Abstract: The invention concerns a method for applying gold to patient's face skin tissues comprising a device generating a unipolar voltage, a mask whereof the internal wall is covered with gold and designed to be placed on the patient's face by means of a gel-type fluid acting as electrolyte in contact with the internal wall, the mask being connected to the voltage generating device positive terminal, and a patient's electrode in contact with the patient's body cutaneous part and connected to the voltage generating device negative terminal such that the gold atoms are transferred from the mask to the patient's skin by electrolysis through the fluid.

Abstract: A nitrocoumarin compound or one of its derivatives which are fluorescent in the reduced state, and the use of these compounds for detecting the presence or absence of at least one microorganism. The invention concerns the use of these compounds, methods for isolating and detecting microorganisms or a group of microorganisms in a sample likely to contain them, and various applications thereof. Also disclosed is a method for detecting nitroaryl reductase activity in a bacteria culture medium.

Abstract: A method for detecting and measuring volatile components in expired gas by sampling the expired gas containing the volatile components; passing infrared radiation from an interferometer through the sample; detecting infrared radiation transmitted from the sample to produce a signal characteristic for the volatile components in the sample; and processing the signal and a set of single component reference library spectra of pure molecular gases in order to detect and calculate the amount of the volatile components in the blood of an individual expiring the gas, including the use of a low resolution FT-IR spectrometer in the detecting and processing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a contactless smart card manufacturing process and more specifically to a manufacturing process for a contactless smart card for which the antenna is on a fibrous material such as paper. This process includes a manufacturing step to screen print the antenna onto the support, a step to bond the contacts of the chip onto the antenna support using conductive glue, and a step designed to laminate the card body onto the antenna support by hot press molding. Cutouts made in the corners of the antenna support prior to the lamination step enable the card bodies to be bonded together. The card thus obtained allows a posteriori viewing of any mechanical misuse to which it may have been subjected (extreme bending).

Abstract: A method for the treatment or prevention of a disease mediated by the alpha-2B-adrenoceptor in a mammal. The method includes administering to the mammal an effective amount of a selective (alpha-2B-adrenoceptor antagonist, where the antagonist is a compound selected from the group consisting of compounds A, B, C, D and E disclosed in Scheme I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound.

Abstract: The invention thus concerns a coupling antenna connected to an electromagnetic wave transceiver device containing one or several integrated capacitors. This coupling antenna includes at least one screen printed turn (24) on a support (28) consisting of an insulating dielectric support and also includes a screen printed capacitor on the support, connected in parallel, thereby reducing the capacitance supplied by the capacitor(s) built into the device, so that the resulting capacitance forms a resonating circuit with the turn. The invention also concerns the fabrication process of such an antenna and the use of this antenna in a contactless or hybrid contact-contactless smart card.

Abstract: A porous textile product made from bioactive glass fibers. The fibers in the product are of at least two types, fiber A and fiber B, with fiber A being made from a bioactive glass, and fiber B being made from a weakly bioactive glass.

Abstract: A ticket providing access to a zone with controlled access when it is presented without contact in front of a scanner authorizing access to the zone, the ticket having an Edmonson format and including a paper ticket body covered on both surfaces with a protective coating. The paper ticket body is provided with a through recess where is located an electronic module including an integrated circuit and an antenna. The latter is formed by at least one turn obtained by screen printing with silvery powder in a polymerisable composition before being heat-cured. The ticket provides the advantages of being inexpensive to produce compared to a contactless access card and is highly biodegradable, which is essential for a disposable ticket.

Abstract: A device for the controlled release over a prolonged period of time of a drug having antiprogestinic properties, the device including a core containing the drug, optionally a membrane encasing the core, where at least one of the core and membrane, when present, is made of a siloxane-based elastomer composition including at least one elastomer and optionally a non-crosslinked polymer. The device is characterized in that the elastomer composition includes poly(alkylene oxide) groups and that the poly(alkylene oxide) groups are present in the elastomer or polymer as alkoxy-terminated grafts of polysiloxane units, or as blocks, the grafts or blocks being linked to the polysiloxane units by silicon-carbon bonds, or as a mixture of these forms.

Abstract: A device for transfer suitable for capturing and releasing microparticles binding an immobilized substance, which includes a magnet as well as either an extendable membrane, shapable membrane or magnet's coating such that the membrane or coating pressing tightly against the magnet's surface separates the magnet from the microparticles but does not substantially weaken the magnetic field directed at the microparticles. Also disclosed is a method for transferring a microparticle immobilized substance from a first vessel to a second vessel where the microparticles are of a magnetic or magnetizable material or the microparticles are attached to a magnetic or magnetizable body and the microparticles with the substance immobilized thereupon are captured with the aid of a magnet submerged in the first vessel, the magnet along with the microparticles captured thereupon are transferred to the second vessel and released from the magnet's influence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the isolation of olefins from a gas mixture comprising one or more olefins, inert gas and catalyst poison, where the gas mixture is fed to a separation unit (18) and separated into olefin and inert gas. The method according to the invention has the special feature that an apparatus (17) is installed upstream or downstream of the separation unit (18) and that i) in the case of an upstream apparatus (17), the catalyst poison is at least partially removed from the gas mixture, and ii) in the case of a downstream apparatus (17), the catalyst poison is at least partially removed from the separated-off olefin. The olefins here are preferably isolated from a gas mixture formed as offgas in catalytic gas-phase polymerization for the preparation of polyolefins. The recovery of the olefins from the offgas is of economic importance.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods for prevention of cancers, certain non-cancer, hormone dependent diseases and/or cardiovascular diseases in a person, based on administering of hydroxymatairesinol to said person. The invention also concerns a method for increasing the level of enterolactone or another metabolite of hydroxymatairesinol in a person's serum thereby causing prevention of a cancer or a certain non-cancer, hormone dependent disease in a person, based on administering of hydroxymatairesinol to said person. Furthermore, this invention relates to pharmaceutical preparations, food additives and food products comprising hydroxymatairesinol.

