Abstract: Method for determining the sensitivity of a bacterial strain of interest to a viral strain of bacteriophages, the method comprising: a) preparing a sample, this comprising bringing bacteria, belonging to the bacterial strain of interest, into contact with bacteriophages, each bacteriophage belonging to the same viral strain, the bacteria being either in a liquid medium, or in an agar medium; b) placing the sample between a light source and an image sensor, the light source emitting a light wave in an emission spectral band comprised between 500 nm and 600 nm; c) illuminating the sample using the light source and acquiring at least one image of the sample, with the image sensor, in the emission spectral band, no image-forming optic being placed between the sample and the image sensor; d) on the basis of the acquired images, determining a sensitivity of the bacterial strain of interest to the viral strain.

Abstract: A pulsed generator of electrically charged particles includes a vacuum chamber; wherein the vacuum chamber is configured to maintain an internal operating pressure between 10-6 mbar and atmospheric pressure; the vacuum chamber is configured to accommodate a photocathode and an anode, the photocathode and the anode being separated by an adjustable distance less than or equal to 30 mm; the vacuum chamber includes a window enabling pulsed light to reach firstly a rear face of the photocathode; the anode is arranged downstream of the photocathode and has an orifice suitable for the passage of electrically charged particles; the generator of electrically charged particles includes a system to apply a difference in potential between the photocathode and the anode, the voltage being configured to accelerate the charged particles.

Abstract: A system is provided that is configured to execute a game process that includes displaying an image of a blended cosmetic product that has a target color; displaying a color selection interface that allows a user to select a single color among a plurality of colors; receiving an input from a user on the color selection interface which corresponds to the user's estimate of the target color displayed in the image; and outputting a result to the user indicating a degree of similarity between the user's input on the color selection interface and the target color.

Abstract: A hydroelectric facility for generating electrical energy from the flow of water circulating in a water network, includes at least one cross-flow pico-turbine mounted on a shaft extending perpendicular to a direction of the water flow, the pico-turbine including a substantially annular blade installed in the water flow in order to generate a mechanical energy of rotation, at least one generating unit, installed outside of the water flow and coupled to the shaft of the pico-turbine in order to transform the mechanical energy of rotation into electrical energy, at least one measurement and control unit, installed outside of the water flow, connected to the generating unit, controlling the distribution of the collected electrical energy as well as the rotation of the pico-turbine depending on the characteristics of the water flow.

Abstract: A method for obtaining mesas that are made at least in part of a nitride (N), the method includes providing a stack comprising a substrate and at least the following layers disposed in succession from the substrate a first layer, referred to as the flow layer, and a second, crystalline layer, referred to as the crystalline layer; forming pads by etching the crystalline layer and at least one portion of the flow layer such that: —each pad includes at least: —a first section, referred to as the flow section, formed by at least one portion of the flow layer, and a second, crystalline section, referred to as the crystalline section, framed by the crystalline layer and overlying the flow section, the pads are distributed over the substrate so as to form a plurality of sets of pads; and epitaxially growing a crystallite on at least some of said pads and continuing the epitaxial growth of the crystallites until the crystallites carried by the adjacent pads of the same set coalesce.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for predicting the risk of developing pulmonary colonization/infection by P. aeruginosa. The inventors analyzed the respiratory tract microbiota from 65 patients sputum samples and compared microbiota data. The inventors found that patients that will remain uninfected from P. aeruginosa exhibited 3-fold higher abundance of Porphyromonas catoniae compared to the other groups. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for predicting the risk of developing pulmonary colonization/infection by P. aeruginosa in a subject suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) comprising measuring the abundance of Porphyromonas catoniae in a biological sample obtained from said subject.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method that includes disposing a vapor pump partially within an enclosure, such that the vapor pump is in fluid communication with the enclosure and an external environment, and where the enclosure comprises at least one vapor. In some embodiments, a portion of the at least one vapor is transferred with the vapor pump from the enclosure to the external environment. In some embodiments, a change in at least one parameter related to a mass of the at least one vapor within the enclosure is measured. In some embodiments, a rate of the portion of the at least one vapor transferred with the vapor pump from the enclosure to the external environment is calculated. In some embodiments, the rate of the portion of the at least one vapor transferred from the enclosure to the external environment with the vapor pump is calculated based on the change in the at least one parameter.

Abstract: Formulation delivery systems, formulation delivery devices, and formulation cartridges for the same are provided. Formulation delivery systems include a reusable handle, a formulation dispensing assembly, and a controller. The formulation dispensing assembly includes a reciprocating nozzle assembly and a pump. The reciprocating nozzle assembly is fluidically coupleable to the formulation cartridge or the cleaning cartridge received within the reusable handle. Formulation delivery devices include a reusable handle configured to receive a formulation cartridge therein, and a formulation dispensing assembly disposed in the reusable handle. The formulation dispensing assembly includes fluid conduits, a pump fluidically connected to the fluid conduits, a reciprocating nozzle assembly, and a controller. Formulation cartridges include a reusable cartridge body, a valve frame, and a disposable refill packet reversibly-coupleable to the reusable cartridge body.

