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A method for determining risk of preterm birth (PTB) in a pregnant individual, comprising measuring in a biological sample obtained from the pregnant individual levels of biomarkers AFP and free hCGbeta, wherein the biological sample is selected from the group consisting of whole blood, plasma, serum, a fraction of whole blood, a fraction of plasma, and a fraction of serum; and determining at least one additional measurement selected from the level of a biomarker selected from the group of FSTL3, sTNR1, PIGF2, Activin A, and sP-selectin from the biological sample obtained from the pregnant individual; and determining the risk of the pregnant individual developing PTB based on the levels of the biomarkers AFP and free hCGbeta, and the level of at least one biomarker selected from the group of FSTL3, sTNFR1, PIGF-2, Activin A, and sP-selectin. measuring in a biological sample obtained from the pregnant individual levels of biomarkers AFP and free hCGbeta, wherein the biological sample is selected from the group consisting of whole blood, plasma, serum, a fraction of whole blood, a fraction of plasma, and a fraction of serum; and determining at least one additional measurement selected from the level of a biomarker selected from the group of FSTL3, sTNR1, PIGF2, Activin A, and sP-selectin from the biological sample obtained from the pregnant individual; and determining the risk of the pregnant individual developing PTB based on the levels of the biomarkers AFP and free hCGbeta, and the level of at least one biomarker selected from the group of FSTL3, sTNFR1, PIGF-2, Activin A, and sP-selectin.
A method for diagnosing an autoimmune disease based on the detection of CD4+, PD-1 high, CXCR5 low/- T helper cells in a sample obtained from a subject.
Ice detection unit , at least comprising a channeling element for guiding water and for holding ice , an excitation means for exciting said channeling element and an excitation detection means for detecting excitations of the channeling element , wherein a mechanical connection between the channeling element and at least the excitation means and/or the excitation detection means establishes due to a solidification of fluid, in particular water, inside the channeling element , wherein the mechanical connection transfers excitations from the excitation means to the excitation detection means , characterized by a holding means for holding said channeling element in a predefined position, wherein said holding means comprises at least one spring element and wherein the channeling element comprises at least a grid or structured inner surface to allow solidificated water to grow into radial direction and wherein the channeling element has at least to axial ends and at least in sections a tube-like shape. wherein a mechanical connection between the channeling element and at least the excitation means and/or the excitation detection means establishes due to a solidification of fluid, in particular water, inside the channeling element , wherein the mechanical connection transfers excitations from the excitation means to the excitation detection means , characterized by
A device comprising: a plurality of memory partitions , each of the plurality of memory partitions comprising: a plurality of non-volatile memory arrays , a data buffer to buffer data, and access circuitry to access the plurality of non-volatile memory arrays; and logic to: determine a memory access spacing for each of a plurality of memory access commands according to one or more timing rules, and queue the plurality of memory access commands with the determined memory access spacing for performance by the access circuitry of one or more of the plurality of memory partitions, characterized in that the one or more timing rules to indicate command spacing based on access type of a memory access command and access type of a previous memory access command to a same partition of the plurality of memory partitions. a plurality of memory partitions , each of the plurality of memory partitions comprising: a plurality of non-volatile memory arrays , a data buffer to buffer data, and access circuitry to access the plurality of non-volatile memory arrays; and a plurality of non-volatile memory arrays , a data buffer to buffer data, and access circuitry to access the plurality of non-volatile memory arrays; and logic to: determine a memory access spacing for each of a plurality of memory access commands according to one or more timing rules, and queue the plurality of memory access commands with the determined memory access spacing for performance by the access circuitry of one or more of the plurality of memory partitions, determine a memory access spacing for each of a plurality of memory access commands according to one or more timing rules, and queue the plurality of memory access commands with the determined memory access spacing for performance by the access circuitry of one or more of the plurality of memory partitions, characterized in that the one or more timing rules to indicate command spacing based on access type of a memory access command and access type of a previous memory access command to a same partition of the plurality of memory partitions.
