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A tube docking device for docking a water-faring vessel to a structure carrying at least one fixed, upstanding post, the device comprising: - attachment means for attaching the device to a boat, bridge, gantry or another subject; - an elongate casing having a fixed proximal end and an opposing distal end; - a pair of jaw members; and - jaw actuation mechanism communicably coupled to said jaws, and configured to cause said jaws, in use, to close into a gripping configuration around a post; characterised in that the device comprises: - a floating shaft mounted within said casing for longitudinal movement therein between an extended position, in which it partially extends beyond the distal end of the casing, and a retracted position; and - a flexible sling member, coupled to and extending between said jaw members and/or rubber shoes or pads provided on the inner surface of said jaw members; and in that: - the jaw members are mounted at the end of said floating shaft and configured to be in an open configuration when said floating shaft is in said extended position; and - the jaw actuation mechanism is communicably coupled between said jaws and said casing, and configured to cause said jaws, in use, to close into a gripping configuration when said floating shaft is moved from said extended position to said retracted position upon propulsion thereof onto said post, such that said flexible sling and/or said rubber shoes or pads close around said post and is/are held there by jaw members. - attachment means for attaching the device to a boat, bridge, gantry or another subject; - an elongate casing having a fixed proximal end and an opposing distal end; - a pair of jaw members; and - jaw actuation mechanism communicably coupled to said jaws, and configured to cause said jaws, in use, to close into a gripping configuration around a post; - a floating shaft mounted within said casing for longitudinal movement therein between an extended position, in which it partially extends beyond the distal end of the casing, and a retracted position; and - a flexible sling member, coupled to and extending between said jaw members and/or rubber shoes or pads provided on the inner surface of said jaw members; - the jaw members are mounted at the end of said floating shaft and configured to be in an open configuration when said floating shaft is in said extended position; and - the jaw actuation mechanism is communicably coupled between said jaws and said casing, and configured to cause said jaws, in use, to close into a gripping configuration when said floating shaft is moved from said extended position to said retracted position upon propulsion thereof onto said post, such that said flexible sling and/or said rubber shoes or pads close around said post and is/are held there by jaw members.
A user equipment, comprising means for: receiving, at the user equipment, a request to provide a report of device to device discovery needs; reporting, by the user equipment, the device to device discovery needs to a network element, in response to receiving the request to provide the report of device to device discovery needs, wherein the reporting comprises requesting prioritization of participation of the user equipment in device to device discovery; determining, at the user equipment, that the device to device discovery needs have ended; and reporting, by the user equipment, to the network element that the device to device discovery needs have ended. receiving, at the user equipment, a request to provide a report of device to device discovery needs; reporting, by the user equipment, the device to device discovery needs to a network element, in response to receiving the request to provide the report of device to device discovery needs, wherein the reporting comprises requesting prioritization of participation of the user equipment in device to device discovery; determining, at the user equipment, that the device to device discovery needs have ended; and reporting, by the user equipment, to the network element that the device to device discovery needs have ended.
A method of treating a slurry comprising anaerobically digested organic material, wherein the anaerobically digested organic material is the digestate from a biogas plant, which comprises the steps of: a) obtaining an acidic slurry at a pH of below 7 by addition of an acidic material to the slurry comprising anaerobically digested organic material, if the slurry comprising anaerobically digested organic material is not already at a pH below 7, so that an acidic slurry at a pH below 7 is obtained, b) adding an oxidizing agent to the acidic slurry and allowing to react, c) adding an alkaline compound to the slurry obtained in b) to obtain a pH ≥ 8, d) adding a flocculating polymer to the slurry obtained in c), and e) separating the slurry obtained in d) into a liquid and solid phase, wherein the liquid phase obtained after step e) is subjected to a further increase of the pH above 10 before or during a subsequent ammonia stripping process. a) obtaining an acidic slurry at a pH of below 7 by addition of an acidic material to the slurry comprising anaerobically digested organic material, if the slurry comprising anaerobically digested organic material is not already at a pH below 7, so that an acidic slurry at a pH below 7 is obtained, b) adding an oxidizing agent to the acidic slurry and allowing to react, c) adding an alkaline compound to the slurry obtained in b) to obtain a pH ≥ 8, d) adding a flocculating polymer to the slurry obtained in c), and e) separating the slurry obtained in d) into a liquid and solid phase, wherein the liquid phase obtained after step e) is subjected to a further increase of the pH above 10 before or during a subsequent ammonia stripping process.
