Abstract: Process for the tanning of hides and skins, characterized in that hides and skins are treated with tanning agents containing deglycosylated iridoids and/or deglycosylated secoiridoids, excluding tanning agents containing genipin.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for a rotor of a revolving door, wherein the drive apparatus includes a drive device, which is motion-coupled to the rotor via a drive belt. The drive apparatus further includes a tensioning device for tensioning and deflecting the drive belt, wherein the drive belt connects the drive device, the tensioning device and the rotor. The tensioning device and/or the drive device are mounted with a variable distance between one another, so that an extension of the drive belt caused by acceleration or deceleration of the rotor is compensated by varying the distance between the tensioning device and the drive device.

Abstract: A method and a device for conveying strip-shaped or plate shaped products utilizing the following steps and features: supply the products out of a continuously operating device to the conveying device; convey the products in succession in the conveying device; and transfer the products from the conveying device to a device for further processing. When the device for the further processing of the products is not ready for operation the products are store, then discharged when the device for the for the further processing of the products is ready for operation. Additionally, the products supplied into the conveying device is discharged out of the conveying device when the device for the further processing of the products is not ready for operation, the products are not able to be transferred to the further processing device, and when the storage device is completely filled with products.

Abstract: Purified polypeptide is proposed, the amino acid sequence of which is essentially identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:3, the polypeptide binding low density lipoproteins (LDL) and/or oxidized LDL (oxLDL), in particular LDL cholesterol and/or oxidized LDL cholesterol (oxLDL cholesterol). The invention includes the use of the polypeptide in combination with conventional adjuvants and/or carrier substances for producing a drug having a fat-reducing effect and for producing drugs for treating renal diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to coating compositions comprising at least one isocyanate compound, at least one hydroxyl-containing compound, at least one aldimine and/or ketimine, one or more fillers, one or more pigments, at least one solvent, and, optionally, one or more additives. The invention also relates to processes for preparing these coating compositions, and to their use as coating material in the automotive refinish segment, in the vehicle, utility vehicle (including skips, chassis), and agricultural-machinery and rail segments, and in machines. Preferably, the coating compositions of the invention are used as primers with and without chemical pretreatment such as iron or zinc phosphating, with and without mechanical pretreatment such as sandblasting, abrading or the like.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a web composed essentially of a granulate and a polymer. In order for the web to have good suction against the substrate after it has been laid on a floor, the interstices between the granulate particles are not allowed to be filled with the polymer. According to the invention, this is brought about in that the polymer is applied to the top side of the granulate. After the polymer melts, the polymer seeps down through the granulate. By means of targeted control or regulation, this sinking process is influenced before the polymer reaches the underside of the web. The invention also comprises a sensor and the product as such.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing the corticosteroid ciclesonide, used for the treatment of respiratory complaints, in epimerically pure form of formula 1:

Abstract: The abstract concerns a coating composition comprising 25-55% by weight of one or more film formers, 2.5-55% by weight of one or more fillers, 0-10% by weight of one or more additives, and 0-30% by weight of a solvent, based on the total weight of the coating composition. As the filler or a filler the composition comprises calcium hydrogen phosphate in a mass fraction of 2.5-20%, preferably 5-15%, more preferably 7.5-11% by weight based on the total weight of the coating composition. The invention further concerns processes for preparing this coating composition, its use as a coating material in the vehicle sector, and substrates produced therewith.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooled turbine blade for a gas-turbine engine having at least one cooling duct (14) extending radially, relative to a rotary axis of the gas-turbine engine, inside the airfoil and air-supply ducts (12) issuing into said cooling duct, characterized in that the cooling duct (14) extends into the blade root (6) in order to generate close to the wall a cooling airflow moved at high circumferential velocity and radially in helical form and that in the area of the blade root (6) at least one nozzle-shaped air-supply duct (12) issues into the cooling duct (14) tangentially or with a tangential velocity component.

Abstract: The invention creates a single-track or multiple-track device and a corresponding method for conveying lumpy products in such a way that the products are separated from a product stream on each of the tracks and are subsequently conveyed further spaced apart uniformly and/or in groups. For this purpose, arrangements for supplying the products as a single-row product stream are provided in each track as well as arrangements for discharging the separated products distanced from one another in a row, wherein the products are transferred from the supplying arrangements to the discharging arrangements.

