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: 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 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: 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 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: 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: Implantable medical devices for connecting tissue layers, such as for connecting a gallbladder and a portion of a gastrointestinal tract to create an anastomosis, include a tubular structure having a plurality of apposition portions, a central region, and a covering material. The devices are endoscopically deployable and may include open cells or undulating edges that facilitate a secure connection between the tissue structures.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aqueous micellar liquid composition that include an amphoteric surfactant, an alkyl glucoside and a specific preservative system. In particular, the compositions include: a) an amphoteric surfactant; b) an alkyl glucoside and c) sodium benzoate. The compositions are low foaming upon rubbing and stable.

Abstract: The invention relates to the transmission and reception of non-binary error correcting code words. The transmission method includes a first modulation (56) which implements a set of q sequences comprising q?1 sequences of q?1 chips, each sequence being obtained by circular shifting of a basic pseudo-random sequence, and a partially invariant sequence, invariant to a predetermined subset of circular shifts. The first modulation (56) further implements an association between each code word symbol and a sequence of the set of sequences wherein said finite field GFq has a non-zero primitive element, the symbol zero being associated with said partially invariant sequence and a symbol equal to a power j of the primitive element, j being an integer comprised between 0 and q?2, being associated with a pseudo-random sequence determined by j circular shifts of the basic pseudo-random sequence.

Abstract: A cable actuator (100) having a frame (10); a screw (2) rotatably mounted on the frame (10) and extending along a first axis (Ox); a nut (4) cooperating with the screw (2); a mechanism (30) for estimating the angular movement of the nut (4) about the first axis (Lx) relative to the frame (10); and a distance sensor (30) secured to the frame (10) and having a winder (33) for winding a thread (32), one end (32.1) of the thread (32) connected to the nut (4) at a connection point (4.1). The distance sensor (30) is arranged in such a manner that the thread (32) changes curvature at a first point (34) situated in a first plane (P1) orthogonal to the first axis (Ox).

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 magnetoresistive stack includes a reference layer including a magnetic layer, an antiferromagnetic layer in exchange coupling with the magnetic layer, a magnetic layer substantially of the same magnetisation as the magnetic layer, a spacer layer between the magnetic layers with a thickness for enabling an antiferromagnetic coupling between the magnetic layers of a first coupling intensity, a free layer having a coercivity of less than 10 microTesla, the free layer including a magnetic layer, an antiferromagnetic layer in exchange coupling with the magnetic layer, a magnetic layer substantially of the same magnetisation as the magnetic layer, a spacer layer between the magnetic layers with a thickness for enabling an antiferromagnetic coupling between the magnetic layers of a second coupling intensity lower than the first coupling intensity, a third spacer layer separating the reference and free layers.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to hair coloring compositions and methods for coloring hair. The hair coloring compositions include: (a) one or more hair colorants; (b) one or more ketal/acetal of glycerin compounds of Formula (I); (c) one or more cationic surfactants; (d) one of more fatty alcohols having at least 8 carbon atoms; (e) one or more polyols having from 2 to 10 carbon atoms; and (f) less than 5 wt. %, based on the total weight of the composition, of water and monoalcohols having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms. The hair coloring compositions are preferably solubilized, non-emulsified compositions.

Abstract: With Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), facial alignment networks (FAN) have achieved significant accuracy on a wide range of public datasets, which comes along with larger model size and expensive computation costs, making it infeasible to adapt them to real-time applications on edge devices. There is provided a model compression approach on FAN using One-Shot Neural Architecture Search to overcome this problem while preserving performance criteria. Methods and devices provide efficient training and searching (on a single GPU), and resultant models can deploy to run real-time in browser-based applications on edge devices including tablets and smartphones. The compressed models provide comparable cutting-edge accuracy, while having a 30 times smaller model size and can run 40.7 ms per frame in a popular browser on a popular smartphone and OS.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for treating keratin fibres, in particular the hair, comprising: a) at least one amino silicone; b) at least one non-amino silicone having a weight-average molecular weight of less than or equal to 1500 g/mol; c) at least one colouring agent chosen from pigments, direct dyes and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to compositions for use before, during, and/or after the hair is subject to a process for altering the color thereof. The compositions comprise a combination of citric acid and at least one urea compound. The compositions provide strength and other benefits to treated hair. The disclosure also relates to methods of using the compositions as well as kits comprising the compositions.

Abstract: A device for detecting infrared radiation, includes at least one pixel having an axis in a direction Z, the pixel comprising a first absorbent planar structure comprising at least one semiconductor layer. The composition of the materials used to produce the at least one layer of the first absorbent planar structure is chosen such that: the first absorbent planar structure has an effective valence band formed by a plurality of energy levels. Each energy level is occupied by one of: a first type of positive charge carrier, called heavy holes, having a first effective mass; or a second type of positive charge carrier, called light holes, having a second effective mass strictly less than the first effective mass. The maximum energy level of the effective valence band is occupied by light holes along the axis of the pixel.