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A device for removing unwanted cells from a biological fluid comprising: a) a housing comprising a pair of walls (14, 16) defining a chamber between said walls (14, 16) and having a top peripheral edge and a bottom peripheral edge, wherein said housing walls (14, 16) are made of a flexible material.; b) a removal medium within said chamber; c) an inlet port carried by one of said pair of walls and an outlet port carried by the other of said pair of walls, wherein said inlet port is positioned closer to the top peripheral edge than to the bottom edge and the outlet port is positioned closer to the bottom peripheral edge, wherein said inlet port and said outlet port are positioned at diametrically opposed locations on their respective housing walls (14, 16); d) each of said ports (24, 26) defining a flow path, said flow path comprising a chamber-communicating portion and an adjacent portion wherein said chamber-communicating portion has a cross-section larger than the cross-section of said adjacent portion, and wherein said adjacent portion of said flow path is substantially parallel to said housing, wherein each of said inlet port and said outlet port comprises port walls (40a, 40b) defining said flow path portions (42, 46), characterized in that said port walls (40a, 40b) of at least one of said inlet port and outlet port defining said chamber-communicating portion flare outwardly relative to an axis (50, 50') that is substantially perpendicular to said housing wall. a) a housing comprising a pair of walls (14, 16) defining a chamber between said walls (14, 16) and having a top peripheral edge and a bottom peripheral edge, wherein said housing walls (14, 16) are made of a flexible material.; b) a removal medium within said chamber; c) an inlet port carried by one of said pair of walls and an outlet port carried by the other of said pair of walls, wherein said inlet port is positioned closer to the top peripheral edge than to the bottom edge and the outlet port is positioned closer to the bottom peripheral edge, wherein said inlet port and said outlet port are positioned at diametrically opposed locations on their respective housing walls (14, 16); d) each of said ports (24, 26) defining a flow path, said flow path comprising a chamber-communicating portion and an adjacent portion wherein said chamber-communicating portion has a cross-section larger than the cross-section of said adjacent portion, and wherein said adjacent portion of said flow path is substantially parallel to said housing,
A self-propelled agricultural sprayer, comprising a supporting frame or chassis mounted on wheels and having mounted thereon at a front end thereof a driving cab and at the other end thereof a support structure carrying a spray boom, a tank for spray liquid being mounted to the rear of the cab, and a modular power supply unit being mounted between the tank and the support structure, characterised in that the spray boom is mounted on a boom mounting arm in the form of a rectangular frame pivotally mounted on the support structure, the support structure being upstanding from the chassis at a position just forward of the rear wheel axis, the pivoting of the rectangular frame on the support structure 8 being controlled by a pair of hydraulic rams 9, to enable the boom 10, detachably mounted on the rearmost part of the arm 7, to be raised and lowered.
A tocotrienol for use in the treatment of a Chlamydia infection, wherein said tocotrienol is administered for at least 3 days to a mammal in need of treatment.
Method for detecting cracks in an aircraft component or in a gas turbine component using an optical measurement device, characterised in that the optical measurement device comprises a distance sensor and an interferometer with a beam splitter, wherein the method comprises at least the following steps: a) guiding the measurement device towards the surface of the component at a defined distance, b) determination of geometric data of the component using an optical measurement method, wherein the optical measurement method is an interferometric method, wherein the geometric data is determined by means of white light interferometry, c) evaluation of the geometric data by an electronic evaluation means, wherein cracks and/or other damage being automatically detected and/or automatically classified, and the position of the cracks and/or of other damage being stored. a) guiding the measurement device towards the surface of the component at a defined distance, b) determination of geometric data of the component using an optical measurement method, wherein the optical measurement method is an interferometric method, wherein the geometric data is determined by means of white light interferometry, c) evaluation of the geometric data by an electronic evaluation means, wherein cracks and/or other damage being automatically detected and/or automatically classified, and the position of the cracks and/or of other damage being stored.
A component assembly comprising at least a combination of a functional rivet element having a flange section and a connection section, and a pressure plate, in particular a pressure plate having an opening, and a component, wherein the functional rivet element and the pressure plate are arranged on opposite sides of a hole in the component and are connected together via the connection section which extends through the hole by riveting in order to clamp a region of the component surrounding the hole between the flange section and the pressure plate, wherein the pressure side of the pressure plate confronting the component in the attached state is provided with a means for a form-fitting connection providing security against rotation, and wherein the pressure side has a contour which differs from a circular shape, characterized in that the component is a panel of composite material or a sheet metal.