Abstract: Novel spiropyran compounds, particularly with photochromic properties, are disclosed, as well as photochromic compositions and ophthalmic articles containing said compounds. The photochromes have been designed so as to have a high colorability, a high sensitivity to activating radiation breaking the pyran ring, to be entirely or practically free from coloration in a non activated non exposed state, to have an intense coloration following activation and a high coverage of the visible spectrum in combination with at least one other photochrome, and to have high rates of coloration/decoloration. The spiropyrans are easily produced and photochemically stable, and are, e.g., of formula (i), wherein L=(a); (b).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid-contact contactless smart card manufacturing process and specifically a manufacturing process for hybrid-contact contactless smart card in which the antenna is on a fibrous material such as paper. This process includes a manufacturing step to screen print the antenna onto the support, a step to laminate the card body onto the antenna support by hot press molding, a step to mill a cavity in the card body opposite the side of the support bearing the screen print for housing a module comprised of a chip and a double-sided circuit and a step for inserting the module in the card. Cutouts made in the corners of the antenna support prior to the lamination step enable the card bodies to be bonded together. The card thus obtained allows a posteriori viewing of any mechanical misuse to which it may have been subjected (extreme bending).

Abstract: A craft transportable by road by being hitched at the rear of a vehicle, including two wheels capable of being extended from their housing into running position through an opening in the housing, each wheel being coupled by a shaft to one first end of a lever arm, the assembly being articulated on a shaft integral with the hull, and the second end of the lever arm being coupled by a shaft to a shock absorber fixed to a first support for maintaining the wheels in extended position. When the wheels are retracted IN the housing, a trap door integral with the lever arm is urged to come to a stop on a boss to close the housing opening after the shock absorber has been released and fixed upon a second support integral with the lever arm and after the lever arm has been fixed to a third support integral with the hull, so as to close the opening completely, thereby preventing water from penetrating into the housing where the wheel is located.

Abstract: The invention relates to a contactless or hybrid contact-contactless smart card, including an antenna on a support, this antenna being formed by at least one turn of electrically conductive ink which is screen printed on the support, two card bodies 24 on each side of the support, each of the card bodies consisting of at least one layer of plastic material, and a chip or module 26 connected to the antenna. The support is made of paper and features cutouts 22 in each corner at which the two card bodies are welded together, thus giving its capacity to delaminate, when the card is bent, at the location where the forces were generated, which highlights any act of deliberate damage a posteriori as the card retains the traces of the bending, and represents a countermeasure against fraud.

Abstract: A foaming decontaminating composition useful for chemical and biological warfare applications. The foaming decontaminating composition has a quaternary ammonium complex component, a corrosion inhibitor, an oxidizer component and a foam component, with an adjusted pH of at least 8.

Abstract: A method for measuring the end point and for monitoring the real time kinetics of a bioaffinity reaction in biological fluids and suspensions, employing microparticles as bioaffinity binding solid phase, biospecific reagent labelled with a fluorescent label and a fluorescence detection system which is based on two-photon fluorescence excitation, contacting the analyte, the labelled reagent and the solid phase simultaneously, focusing a two-photon exciting laser beam into the reaction suspension and measuring the fluorescence signal emitted by the microparticles from one particle at a time when they randomly float through the focal volume of the laser beam. In this method the signal is monitored kinetically to obtain information about the analyte concentration before the reaction approaches the highest point of the response. Since the growth rate of the signal intensity is directly proportional to the analyte concentration, the analyte concentration can be predicted in the initial phase of the reaction.

Abstract: A composite intended for medical use, in particular surgical or therapeutic use, characterized in that it comprises a mixture of a thermoplastic component plasticizable within the temperature range −10° . . . +100° C., which is substantially made up of hydroxy acids and structural units derived from hydroxy acid derivatives and the molar mass of which is within the range 30,000-1,000,000 g/mol, and which degrades in the body typically within a period ranging from a few days to several years, and which in its solid state is a mechanically strong plastic or rubbery material, and a bioactive component, which is a bioactive glass or a bioactive xerogel, such that the plasticized thermoplastic component remains moldable for a certain period even after the temperature of the composite has been lowered to a temperature which is considerably lower than the setting temperature of said thermoplastic component.

Abstract: A water display installation generating two-dimensional flow patterns on a net wall which includes a reservoir supplied with liquid by a conduit incorporating a plurality of perforations emerging into the reservoir, and provided with an overflow lip arranged such that the liquid flows from the reservoir along the wall. The reservoir includes a filtering foam for ensuring uniformity of the liquid flow from one end of the lip to the other end.