mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A contoured reflective microstructure for a projection screen, comprising: a substrate; and a plurality of generating kernels distributed over at least one surface of the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of generating kernels has a topographical shape operable to substantially eliminate secondary reflections of light within a predetermined incident angle range, and wherein at least two of the plurality of generating kernels are overlapping and at least one of the overlapping generating kernels is disposed to pre-correct for an offset resulting from an overlapping adjacent generating kernel. a substrate; and a plurality of generating kernels distributed over at least one surface of the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of generating kernels has a topographical shape operable to substantially eliminate secondary reflections of light within a predetermined incident angle range, and wherein at least two of the plurality of generating kernels are overlapping and at least one of the overlapping generating kernels is disposed to pre-correct for an offset resulting from an overlapping adjacent generating kernel.
An organic semiconductor element to be connected to a pair of electrodes (16, 17), comprising: an organic semiconductor film formed from single crystal of an organic semiconductor; a doped layer formed in a surface of the organic semiconductor film; and a dopant film, formed on the surface of the organic semiconductor film for supplying carriers to the surface of the organic semiconductor film to form the doped layer, characterized in that the organic semiconductor film is a resistance element through which a gage current flows when a voltage is applied between the pair of electrodes (16, 17) which are electrically connected through the doped layer, and the dopant film is composed of an anion or a cation having a closed shell structure adsorbed on the surface of the organic semiconductor film. an organic semiconductor film formed from single crystal of an organic semiconductor; a doped layer formed in a surface of the organic semiconductor film; and a dopant film, formed on the surface of the organic semiconductor film for supplying carriers to the surface of the organic semiconductor film to form the doped layer, characterized in that the organic semiconductor film is a resistance element through which a gage current flows when a voltage is applied between the pair of electrodes (16, 17) which are electrically connected through the doped layer, and the dopant film is composed of an anion or a cation having a closed shell structure adsorbed on the surface of the organic semiconductor film.
An apparatus (100, 400, 500, 600, 900, 1000) for learning by physical demonstration, comprising: a first glove (102, 402, 502, 602) to fit a human hand of a trainer, the first glove comprising: a palm-side outer surface (120, 520, 620); a dorsal-side outer surface (118, 418, 518, 618) opposite from the palm-side outer surface; and one or more finger portion adapted to at least partially enclose a respective finger; and characterized that the apparatus further comprising: a second glove (104, 404, 504, 604) to fit a human hand of a trainee, the second glove comprising: a palm-side outer surface; a dorsal-side outer surface opposite from the palm-side outer surface (134, 434, 534, 634); and one or more finger portions adapted to at least partially enclose a respective finger, wherein the second glove is coupled to the first glove by an attachment mechanism that causes the hand of the trainee to mimic movements made by the hand of the trainer, and wherein seams of the first glove or the second glove are located only on an outer surface of the first glove or second glove, respectively. a second glove (104, 404, 504, 604) to fit a human hand of a trainee, the second glove comprising: a palm-side outer surface; a dorsal-side outer surface opposite from the palm-side outer surface (134, 434, 534, 634); and one or more finger portions adapted to at least partially enclose a respective finger, wherein the second glove is coupled to the first glove by an attachment mechanism that causes the hand of the trainee to mimic movements made by the hand of the trainer, and wherein seams of the first glove or the second glove are located only on an outer surface of the first glove or second glove, respectively.
