Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a carrier composition containing: (a) at least one polyamine compound comprising at least two amino groups; (b) at least one nonionic surfactant; (c) at least one anionic silicone; and (d) at least one water-insoluble material, and wherein the composition, when combined with an aqueous phase, forms an aqueous delivery system which is both stable, and clear to slightly hazy/limpid in appearance.

Abstract: A memory cell including: an active area having a channel provided between a source and a drain, a first gate provided on a first part of the channel, a portion of a first lateral spacer provided against a lateral flank of the first gate, a part of which forms a second gate provided on a second part of the channel, one of two gates forming a storing gate, the memory cell further including a portion of a second lateral spacer provided against a lateral flank of a block provided on the semi-conductor layer, the second lateral spacer being in contact with the first lateral spacer, the first and second lateral spacers being composed of similar materials, said portion of the second lateral spacer forming a part of an electrical contact pad electrically connected to the second gate.

Abstract: The invention relates to an article for making up the nails comprising a backing with a profile corresponding to the profile of the nails or capable of conforming to the profile of the nails, the backing having a first face intended to be brought into contact with the nail and a second face on the opposite side from the first, the backing comprising at least one material exhibiting permeability of greater than 1000 g/m2/24 h and the first face comprising a layer of at least one pressure-sensitive adhesive material.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a carrier composition containing: (a) at least one fatty quaternary amine compound; (b) at least one nonionic surfactant; (c) at least one anionic silicone; and (d) at least one water-insoluble material, and wherein the composition, when combined with an aqueous phase, forms an aqueous delivery system which is both stable, and clear to slightly hazy/limpid in appearance.

Abstract: A method equalizing sizes of data packets by blocks of a multimedia stream including a succession of data packets of variable sizes. The method includes: storing a group of N (a predefined integer) data packets in a buffer memory; computing average size Tm of a packet from the different sizes of the N packets; generating a base stream including N data packets to be transmitted, wherein each has a size equal either to the rounded-down integer part [Tm], or to the rounded-up integer part [Tm] of the average size, and at least one additional stream including N redundant data packets computed from the base stream packets, having same size as the base stream packets, and intended to enable a receiver to restore any lost packets if the loss rate is greater than a predefined threshold; and transmitting the base stream and the additional stream(s) to the receivers.

Abstract: Methods and a communications node provide for routing communications over interconnected operator networks. These communications can be routed between individuals and/or organizations. Typically these communications are routed based upon information located in a database (410) and stored in session initiation protocol (SIP) communications.

Abstract: A machine (10) for fastening sheets comprises a) a fastening platform (11, 12, 13), which i) comprises a support surface (12) inclined with respect to the horizontal plane (x-y) which optionally also comprises extension means for the support surface, and ii) comprises an alignment surface (13), which is located at the bottom edge of the support surface or lower than this, in such a way that the intersection of the plane formed by the support surface and the plane formed by the alignment surface is formed, with respect to the support surface, by a threshold (100) extending along the width of the support surface, and b) a fastening unit (14).

Abstract: A system for determining the posture of a person has a motion sensor (CM) with at least one axis of measurement, which is provided with fixing means (MF) for rigidly connecting said motion sensor (CM) to a user. Analysis means (AN) are also included for determining a posture of the user. The analysis means (AN) utilize: (A) joint densities of probabilities of a low-frequency component and a high-frequency component, these densities of probabilities being defined for each posture; and (B) probabilities of transition between two successive postures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cosmetic assembly for making up and/or caring for keratin materials, comprising at least:—one container containing at least one solid cosmetic composition, the said composition comprising at least one liquid fatty phase, at least one wax and at least 5% by weight of pigments relative to the total weight of the said composition, and having a melting point of greater than 30° C., and—one application device for applying the composition, equipped with an application member comprising an application surface that is capable, in response to its movement in engagement with the keratin materials, of rotating about at least one axis or one centre of rotation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for permanent deformation of keratin fibers comprising the steps of : providing the keratin fibers with mechanical fibers a composition comprising one or several sources of ions of formula: wherein X is a group selected from the group consisting of O?, OH, NH2, O—OH, and O—COO?; then placing the keratin fibers in an occlusive space; and then heating the keratin fibers. The present invention also relates to an agent and a kit to be used for the above process.

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to method of fabricating a sensor. The method includes providing a substrate wafer that includes a suspended beam; adding an adhesive layer to the substrate wafer such that the adhesive layer covers portions of the substrate without covering the suspended beam; positioning a cover wafer onto the adhesive layer such that the suspend beam is exposed to ambient air through openings in the cover wafer; and functionalizing the suspended beam by contacting the suspended beam with materials through the opening in the cover wafer.