Piece of furniture with at least one furniture door , in particular a folding-sliding door, at least one carriage arranged on the at least one furniture door , at least one receiving slot , which is preferably arranged laterally in or on the piece of furniture and into which the at least one furniture door is retractable, and at least one rail for guiding the carriage of the furniture door , where the rail has at least one installation part and a guide part , wherein the guide part has at least one guide for the carriage , characterized in that the at least one installation part is fastenable to a furniture part , which is formed by a side panel of a piece of furniture , by fastening means to the side panel and releasably connectable to a guide part , wherein the guide part has passage openings and the fastening means are guidable through the passage openings and the fastening means , in a state connected with the side panel , are not in direct contact with the guide part , wherein the at least one installation part is formed as a, preferably profiled, installation rail, wherein the guide part is displaceably mounted on the installation rail.
A device for vibration stimulation of body tissue in a body cavity comprising a stimulation member for imparting vibrations to said body tissue in said body cavity, said stimulation member defining an enclosed volume comprising a flexible electrically insulating layer having a first surface and a second surface, wherein at least a part of the first surface of the layer is adapted to abut against the tissue of the body cavity; a first compliant electrically conducting layer provided on at least a part of the second surface of the insulating layer, and being electrically connectable to a first electrical potential; a dielectric polymer layer provided on at least a part of the first conducting layer; a second compliant electrically conducting layer provided on at least a part of the dielectric polymer layer, and being electrically connectable to a second electrical potential; wherein the stimulation member is expandable and can be arranged in a first state wherein the stimulation member can be introduced via a body opening into a body cavity, and a second state wherein the stimulation member is expanded to a volume such that the first surface of the electrically insulating layer abuts against the tissue within the body cavity.
Gas barrier for floors or other intended surface by means of a foil that is gas-tight, characterized in that on the outside of said gas-tight foil , which is built up from a gas-tight aluminium foil and having protecting layers of polymers on the sides thereof, there is arranged a covering , and that said covering is formed of one or more components, which are mixed and cured in the place for the application thereof to said foil , and adheres to the same in place for the formation of a jointless, gas-tight, homogeneous barrier , that the main part of the surfaces of said homogeneous barrier are surface-enlarged by means of fibres having the ability to improve the adhesion and which has been fasten by being glued or pressed in place at elevated temperature with said protective layers consisting of polymers, that said foil having fastened protective layers thereon, and which is manufactured in factory, is arranged to be delivered in roll form, for free laying out on the floor , or some other intended surface, or to be glued thereon, and that several widths of the gas-tight foil are laid together edge to edge and/or overlapping each other at mutually meeting edges by agglutination and/or by aluminium tape along the joints . that on the outside of said gas-tight foil , which is built up from a gas-tight aluminium foil and having protecting layers of polymers on the sides thereof, there is arranged a covering , and that said covering is formed of one or more components, which are mixed and cured in the place for the application thereof to said foil , and adheres to the same in place for the formation of a jointless, gas-tight, homogeneous barrier , that the main part of the surfaces of said homogeneous barrier are surface-enlarged by means of fibres having the ability to improve the adhesion and which has been fasten by being glued or pressed in place at elevated temperature with said protective layers consisting of polymers, that said foil having fastened protective layers thereon, and which is manufactured in factory, is arranged to be delivered in roll form, for free laying out on the floor , or some other intended surface, or to be glued thereon, and that several widths of the gas-tight foil are laid together edge to edge and/or overlapping each other at mutually meeting edges by agglutination and/or by aluminium tape along the joints .
An audio signal encoding method, the method comprising the steps of: - collecting the audio signal samples , - determining sinusoidal components in subsequent frames, - estimation of amplitudes and frequencies of the components for each frame, - merging thus obtained pairs into sinusoidal trajectories, - splitting trajectories into segments, - transforming the trajectories to the frequency domain by means of a digital transform performed on segments longer than the frame duration, - quantization and selection of transform coefficients in the segments, - entropy encoding , and - outputting the quantized coefficients as output data , wherein: - when the method is an audio signal encoding method for stereo or multichannel encoding, the trajectories of the channels are grouped and only the presence of the trajectories is signaled in a header. - collecting the audio signal samples , - determining sinusoidal components in subsequent frames, - estimation of amplitudes and frequencies of the components for each frame, - merging thus obtained pairs into sinusoidal trajectories, - splitting trajectories into segments, - transforming the trajectories to the frequency domain by means of a digital transform performed on segments longer than the frame duration, - quantization and selection of transform coefficients in the segments, - entropy encoding , and - outputting the quantized coefficients as output data , wherein: - when the method is an audio signal encoding method for stereo or multichannel encoding, the trajectories of the channels are grouped and only the presence of the trajectories is signaled in a header.
