Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to electrical energy storages. In particular aspects, the disclosure relates to prediction of ageing of electrical energy storages. The disclosure can be applied in heavy-duty vehicles, such as trucks, buses, and construction equipment.

Abstract: A shipping container made of two panels each made of recyclable, single face corrugated paper comprising an outer liner with corrugated medium. In one embodiment, the panels are formed from a large blank that is folded in half and joined at their side edges. The flutes on the corrugated mediums are parallel and longitudinally aligned with the shipping container's longitudinal axis. The top edge of each panel is detached and form a top opening into an interior pocket formed between the two panels. Formed or attach to one panel is a top flap configured to be folded over and selectively attached to the opposite panel to close the top opening. Formed on each corrugated medium is at least one set of score lines of various geometric shapes and orientations. The score lines act as folding lines that enable the panels to bend along different axes so that the overall shape of the shipping container better conforms to the object placed in the interior pocket.

Abstract: An aerosol generating article includes: a first segment arranged at an upstream end inserted into an aerosol generating device; a second segment arranged at a downstream end of the first segment; a cooler arranged at a downstream end of the second segment and including a cooling element; and a filter arranged at a downstream end of the cooler and including a filter element, wherein the first segment includes a paper sheet impregnated with a first liquid composition, the second segment includes a paper sheet impregnated with a second liquid composition, each of the first liquid composition and the second liquid composition includes at least one of a tobacco material, a moisturizer, and a flavor material, and the first liquid composition and the second liquid composition have different compositions from each other.

Abstract: A method is provided for operating a vascular closure device assembly that includes a sheath having a sheath main body defining a beveled distal end and a sheath mounting portion, a housing within which the sheath mounting portion is disposed, and a dilator engaging the sheath through the housing. The method includes: inserting at least a portion of the dilator into the housing such that the dilator moves the sheath into a first configuration in which a tip of the beveled distal end is located on a side corresponding to a side of a vessel in which an opening is located; inserting the tip into the vessel; and displacing the dilator axially away from the housing such that the dilator causes the sheath to rotate move into a second configuration in which the tip of the beveled distal end is located on a side opposite the side of the vessel.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating article according to one aspect of the present disclosure may include a tobacco medium portion, a filter portion disposed to be spaced apart from the tobacco medium portion, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco medium portion and the filter portion, and a cooling portion surrounded by the tobacco medium portion, the filter portion, and the wrapper so as to have a space therein.

Abstract: A marker-coordinate detecting unit detects coordinates of a stent marker on a new image when the new image is stored in an image-data storage unit; and then a correction-image creating unit creates a correction image from the new image through, for example, image transformation processing, so as to match up the detected coordinates with reference coordinates that are coordinates of the stent marker already detected by the marker-coordinate detecting unit in a first frame. An image post-processing unit then creates an image for display by performing post-processing on the correction image created by the correction-image creating unit, the post-processing including high-frequency noise reduction filtering-processing, low-frequency component removal filtering-processing, and logarithmic-image creating processing; and then a system control unit performs control of displaying a moving image of an enlarged image of a set region that is set in the image for display, together with an original image.

Abstract: A method, programmer for a neurostimulator, and neurostimulation kit are provided. The kit comprises a neurostimulator, and a plurality of elongated lead bodies configured for being coupled to the neurostimulator, each having a plurality of proximal contacts and a plurality of distal electrodes respectively electrically coupled to the proximal contacts, wherein an in-line connectivity between the electrodes and proximal contacts carried by the different lead bodies differs from each other. Electrical energy is conveyed between the electrodes of the selected lead body and the tissue, an electrical fingerprint is measured at the proximal contacts of the selected lead body in response to the conveyed electrical energy, and the selected lead body is identified based on the measured electrical fingerprint. These steps can be performed by the programmer.

Abstract: An X-ray CT device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires data corresponding to energy when X-rays radiated by an X-ray tube are transmitted through a subject. The processing circuitry adjusts conditions including first and second conditions for the data when the data is acquired. The processing circuitry switches the condition between the first condition and the second condition during a fluoroscopic imaging manipulation performed by radiating the X-rays to the subject. The processing circuitry bundles the data discriminated into some of a plurality of energy bins.

Abstract: A fire extinguishing system includes a fire detector configured to detect a fire in a vehicle, a controller of the vehicle on fire to transmit fire occurrence information including a fire extinguishment request signal and vehicle location information to a surrounding vehicle and to perform a control process for fire extinguishment when determining a fire has occurred through the fire detector, a controller of the surrounding vehicle configured to receive the fire occurrence information from the vehicle on fire, to transmit a signal showing whether to participate in fire extinguishment determined by a driver to the vehicle on fire, and to perform cooperative control for supplying fire extinguishing water of the surrounding vehicle to the vehicle on fire together with the controller of the vehicle on fire, and a tank mounted in the surrounding vehicle and storing the fire extinguishing water which is supplied to the vehicle on fire.