Abstract: A method of providing wireless communication service to a mobile phone is provided. The method comprises identifying common mobile phone applications and selectively supported mobile phone applications, installing the common mobile phone applications and the selectively supported mobile phone applications in read only memory of the mobile phone, each of the selectively supported applications associated with a selection switch initially disabled. The method further comprises, when activating the mobile phone, enabling at least one of the selection switches and writing at least one reference to branded content to a random access memory of the mobile phone based on a service plan associated with the mobile phone.

Abstract: A Home Subscriber Server for handling IP Multimedia Subsystem subscriptions comprises means for maintaining associations between public user identities and Service Profiles, where two or more public user identities can be associated with a common Service Profile, and means for identifying to a network node all public user identities that are associated with a common Service Profile.

Abstract: A non-intrusive signal quality assessment apparatus includes a feature vector calculator that determines parameters representing frames of a signal and extracts a collection of per-frame feature vectors (?;(n)) representing structural information of the signal from the parameters. A frame selector preferably selects only frames (?\with a feature vector (?;(n)) lying within a predetermined multi-dimensional window (?). Means determine a global feature set (?) over the collection of feature vectors (?;(n)) from statistical moments of selected feature vector components ((1^,02, . . . O11). A quality predictor predicts a signal quality measure (Qj from the global feature set (?)).

Abstract: The invention relates to a space-time coding method for a UWB transmission system comprising a plurality of radiative elements, said method coding a block of information symbols S=(?1, ?2, . . . , ?P) belonging to a PPM modulation alphabet, into a sequence of vectors, the components of a vector being intended to position-modulate a UWB pulse signal for a given radiative element of said system and a given transmission channel use, each component corresponding to a PPM modulation position, in which said vectors are obtained from the elements of the matrix: C = ( ? 1 ? 2 … ? P ? ? ? ? P ? 1 ? ? ? ? ? ? 2 ? ? ? ? 2 … ? ? ? ? P ? 1 ) a row of the matrix corresponding to a use of the transmission channel and a column of the matrix corresponding to a radiative element, the matrix C being defined to within a permutation of its rows and/or its columns and ? carrying out a permutation operation on the PPM modulation positions.

Abstract: On cold filling of pressure containers the filling gas is cooled before introduction into the pressure container to be filled. On completion of the filling process the pressure container is sealed in a pressure-tight manner. As the gas warms up the pressure in the pressure container rises rapidly. According to the invention, the pressure container is cooled before the introduction of the filling gas. The filling gas cools rapidly by means of heat transfer to the pressure container, whereby the filling capacity of the pressure container is considerably increased. Said method is particularly suitable for the filling of small tanks, in particular, for gas-driven vehicles and fuel-cell systems.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for locating at least one fluorophore or at least one absorber in a diffusing medium, using at least one excitation radiation and at least one fluorescence detector (?fluo), comprising: a) for at least one pair (radiation source-detector), at least one excitation by the radiation source, and at least one detection of the fluorescence signal emitted by the fluorophore after this excitation, b) identification of meshing of the volume into mesh elements, c) estimation of the location of the fluorophore or absorber in its diffusing medium, by computing a function (Pm) of at least one of three parameters.

Abstract: This invention relates to a gripper for a manipulator robot comprising two members articulated at a first end, each member comprising a jaw support (8?) at a second end, and a jaw (10?) that will come into contact with an object, the jaw (10?) being approximately plane, a force sensor (26?) arranged between at least one jaw support (8?) and a jaw (10?) so as to apply a force during displacement of the jaw (10?), and a deformable parallelogram connection (14?) connecting the jaw (10?) to the jaw support (8?), the sensor (26?) being oriented such that a sensitive axis of the sensor is orthogonal to the plane of the jaw (10?).

Abstract: The present invention relates to method, and apparatus relating to cellular radio communication (300). By communicating information repeatedly in either an uplink or a downlink connection by directing a main lobe of a radiation pattern (331-1 to 331-n; 335-1 to 335-n) of the communication in different directions (d1, d2, d2, d4) in the cell (361,362) of the cellular radio communication network (300) the reception of repetitive transmission of any information in both uplink and downlink connection with as little complexity added to the network as possible is improved.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for controlling a provisioning process. A first provisioning entity (115) issues a provisioning order (401). A provisioning controller (10) checks whether the received provisioning order is complete. If the order is not complete, a second provisioning entity (116,115) is selected to provide further provisioning data (PD1,PD2,PD3,PD4,PD5,PD6) so as to complete the incomplete received provisioning order and to send the corresponding provisioning order/s to the corresponding provisioned entity/ies (121, 122, 123). The provisioning controller may check a service provisioning template (PT-X), which can comprise identifiers of provisioning entities that can supply certain provisioning data, identifiers of the data that can be obtained from each and sequence information determining the order in which said data may be collected and provided for provisioning a given service. A status register may be used to keep track the processing status of a received provisioning order.