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A medical treatment system, comprising: an expandable member including a proximal portion and a distal portion, the expandable member further defining a cooling chamber; a plurality of electrodes spaced across the expandable member, the effective portions of said plurality of electrodes being uninsulated and extending from the proximal portion to the distal portion of the expandable member, wherein each electrode of the plurality of electrodes is in the form of a longitudal strip on the expandable member; a radiofrequency signal generator in electrical communication with the plurality of electrodes, characterised by: a cryogenic fluid source in fluid communication with the cooling chamber; and a control unit coupled to the cryogenic fluid source and the radiofrequency signal generator, wherein the control unit is programmed to modulate operation of the cryogenic fluid source and the radiofrequency signal generator to substantially maintain a predetermined target temperature of the plurality of electrodes. an expandable member including a proximal portion and a distal portion, the expandable member further defining a cooling chamber; a plurality of electrodes spaced across the expandable member, the effective portions of said plurality of electrodes being uninsulated and extending from the proximal portion to the distal portion of the expandable member, wherein each electrode of the plurality of electrodes is in the form of a longitudal strip on the expandable member; a radiofrequency signal generator in electrical communication with the plurality of electrodes, characterised by: a cryogenic fluid source in fluid communication with the cooling chamber; and a control unit coupled to the cryogenic fluid source and the radiofrequency signal generator, wherein the control unit is programmed to modulate operation of the cryogenic fluid source and the radiofrequency signal generator to substantially maintain a predetermined target temperature of the plurality of electrodes. a cryogenic fluid source in fluid communication with the cooling chamber; and a control unit coupled to the cryogenic fluid source and the radiofrequency signal generator, wherein the control unit is programmed to modulate operation of the cryogenic fluid source and the radiofrequency signal generator to substantially maintain a predetermined target temperature of the plurality of electrodes.
Control method for operating a cell of a molten salt electrolysis system, in particular for producing aluminium, wherein a first controlled variable is an energy balance of the cell, which takes into account the electrical energy that enters the molten salt electrolysis cell and the heat energy that leaves the molten salt electrolysis cell, and wherein a second controlled variable is a thermal state of the cell.
A manufacturing method for generatively manufacturing a three-dimensional object by layer-by-layer application and selective solidification of a building material, preferably a powder, comprising the steps of: applying a layer of the building material to a build area by means of a recoater, selectively solidifying the applied layer of the building material at points that correspond to a cross-section of the object to be manufactured by means of a solidification device that is moved in a solidification direction across the build area in order to selectively solidify the applied layer, and repeating the steps of applying and solidifying until the three-dimensional object is completed, wherein a heating element that is moved in a movement direction across the build area and that is different from the solidification device locally introduces thermal energy into the newly applied layer of the building material and/or into the layer of the building material which has been already selectively solidified, wherein the movement of the heating element is coordinated, preferably coupled, with the movement of the solidification device, wherein the thermal energy released by the heating element at a point of the build area is adjustable depending on the position of this point in the build area and the heating power is varied depending on the position, and wherein the local heating is performed by means of radiation. applying a layer of the building material to a build area by means of a recoater, selectively solidifying the applied layer of the building material at points that correspond to a cross-section of the object to be manufactured by means of a solidification device that is moved in a solidification direction across the build area in order to selectively solidify the applied layer, and repeating the steps of applying and solidifying until the three-dimensional object is completed, wherein a heating element that is moved in a movement direction across the build area and that is different from the solidification device locally introduces thermal energy into the newly applied layer of the building material and/or into the layer of the building material which has been already selectively solidified, wherein the movement of the heating element is coordinated, preferably coupled, with the movement of the solidification device, wherein the thermal energy released by the heating element at a point of the build area is adjustable depending on the position of this point in the build area and the heating power is varied depending on the position, and wherein the local heating is performed by means of radiation.
An apparatus for measuring inelastic scattering from an object comprises: a semiconductor single-photon avalanche detector, and a counter; the detector being configured to perform detections of single photons of optical radiation formed in an interaction between an optical excitation pulse and the object; the counter being configured to measure timing of each detection made in the detector with respect to the excitation pulse causing the detected photons, perform at least one of the following: forming a number of Raman detections in a Raman time window, forming a number of fluorescence detections in at least one fluorescence time window, the beginning moment of the at least one fluorescence window being after the beginning of the Raman window, where the counter is, related to the Raman detections, configured to form the number of the Raman detections by eliminating an estimate of a number of fluorescence photons in the Raman window, the estimate being formed on the basis of a number of the detections in the at least one fluorescence window, or the counter is, related to the fluorescence detections, configured to form the number of the fluorescence detections by eliminating an estimate of a number of Raman photons in the at least one fluorescence window, the estimate being formed on the basis of a number of the detections in the Raman window.