Abstract: An evaluation range decision unit analyzes reception beam data before detection processing out of reception beam data to decide an evaluation range excluding at least a part of a structure of a subject in a data space of the reception beam data. An attenuation amount estimation unit estimates an attenuation amount of ultrasound waves in the subject based on a frequency spectrum of the reception beam data of each region included in the evaluation range among a plurality of regions arranged in a depth direction defined in advance in the data space of the reception beam data. An image formation unit executes TGC processing as brightness correction processing based on the attenuation amount of the ultrasound waves estimated by the attenuation amount estimation unit.

Abstract: Devices and methods for determining a position of a hole drilled in tissue in endoscopic surgical procedures include a drill guide configured to guide a drill bit to drill a hole in tissue of internal anatomy of a patient, the drill guide comprising: a shaft configured to receive the drill bit, wherein a distal end of the shaft is configured to interface with the tissue; and at least one fiducial marker positioned proximate the distal end of the shaft and configured to provide position information for the hole in an endoscopic image captured by an endoscopic imaging device.

Abstract: A characteristic estimation unit analyzes a reception signal before detection processing among reception signals obtained by transmitting and receiving ultrasound waves with respect to a subject, to estimate a signal characteristic of the reception signal for each region in a data space of the reception signal. An image processing parameter decision unit decides an image processing parameter for enhancing an image quality of an ultrasound image based on the signal characteristic, for each region in the data space of the reception signal, which is estimated by the characteristic estimation unit. An image formation unit executes image quality enhancement processing of the ultrasound image based on the image processing parameter decided by the image processing parameter decision unit while forming the ultrasound image based on the reception signal after the detection processing.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic device according to embodiments includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a couchtop, a drive mechanism, an input interface, and processing circuitry. The X-ray tube emits X-rays to a subject. The X-ray detector detects X-rays transmitted through the subject. The couchtop has the subject placed thereon. The drive mechanism generates the driving force for moving the couchtop. The input interface accepts instruction operations from an operator regarding the movement of the couchtop. The processing circuitry acquires one of a weight applied to the couchtop and a deflection amount of the couchtop, and determines the driving force to be generated by the drive mechanism based on one of the weight and the deflection amount and on the instruction operation.

Abstract: A slip knot suture construct system and method for securing multiple limbs of suture. The system includes a suture construct having a length of suture including a standing limb with a standing terminal end and a closing limb with a closing terminal end. The suture construct has three loops: a primary loop formed in the closing limb, the primary loop and closing limb extending to the standing limb, a secondary loop formed in the standing limb, and a locking loop formed in the length of suture between the primary loop and the secondary loop. A limb of suture extends through the primary loop. The limb of suture is secured in the suture construct by pulling the closing terminal end proximally, which pulls the primary loop holding the limb of suture through the locking loop and at least partially into the secondary loop.

Abstract: An X-ray CT device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires data corresponding to energy when X-rays radiated by an X-ray tube are transmitted through a subject. The processing circuitry adjusts conditions including first and second conditions for the data when the data is acquired. The processing circuitry switches the condition from the first condition to the second condition when an injection state of a contrast agent injected into the subject satisfies a predetermined condition. The processing circuitry bundles the data discriminated into some of a plurality of energy bins.

Abstract: There is provided a method to characterize a sorbent. The method may provide a sorbent, suspend the sorbent in a fluid, stir the sorbent in the fluid, filter the sorbent from the fluid to isolate a filtrate, measure the electrical conductivity of the filtrate, and measure the alkalinity of the filtrate.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of pieces of energy bin data that are generated based on execution of photon counting CT scan. The processing circuitry reconstructs a plurality of energy band images based on the plurality of pieces of energy bin data. The processing circuitry generates, based on the plurality of energy band images, a three-dimensional histogram based on a plurality of pixel values and a plurality of energy bands included in the plurality of energy band images.

Abstract: A catalyst structure for synthesis gas production is used to produce a synthesis gas that includes carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The structure includes a carrier with a porous structure that comprises a zeolite-type compound; first catalyst particles that contain at least one iron-group element selected from the group consisting of nickel, iron, and cobalt; and a second catalyst that contains at least one transition metal element with redox capacity. The carrier includes, inside thereof, mutually communicating passages; the first catalyst particles are present at least in the passages of the carrier; and the second catalyst is present at least in the interior or on an outer surface of the carrier.

Abstract: An X-ray CT apparatus of an embodiment includes a gantry and a control device held by the gantry. The control device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to collect data corresponding to energy of a material, adjust conditions for the data at the time of collecting the data, bundle the data distinguished in some of a plurality of energy bins, aggregate the collected data and the bundled data, and switch between the aggregation of the collected data and the aggregation of the bundled data.

Abstract: An apparatus according to an embodiment includes a member having a flow path in the member; a projection that is provided on a first surface of an inner wall of the flow path, and that has an inclined surface disposed so that the distance from a second surface positioned on a side opposite to the first surface in the inner wall decreases toward a downstream side in a flowing direction of target liquid; and a transducer element configured to cause the projection to vibrate in an intersecting direction that intersects the flowing direction.