCH resources to be used to transmit feedback, wherein each of the plurality of PUCCH resources is associated with a SPS group radio network temporary identifier, G-RNTI; receiving control information from the base station that indicates an identifier corresponding to a particular data service that the UE has requested to receive, wherein the identifier is SPS G-RNTI; receiving point-to-multipoint, PTM, data from the base station, the PTM data comprising error detection information scrambled by the identifier received by the UE; attempting to decode the PTM data including the error detection information based on the identifier; and determining whether to transmit feedback information to the base station based on the attempt to decode the PTM data, and wherein if determined to transmit feedback information, transmit the feedback information on one of the PUCCH resources received in the SPS signaling, wherein the PUCCH resource is selected based on the identifier.
A lighting device, comprising: at least first and second groups of solid state light emitters, said first group of solid state light emitters including at least one solid state light emitter, said second group of solid state light emitters including at least one solid state light emitter; at least a first sensor, said first sensor positioned such that if said first group of solid state light emitters and said second group of solid state light emitters are emitting light, said first sensor will be exposed to combined light, said combined light comprising at least a portion of light emitted by said first group of solid state light emitters and at least a portion of light emitted by said second group of solid state light emitters, said first sensor sensitive to only a portion of said combined light, said first sensor not sensitive to light emitted by said second group of solid state light emitters; and circuitry configured to adjust only a current applied to said second group of solid state light emitters based only on an intensity of said portion of said combined light sensed by said first sensor, or only on an intensity of said portion of said combined light sensed by said first sensor and on ambient temperature. at least first and second groups of solid state light emitters, said first group of solid state light emitters including at least one solid state light emitter, said second group of solid state light emitters including at least one solid state light emitter; at least a first sensor, said first sensor positioned such that if said first group of solid state light emitters and said second group of solid state light emitters are emitting light, said first sensor will be exposed to combined light, said combined light comprising at least a portion of light emitted by said first group of solid state light emitters and at least a portion of light emitted by said second group of solid state light emitters, said first sensor sensitive to only a portion of said combined light, said first sensor not sensitive to light emitted by said second group of solid state light emitters; and circuitry configured to adjust only a current applied to said second group of solid state light emitters based only on an intensity of said portion of said combined light sensed by said first sensor, or only on an intensity of said portion of said combined light sensed by said first sensor and on ambient temperature.
A method for removing moisture and/or impurities from a structure by means of a system which system comprises a ventilation duct network and an air circulation system for circulating air in the ventilation duct network, which ventilation duct network comprises at least one ventilation duct, and which ventilation duct comprises a casing structure open at both ends and at least partly open on one side, characterized in that the structure is a wall structure, in which method at least one hole is drilled in the wall structure where moisture and/or impurities are removed at an installation position of the casing structure of the ventilation duct, and the wall structure is partly or entirely roughened, wherein the at least one hole is not through hole; the ventilation duct is fixed with the at least partly open side permanently and air-tightly to a surface of the wall structure so that the installation position of the wall, which is roughened and perforated by the at least one hole, and the at least one hole are disposed inside the at least partly open side of the casing structure of the ventilation duct; and dry air is circulated in the ventilation duct network, whereby moisture and/or impurities possibly absorbed in the wall structure are able to migrate through the roughened and perforated concrete wall structure, and the at least one hole to the air circulated in the ventilation duct network through the at least partly open side of the casing structure. at least one hole is drilled in the wall structure where moisture and/or impurities are removed at an installation position of the casing structure of the ventilation duct, and the wall structure is partly or entirely roughened, wherein the at least one hole is not through hole; the ventilation duct is fixed with the at least partly open side permanently and air-tightly to a surface of the wall structure so that the installation position of the wall, which is roughened and perforated by the at least one hole, and the at least one hole are disposed inside the at least partly open side of the casing structure of the ventilation duct; and dry air is circulated in the ventilation duct network, whereby moisture and/or impurities possibly absorbed in the wall structure are able to migrate through the roughened and perforated concrete wall structure, and the at least one hole to the air circulated in the ventilation duct network through the at least partly open side of the casing structure.
A device for a surgical navigation system, comprising: a frame member having an attachment location; a rigid mounting device disposed in the attachment location; and wherein the frame member comprises an upper straight portion connected to a lower straight portion via a bent portion, wherein the lower straight portion comprises a plurality of mounts each having a top surface, characterised in that a centerline extending through the rigid mount ing device is level with each of the top surfaces, wherein marker elements are mounted to the plurality of mounts such that upon mounting, a centerline of the marker elements aligns with the centerline extending through the rigid mounting device. a frame member having an attachment location; a rigid mounting device disposed in the attachment location; and wherein the frame member comprises an upper straight portion connected to a lower straight portion via a bent portion, wherein the lower straight portion comprises a plurality of mounts each having a top surface, characterised in that a centerline extending through the rigid mount ing device is level with each of the top surfaces, wherein marker elements are mounted to the plurality of mounts such that upon mounting, a centerline of the marker elements aligns with the centerline extending through the rigid mounting device.
