Abstract: A process for preparing a sunflower seed protein isolate and a protein isolate which is obtainable by such process. The process comprises the following steps: mixing a defatted seed meal with an aqueous NaCl solution at a basic pH; separating said solubilised protein solution from solids; diafiltering said solubilised protein solution through an ultrafiltration membrane system using an aqueous NaCl diafiltration NaCl solution and at least 2 diavolumes of said aqueous NaCl diafiltration solution, diafiltering said NaCl-diafiltered protein; concentrating said purified protein solution; and drying said purified protein concentrate to obtain a protein isolate.

Abstract: A device for chemical looping combustion of a fuel, operating in the liquid phase and including: a tank receiving a liquid including an oxidizing agent and a reducing agent, an oxidation loop including: a first conduit, a first device for injecting a first motor fluid including dioxygen, configured for introducing the first motor fluid into the first conduit, and a first separating device for separating the first motor fluid from the liquid and for sending the liquid to the tank, a reduction loop including: a second conduit, a second device for injecting a second motor fluid including a fuel that includes carbon, configured for introducing the second motor fluid into the second conduit, and a second separating device, configured for separating the second motor fluid from the liquid.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rotating electrical machine with axial air gap, comprising two rotors, each provided with superconducting axial magnetic flux barrier elements around an axis of rotation and having, between them, axial magnetic flux passage areas, at least one armature, comprising windings and a superconducting field coil surrounding the elements and the armature and capable of inducing an axial magnetic field. Each armature is positioned between two of the rotors. The superconducting elements of the rotors are coaxial with one another and also the flux passage areas. A first annular cryogenic enclosure encloses the field coil and a second cryogenic enclosure encloses the two rotors and the armature or only one rotor, with a third cryogenic enclosure around the other rotor without the armature.

Abstract: Provided is a food cooking surface for a cookware item or an electrical household cooking appliance, consisting of a deposit of nitride of metal elements on a substrate, the metal elements of the deposit comprising one or more X transition metal(s) and aluminium. The production of the deposit comprises a nitridation step in arder to obtain a coating of type (X,Al)N. According to the invention, the (X,Al)N-type coating is a coating of nitride(s) of the one or more X transition metal(s), enriched with aluminium, in which niobium and/or zirconium is/are make up the most part of the X transition metal(s), the atomic ratio of aluminium in the metal elements of the deposit being at least equal to 20%. Also provided are cookware items and electrical household appliances intended for the cooking of food, comprising the above-mentioned type of cooking surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a superconducting pellet for a superconducting electrical machine, the superconducting pellet having a circumferential wall, the circumferential wall having: a first border, a second border opposite the first border, an inner face connecting the first border to the second border, an outer face opposite the inner face, and a cavity formed between the first border and the second border and defined by the inner face, and an additional wall which covers the first border or is flush with the first border so as to at least partially cover the cavity, or extends from the inner face at a distance from the first border and the second border so as to divide the cavity into two portions.

Abstract: An ocular delivery system useful for the treatment of glaucoma in subject in need thereof. Especially, a mucoadhesive solid or semisolid ocular delivery system that includes a matrix of preactivated thiomer of hyaluronic acid and one or more anti-glaucoma drugs. The ocular delivery system may be an ocular insert or an ocular film.

Abstract: Strains of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum, a bacterial preparation including at least one strain of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum, and their use in the preparation of a food product. Also, a method for reducing microbial contamination during a process for the production of a fermented milk product to which a quantity of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum or a bacterial preparation including at least one strain of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum is added.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shot-processing device. The memory receives scene data comprising three-dimensional object pairs associating an object identifier, the ellipsoid data, which define an ellipsoid and its orientation and a position of center, and shot data defining a two-dimensional image of the scene, from a viewpoint corresponding to a desired pose. The detector receives shot data and returns two-dimensional object pairs comprising an object identifier and its associated shot region. The preparer determines a set of positioning elements, each associating the object identifier, the ellipsoid data, and ellipse data which define an ellipse approximating the shot region. The combiner generates candidates associating positioning elements and a shot orientation. The estimator calculates a pose comprising a position and an orientation. The selector projects the ellipsoid data onto the shot data from the pose, determines a measurement of similarity and selects the pose that has the highest likelihood value.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to human mesenchymal stem cells from Wharton's jelly, a method for preparing them, and the therapeutic uses thereof, in particular for the treatment of sepsis and specifically septic shock. The treatment may involve the administration to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition including the human mesenchymal stem cells from Wharton's jelly and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.

Abstract: Copper nanoclusters designated by the formula “CuNC@HisAc” or “CuNC@HisAcAsc”, wherein the copper nanoclusters: are covered on the surface thereof by a mixed layer including histidine (His), acetate ions (Ac) and possibly ascorbate ions (Asc); have a spherical shape; have a hydrodynamical diameter of 0.6-2.0 nm; have a metallic core with a diameter of 0.5-1.5 nm; have a temporal stability of 5-12 weeks in solution; have a temporal stability of at least 12 months in dried form; and have spectrophotometric properties, with a shoulder in the UV-Visible spectrum at 325±10 nm and a fluorescence spectrum with excitation wavelengths of 365-395 nm and emission wavelengths of 445-475 nm. Also, a method for preparation of the copper nanoclusters, and the use of the copper nanoclusters in a method treatment of pathologies related to a copper deficit, and in particular Menkes syndrome.

