Abstract: The present invention relates to a silica particle comprising at least one complex of at least one lanthanide and of at least one ligand of formula (A) in which Z1, Z2 and Z3, which may be identical or different, each represent a group bearing an atom bearing a lone pair and/or a negative charge; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12, which may be identical or different, each represent a hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl radical, an optionally substituted aryl radical, a halogen, a group —OR13 or a group —SR13, with R13 representing H, an optionally substituted alkyl group or an optionally substituted aryl group.

Abstract: Device, computer readable medium, and method for selecting compression modes to be applied in a depth buffer (20).

Abstract: The invention comprises a method and a corresponding apparatus (53). A candidate set of sensors that are available to participate in an occasion of cooperative spectrum sensing is obtained. For each sensor in the candidate set, its radial distance to a central coordinating node in a communication system is also obtained (73). A sequence of minimum radii is produced (75,79). For each minimum radius in the sequence, an accommodation number is determined (75,87). The accommodation number associated with a minimum radius is the greatest number of sensors that can be placed on circle having this radius without a probability that all these sensors are mutually uncorrelated falling below a design probability threshold. Sensors from the candidate set are then selectively added (91,95) to an active set of sensors based on the minimum radii, the corresponding accommodation numbers and the obtained radial distances.

Abstract: Method and system for invoking MIDlets from a mobile web browser using the push registry mechanism provided by the application management software (AMS) of a local device, such as the push registry socket or push registry SMS, the local device including a mobile terminal, mobile telephone, smart phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), handset and the like.

Abstract: A reference electrode having a casing with an inner cavity successively filled with a paste constituting an active material and a porous material impregnated with an electrolyte solution. The projecting end of a silver wire is embedded in the paste at the bottom of the inner cavity. The paste is constituted of a powder of a silver compound and of the alkaline electrolyte solution. The silver compound is any insoluble silver salt or oxide containing the negative ion of the electrolyte solution. The impregnated porous material is preferably constituted by a plurality of mat separator pieces mechanically and compressed by a closing plug, closing the inner cavity and forming a porous liquid junction.

Abstract: Systems and methods for legal interception of the transmission of personalized ring back tones as they are sent from a network such as a mobile telephone network associated with a subscriber to a caller in response to a call placed by the caller to the subscriber to allow monitoring of personalized ring back tones and/or their associated call content data. The personalized ring back tone is intercepted at an intercept access point on the network, where the systems and methods of the invention then transmit the intercepted personalized ring back tone to an authorized person or entity, such as a law enforcement agency.

Abstract: In a method for selecting modulation and coding scheme for data transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver, the transmitter determines an estimated channel quality value. The transmitter then adjusts the estimated channel quality value in relation to a distribution of estimated channel quality values, and selects modulation and coding scheme based on the adjusted channel quality value. The invention also extends to a transmitter and a computer program product configured to select modulation and coding scheme accordingly.

Abstract: A packaging and applicator kit may comprise a receptacle containing a substance for application to nails that has a viscosity of at least approximately 0.3 Pa·s. The kit may also comprise at least one applicator configured to be loaded with the substance contained in the receptacle and to apply the substance to nails. The at least one applicator may comprise at least one flexible blade defining an application face.

Abstract: The present invention presents a method for creating a relation between mobiles and a vehicle of a wireless communications network. The vehicle is equipped with an on-board device with wireless communication capability. The present invention also presents an on-board device and a road user server to be used in such wireless communications network. Mobiles in the vehicle are triggered to report their location to the network. When the vehicle reports its location an association between the vehicle and the mobiles having same location information is performed. The triggering signal is sent on control channels triggering all mobiles, including mobiles in idle mode. Profiles of mobile users in a vehicle, based on location information and mobile identities, are retrieved and stored in lists which are forwarded to fore example hospitals and fire departments when an accident occurs.

Abstract: A frequency error of received signals in an OFDM receiver of a wireless communications system is determined. Symbols of a given duration are transmitted as cells on sub-carrier frequencies; and some of the cells are pilot cells modulated with reference information. The method comprises the steps of selecting at least three pilot cells (p0, p1, p2) from different symbols and different sub-carriers; determining the symbol and the sub-carrier on which each pilot cell is transmitted; determining for each pilot cell a phase difference between received and generated signals; calculating therefrom a change in phase difference (?x) caused by the frequency error; and calculating the frequency error from the calculated change in phase difference (?x). In this way a receiver capable of determining a frequency error also in situations where only a short data burst, such as a single resource block, is available for the estimation is provided.

Abstract: An expandable prosthetic device and method of delivery that allows the initial placement of multiple guidewires into selected target sites. The prosthesis includes a main body device. This main body device has a separate side branch guidewire lumen that passes through the main body device and through a side opening in the main body device. As the main body device is advanced, the side opening is self guided (by the side branch guidewire) and self-aligns to the side branch vessel ostium. The main body device is then deployed, leaving the side branch guidewire in place. A side branch device is then advanced along the side branch guidewire through the main body device, through the side wall opening and into the native side branch vessel. The side branch device can then be deployed to engage the main body device and the native side branch vessel.

