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A decentralised database system comprising a plurality of peer devices, whereby each peer device is connected to at least one other peer device over a network; the decentralised database system comprises accounts and each peer device controls one or more accounts associated with the decentralised database system; such that, an updated state of the decentralised database system is agreed upon by at least two of the plurality of peer devices, whereby the at least two peer devices create sign-offs regarding the updated state of the decentralised database system using the accounts which the at least two peer devices control, wherein a sign-off is a cryptographic signature and wherein each sign-off is corresponding to the state information specific to each peer device for each of its one or more accounts; and, each peer device determines a current state of the database as being the state which has the greatest weight of sign-offs, where a peer device considers a state to have sign-offs of a given weight when that peer device has stored in its memory an enumeration of verifying accounts totalling the given weight, together with valid associated evidence data; wherein, the evidence data is characterised by, given an enumeration of verifying accounts, at least two peers are configured to enumerate a subset of verifying accounts, and having been given the sign-offs of the subset of verifying accounts, each of the at least two peers is configured to aggregate the sign-offs of the subset of verifying accounts so as to produce the evidence data; given an enumeration of verifying accounts and evidence data, at least two peers are configured to verify that the evidence data was produced by aggregating the sign-offs of the subset of verifying accounts; a pre-defined parameter determines the size of the subset of verifying accounts, and, for any marginal weight above a total stake of sign-offs available to a particular peer, the pre-defined parameter determines the probability that the particular peer would be capable of fraudulently producing valid evidence data claiming the higher weight, wherein the marginal weight of a block is equal to the sum of account stakes of verifiers to that block.
An ear plug for arrangement in an ear canal, the ear plug comprising - at least two electrodes prepared for detecting an EEG signal from a skin surface when the ear plug is arranged in the ear canal, - a housing having an outer wall made from a resilient material, a - a signal acquisition circuit, the electrodes being provided with a skin contact part arranged on an outside surface of the housing and connected through the outer wall of the housing to a supporting member on the inner part of the housing, characterized in that the skin contact part and the supporting member being arranged for clamping the outer wall. - at least two electrodes prepared for detecting an EEG signal from a skin surface when the ear plug is arranged in the ear canal, - a housing having an outer wall made from a resilient material, a - a signal acquisition circuit,
System consisting of a housing, a printed circuit board arranged in the housing and at least one functional element, wherein the housing has at least one changeable side (3, 3', 3"), wherein openings, which correlate to electrical connections of the printed circuit board, are provided in the at least one changeable side (3, 3', 3"), wherein the functional elements each extend through an opening in the side (3, 3', 3") to the electrical connections of the printed circuit board which are associated with them and are connected to said connections, characterized in that the printed circuit board has a rectangular basic form, wherein the electrical connections for the functional elements are arranged at the edges of the printed circuit board and in that the electrical connections each consist of a plurality of contact plates, which are each connected to at least one trace of the printed circuit board in an electrically conductive manner.
A nutritional composition comprising: whey protein powder comprising whey protein micelles and leucine, wherein the total amount of leucine in the composition comprises between 20% and 40% by weight dry matter, wherein the dry weight ratio of added leucine to whey protein micelles is from 1:2 to 1:3.
Device for measuring the state of a circulation track of a guided vehicle, said circulation track comprising a guiding rail, of longitudinal axis X, comprising a so-called railhead, characterized in that the measurement device comprises: - a guiding carriage, intended to be arranged along the longitudinal axis X of the guiding rail, - two feeler members, secured to the guiding carriage, intended to be positioned on either side of the guiding railhead when said measurement device is in position on the circulation track, - a means for returning a feeler member towards the other feeler member, - a member for measuring the separation between the two feeler members, - a frame, fixed, linked to the guiding carriage, - a second frame, mobile relative to said fixed frame, - two half-axles, extending on either side of the guiding carriage, secured to the second frame and each comprising a bearing means intended to bear on a tread surface of the circulation track. - a guiding carriage, intended to be arranged along the longitudinal axis X of the guiding rail, - two feeler members, secured to the guiding carriage, intended to be positioned on either side of the guiding railhead when said measurement device is in position on the circulation track, - a means for returning a feeler member towards the other feeler member, - a member for measuring the separation between the two feeler members, - a frame, fixed, linked to the guiding carriage, - a second frame, mobile relative to said fixed frame, - two half-axles, extending on either side of the guiding carriage, secured to the second frame and each comprising a bearing means intended to bear on a tread surface of the circulation track.
