Abstract: The invention provides a method of and system for a method of monitoring an object using thermal video data. The method comprises capturing thermal video images of a scene comprising the object using one or more thermal imaging cameras, and outputting a thermal video data stream to a processing apparatus. In the processing apparatus, the thermal video data stream is processed by performing a multivariate analysis of the thermal video data stream to generate one or more models of the behaviour of the object. The one or more models includes modelling of temporal development of a thermal signature of the object, and modelling of covariation of the thermal signature between different parts or regions of the scene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphisms indicative of altered milk fatty acid composition in female milk-producing cattle. In particular, the present invention provides methods for selecting a cattle which possesses a genotype which in female milk-producing cattle is indicative of a desired milk fatty acid composition and cattle selected by said method. Further, the present invention provides milk produced by the female milk-producing cattle, methods for selective breeding and non-human gametes. Use of a nucleic acid molecule or an oligonucleotide in an in vitro method for determining the presence of at least one allele, which in a female milk-producing cattle is indicative of a desired milk fatty acid composition, is also part of the present invention.

Abstract: Methods and corresponding apparatuses for compressing, monitoring, decompressing or analyzing multidimensional data in a computer system. A sequence of multidimensional input data is received from a data generating process and is processed by using an approximation model to project respective blocks of input data on a subspace. For each block of data, a residual representing the difference between said data block and a reconstruction of the data block from the projection of the data block on said subspace is calculated. The calculated residual is stored in a repository while the projection of the data block is appended to previously stored projections of data blocks in an output buffer. The approximation model may be extended through analysis of the repository of residuals in order to detect significant patterns. If a significant pattern is found, the pattern may be added as an extension to the approximation model.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for analysing image data acquired in magnetic resonance tomography and the use of said methods for the identification of pathological tissue, preferably tumour tissue.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus are disclosed for processing spectral data to remove undesired variations in such data and to remove interfering information present in the data. The method land apparatus corrects multiplicative effects present in the spectral data. Additive and interferent contributions can be corrected as well. In one aspect of the method, coefficients for a selected appropriate model are applied to the input spectral data based on first and second reference spectra. The spectral data are then corrected based on the estimated coefficients at least as to multiplicative errors for producing a linear additive structure for use in calibration, validation and determination by linear multivariate analysis.

Abstract: A calibration device for use in a spectrometer has a source of electromagnetic radiation, a detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation from the source, a device for recording the output of the detector, and at least one optical element in an optical path between the source and the detector to separate the electromagnetic radiation into spectral elements separately detected by the detector. The calibration device includes a variation mechanism to selectively modulate the intensity of each spectral element detected by the detector and a mechanism to adjust the variation mechanism so that the input of the detector substantially reproduces the input of electromagnetic radiation that the detector would receive in its normal operation from a sample which the spectrometer is intended to analyse.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for depositing an Nb.sub.3 Sn layer on a niobium surface for high frequency applications comprising developing a tin vapor atmosphere which also contains a highly volatile tin compound in the gaseous state, and holding the portions of the surface which are to be provided with the Nb.sub.3 Sn layer at a temperature of between 900.degree. and 1500.degree. C for a predetermined period of time to form the Nb.sub.3 Sn layer permitting niobium surfaces of any shape to be provided with Nb.sub.3 Sn layers of high uniformity and quality.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a superconductive Nb.sub.3 Sn layer on a niobium surface for high frequency applications in which the niobium surface to be provided with an Nb.sub.3 Sn layer is first anodically oxidized, the niobium oxide layer produced in this manner then exposed to a tin vapor atmosphere in such a way that a tin layer is formed on the niobium oxide layer, and finally, the niobium surface is heated to a temperature of between 930.degree. and about 1400.degree. C for forming the Nb.sub.3 Sn layer.