Abstract: A lower structure of a vehicle body rear portion includes: a rear floor panel in a rear portion of a vehicle; a spare tire housing formed on the floor panel in such a manner as to be recessed downward; rear side members extending in a front and rear direction on respective right and left ends of the floor panel; a rear cross member arranged in front of the housing and connecting the paired right and left side members; and a spare tire cross member attached to the housing and connecting the paired side members, wherein a rear part of each of the side members is formed to have a rigidity lower than a rigidity of a front part thereof, the rear part extending on the rear side from a joint part joining with the spare tire cross member, the front part extending on the front side from the joint part.

Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated XBP27002 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP27002, cells from soybean variety XBP27002, plants of soybean XBP27002, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP27002. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP27002 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic, mutant trait, and/or native trait into soybean variety XBP27002, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP27002. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP27002 are further provided.

Abstract: A method of detecting manufacturing defects at a memory array may include disposing an active area of a first width in communication with a first conductive member of the memory array to define a grounded conductive member, disposing an isolation structure of a second width in communication with a second conductive member of the memory array to define a floating conductive member, and providing an alternating arrangement of floating and grounded conductive members including arranging a plurality of the grounded and floating conductive members adjacent to each other to define a sequence of alternating floating and grounded conductive members. A corresponding test device is also provided.

Abstract: A method for performing magnetic resonance diffusion imaging, comprising: (a) acquiring a sequence of magnetic resonance images of a target body (BS) using diffusion-encoding gradient pulses applied along a set of non-collinear orientations ( ) sampling a three-dimensional orientation space (AR); (b) estimating, from said sequence of images, a set of space- and orientation-dependent parameters representative of molecular diffusion within said target body; wherein said step of estimating a set of space- and orientation-dependent parameters representative of molecular diffusion within said target body is performed in real time by means of an incremental estimator such as a Kalman filter fed by data provided by said magnetic resonance images; characterized in that said three-dimensional orientation space (AR) selectively excludes a set of orientations (FR) for which magnetic resonance signal intensity is attenuated by diffusion below a threshold level.

Abstract: A computing device which runs non-pageable real time and pageable non-real time processes is provided with non-pageable real time and pageable non-real time versions of operating system services where the necessity to page in memory would block a real-time thread of execution. In one embodiment, a real time operating system service has all its code and data locked, and only supports clients that similarly have their code and data locked. This ensures that such a service will not block due to a page fault caused by client memory being unavailable. A non-real time operating system service does not have its data locked and supports clients whose memory can be paged out. In a preferred embodiment servers which are required to provide real time behaviour are multithreaded and arrange for requests from real time and non-real time clients to be serviced in different threads.

Abstract: A watermark formed of a bistable material, and a method of forming the watermark, are described.

Abstract: A paper-based plant pot comprises a container formed from a sheet of paper-based material wrapped about an axis, opposite edge portions of the sheet being secured to each other, the container having a side wall that encircles the axis and a bottom wall formed by a plurality of bottom panels of the sheet folded inwardly from a lower edge of the side wall and engaging one another. The sheet comprises a paperboard substrate formed of natural cellulose fibers, an internal sizing composition incorporated into the paperboard substrate so as to render the paperboard substrate substantially resistant to saturation by liquid water, and a thermoplastic polymer layer on one of the major surfaces of the paperboard substrate. The thermoplastic polymer layer faces an interior of the container and forms an inner surface thereof for contact with soil or other growing medium placed in the container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanism for using services provided by a network in an environment including user-operated short-range wireless terminals and short-range wireless peripheral devices, such as wireless storage units, controllable by the user-operated terminals. A wireless peripheral device is informed that a network providing services is to be accessed, as a result of which the wireless peripheral device accesses the said network. A service is then selected from the infrastructure network by the user-operated terminal, while also indicating that the party requesting the selected service is the peripheral device. The selected service is delivered to the wireless peripheral device through the infrastructure network.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a conductive layer deposited on a substrate and an epitaxial layer deposited on the conductive layer. The conductive layer is patterned to include a first pattern. The first pattern includes a major surface and a plurality of grids defined in the major surface. The major surface includes a plurality of first lines and a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected to an electrode. The epitaxial layer covers the grids and the first lines between the adjacent grids.

Abstract: A process is specified for the biological generation of methane (CH4), which process is firstly environmentally friendly and inexpensive, and secondly avoids the use of fossil deposits. The process is divided into two steps, wherein first hydrogen (H2)and oxygen (O2) are generated from carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) by algae with the action of light. In the second step, methane (CH4) is isolated by methanogenesis bacteria from the hydrogen (H2) which is generated and from carbon dioxide (CO2). To increase the yield of the process, interfering intracellular oxygen (O2) can be bound in the algae and/or in the methanogenesis bacteria.

Abstract: The device (10) according to the invention for counting and detecting flat products (14) comprises a light source (16) having an illumination beam profile (24), an optical sensor (18) having a detection beam profile (30) and an evaluation unit (20) connected to the optical sensor (18). The detection beam profile (30) overlaps the illumination beam profile (24) in a detection region in which a section (33) of a surface profile of the flat products (14) is illuminated, the section being at least partially delimited by the illumination beam profile (24). A detection signal generated by the optical sensor (18) is fed to the evaluation unit (20), which determines therefrom the number of flat products located in the detection region.

Abstract: A method for obtaining an incident angle ?i is provided. The method is used in a panel having at least one icon, wherein the at least one icon has a plurality of protrusions, and a light-emitting source is disposed under the at least one icon. The method includes steps of obtaining a distance W between two centers of two bottoms of two trenches formed at two sides of one of the plurality of protrusions; obtaining a half of the distance W; obtaining a vertical distance H between the light-emitting source and a center of the distance W; and performing an inverse trigonometric function operation for the half of the distance W over the vertical distance H so as to obtain the incident angle ?i.

Abstract: A method for providing adaptive gesture analysis may include dividing a distance range into a plurality of depth ranges, generating a plurality of intensity images for at least two image frames, each of the intensity images providing image data indicative of a presence of objects at a corresponding depth range for a respective image frame, determining motion variation between the two image frames for each corresponding depth range, and determining depth of a target based at least in part on the motion variation. An apparatus and computer program product corresponding to the method are also provided.

Abstract: A sash window includes two window frames disposed in lateral juxtaposition and each including a head member, a sill member and a pair of jamb members connected together into a rectangular configuration, and a pair of upper and lower sashes supported within a respective one of the window frames. A sill nose facing member is mounted to exterior sides of the sill members and extends continuously from an outer end of one sill member to an outer end of the other sill member. Each window frame has miter joints at corners thereof so as to provide sufficient structural strength. The miter joints formed between the sill member and the jamb members are covered or concealed and do not deteriorate an aesthetic appearance of the sash window.

Abstract: A touch sensor comprises a substrate capable of propagating acoustic waves and includes a first surface having a touch sensitive region. A first sidewall intersects the first surface along a first edge. The first edge is configured to propagate a first acoustic wave along the first edge. The first acoustic wave may be a one-dimensional edge wave. A wave converter converts the first acoustic wave to a second acoustic wave, and the first surface is configured to propagate the second acoustic wave across the touch sensitive region.