Abstract: Cameras and lights positioning system for hose inspection during air-to-air refueling, which comprises a substructure that can be attached to a container or capsule or Pod, one or two guidance-substructures (13) that enclose the hose, a toroid volume, to house the cameras (22) and lights (23) and a cameras and lights control subsystem. The system allows for the cameras (22) and lights (23) to maintain a fixed relative position with respect to the hose (1) during moments of imagery acquisition, despite the inclination and the five different movements that the hose has and makes, at the same time allowing protuberances (38) to pass through the system.

Abstract: A method for the execution of a binary code defining a data structure including a particular field to be read using a pointer, this method including writing, to the main memory, the value of the particular field associated with a first identifier of a pointer that points directly to this particular field, this identifier being determined from an identifier of the particular field that differs for all of the fields of the data structure that are adjacent to the particular field, and then constructing a pointer that points directly to this particular field, this construction including determining an identifier of this constructed pointer, and then checking that the identifier constructed in step b) corresponds to the identifier associated with this particular field in step a), and when these pointer identifiers do not match, triggering the signaling of an execution fault.

Abstract: A method for producing ultra-low carbon hydrogen, including producing a flue gas stream, a raw syngas stream, and a high-pressure steam stream in a syngas generator, introducing the flue gas stream into a point-source carbon capture unit, thereby producing a clean flue gas stream and a first carbon dioxide stream, introducing an ambient air stream into a direct air carbon capture unit, thereby producing a clean air stream and a second carbon dioxide stream, and combining the first carbon dioxide stream and the second carbon dioxide stream and storing the combined carbon dioxide stream. The method may also include introducing the high-pressure steam stream into a steam turbine generator, thereby producing electrical power. The method may also include utilizing at least a portion of the electrical power in the direct air carbon capture unit.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes manufacturing a tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) element to sense out-of-plane changes in magnetic field intensity in a magnetic field. The manufacturing includes depositing a plurality of antiferromagnetic layers having magnetization directions alternating by layer between a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction. A top layer of the plurality of antiferromagnetic layers has a magnetization direction in the first direction. The manufacturing also includes depositing a ferromagnetic layer directly on the top layer; depositing a first multilayer structure directly on the ferromagnetic layer; depositing a metal layer directly on the first multilayer structure; and depositing a second multilayer structure directly on the metal layer. The ferromagnetic layer, the first multilayer structure, and the second multilayer structure are each parallel to an x-y plane and the first direction is either in a z-direction or in a ?z direction.

Abstract: An optimised bio-electrochemical reactor for treating a liquid effluent containing a biodegradable organic pollution. At least one of the anode and cathode compartments of the reactor is a microbial biofilm compartment (12) including a multi-stage current collector immersed in an electrolyte comprising electroactive microorganisms. This current collector includes at least two stages, each defining a chamber acting as a container for a biocompatible granular support material and letting the fluid pass through. The effluent circulates inside the compartment (12) according to an X direction crossing the stages of the current collector. In operation, the support material (17) is in a fluidised state resulting either from the circulation of the effluent, or from the circulation of a fluidisation gas allowing optimising the active surface of the electrode and, consequently, the treatment of the effluent.

Abstract: A reconfigurable antenna array including a plurality of identical elementary unit cells, each unit cell having at least one symmetry and being a square unit cell, and including a radiating element having at least four ports distributed in pairs on either side of each median on one side of a unit cell, the antenna array additionally including a reconfigurable switching circuit configured to generate three distinct connection states between each port of each pair of facing ports, each port of a pair belonging to two distinct elementary unit cells that are vertically stacked or horizontally adjacent within the antenna array.

Abstract: A gripper having a frame and a finger having a first, distal phalanx and a second, proximal phalanx that are mechanically connected to one another, the finger having a controllable adhesion element.

Abstract: A reactor for producing synthesis gas by partial oxidation of a carbon-containing fuel, having a reaction space and a cooling space, wherein a cooled gas guide tube connects the reaction space and the cooling space to one another. The gas guide tube has a gas inlet region, which adjoins the reaction space, and a gas outlet region, which adjoins the cooling space. The gas guide tube has an inner tube and an outer tube, as a result of which an annular gap is formed, wherein the annular gap is connected fluidically to a coolant feed, and the inner tube has an opening to the annular gap in the gas inlet region of the gas guide tube, and a baffle is arranged in the region of this opening, and an orifice is arranged in the gas outlet region of the gas guide tube.

Abstract: A system for measuring at least one property of a particle (P), including a mechanical resonator including at least a first fixed part and a first suspended part able to vibrate with respect to the first fixed part, and a fluidic circuit integrated into its suspended part, in which a fluid containing the particle (P) is made to circulate, an excitation device configured to make the first suspended part vibrate at an excitation frequency (F_smr), a first gravimetric sensor including at least a second fixed part and a second suspended part able to vibrate with respect to the second fixed part, the first suspended part of the mechanical resonator and the second suspended part of the first gravimetric sensor being coupled mechanically to one another via a mechanical linking element.