Abstract: The facility for detecting at least one characteristic parameter of a medium (M), has as device (3) illuminating the medium (M) with a visible polychromatic light, a device (4) exciting the medium (M) with a visible-light or infrared monochromatic radiation, a first device (5) collecting and conveying at least a first electromagnetic radiation emitted by the medium (M), a second device (6) collecting and conveying at least a second electromagnetic radiation emitted by the medium (M), at least one visible-band spectrometer (7) obtaining at least one visible-band spectrum of the medium (M) from the at least first electromagnetic radiation, at least one Raman spectrometer (8) obtaining at least one Raman spectrum of the medium (M) from the at least second electromagnetic radiation, and a device (9) detecting the at least one characteristic parameter from the at least one visible-band spectrum and the at least one Raman spectrum.

Abstract: A flame retardant treatment of a lignocellulosic material, which includes: optionally steam exploding the lignocellulosic material, impregnating the optionally steam-exploded lignocellulosic material, in or with an aqueous solution, from 0.5% to 10% of phytic acid and from 1% to 30% of urea, based on the total weight of the aqueous solution, optionally drying of the impregnated lignocellulosic material, until the impregnated lignocellulosic material has a moisture content from 5% to 20% by weight, cooking the impregnated and optionally dried lignocellulosic material, the resulting flame-retarded lignocellulosic material including a phosphorous content originating from the phytic acid from 0.1% to 10% by weight.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to human mesenchymal stem cells from Wharton's jelly, a method for preparing them, and the therapeutic uses thereof, in particular for the treatment of sepsis and specifically septic shock. The treatment may involve the administration to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition including the human mesenchymal stem cells from Wharton's jelly and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.

Abstract: This invention relates to a superconducting electric machine (1), for example with axial flux or with radial flux, comprising an inductor (3) comprising superconducting pellets (7) circumferentially distributed around an axis (X) of the electric machine (1) and a flux barrier (12) comprising a superconducting material, said flux barrier (12) being centered on the axis (X) of rotation and extending radially inward of the superconducting pellets (7).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a superconducting electric machine (1) comprising an inductor (3) having: —superconducting pellets (7) circumferentially distributed about an axis (X) of the electric machine (1), —an armature (2) comprising coils (5), each coil (5) having a circumferential radially inner edge (10) and a circumferential radially outer edge (9), and—at least one flow barrier (12, 12?) extending circumferentially with respect to the axis (X), each flow barrier (12) extending between the superconducting pellets (7) and the armature (2) so as to at least partially cover at least one of the radially outer edge (9) and the radially inner edge (10) of all or part of the coils (5) of the armature (2).

Abstract: A device for radioactivity counting and characterization for a solution. The device includes a container having at least two recesses, a first recess for receiving a vial and a second recess for receiving a radioactivity sensor, a radioactivity sensor having a semiconductor sensor presenting a cone of detection directed to the first recess of the container for receiving a vial, a removable closure element, an armored cover around the container and its upper face, the upper face of the armored cover having an opening for introducing the vial into the container and a plate for supporting the device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating aqueous effluents from the primary circuit of a nuclear power plant implementing a separation of boric acid using a reverse osmosis membrane, characterized by the fact that it comprises steps consisting of treating the effluents using a multi-stage assembly composed of reverse osmosis modules comprising a membrane with a high boron rejection rate, arranged in parallel and in series, and recycling of the intermediate products to different points in the assembly.

Abstract: A process for producing a protein isolate from an oilseed meal, and the isolate thus obtained, said isolate comprising proteins and an amount of 4 wt. % or less of phytic acid, said amount of phytic acid being by weight of proteins in said isolate. The process may comprise the following steps: a) providing an oilseed meal; b) mixing the oilseed meal with a first aqueous solvent to form a slurry at a pH ranging from 6 to 7.8, said slurry having a solid phase; c) separating said solid phase from said slurry, d) mixing said separated solid phase with a second aqueous solvent at a pH ranging from 1 to 3.

Abstract: A method for concealing data in an image or a video stream inside a compression chain, being implemented by a computer and including a structuring and processing phase, during which at least one image is structured into blocks including coefficients, a phase of converting and quantifying blocks so as to generate converted and quantified coefficients, with entropic coding intended to code the converted and quantified coefficients. The method includes a step of concealing data, during which bits of the data are concealed by modifying converted and quantified coefficients located in a high frequency zone of at least some of the blocks that relate to the luminance component of the video stream and that are intra-coded. This modification is performed after the quantification but before the entropic coding.

Abstract: The use of soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1) as a marker in a method for identifying a subject suffering from a disease caused by a coronavirus such as COVID-19 at risk of having or developing a severe form and/or a complication or at risk of death, in a method for assessing the severity of a disease caused by a coronavirus such as COVID-19, and in a method for monitoring a subject suffering from a disease caused by a coronavirus such as COVID-19.