Method for predictive operational planning in a microgrid having a connection to a main electricity grid, wherein the operation of the main electricity grid is supported by the microgrid by taking into account high-load time windows, and wherein the power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid is reduced in the high-load time windows, wherein the method comprises: - optimizing a target function for a planning interval, wherein the target function takes into account a power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid in at least one such high-load time window (301, 302) of the main electricity grid, wherein the at least one high-load time window (301, 302) comprises a plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302), wherein the plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302) are arranged in the planning interval and in a historical interval that is longer than the planning interval by at least a factor of 10, and wherein the target function takes into account a further power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid outside of the plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302) in the historical interval and in the planning interval, and - performing the operational planning based on a result of the optimization. wherein the operation of the main electricity grid is supported by the microgrid by taking into account high-load time windows, and wherein the power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid is reduced in the high-load time windows, wherein the method comprises: - optimizing a target function for a planning interval, wherein the target function takes into account a power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid in at least one such high-load time window (301, 302) of the main electricity grid, wherein the at least one high-load time window (301, 302) comprises a plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302), wherein the plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302) are arranged in the planning interval and in a historical interval that is longer than the planning interval by at least a factor of 10, and wherein the target function takes into account a further power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid outside of the plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302) in the historical interval and in the planning interval, and - performing the operational planning based on a result of the optimization. - optimizing a target function for a planning interval, wherein the target function takes into account a power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid in at least one such high-load time window (301, 302) of the main electricity grid, wherein the plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302) are arranged in the planning interval and in a historical interval that is longer than the planning interval by at least a factor of 10, and wherein the target function takes into account a further power draw of the microgrid from the main electricity grid outside of the plurality of high-load time windows (301, 302) in the historical interval and in the planning interval, and - performing the operational planning based on a result of the optimization.
A method for manufacturing a membrane with optimised activation, comprising, on a substrate, a stack of layers at least comprising: - a layer of piezoelectric material disposed between an upper electrode layer (E sup) and a lower electrode layer (E inf); and - a flexible layer supporting said piezoelectric layer, said method comprising the following steps: - previously determining at least one concavity/convexity curve for said membrane along an axis parallel to the plane of said layers so as to define a set of inflection points, allowing a first zone and a second zone to be isolated, which zones correspond to a concave section and to a convex section or vice versa, in the plane of said layers; - depositing, on the surface of said substrate, a stack of layers comprising at least one layer of piezoelectric material, one lower electrode layer, one upper electrode layer, characterised in that said method comprises structuring said upper electrode layer so as to form upper electrodes (E isup) and to define at least said first zone of said membrane, in which an electric field can be applied perpendicular to the plane of layers, and at least said second zone, in which an electric field can be applied parallel to the plane of said layers; - with the distance between said upper electrodes (E isup) defined in said second zone being less than the thickness of said layer of piezoelectric material, which layer is a thin layer. - a layer of piezoelectric material disposed between an upper electrode layer (E sup) and a lower electrode layer (E inf); and - a flexible layer supporting said piezoelectric layer, - previously determining at least one concavity/convexity curve for said membrane along an axis parallel to the plane of said layers so as to define a set of inflection points, allowing a first zone and a second zone to be isolated, which zones correspond to a concave section and to a convex section or vice versa, in the plane of said layers; - depositing, on the surface of said substrate, a stack of layers comprising at least one layer of piezoelectric material, one lower electrode layer, one upper electrode layer, characterised in that said method comprises structuring said upper electrode layer so as to form upper electrodes (E isup) and to define at least said first zone of said membrane, in which an electric field can be applied perpendicular to the plane of layers, and at least said second zone, in which an electric field can be applied parallel to the plane of said layers; - with the distance between said upper electrodes (E isup) defined in said second zone being less than the thickness of said layer of piezoelectric material, which layer is a thin layer.
