Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for verifying valuable documents, in particular banknotes (5), labels, bonds, stamps or identification cards. Conventional methods involve a high percentage of errors. The aim of the invention is to provide a method for identifying banknotes, labels, bonds, stamps and identification cards, which allows a reliable and rapid identification of forgeries, whereby the identification and verification process is tolerant in relation to modification to the position of the valuable documents, in particular in relation to modifications to the distance. To achieve this, a valuable document is provided with an electromagnetically active structure (1), the valuable document is then exposed to an electromagnetic high-frequency field, the influence of the electromagnetic high-frequency field is measured through the valuable document and the measurement result is compared with reference data. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out said method.

Abstract: Separation of substances present in fluid media can be obtained by directing at an angle of incidence up to 180 degrees, a first flow of fluid medium against a second flow of fluid medium. A boundary layer is formed between the mutually incident media and the substances to be separated pass from the first medium through the boundary layer into the second medium.

Abstract: A crystallization apparatus 2, in particular for crystallizing proteins at zero gravity, comprises a crystallization cell consisting of an elastic tube 8 of which the ends can be sealed. Using a clamp means 10the tube cavity can be reversibly divided into several cells 14, 14', 14" to receive various solutions depending on the particular crystallization.

Abstract: A device for analyzing and linearizing the frequency characteristics of electrical signals from unknown systems consists of identically constructed modules with variable transfer functions, which transfer functions are to be adjusted to a inverse component of the electrical signal to be analyzed. A procedure is disclosed in which the time constant and variable gain of each module is independently adjusted, whereby the variable gains and the time constants define the poles and the zeros of a polynomial, which polynomial describes the frequency characteristics of the unknown system.