Abstract: This invention relates to novel and improved catalyst and catalysts systems for the oligomerization of the higher olefins, which produce lubricants having improved properties, such as end-saturated oligomer chains which are needless to hydrogenation process, low kinematic viscosity and/or high viscosity index, low pour point, and high flash point lubricants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for an accurate quantification in intestinal samples of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii phylogroup I members (PHGI) and/or Faecalibacterium prausnitzii phylogroup II members (PHGII). It further relates to a method for detecting intestinal diseases, including the screening, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and/or monitoring of disease activity or progression in a human subject comprising determining the abundance of PHGI and/or PHGII in an intestinal sample from said subject. Moreover, it relates to a method for the prediction of the efficacy of a drug in the therapeutic treatment of an intestinal disease in a human subject comprising determining the abundance of PHGI and/or PHGII in an intestinal sample from said subject.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the strain Lactobacillus plantarum TC92, as well as to mutants thereof, and to the use of said strain as a pesticide for controlling fire blight in plants of the Rosaceae family. Additional aspects of the invention relate to methods for producing the L. plantarum strain TC92, pesticide compositions containing said strain and an extract of L. plantarum TC92 exhibiting antagonistic activity towards E. amylovora, which is useful for controlling fire blight. The invention further relates to a method for the biological control of fire blight in plants of the Rosaceae family, which comprises treating said plants with the L. plantarum strain TC92 or the extract of L. plantarum TC92.

Abstract: Methods and devices for quantitatively mapping urban time uses to land uses in an urban unit and methods and devices for classifying urban units are disclosed. In some aspects, for each activity an associated time to be spent for the activity in one urban unit is used to provide an activity allocation parameter to be used when planning a second urban unit. In other aspects, performance indicators compared to their respective activity allocation parameters are used to classify the urban units. In one example, urban units are classified as self-sufficient or non-self-sufficient based on activity allocation parameters.

Abstract: A plasma glucose estimation system is provided comprising a sensor which generates a signal from a glucose concentration measured in a medium, filtering means and a glycemic estimator. Also a method comprising: i) generating a signal which represents the glucose concentration measured in the medium; ii) filtering the signal generated; iii) applying a set of local estimation models, to the previous signal, obtaining a set of local plasma glucose estimates; iv) applying a weighting to each one of the local estimates previously obtained; v) estimating a plasma glucose concentration by the sum of the weighted local estimates obtained in the previous step; vi) correcting the signal obtained from the previous step from reference glycemia measurements and obtaining the final plasma glucose estimate.

Abstract: An auction procedure intended to replace the known review process by an auction based approach is provided. The better a submitted work by an author, the more this author may bid to have it appear in some congresses or journals. If the assessment of quality represented by the bid is right, the author will be rewarded in some new sort of scientific currency, otherwise the author will suffer loses of the currency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel linear peptides with antimicrobial activity. Said peptides are made up of 11 amino acids, and they have the amino group of the amino acid constituting the N-terminal end in a non-derived form or functionalized with an acetyl group, p-toluene sulphonyl, benzyl or benzoyl. The amino acid constituting the C-terminal end of said peptides is in carboxamide form. The invention describes the synthesis and use of said peptides as antimicrobial agents to combat pathogenic bacteria for plants. The invention also relates to compositions containing said peptides and an auxiliary agent, and to a method for preventing and treating infections and diseases of plants caused by pathogenic bacteria.

Abstract: Modular energy dissipation system for linking two structures in a linking direction, comprising a yielding energy dissipator (1) provided with at least two energy dissipation modules (15, 16) successively arranged along said linking direction, each module comprising a central strip (12; 12?), two sidelong strips (13; 13?) and a plurality of yielding elements (14; 14?) between the central strip and the sidelong strips, so that the central strip of a module located at one end of the dissipator is linked to one of the structures and the sidelong strips of this module are integrated with the central strip of the adjacent module, and the sidelong strips of the module located at the other end of the dissipator are linked to the other structure and the central strip of this module is integrated with the sidelong strips of the adjacent module.

Abstract: An auction procedure intended to replace the known review process by an auction based approach is provided. The better a submitted work by an author, the more this author may bid to have it appear in some congresses or journals. If the assessment of quality represented by the bid is right, the author will be rewarded in some new sort of scientific currency, otherwise the author will suffer loses of the currency.

Abstract: A method for specific detection of the presence of Salmonella spp. in a sample that is suspected to contain Salmonella spp. and which further comprises one or more other microorganism(s).

Abstract: A method for specific detection of the presence of Legionella pneumophila in a sample that is suspected to contain L. pneumophila and which further comprises one or more other microorganism(s).

Abstract: The present invention relates to metalocarboxypeptidase inhibitors and to their natural protein variants or protein variants redesigned by engineering, as well as to peptidomimetic molecules derived from the above and used as antitumor agents.