Abstract: The invention relates to a steel component comprising a steel substrate having an anticorrosion coating present at least on one side of the steel substrate. This anticorrosion coating comprises a manganese-containing alloy layer. The manganese-containing alloy layer here forms the closest alloy layer of the anticorrosion coating to the surface. Moreover the manganese-containing alloy layer comprises iron and a further metal.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for data migration in an upgrade procedure executed on a software system include actions of initiating the upgrade procedure, determining a first set of tables of a source database that include data to be converted before being first written to a target database, converting data of the first set of tables to provide first converted data, and writing the converted data to one or more tables in the target database.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for data migration in an upgrade procedure executed on a software system include actions of initiating the upgrade procedure, determining a first set of tables of a source database that include data to be converted before being first written to a target database, converting data of the first set of tables to provide first converted data, and writing the converted data to one or more tables in the target database.

Abstract: For a marking carrier, the following is provided for the purpose of simple production and installation: the marking carrier has at least one spring tongue extending from the main body of the marking carrier, the spring tongue being designed to act on the vehicle component in a resilient manner and to preload the main body against the vehicle component in a preloading direction, and the marking carrier has at least one spring tab, which acts on the vehicle component in such a way that the spring tab retains the marking carrier in a retaining direction opposite the preloading direction.

Abstract: For a marking carrier, the following is provided for the purpose of simple production and installation: the marking carrier has at least one spring tongue extending from the main body of the marking carrier, the spring tongue being designed to act on the vehicle component in a resilient manner and to preload the main body against the vehicle component in a preloading direction, and the marking carrier has at least one spring tab, which acts on the vehicle component in such a way that the spring tab retains the marking carrier in a retaining direction opposite the preloading direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for categorizing samples containing spermatozoa by obtaining a RNA profile in said sample by hybridization and/or sequencing techniques, wherein the RNA is preferably selected from messenger RNA (mRNA), noncoding RNA (ncRNA) and micro RNA (miRNA). The present invention relates further to the use of RNA profiles and/or translation product profiles as selection criterions, such as fertility and breeding selection, of the sample donor. The present invention allows for distinguishing male and female spermatozoa of a sample and subsequently separating male and female spermatozoa. With the methods of the invention categorized samples as well as male and female spermatozoa can be obtained.

Abstract: A user of a computer is able to define and manage partner-product ranges in which each partner-product range is associated with products, business partners and a priority indicator. When a particular business partner or a particular partner-product combination is associated with multiple partner-product ranges, the priority indicator of each of the multiple partner-product ranges is used to determine which of the multiple partner-product ranges is to be applied to the business partner or the particular partner-product combination, respectively. In this way, a user may define a partner-product range that applies to one or more partner-product combinations or one or more business partners that otherwise would be covered by another partner-product range.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for the realization of a generic data handling for an arbitrary number of business (sub)objects that keep data in their respective database tables. In one implementation, the system comprises a set of application program interfaces which interfaces the business (sub)object to other objects and applications. The system also comprises a set of (sub)object specific layers comprising function modules and one generic object buffer layer and one generic database buffer layer capable of storing and handling data sets of different data type at the same time. The system may further comprises a registry of the (sub)objects comprising (sub)objects utilized in the implementation of the application and an object service class that abstractly defines all database-specific actions.

Abstract: A user of a computer is able to define and manage partner-product ranges in which each partner-product range is associated with products, business partners and a priority indicator. When a particular business partner or a particular partner-product combination is associated with multiple partner-product ranges, the priority indicator of each of the multiple partner-product ranges is used to determine which of the multiple partner-product ranges is to be applied to the business partner or the particular partner-product combination, respectively. In this way, a user may define a partner-product range that applies to one or more partner-product combinations or one or more business partners that otherwise would be covered by another partner-product range.

Abstract: A method and device for the detection of substances such as nitrotoluene, trinitrotoluene, dinitrotoluene, or derivatives, wherein a working electrode and an opposing electrode are contacted with the substance via a viscous electrolyte layer and a voltage is applied to the working electrode whose value is increased and decreased at least once with substantially equal beginning and end values within a predetermined time period, wherein the current strength is determined during this at least one measurement cycle in dependence on the applied voltage, is distinguished in that a plurality of measurement cycles are scanned, and differences of current values of sequential measurement cycles are determined and, in the event of the occurrence of a cathode current maximum, the associated voltage value is determined, held constant and the current strength extracted.

