Abstract: The position of a mobile communications device within a communications network (localization) is determined using communications signals of a base station that communicates with the mobile communications device using a mobile communications network. A possible area of location is determined using a non-linear communication model based on non-linear Bayesian filtering. The selected position of the mobile communications device is then determined on the basis of the possible area of location.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stain solution, which is devoid of phenol, for staining bacteria. Said solution contains at least one dye, one solvent and one of the following substances, or mixtures thereof, as a phenol substitute: 2-butoxy thylacetate, 2-phenylethanol, benzyl alcohol, 4-methoxyphenol or cyclohexanol.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the use of an adsorbent material modified with polynuclear metal oxyhydroxides for the selective elimination of inorganic phosphate from liquids, in particular from body fluids containing protein such as whole blood, plasma, liquid contents of the intestine as well as from dialysis fluid, as well as a process for the production of a pharmaceutical agent for oral application for the selective removal of inorganic phosphate in which an adsorbent material used according to the present invention, as such or pressed into powder form, is coated with a layer resistant to gastric acid or dispensed into an acid-resistant capsule. In order to selectively eliminate inorganic phosphate in an extracorporeal perfusion system, a body fluid such as whole blood or plasma is passed over one of the adsorbent materials.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the use of an adsorbent material modified with polynuclear metal oxyhydroxides for the selective elimination of inorganic phosphate from liquids, in particular from body fluids containing protein such as whole blood, plasma, liquid contents of the intestine as well as from dialysis fluid, as well as a process for the production of a pharmaceutical agent for oral application for the selective removal of inorganic phosphate in which an adsorbent material used according to the present invention, as such or pressed into powder form, is coated with a layer resistant to gastric acid or dispensed into an acid-resistant capsule. In order to selectively eliminate inorganic phosphate in an extracorporeal perfusion system, a body fluid such as whole blood or plasma is passed over one of the adsorbent materials.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the use of an adsorbent material modified with polynuclear metal oxyhydroxides for the selective elimination of inorganic phosphate from liquids, in particular from body fluids containing protein such as whole blood, plasma, liquid contents of the intestine as well as from dialysis fluid, as well as a process for the production of a pharmaceutical agent for oral application for the selective removal of inorganic phosphate in which an adsorbent material used according to the present invention, as such or pressed into powder form, is coated with a layer resistant to gastric acid or dispensed into an acid-resistant capsule. In order to selectively eliminate inorganic phosphate in an extracorporeal perfusion system, a body fluid such as whole blood or plasma is passed over one of the adsorbent materials.

Abstract: An adsorption material for selectively removing Lp(a) lipoprotein, LDL cholesterol and/or vLDL cholesterol from aqueous liquids, in particular from blood, plasma or serum, consisting of porous glass beads as the solid carrier material whose silanol groups present on its surface carry ligands which are covalently bound and have alkyl residues with 4 to 12 atoms containing at least one ether group and a terminal .alpha.,.beta.-diol group containing alkyl residues with 4 to 12 C atoms and wherein the material has no free silanol groups. Also disclosed is a method of using the adsorption material for selective removal or determination of Lp(a) lipoprotein, LDL cholesterol or/and vLDL cholesterol from aqueous liquids, and a device for use in such methods.