A method for enforcing order of memory access, the method comprising: receiving a read request from a device (208 1 -208 k) which is not configured to generate memory barrier commands; and conditionally generating a surrogate barrier in response to the read request based on one or more preceding write requests to the same address as the read request. receiving a read request from a device (208 1 -208 k) which is not configured to generate memory barrier commands; and conditionally generating a surrogate barrier in response to the read request based on one or more preceding write requests to the same address as the read request.
A fibrous texture intended to form the fibrous reinforcement of a turbomachine blade made of composite material comprising a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix, the fibrous texture being in a single piece and having a three-dimensional weaving between a plurality of warp yarns or strands made of at least first fibers having a first elongation at break and extending in a longitudinal direction (D L) and a plurality of weft yarns or strands made of first fibers extending in a transverse direction (D T), the texture comprising in the longitudinal direction a blade root portion, a blade airfoil portion and a blade stilt portion between the blade root portion and the blade airfoil portion, characterized in that it comprises an area of reduced stiffness comprising warp yarns or strands made of second fibers having a second elongation at break greater than the first elongation at break, the area of reduced stiffness extending in the longitudinal direction from the stilt area and up to a height less than or equal to 30% of the height of the blade, the area of reduced stiffness extending in the transverse direction between a first area and a second area, the first area extending over a first length from a first edge of the texture intended to form a leading edge, and the second area extending over a second length from a second edge of the texture intended to form a trailing edge.
A cork plug for plugging a bottle, comprising two opposite faces and a side surface so as to be able to be inserted by force into the neck of the bottle, and wherein is formed at least one channel pierced between the two faces opposite faces of the plug, so as to communicate the interior and exterior of the bottle, characterised in that the at least one channel is filled with a material impermeable to liquids, having a permeability to gases greater than that of the plug so as to control the amount of gas circulating through the plug, the plug having a controlled permeability to oxygen and/or carbon dioxide, and the material filling the at least one channel being of the crosslinkable silicone-based elastomer type.
A method of producing a drug coated balloon that comprises the steps of: subjecting a balloon catheter with a folded and wrapped balloon thereon to a pre-annealing step at a temperature above room temperature and below a temperature at which the balloon is blown to induce a fold/wrap memory in the resulting pre-annealed balloon; unfolding the pre-annealed balloon sufficiently to expose the full circumferential surface of the balloon by application of an inflation pressure that retains said fold/wrap memory; applying a drug coating formulation to the unfolded balloon surface; releasing pressure to relax the balloon and induce creasing along fold memory; and evacuating the balloon slowly to induce refolding and rewrapping of the balloon.
Method of manufacturing a moulding element for a tyre mould, the said moulding element comprising a sintered part and a non-sintered part attached to the sintered part, characterized in that the sintered part comprises a shell and a core internal to the shell and formed as one piece with the said shell, the said core comprising a meshed structure comprising a plurality of cavities, and in that the said method involves the following steps: - a step of manufacturing the sintered part of the moulding element from a metallic powder deposited on a completely flat surface of a non-sintered support plate, the said powder being fused layer by layer, the said sintered part being attached to the said support plate by fused metallic powder; - a step of machining the support plate to form the non-sintered part of the moulding element. - a step of manufacturing the sintered part of the moulding element from a metallic powder deposited on a completely flat surface of a non-sintered support plate, the said powder being fused layer by layer, the said sintered part being attached to the said support plate by fused metallic powder; - a step of machining the support plate to form the non-sintered part of the moulding element.