A training method of an acoustic model, comprising: constructing window-level input speech data based on a speech sequence; inputting the window-level input speech data to an acoustic model implemented by a recurrent deep neural network, RDNN, or a bidirectional RDNN; calculating a sequence level-error based on an output of the acoustic model, wherein the output of the acoustic model comprises window-level acoustic scores, wherein the calculating of the sequence-level error comprises acquiring a sequence-level acoustic score by merging the window-level acoustic scores, and calculating the sequence-level error based on the sequence-level acoustic score and a reference sentence associated with the speech sequence; acquiring window-level errors corresponding to the window-level input speech data by dividing the sequence level-error into the window-level errors; and updating the acoustic model based on the window-level errors. constructing window-level input speech data based on a speech sequence; inputting the window-level input speech data to an acoustic model implemented by a recurrent deep neural network, RDNN, or a bidirectional RDNN; calculating a sequence level-error based on an output of the acoustic model, wherein the output of the acoustic model comprises window-level acoustic scores, wherein the calculating of the sequence-level error comprises acquiring a sequence-level acoustic score by merging the window-level acoustic scores, and calculating the sequence-level error based on the sequence-level acoustic score and a reference sentence associated with the speech sequence; acquiring window-level errors corresponding to the window-level input speech data by dividing the sequence level-error into the window-level errors; and updating the acoustic model based on the window-level errors.
A formulation for use in treating Alzheimer's disease wherein the formulation is a cyclopropanated PUFA-cholesterol conjugate and at least one retinoid, wherein the cyclopropanated PUFA-cholesterol conjugate is: wherein the at least one retinoid is selected from retinoic acid, N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) retinamide ("4-HPR"), 4-( 5, 5, 8, 8-Tetramethyl-5, 6, 7, 8-tetrahydronaphthalen-2-ylethynyl) benzoic acid ("ec23"), 9-cis retinoic acid, 13-cis retinoic acid, all-trans-4-hydroxyretinoic acid, all-trans-4-oxoretinoic acid, 3,4, didehydroretinoic acid, retinol, retroretinol, all-trans-4-hydroxyretinol, all-trans-4-oxoretinol, 14-hydroxy-4, 14-retroretinol, retinaldehyde,lycopene, apo-1 0' -lycopenoic acid, and acycloretinoic acid.
A data storage device comprising: a solid state memory comprising logical block addresses ("LBAs") corresponding to boot data accessed by a host during a boot process; and a controller configured to: determine the LBAs corresponding to the boot data; determine whether the solid state memory has reached an end-of-life condition; upon determining that solid state memory has reached an end-of-life condition: restrict the host to write to the LBAs corresponding to the boot data during a boot process, and set the solid state memory into a read only mode when the boot process is complete. a solid state memory comprising logical block addresses ("LBAs") corresponding to boot data accessed by a host during a boot process; and a controller configured to: determine the LBAs corresponding to the boot data; determine whether the solid state memory has reached an end-of-life condition; upon determining that solid state memory has reached an end-of-life condition: restrict the host to write to the LBAs corresponding to the boot data during a boot process, and set the solid state memory into a read only mode when the boot process is complete. determine the LBAs corresponding to the boot data; determine whether the solid state memory has reached an end-of-life condition; upon determining that solid state memory has reached an end-of-life condition: restrict the host to write to the LBAs corresponding to the boot data during a boot process, and set the solid state memory into a read only mode when the boot process is complete. restrict the host to write to the LBAs corresponding to the boot data during a boot process, and set the solid state memory into a read only mode when the boot process is complete.
SCA containing aqueous composition comprising A) at least one water-dilutable binder, C) at least one sagging control agent obtainable by reacting a polyisocyanate with an amine, D) water and optionally, F) usual coating additives, pigments, fillers and/or organic solvents, wherein the SCA C) is obtained by reacting C1) at least one polyisocyanate with C2) at least one amine having at least one primary amine group and at least one hydroxyl group in an aqueous dispersion of the water-dilutable binder A). A) at least one water-dilutable binder, C) at least one sagging control agent obtainable by reacting a polyisocyanate with an amine, D) water and optionally, F) usual coating additives, pigments, fillers and/or organic solvents, C1) at least one polyisocyanate with C2) at least one amine having at least one primary amine group and at least one hydroxyl group in an aqueous dispersion of the water-dilutable binder A).
