Abstract: A method of increasing the conductivity of a transparent conductive layer, in which a photoresist layer which patterns the transparent layer is given tapered edges and is partially etched. The partial etching exposing the edge regions of the underlying transparent conductor layer, which are the selectively plated. This method has a single patterning stage of the transparent layer, but uses partial etching of a tapered resist layer in order to expose a small edge region of the transparent layer for coating with a conductive layer (which can be opaque).

Abstract: A braided hose reinforcement (14) comprises left and right turning strips (20, 22). Each of said strips comprises a number of steel wires. The steel wires (24) located at the side regions of the strips have a tensile strength which is substantially lower than the tensile strength of the steel wires of the central region.

Abstract: A method of detecting frequency errors in a receiver during frame synchronization. A fast synchronization and reliable reception of the data requires a fast determination of frequency errors in the received signal. In CPFSK and OFDM, the frequency offset is even more important because of potential subcarrier interference. The method operates in the time domain and removes the 2p limitation in the phase representation by an unwrap function allowing a precise frequency determination.

Abstract: A method of creating an audio/video stream comprises multiplexing a video component, an audio component and a content reference identifier, the content reference identifier is associated with the video component and the audio component in an MPEG transport stream. Apparatus for transmitting and receiving the audio/video stream isalso described.

Abstract: An optical data storage medium (20) for recording by means of a focused radiation beam (29) is described. The radiation beam having a wavelength ? enters through an entrance face (28) of the medium during recording. The medium has a substrate (21) with a surface (24) including a guide groove with a depth g. An inverted stack of layers is present on the substrate (21) including a reflective layer (24a) with a complex refractive index ñM?=nM??i*kM?, in substantial conformity with the surface (24) of the substrate, a transparent layer (22) through which the radiation beam (29) is incident with a complex refractive index ñT?=nT??i*kT? and a recording layer (25) of a material having a complex refractive index ñR?=nR??i*kR? and having a thickness dRG in the groove portion and a thickness dRL in the portion between grooves. The recording layer is interposed between the reflective layer (24a) and the transparent layer (22). When 0.25/(3.0+kM?2)+0.17<g*nT/?<0.22/(3.0+kM?2)+0.45 and 0.2<(dRG?dRL)/g<0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process to increase the amount of TiCI4 that is retrieved from a waste stream comprising one or more titanium (halo)(alk) oxides while also reducing the quantity and/or hazard of the resulting waste. Valuable solvents/diluents and/or alkyl halides that are introduced into or formed during the process can also be retrieved. The so obtained TiCI4, solvents/diluents and/or alkyl halides are recyclable to, for instance, the process to make Ziegler-Natta catalysts and or co-catalysts.

Abstract: The invention provides an FSH preparation having a high degree of sialylation, and showing increased efficacy.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a worm blocking system including a dedicated hardware-based board for performing pattern matching without a change in an existing network environment, which is installed in front of a network to be protected, inspects whether worm-related patterns exist on all packets on communication lines without loss or delay, passes packets through the system or blocks packets according to corresponding security rules and informs an administrator of results in real time, and a worm blocking method. In particular, the present invention relates to a hardware-based system and method for detecting and blocking worm-related packets which is suitable for a gigabit environment.

Abstract: An objective lens for scanning DVD and HD-DVD optical disks, comprising a first part and a second part, wherein said first part is shaped to comprise a first surface and an opposing second surface, said second part is shaped to comprise a third surface and an opposing fourth surface, said first surface is of a convex shape providing a main part of the lens power, said third surface is shaped to fit said first surface, and wherein said fourth surface is a generally aspherical surface, said second part being formed of synthetic resin material and said first part being formed of a material having a refractive index n, having a value between 1.65 and 2, wherein the Abbe number V1 of the first part and the Abbe number V0 of the second part comply with the following relation (Formula I).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for addressing cells of a display panel, in particular discharge cells of a plasma display panel (PDP), each cell corresponding to a pixel in response to a video signal, wherein the addressing of those cells which are identified as being not active is skipped by an adaptive line skip unit (ALS).

Abstract: The invention, related to an encoding method applied to a video sequence divided into successive groups of frames (GOFs) themselves subdivided into successive couples of frames (COFs), comprises a motion estimation step applied to each couple of frames (COF), a motion-compensated three-dimensional (3D) subband decomposition step applied to each GOF, using a motion-compensated temporal analysis, based on said motion vector fields, and a spatial wavelet transform for defining a decomposition into spatio-temporal subbands, a coding step, for quantizing and coding said spatio-temporal subbands, and a control step.

