Abstract: The present invention relates to a melting device, comprising a melting space in which material can be melted and which is enclosed by at least a bottom wall and a side wall, the melting device further comprising at least one electric heater (E) and at least one submerged burner (F) disposed in the melting space to heat material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to coated cerium suboxide particles, to a process for preparing coated cerium oxide or suboxide particles by means of flame spray pyrolysis technology, to the cerium oxide particles resulting from such a process, to compositions comprising such particles and also to the uses thereof.

Abstract: Refrigeration device comprising a working circuit of working fluid forming a cycle comprising a mechanism for compression, cooling, expansion and heating, an electric motor driving in rotation a shaft which carries a compressor wheel, an electronic controller configured to receive a signal demanding a defined cooling power and, in response, to control the speed of rotation of the motor, the electronic controller being configured to limit the maximum operating speed of the motor to a value less than or equal to its maximum design speed, in nominal operation, the electronic controller fixing the maximum operating speed of the motor at the speed of rotation that supplies the cold power, and regulating the speed of rotation of the motor in accordance with the demand for cold power, without exceeding the maximum operating speed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting and identifying a micro-organism contained in a sample comprising the steps consisting in (a) placing the sample, in a liquid culture medium, in the presence of at least one measurement electrode and a reference electrode and under conditions suitable for growth of the micro-organisms, (b) measuring, over time, the potential difference between said at least one measurement electrode and the reference electrode, (c) optionally computing the derivative of the potential difference based on the measurement performed in step (b) by way of which the profile of the derivative of the potential is obtained, and (d) detecting and identifying a micro-organism contained in said sample either based on the profile of the potential obtained in step b), or based on the profile obtained in step c). The present invention also relates to a system that capable of being implemented in this method.

Abstract: A process for detecting at least one amine-type compound, the compound being chosen from hydrazine, ethanolamine, and morpholine, the process includes using a reagents composition including a mixture of 4-(dimethylamino)cinnamaldehyde and polystyrenesulfonic acid. Also, a kit for preparing the reagents composition, the reagents composition itself, and the uses of the reagents composition.

Abstract: A polarimetric camera includes an optical system and an image sensor. The optical system (i) forms, on the image sensor, N images of a scene to be imaged, with N greater than or equal to 2, N being a number of polarization states, (ii) includes a polarization separator diverting the light beams coming from the scene according to the N polarization states, and (iii) has N exit pupils. The image sensor includes a plurality of detection pixels distributed in N subsets of pixels. Each subset is associated with an exit pupil and receives the incident light beams according to the polarization state of the associated exit pupil. The image sensor includes at least N angular filters, each angular filter transmitting, to a subset of pixels, the light beams coming from the associated exit pupil, and filtering the other light beams.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device, the method including: the forming of a support including at least a first insulating layer and conductive tracks; the forming of a second insulating layer; the forming of cavities in the second insulating layer; and the forming of a memory cell in a first location including: the forming of a stack of layers extending over the walls and the bottom of the cavities, the stack including a layer made of a material capable of becoming ferroelectric located between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer; and the application of a laser to the stack of layers at at least the first location so as to activate ferromagnetic properties of the layer.

Abstract: A thermal detector with a suspended absorbent membrane, which has at least two absorbers. The second absorber is designed to absorb the electromagnetic radiation in a spectral sub-band of a predefined spectral band, centered on a wavelength ?c2. Moreover, it is spaced from a reflector by a value equal to ?c2/4neq2 so as to form therewith a quarter-wave cavity for the wavelength ?c2, the spectral sub-band being centered on the wavelength ?c2 which is equal to ?c1/2 within plus or minus 2 ?m. Furthermore, the first and second absorbers have total surface areas such that a surface area ratio is between 0.5 and 3.

Abstract: A nanoporous sensor composed of a silicate sol-gel matrix enclosing a reagents composition, the reagents composition including a mixture of 4-(dimethylamino) cinnamaldehyde and polystyrenesulfonic acid. Also, the process for preparing the nanoporous sensor composed of the silicate sol-gel matrix enclosing the reagents composition, and the use thereof in a process for detecting at least one amine-type compound, the compound being chosen from hydrazine, ethanolamine, ammonia and morpholine.

