Abstract: A furniture module having a support surface and at least three legs extending therefrom. A first leg is placed adjacent a first edge of the support surface; while two second legs are placed adjacent a second edge of the support surface that is opposite to the first surface edge. The two legs are spaced apart by a distance that is substantially equal to the width of the first leg, and the first leg is spaced apart from the two second legs by a distance that is substantially the same as or greater than the width of the support surface. The outside edges of the first leg are configured for parallel alignment with the inside edges of the second legs to facilitate interlocking of the second legs of one module around the first leg of another module. Multiple modules may be combined to form various furniture designs.

Abstract: A multilayer wafer structure containing a silicon layer that contains at least one waveguide, an insulating layer and a layer that is lattice compatible with Group III-V compounds, with the lattice compatible layer in contact with one face of the insulating layer, and the face of the insulating layer opposite the lattice compatible layer is in contact with the silicon layer. The silicon and insulating layers contain either or both of at least one continuous cavity filled with materials such as to constitute a photodetector zone, or at least one continuous cavity filled with materials such as to constitute a light source zone.

Abstract: The present invention relates in general to orthopedics and to a method for promoting repair of large bone defects, in particular non-union or delayed union fractures. Specifically the invention concerns the use of endothelial progenitor cell preparations for bone repair.

Abstract: An orbital blush for an orbital floor brush machine is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The orbital brush includes a brush frame adapted to fit to the orbital floor brush machine, a first ring of first bristle tufts of a first length and oriented at a first angle, and a second ring of second bristle tufts of a second length and oriented at a second angle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of imatinib for treating viral liver diseases and in particular for viral hepatitis. The invention provides the use of imatinib for inhibiting replication, transmission or both of hepatitis viruses. The invention further relates to the use of imatinib for inhibiting replication, transmission or both of other viruses including herpes virus, poxvirus, influenza virus, para influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, yellow fever virus, west nile virus, and encephalitis virus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a crack-free monocrystalline nitride layer having the composition AlxGa1?xN, where 0?x?0.3, and a substrate that is likely to generate tensile stress in the nitride layer. The structure successively includes the substrate; a nucleation layer; a monocrystalline intermediate layer having a selected thickness on the nucleation layer; a monocrystalline seed layer of an AlBN compound in which the boron content is between 0 and 10% having a selected thickness on the intermediate layer and a relaxation rate, at ambient temperature, of less than 80%; and the monocrystalline nitride layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to frozen desserts which can be free of additives. It also pertains to a process for the manufacture of such frozen dessert which process includes the step of fermenting milk proteins with micro-organisms yielding hetero-exopolysaccharides, and thus avoiding the use of additives such as thickeners or stabilizers.

Abstract: The invention particularly relates to a tool set making it possible to introduce in a sheath (2) a flow-monitoring device (1) comprising a hollow body (11), a valve (12), a cup-type seal member (13), and a plurality of retention elastic legs (14). This tool set comprises three tools (3, 4, 5), whereof the first tool is formed of a contention bushing (31) and an ejecting pusher (32), whereof the third tool (5) receives the sheath (2) and comprises a cylinder (51) wherein a centering piston (51) slides in the sheath, and whereof the second tool (4) shaped like a funnel, is inserted between the first tool (3) and the third tool (5), and makes it possible to radially compress the seal (13) and the legs (14) of the device (1) while inserting them into the sheath (2) while this device is pushed out of the first tool.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, apparatus, and non-transitory media is directed to providing a graphical user interface for insuring a default of debts specified in financial instruments. A computer system establishes a capital structure which includes an insuring debt related to an insured debt of a debtor based on an insured debt amount representing at least a proportion of the insured debt. A first loss class and a second loss class is allocated for an insuring trust. The capital structure is simulated, including a payment payable from the insuring debt to a first class holder in the first class, wherein the first class holder is entitled to the payment based on a debt to the first class holder of an insuring fund of the insuring trust. An user interface provides a simulation of the capital structure including an insuring scenario based on various alterable inputs.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for treating hot flashes by administering formulations for transdermal or transmucosal administration of estrogen. The formulations of the invention are effective at treating hot flashes at surprisingly low daily doses, preferably the lowest effective dose of estrogen to treat hot flashes, e.g., about 0.45 to about 0.6 mg of estrogen per day. The amount of estrogen which is administered produces an estimated nominal daily estrogen dose in a subject undergoing treatment of from about 10 to about 15 micrograms, and a serum estradiol level of between about 25 pg/ml to about 50 pg/ml. The preferred formulations are substantially free of malodorous, and irritation causing long-chain fatty alcohols, long-chain fatty acids, and long-chain fatty esters.