A separating rotor for a combine harvester comprising a rotor tube and a plurality of crop engaging finger elements , at least one finger element being mounted to a finger support which is secured to the rotor tube , and said finger element comprising: a planar body having an upper body and a flared base portion, said flared base portion providing a widened base with a base edge (C), for contacting the rotor tube , that is significantly wider than the upper portion; said planar body further comprising two long edges , each edge having a respective flare angle (P, Q) between the parts of the long edge associated with the upper body and the parts of the long edge associated with the flared base portion and wherein the flare angle (P) is greater on one of said long edges than the flare angle (Q) on the other of said long edges : the one said long edge being a leading edge with respect to a general direction of crop conveyance; characterised in that the part of the long edge of the leading edge associated with the flared base portion resides closer to a hypothetical tangential plane T which is tangential to the surface of the rotor tube than to a hypothetical radial plane (R) of the rotor tube. a planar body having an upper body and a flared base portion, said flared base portion providing a widened base with a base edge (C), for contacting the rotor tube , that is significantly wider than the upper portion; said planar body further comprising two long edges , each edge having a respective flare angle (P, Q) between the parts of the long edge associated with the upper body and the parts of the long edge associated with the flared base portion and wherein the flare angle (P) is greater on one of said long edges than the flare angle (Q) on the other of said long edges : the one said long edge being a leading edge with respect to a general direction of crop conveyance; characterised in that the part of the long edge of the leading edge associated with the flared base portion resides closer to a hypothetical tangential plane T which is tangential to the surface of the rotor tube than to a hypothetical radial plane (R) of the rotor tube. the one said long edge being a leading edge with respect to a general direction of crop conveyance; characterised in that the part of the long edge of the leading edge associated with the flared base portion resides closer to a hypothetical tangential plane T which is tangential to the surface of the rotor tube than to a hypothetical radial plane (R) of the rotor tube.
An infra-red, IR, detector array device comprising: a two dimensional array of a plurality of IR detectors, wherein the two dimensional array comprises at least a 3 by 3 array; a semiconductor substrate comprising an etched cavity portion; ; a plurality of dielectric layers formed on the semiconductor substrate a single dielectric membrane formed within the dielectric layers , the single dielectric membrane comprising a membrane area which is directly on top of the single etched cavity portion of the substrate ; a plurality of separator regions formed within the single dielectric membrane , wherein the separator regions each comprise at least one separator layer, wherein the at least one separator layer is thermally more conductive than the dielectric membrane ; wherein each IR detector of the two dimensional array of the plurality of IR detectors is formed within the single dielectric membrane , and wherein at least some of said plurality of IR detectors are separated from one another by at least some of said plurality of separator regions , and wherein each IR detector forms a pixel of the device, and wherein there is at least one pixel without direct contact to the semiconductor substrate. a two dimensional array of a plurality of IR detectors, wherein the two dimensional array comprises at least a 3 by 3 array; a semiconductor substrate comprising an etched cavity portion; ; a plurality of dielectric layers formed on the semiconductor substrate a single dielectric membrane formed within the dielectric layers , the single dielectric membrane comprising a membrane area which is directly on top of the single etched cavity portion of the substrate ; a plurality of separator regions formed within the single dielectric membrane , wherein the separator regions each comprise at least one separator layer, wherein the at least one separator layer is thermally more conductive than the dielectric membrane ; wherein each IR detector of the two dimensional array of the plurality of IR detectors is formed within the single dielectric membrane , and wherein at least some of said plurality of IR detectors are separated from one another by at least some of said plurality of separator regions , and wherein each IR detector forms a pixel of the device, and wherein there is at least one pixel without direct contact to the semiconductor substrate.
