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A tissue resector, comprising: a cannula including: a wall; a lumen defined through the wall and extending along a length of the cannula; a distal end; and an opening at or adjacent to the distal end and establishing communication between an exterior of the wall and the lumen; and a cutting wire within the lumen, the cutting wire including: an elongated element; and a cutting feature secured to a distal end of the elongated element that cooperates with the opening through the cannula; wherein the cutting feature includes a cylindrical element with an open proximal end into which the elongated element extends; wherein a slot extends along a portion of a length of the cylindrical element with opposed edges of the slot configured to cut into tissue as the cutting wire is rotated in a repetitious clockwise and counterclockwise manner; wherein the cutting wire is sized to enable tissue to be aspirated through the lumen of the cannula while cutting tissue. a cannula including: a wall; a lumen defined through the wall and extending along a length of the cannula; a distal end; and an opening at or adjacent to the distal end and establishing communication between an exterior of the wall and the lumen; and a wall; a lumen defined through the wall and extending along a length of the cannula; a distal end; and an opening at or adjacent to the distal end and establishing communication between an exterior of the wall and the lumen; and a cutting wire within the lumen, the cutting wire including: an elongated element; and a cutting feature secured to a distal end of the elongated element that cooperates with the opening through the cannula; wherein the cutting feature includes a cylindrical element with an open proximal end into which the elongated element extends; wherein a slot extends along a portion of a length of the cylindrical element with opposed edges of the slot configured to cut into tissue as the cutting wire is rotated in a repetitious clockwise and counterclockwise manner; wherein the cutting wire is sized to enable tissue to be aspirated through the lumen of the cannula while cutting tissue. an elongated element; and a cutting feature secured to a distal end of the elongated element that cooperates with the opening through the cannula; wherein the cutting feature includes a cylindrical element with an open proximal end into which the elongated element extends; wherein a slot extends along a portion of a length of the cylindrical element with opposed edges of the slot configured to cut into tissue as the cutting wire is rotated in a repetitious clockwise and counterclockwise manner; wherein the cutting wire is sized to enable tissue to be aspirated through the lumen of the cannula while cutting tissue.
A device for treating a living tissue with magnetic fields, the device comprising: one or more coil applicators, each coil applicator having a face and a stimulating coil housed within the coil applicator adapted to face a tissue being treated, wherein the stimulating coil includes a core (32, 51) and windings, a ferromagnetic reflector plate (33, 30, 52) adjacent to the stimulating coil, the ferromagnetic reflector plate (33, 30) having a plane defining a rear side and a front side of the stimulating coil, the front side, in use, being oriented toward the tissue and the rear side being oriented facing away from the tissue, and a generator configured to drive the stimulating coil, wherein the device is configured to provide a magnetic field in a range of 0.1 T to 5 T at a distance of 1 cm or less from the face of the one or more coil applicators, wherein: each coil applicator comprises a cooling mechanism configured to cool the stimulating coil; and the generator is configured to generate magnetic pulses having an amplitude of up to about 5T, pulse length of 50 to 2000 μs, frequency of up to 200 pulses/s, and a rate of change of at least 200 T/s. one or more coil applicators, each coil applicator having a face and a stimulating coil housed within the coil applicator adapted to face a tissue being treated, wherein the stimulating coil includes a core (32, 51) and windings, a ferromagnetic reflector plate (33, 30, 52) adjacent to the stimulating coil, the ferromagnetic reflector plate (33, 30) having a plane defining a rear side and a front side of the stimulating coil, the front side, in use, being oriented toward the tissue and the rear side being oriented facing away from the tissue, and a generator configured to drive the stimulating coil, wherein the device is configured to provide a magnetic field in a range of 0.1 T to 5 T at a distance of 1 cm or less from the face of the one or more coil applicators, wherein: each coil applicator comprises a cooling mechanism configured to cool the stimulating coil; and the generator is configured to generate magnetic pulses having an amplitude of up to about 5T, pulse length of 50 to 2000 μs, frequency of up to 200 pulses/s, and a rate of change of at least 200 T/s. each coil applicator comprises a cooling mechanism configured to cool the stimulating coil; and the generator is configured to generate magnetic pulses having an amplitude of up to about 5T, pulse length of 50 to 2000 μs, frequency of up to 200 pulses/s, and a rate of change of at least 200 T/s.
