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Method for preparing a mixture comprising grains of at least one species of the genus Theobroma and milled carob pods, characterised in that it comprises the steps of: - forming an initial mixture comprising said grains and, in an amount between 2.5 wt.% and 25 wt.% of the initial mixture, said milled carob pods, and - adding an alkaline composition to said initial mixture to obtain an alkalinised mixture. - forming an initial mixture comprising said grains and, in an amount between 2.5 wt.% and 25 wt.% of the initial mixture, said milled carob pods, and - adding an alkaline composition to said initial mixture to obtain an alkalinised mixture.
In a process for producing 1,2-propanediol by reacting a glycerol-containing feed with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenolysis catalyst effective for catalyzing the reaction, the improvement comprising using a glycerol-containing feed containing less than 5 weight percent of water, wherein the glycerol-containing feed consists of a product recycle portion from the process and a makeup portion of a virgin glycerol feed, said process further comprising a dewatering step to provide a glycerol-containing feed of the requisite dryness, performed on one or more of the crude product mixture from the hydrogenolysis reaction, a glycerol-containing fraction of the crude product mixture, the virgin glycerol feed or a combination of two or more of these, and wherein the glycerol-containing feed is produced by steps comprising limiting the per-pass conversion of glycerol in the hydrogenolysis to less than full conversion, distilling off overhead substantially all of the water and lighter byproducts in the resultant product mixture in a first, water removal column, passing the bottoms from the first, water removal column to a product recovery column wherein a saleable propylene glycol product of at least 95 percent purity is recovered overhead and the bottoms is used as the product recycle portion from the hydrogenolysis process.
A tissue embedding mold (14, 104) comprising a bottom wall (32, 110) and sidewalls (30, 112) defining an interior volume and a paraffin resistant material coating on a portion of the bottom wall (32, 110) and sidewalls (30, 112), the paraffin resistant material comprising a self-assembled monolayer of phosphates.
Actuation device for actuating the front derailleur of a bicycle, comprising: - a control pin, configured to be set in rotation by a control lever, rotatable about a rotation axis in a first angular direction between a first angular position and a last angular position and in a second angular direction between the last angular position and the first angular position, - a cable-winding bush angularly rotatable about said rotation axis in said first angular direction to wind a control cable between a first winding position and a last winding position and in said second angular direction to unwind said control cable between the last winding position and the first winding position, - an indexer configured to define a plurality of stop areas for the rotation of said control pin, each stop area corresponding to an angular position comprised between said first angular position and said last angular position of said control pin, - characterized by elastic members active between said control pin and said cable-winding bush configured to make the control pin fixedly connected to the cable-winding bush during rotations of the latter between the first winding position and the last winding position and between the last winding position and the first winding position and to make said control pin rotatable with respect to said cable-winding bush between the last winding position of the cable-winding bush and the last angular position of the control pin. - a control pin, configured to be set in rotation by a control lever, rotatable about a rotation axis in a first angular direction between a first angular position and a last angular position and in a second angular direction between the last angular position and the first angular position, - a cable-winding bush angularly rotatable about said rotation axis in said first angular direction to wind a control cable between a first winding position and a last winding position and in said second angular direction to unwind said control cable between the last winding position and the first winding position, - an indexer configured to define a plurality of stop areas for the rotation of said control pin, each stop area corresponding to an angular position comprised between said first angular position and said last angular position of said control pin, - characterized by elastic members active between said control pin and said cable-winding bush configured to make the control pin fixedly connected to the cable-winding bush during rotations of the latter between the first winding position and the last winding position and between the last winding position and the first winding position and to make said control pin rotatable with respect to said cable-winding bush between the last winding position of the cable-winding bush and the last angular position of the control pin.
A method of controlling of weft insertion in a shed on an air-jet weaving machine, during which a weft thread is during its passage through the shed acted upon by an auxiliary air flow from relay nozzles, whereby weft arrival times are monitored and according to them parameters of the action of the auxiliary air flow from the relay nozzles during the next insertion are adjusted, characterized in that the statistical mean value and the statistical deviation from this mean value is determined on the basis of the weft arrival times during a number (n) of successive weft insertions for each section of the relay nozzles along the weft insertion length, whereby the mean value is used for setting the mean value of the interval of the engagement of each section of the relay nozzles to support insertion depending on the angle of the working cycle of the machine and the value of the statistical deviation is multiplied by coverage factor ( k) of probability ( p) of weft arrival and this multiplied value is used for setting the start and the end of the interval of the engagement of each section of the relay nozzles to support insertion depending on the angle of the working cycle of the machine, and so the moments of the start and the end, and therefore the length of the engagement of the individual sections of the relay nozzles are adaptively and automatically adjusted on the basis of the statistics of the weft arrival times of the determined number (n) of the previous insertions, which allows adaptive optimization of compressed air consumption and energy intensity in accordance with the current actual conditions on the machine.