Abstract: Filtering pulleys have a hub, which is designed to be fixed to a rotary shaft rotating around an axis (A), and a crown, which is coaxial to said hub. The filtering pulley includes a filtering assembly operatively interposed between the hub and the crown and a housing integral to the crown and carried so that the housing can freely rotate relative to the hub by means of support means. The filtering assembly defines a space and has elastic means housed inside the space in a movable manner, and has actuator means configured to cooperate in contact with the elastic means. The actuator means is a single piece together with a tubular portion of the hub and the housing cooperating in contact with the radial inner surface of the crown.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: a female port configured to receive a data connector, the data connector comprising a surface with a first opening; a first movable member disposed within the female port, the first movable member being configured such that as the data connector is moved into the female port a first portion of the first movable member enters into the first opening; and a first blocking member disposed within the female port, the first blocking member being configured to move to a first blocking position to block the first portion of the first movable member from exiting the first opening after the first portion of the first movable member has entered the first opening. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: An in vitro or ex vivo method for producing and isolating a cell subpopulation including T cells specific for an antigen linked to a disease of interest, which includes steps of obtaining, from an isolated human biological sample, a population of mononuclear cells including T cells specific for the antigen with a high proliferative capacity, culturing these mononuclear cells in a suitable cell culture medium containing the antigen, and isolating T cells specific to the antigen which do not express the CD45RO and CD27 markers at their surface. The cell subpopulation thus obtained and isolated finds application in particular for the treatment of the disease of interest.

Abstract: A method for extracting at least one lanthanide element, preferably selected from lanthanum (La), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), europium (Eu), dysprosium (Dy), and ytterbium (Yb), from a solid material including the lanthanide element, one or more waste elements such as iron (Fe), and/or one or more other lanthanide elements. The method implements a composition including water, at least one organic aprotic solvent, and at least one charged hydrotrope. Also, the use of the composition for recycling lanthanide elements, and more particularly WEEE, and for the decontamination of effluents.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cosmetic compositions and methods for using the cosmetic compositions to improve the appearance of skin. For example, the cosmetic compositions can be used to treat acne, to treat inflammation, to provide anti-aging benefits to the skin, etc. The cosmetic compositions include a cosmetically acceptable carrier a combination of skin-active ingredients comprising: (i) sulfur; (ii) niacinamide; and (iii) phenylethyl resorcinol; (iv) glycolic acid; and (v) allantoin.

Abstract: Assembly (1) for packaging and dispensing a product, in particular a cosmetic product, comprising a reservoir (10) delimiting an internal volume (14) intended to contain a product and comprising an opening (16a) for accessing said internal volume (14), provided with at least one inner shoulder (18c), and a member (20) for closing the opening (16a) of the reservoir, comprising a mounting skirt (22) that extends along an elevation axis (Z-Z?) and is mounted in the reservoir, and closes the opening (16a) of said reservoir (10). The closure member (20) comprises a fastening lip (28) delimited axially by a proximal end (28a) connected to the mounting skirt (22) and a free distal end (28b), on the opposite side from the proximal end (28a), the fastening lip (28) being folded and radially surrounding the mounting skirt and the distal end (28b) of said fastening lip (28) butting axially against the shoulder (18c) of the reservoir (10).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a memory circuit comprising: a transistor layer; a plurality of first memory elements positioned in a first level above the transistor layer; and a plurality of filament switching resistive memory elements positioned in a second level higher than the first level.

Abstract: A system for extinguishing a fire and/or preventing a fire from starting or restarting in an electric vehicle having a module or a battery pack with a plurality of electrochemical batteries, in particular metal-ion batteries, includes a self-supporting inflatable structure, the shape and dimensions of which when deployed are configured to lift the electric vehicle off the ground, create a liner between the ground and the electric vehicle, and create a peripheral barrier in continuity with the liner, which is closed upon itself, around the electric vehicle. The system also includes a liquid supply device for filling, at least partially, the sealed volume delimited inside the peripheral barrier and by the liner, so as to immerse at least the module or battery pack in the liquid.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a part from a first ceramic or from carbon, consolidated by a second ceramic, having a determined geometry, that involves carrying out the following sequence of steps: a) manufacturing a preform made from an organic polymer; b) impregnating the preform made from an organic polymer with a resin that is a precursor of the first ceramic or a resin that is a precursor of carbon; c) crosslinking and/or polymerising, then pyrolysing the resin that is a precursor of the first ceramic or the resin that is a precursor of carbon; to obtain a part made from a first ceramic or from carbon having the same geometry as the part to be manufactured; e) depositing the second ceramic on the part made from a first ceramic or from carbon by means of a chemical vapour deposition or CVD process or a chemical vapour infiltration or CVI process.

Abstract: A composition includes polydatin and at least one photoisomerization stabilizer and cosmetically acceptable carrier. The at least one photoisomerization stabilizer confers photostabilization to trans-polydatin by at least about 5%, relative to an otherwise identical composition without the at least one photoisomerization stabilizer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electroacoustic transducer includes a frame; an element movable with respect to the frame, the movable element including a membrane and a structure for rigidifying the membrane; a first transmission arm, the movable element being coupled to an end of the first transmission arm; wherein the trimming of the membrane and the trimming of the rigidification structure are decorrelated in a region around an intersection between the position of the first transmission arm and the periphery of the rigidification structure.