Selection method implemented by an ambient backscatter communication system comprising an emitting source as well as a transmitter device (D_TX) and a receiver device (D_RX), the source being associated with a focusing precoder P comprising a first and a second component for focusing signals towards the transmitter device and the receiver device, respectively, said method comprising, for a value Φ_i in the interval [0, 2π]: - a step of the source phase-shifting one of the components of the precoder P according to said value Φ_1, so as to obtain a precoder Q_i, - a step of the source emitting by means of said precoder Q_i, - a step of the receiver device acquiring a first measurement (MES1_i) and a second measurement (MES2_i) of electromagnetic power when the transmitter device is in a non-backscattering state and in a backscattering state, respectively, - a step of the receiver device determining a value D1_i which is representative of a power difference, in terms of absolute value, between said first and second measurements, said phase-shift, emission, acquisition and determination steps being iterated for a plurality of values Φ_1,..., Φ_N which are distinct from one another, the method further comprising a step of the receiver device selecting a maximum value, referred to as the intermediate optimum value, from among the determined values D1_1,..., D1_N. said method comprising, for a value Φ_i in the interval [0, 2π]: - a step of the source phase-shifting one of the components of the precoder P according to said value Φ_1, so as to obtain a precoder Q_i, - a step of the source emitting by means of said precoder Q_i, - a step of the receiver device acquiring a first measurement (MES1_i) and a second measurement (MES2_i) of electromagnetic power when the transmitter device is in a non-backscattering state and in a backscattering state, respectively, - a step of the receiver device determining a value D1_i which is representative of a power difference, in terms of absolute value, between said first and second measurements, - a step of the source phase-shifting one of the components of the precoder P according to said value Φ_1, so as to obtain a precoder Q_i, - a step of the source emitting by means of said precoder Q_i, - a step of the receiver device acquiring a first measurement (MES1_i) and a second measurement (MES2_i) of electromagnetic power when the transmitter device is in a non-backscattering state and in a backscattering state, respectively, - a step of the receiver device determining a value D1_i which is representative of a power difference, in terms of absolute value, between said first and second measurements, said phase-shift, emission, acquisition and determination steps being iterated for a plurality of values Φ_1,..., Φ_N which are distinct from one another, the method further comprising a step of the receiver device selecting a maximum value, referred to as the intermediate optimum value, from among the determined values D1_1,..., D1_N.
A wall element consisting of plurality of vertical bars arranged in a single line with gaps between them, closed from both sides with oriented strand boards coated with vapour barrier film on the inner surface, where gaps between the vertical bars and OSB sheets are packed with thermal insulation, characterized in that the thermal insulation is made of continuous oriented metallized polypropylene film, which is rolled up and down multiple times through the entire height and width of the bars by maintaining a 10-15 mm gap between the adjacent metallized OPP films thus forming a plurality of thermal insulating chambers, where the gaps between the adjacent metallized OPP films are formed by polystyrene strips of 10-15 mm in width and 30-40 mm in height, which are interconnected and fixed at the top and bottom of the bars.
Floor cleaning apparatus, comprising a storage container for cleaning liquid to be applied to a floor surface to be cleaned, a cleaning device for detaching dirt from the floor surface, a dirt pick-up device for suctioning detached dirt and cleaning liquid under the action of a suction unit, and a dirty liquid container for accommodating the suctioned dirt and the suctioned cleaning liquid; the dirt pick-up device being held on the floor cleaning apparatus so as to be pivotable about at least one pivot axis (66, 68, 70) by means of at least one joint with a first joint member and a second joint member interacting with the first joint member, the first joint member being a joint shell, and the second joint member being a joint head mounted in the joint shell; characterized in that the floor cleaning apparatus comprises at least one securing member for securing the joint head in the joint shell, the at least one securing member comprising or forming at least one stop element (90, 92), effective against a direction of insertion of the joint head into the joint shell, for the joint head, and at least one abutment element (90, 92) for the joint head so that during the pivoting the joint head arranged in the joint shell is guided by the at least one abutment element (90, 92).