A headlamp aiming system comprising: an aiming screen set at a predetermined position in front of a vehicle; a lamp unit configured to emit light onto the screen; a light axis displacement unit configured to displace the light axis of the lamp unit in at least one of the vehicle vertical direction and the vehicle horizontal direction; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a deviation between an attention area in a light distribution pattern formed on the aiming screen by the lamp unit and a reference area formed on the aiming screen that is to be matched to the attention area and for which a position is determined in accordance with a vehicle type; and a displacement control unit configured to control the light axis displacement unit such that the attention area is matched to the reference area using the deviation acquired by the information acquisition unit, wherein the attention area is an attention point defined on a cut-off line of the light distribution pattern, the cut-off line defined by the boundary between light and dark in the pattern; characterized in that: the reference area is a reference point projected on the aiming screen that is to be matched to the attention point, wherein the cut-off line on which the attention point is defined is formed in a light distribution pattern only used in aiming adjustment and having a right-angled-shaped portion or acute-angle-shaped portion. an aiming screen set at a predetermined position in front of a vehicle; a lamp unit configured to emit light onto the screen; a light axis displacement unit configured to displace the light axis of the lamp unit in at least one of the vehicle vertical direction and the vehicle horizontal direction; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a deviation between an attention area in a light distribution pattern formed on the aiming screen by the lamp unit and a reference area formed on the aiming screen that is to be matched to the attention area and for which a position is determined in accordance with a vehicle type; and a displacement control unit configured to control the light axis displacement unit such that the attention area is matched to the reference area using the deviation acquired by the information acquisition unit, wherein the attention area is an attention point defined on a cut-off line of the light distribution pattern, the cut-off line defined by the boundary between light and dark in the pattern; characterized in that: the reference area is a reference point projected on the aiming screen that is to be matched to the attention point, wherein the cut-off line on which the attention point is defined is formed in a light distribution pattern only used in aiming adjustment and having a right-angled-shaped portion or acute-angle-shaped portion. the reference area is a reference point projected on the aiming screen that is to be matched to the attention point, wherein the cut-off line on which the attention point is defined is formed in a light distribution pattern only used in aiming adjustment and having a right-angled-shaped portion or acute-angle-shaped portion.
A composition for use in treatment or prevention of infectious disease, wherein the treatment or prevention comprises administering the composition to an inoculation site in a subject and applying to the inoculation site an activating heat dose in the presence in the inoculation site of an effective concentration of the small-molecule regulator, wherein the composition comprises a replication-competent controlled herpesvirus whose genome comprises: (a) (i) a gene for a small-molecule regulator-activated transactivator, which gene is functionally linked to a heat shock promoter or to a heat shock promoter and a promoter that is activated by the transactivator, and (ii) one or more promoters that are activated by the transactivator which promoters are functionally linked to one or more replication-essential genes of the herpesvirus; or (b) (i) a gene for a small-molecule regulator-activated transactivator, which gene is functionally linked to a constitutively active promoter or a promoter that is activated by the transactivator, (ii) a heat shock promoter that is functionally linked to a first replication-essential gene of the herpesvirus and (iii) a promoter that is activated by the transactivator which promoter is functionally linked to a second replication-essential gene of the herpesvirus.. (a) (i) a gene for a small-molecule regulator-activated transactivator, which gene is functionally linked to a heat shock promoter or to a heat shock promoter and a promoter that is activated by the transactivator, and (ii) one or more promoters that are activated by the transactivator which promoters are functionally linked to one or more replication-essential genes of the herpesvirus; or (i) a gene for a small-molecule regulator-activated transactivator, which gene is functionally linked to a heat shock promoter or to a heat shock promoter and a promoter that is activated by the transactivator, and (ii) one or more promoters that are activated by the transactivator which promoters are functionally linked to one or more replication-essential genes of the herpesvirus; or (b) (i) a gene for a small-molecule regulator-activated transactivator, which gene is functionally linked to a constitutively active promoter or a promoter that is activated by the transactivator, (ii) a heat shock promoter that is functionally linked to a first replication-essential gene of the herpesvirus and (iii) a promoter that is activated by the transactivator which promoter is functionally linked to a second replication-essential gene of the herpesvirus.. (i) a gene for a small-molecule regulator-activated transactivator, which gene is functionally linked to a constitutively active promoter or a promoter that is activated by the transactivator, (ii) a heat shock promoter that is functionally linked to a first replication-essential gene of the herpesvirus and (iii) a promoter that is activated by the transactivator which promoter is functionally linked to a second replication-essential gene of the herpesvirus..
