Abstract: Organic-inorganic hybrid nanofibres comprising two phases: a first mineral phase comprising a structured mesoporous network with open porosity; and a second organic phase comprising an organic polymer, wherein said organic phase is basically not present inside the pores of the structured mesoporous network. A membrane and an electrode comprising said nanofibres. A fuel cell comprising said membrane and/or said electrode. A method of preparing said nanofibres by electrically assisted extrusion (electrospinning).

Abstract: An air separation unit using cryogenic distillation comprises a first column, a second column thermally linked to the first column, a first argon column, a second argon column, means for sending cooled, compressed and purified air to at least the first column, means for sending at least one fluid enriched in nitrogen from the first column to the second column and at least one fluid enriched in oxygen from the first column to the second column, means for sending a gas enriched in argon from the second column to a first end of the first argon column, means for sending gas from a second end of the first argon column to a first end of the second argon column, means for removing argon rich fluid from a second end of the second argon column, a pump, means for removing argon enriched liquid from the first end of the second argon column and sending it to the second end of the first argon column via the pump, the first end of the first argon column being raised above the ground by a first supporting structure, the pum

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an OxRAM type resistive memory cell including a silicon oxide layer, the method including determining manufacturing parameter values enabling the resistive memory cell to have an initial resistance between 107? and 3·109?; and forming on a substrate a stack successively including a first electrode, the silicon oxide layer and a second electrode, by applying the manufacturing parameter values.

Abstract: A functionalized object includes at least one mechanical wave sensor providing the object with a vibration and deformation detection capability. The mechanical wave sensor comprises: a sensitive cell having a thickness less than or equal to 50 microns, and comprising an active layer made of a monocrystalline or polycrystalline piezoelectric material and two electrodes, which are in contact with the active layer and accessible at a first surface of the sensitive cell, and a support layer secured to the second surface of the sensitive cell and secured to the object. The functionalized object comprises at least two electrically conductive strips disposed on the first surface of the sensitive cell and on a surface of the object, each strip connecting an electrode to an electrical contact pad. A method is used for producing such a functionalized object.

Abstract: Dynamic make-up product having in its formulation magneto-chromatic microspheres, which modify their orientation and therefore the color of the make-up product under the action of a magnetic field, wherein said dynamic make-up product, once exhausted, is configured to be recharged by means of a refill containing interchangeable capsules inside which the dynamic make-up product is contained. The refill is inserted in a casing having all the magnetic side surfaces which cooperate with a magnetic field source generating a magnetic force.

Abstract: A vegan anhydrous semi-solid composition may be provided, that includes at least 30% by weight of an organic solvent, a rheology modifier system, 5-15% by weight of waxes, and a particulate. The rheology modify system includes disteardimonium hectorite and silica silylate, where there is a ratio R1 of a percent by weight of disteardimonium hectorite to silica silylate that is 2.1?R1?6. The waxes include a hard wax and a soft wax. The particulate includes a pigment, a pearlescent agent, a filler, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed are semi-solid gel compositions comprising (a) a gelling oil phase comprising: i) at least one oil gelator; ii) at least one fatty alcohol; and iii) at least one fatty compound other than (ii); wherein said gelling oil phase is present in an amount of from at least about 50% by weight, relative to the weight of the total composition; and (b) a lamellar crystalline aqueous gel phase comprising: i) water and optionally at least one polyol present in an amount up to about 50% by weight, relative to the weight of the total composition; ii) at least one lamellar crystalline phase structurant; and iii) at least one emulsifier. The disclosure also relates to methods of treating keratinous substrates.

Abstract: An OxRAM resistive memory cell includes a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and an active layer which extends between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The active layer includes a layer of a first electrically insulating oxide, wherein an electrically conductive filament can be formed, then subsequently broken and reformed several times successively. The upper electrode includes a reservoir layer, capable of receiving oxygen, which includes an upper part made of a metal and a lower part made of a second oxide, the second oxide being an oxide of the metal and including a proportion of oxygen such that the second oxide is electrically conductive.

Abstract: A system for medical navigation includes an echo-endoscope configured to acquire a real-time ultrasound signal and/or a video signal; a tracking system or device configured to track a distal tip of the echo-endoscope in space; a user interface and a display; computing and storing system containing pre-operative radiologic data of a patient; wherein the computing and storing system is configured to perform a registration between real-time intra-operative data and the pre-operative radiologic data and the display is configured to provide to the user a navigation view integrating real-time intra-operative data view within the pre-operative radiologic data based on said registration.

Abstract: Aspects of lighting estimation, and models therefor are provided including aspects to train such models. There is provided a lighting estimation model pre-trained using synthetic data to alleviate the costs and difficulty in obtaining real portrait image and HDR environment map paired datasets. To improve model performance, the model is training utilizing a discriminator configured to predict one or more average color values of a defined percentage of highest intensity pixels of a predicted environment map and to determine a color loss associated with the predicted environment map and the one or more average color values. The trained model can be used for a wide range of downstream tasks, including being used to generate hair renderings with realistic lighting effects for virtual try on experiences.