A method for determining a decay constant of a time-domain signal, said method comprising: mixing, in a digital or analog mixer, the time-domain signal with a local oscillator signal generated by a local oscillator, to generate a Fourier transformed time-domain signal comprising at least two frequency components, wherein the at least two frequency components are at a fundamental frequency of the local oscillator signal and at a frequency other than the fundamental frequency; determining the magnitude of each of the at least two frequency components at the fundamental frequency and at the other frequency; and characterized by determining a ratio of the magnitude of the at least two frequency components at the fundamental frequency and the other frequency; and determining the decay constant using a calibration curve or look-up table relating one or more ratios to the decay constant of the time-domain signal. mixing, in a digital or analog mixer, the time-domain signal with a local oscillator signal generated by a local oscillator, to generate a Fourier transformed time-domain signal comprising at least two frequency components, wherein the at least two frequency components are at a fundamental frequency of the local oscillator signal and at a frequency other than the fundamental frequency; determining the magnitude of each of the at least two frequency components at the fundamental frequency and at the other frequency; and characterized by determining a ratio of the magnitude of the at least two frequency components at the fundamental frequency and the other frequency; and determining the decay constant using a calibration curve or look-up table relating one or more ratios to the decay constant of the time-domain signal.
A communication interface for supporting communication between a wireless device (101, 102, 103) and a server over a low power wide area network, LPWAN, wherein the communication interface comprises: an untrusted execution part configured to operate in accordance with an LPWAN communication protocol stack including at least one secured LPWAN protocol using cryptographic primitives; a memory configured to store encrypted computer code and at least one encrypted cryptographic key (207, 208, 209), wherein the encrypted computer code and the at least one encrypted cryptographic key (207, 208, 209) are encrypted using a root secret; a trusted execution part incorporating the root secret configured to decrypt the encrypted computer code and the at least one encrypted cryptographic key (207, 208, 209) from the memory, wherein the trusted execution part is further configured to execute the cryptographic primitives of the at least one secured LPWAN protocol using the decrypted at least one cryptographic key and the decrypted computer code from the memory. an untrusted execution part configured to operate in accordance with an LPWAN communication protocol stack including at least one secured LPWAN protocol using cryptographic primitives; a memory configured to store encrypted computer code and at least one encrypted cryptographic key (207, 208, 209), wherein the encrypted computer code and the at least one encrypted cryptographic key (207, 208, 209) are encrypted using a root secret; a trusted execution part incorporating the root secret configured to decrypt the encrypted computer code and the at least one encrypted cryptographic key (207, 208, 209) from the memory, wherein the trusted execution part is further configured to execute the cryptographic primitives of the at least one secured LPWAN protocol using the decrypted at least one cryptographic key and the decrypted computer code from the memory.
A masonry wall structure formed by building up a plurality of blocks (10, 20, 30) in a top-bottom direction along a shaft member extending in a vertical direction, wherein each of the blocks (10, 20, 30) is integrated with the shaft member along the shaft member and has a front surface forming one side surface of the wall structure, a back surface forming the other side surface of the wall structure, a top surface provided between an upper end of the front surface and an upper end of the back surface, and a bottom surface (14, 24, 34) provided between a lower end of the front surface and a lower end of the back surface, at least one of the bottom surface (14, 24, 34) of an upper-side block and the top surface of a lower-side block that overlap each other has a pair of sealing materials (6a-6d) having elasticity along a front surface-side edge and a back surface-side edge, characterized in that the sealing materials (6a-6d) are paste-like, the masonry wall structure further comprising a filler filling in between the pair of paste-like sealing materials (6a-6d), wherein at least one of the top surface and the bottom surface (14, 24, 34) has a groove (14b, 24b, 34b), and the groove is filled with the filler, wherein each of the blocks (10, 20, 30) has a hole passing through the top surface and the bottom surface (14, 24, 34) of each block for inserting the shaft member, and wherein a gap produced between an inner wall of the hole and the shaft member is filled with the filler.