A process for producing a catalyst support comprising alumina core particulate having high porosity of at least 0.2 cc/g, a surface area of greater than 20 m 2 /g, and having silica cladding on the surface area of said alumina core particulate, wherein the catalyst support has from 1 to 5 weight percent silica in the form of a silica cladding and has a sulfur tolerance efficiency (η) of at least 1000 μg/m 2, as defined by the formula: η = NSU o - NSU s fs wherein (NSUs) is the normalized sulfur uptake of a silica clad alumina core particulate; (NSUo) is the normalized sulfur uptake of said alumina core particulate in an unclad state; fs is the fraction of silica with respect to the alumina particulate; and NSU is defined by the formula: NSU = S ⁢ U w ⁢ t % 100 × S ⁢ A where SU is the sulfur uptake in weight percent measured after 120 minutes of time-on-stream, and SA is the BET surface area of the sample; which process comprises forming an aqueous slurry comprising from 5 to 50 weight percent of alumina particulate; heating said slurry to a temperature of 50 to 100°C; contacting said slurry with an aqueous solution having from 1 to 30 weight percent of a water-soluble silicate to form a mixture thereof; maintaining said mixture at a temperature of 50° to 100°C for a period of from 1 to 120 minutes; substantially uniformly adding a water-soluble acid to said mixture to achieve a pH of from 7 to 8 over a period of from 1 to 240 minutes from commencement of the acid addition and any further amount of acid sufficient to cause the resultant mixture to have a pH of from 5 to 8; washing using hot water or an aqueous solution of a water-soluble ammonium salt, calcining the resultant product at a temperature from 400 to 1000°C and recovering the catalyst support.
A method for operating a transmitting device, wherein the transmitting device is a relay user equipment, relay UE, the method comprising: receiving, by the transmitting device, a first packet data convergence protocol, PDCP, protocol data unit, PDU, associated with a first remote device, RD, from the first RD, the first PDCP PDU including at least a first PDCP header; generating, by the transmitting device, a first nested PDCP PDU in accordance with the first PDCP PDU, the first nested PDCP PDU including a second PDCP header and the first PDCP PDU, the second PDCP header comprising a first PDU type indicator indicating that the first nested PDCP PDU includes the first PDCP PDU and a first identifier associated with the first RD; sending, by the transmitting device, the first nested PDCP PDU on a single radio bearer to an eNB; receiving, by the transmitting device, a second PDCP PDU, the second PDCP PDU including at least a third PDCP header; generating, by the transmitting device, a second nested PDCP PDU in accordance with the second PDCP PDU, wherein the second PDCP PDU is received from a second RD, and wherein the second nested PDCP PDU comprises fourth PDCP header and the second PDCP PDU, the fourth PDCP header includes a second PDU type indicator indicating that the second nested PDCP PDU includes a second relayed PDCP PDU and a second identifier associated with the second RD; and sending, by the transmitting device, the second nested PDCP PDU aggregated with the first nested PDCP PDU on the single radio bearer to the eNB. receiving, by the transmitting device, a first packet data convergence protocol, PDCP, protocol data unit, PDU, associated with a first remote device, RD, from the first RD, the first PDCP PDU including at least a first PDCP header; generating, by the transmitting device, a first nested PDCP PDU in accordance with the first PDCP PDU, the first nested PDCP PDU including a second PDCP header and the first PDCP PDU, the second PDCP header comprising a first PDU type indicator indicating that the first nested PDCP PDU includes the first PDCP PDU and a first identifier associated with the first RD; sending, by the transmitting device, the first nested PDCP PDU on a single radio bearer to an eNB; receiving, by the transmitting device, a second PDCP PDU, the second PDCP PDU including at least a third PDCP header; generating, by the transmitting device, a second nested PDCP PDU in accordance with the second PDCP PDU, wherein the second PDCP PDU is received from a second RD, and wherein the second nested PDCP PDU comprises fourth PDCP header and the second PDCP PDU, the fourth PDCP header includes a second PDU type indicator indicating that the second nested PDCP PDU includes a second relayed PDCP PDU and a second identifier associated with the second RD; and sending, by the transmitting device, the second nested PDCP PDU aggregated with the first nested PDCP PDU on the single radio bearer to the eNB.
