Abstract: A method for rendering material surfaces inert is provided. Exemplary surfaces include ceramic, metal or plastic surfaces. The method is accomplished with functionalized perfluorinated compounds for the formation of hyperhydrophobic structures on the surfaces to create inert surfaces. The inert surfaces produced or can be produced in this way have an extremely low surface energy, are resistant to deposits of substances or cells and have a very low coefficient of friction. Practical uses of the inert surfaces are also provided.

Abstract: A molecular machine comprising a movement part (2) including a first molecular element (4), a second molecular element (5), and a linking element (6) for constraining a relative movement of the first molecular element (4) and the second molecular element (5), and a control part configured to generate an electrical field around the movement part (2), wherein the first molecular element (4) is fixed relative to the control part, wherein the second molecular element (5) is movable relative to the first molecular element (4) in at least one degree of freedom, and wherein the second molecular element (5) is electrically charged such that the second molecular element (5) aligns to said electrical field.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting a measured value (d?/dx, M).

Abstract: Disclosed is a mussel adhesive protein including at least one photocaged 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine derivative residue including a protecting group on at least one hydroxyl residue of its catechol moiety. The photocaged 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine derivative residue replaces a naturally occurring amino acid and the protecting group can be cleaved from the 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine derivative residue by irradiation with UV light.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an elastic and flexible fiber with a pre-de-termined non-circular cross-sectional geometry, the method comprising extrusion of an elasto-mer from a nozzle onto a substrate, wherein the pre-determined non-circular cross-sectional geometry of the fiber is determined by the height and velocity of the nozzle relative to the sub-strate. The invention relates to an elastic and flexible fiber produced using the method, wherein the fiber comprises an elongated indentation along a length of the fiber (groove). The invention relates to methods for producing preferably biocompatible microfluidic, electrically conducting or light-guiding fibers using the methods of the invention. The invention further re-lates to elastic and flexible fibers produced by the method.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds represented by the following general formula (I): Cyclo-(Arg-Gly-Asp-X1-X2-X3-X4-X5) (I) wherein the variables groups X1 to X5 have the following meanings X1: Leu, Ile, Nle, Val, Tyr, Phe; X2: D-amino acid such as D-Pro, N-Me-D-Phe; X3: Pro, N-Me-amino acid such as N-Me-Lys, N-Me-Lys(Ac); Pro-Rx3, N-Me-Lys-Rx4; X4: Gly, Ala, Ser, Thr; X5: Leu, Ala, Tyr, His, Ile, Nle, Val, Phe wherein Pro-Rx3 represents a proline residue that carries at the C-3, C-4 or C-5 carbon atom and preferably the C-4 carbon atom a functional group selected from —NH2, —OH, —NH—Ac, —NH-hexyne, and wherein Lys-Rx4 represents a lysine residue, wherein the ?-amino nitrogen atom carries a group of the formula -L4-R4, wherein L4 is selected from the group consisting of covalent bond, —C(O)—, and —C(O)—O—, . . .

Abstract: A method for automatic detection of a functional primitive in a model of a hardware system, the model being a netlist having cells and net links therebetween, comprising the steps: a) mapping the cells to target nodes, each of which having a target node type, and the net links to edges of a target graph, and mapping the functional primitive to a search pattern having search nodes and connections therebetween; b) selecting candidates from those target nodes the target node types of which match a search node type, and selecting a candidate structure from those selected candidates the target nodes and edges of which match the search nodes and connections of the search pattern; c) reverse-mapping the target nodes and edges of the selected candidate structure to the cells and net links of the netlist; and d) outputting said cells and net links as detected functional primitive.

Abstract: The operation of a hybrid powertrain system is optimized with respect to a desired state-of-charge trajectory, taking account of the estimated anticipated vehicle drive power. The hybrid powertrain system has an internal combustion engine and an electrically operated torque machine. The internal combustion engine and the torque machine are controlled by a control device and are connected to an output element via a hybrid transmission. Before the start of the prediction period ?t, an experience-based state-of-charge trajectory for the anticipated route, covering at least the prediction period ?t, is retrieved from an external database. The desired state-of-charge trajectory is established based on the experience-based state-of-charge trajectory by modifying it with at least one optimization constraint.