Abstract: A method for the detection of not easily volatized substances in particular of nitrotoluene, trinitrotoluene, dinitrotoluene, or derivatives of nitrotoluene as well as chemical warfare substances such as Clark, Lewisite, Lost, Sarin, Soman, Tabun or the like in soil, liquid and gases, wherein an electrode configuration, comprising at least a working electrode and an opposing electrode, is brought into contact with a substance under examination via an electrolyte and a voltage is applied to the working electrode whose value is increased and decreased at least once with substantially equal beginning and end values within a predetermined time period, wherein the current strength is determined during this at least one measurement cycle in dependence on the applied voltage, is distinguished in that a plurality of measurement cycles are scanned, and differences of current values of sequential measurement cycles are determined and, in the event of the occurrence of a cathode current maximum, the associated voltage v

Abstract: A method for determining ignition angles for individual cylinders in a multicylinder internal combustion engine forms the ignition angles for the individual cylinders, based on values of a basic family of characteristics (KFB) which applies to all cylinders, as a function of a knocking behavior of the internal combustion engine on the basis of a first (fast) and second (slow) adaptation loop. Once the internal combustion engine has been stopped, the values that are present are used in a third adaptation loop to form a family of characteristics (KF3) which is applicable to all cylinders (z), and a shift value (ZW3(z)) for each cylinder. These are stored in a non-volatile manner.

Abstract: An apparatus for liquid treatment of a textile web having at least one driven winding roller, onto which the textile web can be wound, and a basin located below the winding roller and extending over its length, which can be filled with treatment liquid, in which at least one deflection roller for the textile web is arranged. A guide roller which extends parallel to the axis of the winding roller over the width of the textile web, and rests against the fabric roll which forms on the winding roller, from the bottom, is provided, and has openings on its otherwise cylindrical circumference, which are arranged so as to avoid zones without openings which run in the circumference direction, and are uniformly distributed over the circumference.

Abstract: Design of a device for application of a fluid treatment to a moving web having the following structural components: a tank through which the web moving in an upwardly direction is passed for impregnation with a treatment liquid; drainage plate assembly having a double-wall structure defining a space therebetween for accommodating flow of a heat carrier; an applicator assembly for applying the treatment liquid onto the top of the drainage plate so that the treatment liquid flows downwardly along the top surface of the drainage plate and onto the web; and means for providing the heat carrier to the space within the drainage plate for adjusting the temperature of the drainage plate thereby affecting the temperature of the treatment liquid being applied to the web.

Abstract: In a method of operating an electromechanically actuatable pneumatic brake booster, an electromagnet which actuates a sealing seat of its control valve is energized in an interval by a short current pulse of maximum current strength with a subsequent ramp-like current rise, and the current being furnished to the electromagnet is decreased when a fixed value of the pressure that prevails in a master brake cylinder connected downstream of the brake booster is reached. When the hydraulic pressure introduced into the master brake cylinder reaches a nominal value, the current being furnished to the electromagnet is supplied by a pressure controller which maintains the hydraulic pressure constant.

Abstract: The device for impregnating a web laterally guided in the width direction with a treatment liquid comprises a tank for the treatment liquid through which the web is taken on an impregnation section and a pair of squeeze rollers arranged above the tank between which the web can be taken from below immediately after leaving the tank. The tank takes the form of an upright flat channel, the flat sides of which are tightly opposed, through which the web can be taken upwards, which can be kept full up to an optional level and the lower end of which is limited by a resilient sealing arrangement bearing on the web from both sides.

Abstract: A method for emergency control of an internal combustion engine includes simulating signals (pulses or tooth signals are reference signals) of a crankshaft transducer from certain memorized variables, in the event of a failure of the crankshaft transducer. The memorized variables are the total number of teeth, angle lengths of segments (teeth, gaps) disposed on a crankshaft transducer disk, a transit time of the segments of the crankshaft transducer disk, and memorized crankshaft positions corresponding to edges of the segments.

Abstract: A method for detecting combustion misfires includes calculating engine roughness values from fluctuations in crankshaft rpm, comparing the values with threshold values, and forming cylinder groups having an increased likelihood of misfiring. During a period of observation, each engine roughness value calculated for each cylinder is separately compared with a first threshold value and with a second threshold value being reduced in comparison with the first threshold value, a first counting sum associated with the cylinder is formed if the first threshold value is exceeded, and a second counting sum associated with the cylinder is formed if the second threshold value is exceeded.

Abstract: A method for distinguishing sources of error in a mixture formation or mixture regulating system of an internal combustion engine having an exhaust system with a lambda regulator and a heated lambda sensor is disclosed. A value of a sensor voltage is continuously measured. The value of the sensor voltage is compared with a lower diagnostic limit value and an upper diagnostic limit value. A lambda regulator value of the lambda regulator is varied in an enriching direction to a maximum lambda regulation limit if the lower diagnostic limit value fails to be attained, and the lambda regulator value is varied in a leaning down direction to a minimum lambda regulation limit if the upper diagnostic limit value is exceeded.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a lambda control device having a lambda sensor and a lambda control for regulating a fuel-air mixture to be supplied to an internal combustion engine to a set-point value, outside of full load operation, as a function of an output signal of the lambda sensor, and a mixture control device for setting the fuel-air mixture to a value being less than the set-point value, during full load operation of the internal combustion engine and with the lambda control switched off.