Abstract: In a wireless microphone system, a master device includes a master device control unit that generates a communication table in which a pair of a carrier wave and a slot which are used for communication with m microphone slave devices are set for one frame period, based on a total number of six carrier waves in a DECT system and n slots constituting one frame period of the DECT system, and k wireless processing units that perform communication using the DECT system with corresponding individual microphone slave devices among m microphone slave devices, based on the generated communication table. The k wireless processing units respectively operate synchronously based on the same clock signal.

Abstract: A windscreen wiper blade including: a monolithic support frame that includes an inner housing formed within a body of the support frame; a wiping strip with a wiping edge able to engage with a surface of a window and a top heel that engages with the support frame; a pair of ribs that: extend from a bottom face of the support frame, and latch onto the top heel of the wiping strip; a central spine disposed within the inner housing; and an aerodynamic deflector that extends from a top face of the support frame.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for determining a subject's stress condition. The system includes a stress test unit configured for: receiving features defining the subject and physiological signals sensed from the subject when performing a relaxation and a stressful test task; extracting normalization parameters from the physiological signals; and identifying stress-responsive physiological features. The system also includes a storage unit configured for: storing a plurality of stress models; and storing the subject's features, normalization parameters, and the stress-responsive physiological features.

Abstract: Methods for reticle enhancement technology (RET) include representing a target wafer pattern or a predicted wafer pattern as a smooth function captured as a function sample array, which is an array of function values. A continuous tone mask (CTM) is provided, where the CTM is used to produce the predicted wafer pattern. Methods for RET also include inputting a target wafer pattern, where the target wafer pattern spans an entire design area. The entire design area is divided into a plurality of tiles, each tile having a halo region surrounding the tile. A proposed mask for the entire design area is iterated until the proposed mask meets criteria towards producing the target wafer pattern. Each iteration includes calculating a predicted wafer pattern for a subset of the plurality of tiles; and updating the proposed mask for that tile; where all tiles in the subset are calculated before the next iteration.

Abstract: A cover assembly and a battery comprising the same are provided. The cover assembly comprises: a cover plate body formed with at least a via hole penetrating therethrough; a cover plate connecting member hermetically connected with the cover plate body at the via hole, which is formed with an electrode receiving hole therein; and an electrode terminal penetrating through the electrode receiving hole to be hermetically connected with and insulated from the cover plate connecting member for leading out a current.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition exhibiting a bile-salt hydrolase activity for its use for the treatment or the prevention of giardiasis, said composition comprising a bile-salt hydrolase (BSH) enzyme, a bacterium able to secrete a BSH, a recombinant host cell able to secrete a BSH, or a combination thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of a composition exhibiting a BSH activity for the treatment or the prevention of giardiasis, and to a pharmaceutical composition or a food composition comprising, as an active principle, a BSH, a lactic acid bacterium able to secrete a BSH, or a recombinant host cell able to secrete a BSH.

Abstract: A collapsible ski, by which the front part and a rear part of the ski, when aligned, in such position fixed by a platform, which is by hinges interconnected with a bearing plate, which is attached onto a top surface of the front part of the ski and is rotatable around geometric axis, which extends perpendicularly with respect to the top surface of the ski.

Abstract: A sensor for measuring conductivity of a fluid containing dissolved ions, particularly for measuring conductivity of salt water, features a cylindrical tube (57) of poorly conductive material such as glass, a first electrode (51A) and a second electrode (51B) inside the tube, connected together (56) to maintain a common electrical potential, a first transformer (52,53) concentrically arranged around the tube (57) to drive current through the fluid in the tube, and a second transformer (54, 55) arranged to sense a value of the current flowing in the fluid, and a digital processing circuit (62) coupled to receive an output signal of the second transformer, and to derive therefrom a value representing the conductivity of the fluid. The sensor is adapted to be towed behind a research ship, or to be deployed on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) or the like. Current signals are preferably processed by digital switching measurement technology (dMST).

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of systemized preparation and sale of individualized cosmetics, more precisely it belongs to the field of systems, devices and processes for creation of own cosmetic products and the sale method of said products.

Abstract: A method may include delivering a first catheter to a location within an arterial vasculature of a subject. The location may include at least one of an internal carotid artery of the subject or a junction between an ophthalmic artery of the subject and the internal carotid artery of the subject. The method also may include moving a second catheter relative to the first catheter so as to reorient a direction of a distal opening of the second catheter, the second catheter being connected to the first catheter at a joint.

Abstract: A guardrail system for use along a roadway. The system can include a longitudinal body having one or more longitudinal void spaces formed therein, at least one substantially vertical post connected at one or both ends of the body, and a longitudinal member disposed within any one of the longitudinal void spaces of the body having a crosswise ultimate tensile strength that is at least 20% greater than the crosswise ultimate tensile strength of the longitudinal body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel CD4+ and CD8+ T cell epitopes that are specific for HPV-specific E6 and E7 oncoproteins, to peptides comprising these novel T cell epitopes, and to (vaccine) compositions comprising these peptides for use in methods for the prevention and/or treatment of HPV related diseases. Preferred epitopes are recognized by a T cell that infiltrates a cervical neoplastic lesion or by a T cell from a draining lymph node, and are presented by an HLA-DQ or HLA-DP molecule, or an HLA-B.

