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An UHT food sterilization plant comprising: • a constant level tank; • a first and a second shell-and-tube exchanger; • a flash cooler; • a piston-type homogenizer; • a first centrifugal pump for transferring the product to be UHT-sterilized from said constant level tank to said shell-and-tube exchanger and a second centrifugal pump for feeding the product from said flash cooler to said homogenizer; wherein said piston-type homogenizer and said pumps comprises moving parts requiring a sterile barrier from the outside, the plant further comprising an apparatus for creating said sterile barrier and lubricating and/or cooling said moving parts using cold water sterilized by filtration, characterized in that said apparatus comprises: ▪ a collecting tank for collecting water and an antiseptic and antibacterial product; ▪ filters (F1, F2, F3) having an increasing filtering grade and the last filter being a bacteriological filter; ▪ shut-off valves that, when open, permits the transfer of water and of the antiseptic and antibacterial product from said tank to said filters and to pipes connecting the apparatus to said moving parts; ▪ a flow rate regulator downstream said bacteriological filter; ▪ a return pipe, extending from upstream said bacteriological filter and connected to said tank, to provide recirculated sterilization; and ▪ pipes connected to said moving parts to which the water and the antiseptic and antibacterial product are transferred. • a constant level tank; • a first and a second shell-and-tube exchanger; • a flash cooler; • a piston-type homogenizer; • a first centrifugal pump for transferring the product to be UHT-sterilized from said constant level tank to said shell-and-tube exchanger and a second centrifugal pump for feeding the product from said flash cooler to said homogenizer; ▪ a collecting tank for collecting water and an antiseptic and antibacterial product; ▪ filters (F1, F2, F3) having an increasing filtering grade and the last filter being a bacteriological filter; ▪ shut-off valves that, when open, permits the transfer of water and of the antiseptic and antibacterial product from said tank to said filters and to pipes connecting the apparatus to said moving parts; ▪ a flow rate regulator downstream said bacteriological filter; ▪ a return pipe, extending from upstream said bacteriological filter and connected to said tank, to provide recirculated sterilization; and ▪ pipes connected to said moving parts to which the water and the antiseptic and antibacterial product are transferred.
A method of generating a residence time measurement of a particulate-containing food product while passing the product as a continuous stream through a thermal processing apparatus, the method comprising the steps of: (a) inserting a detectable particle into the stream at an insertion location, wherein the particle is tagged with a magnetic implant; (b) detecting the magnetic implant using a magnetic sensor located at a detection point downstream from the insertion location; (c) determining a time of passage of the detectable particle in the stream using an output from the magnetic sensor; and (d) generating a residence time measurement for the stream using the time of passage for the detectable particle; characterised by: in the step (a), inserting a plurality of the detectable particles into the stream at the insertion location at pre-selected intervals, including at least a first particle and a second particle both having a magnetic implant with the same magnetic identification, wherein the first and second particles are separated by a minimum insertion delay, the minimum insertion delay being calculated to insert the second particle before the first particle has reached the detection point while preventing the second particle from catching up with the first particle before the first particle reaches the detection point. (a) inserting a detectable particle into the stream at an insertion location, wherein the particle is tagged with a magnetic implant; (b) detecting the magnetic implant using a magnetic sensor located at a detection point downstream from the insertion location; (c) determining a time of passage of the detectable particle in the stream using an output from the magnetic sensor; and (d) generating a residence time measurement for the stream using the time of passage for the detectable particle; in the step (a), inserting a plurality of the detectable particles into the stream at the insertion location at pre-selected intervals, including at least a first particle and a second particle both having a magnetic implant with the same magnetic identification, wherein the first and second particles are separated by a minimum insertion delay, the minimum insertion delay being calculated to insert the second particle before the first particle has reached the detection point while preventing the second particle from catching up with the first particle before the first particle reaches the detection point.
A handle comprising a main body, which is substantially in the form of a partial cylinder or is substantially cylindrical and extends in a longitudinal direction, and a sleeve structure, which extends substantially in the longitudinal direction of the main body and along an outer periphery of the main body and at least partially at a spacing from the main body, wherein the sleeve structure comprises a plurality of segments, which are arranged parallel to one another in relation to their central plane and which are oriented substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the main body, and wherein the sleeve structure is elastically deformable at least in part, characterised in that at least one of the plurality of segments of the sleeve structure comprises one or more tongues (124a, 124b), wherein the one or more tongues (124a, 124b) are secured to the main body of the handle by means of one or more anchoring elements.
