Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the primary detergent power of detergents and cleaning products, in particular with respect to soiling containing oil and/or grease. For this purpose, polymers comprising N-vinyl imidazole-derived betaine units are incorporated into the products.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the primary detergent power of detergents and cleaning products, in particular with respect to soiling containing oil and/or grease. For this purpose, polymers comprising N,N-diallylamine-derived sulfobetaine units are incorporated into the products.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer composition, which contains or consists of a matrix of at least one thermoplastic polymer capable of crystallization and, incorporated therein, at least one azine dye and at least mono-, di-, tri-, and/or tetravalent metal salt. Said polymer composition is characterized in that the crystallization point thereof is considerably reduced in comparison with polymer compositions having no additives or a composition containing only an azine dye or a metal salt as an additive. The invention further relates to a corresponding additive composition for the crystallization and/or for the lowering of the crystallization point of thermoplastic polymers or polymer compositions capable of crystallization.

Abstract: A Li—S battery including a cathode and an anode and at least one of a lithium-containing liquid electrolyte, gel electrolyte, and solid electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode. The cathode includes at least one of an electrically conductive carbon material, an electrochemically active cathode material that comprises sulphur, and at least partially fibrillar plastic material. The anode includes a conducting substrate which is coated at least in regions with at least one of silicon and tin. A method for operation thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming a structuring at surfaces of components using a laser beam. In the invention, a laser beam is directed onto a diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element is configured such that the laser beam is split into at least two part beams and the part beams are directed at an angle ? with respect to the optical axis of the laser beam onto at least one further optical element which is transparent for the laser radiation. The further optical element(s) has/have a first surface and a second surface which is inclined at an angle to the optical axis of the laser beam at which the beam direction of the part beams is changed by optical refraction.

Abstract: A digital receiver includes a pre-de-interleaver processing block for receiving a receive signal including reception data units quantized using a quantization rule. The digital receiver additionally includes a controllable compressor for compressing the data units into a compressed representation, a controllable time-de-interleaver being configured for applying a varying interleaving size in data units, and a controller for controlling the controllable processor or the controllable time-de-interleaver. The controller is configured for controlling the compressor or the time-de-interleaver so that a higher interleaving size such as a higher interleaving time or a higher number of data units per second is applied, when a compression in a lower number of bits is active.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of organic oxyimide salts as flame retardants for plastics and to a corresponding flame retardant plastic composition. The invention also relates to a method for producing said type of plastic composition or a moulded part produced therefrom, a moulding compound, a moulded part, paint or a coating.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of phosphorus-containing organic oxyimides according to the general formula I described below as flame retardant for plastic materials, as radical generators in plastic materials and/or as stabilisers for plastic materials. The present invention relates in addition to a flame-retardant plastic material moulding compound in which the previously described phosphorus-containing organic oxyimides are integrated, and also to a method for the production of the previously mentioned plastic material composition. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a moulded part, a paint or a coating made of the previously mentioned flame-retardant plastic material composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of phosphorous-containing organic oxyimides according to the general formula (I) as flame retardant for plastic materials, as radical generators in plastic materials and/or stabilisers for plastics. In addition, the present invention relates to a flame-retardant plastic material moulding compound in which the previously described phosphorous-containing organic oxyimides are integrated, and also to a method for the production of the previously mentioned plastic material composition. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a moulded article, a paint or a coating from the previously mentioned flame-retardant plastic material composition.

Abstract: A reader for wirelessly receiving a signal from a tag, the signal having a portion on a first side, a portion on a second side and a synchronization sequence to be detected between the first and the second side, wherein the portion on the first side, the synchronization sequence and the portion on the second side are serially arranged with each other, has a processor. The processor is configured for storing the received signal, for detecting the synchronization sequence in the received signal, for calculating a transmission characteristic between the tag and the reader, using the portion of the received signal on the first side and for extracting a payload information from the portion of the received signal on the second side, using the calculated transmission characteristic.

Abstract: The invention refers to an electromagnetic radiation sensor micro device for detecting electromagnetic radiation, which device comprises a substrate and a cover at least in part consisting of an electromagnetic radiation transparent material, and comprising a reflection reducing coating and providing a hermetic sealed cavity and an electromagnetic radiation detecting unit arranged within the cavity. The reflection reducing coating is arranged in form of a multi-layer thin film stack, which comprises a first layer and a second layer arranged one upon the other. The first layer has a first refractive index and the second layer has a second refractive index different from the one of said first layer. First and second layer are of such layer thickness that for a certain wavelength there is destructive interference. The invention also refers to a wafer element as well as method for manufacturing such a device.

