Abstract: This invention relates to a biogenic substance production process wherein a) at least one starting material has b) at least one enzyme added to it and the product resulting from b) has c) at least one liver cell added to it, and d) at least one biogenic substance is isolated.

Abstract: A method and a device for discharging fertilizer for agricultural cultivated plants are disclosed. According to the invention, the required quantity of fertilizer is determined depending on the current nutrient uptake (nutrient status), optimum nutrient uptake (nutrient requirement) by the fertilizing deadline, and optimum nutrient uptake (nutrient requirement by the next fertilizing deadline, wherein other influencing factors are taken into consideration via a correction factor DIMA.

Abstract: A device (1) for producing a moulding of surface properties comprises a housing (3) having a pressure plunger (4) mounted on or in the housing (3), which can be moved and can be pressed on a surface (2), which pressure plunger has a blank carrier (5) comprising a pressure surface (6) which can be pressed on the surface (2), on which pressure surface a moulding blank (7) comprising a moulding layer (9) made of a curable material can be secured in a detachable manner. The device further comprises a curing device (12) arranged on or in housing (3), with which the curable material of the moulding blank (7) can be cured while being pressed on the surface (2).

Abstract: Device and method for generating brief strong current pulses in a coil for generating magnetic field pulses which according to the electromagnetic induction principle induce stimulation currents in the body tissue triggering an action potential of the nerve and/or muscle cells, where the coil is positionable close to the body tissue to be stimulated so that its magnetic field passes through the body tissue, and where the device comprises a power generating unit that can generate a freely selectable temporal course of the current through the coil during the current pulse.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for coating a substrate with at least one monolayer of self-assembling proteins, using stabilized aqueous solutions with self-assembling proteins, and also to substrates obtainable as a result. Methods for stabilizing solutions with self-assembling proteins, and the stabilized solutions obtainable therefrom, are likewise provided by the invention. According to the coating method, at least one monolayer of a self-assembling protein is produced on a substrate by first providing a stabilized aqueous solution which comprises at least one self-assembling protein.

Abstract: A static Fourier transform spectrometer is disclosed that includes a beam splitter, a mirror device, and a collection optic. The beam splitter divides an input light beam into a first arm and a second arm, wherein the first arm is reflected by the beam splitter and the second arm passes through the beam splitter, wherein the first arm extends to the converging optical unit without deflection after reflection at the mirror device, wherein the second arm extends to the converging optical unit without deflection after passing through the beam splitter, and wherein the collection optic merges the first arm and the second arm for interference.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for haptic interaction with virtual objects. The system of the invention is based on the idea that, for the haptic representation of any virtual three-dimensional object—synchronized with the visual representation—only the tangible haptic characteristics of the surface area of the object at the collision point or the area of contact are important. The haptic display system (morphling) of the invention that displays these characteristics comprises in principle three functional groups, which operate in synchronism with one another and with a visual subsystem. The individual subsystems can be operated statically or dynamically. In dynamic operation, users can change the position and/or shape, for example, of the tactile display by touching it. With regard to the real-time representation of the three-dimensional data of the user, at least the body part that is interacting with the object, e.g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method and a system for determining co-occurrences in at least one graph with n vertices and E edges, wherein each edge is defined by a pair of vertices, the method comprising: storing a binary adjacency matrix representing a first graph in a memory; performing a calculation step for the first graph, wherein the calculation step comprises: loading a block of at most K consecutive rows of the binary adjacency matrix from the memory and storing each row into one of K caches; streaming each of the subsequent uncached rows of the binary adjacency matrix from the memory; reading pairs of rows comprising a streamed row and each one of the cached rows; computing the logical conjunction between each couple of elements of the rows at the same position in the rows for each read pair of rows; and adding the results of the logical conjunction for all the couples of elements in each read pair by means of one-bit adders to obtain the co-occurrence, wherein the calcula

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for producing hydrophobized, doped or non-doped mixed metal oxide nanoparticles or doped metal oxide nanoparticles by flame spray pyrolysis, wherein a combustible precursor solution A, containing at least two metal alkyloates of general formula Me(OOC—R)x with differing metals Me, or a combustible precursor solution B containing at least one metal alkyloate of general formula Me(OOC—R)x and at least one metal salt containing a metal ion Me and at least one metal salt containing a metal ion Me, with Me selected from metal ions of the subgroups of the periodic system of the elements, with R=alkyl or aryl, wherein the alkyl chain is branched or straight, and wherein x corresponds to the oxidation step of the metal ion, is used in stoichiometric excess relative to a quantity of oxygen, and wherein a combustion ratio c of 3.5 bis 0.4 is established, and hydrophobized nanoparticles and the use thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heavy-wire bond arrangement, having a substrate (2), a heavy wire (1) and a high-voltage heavy-wire bond connection, in which an end bond section (4) of the heavy wire (1), which extends towards the end (7) of the heavy wire (1), is bonded to the substrate (2), such that in the area of the bond section (4) a bond contact (5) between the heavy wire (1) and the substrate (2) is formed, the heavy wire (1) having a tapering section (6) which adjoins the end of the wire (7) and in which the wire cross-section tapers towards the end of the wire (7). The application additionally relates to a method for producing a heavy-wire bond arrangement.