A valve mechanism comprising: a valve body; a seat member having a seat section (8a3) that comes in contact with the valve body; and a housing member configured to retain the valve body on an outer peripheral side of the seat member, wherein, on the outer peripheral surface of the seat member, a seat member slope is formed to expand toward the outer peripheral side in a direction from the valve body toward the seat member, and a gap is formed between the seat member slope and the housing member, wherein, on the outer peripheral surface of the seat member, a flat portion is formed to be substantially parallel with the inner peripheral surface of the housing member, on the side closer to the valve body more than the seat member slope, and the seat member slope forms a fluid flow-path between the housing member and the flat portion; characterized in that the valve body is configured to have a valve body slope to be expanding from the seat member toward the outer peripheral side along the direction toward the valve body on the outer peripheral side of the contact surface with the seat section (8a3), a gap is formed between the valve body slope and the housing member, and an inclination angle formed by the contact surface and both end portions of the seat member slope is greater than an inclination angle formed by the contact surface and both end portions of the valve body slope. a valve body; a seat member having a seat section (8a3) that comes in contact with the valve body; and a housing member configured to retain the valve body on an outer peripheral side of the seat member, wherein, on the outer peripheral surface of the seat member, a seat member slope is formed to expand toward the outer peripheral side in a direction from the valve body toward the seat member, and a gap is formed between the seat member slope and the housing member, wherein, on the outer peripheral surface of the seat member, a flat portion is formed to be substantially parallel with the inner peripheral surface of the housing member, on the side closer to the valve body more than the seat member slope, and the seat member slope forms a fluid flow-path between the housing member and the flat portion; characterized in that the valve body is configured to have a valve body slope to be expanding from the seat member toward the outer peripheral side along the direction toward the valve body on the outer peripheral side of the contact surface with the seat section (8a3), a gap is formed between the valve body slope and the housing member, and an inclination angle formed by the contact surface and both end portions of the seat member slope is greater than an inclination angle formed by the contact surface and both end portions of the valve body slope.
A method, comprising: receiving an electronic data representative of an infection isolate sequence; comparing the electronic data representative of the infection isolate sequence to at least one reference sequence stored in a database to determine variants between the infection isolate sequence and the at least one reference sequence; determining at least a portion of an evolutionary history of the infection isolate based, at least in part, on the variants; calculating, based at least in part on the portion of the evolutionary history, a mutation rate of the infection isolate, wherein the mutation rate is calculated by the Mean Path Lengths method; comparing the mutation rate of the infection isolate to a mutation rate of the at least one reference sequence; determining, based on a difference between the mutation rate of the infection isolate and the mutation rate of the at least one reference sequence, whether the infection isolate was transmitted by a first reservoir or a second reservoir, wherein each at least one reference sequence is associated with one of the first and second reservoirs; and providing an indication of whether the infection isolate was transmitted by the first reservoir or second reservoir. receiving an electronic data representative of an infection isolate sequence; comparing the electronic data representative of the infection isolate sequence to at least one reference sequence stored in a database to determine variants between the infection isolate sequence and the at least one reference sequence; determining at least a portion of an evolutionary history of the infection isolate based, at least in part, on the variants; calculating, based at least in part on the portion of the evolutionary history, a mutation rate of the infection isolate, wherein the mutation rate is calculated by the Mean Path Lengths method; comparing the mutation rate of the infection isolate to a mutation rate of the at least one reference sequence; determining, based on a difference between the mutation rate of the infection isolate and the mutation rate of the at least one reference sequence, whether the infection isolate was transmitted by a first reservoir or a second reservoir, wherein each at least one reference sequence is associated with one of the first and second reservoirs; and providing an indication of whether the infection isolate was transmitted by the first reservoir or second reservoir.
A recording method for recording a received stream such as an audio and/or video stream, the recording method comprising the steps: - of evaluating wear of a storage medium for recording the received stream, the wear being evaluated by acquiring, from the storage medium, a wear parameter that is representative of the wear of the storage medium; - of calculating, as a function of the wear, an optimum stream data rate for increasing the lifetime of the storage medium, the optimum stream data rate being a data rate that is less than or equal to the data rate of the received stream, and that allows to optimize both the quality of the time-shifted playback of the broadcast program and to reduce the wear of the storage medium; - of adapting the received stream so as to record it at the optimum stream data rate. - of evaluating wear of a storage medium for recording the received stream, the wear being evaluated by acquiring, from the storage medium, a wear parameter that is representative of the wear of the storage medium; - of calculating, as a function of the wear, an optimum stream data rate for increasing the lifetime of the storage medium, the optimum stream data rate being a data rate that is less than or equal to the data rate of the received stream, and that allows to optimize both the quality of the time-shifted playback of the broadcast program and to reduce the wear of the storage medium; - of adapting the received stream so as to record it at the optimum stream data rate.