A process for obtaining a solid composite propellant, comprising: - the production of a paste by blending, in a mixer, a mixture containing from 5 to 15 wt.% of a liquid hydroxytelechelic polybutadiene, from 60 to 75 wt.% of an oxidizing charge of ammonium perchlorate, from 15 to 20 wt.% of a reducing charge of aluminum, and less than 5 wt.%, of at least one agent for crosslinking said liquid hydroxytelechelic polybutadiene in an amount such that the NCO/OH bridging ratio is between 0.8 and 1.1, is advantageously 1, at least one plasticizer and at least one additive; - pouring of the paste obtained into a mold; - thermal crosslinking of said paste in said mold; said oxidizing charge of ammonium perchlorate in said paste resulting from the introduction, into said mixer, separately or as a mixture, of at least: + a first charge whose monomodal particle size distribution has a D 10 value of between 100 μm and 110 μm, a D 50 value of between 170 μm and 220 μm and a D 90 value of between 315 μm and 340 μm, and + a second charge whose monomodal particle size distribution has a D 10 value of between 15 μm and 20 μm, a D 50 value of between 60 μm and 120 μm and a D 90 value of between 185 μm and 220 μm; and, optionally, + a third charge whose monomodal particle size distribution has a D 10 value of between 1.7 μm and 3.6 μm, a D 50 value of between 6 μm and 12 μm and a D 90 value of between 20 μm and 32 μm; said reducing charge of aluminum having a median diameter of less than or equal to 40 μm; the solid composite propellant obtained having, over an operating pressure range from 3 to 10 MPa, a rate of combustion between 6 and 12 mm/s and a pressure exponent between 0.15 and 0.4 and advantageously between 0.2 and 0.4 and the combustion of said solid propellant generating less than 15% and generally between 2% and 10% by volume of alumina particles greater than 10 μm in diameter. - the production of a paste by blending, in a mixer, a mixture containing from 5 to 15 wt.% of a liquid hydroxytelechelic polybutadiene, from 60 to 75 wt.% of an oxidizing charge of ammonium perchlorate, from 15 to 20 wt.% of a reducing charge of aluminum, and less than 5 wt.%, of at least one agent for crosslinking said liquid hydroxytelechelic polybutadiene in an amount such that the NCO/OH bridging ratio is between 0.8 and 1.1, is advantageously 1, at least one plasticizer and at least one additive; - pouring of the paste obtained into a mold; - thermal crosslinking of said paste in said mold; + a first charge whose monomodal particle size distribution has a D 10 value of between 100 μm and 110 μm, a D 50 value of between 170 μm and 220 μm and a D 90 value of between 315 μm and 340 μm, and + a second charge whose monomodal particle size distribution has a D 10 value of between 15 μm and 20 μm, a D 50 value of between 60 μm and 120 μm and a D 90 value of between 185 μm and 220 μm; and, optionally, + a third charge whose monomodal particle size distribution has a D 10 value of between 1.7 μm and 3.6 μm, a D 50 value of between 6 μm and 12 μm and a D 90 value of between 20 μm and 32 μm;
A process for mineral carbonation, which process comprises the steps of: providing a bed of hydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral particles in a heating vessel; agitating the bed of particles under conditions of a sub-atmospheric pressure and at a temperature of at least 600°C, preferably in the range 600-680°C, to produce particles of dehydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral; and reacting the dehydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral with carbon dioxide, carbonate ions and/or bicarbonate ions to form magnesium carbonate; wherein the sub-atmospheric pressure is generated, partly or in full, by a condensing heat exchanger, which condenses steam produced during production of the dehydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral. providing a bed of hydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral particles in a heating vessel; agitating the bed of particles under conditions of a sub-atmospheric pressure and at a temperature of at least 600°C, preferably in the range 600-680°C, to produce particles of dehydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral; and reacting the dehydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral with carbon dioxide, carbonate ions and/or bicarbonate ions to form magnesium carbonate; wherein the sub-atmospheric pressure is generated, partly or in full, by a condensing heat exchanger, which condenses steam produced during production of the dehydroxylated magnesium silicate mineral.
Use of Lys-C for proteolytically processing a single-chain botulinum neurotoxin serotype A (BoNT/A) by hydrolysis to produce di-chain botulinum neurotoxin serotype A (BoNT/A).
A compound of Formula Id for use in a method of treating fatty liver disease, the method comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of the compound of Formula Id, thereby treating the fatty liver disease, wherein the compound of Formula Id has the structure: wherein each R 1a is independently H, C 1-6 alkyl, halogen, or C 1-6 haloalkyl; R 2 is H, or C 1-6 alkyl; and each R 4 is H, C 1-6 alkyl, halogen, or C 1-6 haloalkyl; or is a salt thereof. each R 1a is independently H, C 1-6 alkyl, halogen, or C 1-6 haloalkyl; R 2 is H, or C 1-6 alkyl; and each R 4 is H, C 1-6 alkyl, halogen, or C 1-6 haloalkyl; or is a salt thereof.
A computer implemented method for disentangling discriminative features of a user of a device from motion signals captured by a mobile device having one or more motion sensors, comprising: providing, at a processor, one or more captured motion signals captured by the mobile device; dividing, with the processor, each captured motion signal into segments; converting, with the processor using one or more trained translation algorithms, the segments into translated segments, wherein the one or more trained translation algorithms comprise one or more Cycle-consistent Generative Adversarial Networks (Cycle-GANs), and wherein the translated segments comprise synthetic motion signals that simulate motion signals originating from another device; providing, with the processor, the segments and the translated segments as inputs to a machine learning system; and extracting, with the processor using the machine learning system that applies one or more feature extraction algorithms, discriminative features of the user from the segments and translated segments. providing, at a processor, one or more captured motion signals captured by the mobile device; dividing, with the processor, each captured motion signal into segments; converting, with the processor using one or more trained translation algorithms, the segments into translated segments, wherein the one or more trained translation algorithms comprise one or more Cycle-consistent Generative Adversarial Networks (Cycle-GANs), and wherein the translated segments comprise synthetic motion signals that simulate motion signals originating from another device; providing, with the processor, the segments and the translated segments as inputs to a machine learning system; and extracting, with the processor using the machine learning system that applies one or more feature extraction algorithms, discriminative features of the user from the segments and translated segments.