A method (100") for evaluating a weight of a vehicle, the method comprises: obtaining during a learning period and by vehicle sensors, vehicle sensor measurements regarding driving sessions of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle sensor measurement comprise (a) height measurements of paths related to the driving sessions, (b) fuel consumption measurements related to the driving sessions, (c) length measurements of the of road segments related to the driving sessions; and (d) velocity measurements related to the driving sessions; and calculating, based on the vehicle sensor measurements, an evaluated weight of the vehicle; wherein the calculating is based on values of energy coefficients that are indicative of energy wasted by the vehicle; characterized in that the calculating comprises (a) searching for values of the energy coefficients that provide at least one distribution related to weight estimates of the vehicle, the at least one distribution fulfills at least one predefined statistical significance criterion; and (b) determining weight estimates for each path segment of the plurality of path segments and for different values of the energy coefficients. obtaining during a learning period and by vehicle sensors, vehicle sensor measurements regarding driving sessions of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle sensor measurement comprise (a) height measurements of paths related to the driving sessions, (b) fuel consumption measurements related to the driving sessions, (c) length measurements of the of road segments related to the driving sessions; and (d) velocity measurements related to the driving sessions; and calculating, based on the vehicle sensor measurements, an evaluated weight of the vehicle; wherein the calculating is based on values of energy coefficients that are indicative of energy wasted by the vehicle; characterized in that the calculating comprises (a) searching for values of the energy coefficients that provide at least one distribution related to weight estimates of the vehicle, the at least one distribution fulfills at least one predefined statistical significance criterion; and (b) determining weight estimates for each path segment of the plurality of path segments and for different values of the energy coefficients.
A power adjuster for adjust the position of a first track relative to a second track of a seat track assembly comprising: a lead screw adapted to be fixedly secured to said second track; a drive assembly operatively able to be coupled to said first track and selectively coupled to said lead screw; a driven assembly operatively coupled to said lead screw and selectively coupled to said drive assembly; and a release mechanism able to be coupled to said first track and operable between a locked condition coupling said driven assembly to said drive assembly and said first track wherein said driven assembly and said drive assembly move longitudinally along said lead screw with said first track relative to said second track and an unlocked condition wherein said driven assembly is capable to be decoupled from said first track and retained along said lead screw during movement of said first track relative to said second track. a lead screw adapted to be fixedly secured to said second track; a drive assembly operatively able to be coupled to said first track and selectively coupled to said lead screw; a driven assembly operatively coupled to said lead screw and selectively coupled to said drive assembly; and a release mechanism able to be coupled to said first track and operable between a locked condition coupling said driven assembly to said drive assembly and said first track wherein said driven assembly and said drive assembly move longitudinally along said lead screw with said first track relative to said second track and an unlocked condition wherein said driven assembly is capable to be decoupled from said first track and retained along said lead screw during movement of said first track relative to said second track.
A composition comprising a micelle for use in biological applications, the micelle comprising: a substantially water-insoluble polymer which has alternating single and double bonds between carbon atoms on a polymer backbone which exhibits luminescence or fluorescence from about 300 nm to about 1500 nm of the electromagnetic spectrum: a surfactant and/or lipid which is substantially soluble in water or aqueous solution and does not cause toxic effects to biological material: and a MRI active agent. a substantially water-insoluble polymer which has alternating single and double bonds between carbon atoms on a polymer backbone which exhibits luminescence or fluorescence from about 300 nm to about 1500 nm of the electromagnetic spectrum: a surfactant and/or lipid which is substantially soluble in water or aqueous solution and does not cause toxic effects to biological material: and a MRI active agent. a surfactant and/or lipid which is substantially soluble in water or aqueous solution and does not cause toxic effects to biological material: and a MRI active agent.