An object detection device comprising: an object position region detection unit configured to detect, from an input image, a position region of an object included in the image on the basis of a first class definition in which a plurality of classes is defined in advance; a class identification unit configured to identify a class out of the plurality of classes to which the object belongs on the basis of the first class definition; and an object detection result output unit configured to output a detection result of the object on the basis of a detection result of the object position region detection unit and an identification result of the class identification unit, wherein the object detection result output unit is configured to output class information of the object as the detection result of the object on the basis of a second class definition in which a plurality of classes is defined in advance, the second class definition associated with the first class definition, and the number of classes defined in the second class definition is smaller than the number of classes defined in the first class definition, and wherein the first class definition is defined by subdividing each class defined in the second class definition. an object position region detection unit configured to detect, from an input image, a position region of an object included in the image on the basis of a first class definition in which a plurality of classes is defined in advance; a class identification unit configured to identify a class out of the plurality of classes to which the object belongs on the basis of the first class definition; and an object detection result output unit configured to output a detection result of the object on the basis of a detection result of the object position region detection unit and an identification result of the class identification unit, wherein the object detection result output unit is configured to output class information of the object as the detection result of the object on the basis of a second class definition in which a plurality of classes is defined in advance, the second class definition associated with the first class definition, and the number of classes defined in the second class definition is smaller than the number of classes defined in the first class definition, and wherein the first class definition is defined by subdividing each class defined in the second class definition.
Device for opening locks on doors or hatches of vehicles, with a support attached to the inside of the door, with a handle sitting on the support that can be activated from the outside of the door, with a tower which, can be inserted in the support adjacent to the handle and accessible from the outside of the door, whereby, the tower has a closing cylinder to secure and unlock the lock, or is formed as a mock tower without closing cylinder, with a moveable attachment sitting on the handle that is used to activate the handle to open the lock, and with a minimum of one sensor that is effective when the handle is activated. characterized in that the attachment on the handle engages in the adjacent tower and is aligned there, directly or indirectly, with a shoulder, that the sensor is sensitive to force, is located between the attachment and the shoulder and, when the handle is activated, emits signals, i.e. force changing signals, due to the change in force sensed between the shoulder and the attachment and that the signals due to the change in force are routed to an electronic evaluation and control unit (42, 44) which opens the lock using an electric motor.
A process for the production of trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene which comprises: (a) dehydrofluorinating 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane in the presence of a fluorinated chromia catalyst in bulk form, at a temperature of from 100 °C to 600 °C, to thereby produce a result comprising cis-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and hydrogen fluoride; (b) optionally recovering hydrogen fluoride from the result of step (a); (c) recovering trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene from the result of step (a) by distillation; (d) recovering hydrogen fluoride from the result of step (c); (e) drying the result of step (d); (f) feeding the remaining products from the result of step (a) after step (c) has been conducted to step (a) and step (g); (g) isomerizing most of the cis-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene into trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene in the presence of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of fluorinated metal oxide, metal fluoride or a carbon supported transition metal, at a temperature of from 25 °C to 450 °C; and (h) subsequently recovering trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene by conducting steps (c) to (e). (a) dehydrofluorinating 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane in the presence of a fluorinated chromia catalyst in bulk form, at a temperature of from 100 °C to 600 °C, to thereby produce a result comprising cis-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and hydrogen fluoride; (b) optionally recovering hydrogen fluoride from the result of step (a); (c) recovering trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene from the result of step (a) by distillation; (d) recovering hydrogen fluoride from the result of step (c); (e) drying the result of step (d); (f) feeding the remaining products from the result of step (a) after step (c) has been conducted to step (a) and step (g); (g) isomerizing most of the cis-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene into trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene in the presence of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of fluorinated metal oxide, metal fluoride or a carbon supported transition metal, at a temperature of from 25 °C to 450 °C; and (h) subsequently recovering trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene by conducting steps (c) to (e).
A method of unloading a suture from a suture package, the suture package including: a suture retaining member and a cover; the suture retaining member having an outer wall defining a suture retaining area; and the outer wall including a plurality of inwardly extending tabs configured to engage cover; the method comprising the step of holding the suture retaining member; characterised in that: the cover includes a tab configured for operable engagement by a clinician; the outer wall includes a recessed portion configured to receive the tab formed in the cover; and the method comprises the additional steps of: engaging the cover, the step of engaging the cover including gripping the tab of the cover; separating the cover from the suture retaining member to expose the suture retaining area; and then removing a suture from the suture retaining area. a suture retaining member and a cover; the suture retaining member having an outer wall defining a suture retaining area; and the outer wall including a plurality of inwardly extending tabs configured to engage cover; the cover includes a tab configured for operable engagement by a clinician; the outer wall includes a recessed portion configured to receive the tab formed in the cover; and the method comprises the additional steps of: engaging the cover, the step of engaging the cover including gripping the tab of the cover; separating the cover from the suture retaining member to expose the suture retaining area; and then removing a suture from the suture retaining area. engaging the cover, the step of engaging the cover including gripping the tab of the cover; separating the cover from the suture retaining member to expose the suture retaining area; and then removing a suture from the suture retaining area.