A method of quantitative analysis of a tissue sample, comprising: carrying out a ploidy measurement on a plurality of nuclei of the sample to determine the ploidy type of the sample; carrying out a stroma measurement on a section of the tissue sample to determine the stroma type of the sample by determining whether the sample is a high stroma type having a percentage of stroma above a predetermined stroma percentage or a low stroma type having a percentage of stroma at most the predetermined stroma percentage; and characterised by outputting a classification based on the stroma type and the ploidy type; wherein the ploidy measurement is carried out by: preparing a sample of the tissue such that nuclei are liberated and stained with a DNA specific stain; capturing a microscope image of the nuclei specimen, segmenting the image in the captured image to identify the nuclei; for each of a plurality of nuclei, obtaining the integrated optical density; and determining the DNA ploidy classification for the sample. carrying out a ploidy measurement on a plurality of nuclei of the sample to determine the ploidy type of the sample; carrying out a stroma measurement on a section of the tissue sample to determine the stroma type of the sample by determining whether the sample is a high stroma type having a percentage of stroma above a predetermined stroma percentage or a low stroma type having a percentage of stroma at most the predetermined stroma percentage; and characterised by outputting a classification based on the stroma type and the ploidy type; wherein the ploidy measurement is carried out by: preparing a sample of the tissue such that nuclei are liberated and stained with a DNA specific stain; capturing a microscope image of the nuclei specimen, segmenting the image in the captured image to identify the nuclei; for each of a plurality of nuclei, obtaining the integrated optical density; and determining the DNA ploidy classification for the sample. preparing a sample of the tissue such that nuclei are liberated and stained with a DNA specific stain; capturing a microscope image of the nuclei specimen, segmenting the image in the captured image to identify the nuclei; for each of a plurality of nuclei, obtaining the integrated optical density; and determining the DNA ploidy classification for the sample.
A photovoltaic device comprising a juxtaposition of cells , side by side in a same plane, series-connected by conductive bands (42; 62), each band being welded on the one hand to a first connection pad on the front surface of a first cell and on the other hand to a second connection pad on the rear surface of a second cell close to the first cell, the second pad being entirely located in the 10 % of the second cell most distant from the first cell, and each band comprising, between the first connection pad of the first cell and the second connection pad of the second cell, a non-welded horizontal free portion having a length in the order of the cells length, wherein the first pads and second pads have length and width lower than 10% of the cells length, wherein the bands (42 ; 62) have a width comprised between 1 and 3 mm and a thickness comprised between 50 and 200 μm and wherein the first pad is located opposite the second pad. wherein the first pads and second pads have length and width lower than 10% of the cells length, wherein the bands (42 ; 62) have a width comprised between 1 and 3 mm and a thickness comprised between 50 and 200 μm and wherein the first pad is located opposite the second pad.
A beam training method, comprising: sending (S201), by an initiator, beam training indication information, wherein the beam training indication information comprises: identification information of one or more responders that participate in beam training, and either or both of information about resources allocated to the one or more responders and information about training sequences allocated to the one or more responders, wherein the identification information is a wildcard character, wherein the wildcard character denotes that the initiator does not specify a responder that is to participate in uplink beam training; receiving (S202), by the initiator, uplink training signals sent based on the beam training indication information by the one or more responders that participate in beam training, wherein the receiving, by the initiator, uplink training signals sent based on the beam training indication information by the one or more responders that participate in beam training comprises: receiving, by the initiator, a temporary identifier of a responder, out of the one or more responders, that determines to perform beam training based on the beam training indication information; and sending (S203), by the initiator, training feedback information, wherein the training feedback information comprises information about beams selected for the one or more responders, wherein the beams selected for the one or more responders are beams selected by the initiator and used by the one or more responders. sending (S201), by an initiator, beam training indication information, wherein the beam training indication information comprises: identification information of one or more responders that participate in beam training, and either or both of information about resources allocated to the one or more responders and information about training sequences allocated to the one or more responders, wherein the identification information is a wildcard character, wherein the wildcard character denotes that the initiator does not specify a responder that is to participate in uplink beam training; receiving (S202), by the initiator, uplink training signals sent based on the beam training indication information by the one or more responders that participate in beam training, wherein the receiving, by the initiator, uplink training signals sent based on the beam training indication information by the one or more responders that participate in beam training comprises: receiving, by the initiator, a temporary identifier of a responder, out of the one or more responders, that determines to perform beam training based on the beam training indication information; and sending (S203), by the initiator, training feedback information, wherein the training feedback information comprises information about beams selected for the one or more responders, wherein the beams selected for the one or more responders are beams selected by the initiator and used by the one or more responders.