Abstract: An inflatable transfer mattress includes a top panel, a bottom panel having a perimeter sealingly coupled to a perimeter of the top panel to define an internal volume therebetween, a first wedge pocket coupled to an outer surface of the top panel, and a first inflatable wedge. The internal volume is configured to receive an air flow therein. The first inflatable wedge is sized and configured to be inserted into the first wedge pocket and is configured to be transitioned from a deflated state to an inflated state. The first inflatable wedge is configured to rotate a patient to a predetermined angle with respect to the top panel in the inflated state.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to systems and methods for psycho-physiological mood mapping. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring various parameters such as, but not limited to, facial muscle activity, heart rate changes, skin conductance changes, electrical charges across scalp, eye tracking, and behavior analysis and analyzing the data of such parameters via a 3D mood map. This data analysis may be used for many purposes including, without limitation, assessing the marketability of a product.

Abstract: A method of preparing remediated MoO3 from naturally-occurring molybdenum, or molybdenum that is enriched in one, the other or both of Mo-98 and Mo-100 isotopes from a particulate rhenium-containing MoO3 matrix that contains one, the other or both of those isotopes is disclosed as is the product remediated MoO3 that contains less than about 1000 ppt rhenium. In accordance with the invention, particulate rhenium-containing MoO3 matrix is heated in the presence of an oxygen-containing gaseous stream to a temperature of greater than about 300° C. and less than about 800° C. The temperature and oxidative sparging are maintained for a time sufficient to assure that rhenium has been oxidized to rhenium(VII), diffuses to form the dimer (Re2O7), and is then vaporizingly removed as Re2O7, while retaining the remediated MoO3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of nucleic acid purification. In particular, it relates to methods and tools for purifying nucleic acids in a sample; which are compatible with high-throughput sequencing and diagnosis. The inventors have shown that nucleic acid binding proteins recruited to polymerized tubulin (i.e. microtubules) could, subsequently, be isolated from cell lysates. Surprisingly, it has now been found that the amount of recovered nucleic acid found in these microtubule pellets increases dramatically in the presence of nucleic acid-trapping proteins comprising a nucleic acid-binding moiety and a polymerized tubulin-binding moiety, by comparison to proteins devoid of the nucleic acid-binding moiety; and that the recovery of the purified nucleic acids was itself particularly efficient. This purification method is particularly amenable to high-throughput sequencing and/or in the context of a diagnosis method for identifying or comparing the amount of nucleic acids in a set of samples.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a cosmetic active ingredient comprising at least one hydrolysate of Nymphaea alba flowers, as well as cosmetic compositions including said active ingredient and its use in cosmetics. In particular, the invention relates to the use of an extract of Nymphaea alba flowers for improving skin complexion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blade guard (1) for a wiper (100) of a vehicle (200), the blade guard (1) comprising a first part (11) and a second part (12), the first part (11) being configured to allow the blade guard (1) to be attached on the wiper (100), the second part (12) being intended to come into contact with a glazed surface (50) of the vehicle (200), characterized in that the second part (12) is configured to contain a product to be applied onto the glazed surface (50). The invention also relates to a wiper (100) comprising such a blade guard (1).

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions thermally curable on demand by red to near infrared irradiation, method of using same for thermal amplification of free radical polymerizations, and articles obtained by such method. The invention also relates to the use of a heat-generating dye in association with a thermal initiator for controlling the onset of thermal free radical polymerization.

Abstract: The inventors demonstrate that the phosphatase and hydrolase domains of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) regulate the cardiovascular calcification process and revealed that inhibition of the phosphatase domain of sEH could represent a new pharmacological target in the prevention of cardiovascular calcification. The present invention thus relates to a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of phosphatase activity of soluble epoxide hydrolase for use in a method of treating cardiovascular calcification in a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatically analyzing a natural language input for information extraction comprises (i) a step of receiving the natural language input; (ii) a step of providing a grammar model comprising: a local grammar model, a set of external functions, and a finite set of read/write shared memory registers used by a parsing engine and the external functions; (iii) a step of applying the grammar model to the natural language input using the parsing engine, and (iv) a step of extracting information from the natural language input using at least one new output of the grammar model, the new output of the grammar model being built based: on at least one return value of the external functions from evaluating the one or more external functions in step (iii), and one or more input labels and/or output labels.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for computing problems represented as directed graphical models via quantum processors with topologies and coupling physics which correspond to undirected graphs. These include techniques for generating approximations of Bayesian networks via a quantum processor capable of computing problems based on a Markov network-based representation of such problems. Approximations may be generated by moralization of Bayesian networks to Markov networks, learning of Bayesian networks' probability distributions by Markov networks' probability distributions, or otherwise, and are trained by executing the resulting Markov network on the quantum processor.

