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One or more polymer particles for the delivery of an oral care agent to an oral cavity of a subject for use in maintaining or improving oral health of a subject, wherein the one or more polymer particles each: - have an initial volume and at least one size dimension equal to or smaller than 1.5 millimeter, and have a shortest size dimension of at least 0.1 mm, wherein the size dimensions are the length, width, height, body diagonal or diameter of the particle, and - comprise a super absorbent polymer selected from the group consisting of crosslinked polymers based on sodium polyacrylate; polyacrylamide copolymer, ethylene maleic anhydride copolymer, cross-linked carboxymethylcellulose, polyvinyl alcohol copolymers, cross-linked polyethylene oxide, and starch grafted copolymer of polyacrylonitrile. - have an initial volume and at least one size dimension equal to or smaller than 1.5 millimeter, and have a shortest size dimension of at least 0.1 mm, wherein the size dimensions are the length, width, height, body diagonal or diameter of the particle, and - comprise a super absorbent polymer selected from the group consisting of crosslinked polymers based on sodium polyacrylate; polyacrylamide copolymer, ethylene maleic anhydride copolymer, cross-linked carboxymethylcellulose, polyvinyl alcohol copolymers, cross-linked polyethylene oxide, and starch grafted copolymer of polyacrylonitrile.
A genetically modified strain of the species Mycobacterium smegmatis (M. smegmatis), characterized in that said strain is uncapable of using any of substances AD (4-androstene-3,17-dione) or ADD (1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione) as a carbon source when said substances are added to a culture medium, and in that in said strain a reductase component of 3-ketosteroid 9 α-hydroxylase enzyme has been functionally inactivated or completely or partially deleted, wherein at least one nucleotide sequence encoding the reductase component of 3-ketosteroid 9 α-hydroxylase enzyme corresponds with: a) the sequence having SEQ ID NO 1; or b) a variant to the sequence having SEQ ID NO 1 which is at least 75% homologous to SEQ ID NO 1, based on the identity of all the nucleotides of said sequence, and wherein said strain is capable of producing ADD with a purity of 95% or more with respect to the AD content by fermentation in a minimal culture medium containing cholesterol or a mixture of phytosterols and glycerol as an alternative carbon source to cholesterol.
Method for fixing a built-in domestic appliance to a furniture using a fixing system including: a first fixing element comprising a first adhesive surface suitable to be glued to a first lateral wall of the built-in domestic appliance, a second adhesive surface parallel and opposite to the first surface adhesive and suitable to be glued to the first lateral wall of the furniture, a first removable protective film which initially covers the first adhesive surface, and a second removable protective film which initially covers the second adhesive surface; and a second fixing element comprising a third adhesive surface suitable to be glued to a second lateral wall of the built-in domestic appliance and a fourth adhesive surface parallel and opposite to the third adhesive surface and suitable to be glued to the second lateral wall of the furniture, a third removable protective film which initially covers the third adhesive surface, and a fourth removable protective film which initially covers the fourth adhesive surface; the method for fixing includes the steps of: gluing the second adhesive surface of the first fixing element to the first lateral wall of the furniture, by first removing the second protective film; gluing the fourth adhesive surface of the second fixing element to the second lateral wall of the furniture, by first removing the fourth protective film; inserting the built-in domestic appliance into the furniture, leaving in position the first removable protective film and the third protective film; removing the first removable protective film to glue the first adhesive surface of the first fixing element to the first lateral wall of the built-in domestic appliance; and removing the third removable protective film to glue the third adhesive surface of the second fixing element to the second lateral wall of the built-in domestic appliance. gluing the second adhesive surface of the first fixing element to the first lateral wall of the furniture, by first removing the second protective film; gluing the fourth adhesive surface of the second fixing element to the second lateral wall of the furniture, by first removing the fourth protective film; inserting the built-in domestic appliance into the furniture, leaving in position the first removable protective film and the third protective film; removing the first removable protective film to glue the first adhesive surface of the first fixing element to the first lateral wall of the built-in domestic appliance; and removing the third removable protective film to glue the third adhesive surface of the second fixing element to the second lateral wall of the built-in domestic appliance.
