mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
The use of neopterin as a marker in combination with one or more cardiovascular markers wherein the one or more cardiovascular markers are selected from MR-proADM, MR-proANP, CT-ProET-1, CT-proAVP, BNP and/or NT-proBNP and/or fragments thereof of at least 12 amino acids and precursors or fragments thereof of at least 12 amino acids in an in-vitro method of prediction of bacterial infections in a subject suffering from dyspnea or diagnosis of a bacterial infection in a subject suffering from dyspnea and/or prediction or diagnosis follow-up thereof, wherein the procalcitonin concentration in a sample selected from the group consisting of blood, serum and plasma taken from said subject is equal or less than 0.1 ng/ml.
A method for diagnosing and/or prognosing a heart failure syndrome, said method comprising the step of measuring, in vitro, the amount of the soluble form of AXL (sAXL) in a test sample.
Tyre, the tread of which comprises a rubber composition comprising at least: - as first diene elastomer, from 55 to 95 phr of natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene; - as second diene elastomer, from 5 to 45 phr of a polybutadiene or butadiene copolymer having a Tg of greater than -70°C; - as reinforcing filler, from 60 to 90 phr of an inorganic filler defined as any inorganic or mineral filler, whatever its colour and its origin (natural or synthetic), in contrast to carbon black; - as plasticizer, more than 5 phr of a thermoplastic hydrocarbon resin exhibiting a Tg of greater than 20°C and optionally from 0 to 20 phr of a plasticizing agent which is liquid at 23°C. - as first diene elastomer, from 55 to 95 phr of natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene; - as second diene elastomer, from 5 to 45 phr of a polybutadiene or butadiene copolymer having a Tg of greater than -70°C; - as reinforcing filler, from 60 to 90 phr of an inorganic filler defined as any inorganic or mineral filler, whatever its colour and its origin (natural or synthetic), in contrast to carbon black; - as plasticizer, more than 5 phr of a thermoplastic hydrocarbon resin exhibiting a Tg of greater than 20°C and optionally from 0 to 20 phr of a plasticizing agent which is liquid at 23°C.
A system comprising: a milk collecting system comprising: a teat cup; a milk collector; and a milking hose system connecting the teat cup to the milk collector; a teat cup holder comprising a nozzle, the nozzle substantially aligned with an opening of the teat cup when the teat cup is stored in the teat cup holder; and a first cleanser source associated with a first cleanser valve; a second cleanser source associated with a second cleanser valve; a controller configured to determine whether to perform a short cleaning or a main cleaning, wherein the controller: selects between the first cleanser source and the second cleanser source; causes the first cleanser valve to open if the first cleanser source is selected; causes the second cleanser valve to open if the second cleanser source is selected; and a cleansing hose system connecting the nozzle of the teat cup holder to the selected cleanser source; wherein during a short cleaning, the cleansing hose system backwashes the teat cup and at least a portion of the milking hose system, but not the milk collector; wherein during a main cleaning, the cleansing hose system backwashes the teat cup, the milking hose system, and the milk collector. a milk collecting system comprising: a teat cup; a milk collector; and a milking hose system connecting the teat cup to the milk collector; a teat cup; a milk collector; and a milking hose system connecting the teat cup to the milk collector; a teat cup holder comprising a nozzle, the nozzle substantially aligned with an opening of the teat cup when the teat cup is stored in the teat cup holder; and a first cleanser source associated with a first cleanser valve; a second cleanser source associated with a second cleanser valve; a controller configured to determine whether to perform a short cleaning or a main cleaning, wherein the controller: selects between the first cleanser source and the second cleanser source; causes the first cleanser valve to open if the first cleanser source is selected; causes the second cleanser valve to open if the second cleanser source is selected; and selects between the first cleanser source and the second cleanser source; causes the first cleanser valve to open if the first cleanser source is selected; causes the second cleanser valve to open if the second cleanser source is selected; and a cleansing hose system connecting the nozzle of the teat cup holder to the selected cleanser source; wherein during a short cleaning, the cleansing hose system backwashes the teat cup and at least a portion of the milking hose system, but not the milk collector; wherein during a main cleaning, the cleansing hose system backwashes the teat cup, the milking hose system, and the milk collector.