Method for preparing a plurality of doughs of differing composition, preferably a bread doughs or pastry doughs, comprising: (i) providing an amount of a kneaded dough, the plain dough, prepared by kneading dough ingredients comprising at least flour, a number of water sources, optionally a leavening agent and optionally lipids; (ii) providing a composition, the enrichment mixture, comprising (a) edible particulates selected from one or more of grains, seeds, nuts, dried fruits, spices, herbs, pigments or products derived therefrom selected from parts, meals, powders, meal extrudates or meal pellets, (b) a number of carbohydrolases, preferably a number of endo-glucanases, (c) optionally lipids and (d) optionally further bakery additives; (iii) mixing enrichment mixture through kneaded plain dough; wherein the kneaded plain dough is divided into a plurality of portions and individual portions of the kneaded plain dough are treated differently by leaving portions of the kneaded plain dough untreated and/or by providing a plurality of enrichment mixtures having differing compositions and mixing differing enrichment mixtures through the portions of the kneaded plain dough. (i) providing an amount of a kneaded dough, the plain dough, prepared by kneading dough ingredients comprising at least flour, a number of water sources, optionally a leavening agent and optionally lipids; (ii) providing a composition, the enrichment mixture, comprising (a) edible particulates selected from one or more of grains, seeds, nuts, dried fruits, spices, herbs, pigments or products derived therefrom selected from parts, meals, powders, meal extrudates or meal pellets, (b) a number of carbohydrolases, preferably a number of endo-glucanases, (c) optionally lipids and (d) optionally further bakery additives; (iii) mixing enrichment mixture through kneaded plain dough;
A compressor structure comprising: a diffuser vane, comprising a vane body, wherein a cavity is formed inside the vane body, gas supplement holes are formed on the vane body, and the compressor structure further comprises: a housing, on which a gas supplement passage in communication with the cavity of the diffuser vane is formed, characterized in that the gas supplement holes are all disposed on a suction surface of the vane body such that the gas supplement holes are configured to form a jet flow on the suction surface to blow off a low-speed and low-energy area formed on the suction surface.
Kitchen appliance, in particular a blender, comprising a housing on which a vessel can be arranged, the housing comprising a locking device for locking the vessel to a lid, the locking device comprising at least one locking element, a locking lever connected to the locking element in a rotationally fixed manner and an actuator, the locking lever and the actuator being operatively connected such that the locking lever can be moved from an open position into a locking position, and vice versa, as a result of the actuator being actuated, in particular can be pivoted as a result of the actuator being actuated, characterised in that the locking element and the locking lever can be shifted into an interlocked position by rotating towards one another and in that the interlocked position can be fixed by a securing element which is to be introduced separately and is in the force flow of the locking force applied by the actuator.
A cooling device comprising: a heat exchanger configured such that fluid is introduced therein to be heat-exchanged with a refrigerant, and configured to vaporize the refrigerant by the heat exchange such that the fluid is discharged at temperature close to vaporization temperature of the refrigerant; a compressor connected to the heat exchanger; a turbine connected to the compressor and configured to expand the fluid compressed in the compressor to lower temperature of the compressed fluid; characterized in that the compressor is configured to compress the fluid discharged out of the heat exchanger and in that the device further comprises a phase change heat exchanger connected to the turbine, storing a phase change material, and configured to cause heat exchange between the phase change material and the fluid discharged out of the turbine so as to control temperature of the discharged fluid. a heat exchanger configured such that fluid is introduced therein to be heat-exchanged with a refrigerant, and configured to vaporize the refrigerant by the heat exchange such that the fluid is discharged at temperature close to vaporization temperature of the refrigerant; a compressor connected to the heat exchanger; a turbine connected to the compressor and configured to expand the fluid compressed in the compressor to lower temperature of the compressed fluid; characterized in that the compressor is configured to compress the fluid discharged out of the heat exchanger and in that the device further comprises a phase change heat exchanger connected to the turbine, storing a phase change material, and configured to cause heat exchange between the phase change material and the fluid discharged out of the turbine so as to control temperature of the discharged fluid.
System for cooling an electric drive system of an automotive vehicle with a hybrid drive train comprising an electric drive system (12, 13) and a thermal drive system, the thermal drive system comprising at least one fluid circulation circuit, characterized in that the system for cooling comprises a heat storage tank and in that said tank is connected to the fluid circulation circuit and to the electric drive system via heat pipes.
Timepiece, or piece of jewellery fabricated in an 18 carat red gold, nickel-free and cobalt-free alloy whose composition comprises, by weight, between 75% and 77.5% of gold, between 1.35 and 1.45% of palladium, between 20.1 and 23.8% of copper, said alloy being silver-free and when said alloy includes silver, said alloy includes 1.81% by weight of silver, said alloy further includes, by weight, possibly between 0.45 and 2.0% of one element selected from among iron, zinc, silver and indium or a combination thereof, possibly 0.48% of platinum, possibly at most 1.0% of any one element or a combination of elements selected from among gallium, magnesium, calcium, lithium, aluminium, sodium, titanium, molybdenum, tin, silicon, rhodium-zirconium, potassium and chromium, and possibly at most 0.05% by weight of one element selected from among iridium, rhenium and ruthenium.