Abstract: A non-volatile field-effect transistor includes a gate electrode including a first contact, a source comprising a second contact, a drain including a third contact, a channel between the drain and the source and formed by a two-dimensional electron gas, a remanent-state subassembly having two electrically controllable remanent states comprising at least one oxide layer, and a reducing layer made of at least one metal-type reducing material having an atomic concentration of metal elements greater than 50%. The application of a voltage between the first contact and another contact results in a non-volatile modulation of the conductivity of the two-dimensional gas.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising at least one particular dyeing base, at least one particular coupler, and at least one fatty substance, the total content of fatty substance being greater than or equal to 30% by weight, relative to the total weight of the composition.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems and methods that include an airflow conditioning device. The airflow conditioning device includes a channels defining airflow pathways through the airflow conditioning device. A heat and moisture exchanger is disposed in the airflow conditioning device with a plurality of air-permeable barriers separating the airflow pathways. The airflow conditioning device includes air-permeable barriers with a layer of a microporous film and a water vapor permeable resin layer adjoined to one or both of the surfaces of the microporous film as either a continuous microporous coating or a discontinuous coating.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (a) at least one pigment; (b) at least one first copolymer of at least two monomers selected from (meth)acrylic acid, esters thereof, and salts thereof; (c) at least one second copolymer of styrene or ?-methylstyrene and of at least one monomer selected from (meth)acrylic acid, esters thereof, and salts thereof, wherein the weight ratio of the amount of the (c) second copolymer(s)/the amount of the (a) pigment(s) is 1.0 or more, preferably 1.5 or more, and more preferably 2.0 or more, and the composition comprises at least one non-ionic surfactant in an amount of 0.5% by weight or less, preferably 0.3% by weight or less, and more preferably 0.1% by weight or less, relative to the total weight of the composition, or the composition comprises no non-ionic surfactant.

Abstract: An assembly for transmitting airborne acoustic waves, configured to be combined with a musical wind instrument having side holes, which instrument comprises a tubular body defining an air column and extending locally substantially along a first axis, the transmission assembly comprising: a device for emission of airborne acoustic waves in the air column, comprising an actuator which is separate from the tubular body and able to transform an electrical signal into airborne acoustic waves; a device for reception of airborne acoustic waves, comprising: a microphone suitable for receiving, after their propagation in the air column, the waves transformed by the actuator, the microphone being positioned off-centre with respect to the first axis; a transformation device suitable for transforming the waves received by the microphone into an electrical signal that is characteristic of a configuration of blocking of the side holes of the instrument.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for purifying a main gas, in particular helium, from a source gas stream comprising the main gas, a main impurity, in particular nitrogen, and optionally another, secondary impurity, in particular oxygen, the method comprising a step of partial condensation of the gas stream in order to extract therefrom impurities in liquid form, in particular the main impurity, and to produce a gas stream enriched with main gas, characterized in that the method comprises, before the partial condensation step, a step of injecting into the gas stream a compound in which the main impurity of the gas to be treated is soluble and having a saturation vapor pressure lower than the saturation vapor pressure of the main impurity.

Abstract: The present description concerns a memory module (100) adapted to implementing computing operations, the module comprising a plurality of elementary blocks (110) arranged in an array according to rows and columns, wherein: each elementary block (110) comprises a memory circuit (111) adapted to implementing computing operations, and a configurable transfer circuit (113); each configurable transfer circuit (113) is parameterizable to transmit data originating from a first transmit elementary block to a receive elementary block of a same column of elementary blocks via at least one link bus; an internal control circuit (120) is connected to an input-output port (123) of the module; and the internal control circuit (120) is configured to read at least one instruction signal from the input-output port (123) of the module and accordingly parameterize the configuration of the configurable transfer circuits (113), and define the size of the operand vectors of the computing operations.

Abstract: Hair care compositions and methods for providing conditioning benefits to hair is disclosed. The hair care compositions may include one or more nonionic surfactants comprising one or more alkylpolyglucosides; one or more fatty alcohols; one or more fatty esters comprising caprylic/capric triglyceride; about 0.5 to about 30 wt. % of a fatty compound other than fatty alcohol and fatty ester; one or more silicones comprising polysilicone-11; one or more thickening agents; and water, wherein the hair care composition is an emulsion, and all weight percentages are based on the total weight of the hair care composition.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for facial landmark detection using a convolutional neural network (CNN). The CNN comprises a first stage and a second stage where the first stage produces initial heat maps for the landmarks and initial respective locations for the landmarks. The second stage processes the heat maps and performs Region of Interest-based pooling while preserving feature alignment to produce cropped features. Finally, the second stage predicts from the cropped features a respective refinement location offset to each respective initial location. Combining each respective initial location with its respective refinement location offset provides a respective final coordinate (x,y) for each respective landmark in the image. Two-stage localization design helps to achieve fine-level alignment while remaining computationally efficient.

Abstract: A composition in the form of a micro-emulsion composed of an oil phase comprising at least one omega 3 fatty acid or salt thereof and at least one glyceride, an aqueous phase and one or more non ionic surfactant(s), said composition containing at least one creatine fatty ester or salt thereof. Further, a method for preparing such a composition and its use in medicine in particular for treating the brain creatine transporter deficiency disease.