Abstract: A semiconductor device for emitting electromagnetic radiation, and to a method of producing the same, which can be used as a semiconductor-based, structured light source. The semiconductor device comprises a layer stack structure composed of an n-doped layer, an active layer and a p-doped layer, as well as a connection structure comprising conductor layers and at least one insulator layer, the conductor layers being arranged, parallel to and spaced apart from one another, along a first direction that is parallel to the active layer of the layer stack structure, and at least one insulator layer being arranged between at least two conductor layers, one or more conductor layers being electrically connected to the p-doped layer of the layer stack structure.

Abstract: A ligand-SiFA conjugate compound represented by formula (1) wherein: RL is a ligand moiety which is capable of binding to prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA); RSiFA is a silicon-fluoride acceptor (SiFA) moiety which can be labeled with 18F or which is labeled with 18F; L is a linking moiety; RH is a hydrophilic moiety which comprises (i) a linear or branched sequence of 2 to 10 hydrophilic amino acid units AH, each of which is independently derived from a natural or non-natural amino acid carrying a hydrophilic side chain, and optionally one amino acid unit AN derived from a natural or non-natural amino acid which is devoid of a hydrophilic side chain, wherein the hydrophilic amino acid units and, if present, the unit AN, are bound to each other via a direct covalent bond or via a coupling unit; and which optionally further comprises (ii) one or more hydrophilic residues RT, each of which may be bound to an amino group, a carboxylic acid group, or to a hydrophilic side chain of an amino acid unit; or a

Abstract: A receiving apparatus and method for determining transmission characteristics of an optical waveguide in which the receiving apparatus includes a waveguide interface for receiving a mixed light beam having a plurality of modes from a multi-mode optical waveguide and for receiving a blended shifted light beam from the multimode optical waveguide, wherein the mixed light beam has an associated phase for each mode of the plurality of modes, and wherein the mixed shifted light beam has an associated shifted phase for each mode of the plurality of modes; and one or more processors for determining mode information for the intermixed light beam and shifted mode information for the intermixed shifted light beam using a trained neural network and for determining, for each mode of the plurality of modes, the respective associated phase using the intermixed shifted light beam.

Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting data using various Modulation on Zeros schemes are described. In many embodiments, a communication system is utilized that includes a transmitter having a modulator that modulates a plurality of information bits to encode the bits in the zeros of the z-transform of a discrete-time baseband signal. In addition, the communication system includes a receiver having a decoder configured to decode a plurality of bits of information from the samples of a received signal by: determining a plurality of zeros of a z-transform of a received discrete-time baseband signal based upon samples from a received continuous-time signal, identifying zeros that encode the plurality of information bits, and outputting a plurality of decoded information bits based upon the identified zeros.

Abstract: Communication systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention utilize modulation on zeros. Carrier frequency offsets (CFO) can result in an unknown rotation of all zeros of a received signal's z-transform. Therefore, a binary MOCZ scheme (BMOCZ) can be utilized in which the modulated binary data is encoded using a cycling register code (e.g. CPC or ACPC), enabling receivers to determine cyclic shifts in the BMOCZ symbol resulting from a CFO. Receivers in accordance with several embodiments of the invention include decoders capable of decoding information bits from received discrete-time baseband signals by: estimating a timing offset for the received signal; determining a plurality of zeros of a z-transform of the received symbol; identifying zeros from the plurality of zeros that encode received bits by correcting fractional rotations resulting from the CFO; and decoding information bits based upon the received bits using a cycling register code.

