Abstract: The present invention provides: a negative electrode active material having high discharge capacity, high charge output, and excellent discharge output characteristics; and a carbon material therefor. A carbon material for a negative electrode active material according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a carbon material having the total fibrosity index (TFI) of 0.58 to 0.78.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods described herein relate to safety devices for electrochemical cells comprising an electrode tab electrically coupled to an electrode, the electrode including an electrode material disposed on a current collector. In some embodiments, a fuse can be operably coupled to or formed in the electrode tab. In some embodiments, the fuse can be formed by removing a portion of the electrode tab. In some embodiments, the fuse can include a thin strip of electrically resistive material configured to electrically couple multiple electrodes. In some embodiments, the current collector can include a metal-coated deformable mesh material such that the current collector is self-fusing. In some embodiments, the fuse can be configured to deform, break, melt, or otherwise discontinue electrical communication between the electrode and other components of the electrochemical cell in response to a high current condition, a high voltage condition, or a high temperature condition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling the internal body pressure, e.g., the joint pressure using a medical-technical fluid pump, and to a device for carrying out said method.

Abstract: The systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein provide integrated weather forecast products designed to assist operations managers with operational decision-making related to a designated event or set of events. The present disclosure provides a way to process weather data from various sources and in diverse data formats containing varying spatial resolutions and temporal resolutions, in order to generate an integrated and cohesive weather projection product such that the weather projection product is continuous in both. spatial and temporal domains, subject to data availability, relative to a designated event or set of events.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine with a ballast receiving device for receiving ballast located under a track by means of an endless excavating chain guided in a chain channel, with the chain channel being composed of a transverse channel which can be positioned under the track, an empty channel, and a transport channel provided for ballast transport. A conveyor device for transporting ballast in the direction of the transport channel is arranged along a top edge of the transverse channel. This additional device increases the movement of the ballast so that it completely enters the transport channel.

Abstract: A method for predictive fire control, comprising identifying a plurality of wildfire risk points on a power grid, calculating a route for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to intersect with a maximum number of points as a function of a range of the UAV, controlling the UAV to traverse the route, monitoring one or more sensors for an indication of a wildfire event and controlling the UAV to release a fire retardant on the fire.

Abstract: A bolt hold open mechanism assembly is disclosed. The bolt hold open mechanism assembly contains a connector rod, a follower lever associated with the connector rod, a bolt stop associated with the connector rod, and a lifter lever comprising at least one protrusion configured to interact with a magazine follower.

Abstract: A packet processor of a network device receives a packet and a local-domain timestamp generated for the packet at a network interface of the network device based on a local-domain clock maintained by the network device. The packet processor generates a domain-specific timestamp for the packet based on a domain-specific clock maintained by the network device, and determines a delay value using the local-domain clock. The delay value accounts for a time delay experienced by the packet between a time at which the local-domain timestamp was generated at the network interface and a time, according to the local-domain clock, at which the domain-specific timestamp is generated by the packet processor. The packet processor adjusts the domain-specific timestamp based on the delay value to generate an adjusted domain-specific timestamp for the packet, and performs at least one synchronization operation using the adjusted domain-specific timestamp.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for frame loss concealment. A method is performed by a receiving entity. The method comprises adding, in association with constructing a substitution frame for a lost frame, a noise component to the substitution frame. The noise component has a frequency characteristic corresponding to a low-resolution spectral representation of a signal in a previously received frame.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining an optimal route of a maritime ship includes a database configured to store at least one optimization constraint parameter, wherein the at least one optimization constraint parameter includes a constant shaft power of the propel shaft of the maritime ship; and a processor configured to execute a multi-objective route optimization based on the departure location, the destination location, and the at least one optimization constraint parameter to obtain the optimal route of the maritime ship.

Abstract: A machine and method for the automatic treatment of components of inhalers, in particular cartomizers for electronic cigarettes, includes a transporting member configured to selectively transport the components from a first operational module to a final operational module and a plurality of intermediate operational modules. The transporting member includes a first chain having a plurality of links equal to each other. The width of each operational module is a whole multiple of the interaxis between the links of the chain.

