Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for and a method of measuring skin glow and/or skin radiance and/or skin shine and/or the biological age of the skin of an individual. As an individual ages, their appearance changes due to structural alterations to their tissues. These visible signs of aging, such as loss of skin glow or radiance, mean that other individuals are an indication of the age of an individual. In a population of individuals, some will appear younger and some will appear older than their chronological age. In these cases the aforementioned visible signs of aging are an indication of how well the skin of the individual is aging, in other words an indication of the biological age of the skin of the individual. Trained human age assessors are able to reproducibly determine the biological age of the skin of the individual. However automation would facilitate its use in almost any research or consumer setting.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for transferring at least one coating onto at least one geometrically defined surface of a lens substrate to produced a lens substrate coated with at least one functional coating adhering to at least one geometrically defined surface through a layer of transparent adhesive composition.

Abstract: A device for reinforcing a pylon foundation against being pulled out, said foundation comprising at least one block (10) which is buried in the ground of the site of the foundation and that presents a portion (12) of greatest section in a horizontal plane, the device comprising a slab (20) buried in the ground and disposed around said block (10) between said portion (12) and the surface (T) of the ground, said slab extending beyond the vertical projection of the periphery of said portion (12). The slab (20) may be made from a mixture comprising materials extracted from the site or materials brought in from elsewhere (such as a treated gravel mix) or a mixture of both, together with at least one binder. Advantageously, the total proportion of binder in said mixture lies in the range 3% to 15% by weight. The device is used to compensate for a deficit in resistance to being pulled out presented by an existing shallow foundation for a pylon.

Abstract: A lighting system comprises a housing suitable for mounting to a structural unit. The housing includes a plurality of enclosure panels. At least two light-bearing members are moveable relative to the housing and are pivotally coupled one to another. A pair of actuators are moveable in opposing directions, one of the light-bearing members being coupled to one of the actuators and an other of the light-bearing members being coupled to an other of the actuators. Movement of the actuators relative to one another results in pivotal movement of the light-bearing members relative to one another, causing an end of each light-bearing member to move further from or closer to the housing.

Abstract: Novel substituted liposaccharides useful as in the prophylactic and affirmative treatment of endotoxemia including sepsis, septicemia and various forms of septic shock and methods of using these agents are provided. Also provided are methods of preparing these agents and intermediates useful therein.

Abstract: A motor vehicle exhaust line silencer includes: an upper shell (2) having a substantially flat upper end wall (16); and a lower shell (4) having a substantially flat lower end wall (24) parallel to the upper end wall (16), the upper and lower shells (2, 4) delimiting between them an internal volume (6) of the silencer (1). The silencer (1) includes at least an internal partition wall (12) substantially parallel to the upper (16) and lower (24) end walls and arranged in the internal volume (6), the upper (16) and lower (24) end walls having respective reliefs (48, 50, 52) projecting into the internal volume (6) and cooperating to immobilize the internal partition wall (12).

Abstract: The inventive device for automatically detecting the mating of animals is wearable by an animal. The device includes a fixing to an animal mechanism, a detector for an attempt of mating a female animal by the animal with the fixing mechanism, and an identifier for an electronic label which is introduced in the body of the female animal and actuated by the detector and/or by the female animal identification device by processing the image of at least one part of the female animal triggered by the detector. The identifier includes a communicator with an electronic label carried by a female animal. The communicator can read the electronic label identifier of each female animal which the animal attempts to mate. The communication can also be provided with a device for storing representative information on the attempted mating in the random access memory of the electronic label.

Abstract: A method of monitoring voltage stability within an electrical power system comprises the steps of establishing a dynamic power system stability margin based on an operating characteristic of the power system; indicating that the power system has become unstable when the dynamic power system stability margin falls below a predetermined value; and initiating dynamic load shedding and/or restoration depending on stability margin.

Abstract: A razor having a simplified structure is provided. This oscillating razor is provided with a razor head. The razor head is provided with a blade member composed of a base having a blade-body supporting portion and a plurality of blade bodies, a blade base member located on the back side of the razor head, and a top member located on the front side of the razor head. The blade member is fitted between the blade base member and the top member. The base is supported on the blade base member and the cutting edge of the blade body is exposed outward at the top member. Each of the blade bodies is placed on the blade-body supporting portion, and welded portions fixed to each other by welding from the side corresponding to the blade-body supporting portion are formed on the blade body and the blade-body supporting portion.

Abstract: It was discovered that a compound represented by the general formula (I) shows strong c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity, and it inhibits proliferation of c-Kit kinase activated-cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. A novel anticancer agent showing c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity was discovered. The general formula (I): (wherein R1 represents methyl etc., R2 represents cyano etc., R3 represents hydrogen etc., R4 represents hydrogen etc.).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an exhaust element of an exhaust line of a vehicle with a heat engine. The exhaust element includes a box having, internally, at least one compartment and at least one tube extending at least partly inside such a compartment. The method includes inserting sound-insulation into at least one such compartment. The insertion is ensured through injection into such a compartment through an opening in the tube from the inside of the tube. The invention also relates to an exhaust element obtained by implementing this method, including forming a box with at least one compartment containing sound-insulation and at least one tube extending at least partly inside at least one such compartment, the tube having an opening provided for in the body of the tube.