A method, comprising: in a system in which a communication device searches for unscheduled transmissions of downlink control information for said communication device: selecting a combination of search spaces for unscheduled transmissions of downlink control information for a communication device by a plurality of transmission techniques, wherein the combination defines search spaces for the plurality of transmission techniques and wherein the plurality of transmission techniques comprise a codebook based and a non-codebook based transmission techniques; wherein a plurality of aggregation levels are available for the transmission of downlink control information and a respective search space is predefined for each aggregation level of each transmission technique, characterized in that the selecting comprises selecting a respective set of one or more aggregation levels for each of said plurality of transmission techniques; and transmitting an indication of the result of the selected combination identifying the respective selected sets of one or more aggregation levels to said communication device.
A method, including steps of automatically first booting a computer system into a secure preboot environment upon startup and operating the computer system under control thereof, said secure preboot environment including instructions directing a processor to perform integrity checks against malware, said secure preboot environment preventing unauthorized access to said instructions, wherein said secure preboot environment is maintained at least in part in a secure portion on a removable storage device; only upon passing said integrity checks, rebooting said computer system into a portable operating environment maintained at least in part on the removable storage device, said portable operating environment including operating system software for controlling said computer system and for allowing execution of application software; and wherein said integrity checks include confirming that one or more files in said portable operating environment are unchanged or uninfected and scanning one or more files in said portable operating environment for malware or viruses, wherein the integrity checks include a system file integrity check for a set of system files on said computer system and an anti-virus scan on a list of files obtained from the system files that have passed the system file integrity check.
Positioning measuring device comprising a module, for varying the signal period (λ) of at least one position-dependent sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS), comprising - a conversion device, to which the sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS) is fed and which is designed to generate therefrom at least one sinusoidal digital output signal (DSINk, DCOSk) having a varied signal period (λ/k) relative to the sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS), and - a digital-to-analogue converter, which is designed to generate a sinusoidal analogue output signal (SINk, COSk) having a varied signal period (λ/k) from the sinusoidal digital output signal (DSINk, DCOSk), characterized in that the conversion device is designed to change the operating mode depending on the frequency (f) of the sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS) in such a way that in the case of high frequencies of the sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS) the sinusoidal digital output signal (DSINk, DCOSk) is fed to the digital-to-analogue converter with a higher output rate and with a smaller word width than in the case of low frequencies of the sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS). - a conversion device, to which the sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS) is fed and which is designed to generate therefrom at least one sinusoidal digital output signal (DSINk, DCOSk) having a varied signal period (λ/k) relative to the sinusoidal analogue scanning signal (SIN, COS), and - a digital-to-analogue converter, which is designed to generate a sinusoidal analogue output signal (SINk, COSk) having a varied signal period (λ/k) from the sinusoidal digital output signal (DSINk, DCOSk),
An apparatus comprising: a battery stack including a plurality of alternating anodes and cathodes; wherein each of the anodes is positioned between first and second separators, wherein the first and second separators (213, 215) are sealed around a perimeter of the first and second separators (213, 215) by an edge seal to form a separator bag including a sealed edge extending along a top edge of the respective anode, and wherein a tab of the anode extends out from between the first and second separators at a top portion of the separator bag; and an edge tape extending across the top portion of the separator bag including the sealed edge extending along the top edge of the respective anode of the separator bag and covering over a portion of the tab. a battery stack including a plurality of alternating anodes and cathodes; wherein each of the anodes is positioned between first and second separators, wherein the first and second separators (213, 215) are sealed around a perimeter of the first and second separators (213, 215) by an edge seal to form a separator bag including a sealed edge extending along a top edge of the respective anode, and wherein a tab of the anode extends out from between the first and second separators at a top portion of the separator bag; and an edge tape extending across the top portion of the separator bag including the sealed edge extending along the top edge of the respective anode of the separator bag and covering over a portion of the tab.
A method of operating a portable apparatus for cooling a liquid appropriate for vascular administration, comprising: receiving a liquid suitable for vascular administration into a cooling reservoir of the portable apparatus from a source containing the liquid; and conducting thermal energy from said liquid in said cooling reservoir into an evaporative area of a sorption-based heat exchanger of the portable apparatus by vaporizing a refrigerant within said evaporative area, wherein said vaporized refrigerant is sorbed by a sorptive material within said sorption-based heat exchanger of the portable apparatus, and wherein said liquid is cooled in the cooling reservoir of the portable apparatus free from electrical power requirements. receiving a liquid suitable for vascular administration into a cooling reservoir of the portable apparatus from a source containing the liquid; and conducting thermal energy from said liquid in said cooling reservoir into an evaporative area of a sorption-based heat exchanger of the portable apparatus by vaporizing a refrigerant within said evaporative area, wherein said vaporized refrigerant is sorbed by a sorptive material within said sorption-based heat exchanger of the portable apparatus, and wherein said liquid is cooled in the cooling reservoir of the portable apparatus free from electrical power requirements.