Abstract: The technology provided herein relates to novel anti-parasitic complexes, in particular recombinant fusion proteins suitable as human and/or animal drugs against a parasite of the phylum Apicomplexa, in particular against Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) comprising at least one component A and at least one component B, characterized in that component A has a binding activity for cellular surface structures presented on the surface of a parasite of the phylum Apicomplexa or for parasitic antigens presented on a parasitized host cell, and component B is a compound having anti-parasitic activity.

Abstract: A system for launching and recovering an underwater vehicle (18), which system comprises a crane (16) and a storage location for at least one underwater vehicle (18), wherein the crane (16) is attached to the bottom of a first container (12) and the storage location is provided in a second container (14), said first container (12) being arranged on the second container (14) during an operation of launching or an operation of recovering.

Abstract: What is proposed is: a micromirror arrangement which comprises: a first spring-mass oscillator, which has an oscillatory body forming a mirror plate (1) and first spring elements (2); a second spring-mass oscillator, which has a drive plate (3) and second spring elements (4) and which is connected to a carrier arrangement (5, 8, 9) via the second spring elements (4), wherein the first spring-mass oscillator is suspended in the second spring-mass oscillator via the first spring elements (2); and a drive arrangement (11), which is assigned to the drive plate and is designed to cause the drive plate (3) to oscillate.

Abstract: A very coarse quantization exceeding the measure determined by the masking threshold without or only very little quality losses is enabled by quantizing not immediately the prefiltered signal, but a prediction error obtained by forward-adaptive prediction of the prefiltered signal. Due to the forward adaptivity, the quantizing error has no negative effect on the prediction on the decoder side.

Abstract: In a method for reconstructing a motion of an object from a sequence of motion pattern segments of a computer model of the object, a motion transition between an initial motion state and a final motion state of the object in a time interval of the motion is captured based on position data of the at least one sampling point which is received from the position marker. Further, at least one motion pattern segment corresponding to the motion transition is selected from a plurality of motion patterns of the computer model which are stored in a database such that the selected motion pattern segment leads with sufficient probability from the initial motion state to the final motion state for the time interval. Furthermore, an image of the motion of the object for the time interval is reconstructed using the initial motion state and the selected motion pattern segment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for precipitating lignin from organosolv pulping liquors. For this purpose, the organosolv pulping liquor is introduced as a precipitation medium in an already existing aqueous dispersion of lignin particles or a filtrate of an aqueous dispersion of lignin particles, wherein a separate, lignin-containing phase in a dispersed state is produced.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a spatially resolved and wavelength-resolved detection of light radiation emitted from at least one OLED or LED. A multilayer system is arranged between an electrode, an OLED or an LED, and a substrate and is formed using layers formed alternately above one another from a material having higher and lower optical refractive indices n. In this respect, light radiation from the at least one OLED or LED and having a plurality of different wavelengths ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . ?n thus exits the multilayer system. Light radiation that exits at different wavelengths ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . ?n at different angles is incident onto at least one detector array after at least a simple refraction at an optical element or after reflection at a layer or at a layer system of a sensor such that light radiation at a wavelength ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . or ?n is incident onto a respective detector element of the detector array.

Abstract: The present invention relates to, among others, an in vitro method of modifying a cell graft containing immune cells comprising the steps of incubating a cell graft containing immune cells with an anti CD4 antibody wherein said incubating is carried out for from 1 minute to 7 days, b) removing unbound antibody from said graft; as well as to corresponding modified grafts and uses. The invention further relates to the modification of antibodies reactive to the CD4 human leukocyte antigen to provide anti-CD4 antibodies that have a reduced number of potential T-cell epitopes but retain the ability to bind to CD4, such as to an anti human CD4-antibody comprising a heavy chain immunoglobulin variable domain (VH) and a light chain immunoglobulin variable domain (VL), wherein at least one T cell epitope located outside the CDRs of said immunoglobulin variable domains is removed from said immunoglobulin variable domains.

Abstract: A reverberator for reverberating an audio signal includes a feedback delay loop processor for delaying at least two frequency subband signals representing the audio signal by different loop delays to obtain reverberated frequency subband signals.