Abstract: A production line for manufacturing a building block, which includes at least one component, the production line including: a central conveyor line; at least one feeding line for feeding the at least one component to the central conveyor line; a manufacturing tool set for processing the at least one component; and a control unit for controlling the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set. The controlling at least one of the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set includes: retrieving an asset-information about the at least one component and/or the manufacturing tool set, conveying the at least one component according to the asset-information by the feeding line to the central conveyor line, retrieving a processing-information and/or a manufacturing tool set information about processing the at least one component, and processing the at least one component by the manufacturing tool set.

Abstract: A method for determining a concentration of a target gas in blood of a human or animal animate being. The method includes the steps of: generating electromagnetic excitation radiation having a carrier frequency, wherein the carrier frequency is selected such that the target gas and an absorbing gas absorb the excitation radiation, modulating an amplitude or the carrier frequency of the excitation radiation with a modulation frequency, illuminating an absorption path superficial to a skin of the animate being with the excitation radiation, generating a sound wave by an absorption of the excitation radiation in the absorption gas, and detecting at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the sound wave as a measure of a concentration of the target gas on the absorption path. Also provided is a photoacoustic sensor for determining a concentration of a target gas in blood of a human or animal animate being.

Abstract: A computer-implemented broker entity receives from a requesting device a request for one or more target values of state information that have sought target semantic meanings; obtains one or more source values of state information that are associated with given source semantic meanings; obtains at least in part from a transformation library one or more transformations, wherein each transformation maps one or more first values that are associated with first semantic meanings to one or more second values that are associated with second semantic meanings; applies the one or more transformations or a new transformation obtained based on the one or more transformations to the source values of state information, thereby obtaining the one or more target values of state information; and transmits the one or more target values to the requesting device.

Abstract: A method including providing an acoustic resonator having an absorption element with a surface portion, providing a sample fluid or a fluid mixture containing the sample fluid with at least one absorption fluid or particles such that the acoustic resonator is filled with the same, the surface portion of the absorption element being in contact with the sample fluid. Irradiating the surface portion of the absorption element with a first electromagnetic radiation such that the absorption element at least partly absorbs the first electromagnetic radiation in the region of the surface portion, or irradiating the fluid mixture with a first electromagnetic radiation such that the absorption fluid or the absorption particles at least partly absorb(s) the first electromagnetic radiation, and so, by way of the absorption, pressure energy is generated in the sample fluid or the fluid mixture, with the first electromagnetic radiation being amplitude modulated or frequency modulated with a modulation frequency.

Abstract: A method for identifying pre-disposition to cognitive decline in a subject, the method comprising determining levels of: (a) omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamin D or a metabolite thereof; (b) omega-3 fatty acids, and homocysteine; (c) vitamin D or a metabolite thereof, and homocysteine; or (d) omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D or a metabolite thereof, and homocysteine, independently in one or more samples obtained from the subject.

Abstract: A process analyzer adapter includes: a first part connectable to a process analyzer, the first part being rotatable about a first axis; a second part; and a third part. The first part is rotationally connected to the second part. The second part is rotationally connected to the third part. The second part is rotatable about a second axis, rotation of the second part about the second axis tilting the first axis. The third part is connectable to a flange of an industrial process equipment.

Abstract: An industrial information identification and retrieval system includes: a crawler; a search engine; a result processor; and a web user interface “web UL” The crawler identifies devices and their associated Open Platform Communication Unified Architecture “OPC UA” servers within a network as identified OPC UA servers. The crawler browses the identified OPC UA servers and extracts and stores data items in a database as extracted data items. The search engine searches the extracted data items and provides search results to the result processor. The result processor determines a score for each search result. The web UI presents the search results according to the scores.