Abstract: In a first aspect, the invention refers to a printhead for the additive manufacturing of a fibre reinforced material, comprising a fibre reinforcement in a polymer matrix, comprising an infiltration unit for mixing and/or infiltrating a fibre roving with a molten polymer; at least one feeder for a polymer and/or a fibre roving to the infiltration unit; a heating element, at least for partially melting the polymer within the infiltration unit; at least one deflecting element within the infiltration unit and an outlet for the resulting fibre reinforced material from the infiltration unit, wherein the molten polymer can be guided within the infiltration unit with a polymer flow direction, from the feeder to the outlet, along a channel between the feeder and the outlet, and the fibre roving can be guided within the channel, by means of deflection, around the deflecting element, area by area, transversely to the polymer flow direction, from the feeder to the outlet.

Abstract: A hybrid drive device for a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine includes a first electric motor and a second electric motor. A transmission includes a first partial transmission connected to the first electric motor and a second partial transmission connected to the second electric motor, each being connectable to an output shaft. The internal combustion engine can selectively be uncoupled from the transmission or can be connected in a form-fit manner to the first or the second partial transmission. The first electric motor is connected at a constant gear ratio to a first drive shaft of the first partial transmission, and the second electric motor is connected at a constant gear ratio to a second drive shaft of the second partial transmission. The internal combustion engine can also be connected in a form-fit manner to the output shaft by way of a direct gear-change means.

Abstract: An apparatus for guiding, in particular directing or accelerating, charged particles (50), comprising: a substrate (110) having a surface (115); an optically thinner layer (120) formed on the surface (115); an inhomogeneous channel (130) which is formed by two mutually opposite delimiting structures on a side of the layer (120) that is opposite the substrate (110); and a radiation device which is designed to generate at least one pulsed laser beam (140) and inject the at least one pulsed laser beam (140) into the channel (130) from a side that is opposite the optically thinner layer (120). The layer (120) for the laser beam (140) is optically thin, and the delimiting structures have a high optical density in comparison with the layer (120). The delimiting structures are designed to guide the particles (50) by means of the laser beam (140) in the channel (130) and alternatingly focus them along the channel (130) and in at least one direction perpendicular to the channel (130).

Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit is disclosed comprising: a dielectric substrate (110); a dielectric waveguide arrangement (120) on the substrate (110) for guiding terahertz (THz) waves; and a local functionalization (130) having a metallization in a surface area of the dielectric waveguide arrangement (120). The metallization is localized along a propagation direction of the THz waves to allow a metallization-free propagation of the THz wave outside of the local functionalization.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for computer-assisted evaluation of biomarkers in a tissue sample as well as a corresponding system and computer program. The method includes the following steps: providing an image of the tissue sample in which cell nuclei of the tissue as well as biomarkers are represented, automatically determining for a plurality of locations or regions within the image a blood vessel probability that represents a probability that the image at the corresponding location or region represents a blood vessel, automatically determining an assumed blood vessel location within the image based on a distribution of blood vessel probability with respect to the locations or regions within the image, automatically selecting biomarkers represented in the image at locations outside the assumed blood vessel location but within a threshold distance from the assumed blood vessel location, and automatically evaluating the selected biomarkers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a speed-changing shearing or forming active element insert which is designed to be detachably connected to an active element receptacle of a machine tool, the speed-changing shearing or forming active element insert having a speed-changing unit which is in the form of a hydraulic force/distance transducer, the force/distance transducer comprising a housing, the housing interior of which is supplied with a hydraulic fluid, and the force/distance transducer comprising a first piston which is in oo contact with the hydraulic fluid via one piston end and a second piston which is in contact with the hydraulic fluid via one piston end and the cross-sectional area of which is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first piston. The invention also relates to the use of the speed-changing changing shearing or forming active element insert in a machine tool.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drive system, a control device, and a method for controlling a mechanical shifting operation in the drive system. The drive system has at least one first multi-gear transmission, having a first input shaft and a first mechanical shifting means. Torques coming from the first input shaft are transmitted to a drive system output shaft. The torques are produced by an internal combustion engine and/or at least one first electric motor. For the purpose of disengaging a gear of the multi-gear transmission, the first electric motor is connected to the internal combustion engine and operated in a generator operating mode at least at times during the shifting operation, whereby the internal combustion engine is loaded and the first mechanical shifting means is unloaded. The mechanical shifting means is thus free of load or torsion and can be easily disconnected/opened.