An apparatus, comprising: a ground electrode; and a radio IC device coupled to the ground electrode, wherein the radio IC device comprises: a radio IC processing transmitted and received signals, and a feed circuit including a resonance circuit and/or a matching circuit and having an inductance element electrically connected to or electromagnetically coupled to the radio IC; wherein the feed circuit is arranged such that the inductance element of the feed circuit is electromagnetically coupled to a radiation plate, characterized in that the ground electrode serves as the radiation plate for the transmitted and received signals, the feed circuit is mounted at an edge of the radiation plate without forming a loop electrode in the ground electrode such that the inductance element overlaps the edge of the radiation plate, and the inductance element is coupled to the radiation plate via a magnetic field (φ) generated by the current flowing in the edge of the radiation plate, the current being generated by a received reader signal. a ground electrode; and a radio IC device coupled to the ground electrode, wherein the radio IC device comprises: a radio IC processing transmitted and received signals, and a feed circuit including a resonance circuit and/or a matching circuit and having an inductance element electrically connected to or electromagnetically coupled to the radio IC; wherein the feed circuit is arranged such that the inductance element of the feed circuit is electromagnetically coupled to a radiation plate, characterized in that the ground electrode serves as the radiation plate for the transmitted and received signals, the feed circuit is mounted at an edge of the radiation plate without forming a loop electrode in the ground electrode such that the inductance element overlaps the edge of the radiation plate, and the inductance element is coupled to the radiation plate via a magnetic field (φ) generated by the current flowing in the edge of the radiation plate, the current being generated by a received reader signal. a radio IC processing transmitted and received signals, and a feed circuit including a resonance circuit and/or a matching circuit and having an inductance element electrically connected to or electromagnetically coupled to the radio IC; wherein the feed circuit is arranged such that the inductance element of the feed circuit is electromagnetically coupled to a radiation plate, characterized in that the ground electrode serves as the radiation plate for the transmitted and received signals, the feed circuit is mounted at an edge of the radiation plate without forming a loop electrode in the ground electrode such that the inductance element overlaps the edge of the radiation plate, and the inductance element is coupled to the radiation plate via a magnetic field (φ) generated by the current flowing in the edge of the radiation plate, the current being generated by a received reader signal.
A computer-implemented medical data processing method for determining a heartbeat signal describing the heartbeat of a patient in the time domain, the method comprising executing, on a processor of a computer, steps of: a) acquiring, at the processor, acceleration measurement data describing an acceleration in the time domain of an anatomical body part measured on an external surface of the anatomical body part; b) determining, by the processor, component analysis data describing a result of an independent component analysis in the time domain of the acceleration measurement data; c) acquiring, at the processor, heartbeat template data describing template shapes of heartbeat in the time domain; d) determining, by the processor and based on the component analysis data and the heartbeat template data, recurrent shape data describing a recurrence of certain signal shapes in the component analysis data; e) determining (S11, S12), based on the recurrent shape data, heartbeat signal data describing a time series of the heartbeat. a) acquiring, at the processor, acceleration measurement data describing an acceleration in the time domain of an anatomical body part measured on an external surface of the anatomical body part; b) determining, by the processor, component analysis data describing a result of an independent component analysis in the time domain of the acceleration measurement data; c) acquiring, at the processor, heartbeat template data describing template shapes of heartbeat in the time domain; d) determining, by the processor and based on the component analysis data and the heartbeat template data, recurrent shape data describing a recurrence of certain signal shapes in the component analysis data; e) determining (S11, S12), based on the recurrent shape data, heartbeat signal data describing a time series of the heartbeat.
A railway wheel having a central plane perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the wheel which includes a rim formed by a tread surface and a flange, and also includes a hub and a web formed by external and internal surfaces and made in such a way that a theoretical midline of a transverse web profile passes through a first point located in a place of matching the web with the rim, a central point where the theoretical midline has maximum offset from the central plane in a direction opposite to the flange, and a second point located in a place of matching the web with the hub, wherein an external surface of the web is formed on a rim side by a first external radius curve and on a hub side by a second external radius curve with a curvature that coincides in a direction with the curvature of the first external radius curve, said curves (R1, R2) matching each other in a central part of the web by a third, on the rim side, and a fourth, on the hub side, external radius curves with a curvature opposite in the direction to the curvature of the first and second external radius curves, while an internal surface of the web is formed on the rim side by a first internal radius curve and on the hub side by a second internal radius curve with a curvature that coincides to the direction with the curvature of the first internal radius curve, said curves matching each other in the central part of the web by the third, on the rim side, and the fourth, on the hub side, internal radius curves with the curvature opposite in the direction to the curvature of the first and the second internal radius curves, said railway wheel being characterized in that radiuses of the first and the second external radius curves for the external web surface are from 0.04 to 0.05 of a tread diameter, the radius of the third external radius curve is from 0.08 to 0.1 of the tread diameter, the radius of the fourth external radius curve is from 0.07 to 0.09 of the tread diameter, and the radius of the first internal radius curve for the internal web surface is from 0.08 to 0.1 of the tread diameter, radiuses of the second and the third internal radius curves are from 0.06 to 0.08 of the tread diameter, the radius of the fourth internal radius curve is from 0.04 to 0.06 of the tread diameter, wherein the first point is offset to a distance not more than 0.08 of the rim width from the central plane in the direction opposite to the flange, the central point is offset from the central plane to a distance within a range of values from 0.35 to 0.4 of the rim width, and the second point is offset to a distance not more than 0.1 of the rim width from the central plane towards the flange, while the ratio of a web thickness at the first point to a web thickness at the second point is from 0.7 to 1.1 and a ratio of a web thickness at the central point to the web thickness at the second point is from 0.7 to 0.9.