System for assisting in the clamping of a workpiece on a machine table, that is in particular equipped with clamping grooves and in particular T-slots, of a machine tool such as a power drill, comprising a basic body and a clamping part accommodated in the basic body, extending within an accommodation of the basic body in a longitudinal direction between two ends (11, 12), and wherein the clamping part is height-adjustably retained by means of a threaded spindle of the system, wherein the threaded spindle is guided in a through hole of the basic body and rests on the basic body, and wherein the threaded spindle shows a tool end, and wherein rotation of the threaded spindle causes height adjustment of the clamping part, wherein the clamping part comprises an elongated hole, and wherein a clamping screw of the system is guided through the elongated hole of the clamping part, wherein the clamping screw comprises an enlarged screw part and rests on the clamping part by means of the screw part, and wherein the clamping screw can be connected with a clamping block disposed in a clamping groove of the machine table, wherein height adjustment of the threaded spindle enables locking the clamping screw and clamping the basic body on the machine table, and wherein prior to locking the clamping screw, the basic body can be pivoted around the clamping screw, and can be displaced within the elongated hole, so as to position the basic body on the machine table, characterized in that the clamping part is height-adjustably retained at one of the two ends (11, 12) by means of the threaded spindle.
Roll-up awning comprising tensioning elements for stretching a canvas thereon, which awning comprises a roller on which the tensioning elements can be rolled up, each tensioning element is made of elastically deformable material and is formed by a leaf which in cross section, in closed state of the awning, is wound substantially flat on the roller, characterised in that said awning has a supporting structure comprising the tensioning elements and wherein said leaf in opened state of the awning, takes substantially the form of a circle segment and wherein in opened state of the awning, the leaves extend in an arch form between the roller and a front part of the awning.
A wellbore apparatus, comprising: - a first component having a first element; and - a second component having a second element, the first element and the second element being operatively connected to one another, the first element and the second element each being a segment of a line, characterised by the first component and the second component being connected by a multi-start thread connection. - a first component having a first element; and - a second component having a second element, the first element and the second element being operatively connected to one another, the first element and the second element each being a segment of a line, characterised by the first component and the second component being connected by a multi-start thread connection.
A method comprising: receiving (510, 610), by a management computer which maintains a plurality of site models (150, 250), a report from a newly detected wireless access point (150, 250)indicating the presence of the newly detected wireless access point (150, 250), wherein a newly detected wireless access point is an access point which has not yet been placed on any of the plurality of site models (113, 114) and wherein each site model comprises a management software view of devices on a respective floor of a respective building; receiving (520, 620) by the management computer, from the newly detected access point, perceived signal strengths of at least one located wireless access point (115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 215, 216, 217) which has been placed on a site model among said plurality of site models; and selecting (530, 640), by the management computer, a site model for the newly detected access point from among the plurality of site models, based on the selected site model including the at least one located wireless access point for which a perceived signal strength was received. receiving (510, 610), by a management computer which maintains a plurality of site models (150, 250), a report from a newly detected wireless access point (150, 250)indicating the presence of the newly detected wireless access point (150, 250), wherein a newly detected wireless access point is an access point which has not yet been placed on any of the plurality of site models (113, 114) and wherein each site model comprises a management software view of devices on a respective floor of a respective building; receiving (520, 620) by the management computer, from the newly detected access point, perceived signal strengths of at least one located wireless access point (115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 215, 216, 217) which has been placed on a site model among said plurality of site models; and
A straddled vehicle, comprising: a vehicle body frame; a steering shaft swingably supported by the vehicle body frame around an axis that extends in an up-down direction of the vehicle body frame; a handlebar that includes a left grip located at a left of a center of the straddled vehicle in a left-right direction thereof and a right grip located at a right of the center of the straddled vehicle in the left-right direction thereof and is connected to the steering shaft; a steering wheel connected to the steering shaft; and a steering assist device configured to apply assist force in a same direction as that of a steering torque that has been input to the handlebar by a rider to the steering shaft, wherein, when the steering torque that has been input to the handlebar by the rider is constant, the steering assist device is configured to cause the assist force to decrease as a speed of the vehicle increases in a first vehicle speed zone and characterised in that, when the steering torque that has been input to the handlebar by the rider is constant, the steering assist device is configured to cause the assist force to increase as the speed of the vehicle increases in a second vehicle speed zone that is higher than the first vehicle speed zone. a vehicle body frame; a steering shaft swingably supported by the vehicle body frame around an axis that extends in an up-down direction of the vehicle body frame; a handlebar that includes a left grip located at a left of a center of the straddled vehicle in a left-right direction thereof and a right grip located at a right of the center of the straddled vehicle in the left-right direction thereof and is connected to the steering shaft; a steering wheel connected to the steering shaft; and a steering assist device configured to apply assist force in a same direction as that of a steering torque that has been input to the handlebar by a rider to the steering shaft, wherein, when the steering torque that has been input to the handlebar by the rider is constant, the steering assist device is configured to cause the assist force to decrease as a speed of the vehicle increases in a first vehicle speed zone and characterised in that, when the steering torque that has been input to the handlebar by the rider is constant, the steering assist device is configured to cause the assist force to increase as the speed of the vehicle increases in a second vehicle speed zone that is higher than the first vehicle speed zone.