A conveyance mechanism comprising: a trough (10, 10A, 10B) that conveys an article; a support member to which the trough is detachably coupled, the support member including a vibrator that vibrates the trough; and a coupling member that couples the trough and the support member, wherein the trough includes a first abutting member that is located on a back side of a conveyance face for conveyance of the article and abuts on the support member, the support member includes a second abutting member that is plate-shaped and has a second circumferential edge vertically identical to a first circumferential edge that is a circumferential edge of the first abutting member, the coupling member couples the trough and the support member by fastening the first abutting member and the second abutting member with the first circumferential edge and the second circumferential edge in superposition, the second abutting member is provided with a through hole passing through the second abutting member characterised in that the second abutting member includes, in a coupling state where the second abutting member is coupled to the first abutting member by the coupling member, an abutting face abutting on the first abutting member and a nonabutting face spaced apart from the first abutting member, and at least part of the through hole is provided at the non-abutting face. a trough (10, 10A, 10B) that conveys an article; a support member to which the trough is detachably coupled, the support member including a vibrator that vibrates the trough; and a coupling member that couples the trough and the support member, wherein the trough includes a first abutting member that is located on a back side of a conveyance face for conveyance of the article and abuts on the support member, the support member includes a second abutting member that is plate-shaped and has a second circumferential edge vertically identical to a first circumferential edge that is a circumferential edge of the first abutting member, the coupling member couples the trough and the support member by fastening the first abutting member and the second abutting member with the first circumferential edge and the second circumferential edge in superposition, the second abutting member is provided with a through hole passing through the second abutting member characterised in that the second abutting member includes, in a coupling state where the second abutting member is coupled to the first abutting member by the coupling member, an abutting face abutting on the first abutting member and a nonabutting face spaced apart from the first abutting member, and at least part of the through hole is provided at the non-abutting face.
An aerosol-generating device configured for combination with an aerosol-generating article, the aerosol-generating device comprising: an electrical power supply; an electronic photosensor configured to sense an optical property of a portion of an aerosol-generating article when the aerosol-generating article is combined with the aerosol-generating device; and a controller configured to repeatedly measure a value of the sensed optical property when the aerosol-generating device is operated in combination with an aerosol-generating article, the controller configured to control a supply of electrical power from the electrical power supply to an aerosol-generating element when the value of the sensed optical property is within a first range, wherein the controller is configured to prevent a supply of electrical power from the electrical power supply to the aerosol-generating element when the value of the sensed optical property is outside the first range. an electrical power supply; an electronic photosensor configured to sense an optical property of a portion of an aerosol-generating article when the aerosol-generating article is combined with the aerosol-generating device; and a controller configured to repeatedly measure a value of the sensed optical property when the aerosol-generating device is operated in combination with an aerosol-generating article, the controller configured to control a supply of electrical power from the electrical power supply to an aerosol-generating element when the value of the sensed optical property is within a first range, wherein the controller is configured to prevent a supply of electrical power from the electrical power supply to the aerosol-generating element when the value of the sensed optical property is outside the first range.
Backrest for a vehicle seat, having a load-bearing backrest structure of shell type of construction and having a design shell which covers at least the rear side of the backrest structure, wherein an opening is provided in the backrest structure, the opening is delimited by two side parts of the backrest structure, and the width of the opening amounts to at least 50% of the maximum width of the backrest structure, wherein backrest structure, in a region which in the vertical direction (z) is arranged approximately at the level of the shoulders of a seat occupant, is constricted to form a web, and in the transverse direction (y), the width of the web amounts to less than half of the maximum width of the backrest structure.
A method for identifying a location of a striker that strikes an object, the method comprising: receiving a request from a mobile computing device operated by the striker located in a striking area having space for two or more strikers to strike objects into a target area, wherein the mobile computing device is positioned within the striking area, and wherein the mobile computing device comprises a display and a microphone; initiating, in response to the request, an audio recording by the microphone of the mobile computing device; identifying a physical location in the striking area and a first strike time determination for the object struck from the striking area based on sensor observations of the object in flight between the striking area and the target area; identifying a second strike time determination in the audio recording; and associating the physical location in the striking area for the object, which has been identified based on the sensor observations, with the mobile computing device for the striker when the second strike time determination is matched with the first strike time determination. receiving a request from a mobile computing device operated by the striker located in a striking area having space for two or more strikers to strike objects into a target area, wherein the mobile computing device is positioned within the striking area, and wherein the mobile computing device comprises a display and a microphone; initiating, in response to the request, an audio recording by the microphone of the mobile computing device; identifying a physical location in the striking area and a first strike time determination for the object struck from the striking area based on sensor observations of the object in flight between the striking area and the target area; identifying a second strike time determination in the audio recording; and associating the physical location in the striking area for the object, which has been identified based on the sensor observations, with the mobile computing device for the striker when the second strike time determination is matched with the first strike time determination.