Abstract: Personalized dental guards for users of musical wind instrument, as well as methods for making such personalized dental guards, are disclosed. The personalized dental guards can be fabricated from a thermoplastic ingot that becomes pliable at elevated temperatures. The method can involve heating the thermoplastic ingot until pliable, wrapping the pliable thermoplastic ingot around a musical wind instrument user's teeth to form a personalized dental guard that substantially conforms to the user's teeth. Once formed, the personalized dental guard can be transformed back to the pliable thermoplastic ingot by subjecting it to heat and the recovered thermoplastic ingot can be reprocessed to fabricate a new personalized dental guard.

Abstract: A connector for a wiper blade, the connector is configured to cooperate pivotably, by a transverse hinge pin, with an adapter designed to allow an articulation link between the blade and a driving arm, the connector includes a body provided with two opposite side flanges, defining a housing designed to receive the adapter, and a pin between the flanges for the articulation link of the blade to the arm, the flanges include, at each of the ends of the hinge pin, a shoulder configured to allow axial guiding of the articulation link between the blade and the arm, the side flanges is configured to allow lateral flexion of the adapter bearing against the shoulder.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition and method for treating diseases associated with demyelination of the nerves, such as ALS, RA, Tremors/Parkinson's Disease, and MS, Alzheimer's disease, ALS, Guillain-Barre syndrome, atherosclerosis, schizophrenia, Tremors/Parkinson's disease, senile dementia, Muscular Dystrophy, Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Diabetes, Neuropathic Pain, Spider Arthritis West Nile Virus, Fibromyalgia, Shingles, Gout, Migraine Headaches, Post Polio Syndrome, Central Virus Deafness, Asthma, Chronic Pain Of Unknown Origin and Hepatitis C and for treating non-viral based cancers. By administering measured doses of an immunity-provoking agent and a bacterial antigen activator, patients suffering from ALS, RA, MS, Tremors/Parkinson's Disease, and prostate cancer and others realized immediate beneficial results with no side effects.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of sorting antigen-specific IgM memory B cells (MBCs), compositions and methods comprising such antigen-specific IgM MBCs, and recombinant antibody or antigen-binding fragments isolated from such antigen-specific IgM MBCs. As demonstrated herein, IgM and IgD MBCs are unique populations of cells with distinct phenotypic, functional and survival properties. Accordingly, the antigen-specific IgM MBCs and antibodies and antigen-binding fragments derived from these cells described herein are useful in therapeutic applications in vaccine strategies and treatment of infectious diseases.

Abstract: Ionic compounds containing an anion, and a cation having the following structural formula (1): R1R2R3N+-(linker1)-O-(linker2)-(FC)??(1) wherein: R1 and R2 either linear or branched alkyl groups or together form a N-heterocylic ring with the nitrogen atom to which they are joined; R3 is linear or branched alkyl group; linker1 and linker2 are alkylene chains or polyether chains; and the group FC is a fluorinated alkyl group, as well as an electrolyte material comprising such an ionic compound and a metal salt, and metal-air batteries using such an electrolyte material. The invention also relates to a metal-air battery containing an electrolyte material, wherein the electrolyte material comprises at least one ionic compound and a metal salt, and wherein at least one ionic compound contains an anion CnF2n+1COO? or CnF2n+1SO3?, where in each case n is at least 1 and at most 10.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a brushless dc electric motor (1) comprising: a rotor (3) comprising at least two pairs of poles, a stator (5) having a plurality of teeth (D1, D2) around which windings (B1, B2, B3, B?1, B?2, B?3) forming coils for electromagnetic excitation of the rotor (3) are wound, wherein the stator (5) comprises a first type of tooth (D1) covering a first electrical angle and a second type (D2) of tooth covering a second electrical angle different from the first electrical angle and wherein a phase of the motor is formed by windings (B1, B?1 or B2, B?2 or B3, B?3) wound onto teeth of the first type (D1) and second type (D2).

Abstract: Provided is a compound represented by formula (IV) or a salt thereof, wherein the content of the compound represented by formula (I) is 350 ppm by mass or less.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a layer comprising at least one hydrophilic part and at least one hydrophobic part, the layer comprising self-assembled amphiphilic molecules polymerized with each other on both the hydrophilic part and the hydrophobic part of the layer; a detecting device comprising a substrate and the above-mentioned layer; and a liposome, a micelle, transport system for a substance and a biomimetic system comprising the above-mentioned layer. The disclosure also relates to a process for producing a layer, the process comprising: providing amphiphilic molecules; allowing sufficient time for the amphiphilic molecules to self-assemble and form at least one hydrophilic part and at least one hydrophobic part of the layer; polymerizing the self-assembled amphiphilic molecules with each other on both the hydrophilic part and the hydrophobic part of the layer.