A shelf kit, in particular for system shelves having vertical posts and horizontal struts connecting the posts, having two longitudinal strips and one or more transverse strips which can be anchored with their two ends at one of the two longitudinal strips in each case and which span the shelf in the assembled state with said two ends, wherein the longitudinal strips at least sectionally comprise a U-profile having a first profile limb, a second profile limb and a base connecting the profile limbs (2, 3), wherein at least one passage opening for inserting the end of a transverse strip is present in a respective first U-profile limb and characterized in that the longitudinal strips are configured to be hung in horizontal struts of a system shelf.
A fixer device that fixes a sleeper body to a base plate of a slab track, the fixer device comprising a head which can be inserted into a through hole of the sleeper body without protruding from the upper plane of the sleeper body, a guide rod which can be inserted into a sleeve that internally lines the through hole of the sleeper body that positions the sleeper body on the base plate, a retaining lock nut and an immobilising end which is threaded into an internal thread of the retaining lock nut embedded within a blind hole of the base plate without subjecting an elastic inter-plate to an additional pretension to which the elastic inter-plate is subjected by the sleeper body in an installation position of the track on the base plate, wherein the elastic inter-plate is arranged between the sleeper body and the base plate in a layer configuration, providing an elastic retention for the sleeper body to describe a vertical sliding movement from a resting position, corresponding to the installation position of the slab track, to a working position, relative to the passage of a railway carriage over the rails of the railway track, and vice versa.
A method for producing the surface of a dental restoration consisting of three-dimensional data, wherein the dental restoration is a crown, wherein an inner contour of the crown is specified by an existing tooth stump, wherein three-dimensional data of a tooth surface of a recorded tooth are used for at least part of the surface of the dental restoration part to be produced, wherein said tooth surface is an occlusal surface, for which purpose the tooth surface is first determined in its extent and is then arranged in the area of a preparation site (1, 21) available as three-dimensional data via copying and/or by mirroring, characterised in that a preparation margin of the dental restoration to be created is delineated manually using input devices, for example a computer mouse or a light pen, wherein the position of the digital tooth surface in the dental restoration or at the preparation site (1, 21) can be determined in at least one spatial axis and/or one direction of rotation, wherein any necessary size adjustment is carried out by scaling the copied tooth surface, wherein an arrangement of the tooth surface is defined at the preparation site (1, 21), wherein, based on the defined arrangement of the tooth surface to the preparation site (1, 21), the dental restoration is produced indirectly using the data from the preparation site (1, 21) on the one hand and the tooth surface on the other hand, wherein the production of the crown is carried out by supplementing the region between the occlusal surface and the delineated preparation margin and an outer contour is thereby determined.