A system for providing enhanced graphics processing unit, GPU, performance and energy efficiency, comprising: a GPU operand register file; a first set of mechanisms configured to coalesce GPU register reads utilizing compiler-assisted hints to identify GPU register pairs in register pair information to pack related GPU registers together; and a second set of mechanisms configured to attempt to pack the identified GPU register pairs into the same physical register entry to increase coalescing opportunities during a runtime of the GPU, wherein a GPU register is allocated for the first time it appears as the destination of an instruction, and wherein said GPU register could be reallocated when its size changes and wherein when an allocation event occurs, the second mechanism checks the GPU register pair information to see if the GPU register is a GPU register pair and if it does, common pair allocation logic is used to pack said GPU register, and if the GPU register does not belong to a register pair, a default allocation policy is used. a GPU operand register file; a first set of mechanisms configured to coalesce GPU register reads utilizing compiler-assisted hints to identify GPU register pairs in register pair information to pack related GPU registers together; and a second set of mechanisms configured to attempt to pack the identified GPU register pairs into the same physical register entry to increase coalescing opportunities during a runtime of the GPU, wherein a GPU register is allocated for the first time it appears as the destination of an instruction, and wherein said GPU register could be reallocated when its size changes and wherein when an allocation event occurs, the second mechanism checks the GPU register pair information to see if the GPU register is a GPU register pair and if it does, common pair allocation logic is used to pack said GPU register, and if the GPU register does not belong to a register pair, a default allocation policy is used.
Cylindrical symmetric volumetric machine, which machine comprises a housing with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, with two co-operating rotors (6a, 6b) in the housing, namely an outer rotor which is mounted rotatably in the housing and an inner rotor which is mounted rotatably in the outer rotor, whereby liquid is injected in the machine, characterised in that on a level of the inner rotor and outer rotor at the outlet opening a liquid separation takes place, whereby the separated liquid ends up in the machine again, and in that the outer rotor has an axial extension on the level of the outlet opening which extends around this outlet opening almost up against the housing such that a space is located between the axial extension and the housing.
Hybrid cord for use as strength member in a belt bandage of a pneumatic vehicle tyre, composed of a high-modulus yarn having a certain yarn fineness and a low-modulus yarn, wherein the low-modulus yarn has a lower yarn fineness than the high-modulus yarn, wherein the two yarns are cabled together, wherein the low-modulus yarn has a fineness of not more than 550 dtex, wherein the high-modulus yarn has a fineness of not less than 1100 dtex, and wherein the low-modulus yarn consists of a polyamide or of a polyester, characterized in that the high-modulus yarn consists of carbon fibre, glass fibre or an aromatic polyamide, preferably of an aromatic polyamide, and in that the twist factor α of the cabling is in the range from 150 to 250, preferably in the range from 190 to 210.
A tissue engineered nerve graft for repairing peripheral nerve defect wherein it consists of a nerve conduit and a ECM, and wherein it has features that ECM is secreted by autologous or allogeneic cells and obtained via decellularization; and, wherein said nerve conduit is made up of biodegradable materials, which are either one alone or a combination of, the biodegradable materials being one or more of silk fibroin, chitosan, collagen, polylactic acid or polyglycolic acid, wherein the decellularized ECM is obtained by subjecting a support cells-containing tissue engineered nerve graft to cell lysis in a nonionic detergent consisting of 0.5% TritonX-100 and 20 mM aqueous ammonia for 10-15 min at 37 °C and in a nonionic detergent added with Dnase I (4mg/ml) for 30 min digestion at 37°C.