Abstract: Therapeutic solutions for axonal degeneration include use of NRF2 activators in prevention and/or treatment of axonal degeneration. A method of prevention and/or treating axonal degeneration includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a NRF2 activator selected from a GSK3 inhibitor or the compound of formula (I): wherein R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, independently represent H, a linear, branched wherein R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, independently represent a linear, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated C1-6 alkyl radical, a pharmaceutical salt thereof or a metabolite or precursor of the dimethyl fumarate to a patient in need of the treatment.

Abstract: Thermal storage unit including: a receptacle including orifices allowing a heat-transfer fluid to be introduced into and extracted, and a stack of bricks, arranged in the receptacle in superposed strata, each stratum having lower and upper large faces and defining a plurality of ducts opening via lower and upper openings, the stack including a pair of strata of a lower and upper stratum, the upper and lower large faces of the lower and upper stratum being separated to define a passage, placing an upper opening of a lower duct of the lower stratum in fluidic communication with at least one lower opening, entirely offset with respect to the upper opening, of at least one upper duct of the upper stratum, the lower large face of the upper stratum closing off, at least partially, the upper opening, when the upper opening is observed, along its axis, from the lower duct.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gemstone cut, comprising a crown having a flat table and main crown facets (10-12) being arranged around the table (1) and being inclined relative to the table, a girdle (5) at which the gemstone has its largest transverse dimension, and a pavilion adjoining the girdle from below the girdle and having main pavilion facets (7) around the girdle, whereby the number of the main pavilion facets is odd. The invention also relates to an article comprising a gemstone according to the invention and a method for improving the optical properties of a gemstone.

Abstract: A three-phase load is powered by a PWM (e.g., SVPWM) driven DC-AC inverter having a single shunt-topology. A shunt voltage and a branch voltage of the inverter (across a transistor to be calibrated) are measured during a second period of each SVPWM sector, and the drain-to-source resistance of the calibrated transistor is calculated. During the fourth period of each SVPWM sector, the branch voltage is measured again, and another branch voltage across another transistor is measured. Using the drain-to-source resistance of the calibrated transistor and the voltage across the calibrated transistor measured during the fourth period, the phase current through the calibrated transistor is calculated. Using the other branch voltage measured during the fourth period and the drain-to-source resistance of its corresponding transistor (known from a prior SVPWM sector), the phase current through that transistor is calculated. From the two calculated phase currents, the other phase current can be calculated.

Abstract: A plug for use in a cap assembly of a refill capsule is disclosed. The plug (300) generally comprises a hollow tubular body (302) with an open proximal end that is surrounded by a first rim (304) that provides a proximal abutment surface for bearing against a frangible sealing component of a cap assembly. A tubular skirt wall (306) is arranged coaxially with respect to the tubular body, and extends around the skirt wall (306) to form a plug recess (308) between the skirt wall (306) and the tubular body (302). The skirt wall (306) extends from a skirt distal end at which the skirt wall (306) is connected to the tubular body (302), to a free proximal end. The free proximal end of the skirt comprises an outwardly extending flange (310) comprising a distal facing abutment surface (312) for abutting a rim (406) of a refillable vessel (400).

Abstract: The invention relates to isotropic liquid composition comprising acyl isethionate, methyl acyl taurate and amphoteric, zwitterionic and/or nonionic surfactant. Unexpectedly, it has been found that, when ratio of isethionate to taurate is monitored, enhanced lather is achieved.

Abstract: A furan-based surfactant comprising a beta sulphonate head group, a furan and a C10-20 hydrophobic group which is either attached directly to the furan or by way of a linker. A laundry composition or a hand dish wash cleaning composition comprising said surfactant.

Abstract: Topical personal care compositions containing amino acids and 4-substituted resorcinols for potentiating glutathione synthesis within skin cells. The compositions can be used to improve skin appearance of chronological aging or photoaging, resulting from exposure to UV light/sunlight, or environmental pollutants. The compositions are also useful for attaining even skin color and reducing pigmentation, age spots and discoloration.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an infrared sensor structure, comprises a cantilever switch array, the cantilever switch array comprises cantilever switches, and each cantilever switch comprises a cantilever beam and a switch corresponding to the cantilever beam, vertical heights from the cantilever beams to the switches in different cantilever switches are different from each other, when the cantilever beams are deformed towards the switches and connect to the switches, the switches turn on; wherein, deformations of different cantilever beams produced by absorbing infrared signal are different from each other, the intensity of the infrared signal can be quantified by number of the switches on, so as to realize detection of the infrared signal. The manufacturing of the infrared sensor structure in the present disclosure can be compatible with the existing semiconductor CMOS process.