Abstract: The invention provides LM-1 antibodies, functional fragments, modified and variant forms, nucleic acid and other compositions. The invention also provides antibodies, functional fragments, modified and variant forms that bind to LM-1 antigen (e.g., NONO/nmt55). Antibodies, functional fragments, modified and variant forms, nucleic acid and other compositions are useful in treatment and diagnostic methods. One method includes treating metastasis of a neoplasia, tumor or cancer in a subject in need of treatment by administering to the subject an amount of a LM-1 antibody, an antibody that binds to LM-1 antigen, or a functional fragment thereof, effective to treat metastasis of the neoplasia, tumor or cancer in the subject.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed HF front end (e.g. a transmission/reception module) in a multilayer structure that includes electronic components is provided. The multilayer structure contains a plurality of substrates stacked one above the other and carrying the components. Grooves are formed in the substrates and sealing elements are provided between the substrates, which sealing elements engage in the grooves, and the substrates are soldered together.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of water-absorbent polymer particles, comprising the process steps of preparing an aqueous monomer solution comprising at least partially neutralized, monoethylenically unsaturated monomers bearing carboxylic acid groups (?1) and at least one crosslinker (?3), and at least partially neutralizing acrylic acid by mixing acrylic acid with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide, thereby obtaining an aqueous solution of the at least partially neutralized acrylic acid; cooling the aqueous solution with a cooling liquid in a heat exchanger, wherein the cooling liquid used in the heat exchanger has been cooled in an absorption chiller in which at least a part of the heat of the heated cooling liquid obtained in the heat exchanger is consumed by the evaporation of a refrigerant liquid in a vacuum that is created by the absorption of a refrigerant vapor into an absorbent.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a drive device for a rotor of s carousel door, In addition to a main drive motor (10), which has a main-drive-motor shaft (12), the drive device according to the invention comprises a secondary drive motor (12) with a secondary-drive-motor shaft (22). The main-drive-motor shaft (12) is coupled at least indirectly to the secondary-drive-motor shaft (22, 62) in terms of rotation, and therefore the secondary-drive-motor shaft (22, 62) is coupled to the rotor in terms of movement.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a drive apparatus for a rotor of a revolving door, wherein the drive apparatus comprises a drive device, which is motion-coupled to the rotor via a drive belt. The drive apparatus further comprises a tensioning device for tensioning and deflecting the drive belt, wherein the drive belt runs via the drive device and via the tensioning device. The tensioning device and/or the drive device are mounted with a variable distance between one another, so that an extension of the drive belt caused by acceleration or deceleration of the rotor is compensated by varying the distance between the tensioning device and the drive device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for separating sheet-shaped objects (P), for example preliminary chewing-gum products or intermediate chewing-gum products in the form of chewing-gum sheets, into strip-shaped or slab-shaped object sub-units (S), for example preliminary chewing-gum products or intermediate chewing-gum products in the form of elongated chewing-gum strips or smaller chewing-gum slabs. According to the invention, the following method steps and device features are provided: providing the sheet-shaped objects (P), wherein each sheet-shaped object (P) has at least one weakening region (R); successively separating individual strip-shaped or slab-shaped object sub-units (S) one after another from the provided sheet-shaped objects (P), wherein separating takes place on the weakening regions (R) of the sheet-shaped objects (P) by means of a conveying and separating device (10); and onward conveying of the individual, formed strip-shaped or slab-shaped object sub-units (S).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for conveying strip-shaped or plate-shaped products (P), said method and device having the following method steps and features: supply (10, 20) the products (P) out of a continuously operating device, by means of which the products are produced, to the conveying device; convey (30, 40) the products (P) with conveying means in succession in the conveying device; and transfer (60) the products (P) from the conveying device to a device, by means of which the products (P) are continuously further processed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses drive device for a rotor of s carousel door, In addition to a main drive motor (10), which has a main-drive-motor shaft (12), the drive device according to the invention comprises a secondary drive motor (12) with a secondary-drive-motor shaft (22). The main-drive-motor shaft (12) is coupled at least indirectly to the secondary-drive-motor shaft (22, 62) in terms of rotation, and therefore the secondary-drive-motor shaft (22, 62) is coupled to the rotor in terms of movement.

Abstract: A multilayer system includes first and second functional layers, for example, semiconductor layers. A third or intermediate layer is disposed between the first and second functional layers and adheres relatively well to the first and second layers yet has relatively little or no detrimental effect on the functionality of the first and second layers. The third layer is applied to the first layer. Anchoring elements are provided which are partly embedded in the third layer, and the second layer is secured to the third layer by the anchoring elements. This structure yields good adhesion between the three layers, because the third layer adheres relatively well to the first layer and the third layer and the second layer are mechanically bonded together relatively strongly by the anchoring elements.

Abstract: The present invention features a polypeptide, such as an antibody produced by the hybridoma SAM-6 and its use in the treatment and diagnosis of neoplasms.