A dryer comprising: ∘ a casing including a basement having an upper shell and a lower shell, said upper and lower shells being apt to be connected together in order to form said basement, said casing delimiting an inner volume; ∘ a laundry chamber suitable to receive laundry to be dried; ∘ a process air circuit for circulating process air into said laundry chamber; ∘ a condensing device for removing moisture from the process air coming from said laundry chamber; ∘ a water collecting housing formed in said basement and located inside said inner volume for the collection of condensation water formed by said condensing device; ∘ a duct to channel condensation water formed at said condensing device to said water collecting housing defining an inlet in said water collecting housing; ∘ wherein said upper shell or said lower shell includes a cover to close said water collecting housing and said cover comprises a closable access aperture to access said water collecting housing; ∘ a water removing unit associated to said water collecting housing for the removal of water therein and comprising a pump unit coupled to said cover; characterized in that in a top view of said basement, said access aperture is located in said cover between said inlet and said pump unit. ∘ a casing including a basement having an upper shell and a lower shell, said upper and lower shells being apt to be connected together in order to form said basement, said casing delimiting an inner volume; ∘ a laundry chamber suitable to receive laundry to be dried; ∘ a process air circuit for circulating process air into said laundry chamber; ∘ a condensing device for removing moisture from the process air coming from said laundry chamber; ∘ a water collecting housing formed in said basement and located inside said inner volume for the collection of condensation water formed by said condensing device; ∘ a duct to channel condensation water formed at said condensing device to said water collecting housing defining an inlet in said water collecting housing; ∘ wherein said upper shell or said lower shell includes a cover to close said water collecting housing and said cover comprises a closable access aperture to access said water collecting housing; ∘ a water removing unit associated to said water collecting housing for the removal of water therein and comprising a pump unit coupled to said cover; characterized in that in a top view of said basement, said access aperture is located in said cover between said inlet and said pump unit.
A glass leaf comprising a glazing and a frame, said glazing comprising at least two translucent or opaque rigid panels (2, 3) substantially parallel to each other and attached to each other, distant from each other, by a peripheral bracing, in which glazing said two panels protrude from said bracing on at least one part of the periphery of said glazing by defining about said bracing a housing arranged to receive the frame between said two panels (2, 3), characterised in that it further comprises a joinery work surrounding said frame and a pressure holding device (22, 24) for holding pressure on the frame inside said joinery work.
Dextrans characterized in that they have between 95% and 99%, preferably between 97% and 98%, more preferably between 97.4% and 97.6%, of α-1,6 glucosidic bonds, a weight-average molar mass M w at least equal to 0.7×10 9 g.mol -1, and a dispersity index D i of between 1.3 and 3.
A packet transmission method, wherein the method is applied to a system comprising a first network device (PE 1) and a second network device (PE 2), the first network device (PE 1) is a device in a virtual private LAN service VPLS network, the second network device (PE 2) is a device in a virtual private wire service VPWS network, and the method comprises: Receiving, by the first network device (PE 1), a first packet by using a first VPLS instance in the first network device (PE 1), wherein the first packet is a packet to be sent to a first user-side device (PE 1) connected to the second network device (PE 2); Forwarding, by the first network device (PE 1) based on an association relationship between the first VPLS instance and a first VPWS instance in the first network device (PE 1), the first packet to a second VPWS instance in the second network device (PE 2) by using the first VPWS instance, wherein the first VPWS instance and the second VPWS instance are used to bear a same service. Receiving, by the first network device (PE 1), a first packet by using a first VPLS instance in the first network device (PE 1), wherein the first packet is a packet to be sent to a first user-side device (PE 1) connected to the second network device (PE 2); Forwarding, by the first network device (PE 1) based on an association relationship between the first VPLS instance and a first VPWS instance in the first network device (PE 1), the first packet to a second VPWS instance in the second network device (PE 2) by using the first VPWS instance, wherein the first VPWS instance and the second VPWS instance are used to bear a same service.
A process for plating chromium metal onto a substrate, said process comprising contacting the substrate with a plating solution comprising: (a) trivalent chromium ions; (b) sulphate or sulfonate ions; and (c) manganese ions; wherein the substrate is made a cathode and insoluble anodes are used; wherein the concentration of manganese ions is from 0.05 to 0.7 g/l. (a) trivalent chromium ions; (b) sulphate or sulfonate ions; and (c) manganese ions;
A physics package of an atomic sensor, the physics package comprising: a frame composed of metal and including a plurality of slender support members extending such that the plurality of slender support members are joined to form a three dimensional structure, the support members extend along boundaries between adjacent apertures defined in the frame, the plurality of support members including a plurality of mounting surfaces adjacent to the apertures; a plurality of panes attached to the mounting surfaces of the frame, the plurality of panes covering the apertures such that the frame and the plurality of panes define a vacuum chamber and provide light paths for intersecting with an atom cloud within the vacuum chamber; a chamber evacuation structure for evacuating the vacuum chamber; and a sample reservoir attached to an aperture defined by the frame. a frame composed of metal and including a plurality of slender support members extending such that the plurality of slender support members are joined to form a three dimensional structure, the support members extend along boundaries between adjacent apertures defined in the frame, the plurality of support members including a plurality of mounting surfaces adjacent to the apertures; a plurality of panes attached to the mounting surfaces of the frame, the plurality of panes covering the apertures such that the frame and the plurality of panes define a vacuum chamber and provide light paths for intersecting with an atom cloud within the vacuum chamber; a chamber evacuation structure for evacuating the vacuum chamber; and a sample reservoir attached to an aperture defined by the frame.