Abstract: A security element (1) for papers of value or security papers has at least one first color-shifting region (2), wherein the security element (1) additionally has at least one second region (3), different from the first region (2), with structures (4), which reflect an image motif in different spatial regions, such that a moving image is produced for an observer when a light source (5) is moved correspondingly and/or when a viewing angle is changed, wherein, when the light source is moved and/or the viewing angle is changed, a movement of the image motif and a color-shifting effect occurs at the same time.

Abstract: A delivery system of a colored product having a target color including an application device of the colored product, at least two reservoirs each containing a respective base product, a calculation module configured to receive the information concerning the target color and to determine a composition of the colored product from the base products contained in the reservoirs, at least one metering device in fluid communication with the reservoirs, configured to deposit on the application device a dose of each of the base products corresponding to the determined composition, a mixing device configured to mix the doses of base products deposited on the application device. Also, a method for delivering a colored product having a target color via the delivery system. Finally, the use of the system for applications requiring the delivery of a colored product having a target color.

Abstract: A machine for packaging articles with a conveyor designed to feed a preformed carton in a feed direction. The machine comprises conveyor belt for placing an article to be packaged on the carton and mobile article holding device, which hold the article during placement, limiting the speed of the article to that of the carton. The placement device comprise a conveyor belt for placement with at least one curved section, designed to convey the article along a curvilinear route, and an alignment station designed to place the article on the placement conveyor belt in a position that ensures the article is placed from the placement conveyor belt onto the carton in a suitable position. The alignment device comprises a mobile undercarriage which moves transversely to the article feed direction and a conveyor belt on top of the undercarriage, which is designed to feed the article in the article feed direction.

Abstract: According to the invention there is provided an antimicrobial agent for use in maintaining or re-establishing a healthy genital microbiome, wherein the antimicrobial agent is a predatory bacterium.

Abstract: A method for sample preparation for antibiotic therapy guidance, stratification and/or control in a patient with one or more comorbidities comprising an impaired innate immune response and suspected of having an infection. Also, a method for sample preparation for antibiotic therapy guidance, stratification and/or control in a patient with one or more comorbidities comprising an impaired innate immune response. The method comprises providing a sample from said patient and determining a level of PCT or fragment(s) thereof in said sample, wherein the level of PCT or fragment(s) thereof in said sample is indicative of whether an initiation or a change of an antibiotic treatment is required.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a multilayered ion exchange membrane with rectifying properties and to a multi-layered ion exchange membrane manufactured thereby. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a multilayered ion exchange membrane, and a multilayered ion exchange membrane manufactured thereby, the method including a step of integrally forming a coating layer designed to have a fewer number of ion channels on a base layer having a large number of ion channels, thereby preventing scale generation even under a reverse polarity condition, resulting in improvement in ion exchange efficiency. The method effectively controls the asymmetry of the density (number) of ion channels so that the produced ion exchange membrane can have both the ion selectivity and rectifying properties, without using complicated process of, for example, changing the geometric size of the ion channels or the charge distribution inside the ion channels.

Abstract: A system for detecting a gas may include a first laser having a wavelength overlapping with two or more absorption features in a spectrum of the gas, a second laser having a wavelength centered away from absorbing features in the spectrum of the gas, and at least one sensor to determine a received power of the first laser and a received power of the second laser.

Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a supercapacitor composed of a cathode material, a gel electrolyte, and a zinc foil anode. In some embodiments, the cathode material, the gel electrolyte, and the zinc foil anode are in a multilayered configuration. In some embodiments, the cathode and anode materials provide load-bearing capability. In an additional embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of making a supercapacitor. In general, the method includes fabricating a cathode material, preparing a gel electrolyte, coating a zinc foil electrode with the gel electrolyte, and sandwiching the zinc foil electrode with the cathode material. In some embodiments, the sandwiching forms a multilayered configuration composed of the cathode material, the gel electrolyte, and the zinc foil anode.

Abstract: Anti-EBV gH antibodies, anti-EBV gL antibodies, anti-EBV gH/gL antibodies, and compositions of matter useful for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Epstein Barr Virus infection in humans, and methods of using those compositions of matter for the same.