Abstract: An optoelectronic component including an optical waveguide integrated into a plane of the component. The optical waveguide configured to guide optical radiation in the plane. The component including a coupling element connected to the waveguide and coupling optical radiation into the waveguide along the main coupling path. The degree of coupling efficiency of the coupling element is less than one in respect to the main coupling path. The coupling element outputs optical loss radiation along a secondary coupling path. The optical loss radiation is proportional to the radiation transferred along the main coupling path. The optoelectronic component includes a detector connected to the coupling element that registers the optical loss radiation and produces a detector signal. The optoelectronic component includes a control unit configured to influence at least one operating variable of the optoelectronic component based on the detector signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of sulfonic acid esters of the following Formula 1 and/or Formula 2, individually or as a mixture of more than one thereof, as regulators in polymerization reactions of radically polymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated monomers: wherein A in each case independently is selected from H, CN, linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic or aromatic C1-C30 hydrocarbon residues; X in each case independently is —COO— or —CON(R1)—, wherein the binding to A occurs via O or N, or is absent if A is an aromatic hydrocarbon residue or CN; B in each case independently is selected from linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic or aromatic C1-C30 hydrocarbon residues; R1 in each case independently is selected from hydrogen and linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic or aromatic C1-C10 hydrocarbon residues, which are optionally substituted with one or more OH groups, wherein the aliphatic hydrocarbon residues are optionally interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms; and n in each case independently is an

Abstract: An optical diode (1) comprising an optical wave guide for guiding light, preferably of a light mode, with a vacuum wavelength ?0, wherein the optical wave guide has a wave guide core (2, 3, 14) with a first index of refraction (n1), and the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) is surrounded by at least one second optical medium which has at least one second index of refraction (n2), wherein n1>n2 applies, wherein the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) has at least in sections a smallest lateral dimension (7) which is a smallest dimension of a cross section (6) perpendicular to a propagation direction (5) of the light in the wave guide core (2, 3, 14), wherein the smallest lateral dimension (7) is greater than or equal to ?0/(5*n1) and less than or equal to 20*?0/n1, wherein the optical diode (1) additionally comprises at least one absorber element (10, 11, 15, 16) which is arranged in a near field, wherein the near field consists of the electromagnetic field of the light of the vacuum wavelength ?0 in the wave guide core (2

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of single-stranded macronucleotides by amplifying and ligating an extended monomeric single-stranded target nucleic acid sequence (targetss) into a repetitive cluster of double-stranded target nucleic acid sequences (targetds), and subsequently cloning the construct into a vector (aptagene vector). The aptagene vector is transformed into host cells for replication of the aptagene and isolated in order to optain single-stranded target sequences (targetss). The invention also relates to single-stranded nucleic acids, produced by a method of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhibitor of Hairy and Enhancer of Split 3 (Hes3) or for use in treating a tumor. The invention further relates to an in-vitro method for diagnosing a tumor, comprising determining the amount of Hes3 protein in a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-derived sample obtained from a subject, wherein an increased amount of Hes3 protein is indicative of the presence of a tumor.

Abstract: An optoelectronic component including an optical waveguide, an integrated optical resonator, in which the waveguide or at least a portion of the waveguide is arranged, and a heat source which can increase the temperature of the resonator during operation. A web region adjoins laterally the waveguide when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the waveguide. The web region forms a jacket portion of the waveguide and has a smaller thickness than the waveguide. The heat source is thermally connected to the waveguide by means of the web region.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object comprises making a material avail-able in a material volume and forming a three-dimensional object made of the material by means of selectively irradiating the material with ultrasound.

Abstract: Computer implemented method for rendering an image of a three-dimensional scene on an image plane by encoding at least a luminosity in the image plane by a luminosity function. The value of the luminosity can be computed at substantially each point of the image plane by using a set of stored input data describing the scene. The method includes constructing the luminosity function as equivalent to a first linear combination involving the functions of a first set of functions, and computing at least the value of the coefficients of the first linear combination, by solving a first linear system, obtained by using at least the functions of the first linear combination, at least a subset of the first subset of the image plane, and the luminosity at the points of said subset. The method further includes storing the value of the coefficients of the first linear combination and at least the information needed to associate each coefficient to the function multiplying said coefficient in the first linear combination.

Abstract: A reconfigurable field effect transistor (RFET) includes a nanowire, wherein the nanowire comprises two Schottky contacts, as well as two gate contacts partially enclosing the nanowire in cross section. An integrated circuit can be produced therefrom. The aim of producing CMOS circuits with enhanced functionality and a more compact design is achieved in that the nanowire is divided along the cross section thereof into two nanowire parts, wherein each nanowire part comprises a respective Schottky contact and a respective gate contact, and the two nanowire parts are connected electrically to one another via a common substrate and stand vertically on the substrate. In a nanowire-parts-array, between the nanowire parts, a respective top-gate contact and/or back-gate contact can be formed in a substrate defining a substrate plane.

Abstract: The present disclosure presents a visuo-haptic sensor, which is based on a passive, deformable element whose deformation is observed by a camera. In particular, the improved simplified sensor may determine the force and/or torque applied to a point of the sensor in multiple spatial dimensions.