A method for estimating video quality of an encoded video stream, the encoded video stream comprising macroblock prediction residuals, the method comprising a step of calculating, for a video sequence comprising a plurality of frames, an overall quality score Q from a basic quality score Qb multiplied by a correction factor Qc, wherein the basic quality score Qb is obtained from an average quantization parameter QP of the frames of the video sequence according to a linear function of the form x b /(1+x b), with x b depending on said average quantization parameter QP, and wherein the correction factor Qc is obtained from an average pixel variance within the prediction residuals of macroblocks in the video sequence according to a rational function of the form b 2 · Xc + b 3, with b 2,b 3 being constants and x c being a power function of said average pixel variance within the prediction residuals.
A cable, comprising: a sheath; and a coating film covering a circumference of the sheath, the coating film adhering to the sheath, wherein an infrared absorber is added to a material of the sheath, said infrared absorber comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of oxidized titanium, cobalt oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, chromium oxide, copper oxide, nickel oxide, and carbon, wherein the coating film comprises a rubber composition including a rubber component and fine particles. a sheath; and a coating film covering a circumference of the sheath, the coating film adhering to the sheath, wherein an infrared absorber is added to a material of the sheath, said infrared absorber comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of oxidized titanium, cobalt oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, chromium oxide, copper oxide, nickel oxide, and carbon, wherein the coating film comprises a rubber composition including a rubber component and fine particles.
A patient support apparatus comprising a patient support surface to support a patient, the patient support surface having at least one air bladder that is at least one of inflated and deflated to achieve at least one of a turn assist function and a therapy function of the patient support surface, a graphical user interface configured to receive user inputs from a caregiver to initiate the at least one of the turn assist function and the therapy function, a plurality of sensors for determining a position of the patient on the support surface, and control circuitry for determining that the patient is improperly positioned on the patient support surface for the at least one of the turn assist function and the therapy function, the control circuitry being coupled to the GUI, characterised in that the GUI is controlled by the control circuitry to display information indicating that the patient is improperly positioned on the patient support surface too close to at least one of the head end and foot end of the patient support surface for the at least one of the turn assist function and the therapy function.
A method, performed by a terminal, of adapting a bandwidth for transmitting and receiving signals, the method comprising: transmitting, to a base station, BS, information about bandwidth adaptation capability of the termina (1410, 1505); receiving, from the BS, a bandwidth adaptation command for requesting adaptation to a bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth adaptation capability of the terminal and slot format control information, wherein the slot format control information includes information about a lost length and information indicating whether a slot structure includes both LTL and DL slots or not; (1420, 1510) determining bandwidth adaptation time in a slot based on the slot format control information; and adapting the bandwidth of the terminal in the determined bandwidth adaptation time based on the bandwidth adaptation command. transmitting, to a base station, BS, information about bandwidth adaptation capability of the termina (1410, 1505); receiving, from the BS, a bandwidth adaptation command for requesting adaptation to a bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth adaptation capability of the terminal and slot format control information, wherein the slot format control information includes information about a lost length and information indicating whether a slot structure includes both LTL and DL slots or not; (1420, 1510) determining bandwidth adaptation time in a slot based on the slot format control information; and adapting the bandwidth of the terminal in the determined bandwidth adaptation time based on the bandwidth adaptation command.
Method for coating the balloon of a balloon catheter, wherein - the surface of the balloon is at least partially wetted with a first solution of an active agent and - said part of the surface of the balloon wetted with said first solution of an active agent is wetted with a liquid containing water and/or at least one alcohol, characterized in that said part of the balloon surface wetted with the first solution and the water and/or at least one alcohol containing liquid is wetted with a further solution that contains a dextran. - the surface of the balloon is at least partially wetted with a first solution of an active agent and - said part of the surface of the balloon wetted with said first solution of an active agent is wetted with a liquid containing water and/or at least one alcohol, characterized in that said part of the balloon surface wetted with the first solution and the water and/or at least one alcohol containing liquid is wetted with a further solution that contains a dextran.