Abstract: A multi-layer capacitor includes several electrically insulating layers that are stacked on top of one another. Parallel electrode plates are arranged between the insulating layers alternately one on top of the other, with each of the plates being separated by an intervening insulating layer. At least one first connecting line which extends perpendicularly through the layers is connected to one set of electrode plates and is insulated in relation to the other set of second electrode plates. Similarly, second connecting lines extend perpendicularly through the layers and are connected to the other set of plates and are insulated in relation to the one set of plates. The first connecting line extends centrally through the stacked electrode plates and is designed to carry a high-frequency signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of specific carbazole derivatives in the preparation of medicaments for the treatment, prevention and/or amelioration of disorders relating to pathological processes in lipid rafts.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the production of polymer carrier materials for solid phase synthesis, particularly for peptide synthesis. (Meth)acrylamide derivatives based on carbon hydrates, which can also contain other protective groups, are polymerized by means of suspension polymerization in an aqueous phase, optionally with the addition of pore-forming additives, and subsequently the protective groups are fully or partially cleaved. It is thus possible to obtain polymer carriers whose morphology (particle size, porosity), degree of cross-linking and swelling capability in aqueous and organic media can be adjusted in a targeted manner and whose reactive groups offer multiple opportunities for the immobilization of anchor groups and protective groups. The hydroxyl groups of the polymer carrier can be activated according to usual methods of solid phase synthesis.

Abstract: An apparatus for noise suppression having a linear prediction analysis circuit having an LP error filter (LFF), which takes a first, noisy voice signal y(n)=x(n)+?(n) as a basis for producing an LP-error-filter output signal e(n), having a coefficient calculation unit (KBE), which updates the coefficients of the LP error filter on the basis of the internal signals (including the input and out signals y(n) and e(n)) in the LP error filter, and having a subtraction unit, which subtracts the LP error filter output signal e(n) from the first voice signal y(n) in a subtractor and, following the subtraction, outputs the remainder as a second voice signal x(n)=y(n)?e(n) in which the noise is suppressed.

Abstract: A communication network comprising a plurality of network nodes is provided, wherein the network nodes are logically arranged to form a plurality of concentric rings, all rings except the outermost ring being with high probability fully constructed; the number of nodes on each fully constructed ring being dD, wherein d denotes the base of an integer having D digits, D?1, and wherein D also denotes the ring number, D starting with the value 1 for the innermost ring; each node being identified by an identification number unique in the network, said identification number having D digits, D?1, and D denoting the ring number on which the node is located, and the value of each digit being between 0 and d?1; and each node of a given fully constructed ring is allowed to route data packets to one node in the next inner ring, to d nodes in the next outer ring, if the next outer ring is fully constructed, and to at least d nodes on the same ring.

Abstract: Slip based on a polyreactive binder, polymerization initiator and filler, which contains (A) 5-65 wt.-% polymerizable binder, (B) 0.001-1.0 wt.-% photoinitiator and (C) 35-90 wt.-% surface-modified ceramic and/or glass ceramic particles relative to the overall mass of the slip, and process for the preparation of ceramic mouldings by rapid prototyping processes using the slip.

Abstract: The invention comprises a fusion protein as sensor for TGF-beta receptor activity, a method for detecting receptor activity and to screening compounds for modulators of receptor activity. The fusion protein comprises a type I TGF-beta receptor, a circularly permutated fluorescent protein moiety (cpFP) and an activation state specific receptor binding domain, binding specifically to either the activated or inactive form of the TGF-beta receptor. An activation specific interaction between the receptor and the activation state specific receptor binding domain modulates the fluorescence of the cpFP inserted in between. Thus, activation of the receptor can be detected directly by a change in fluorescence of the cpFP.

Abstract: A cylindrical cutter for machining wood, wooden materials and plastics, has at least one helical cutting edge, wherein a helix angle ?s of the at least one cutting edge is in a range of 70° to close to 90°, a rake angle ?r of the at least one cutting edge between a tool orthogonal plane Po and a rake face A?—measured in a tool reference plane Pr—is at least 5°, and a wedge angle ?r between the rake face A? and a flank A?—measured in the tool reference plane Pr—is 45°to 65°.

Abstract: The present invention relates to specific sphingolipids/sphingolipid derivatives as pharmaceutical compositions as well as their use in the preparation of medicaments for the treatment, prevention and/or amelioration of disorders relating to pathological processes in lipid rafts.

Abstract: The present invention relates a method for producing clathrate compounds, comprising producing a homogeneous melt containing the desired elements in the desired ratio, and subsequently solidifying said melt to obtain the clathrate compound by quickly cooling the melt.