Abstract: A method for an access network node, and the access network node, to provide a user device access to a service enabled by an IMS network, comprising the steps of: setting up an IP tunnel for communication with the user device, sending an authentication request to the user device via the tunnel, receiving a response to the authentication request from the user device via the tunnel, authenticating the user device, sending a registration request comprising an IMPU associated with the user device to an IMS network node, receiving a confirmation message from the IMS network node that the user device is authenticated, sending an authorization confirmation message via the IP tunnel that the user device is authorized, receiving a service request via the IP tunnel from the user device to start the service, sending a service session initiation message to an application server associated with the service.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display arrangement comprising display means (304) and receiving and/or transmitting means for radio waves, millimeter waves or microwaves. An electrically conductive structure (6A) is adapted to form said receiving and/or transmitting means. The display means (3O4) comprises an emission layer with a number of light emitting elements or pixel elements (531, . . . , 535). The electrically conductive structure (6A) is provided between said light emitting elements (531, . . . , 535) to form said receiving and/or transmitting means such that they are integrated with the display means (3O4). Light conducting means (731, . . . , 735) are provided to conduct light through the electrically conductive structure (6A) to represent imaging information on top of the display means.

Abstract: A reader device (104) for a contactless remote measurement system by inductive coupling provided with at least one RLC passive sensor (102) having a resistance and a capacitance or inductance provided for varying depending on one or more physical parameters, the measurement of which is desired, the reader including an inductive antenna (105), and means for iterative identification of at least the resistance and the capacitance or inductance of said sensor, provided for carrying out an iterative identification method comprising steps consisting of: emitting a test signal at the input of said antenna, achieving an estimation ?k of the time response of the sensor to said test signal with means forming a discrete filter (112) provided with coefficients which may be modulated, adapting the coefficients of the discrete filter, depending on a criterion J depending on said estimation and on a discrete signal sk formed from a real signal taken at the terminals of the antenna in response to the emission of said test

Abstract: A suspension of inorganic particles, a copolymer comprising soft segments and hard segments, and a solvent may be extruded through a spinnerette to produce inorganic/organic composite hollow precursor fibers. The precursor fibers may be sintered. The fibers may be utilized in a gas separation module for separation of a gas mixture or production of syngas. The fibers may be installed in the gas separation module after sintering or they may be sintered after installation.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use, as agent for depigmenting and/or whitening the skin, in particular for eliminating pigmentary spots and/or senescence spots, and/or as anti-browning agents, of a compound of formula (I): R1—CHOH—CH(NH—COR2)(CH2OH)??(I) in which R1 denotes a C11 to C21 alkyl radical, and R2 denotes a linear, optionally hydroxylated C11-C19 hydrocarbon-based radical, with the hydroxyl group being in the alpha-position with respect to the carbonyl, which may comprise one or more ethylenic unsaturations, in particular one or two ethylenic unsaturations. The invention also relates to a cosmetic process for depigmenting and/or lightening skin exhibiting pigmentation spots, comprising the application to the skin of a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, a compound of formula (I).

Abstract: A method for transmitting data flows between a network element and a number of receivers over a first channel. The method comprises the steps of: performing a link adaptation for the transmission of a data flow by said network element, and transmitting the data flow, transmitting an indication of a channel quality required for reception of the data flow on a second channel, receiving by said receivers said indication of channel quality, measuring a link quality by said receivers by monitoring a pilot channel, comparing said measured link quality with said received indication of the channel quality, and transmitting to said network element result of said comparison of said measured link quality with said received indication of the channel quality, if said result is lower than a predetermined value. The invention also relates to a network element and a user equipment.

Abstract: Spring cushions (10) having slow-acting pocketed spring cores (12) characterized by the individual springs of the cores (12) being pocketed within semi-impermeable fabric material and a method of making such pocketed spring cores (12). Fill material, such as pieces, strands or elements of foam or fiber is located inside at least some of the pocketed springs to reduce noise.

Abstract: An object within a region is exposed to a first beam of penetrating radiation. The first beam of penetrating radiation is sensed on a side opposite the region from a source of the first beam. An attenuation of the first beam caused by passing the first beam through the object is determined, the attenuation is compared to a threshold attenuation. If the attenuation exceeds the threshold attenuation, a parameter of a second of beam of penetrating radiation is adjusted based on the determined attenuation.

Abstract: Phased array ultrasonic contact transducer, with a flexible wedge and a profilometer. This transducer applies to the non-destructive monitoring of an object and comprises: a set of elements that are rigidly integral with each other, at least part of the elements serving as ultrasound transmitters, a wedge whereof at least the front face is flexible to be applied against the surface of the object and the rear face of which is made integral with the set of elements, and a profilometer to measure surface variations and supply signals representative thereof to allow the transmitters to create a focused ultrasonic beam whereof the characteristics are controlled in relation to the object.