Abstract: An intelligent decision supporting system and a method for making an intelligent decision are provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper arm/wiper blade connection between a wiper blade (3, 3a, 3b) and a wiper arm (1) of a windscreen wiper installation for vehicles, comprising a wiper blade adapter (4) which is mounted on the wiper blade for detachably fastening the wiper blade to the wiper arm. The wiper blade is designed as a flat wiper blade and comprises at least one nozzle opening (11.1, 12.1) and/or at least one spray or distribution channel (11, 12) having nozzle openings for applying a cleaning or washing liquid to a vehicle screen on at least one wiper blade longitudinal side.

Abstract: Disclosed is a highly reliable secondary battery, as well as an electrode and a conductive agent used therefor, which battery has a long cycle life and is also less likely to be damaged or rupture even when the battery temperature becomes abnormally high. The conductive agent of the battery electrode contains, as the main component, a reaction product between a ?-conjugated carbon material and a soluble polyimide, preferably a soluble block copolymerized polyimide. The battery electrode is formed by coating a composition containing this conductive agent and an electrode active substance onto a current collector. The battery comprises this electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing very low temperature cold through a dilution cycle wherein a two-phase mixture of the two isotopes 3He and 4He is created in a mixing chamber from liquid 3He and 4He added separately, wherein said mixture of the 3He from a so-called concentrated phase is extracted so as to pass 3He into a so-called diluted phase, and due to which the cold energy generated by passing the 3He into the diluted phase is recovered, the phase separation of the two-phase mixture being carried out by monitoring the flows of pure 3He and 4He, added separately into the mixing chamber, and by gravity-independent capillary forces, the dilution cycle operating in a closed loop, the method including a first step of recovering and separating the two isotopes 3He and 4He from the fraction of the mixture extracted through a discharge duct; and a second step of adding the two isotopes 3He and 4He, separated during the first step, back into the mixing chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid heating device for an automobile that comprises at least one first part (1a) made of a heat-conducting material, a liquid flow path (10a) integrally formed in said first part (1a) for enabling a flow of liquid between an inlet and an outlet (12a), and a heating means (14) thermally coupled with said part (1a) and capable of heating said part (1a) so that the liquid flowing through said flow path can absorb the heat of said part (1a). According to the invention, the first part includes a planar bottom wall (15a) extending in a plane parallel to the flow path (10a), and the electric heating means includes a plurality of flat stones (14) having a positive temperature coefficient and arranged as a matrix in the same plane in parallel and in contact with the bottom wall (15a) as well as two electrodes in the form of two planar surfaces, each arranged in parallel and in contact with the corresponding surfaces of the flat stones of the matrix.

Abstract: A method of acquiring, compressing and transmitting satellite images, characterized in that in a systematic manner: an image is acquired (101); (102) the image is processed by an image preprocessing step providing a value characteristic of the image and an image preprocessed by recognizing predetermined natural objects in the acquired image and replacing the natural objects by standard objects; the characteristic value is compared (103) with a table of values, each value of which is associated with a compression algorithm; the compression algorithm corresponding to the characteristic value is implemented (104) by compression elements for compressing the image; the compressed image is transmitted (105) to a remote image reception device by transmission elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter of which the filtering portion is made from an inorganic material comprising grains of SiC bonded by a vitroceramic phase, to form a porous structure of which the apparent porosity is between 20 and 70%, said vitroceramic bonding phase comprising at least the following components, in molar percentage of the total oxides present in said phase: SiO2: 30% to 80% Al2O3: 5% to 45% MO: 10% to 45%, where MO is an oxide of a divalent cation or the sum of the oxides of the divalent cations present in said vitroceramic phase, M preferably being selected from Ca, Ba, Mg or Sr, said vitroceramic phase having a volume percentage of residual vitreous phase lower than 20%.

Abstract: In a method and a machine for testing an electronic device, in which the magnetic field emitted is measured by a monodirectional measurement probe, a first value of the component Bz of the magnetic field along axis ZZ? is measured by the probe and recorded. The probe and the electronic device are displaced with respect to one another by relative pivoting about an axis XX? orthogonal to axis ZZ?, according to an angular amplitude of less than 90° while maintaining distance d0 and, for each position (x, y) of axis ZZ?, a second value of component Bz of the magnetic field along axis ZZ? is measured by the probe and recorded, then the value of component By of the magnetic field along axis YY? orthogonal to axes ZZ? and XX? is determined and recorded on the basis of the first value and the second value which have been obtained.

Abstract: A device, referred to as a satellite grid, includes a plurality of reception and storage ground stations (5) provided with a storage unit (13), each station (5) including elements for receiving observation data from at least one satellite orbiting around the Earth. Each station (5) is connected to at least one digital network (15) and includes at least one management module so that the different stations cooperate together in order to provide a permanent and transparent shared access to the observation data coming from at least one satellite and stored in the different stations (5), wherein the satellite grid is adapted to be accessible and viewed as a single computer resource from any access point in the network (15).