Abstract: A method for training a characterization algorithm, configured to characterize a metabolism of at least one strain of microorganism, the method including the following steps: a) placing different microorganisms of the strain in different training samples, the training samples including a culture medium to which a metabolic marker has been added respectively at different concentrations, the metabolic marker being configured to be metabolized by each microorganism, at least one sample being such that it includes no metabolic marker, or at a concentration considered negligible; b) acquisition of training spectra of microorganisms from each training sample; c) from the training spectra acquired in each training sample, parameterization of the characterization algorithm, so as to characterize, from each training spectrum, a metabolism of the microorganism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for optimizing a reconfigurable intelligent surface, comprising the following successive steps: for a current configuration of said reconfigurable intelligent surface, the acquisition (62) of at least one measurement of the multi-path propagation channel associated with the communication and/or location system comprising at least said reconfigurable intelligent surface, at least one transmitter and at least one receiver; on the basis of said acquisition, estimation of said multi-path channel; within said multi-path channel estimation, isolation of the component of said reconfigurable intelligent surface; computation of a cost function using said isolated component; said successive steps being reiterated after modification, at each iteration, of said current configuration, until a predetermined stopping criterion is reached, the optimal configuration being associated with the iteration the cost value of which is maximum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an amorphous three-dimensional architecture of the micro-lattice type formed of micro-beams connected together by nodes, which comprises: A) performing (100) a computer-implemented design step consisting, on the basis of a three-dimensional random arrangement (INIT) of non-deformable beads, in: a) producing (101) a three-dimensional random compact stack of said beads; b) for each bead, determining (102) the coordinates of the centre of the bead which correspond to those of a node; c) performing (103) a triangulation with said nodes, each triangle thus being defined with the nodes closest to one another, then associating two nodes connected by one side of a triangle to a micro-beam in order to define the micro-lattice; d) selecting (104) a sub-domain of the micro-lattice obtained in step c), not comprising the nodes located at the edge of the micro-lattice in order to define said amorphous three-dimensional architecture, the design step involving an average conne

Abstract: A heat pump (100) having the following features is described: an evaporator (50) for evaporating a fluid in order to obtain an evaporated fluid, the evaporator (50) having an evaporator sump (52); a condenser (60) for condensing an evaporated fluid compressed by an N-stage compressor, the condenser (60) having a condensing sump (64), a condensation region (66) and a holding region (67) for holding vaporous fluid still remaining after the condensation region (66); the N-stage compressor which comprises N compressors, N being a natural number greater than or equal to one and the N-stage compressor being arranged between the evaporator (50) and the condenser (60); a vapour duct (30) which couples at least two of the N compressors of the N-stage compressor between the evaporator (50) and the condenser (60), and a vapour-conducting line (92) which is arranged between the condenser (60) and the evaporator (50) in order to conduct vaporous fluid out of the holding region (67) of the condenser (60) into the evaporato

Abstract: A composition including an extract of Moricandia for the use thereof in the prevention and/or treatment of metabolic diseases related to impaired glucose tolerance and/or insulin resistance. Also a composition including an extract of Moricandia for the use thereof in the prevention of weight gain, in particular of body fat.

Abstract: A method for controlling a network aggregating sub-networks, with peripheral agents and a central agent, a peripheral agent locally controlling a sub-network, and the central agent overall controlling the network, including the steps of: each peripheral agent performing a local optimization, by distinguishing internal xi and external zi and transmitting: the locales optimal values of the external variables zil*, lower and upper bounds of the external variables zi?* and zi?*, and a value of a local cost function on local optimal values of internal variables fxi(xil*), lower and upper bounds of the internal variables fxi(xi?*) and fxi(xi?*); the central agent performing an overall optimization over all the external variables zi by distributing the contribution of each sub-network by taking into account, for each sub-network, of a deviation from the local cost function evaluated from information transmitted by the corresponding peripheral agent and transmitting the overall optimal values of the external variable

Abstract: Data processing method for obtaining a result with a combination of elementary operations; wherein two encryptions [Enc1,Dec1; Enc2,Dec2] are defined, one indecipherable by a server, the other indecipherable by a TEE; and S1) an emitting client supplies and encrypts an input data item; S2) it sends it under encryption to the server or to the TEE; S3) via data processing, these two computers apply the combination of elementary operations to the encrypted data item received so as to obtain a ciphertext of the result, that they send to a receiving client; S4) the latter deciphers the ciphertext of the result and obtains the result. During step S3, the server only processes processed data under encryption indecipherable by the server, and the TEE only processes processed data under encryption indecipherable by the TEE.

Abstract: An on-silicon integrated test structure for characterizing the PDL of a “1 to 2” fiber/silicon optical coupler with a two-dimensional diffraction grating (2DGC), includes the 2DGC to be tested configured as an output coupler, mirrored with another “1 to 2” fiber/silicon optical coupler configured as an input coupler, via planar waveguides coupling their respective guided optical terminals. An adjustable phase shifter is arranged at one of these waveguides. A p- or s-polarized optical signal is input via the input coupler. The adjustable phase shifter is controlled to apply a pure phase shift between 0 and ? to the optical signal propagating in this waveguide. The optical signal input to the 2DGC under test then sweeps through all the mixed polarization states. The variation in optical transmission in the 2DGC under test during this sweep gives the PDL.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an applicator for cosmetics comprises: a generally cylindrical body having a proximal end and a distal end; a first concave application zone on a side of the cylindrical body between the proximal end and the distal end; a second convex application zone on an opposite side of the first application zone, wherein the second application zone extends between the proximal end and the distal end, and transitions into a tip at the distal end; and the tip of the applicator is formed between the first application zone and the second application zone, wherein the tip extending along the outer diameter of the cylindrical body on the side of the first application zone, the tip extending along a length of the cylindrical body being distal from the first application zone.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a relaxed epitaxial InGaN layer from a GaN/InGaN substrate comprising the following steps: a) providing a first stack comprising a GaN or InGaN layer to be porosified and a barrier layer, b) transferring the GaN or InGaN layer to be porosified and the barrier layer to a porosification support, in such a way as to form a second stack, c) forming a mask on the GaN or InGaN layer to be porosified, d) porosifying the GaN or InGaN layer through the mask, e) transferring the GaN or InGaN porosified layer and the barrier layer to a support of interest, f) forming an InGaN layer by epitaxy on the barrier layer, whereby a relaxed epitaxial InGaN layer is obtained.