Abstract: A UWB pulse emitter includes an H-bridge having first and second branches in parallel, a first end common to the branches being connected to a first amplitude control module to regulate a high voltage, a second end common to the branches being connected to a second amplitude control module to regulate a low voltage. A first envelope control module controls the shape of the positive portion of a UWB pulse and a second envelope control module controls the shape of the negative portion of this pulse. Each branch comprises first and second switches for respectively switching the high voltage to a first or second input of the first envelope control module and the low voltage to a first or second output of the second envelope control module. Centre taps of the branches, between which the UWB antenna is connected, connect the outputs and the inputs of the control modules.

Abstract: A bench for mechanically characterising a battery cell by applying a compressive force includes a frame carrying a bottom compression assembly and a top compression assembly, means for applying a compressive force to the cell between the compression assemblies, and a force sensor. Each compression assembly includes a compression part and a mounting surrounding the compression part. The compression part and the mounting are at least partly mechanically dissociated. The mounting of the top compression assembly carries movement sensors that measure the movement between the two mountings.

Abstract: A device including a first transistor, having a gate region partially penetrating into a gallium nitride layer, and a second transistor located inside of the gate region of the first transistor.

Abstract: A method for training a logistic regression classifier on a dataset by using a resistive RAM as hardware accelerator, each row of the resistive RAM including cells which can be programmed in a first resistance state or a second resistance state. The probability of a data element belonging to a class is modelled by a logistic function applied to a score of the element, where is a parameter vector of the model. The logistic regression classifier is trained by populating the resistive RAM with samples of a model parameter vector which are obtained by MCMC sampling. Once populated, the resistive RAM can be used for classifying new data.

Abstract: A method for liquefying a hydrocarbon stream using a heat exchanger having a plurality of plates parallel to each other and to a longitudinal direction that is substantially vertical, the exchanger having a length measured in the longitudinal direction, the plates being stacked with spacing so as to define between them at least one first series of passages for the flow of at least part of a two-phase cooling stream vaporizing by exchanging heat with at least the hydrocarbon stream.

Abstract: A method for characterizing a particle present in a sample, the sample lying between an image sensor and a light source and the sensor lying in a detection plane, includes illuminating the sample with the light source which emits an incident light wave propagating along a propagation axis, and acquiring an image of the sample with the sensor. The sensor is exposed to an exposure light wave. The image includes a plurality of elementary diffraction patterns each corresponding to one particle. The method also includes reconstructing a complex image representative of a complex amplitude of the light wave on a reconstruction surface passing through the sample, based on the acquired image; selecting a region of interest of the complex image corresponding to a particle of interest; forming an extracted image based on the region of interest; and characterizing the particle of interest depending on the extracted region of interest.

Abstract: A wire-patch antenna includes a ground plane; a capacitive roof placed facing the ground plane at a predetermined distance of separation; a probe feed; at least one electrically conductive short-circuiting wire linking the capacitive roof and the ground plane, the short-circuiting wire being intended to excite a first resonant mode at a first resonant wavelength; and at least one electrically conductive impedance-matching wire linking the conductive short-circuiting wire and the probe feed so as to create a parasitic inductor.

Abstract: An adapter is provided that connects any one of a variety of makeup applicators for applying makeup to a motion controlling device that directs movement of the makeup applicator. The adapter includes a base component having a base connection for connecting the adapter to the motion controlling device in a certain orientation, and an end component having an end connection for connecting the adapter to a makeup applicator. The end component has a center axis through its center and is rotatably attached about the center axis to the base component with a structure for locking the end component in a certain rotated angle about the center axis.

Abstract: An augmented reality system for makeup, includes a makeup objective unit including computation circuitry operably coupled to a graphical user interface configured to generate one or more instances of user selectable makeup objectives and to receive user-selected makeup objective information, a makeup palette unit operably coupled to the makeup objective unit, the makeup palette unit including computation circuitry configured to generate at least one digital makeup palette for a digital makeup product, and a makeup objective visualization unit including computation circuitry configured to analyze a user's face to determine one or more of face shape, facial landmarks, skin tone, hair color, eye color, lip shape, eyelid shape, hair style and lighting, and automatically create one or more instances of a custom virtual try-on for a user in accordance with the user-selected makeup objective information and the at least one digital makeup palette generated based on the analysis of the user's face.

Abstract: A composition for use on the nails is provided, comprising a solvent system that includes at least one volatile, non-aqueous polar solvent; a water-insoluble nitrocellulose polymer; an acrylic copolymer with an acid value ranging from about 100 and about 170 mg KOH per gram; an epoxy resin; and a colorant. Methods including those for use as a color coat are also provided.