A computer system for the secure management of digital information implementing probative value traceability of that digital information, the system in particular being usable in the field of digital archiving, and comprising: - means for producing digital information; - means for preserving digital information; - means for distributing and consuming digital information; - means for the traceability of digital information including an event log of events relative to digital information and detection means able to detect each event relative to each item of digital information preserved in the preservation means, to record that event in the event log; wherein the detection means are further able to detect each event relative to each item of digital information during the production thereof by the production means and during the distribution or consumption thereof by the distribution and consumption means, to record that event in the event log that is shared between the production means, the preservation means and the distribution and consumption means; the system being characterized in that the traceability means further include a securing module making it possible to secure the event log, the securing module being able to present the event log in the form of a sequence of computer files (30A,...,30N), each following computer file (30A,...,30N) comprising a header (32A,...,32N) including an imprint of a preceding computer file and a body (34A,...,34N) including records corresponding to at least certain events detected by the detection means. - means for producing digital information; - means for preserving digital information; - means for distributing and consuming digital information; - means for the traceability of digital information including an event log of events relative to digital information and detection means able to detect each event relative to each item of digital information preserved in the preservation means, to record that event in the event log;
A window or a door having a frame (13, 13') and having a leaf (15, 15', 15") which is movable with respect to the frame (13, 13') and which has a leaf frame (17, 17a, 17b) and a glass element (19, 19a, 19b) held thereby, wherein the leaf (15, 15', 15") can selectively be fixed at the frame (13, 13') by a closing arrangement; wherein the closing arrangement has at least one individual modular closure (37, 47, 57) which can be actuated by means of an operating element; and wherein the operating element is formed by a region of the leaf frame (17, 17a, 17b) itself, wherein the individual modular closure has a device for reinforcing the latching which counteracts an opening movement of a latch of the individual modular closure on a pressure exerted onto an outer side of the leaf; wherein the leaf frame comprises an inner leaf frame and an outer leaf frame movable relative thereto and the device for reinforcing the latching can be activated by a movement of the outer leaf frame in the direction of the inner leaf frame; and wherein a locking element which can be moved along with the outer leaf frame is provided to firmly hold a latch mechanism of the individual modular closure in a closed position when the outer leaf frame is moved in the direction of the inner leaf frame.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium with instructions executed by a processor to: intercept a statement at a master machine or a machine delegated to receive statements sent to the master machine, wherein the statement is a distributed storage and distributed processing statement from a client machine; evaluate tokens associated with the statement to selectively identify a pattern match of connection pattern tokens, login pattern tokens and query pattern tokens; trap the statement if there is a pattern match, otherwise forward the statement without modification; form altered tokens for the trapped statement in response to the pattern match to form a revised statement, wherein the revised statement is produced in response to application of a connection policy, a login policy and a data access policy, wherein the revised statement maintains computation, logic and procedure of the statement, but alters parameters of the statement as specified by a policy rule; process the statement at the master machine to devise a query plan; deploy the query plan to a plurality of worker machines; combine results from the plurality of worker machines to produce a response; and supply the response to the client machine. intercept a statement at a master machine or a machine delegated to receive statements sent to the master machine, wherein the statement is a distributed storage and distributed processing statement from a client machine; evaluate tokens associated with the statement to selectively identify a pattern match of connection pattern tokens, login pattern tokens and query pattern tokens; trap the statement if there is a pattern match, otherwise forward the statement without modification; form altered tokens for the trapped statement in response to the pattern match to form a revised statement, wherein the revised statement is produced in response to application of a connection policy, a login policy and a data access policy, wherein the revised statement maintains computation, logic and procedure of the statement, but alters parameters of the statement as specified by a policy rule; process the statement at the master machine to devise a query plan; deploy the query plan to a plurality of worker machines; combine results from the plurality of worker machines to produce a response; and supply the response to the client machine.