Abstract: The invention relates, inter alia, to a method for the production of a ceramic shaped body (22), comprising the following steps: production or provision of a green body (10) having a structured surface region (12), irradiation of at least the structured surface region (12), so that the green body (10) is consolidated in the region of a volume zone (16) including the structured surface region (12), but is not consolidated or is consolidated to only a lesser degree in volume zones further from the surface, separation of the consolidated volume zone (16) including the structured surface region (12) from parts of the green body (10) which have not been consolidated or have been consolidated to only a lesser degree, and optionally scouring of the consolidated volume zone (16) obtained in this way.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for stimulating expression of peptide hormones in peptide-hormone secreting endocrine cells or neurons comprising the step of promoting in said cells or neurons the presence or activity (aa) of (i) ICA512; or (ii) a derivative thereof having ICA512 function; or (iii) a fragment of ICA512 that may be cleaved by ?-calpain giving rise to a C-terminal fragment of ICA512 wherein said C-terminal fragment has the capability of being targeted to the nucleus; or (iv) a derivative of said fragment of (iii) that may be cleaved by ?-calpain giving rise to a derivative of said C-terminal fragment of ICA512 wherein said derivative of said C-terminal fragment has the capability of being targeted to the nucleus; or (v) a fragment or derivative of ICA512 that may be cleaved by ?-calpain giving rise to a C-terminal fragment of ICA512 or derivative thereof wherein said C-terminal fragment or derivative thereof has the capability of interacting with a PIAS protein in said cells or neuron

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for distributed, fault-tolerant clock pulse generation in hardware systems, wherein the system clock pulse is generated in distribution by a plurality of intercommunicating fault-tolerant clock pulse synchronization algorithms (TS-Algs), in which an arbitrary number of such TS-Algs exchange information between one another via a user-defined and permanent network (TS-Net) of clock pulse signals, susceptible to transient faults, and each TS-Alg is assigned to one or more functional units (Fu1, Fu2, . . . ), whose local clock pulses are generated by it, and further all local clock pulses are synchronized with respect to frequency in an assured manner, and a specified number of transient and/or permanent faults may occur in the TS-Algs or in the TS-Net, without adversely affecting the clock pulse generation and/or the synchronization accuracy, and the system clock pulse automatically achieves the maximum possible frequency. The invention further relates to such a hardware system.

Abstract: A method for structuring of silicon substrates for microsystem technological device elements, wherein the silicon substrate is covered with an etching mask and wherein the structures are furnished with a predetermined etching profile in the micrometer region with side walls and an etching depth At. For the generation of a predetermined positive etching profile, the side walls of the structures are furnished with the defined slope angle ? of from 60 degrees to 88 degrees relative to the etching bottom and the structures are generated with an etching depth At in the micrometer region. Initially an isotropic etching is performed such that a mask under etching u is generated, wherein the mask under etching u is formed approximately equal to the etching depth At.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the production of polymer carrier materials for solid phase synthesis, particularly for peptide synthesis. (Meth)acrylamide derivatives based on carbon hydrates, which can also contain other protective groups, are polymerized by means of suspension polymerization in an aqueous phase, optionally with the addition of pore-forming additives, and subsequently the protective groups are fully or partially cleaved. It is thus possible to obtain polymer carriers whose morphology (particle size, porosity), degree of cross-linking and swelling capability in aqueous and organic media can be adjusted in a targeted manner and whose reactive groups offer multiple opportunities for the immobilization of anchor groups and protective groups. The hydroxyl groups of the polymer carrier can be activated according to usual methods of solid phase synthesis.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymerizable compositions which comprise 10-80% by weight of a reactive diluent based on acrylic acid or methacrylic acid derivatives, and 10-50% by weight of a monomer of the indicated chemical formula which is liquid or which can be dissolved in the formulation. The formula may contain amino acid residues or peptide sequences, especially such that are specific of the collagen. These structural elements allow the enzymatic degradation of the polymers of the inventive composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of specific steroid derivatives in the preparation of medicaments for the treatment or prevention and/or amelioration of disorders relating to pathological processes in lipid rafts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for the contactless determination of conductivity-influencing properties and their spatial distribution over the entire cross section of an electrically conductive substance moving in a primary magnetic field (B). The substance may be a liquid or a solid. A simultaneous measurement of a number of mechanical state parameters of the magnetic system is performed (three-dimensional components of the force and the torque), said parameters being variable by the effect of a secondary field on the magnetic system, the secondary field being produced on the basis of eddy currents induced in the substance by the primary field (B). To determine the spatial distribution of the property that is sought, the primary field is changed in intensity or form a number of times and a measurement of the state parameters is carried out for each change.

Abstract: A hybrid optical network comprising a single channel optical ring network with a plurality of ring nodes and a star subnetwork. The star subnetwork comprises a central wavelength router, a plurality of combiners being connected to input ports of the central wavelength router, and a subset of the ring nodes of the ring network, each node of the subset including a tunable transmitter and a tunable receiver to communicate optical data packets over the star subnetwork. Optical data packets routed between two ring nodes of the subset over the star subnetwork are assigned a specific wavelength that determines the routing of the data packets through the central wavelength router. The invention further regards a method of routing data packets between a source ring node and a destination ring node of a hybrid optical network.

Abstract: Method for transferring storage data of a virtual machine to be migrated from a first host device to a second host device via a communication network, including: running the virtual machine on the first host device; storing, on a local storage device of the first host device, a disk image used by the virtual machine; detecting, while the virtual machine is running on the first host device, any changes made to the disk image used by the virtual machine; establishing a connection over the communication network from the first host device to the second host device; transferring, to the second host device while the virtual machine is running on the first host device, the disk image used by the virtual machine and the detected any changes made; modifying the disk image transferred to the second host device in response to the detected any changes transferred to the second host device; and starting, using the modified disk image, a migrated virtual machine on the second host device at a current state of the virtual m