Abstract: The invention relates to a plastic insole comprising a curve support for the metatarsus. Provided in the region of the greatest height of the curve support on the underside of the insole are a plurality of longitudinally extending stiffening ribs as well as grooves, said grooves extending from the toe region in the direction of the heel as far as the metatarsal region and so curving round in the metatarsal region to the lateral side of the insole and terminating in said region that extending between the grooves are spring strips issuing from each of the toes, wherein material can be removed from the spring strips and stiffening ribs in order individually to adapt the thickness thereof.

Abstract: A protocol to enable management of opaque entities in a computing environment comprises an events component and a commands component. The events component enables a manager to utilize a received event communicated by a corresponding managed entity to indicate when administration or other management actions have occurred to domain information on the corresponding managed entity. The commands component interacts with the managed entities in response to the events component receiving corresponding events there from. The commands component further comprises commands for backing up the domain information stored by the managed entities as opaque configuration objects, for restoring the domain information to the managed entities as opaque configuration objects and for querying an identified one of the plurality of managed entities to determine whether two domain configurations are semantically different in a way that allows the configuration to remain opaque to the manager.

Abstract: There is described a method and an apparatus for the optical 3D digitization of bodies and body parts which reveal non-visible regions which therefore cannot be detected by the 3D digitizer. A mechanical aid is fixed at these regions and protrudes into the measurement space visible for the 3D digitizer. On this visible part, it is provided with marks and is digitized together with the remaining, visible body parts. From the spatial position of the marks of these aids, important geometrical information of the non-visible parts, such as the spatial position, circumferential dimensions, etc., can be calculated, and the 3D model of the body or body part incomplete at these points can be completed therewith. Two applications from the field of orthopedics are described by way of example.

Abstract: The invention relates to a prosthetic knee joint with four pivot pins for connecting four joint members, said joint members each being supported at each of their ends in a pivot pin, wherein two opposite, transversely extending joint members are connectable at one end to a prosthetic stem and at the other end to a prosthetic foot, wherein the other two joint members as longitudinal joint members, in both the standing position and the bending position, are adapted to pivot essentially out of an angled position approximate to the parallel position into a relatively more greatly inclined position with respect to each other. At least one of the pivot pins of the joint member connected to the prosthetic foot is in the form of a rotatable, lockable eccentric, wherein, upon rotation of said eccentric, the distance between the two pivot pins on said joint member changes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plastic insole comprising a curve support for the metatarsus. Provided in the region of the greatest height of the curve support on the underside of the insole are a plurality of longitudinally extending stiffening ribs as well as grooves, said grooves extending from the toe region in the direction of the heel as far as the metatarsal region and so curving round in the metatarsal region to the lateral side of the insole and terminating in said region that extending between the grooves are spring strips issuing from each of the toes, wherein material can be removed from the spring strips and stiffening ribs in order individually to adapt the thickness thereof.

Abstract: A system, apparatus and method process data by identifying a processing pipeline defining a series of markup language processing steps. The system inserts at least one debugging step into the processing pipeline. The debugging step(s) define processing to collect debug data associated with application of the markup language processing steps to markup language data to be processed by the processing pipeline. The system executes the series of markup language processing steps, including the debugging step(s), upon input markup language data as a transaction. Execution of the debugging step(s) captures the debug data for at least one of the series of markup language processing steps in the processing pipeline. The debug data allows analysis of operation of the markup language processing steps of the processing pipeline on the input markup language data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wrist orthosis with a cuff, which is open for passage of the thumb and which is provided with stabilizing rods and with at least one tightening strap for fixing the orthosis on the wrist. The cuff has two adjacent thumb openings for receiving either the left or right thumb, wherein a central stabilizing rod extends between the thumb openings, and a lateral stabilizing rod extends along the outer side of each said opening in such a manner that the thumb openings are each located between the central stabilizing rod and the relevant lateral stabilizing rod.

Abstract: The invention relates to a joint bandage having a tubular base body made of an elastic textile material with an insert in the area of the bend in the joint, such that the elasticity of the insert is greater than that of the base body, and two areas of differing elasticity are formed in the insert, their individual elasticities being greater than that of the base body.

Abstract: The invention relates to an inlay sole for shoes, consisting of sole parts of different Shore hardness, wherein, at abutting edges, the width of which abutting edges corresponds to the thickness of the sole parts, said sole parts are interlocked with each other in sinuously conjoining manner by means of projections and matching recesses, such that the projections form extensions that engage undercuts in the recesses, the inlay sole consisting of a plurality of layers of thus assembled sole parts. The respective abutting edges are offset with respect to each other from layer to layer.

Abstract: Knee-joint bandage of elastic textile material, the knee-joint bandage being provided with a specially shaped insert surrounding the kneecap in a cutout. The specially shaped insert being covered by an overlay of identical or similar textile material attached to the textile material with the specially shaped insert being associated with a flexible, non-expandable tensioning member. The tensioning member connecting the regions of the kneecap poles on the fibula side in an arc around the kneecap such that, when the distance between the regions increases during bending of the knee joint, the distance of the arc from the connecting line between the kneecap poles is reduced and the tensioning member presses on the adjacent side of the kneecap, medially displacing and centering the latter, wherein the tensioning member is attached to the overlay in such a manner that, during bending of the knee joint and stretching of the overlay, the tensioning member displaces the kneecap.

Abstract: A protocol to enable management of opaque entities in a computing environment comprises an events component and a commands component. The events component enables a manager to utilize a received event communicated by a corresponding managed entity to indicate when administration or other management actions have occurred to domain information on the corresponding managed entity. The commands component interacts with the managed entities in response to the events component receiving corresponding events there from. The commands component further comprises commands for backing up the domain information stored by the managed entities as opaque configuration objects, for restoring the domain information to the managed entities as opaque configuration objects and for querying an identified one of the plurality of managed entities to determine whether two domain configurations are semantically different in a way that allows the configuration to remain opaque to the manager.

Abstract: An appliance manager for managing appliances in a networked environment comprises a subscription component, a hierarchy component, a storage component, an interface component and a management component. The subscription component identifies active subscribed-to appliances to be managed and the hierarchy component organizes subscribed-to appliances into at least one managed set of configuration-identical devices, where each managed set has a roaster appliance and zero or more slave appliances. The storage component stores managed data associated with the subscribed-to appliances. The interface component receives events from active subscribed-to appliances, wherein the appliance manager exchanges information with a select active subscribed-to appliance in response to receiving a corresponding event there from.