Current-conducting structure for use in an energy storage system of a vehicle, wherein the current-conducting structure is at least in some regions cast from a metal in which a multiplicity of closed pores are formed, wherein the current-conducting structure has at least in some regions a pore density of at least 5 pores/cm 2, wherein at least a first group of pores comprises pores with a size of 10 μm to 500 μm, wherein the pores are distributed inhomogeneously in the current-conducting structure, to be precise in such a way that the pores are only arranged in an inner, centrally located region of the current-conducting structure, wherein the current-conducting structure has at least in the region of the pores a thickness of at least 5 mm, and wherein the pores have at least partially an anisotropic orientation, to be precise in such a way that at least some of the pores have a nonround cross section, the longitudinal axis of which is oriented in the current-conducting direction, wherein the structure is formed as a conductor rail and/or a bridge connector of the energy storage system, preferably a starter battery of a vehicle. wherein the current-conducting structure has at least in some regions a pore density of at least 5 pores/cm 2, wherein at least a first group of pores comprises pores with a size of 10 μm to 500 μm, wherein the pores are distributed inhomogeneously in the current-conducting structure, to be precise in such a way that the pores are only arranged in an inner, centrally located region of the current-conducting structure, wherein the current-conducting structure has at least in the region of the pores a thickness of at least 5 mm, and wherein the pores have at least partially an anisotropic orientation, to be precise in such a way that at least some of the pores have a nonround cross section, the longitudinal axis of which is oriented in the current-conducting direction, wherein the structure is formed as a conductor rail and/or a bridge connector of the energy storage system, preferably a starter battery of a vehicle.
A liquid heating transport device for an analyzer, comprising a heat preservation shell having a cover plate, a liquid heater, and a test tube seat, wherein the latter two are installed in the heat preservation shell; wherein the liquid heater comprises a heating element, and at least a first liquid chamber for heating a first liquid and a second liquid chamber for heating a second liquid, which are not in fluid communication with each other in the heater, wherein at least one liquid chamber (604, 606) is accommodated in another liquid chamber (604, 606), the heating element is installed in one liquid chamber (604, 606) and heats the liquid in that liquid chamber (604, 606), and the heated liquid heats the liquid in the other liquid chamber (604, 606); wherein both of the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber are closed chambers such that the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber respectively communicate with the outside through respective liquid outlets (630, 640) and liquid inlets (632, 642); wherein at least a first liquid passage for conveying the first liquid into a reaction cuvette in the test tube seat and a second liquid passage for conveying the second liquid into a reaction cuvette in the test tube seat are embedded in the cover plate.
A mounting system comprising: a mounting line including multiple mounting machines configured to mount components on a board and aligned in a predetermined arrangement direction; a supply device configured to supply members for use in the mounting machines by conveying the members while moving in the arrangement direction; and a display section provided on each of the mounting machines, characterized by each display section having display modes that change in accordance with a position of the corresponding mounting machine with respect to a movement of the supply device. a mounting line including multiple mounting machines configured to mount components on a board and aligned in a predetermined arrangement direction; a supply device configured to supply members for use in the mounting machines by conveying the members while moving in the arrangement direction; and a display section provided on each of the mounting machines, characterized by each display section having display modes that change in accordance with a position of the corresponding mounting machine with respect to a movement of the supply device.
A composition formulated for injection comprising micronized amnion, optionally further comprising micronized placental tissue selected from the group consisting of chorion, intermediate tissue layer, or any combination thereof and a biocompatible gelation agent in a suitable excipient, wherein the biocompatible gelation agent comprises: a thermosensitive sol-gel reversible hydrogel, preferably a poloxamer, wherein the composition is in a sol (liquid) phase at about 0 °C to about 20 °C and transitions to a gel (solid) phase at about 25 °C to about 40 °C. a thermosensitive sol-gel reversible hydrogel, preferably a poloxamer, wherein the composition is in a sol (liquid) phase at about 0 °C to about 20 °C and transitions to a gel (solid) phase at about 25 °C to about 40 °C.