Use of at least one viscous compound, the viscosity of which is greater than 5 Pa.s -1, to substantially prevent the degradation of a sensitive substance comprised in a stable powder composition, said sensitive substance undergoing less than 20% degradation when said powder composition is subjected to temperatures of 60°C to 100°C and/or pressures of 2x10 6 to 10 7 Pa and/or a relative humidity of 60% to 100%, during the granulation step of said composition, said powder composition containing particles comprising: - a core containing said sensitive substance, at least one viscous compound as impregnating agent for the sensitive substance, and at least a support of the sensitive substance, and - a coating for the core, which contains at least one viscous compound as sticking agent, said viscous compounds being chosen from carboxymethyl cellulose, and the viscosity being measured using a BROOKFIELD viscometer, model LVDV-E fitted with a coaxial cylinder system, using spindles no. 18 or 31 depending on the viscosities, in a measurement chamber with a temperature controlled using a thermostated bath, these measurements being carried out at 20°C for aqueous solutions with 10% dry extract of the viscous compound, at different rotational speeds of the spindle of from 10 to 100 rpm, the retained viscosity values being the values obtained at the highest rotational speeds, integrating the limit values of the torsion torque (maximum 80%) of the device. - a core containing said sensitive substance, at least one viscous compound as impregnating agent for the sensitive substance, and at least a support of the sensitive substance, and - a coating for the core, which contains at least one viscous compound as sticking agent,
An ex vivo method for determining the susceptibility of a patient suffering from cancer to respond to a therapeutic treatment based on the administration of an antibody specific for the HER2 protein, this method comprising the quantification of HER2-HER2 dimers in a tissue sample from said patient, wherein: - said quantification is carried out by time resolved measurement of the fluorescence emitted by a pair of FRET partners brought into contact with said sample, the first member of this pair being directly or indirectly bonded to a first ligand capable of binding to a domain of the HER2 protein, the second member of this pair being directly or indirectly bonded to a second ligand capable of binding to the same domain of the HER2 protein as the first ligand, and in that - the patient is a patient for whom the result of the determination of HER2 expression by immunohistochemistry had proved to be negative. - said quantification is carried out by time resolved measurement of the fluorescence emitted by a pair of FRET partners brought into contact with said sample, the first member of this pair being directly or indirectly bonded to a first ligand capable of binding to a domain of the HER2 protein, the second member of this pair being directly or indirectly bonded to a second ligand capable of binding to the same domain of the HER2 protein as the first ligand, and in that - the patient is a patient for whom the result of the determination of HER2 expression by immunohistochemistry had proved to be negative.
A transmitting device for putting a signal in a radio frame in which a plurality of synchronization channels are multiplexed in a time direction and transmitting the signals, said device comprising a transmitting means configured for mapping a code to which a modulation using one radio frame as one cycle is applied on the synchronization channel and transmitting the code, wherein the applied modulation is either a phase rotation or a circular shift, the modulation is by an amount determined according to a position of the code in the radio frame, and the modulation is closed in the cycle of one radio frame.
A radio-frequency atomic magnetometer (100, 101) comprising: a laser; a photodetector; a vapor chamber, wherein the vapor chamber is in an optical path of laser light between the laser and photodetector; a circular polarizer configured to circularly polarize laser light emitted by the laser, characterized in that a circularly polarized laser beam is configured to both pump into an oriented state, spins of atoms in the vapor chamber, and to probe the atoms of the vapor chamber, wherein probing includes detecting a local radio frequency field; and a set of direct current field coils comprising at least one DC field coil, wherein the set of DC field coils is configured to generate a DC magnetic field oriented at 45 degrees relative to the optical axis of the laser light emitted by the laser and directed toward the vapor chamber; the set of DC field coils further configured to sweep the DC magnetic field strength. a laser; a photodetector; a vapor chamber, wherein the vapor chamber is in an optical path of laser light between the laser and photodetector; a circular polarizer configured to circularly polarize laser light emitted by the laser, characterized in that a circularly polarized laser beam is configured to both pump into an oriented state, spins of atoms in the vapor chamber, and to probe the atoms of the vapor chamber, wherein probing includes detecting a local radio frequency field; and a set of direct current field coils comprising at least one DC field coil, wherein the set of DC field coils is configured to generate a DC magnetic field oriented at 45 degrees relative to the optical axis of the laser light emitted by the laser and directed toward the vapor chamber; the set of DC field coils further configured to sweep the DC magnetic field strength.