Abstract: A reinforcement fiber bundle and method for joining reinforcement fibers to reinforcement fiber bundles for reinforcement wherein a curable material is provided in which reinforcement fibers are bundled in a substantially parallel position and at least at the ends are joined, in which at least the ends of the reinforcement fibers are joined by means of an adhering substance that is substantially inert in relation to the non-cured curable material and that, when the reinforcement fiber bundles are mixed with at least the curable material, loses its cohesion.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging method which involves a pulse sequence for generating magnetic resonance signals and in which diffusion weighting is applied, for example, by way of a pair of gradient pulses which are separated by a 180° refocusing RF pulse. The magnetic resonance signals are generated as spin echo signals due to refocusing pulses. The refocusing pulses are flanked by compensation gradient pulses and the gradient strengths of the compensation gradient pulses are alternated according to a periodic pattern.

Abstract: A first (1) and a second connecting means (2) which may be connected in a detachable manner in order to connect a first and a second cord, more particularly a lifting cord and a harness cord of a Jacquard machine, the first connecting means (1) comprising an elastically deformable coupling element (3) which may be received in a receiving part (4) of the second connecting means and may be retained in axial direction, the second connecting means (2) comprising a passage (5) through which the coupling element (3), compressed in the radial direction, may be moved to the receiving part (4) and the coupling element (3) in the receiving part (4) having the possibility of adopting a larger radial dimension than is necessary to be moved through the passage (5), so that the coupling element (3) snap-fits in the receiving part (4). In the receiving part (4), the coupling element (3), by rotation around the longitudinal axis (A), may be brought into a disengaging position in which it is not retained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a display device which includes a driver circuit and a liquid crystal display with a plurality of rows R and columns C. The invention also relates to a driver circuit for driving a display. In order to reduce the power consumption of display devices, displays are operated in the partial display mode. According to the MRA (Multiple Row Addressing) technique a plurality of rows p is driven simultaneously. The number of rows p to be simultaneously driven, however, differs for displays of different size. When a display is operated in the partial display mode, therefore, for an optimum optical performance it is necessary that the value p of the rows to be simultaneously driven is other than this number in full size operation. In order to drive the rows R and columns C, at least p+1 voltages are required when F=GMAX.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of searching a predetermined number of objects which are closest to an example, in a hierarchical object structure which is obtained by using a hierarchical object classification method. The proposed method consists of going through the hierarchical structure starting from the root, descending as far as the first node closest to the searched example of which a number of leaves lower than the number of lacking results depend, and then going back up to the brother node of this node which is closest to the searched example, so as to add other results and so on and so forth until said predetermined number is arrived at. Application: MPEG-7 descriptions.

Abstract: An integrated circuit is switchable between a normal operating mode and a test mode. A functional circuit and a test pattern converter are both coupled between input contacts, output contacts and a redefinable contact of the integrated circuit. In the test mode respectively the test pattern converter drives the outputs contacts and, dependent on the circuit configuration, the redefinable contact. The test pattern converter is arranged to provide a first and second relation between signals at the input contacts and the output contacts, with the redefinable contact used as an input or output contact respectively, dependent on the circuit configuration. The relations have been selected so as to permit testing of stuck-at and cross-connect errors with the redefinable contact used as input and output contact respectively.

Abstract: This invention relates to peptides consisting of 16 to 55 amino acids, said peptides comprising at least one of the amino acid sequences LVCYYTSWS (SEQ ID NO:60), FLCTHIIYS (SEQ ID NO:61), IIYSFANIS (SEQ ID NO:62), LKTLLSVGG (SEQ ID NO:63), FIKSVPPFL (SEQ ID NO:64), FDGLDLAWL (SEQ ID NO:65), LYPGRRDKQ (SEQ ID NO:66), YDIAKISQH (SEQ ID NO:67), LDFISIMTY (SEQ ID NO:68), FISIMTYDF (SEQ ID NO:69), FRGQEDASP (SEQ ID NO:70), YAVGYMLRL (SEQ ID NO:71), MLRLGAPAS (SEQ ID NO:72), LAYYEICDF (SEQ ID NO:73), LRGATVHRT (SEQ ID NO:74), YLKDRQLAG (SEQ ID NO:75), LAGAMVWAL (SEQ ID NO:76), VWALDLDDF (SEQ ID NO:77) or LDLDDFQGS (SEQ ID NO:78). The peptides can be used in the treatment of T cell-mediated destruction of articular cartilage. Administration of pharmaceutical compositions based on these peptides can be used to induce systemic immunological tolerance to the autoantigens under attack of the autoreactive T-cells.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Redock Salmon’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with salmon ray-florets and yellow-green disc florets.