Abstract: A method of attenuating, treating or preventing cognitive aging in an individual who does not have dementia includes administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of a composition containing an omega-3 fatty acid and choline. The method can achieve a benefit that is one or more of decreasing brain atrophy, increasing or maintaining number of synapses, increasing amyloid-? phagocytosis, or decreasing or maintaining neuroinflammation in the non-demented individual. The method can prevent dementia in an individual at risk thereof, for example an elderly human. The composition can be administered to the individual in a daily dose that provides 5.5 mg/day to 5,500 mg/day of the choline, for example 85 mg/day to 3,500 mg/day of the choline.

Abstract: A device for gas-tight connection includes: a first connection point with a terminal surface; a second connection point with a stationary, predetermined reference surface of a pipe flange connection, which is arranged relative to the terminal surface by an offset angle which is compensated for by an angular offset compensation; and a flanged disc unit. The first connection point includes a central ball-and-socket joint arrangement as an angular misalignment compensation. The central ball-and-socket joint arrangement has a tube section with a convex distal end region configured to interact in an articulated manner with a concave annular region, corresponding thereto, of the flanged disc unit. A side surface region of the flanged disc unit includes at least one adjusting screw for adapting to the offset angle so as to adjust a local distance to a counter-disc fixedly fastened coaxially to a pipe section adjacent to the convex distal end region.

Abstract: A method of attenuating, treating or preventing cognitive aging in an individual who does not have dementia includes administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of a composition containing an omega-3 fatty acid, a nitric oxide releasing compound, Vitamin B12 and choline. The composition is administered in a daily dose that provides 0.1 to 50 times the recommended daily requirement (RDA) of Vitamin B12 per day, more preferably 0.1 to 40 times the recommended daily requirement (RDA) of Vitamin B12 per day and 0.01 to 10.0 times the recommended daily requirement (RDA) of choline. Optionally Vitamin B6 and/or Vitamin B9 can be included in the composition. The method can achieve a benefit that is one or more of decreasing brain atrophy, increasing or maintaining number of synapses, increasing amyloid-? phagocytosis, or decreasing or maintaining neuroinflammation in the non-demented individual. The method can prevent dementia in an individual at risk thereof, for example an elderly human.

Abstract: A method for identifying pre-disposition to cognitive decline in a subject, the method comprising determining levels of: (a) omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamin D or a metabolite thereof; (b) omega-3 fatty acids, and homocysteine; (c) vitamin D or a metabolite thereof, and homocysteine; or (d) omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D or a metabolite thereof, and homocysteine, independently in one or more samples obtained from the subject.

Abstract: A method for enabling a secure communication with a target device over a network includes: opening an unsecured OPC UA Endpoint by an OPC UA Server that runs on the target device; connecting to the OPC UA Server over the network by an OPC UA Client running on a first device, and requesting the initial device certificate; receiving the initial device certificate by unsecured communication over the network; validating, by the first device, the initial device certificate; establishing, by the first device, a device certificate; encrypting, by the first device, at least the device certificate; sending the encrypted data over the network; decrypting, by the target device, the encrypted data using an initial device private key associated with the initial device certificate to obtain at least the device certificate; storing the device certificate on the target device; and opening a secured OPC UA Endpoint by the OPC UA Server.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for retrieving data that relates to at least one industrial asset includes the steps of: receiving, from a requesting entity, a query for data objects from one or more lifecycle phases of the at least one industrial asset; mapping the query to one or more types of data objects that are available from one or more given data sources relating to the at least one industrial asset; obtaining, from the one or more data sources, one or more data objects of the one or more types; producing, from the one or more data objects, a response to the query; and transmitting the response to the requesting entity.

Abstract: A method of attenuating, treating or preventing cognitive aging in an individual who does not have dementia includes administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of a composition containing an omega-3 fatty acid, a nitric oxide releasing compound, Vitamin B12 and choline. The composition is administered in a daily dose that provides 0.1 to 50 times the recommended daily requirement (RDA) of Vitamin B12 per day, more preferably 0.1 to 40 times the recommended daily requirement (RDA) of Vitamin B12 per day and 0.01 to 10.0 times the recommended daily requirement (RDA) of choline. Optionally Vitamin B6 and/or Vitamin B9 can be included in the composition. The method can achieve a benefit that is one or more of decreasing brain atrophy, increasing or maintaining number of synapses, increasing amyloid-? phagocytosis, or decreasing or maintaining neuroinflammation in the non-demented individual. The method can prevent dementia in an individual at risk thereof, for example an elderly human.