Abstract: A vehicle utilization system and method permitting use of vehicles having respective identification codes includes a key having a memory for storing enabling codes enabling use of the vehicles; and an enabling device, in each vehicle, permitting use of the vehicle by a user in possession of the key, if the enabling code stored in the key meets given conditions. The system also includes a programming device for generating the enabling codes as a function of the identification codes of the vehicles, and for storing the generated enabling codes in the key.

Abstract: A particle reduction device with a housing containing an inlet for receiving paper material into a flow chamber, at least two adjacently spaced particle reduction stages through which paper material flows from one stage to the other for reducing the particle size of the material, and an outlet for outputting processed material with reduced particle size. Each particle reduction stage of the paper particle reduction device includes an impact member that rotates about a central shaft for impacting material into smaller particles. At least one of the stages has a screen, located downstream from the impact member, that includes perforations through which particles of a sufficiently small size can pass.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the use as perfuming ingredient, for instance to impart odor notes of the floral and/or green type, of a compound of formula 5 wherein R is an ortho, meta or para substituent of the phenyl, and represents a hydrogen atom or a C 1-2 alkyl or alkoxyl group; R 1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl or ethyl group; 10 R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a C 1-3 alkyl group; and X represents a CHO, COOR 3, CH(OR 4) 2 or CN group, R 3 being a methyl or ethyl group, and R 4, taken seperately, being a methyl or ethyl group, or said R 4, taken together, a C 2-5 alkanediyl group; and at least one of said R, R 1 or R 2 represents a group containing at least one carbon atom.

Abstract: A capsule for preparation of a beverage in a beverage production machine that includes a body and a delivery wall forming a chamber containing an extractable beverage ingredient, The delivery wall has at least one outlet, an inner layer including at least one first orifice and an outer layer including at least a second orifice, with the first and second orifices extending in the axial direction of the capsule, The first and second layers are adjacent or the first and second layers are distant by a confined gap and when a gap is present, a labyrinth structure is provided which extends transversally in the gap between the first and second orifices.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing heterostructures for applications in the fields of electronics, optics or opto-electronics. This method includes providing a silicon oxide layer with a thickness of less than or equal to 25 nanometers on one of a donor substrate or a receiver substrate or on both substrates, heat treating the substrate(s) that contains the silicon oxide layer at 900° C. to 1,200° C. under a neutral or reducing atmosphere that contains at least one of argon or hydrogen to form layer trapping through-holes inside the silicon oxide, bonding the substrates together at a bonding interface with the silicon oxide layer(s) positioned between them, reinforcing the bonding by annealing the substrates at 25° C. to 500° C. such that the trapping holes retaining gas species at the bonding interface, and transferring an active layer as a portion of the donor substrate onto the receiver substrate to obtain the heterostructure.

Abstract: A beverage dispenser, including a whipper disk and a dispensing spout connected downstream to the housing for dispensing the whipped beverage mixture. A sieve is disposed within the dispensing spout and is configured for reducing the number of large bubbles present within the fluid over a predetermined size. An output plate covers a downstream end of the dispensing spout and has a plurality of holes formed therein for reducing the velocity of the whipped beverage mixture through the dispensing spout.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system along with a processor readable medium for structuring a financial transaction.

Abstract: A capsule for preparation of a beverage in a beverage production machine. The capsule includes a body and a delivery wall forming a chamber containing ground coffee. The delivery wall has at least one outlet, an inner layer and an outer layer forming respectively first and second layers at least partially connected together by at least one seal portion which delaminates or breaks under the pressure of coffee liquid against the seal portion. Preferably, the seal portion extends in a direction (P) which differs from the direction (A) of the outlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for fabricating a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, the method includes providing an support that includes a barrier layer thereon for preventing loss by diffusion of elements derived from dissociation of the support at epitaxial growth temperatures; providing a seed layer on the barrier layer, wherein the seed layer facilitates epitaxial growth of a single crystal III-nitride semiconductor layer thereon; epitaxially growing a nitride working layer on the thin seed layer; and removing the support to form the substrate.

Abstract: Methods which can be applied during the epitaxial growth of semiconductor structures and layers of III-nitride materials so that the qualities of successive layers are successively improved. An intermediate epitaxial layer is grown on an initial surface so that growth pits form at surface dislocations present in the initial surface. A following layer is then grown on the intermediate layer according to the known phenomena of epitaxial lateral overgrowth so it extends laterally and encloses at least the agglomerations of intersecting growth pits. Preferably, prior to growing the following layer, a discontinuous film of a dielectric material is deposited so that the dielectric material deposits discontinuously so as to reduce the number of dislocations in the laterally growing material. The methods of the invention can be performed multiple times to the same structure. Also, semiconductor structures fabricated by these methods.