Controller apparatus to control a transmission in successive parts of an audiovisual content to a receiver apparatus, said audiovisual content being available from a network in at least two versions, said versions corresponding respectively to different transmission bit-rates, each of said successive parts being chosen as a part of one of at least two versions in response to a transmission request sent by said receiver apparatus, said transmission request comprising a transmission parameter, said controller apparatus being characterized in that it comprises: - a communication interface; - a processing unit adapted for: receiving, via said communication interface, an information representative of a network status for a previous delivery of a first part of said successive parts of said audiovisual content to said receiver apparatus; computing a control parameter from at least said information, said control parameter being adapted to be used by said receiver apparatus to define at least one transmission parameter to be comprised in a transmission request relating to at least one second part of said audiovisual content; and transmitting, via said communication interface, said control parameter to said receiver apparatus. - a communication interface; - a processing unit adapted for: receiving, via said communication interface, an information representative of a network status for a previous delivery of a first part of said successive parts of said audiovisual content to said receiver apparatus; computing a control parameter from at least said information, said control parameter being adapted to be used by said receiver apparatus to define at least one transmission parameter to be comprised in a transmission request relating to at least one second part of said audiovisual content; and transmitting, via said communication interface, said control parameter to said receiver apparatus. receiving, via said communication interface, an information representative of a network status for a previous delivery of a first part of said successive parts of said audiovisual content to said receiver apparatus; computing a control parameter from at least said information, said control parameter being adapted to be used by said receiver apparatus to define at least one transmission parameter to be comprised in a transmission request relating to at least one second part of said audiovisual content; and transmitting, via said communication interface, said control parameter to said receiver apparatus.
A method performed by an, Access and Mobility Management function, AMF for message handling comprising: receiving, via an access node over an Next Generation 2, NG2, reference point, a Non-Access Stratum, NAS, Service Request message transmitted by a user equipment, UE,, wherein the NAS Service Request comprises information identifying one or more Packet Data Unit, PDU, sessions for which User Plane, UP is to be established; identifying one or more Session Management Functions, SMFs associated with the one or more PDU sessions; transmitting, to each of the one or more SMFs, a Next Generation 11, NG11, request message to establish the UP for the associated PDU session; upon receiving a first NG11 response message to one of the NG11 request messages from one SMF of the one or more SMFs, wherein the first NG11 response message comprises a first NG2 Session Management, SM, container, transmitting to the access node information comprising i) NG2 mobility management, MM, information and ii) the first NG2 SM container to an access node serving the UE without further waiting for other NG11 response messages (204b, 204c) from other SMFs of the one or more SMFs. receiving, via an access node over an Next Generation 2, NG2, reference point, a Non-Access Stratum, NAS, Service Request message transmitted by a user equipment, UE,, wherein the NAS Service Request comprises information identifying one or more Packet Data Unit, PDU, sessions for which User Plane, UP is to be established; identifying one or more Session Management Functions, SMFs associated with the one or more PDU sessions; transmitting, to each of the one or more SMFs, a Next Generation 11, NG11, request message to establish the UP for the associated PDU session; upon receiving a first NG11 response message to one of the NG11 request messages from one SMF of the one or more SMFs, wherein the first NG11 response message comprises a first NG2 Session Management, SM, container, transmitting to the access node information comprising i) NG2 mobility management, MM, information and ii) the first NG2 SM container to an access node serving the UE without further waiting for other NG11 response messages (204b, 204c) from other SMFs of the one or more SMFs.