Abstract: A device including a sensor capable of carrying out dynamic force or mass measurements, for example a force sensor, including a magnetic device to generate a magnetic field according to at least one axis (XX?), a device to adjust and then hold a relative position, according to the axis (XX?), between a force sensor to be tested and the magnetic device, and a device to measure a signal representative of a tensile or compressive force applied to a contactless force sensor, directly using the magnetic device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supplying pressurized cryogenic fluid having a thermally insulated container consisting of an inner tank for cryogenic liquid to be pumped, for example hydrogen, and an outer tank delimiting a sealed volume about the inner tank, the inner tank and the outer tank extending vertically and being closed at the top end thereof by a set of covers, the device having a pumping system mounted on the set of covers and having a lower end seated in the inner tank to pump the cryogenic liquid therein, the device also having a cryogenic liquid feed circuit to supply the inner tank and a delivery circuit to transfer the cryogenic liquid pumped by the pumping system out of the inner tank, the pumping system having at least one piston pump actuated by an actuator, preferably a linear actuator.

Abstract: This computerized method for audiovisual delinearization allows one or more digital video files to be sequenced and the sequences generated by the sequencing to be indexed, by virtually cutting the one or more digital video files into digital virtual sequences, each bounded virtually by two sequence time markers. The method is intended to produce and automatically select virtual sequences of each digital video file, the file fragments corresponding to the virtual sequences then being able to be extracted from the digital video files in question to be viewed or recorded in a new digital video file.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for gamifying the process of annotating videos for maintaining engagement in the annotation process and increasing the quality and quantity of an annotated data set. Methods for gamifying annotation of gestures in a video comprise determining gamified feedback based on an input and presenting the gamified feedback to an operator to keep the operator engaged in the annotation process. Methods for gamifying annotation of self-perception gestures in a video by a subject are able to be performed by the subject without the requirement of an operator, in which case the method captures an aspect of the subject's experience and the gamification maintains or increases the subject's engagement with the annotation process. Annotated data sets are used to train artificial intelligence and machine learning systems for automated detection and characterization of subjects' gestures and self-perception gestures.

Abstract: The present results show that KDM1A is a key epigenetic regulator of tissue-specific expression of GIP receptor and possibly of other receptors from the G-protein coupled receptor family in hormone-producing glands, and that its alteration leads to the development of aberrant overexpression of eutopic hormone receptors or expression of ectopic hormone receptors that lead to abnormal steroidogenesis. They also show that loss of expression of KDM1A is likely to be the initiating event that trigger the abnormal cell proliferation leading to the development of tissue lesions in adrenal and possibly in other endocrine tissues (notably in the adrenal glands). The present invention therefore proposes to detect altered expression of KDM1A in the genome of subjects, in order to diagnose a genetic predisposition to an endocrine disease and/or to an endocrine hyperplasia.

Abstract: A packaging, including a porous applicator, a porous reservoir in contact with the porous applicator at an interface, and a refill component. The refill component includes an insert configured to surround the porous applicator, a pintle that extends from the interface between the porous applicator and the porous reservoir through the porous applicator and towards an application surface of the porous applicator, and a deformable arm connecting the insert with the pintle, where the deformable arm is configured to deform from a first state to a second state.

Abstract: A collar for use with a bottle that is refillable for refilling the bottle with a product, and containers comprised of bottles having the collar attached thereto. The collar is removably attachable to the bottle for removable attachment of an applicator to the bottle. The bottle contains a liquid, powder, or other flowable product that is applied with the applicator to a surface during use of the applicator. To remove the applicator from the bottle, a flexible ring of the collar is depressed with pressure applied at opposite buttons of the collar to deform the flexible ring and slide at least one ring tab of the flexible ring past at least one stop lug of the bottle to allow the collar to rotate with respect to the bottle and be removed from the bottle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for a non-therapeutic method for caring for keratin materials. The composition contains in an aqueous phase: (i) at least one cosmetic active compound selected from C-glycosides of formula (I): wherein R represents a saturated C1 to C10, alkyl radical which can optionally be substituted by at least one radical chosen from OH, COOH or COOR?2, with R?2 being a saturated C1-C4 alkyl radical, S represents a monosaccharide or a polysaccharide comprising up to 20 sugar units in pyranose and/or furanose form and of the L and/or D series, and X represents a radical chosen from the —CO—, —CH(OH)—, —CH(NH2)—, —CH(NHCH2CH2CH2OH)—, —CH(NHPh)- and —CH(CH3)— groups, the S—CH2—X bond represents a bond of an ? or ? C-anomeric nature; (ii) at least one surfactant selected from fatty acid esters of polyglycerol; and (iii) at least one surfactant selected from oxyalkylenated fatty acid esters of glycerol.

Abstract: A composition for use on the nails is provided. The includes a solvent system that includes at least one volatile, non-aqueous polar solvent; a water-insoluble nitrocellulose polymer; an acrylic copolymer with an acid value ranging from about 145 and about 170 mg KOH per gram; and a cellulose ester of at least one C2-C4 organic acid. Methods including those for use as a topcoat are also provided.

Abstract: A random number generator circuit includes a noise source capable of providing a noise signal that varies randomly; and a circuit for extracting the noise signal including an edge detector configured to produce from the noise signal an analogue signal including voltage pulses, each voltage pulse corresponding to a rising or falling edge of the noise signal, and an analogue-to-digital converter configured to generate a random bit sequence from the analogue signal.