A system for characterizing at least one anatomical parameter of an upper airway of a patient by analysing spectral properties of an utterance, comprising: - a mechanical coupler comprising a mouthpiece configured to restrict the jaw position of the patient; - means configured to record an utterance; and - processing means for determining at least one anatomical parameter of the upper airway from the recorded utterance and comparing the anatomical parameter to a threshold value; characterized in that said processing means is configured to provide real-time feedback; wherein said at least one anatomical parameter is the cross-section of said upper airway and wherein said system further comprises means for determining at least one point of time when said cross-section is maximal during an utterance; and wherein the system comprises means configured to deliver at least one respiratory drug through said upper airway of the patient; wherein said respiratory drug delivering means comprises a timing mechanism; wherein said respiratory drug delivering means is adapted to deliver the at least one respiratory drug at said at least one point of time when said cross-section of the upper airway is maximal. - a mechanical coupler comprising a mouthpiece configured to restrict the jaw position of the patient; - means configured to record an utterance; and - processing means for determining at least one anatomical parameter of the upper airway from the recorded utterance and comparing the anatomical parameter to a threshold value; characterized in that said processing means is configured to provide real-time feedback; wherein said at least one anatomical parameter is the cross-section of said upper airway and wherein said system further comprises means for determining at least one point of time when said cross-section is maximal during an utterance; and wherein the system comprises means configured to deliver at least one respiratory drug through said upper airway of the patient; wherein said respiratory drug delivering means comprises a timing mechanism; wherein said respiratory drug delivering means is adapted to deliver the at least one respiratory drug at said at least one point of time when said cross-section of the upper airway is maximal. characterized in that said processing means is configured to provide real-time feedback; wherein said at least one anatomical parameter is the cross-section of said upper airway and wherein said system further comprises means for determining at least one point of time when said cross-section is maximal during an utterance; and wherein the system comprises means configured to deliver at least one respiratory drug through said upper airway of the patient; wherein said respiratory drug delivering means comprises a timing mechanism; wherein said respiratory drug delivering means is adapted to deliver the at least one respiratory drug at said at least one point of time when said cross-section of the upper airway is maximal.
A computer implemented method for affinity load balancing comprising: receiving a task request on a first server (106 1) of a plurality of servers (106 1 -106 n), wherein a task associated with the task request is associated with a task weight that represents at least one of processing power, processing time, or bandwidth required to perform the task, and wherein the task associated with the task request is to be performed on a first device (110 1) of a plurality of devices (110 1 -110 n); extracting a task type and a device identifier from the task request; determining whether a second server (106 2) of the plurality of servers (106 1 -106 n) has acquired an affinity for the task type, wherein the first server (106 1) is different from the second server (106 2); determining whether an affinity weight limit has been reached on the first server (106 1); and acquiring the affinity for the task type by the first server (106 1) when it is determined the second server (106 2) of the plurality of servers (106 1 -106 n) has not acquired an affinity for the task type and when it is determined the first server(106 1) has not exceeded the affinity weight limit. receiving a task request on a first server (106 1) of a plurality of servers (106 1 -106 n), wherein a task associated with the task request is associated with a task weight that represents at least one of processing power, processing time, or bandwidth required to perform the task, and wherein the task associated with the task request is to be performed on a first device (110 1) of a plurality of devices (110 1 -110 n); extracting a task type and a device identifier from the task request; determining whether a second server (106 2) of the plurality of servers (106 1 -106 n) has acquired an affinity for the task type, wherein the first server (106 1) is different from the second server (106 2); determining whether an affinity weight limit has been reached on the first server (106 1); and acquiring the affinity for the task type by the first server (106 1) when it is determined the second server (106 2) of the plurality of servers (106 1 -106 n) has not acquired an affinity for the task type and when it is determined the first server(106 1) has not exceeded the affinity weight limit.
A seat for absorbing a force, which seat comprises a seat pan having a folded portion, wherein: (i) the seat pan is in the part of the seat which is sat on; (ii) the folded portion unfolds and deforms consequent upon receiving the force, and thereby absorbs at least a part of the force; and (iii) the seat pan is made of sheet material, characterised in that: ( iv) the folded portion extends all around the seat pan; and ( v) the seat pan comprises side walls and a base, and the folded portion is positioned in the side walls. (i) the seat pan is in the part of the seat which is sat on; (ii) the folded portion unfolds and deforms consequent upon receiving the force, and thereby absorbs at least a part of the force; and (iii) the seat pan is made of sheet material, characterised in that: ( iv) the folded portion extends all around the seat pan; and ( v) the seat pan comprises side walls and a base, and the folded portion is positioned in the side walls. ( iv) the folded portion extends all around the seat pan; and ( v) the seat pan comprises side walls and a base, and the folded portion is positioned in the side walls.