Abstract: A method for disrupting a sample of biological material of human, animal, or plant origin for subsequent proteome analysis by a mass spectrometry method is provided. The method involves disrupting the sample by treatment with a certain volume of an organic acid until the sample completely dissolves, incubating the sample for a certain period, and then neutralizing the sample with a neutralizing solution until a pH value between 7 and 9 is reached.

Abstract: An authentication method for trusted communication between a first party (A) and a second party (B) is intended to be efficient and secure. For this purpose, provision is made to combine password-based authentication and certificate-based authentication. For certificate-based authentication, the first party (A) has a static key pair consisting of a private static key and a public static key and a certificate for the public static key issued by a certification body (C). The certification body (C) is assigned a public key which is known by the second party (B). During the certificate-based authentication, the party A calculates a transformation between its own ephemeral key pair from the password-based authentication and its own static key pair from the certificate-based authentication so as to obtain a transformation parameter for carrying out the transformation.

Abstract: The invention relates to recombinant oncolytic viruses that target tumor stem cells and various uses of these recombinant viruses. In particular, an oncolytic virus comprising a recombinant binding domain specific for a tumor stem cell marker is disclosed. Furthermore, the use of such oncolytic viruses for the treatment of cancer is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying stabilizing amino acids in single chain antibody fragments.

Abstract: This invention relates to an emergency unlocking system for a motor vehicle trunk (2), with a trunk lock (6) which comprises at least one lock latch (7) and an interacting locking part (8), with a catch means (14) which limits the trunk opening motion and which comprises a catch hook (15) which can be actuated from outside the trunk (2) and an interacting catch hook engagement element (16) for canceling the motion limitation, and with an emergency unlocking means (20) which is located in the trunk (2) and which acts to open the trunk lock (6) and to release the catch means (14) when actuated. In order to offer an increased safety standard with a simple structure and to meet safety stipulations with respect to the speed-dependent allowability of emergency unlocking, the actions applied by the emergency unlocking means (20) to the trunk lock (6) and the catch means (14) are decoupled from one another.

Abstract: Device for processing flesh, including at least one transport means, at least one element for position detection as well as at least one separating means and at least one regulating and/or control device, wherein the separating means communicates by means of the regulating and/or control device with the element for position detection.

Abstract: The invention provides a means of deriving highly reliable diagnostic information from the signals and data of medical measuring systems without first reducing the measuring data to individual characteristics and then associating these using decision trees in order to form a diagnostic conclusion. To this end, a comparator compares the measuring data recorded by a patient and provided by the sensor channels of a measuring system with measuring data which is stored in measuring databases and which is provided by comparable sensor channels of reference measuring systems. The data is compared in such a way that the reference measuring systems selected from the measuring databases are those which bear the most similarity to the measurements taken by the patient in terms of the measuring data of comparable sensor channels and which have a greatest possible number of the sensor channels which best match in terms of measuring data and which best correspond to each other.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a bell-shaped shield (1) for use on a household appliance, particularly a hand blender or a hand mixer. The inner wall (7) of the shield (1) forms a space (6) which is accessible from below via an opening (12) through which food (36) is supplied and discharged. A blade-like processing tool (8) inside the space (6) is adapted to be set in rotation by a drive shaft (3) so that the food (36) is caught, comminuted and/or mixed by said tool. The surface of the inner wall (7) has on its circumference individual outwardly extending wall sections (51) for the formation of clearance spaces (37), said wall sections (51) serving primarily for the diversion, comminution and enhanced mixing of food, while the clearance spaces (37) are used for receiving and discharging the food (36). This configuration allows for a more intensive and thorough mixing and comminution of food (36) in a minimum of time.

Abstract: A method of producing a decorative pattern on a plastic card housing an etronic circuit in an injection molding machine, includes the steps of introducing and positioning a film, which has applied on at least one surface thereof a decorative pattern, in an open cavity of the injection molding machine, closing the cavity so that the film is fixed and clamped in position, after the closing of the cavity, inserting an electronic circuit chip through an aperture into the mold cavity, injecting a support composition for the card into the mold cavity, and after termination of the injection process, removing the gate or any excess material from the periphery of the card, opening the mold cavity and removing the decorated card.

Abstract: An instrument for lithotripsy having a probe which can be vibrated longitnally by means of a drive and which extends through a guide channel in the shaft of an endoscope and is supported and guided externally of the shaft by a guide element aligned on the corresponding guide channel, is described. The guide element receives the housing of the probe drive also serving as a handle proximally, and its distal end can be releasably attached to a rinsing and probing attachment which can be connected to the proximal end of the endoscope and is provided with valves. The guide element is designed so that the valves can be actuated unimpeded.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for obtaining narrow tolerances of accuracy to pe and size of a rolled product rolled in a wire mill and/or bar mill including at least two sizing stands of high stiffness wherein, with the exception of the last stand, the stands are adjustable under load. The stands cooperate with a device for determining the geometrical data of the rolled product, as well as the relevant rolling operation data. The device is mounted in front of the next-to-last stand for detecting the geometrical data of the rolled product before it enters into the next-to-last stand. The measured values are processed with a sizing model for obtaining a desired exact profile shape in the last roll stand in a computer for forming a signal which is used for adjusting the next-to-last stand.

Abstract: A baking agent and a process for producing a baking agent for leavened doughs includes a phospholipid fraction whereby the portion of phosphatidyl choline to phophtidyl ethanolamine is lower than 1.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is the use of organic polymers which contain inorganic anionic groups for prophylaxis and therapy of retrovirus infections in mammals.

Abstract: There is described the use of substituted N-trichloromethyl thiodicarboximides in combination with N,N'-substituted bis-(2,4-diamino-s-triazin-6-yl)-oligosulfides in vulcanizable rubber mixtures in order to improve the vulcanization characteristics and such rubber mixtures.

Abstract: A laser Doppler anemometer with at least two laser beams pass to a region of a fluid flow containing particles. The scattered light is frequency shifted by the Doppler frequency resulting from the flow speed. The construction is very compact and permits a high signal-to-noise ratio for the measurement signals. The laser beams consist of high-frequency pulses, the frequency of the pulse sequence of which is a multiple of the Doppler frequency.

Abstract: In a device for measuring the speed of moving light-scattering objects by means of laser beams, with which a periodic intensity distribution (4) is produced at the measuring point (3), and by means of a detecting device (5, 7; 8, 9, 10) for light scattered by the object, it is possible to produce the periodic intensity distribution in a simple fashion with a laser diode array (1) in which a plurality of laser diodes are arranged at a defined separation from one another. Light emitted by the laser diode is focussed at the measuring point (3) with a focusing optical system (2). In addition, when measuring speed it is possible to discriminate direction by arranging the laser diode array (1, 13) such that no emission occurs in at least one such location (11') of the laser diode (11), so that an asymmetric intensity distribution is produced at the measuring point (3).

Abstract: A method of and device for investigating samples by a flame-free atom absorption process, according to which the sample is first in a relatively small chamber heated so as to be atomized into an atom cloud which is subsequently together with a protective gas tangentially conveyed into a considerably larger chamber through which a bundle of measuring rays is passed.