Abstract: A method for automatically supplying or locating data over a communication network comprising: configuring a data source to provide source data over the communication network, the source data being identified by a data identifier in a domain of identifiers; receiving a machine-readable description, the machine-readable description specifying at least one predicate that must be satisfied by the data; labeling data identified by the data identifier with labels at least in part indicative of data predicates that hold true for the data identified by the data identifier or that are satisfiable for the data identified by the data identifier; searching for the data based at least in part on the machine-readable description and the labels; obtaining a solution satisfying the predicate based on the search; and supplying the solution over the communication network to a data consumer.

Abstract: A system for action indication determination includes an inputter, first and second processors, and an outputter. The inputter provides the first processor with sensor data from a plurality of sensors. The second processor implements a machine learning algorithm to generate at least one pre-processing rule, where the generation includes utilization of a plurality of training sensor data and associated training action indications. The second processor provides the first processor with the at least one pre-processing rule. The first processor implements a pre-processing algorithm to determine pre-processed sensor data, where the determination includes utilization of the at least one pre-processing rule and the sensor data. The first processor provides the pre-processed sensor data to the second processor. The second processor implements the machine learning algorithm to determine at least one action indication, where the determination includes utilization of the pre-processed sensor data.

Abstract: A computer system for interoperable data exchange between a plurality of information systems via a digital representation service associated with a digital representation of a physical device with each information system being at least one of an information source and an information consumer regarding data associated with the physical device, the digital representation being a virtual entity replicating data of the physical device and data associated with the device life cycle, includes: at least one digital representation service for the physical device, the at least one digital representation service having: an interface for receiving a request for device related data; a management module for generating and updating the digital representation of the device, the digital representation storing a plurality of data models with each stored data model being associated with a particular information system; and a semantic relations library storing semantic relations between model element types from stored data mode

Abstract: A method for enabling a secure communication with a target device over a network includes: opening an unsecured OPC UA Endpoint by an OPC UA Server that runs on the target device; connecting to the OPC UA Server over the network by an OPC UA Client running on a first device, and requesting the initial device certificate; receiving the initial device certificate by unsecured communication over the network; validating, by the first device, the initial device certificate; establishing, by the first device, a device certificate; encrypting, by the first device, at least the device certificate; sending the encrypted data over the network; decrypting, by the target device, the encrypted data using an initial device private key associated with the initial device certificate to obtain at least the device certificate; storing the device certificate on the target device; and opening a secured OPC UA Endpoint by the OPC UA Server.

Abstract: A device for gas-tight connection includes: a first connection point with a terminal surface; a second connection point with a stationary, predetermined reference surface of a pipe flange connection, which is arranged relative to the terminal surface by an offset angle which is compensated for by angular offset compensation means; and a flanged disc unit. The first connection point includes a central ball-and-socket joint arrangement as angular misalignment compensation means. The central ball-and-socket joint arrangement has a tube section with a convex distal end region configured to interact in an articulated manner with a concave annular region, corresponding thereto, of the flanged disc unit. A side surface region of the flanged disc unit includes at least one adjusting screw for adapting to the offset angle so as to adjust a local distance to a counter-disc fixedly fastened coaxially to a pipe section adjacent to the convex distal end region.

Abstract: A method for identifying pre-disposition to cognitive decline in a subject, the method comprising determining levels of: (a) omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamin D or a metabolite thereof; (b) omega-3 fatty acids, and homocysteine; (c) vitamin D or a metabolite thereof, and homocysteine; or (d) omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D or a metabolite thereof, and homocysteine, independently in one or more samples obtained from the subject.