A method for ultrasound measurement and visualization of biological tissue elasticity in real time, the method comprising: applying a power ultrasound beam of waves to biological tissue along a predetermined axis to excite shear waves in the biological tissue, assigning a plurality of probing lines and transmitting a plurality of probing ultrasound pulses along each of the probing lines, receiving a plurality of ultrasound signals from the biological tissue generated in response to the plurality of probing ultrasound pulses, detecting the tissue displacements, which are caused by propagation of shear wave, in a plurality of sample volumes with different spatial location based on the received ultrasound response pulses, determining at least one parameter of elasticity of biological tissue, including the propagation velocity of shear wave, acquiring an image of at least one parameter of elasticity of biological tissue, determining the velocity of the shear wave front in a direction perpendicular to the axis of excitation, determining the velocity of the wave front along the axis of excitation, determining a noise level that occurred at the determining of said velocities of the wave front, determining the shear wave propagation velocity based on the said velocities of the wave front along and perpendicular to the axis of excitation; acquiring an image of at least one parameter of elasticity of biological tissue based on the determined shear wave propagation velocity and the noise level, and acquiring noise level image. applying a power ultrasound beam of waves to biological tissue along a predetermined axis to excite shear waves in the biological tissue, assigning a plurality of probing lines and transmitting a plurality of probing ultrasound pulses along each of the probing lines, receiving a plurality of ultrasound signals from the biological tissue generated in response to the plurality of probing ultrasound pulses, detecting the tissue displacements, which are caused by propagation of shear wave, in a plurality of sample volumes with different spatial location based on the received ultrasound response pulses, determining at least one parameter of elasticity of biological tissue, including the propagation velocity of shear wave, acquiring an image of at least one parameter of elasticity of biological tissue, determining the velocity of the shear wave front in a direction perpendicular to the axis of excitation, determining the velocity of the wave front along the axis of excitation, determining a noise level that occurred at the determining of said velocities of the wave front, determining the shear wave propagation velocity based on the said velocities of the wave front along and perpendicular to the axis of excitation; acquiring an image of at least one parameter of elasticity of biological tissue based on the determined shear wave propagation velocity and the noise level, and acquiring noise level image.
A driving-rule system suitable to operate an automated vehicle, said system comprising: a vehicle-detector suitable for use on a host-vehicle, said vehicle-detector used to detect movement of an other-vehicle proximate to the host-vehicle; and a controller in communication with the vehicle-detector, characterized in that said controller is configured to: operate the host-vehicle in accordance with a driving-rule, detect an observed-deviation of the driving-rule by the other-vehicle, and modify the driving-rule based on the observed-deviation. a vehicle-detector suitable for use on a host-vehicle, said vehicle-detector used to detect movement of an other-vehicle proximate to the host-vehicle; and a controller in communication with the vehicle-detector, characterized in that said controller is configured to: operate the host-vehicle in accordance with a driving-rule, detect an observed-deviation of the driving-rule by the other-vehicle, and modify the driving-rule based on the observed-deviation. operate the host-vehicle in accordance with a driving-rule, detect an observed-deviation of the driving-rule by the other-vehicle, and modify the driving-rule based on the observed-deviation.
A soft capsule system for encapsulating chemical compounds, wherein said capsule includes: a shell including water, plasticizer, a buffer and a starch selected from a modified starch and a native potato starch, and a gelling carrageenan, wherein the weight to weight ratio of starch to carrageenan is between 1.5 to 1 and 5 to 1; and a fill comprising at least one active ingredient dissolved or dispersed in at least one carrier, wherein the fill has a pH greater than 7.5, and an acidic agent, and wherein said at least one active ingredient comprises a highly basic active ingredient. a shell including water, plasticizer, a buffer and a starch selected from a modified starch and a native potato starch, and a gelling carrageenan, wherein the weight to weight ratio of starch to carrageenan is between 1.5 to 1 and 5 to 1; and a fill comprising at least one active ingredient dissolved or dispersed in at least one carrier, wherein the fill has a pH greater than 7.5, and an acidic agent, and wherein said at least one active ingredient comprises a highly basic active ingredient.
A method of producing an L-amino acid by a fermentation method, the method comprising: culturing a bacterium modified to have an ability to produce the L-amino acid and an ability to assimilate alginic acid in a culture medium containing alginic acid as a carbon source obtained from seaweed-derived biomass, or containing alginic acid as a carbon source obtained from seaweed-derived biomass which alginic acid is subjected to an enzymatic degradation reaction by an alginate lyase or an acid hydrolysis reaction, to produce and accumulate the L-amino acid in the culture medium in an amount of not less than 1.0 g/l; and collecting the L-amino acid from the culture medium.