A data centre comprising at least a first storey or respectively level and a second storey or respectively level, wherein the storeys (220, 222) are configured as high bay racking and comprise a multiplicity of racks, each of which comprising storage space for computer hardware, wherein the data centre further comprises a first cooling circuit for dissipating the heat generated by the computer hardware, and wherein the first cooling circuit is configured to supply all the racks with a coolant, wherein the first cooling circuit is further configured to convey the heated coolant away from the these racks, characterized in that said racks comprise heat exchanging means (206, 207) which are configured to transfer the generated heat to the coolant, wherein the heat exchanging means (206, 207) are dimensioned such that via these the entire amount of heat generated by the computer hardware is able to be discharged, so that during the operation no warm air is emitted from the plurality of racks to the data centre, and each rack has an individual coupling to the cooling circuit, and the racks have an open rack architecture.
An electromechanical parking brake for a motor vehicle comprising an operating element for operating a wheel brake and a central control unit to supply electrical power to the operating element via at least one supply line (4a, 4b), wherein the operating element is arranged on the motor vehicle in a manner protected against external manual access together with an electrical actuating unit for interrupting the power supply to the operating element, characterised in that the electrical actuating unit is connected by a two-wire control line (6a, 6b) to the central control unit, which are insulated from one another in the course of the control line, but are interconnected conductively inside the electrical actuating unit, in that the electrical actuating unit can be controlled by the central control unit via the control line to cause an interruption in the power supply to the operating element, and in that the central control unit can monitor the control line to detect a manipulation of the control line by a monitoring voltage being fed into a first wire of the control line by the central control unit and by the central control unit measuring the unchanged presence of the monitoring voltage on a second wire of the control line.
A method for wireless communication, comprising: deriving at a first network node first symbol estimates for a first uplink transmission sent on a primary component carrier, PCC, from a user equipment, UE, to the first network node; obtaining at the first network node second symbol estimates for the first uplink transmission from a second network node receiving the first uplink transmission, the UE concurrently communicating with the first network node on the PCC and with the second network node on a secondary CC, SCC; combining at the first network node the first and second symbol estimates to obtain first combined symbol estimates for the first uplink transmission; and decoding at the first network node the first combined symbol estimates to recover data sent in the first uplink transmission by the UE. deriving at a first network node first symbol estimates for a first uplink transmission sent on a primary component carrier, PCC, from a user equipment, UE, to the first network node; obtaining at the first network node second symbol estimates for the first uplink transmission from a second network node receiving the first uplink transmission, the UE concurrently communicating with the first network node on the PCC and with the second network node on a secondary CC, SCC; combining at the first network node the first and second symbol estimates to obtain first combined symbol estimates for the first uplink transmission; and decoding at the first network node the first combined symbol estimates to recover data sent in the first uplink transmission by the UE.
A gypsum composition for a drying type coating material, the gypsum composition comprising: hemihydrate gypsum having a mean particle diameter of 50 μm or less; calcium carbonate having a mean particle diameter of 50 μm or less; and a setting retarder, wherein the gypsum composition has a content of the calcium carbonate of 10 to 400 parts by mass and a content of the setting retarder of 0.1 parts by mass or more each based on 100 parts by mass of the hemihydrate gypsum, wherein the mean particle diameter refers to a volume mean diameter measured using a particle size distribution measurement apparatus using a laser diffraction/scattering method; wherein the setting retarder is at least one selected from the group consisting of citric acid, succinic acid, acetic acid, malic acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, and salts thereof, and sucrose, starch, and decomposition products of protein; and wherein the gypsum composition is substantially free of a setting accelerator. hemihydrate gypsum having a mean particle diameter of 50 μm or less; calcium carbonate having a mean particle diameter of 50 μm or less; and a setting retarder, wherein the gypsum composition has a content of the calcium carbonate of 10 to 400 parts by mass and a content of the setting retarder of 0.1 parts by mass or more each based on 100 parts by mass of the hemihydrate gypsum, wherein the setting retarder is at least one selected from the group consisting of citric acid, succinic acid, acetic acid, malic acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, and salts thereof, and sucrose, starch, and decomposition products of protein; and wherein the gypsum composition is substantially free of a setting accelerator.