A method for the virtual secondary machining of a virtual three-dimensional gingiva model generated during the planning of an artificial gingiva, the virtual gingiva model being subjected to virtual secondary machining in that at least one defined three-dimensional surface structure (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) of the gingiva model is changed by means of a virtual tool using a computer, characterised in that the defined surface structure of the gingiva comprises an interdental space, a papilla of a tooth, a tooth root gingiva region, a transition region between the gingiva model and a jaw model and/or a discharge region at the end of the mandibular arch, the defined surface structure (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) of the gingiva model being selectively varied by use of the virtual tool, with a height and a course of a gingival border of at least one interdental space being changed by use of the virtual tool by displacing a highest point of the interdental space along a tooth axis of one of the two neighbouring teeth and by automatically adjusting regions of the interdental space around this highest point in a membrane-like manner, with a gingival border of a papilla being changed by the use of the virtual tool by displacing a lowermost point of the papilla in a lingual, buccal, labial or palatal direction and by automatically adjusting the course of the gingival border relative to a tooth and to the surrounding regions of the gingiva model, or with a gingival border of a papilla being changed by use of the virtual tool by displacing an uppermost point of the papilla in an occlusal, incisal or cervical direction and by automatically adjusting transitions of the papilla to adjacent surface structures of the gingiva model.
A method of making a stent-graft device, the method comprising: tensioning a stent frame having an abluminal surface and a luminal surface to alter an initial aspect ratio of the stent frame and define a second aspect ratio, wherein tensioning of the stent frame provides axial elongation of the frame; coupling a tubular graft member to the stent frame; and relaxing the stent frame so as to contract the graft member along the central axis. tensioning a stent frame having an abluminal surface and a luminal surface to alter an initial aspect ratio of the stent frame and define a second aspect ratio, wherein tensioning of the stent frame provides axial elongation of the frame; coupling a tubular graft member to the stent frame; and relaxing the stent frame so as to contract the graft member along the central axis.
Method for measuring the flatness of a metal product in the form of a strip moving along under tension over a flatness measurement assembly of the type that deflects said product, consisting of at least one measuring roller that causes the product to be deflected in the direction of travel, the flatness measurement being taken by measuring the longitudinal tension over a deflection zone of said product, the product having at least plastic or elastoplastic deformation properties, characterized in that the flatness measurement is made up of the following steps: - a first longitudinal tension measurement value is obtained by means of the measuring roller, - a model of stress over the thickness of the strip is determined as a function of conditions of plastic or elastoplastic deformation of the product on the measuring roller in the deflection zone, - a correction factor for the longitudinal deformation of the product is calculated according to the determined stress model, - a corrective value (T1', T2') for the first longitudinal tension measurement value is calculated at at least one evaluation point (M1, M2) as a function of the longitudinal deformation correction factor, - a corrected flatness measurement value is calculated at at least one of said evaluation points (M1, M2), taking the corrective value into consideration. - a first longitudinal tension measurement value is obtained by means of the measuring roller, - a model of stress over the thickness of the strip is determined as a function of conditions of plastic or elastoplastic deformation of the product on the measuring roller in the deflection zone, - a correction factor for the longitudinal deformation of the product is calculated according to the determined stress model, - a corrective value (T1', T2') for the first longitudinal tension measurement value is calculated at at least one evaluation point (M1, M2) as a function of the longitudinal deformation correction factor, - a corrected flatness measurement value is calculated at at least one of said evaluation points (M1, M2), taking the corrective value into consideration.