A method for operating a controlled stress rheometer in a controlled strain mode to follow a demand strain X d in a sample having applied thereto a variable demand force T d, inducing an actual strain X including the steps of: monitoring the actual strain X; continuously comparing the actual strain X with the demand strain X d and calculating the difference; calculating in real time, using an appropriate algorithm, the value of T d necessary to adjust the strain from X to X d; and adjusting T d to the calculated value so as to effect this strain adjustment, wherein the algorithm used utilises a transfer function based on the third order solution to the Butterworth approximation. monitoring the actual strain X; continuously comparing the actual strain X with the demand strain X d and calculating the difference; calculating in real time, using an appropriate algorithm, the value of T d necessary to adjust the strain from X to X d; and adjusting T d to the calculated value so as to effect this strain adjustment,
Method for processing microphone capsule signals ( P (Ω c, t)) of a spherical microphone array on a rigid sphere, said method including the steps: - converting said microphone capsule signals ( P (Ω c, t)) representing a pressure on a surface of said microphone array to a spherical harmonics or Ambisonics representation A n m t with directional coefficients; - computing per wave number k an estimation of a time-variant signal-to-noise ratio SNR ( k) of said microphone capsule signals ( P (Ω c, t)), using an average source power | P 0 ( k)| 2 of a plane wave recorded from said microphone array and a corresponding noise power | P noise ( k)| 2 representing spatially uncorrelated noise produced by analog processing in said microphone array; - computing per wave number k an average spatial signal power at a point of origin for a diffuse sound field, using reference, aliasing and noise signal power components, and forming a frequency response of an equalisation filter from a square root of a fraction of a given reference power and said average spatial signal power at the point of origin, and multiplying per wave number k said frequency response of said equalisation filter by a transfer function, for each order n at discrete finite wave numbers k, of a noise minimising filter derived from said signal-to-noise ratio estimation SNR (k), and by an inverse transfer function of said microphone array, in order to get an adapted transfer function F n,array ( k); - applying said adapted transfer function F n,arra y( k) to said spherical harmonics representation A n m t using a linear filter processing, resulting in adapted directional coefficients d n m t. - converting said microphone capsule signals ( P (Ω c, t)) representing a pressure on a surface of said microphone array to a spherical harmonics or Ambisonics representation A n m t with directional coefficients; - computing per wave number k an estimation of a time-variant signal-to-noise ratio SNR ( k) of said microphone capsule signals ( P (Ω c, t)), using an average source power | P 0 ( k)| 2 of a plane wave recorded from said microphone array and a corresponding noise power | P noise ( k)| 2 representing spatially uncorrelated noise produced by analog processing in said microphone array; - computing per wave number k an average spatial signal power at a point of origin for a diffuse sound field, using reference, aliasing and noise signal power components, and forming a frequency response of an equalisation filter from a square root of a fraction of a given reference power and said average spatial signal power at the point of origin, and multiplying per wave number k said frequency response of said equalisation filter by a transfer function, for each order n at discrete finite wave numbers k, of a noise minimising filter derived from said signal-to-noise ratio estimation SNR (k), and by an inverse transfer function of said microphone array, in order to get an adapted transfer function F n,array ( k); - applying said adapted transfer function F n,arra y( k) to said spherical harmonics representation A n m t using a linear filter processing, resulting in adapted directional coefficients d n m t.
A method of drilling and completing a wellbore in a subterranean formation for the recovery of hydrocarbon or natural gas resources comprising the steps of: (i) drilling a wellbore in a subterranean formation by means of a drill string; (ii) withdrawing the drill string from the wellbore; (iii) inserting a frac string into the wellbore and pumping into the wellbore through an opening in the frac string an isolation fluid that is sufficient to withstand fracture initiation pressure; (iv) pumping into the wellbore through an opening in the frac string a frac fluid at a pressure sufficient to create fractures in the subterranean formation in the vicinity of the end of the frac string; (v) removing the frac string from the wellbore; (vi) inserting the drill string into the wellbore and through the isolation fluid to flow any residual frac fluid and the isolation fluid back out of the wellbore; and (vii) extending the wellbore by means of the drill string, whereby hydrocarbon or natural gas resources flow from the fractures into the wellbore for the recovery thereof while drilling proceeds, and whereby steps (ii) to (vii) are repeated throughout the entire length of the wellbore to create multi-fractured zones in the wellbore that cumulatively add to the recovery of hydrocarbon or natural gas resources. (i) drilling a wellbore in a subterranean formation by means of a drill string; (ii) withdrawing the drill string from the wellbore; (iii) inserting a frac string into the wellbore and pumping into the wellbore through an opening in the frac string an isolation fluid that is sufficient to withstand fracture initiation pressure; (iv) pumping into the wellbore through an opening in the frac string a frac fluid at a pressure sufficient to create fractures in the subterranean formation in the vicinity of the end of the frac string; (v) removing the frac string from the wellbore; (vi) inserting the drill string into the wellbore and through the isolation fluid to flow any residual frac fluid and the isolation fluid back out of the wellbore; and (vii) extending the wellbore by means of the drill string, whereby hydrocarbon or natural gas resources flow from the fractures into the wellbore for the recovery thereof while drilling proceeds, and whereby steps (ii) to (vii) are repeated throughout the entire length of the wellbore to create multi-fractured zones in the wellbore that cumulatively add to the recovery of hydrocarbon or natural gas resources.