A sound synthesis method using an apparatus connected to a display device, the sound synthesis method comprising: a first step of displaying a plurality of lyrics on a screen of the display device, each of the displayed lyrics having a respective plurality of sections and corresponding to a respective piece of phrase data which is stored in a phrase database and is constituted by a plurality of pieces of section data corresponding to the respective plurality of sections, each piece of section data being constituted by respective section text data, section waveform data and section pitch data, wherein the respective section text data is extracted from the respective piece of phrase data in said phrase database in order to display said lyrics; a second step of selecting, in response to an operation of an operation portion (4, 5), a lyric among the plurality of lyrics displayed, and displaying the selected lyric on the screen, a third step of reading the respective piece of phrase data corresponding to the selected lyric from the database and storing it into a playback object area in a RAM of the apparatus, a fourth step of selecting an arbitrary section among the plurality of sections of the selected lyric in response to another operation of the operation portion (4, 5); a fifth step of inputting a pitch based on an operation by a user, after the fourth step is completed; and a sixth step of outputting a waveform representing a singing sound of the selected section based on both the piece of phrase data stored in said playback object area and the inputted pitch. a first step of displaying a plurality of lyrics on a screen of the display device, each of the displayed lyrics having a respective plurality of sections and corresponding to a respective piece of phrase data which is stored in a phrase database and is constituted by a plurality of pieces of section data corresponding to the respective plurality of sections, each piece of section data being constituted by respective section text data, section waveform data and section pitch data, wherein the respective section text data is extracted from the respective piece of phrase data in said phrase database in order to display said lyrics; a second step of selecting, in response to an operation of an operation portion (4, 5), a lyric among the plurality of lyrics displayed, and displaying the selected lyric on the screen, a third step of reading the respective piece of phrase data corresponding to the selected lyric from the database and storing it into a playback object area in a RAM of the apparatus, a fourth step of selecting an arbitrary section among the plurality of sections of the selected lyric in response to another operation of the operation portion (4, 5); a fifth step of inputting a pitch based on an operation by a user, after the fourth step is completed; and a sixth step of outputting a waveform representing a singing sound of the selected section based on both the piece of phrase data stored in said playback object area and the inputted pitch.
Combination of lysobactin and at least one aminoglycoside antibiotic for use in a treatment of a non-human mammalian animal against a disease caused by Gram-negative and/or Gram-positive bacteria.
A method for adaptive user equipment,UE, grouping and beamforming for multicast transmission, the method comprising: assigning each of a plurality of UE devices into a respective UE group of a plurality of UE groups, each UE group comprising at least one UE device; and reassigning a UE device from the respective UE group to an updated UE group and generating an updated respective beamforming vector for the updated UE group until the updated respective beamforming vector for each UE group produces a largest average UE rate or the largest minimum UE rate for the updated UE groups; wherein the UE rate comprises a UE download rate over a wireless channel between the UE device and a base station; or wherein the UE rate comprises a signal-to-noise ratio of a wireless channel between the UE device and a base station; and transmitting in a multicast manner to the plurality of UE groups, wherein transmission to multiple UE devices in a particular group of the plurality of UE groups includes a same information stream precoded with a same beamforming vector and wherein transmissions to different UE groups are on orthogonal channel resources. assigning each of a plurality of UE devices into a respective UE group of a plurality of UE groups, each UE group comprising at least one UE device; and reassigning a UE device from the respective UE group to an updated UE group and generating an updated respective beamforming vector for the updated UE group until the updated respective beamforming vector for each UE group produces a largest average UE rate or the largest minimum UE rate for the updated UE groups; wherein the UE rate comprises a UE download rate over a wireless channel between the UE device and a base station; or wherein the UE rate comprises a signal-to-noise ratio of a wireless channel between the UE device and a base station; and transmitting in a multicast manner to the plurality of UE groups, wherein transmission to multiple UE devices in a particular group of the plurality of UE groups includes a same information stream precoded with a same beamforming vector and wherein transmissions to different UE groups are on orthogonal channel resources.
A carrying device for beverage cans, that comprises a body devoid of side walls, having on its surface at least one opening defining a contour with proportions which allow the tight passage therethrough of a beverage can, the contour of said opening having a plurality of tabs that can be folded or bent in relation to the body itself and extending into the same opening, characterized by the fact that said tabs have a distribution according to at least one sequence, said sequence comprising two contiguous tabs followed by a gap followed by another tab followed by another gap.