A method of increasing the biological activity of a recombinant toxin, the method comprising: providing a nucleic acid construct comprising: (i) an arthropod toxin sequence, or a sequence of a biologically active fragment or variant thereof, the variant retaining at least 50% of the biological activity of the arthropod toxin and having a nucleic acid sequence which has at least 75% identity to the arthropod toxin sequence, operably linked to (ii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding an arthropod pro-region; and (iii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a carrier protein, or a fragment or variant thereof; and expressing a fusion protein, the fusion protein comprising the arthropod toxin or a biologically active fragment or variant thereof linked to the carrier protein or a fragment or variant thereof; wherein the arthropod pro-region is a sequence between a signal peptide sequence and a mature protein N-terminus; and wherein the carrier protein, fragment or variant thereof is capable of mediating translocation of the fusion protein from an invertebrate gut. providing a nucleic acid construct comprising: (i) an arthropod toxin sequence, or a sequence of a biologically active fragment or variant thereof, the variant retaining at least 50% of the biological activity of the arthropod toxin and having a nucleic acid sequence which has at least 75% identity to the arthropod toxin sequence, operably linked to (ii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding an arthropod pro-region; and (iii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a carrier protein, or a fragment or variant thereof; and (i) an arthropod toxin sequence, or a sequence of a biologically active fragment or variant thereof, the variant retaining at least 50% of the biological activity of the arthropod toxin and having a nucleic acid sequence which has at least 75% identity to the arthropod toxin sequence, operably linked to (ii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding an arthropod pro-region; and (iii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a carrier protein, or a fragment or variant thereof; and expressing a fusion protein, the fusion protein comprising the arthropod toxin or a biologically active fragment or variant thereof linked to the carrier protein or a fragment or variant thereof;
A method of making a net molded plastic pump housing having a fluid inlet port, a fluid outlet port, and a pressure relief valve port, each in flow communication with a pump cavity, the method comprising the steps of providing a first mold having an interior surface topography configured to correspond in negative to exterior topographies of a first portion of the housing and to correspond in negative to topography associated with the fluid inlet port, the fluid outlet port, and the relief valve port of the housing; providing a second mold having an interior surface topography configured to correspond in negative to exterior topographies of a second portion of the housing; providing a first core having an exterior shape configured to correspond in negative to interior topographies of a proximate portion of the cavity of the housing; and providing a second core having an exterior shape configured to correspond in negative to interior topographies of a distal portion of the cavity of the housing; wherein the first and second molds (40; 42) and the first and second cores (44; 46) are configured such that none of the fluid inlet port, the fluid outlet port, or the pressure relief valve port of the housing produced using the molds (40; 42) and cores (44; 46) have any intersecting geometry, wherein the first and second molds (40; 42) are assembled facing one another with the first and second cores (44; 46) positioned adjacent one another in an end-to-end relationship within the molds (40; 42), after which plastic is introduced, and wherein after the plastic cures, the molds (40; 42) are pulled opposite one another and the cores (44; 46) are pulled opposite one another and substantially perpendicular to the pull of the molds (40; 42) to yield the net shape molded housing.
A communication system comprising: a first communication device (220, 222) configured to sense a communication environment surrounding the first communication device (220, 222); a second communication device configured to acquire sensed data sensed by the first communication device (220, 222) and to add sensed data obtained by sensing the communication environment surrounding the second communication device; and a third communication device configured to determine availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, wherein the third communication device is configured to determine availability of usage of a second communication service based on the sensed data transmitted from the second communication device, characterized in that the third communication device is configured to request from a base station acting as permanent secondary communication authentication node to temporary grant authority for permitting start of the second communication service when the third communication device determines from the sensed data that the second communication service is available and at the same time transmit to the base station the acquired sensed data or its own location, wherein the third communication device is further configured to relay a communication packet corresponding to the first communication service which is transmitted from the first communication device (220, 222) to the base station after being granted authority. a first communication device (220, 222) configured to sense a communication environment surrounding the first communication device (220, 222); a second communication device configured to acquire sensed data sensed by the first communication device (220, 222) and to add sensed data obtained by sensing the communication environment surrounding the second communication device; and a third communication device configured to determine availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, wherein the third communication device is configured to determine availability of usage of a second communication service based on the sensed data transmitted from the second communication device, characterized in that the third communication device is configured to request from a base station acting as permanent secondary communication authentication node to temporary grant authority for permitting start of the second communication service when the third communication device determines from the sensed data that the second communication service is available and at the same time transmit to the base station the acquired sensed data or its own location, wherein the third communication device is further configured to relay a communication packet corresponding to the first communication service which is transmitted from the first communication device (220, 222) to the base station after being granted authority.
Diflunisal for use in the treatment of cancer, wherein the Diflunisal-containing medicament is adapted for administration so that a molecular ratio of 4:1 to 6:1 of interstitial Diflunisal:interstitial albumin is provided, wherein the interstitial albumin concentration is measured in the lymph fluid system.