Abstract: This document provides implantable intraluminal stent graft medical devices. In some embodiments, the stent graft devices provided herein are implantable in bodily conduits that have side branches, and the stent graft devices are operable to allow the flow of fluids between the conduit and the side branches. In some embodiments, the walls of the stent graft devices provided herein include compliant channels which allow for fluid communication between the interior and the exterior of the stent graft devices. In some embodiments, the compliant channels are configured to inhibit or reduce tissue ingrowth, tissue bridging, and/or endothelialization.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device including an array of diodes and photoluminescent pads arranged opposite at least one diode, including making an electret layer over the array of diodes, by localized polarization or depolarization, optically, so as to form surface potential patterns; and making the photoluminescent pads, by contact of the electret layer with a colloidal solution containing photoluminescent particles, which are then deposited over the upper face of the electret layer opposite the predefined surface potential patterns, thereby forming the photoluminescent pads.

Abstract: A cable cylinder having a screw rotatable by a motor, a nut cooperating with the screw to move in the body, the cable cylinder having a pair of upstream and downstream pulleys on either side of the nut. In at least one of the pairs, the pulleys are rotationally secured to one another. The two cables each cooperating with one of the upstream cables and one of the downstream cables to define strands parallel to the screw rotational axis and attached to the nut. One of the cables forms a loop while the other extends beyond its downstream pulley to cooperate with a remote pulley rotatably mounted about a separate axis of rotation, the remote pulley forming a return to return the extended cable to the upstream pulley, the extended cable prevented from sliding over its upstream or associated downstream pulley that is rotationally engaged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for obtaining a layer at least partially made of a nitride (N), first comprising the provision of a stack comprising at least one assembly of pads (1000A1-1000B4) extending from a substrate (100). Each pad comprises at least one creep section (220A1-220A5) and one crystalline section (300A1,300A5) surmounting the creep section (200A1-200A5). Then, a crystallite (510A1-510A5) is epitaxially grown on at least some of said pads until coalescence of the crystallites, so as to form a nitride layer (550A). The pads of the assembly are distributed over the substrate, such that the relative arrangement of the pads of the assembly is such that during the epitaxy of the crystallites, the progressive coalescence of the crystallites is always done between, on the one hand, a crystallite or a plurality of coalesced crystallites and, on the other hand, an isolated crystallite.

Abstract: A method for producing a device comprising GAA transistors. Advantageously, the channels of the transistors are produced by deposition of a semiconductor material, preferably a 2D material, after successive removal of certain layers of the initial stack. The gates-all-around are produced after selective removal of the other layers from the initial stack. The initial stack does not comprise the semiconductor material, nor the material of the gates. The subsequent deposition of the semiconductor material aims to better preserve the semiconductor material.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing experimental data of a solid to be characterized, including atoms and including one or more defects, the experimental data coming from at least one sensor and having a multimodal distribution. The method includes the representation, in a space called descriptor space, of dimension K, comprised between 10 and 108, of one or more reference solid(s) and the data; the calculation for at least one portion of the atoms of the solid to be characterized of an experimental confidence score in the descriptor space, relative to the atoms of the reference solid; and the classification of the atoms of the structure depending on the experimental confidence score.

Abstract: A method and system or kit is provided, where makeup containing an alkane and a styrenic block copolymer can be easily removed if a separate makeup-removing composition that includes an alkane and a low viscosity dimethicone (having a viscosity of 60,000 cst or less) is applied. The dimethicone in this viscosity range causes the styrenic block copolymer to gel. After allowing a short period of time for the gelling to occur, the gelled copolymer and the remainder of the makeup can then be readily removed.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing an electroluminescent device, comprising: (a) using a stack comprising, successively: a substrate having a surface; matrix arrays of pixels formed on the surface of the substrate, of columnar shape; an encapsulating layer arranged to cover the matrix arrays of pixels; a dielectric layer formed on the encapsulating layer; (b) performing a directional etch along the normal to the surface of the substrate, of a portion of the dielectric layer extending between the pixels of the matrix arrays of pixels; the dielectric layer having a portion remaining at the end of step (b); and (c) performing a selective chemical etch of the remaining portion of the dielectric layer with a chemical etchant that permits selective etching of the remaining portion of the dielectric layer with respect to the encapsulating layer.

Abstract: A tandem photovoltaic structure including, from the rear face to the front face: a first SHJ solar cell comprising a first layer of P-type doped amorphous silicon and a substrate of N-type doped crystalline silicon, a junction layer, a second perovskite-type solar cell comprising an active layer and a second P-type layer, the junction layer being made of N-type TCO and being in direct contact either with the second P-type layer or with the first P-type layer, one amongst the first or second solar cell also comprising an N-type layer, the junction layer serving as an N-type layer in the other one amongst the first or second solar cell.

Abstract: An authentication method for a user who has a hierarchical deterministic keys wallet including a path between the user's master private key and a private key specific to a smart contract, the path including a plurality of branches each carrying an index, the smart contract being univocally identified by one or several indices of branches followed by the path. The user can issue a transaction from an issuing account address, obtained by hashing the public key corresponding to the specific private key in an asymmetric cryptosystem, and can sign this transaction using the specific private key. The smart contract uses the signature to verify that the transaction was really issued from the issuing account address in question.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lavandula plant named ‘Anouk Deluxe 201908’, characterized by its compact, broadly upright and uniformly mounded plant habit; freely branching growth habit; dense and bushy appearance; freely flowering habit; dark purple-colored flowers with showy lighter purple-colored terminal flower bracts positioned on short, strong and erect peduncles; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lavandula plant named ‘Anouk Deluxe 202001’, characterized by its compact, broadly upright and somewhat uniformly mounded plant habit; freely branching growth habit; dense and bushy appearance; freely flowering habit; dark violet-colored flowers with showy burgundy-colored terminal flower bracts positioned on short, strong and erect peduncles; and good garden performance.