Abstract: A lubrication system for a turbine engine. The turbine engine includes a propulsor and one or more rotating components. The lubrication system includes a sump, a primary lubrication system, an auxiliary lubrication system, and a fuel system. The sump stores lubricant therein. The primary lubrication system supplies the lubricant from the sump to the one or more rotating components during normal operation of the turbine engine. The auxiliary lubrication system includes an auxiliary pump. The fuel system stores hydrogen fuel. The fuel system includes a fuel cell controller that generates electricity from the hydrogen fuel. The electricity powers the auxiliary pump when the propulsor is windmilling such that the auxiliary pump pumps the lubricant from the sump to the one or more rotating components.

Abstract: Isolated monoclonal agonistic antibodies which bind to human CD40 and related antibody-based compositions and molecules are disclosed. Also disclosed are therapeutic and diagnostic methods for using the antibodies.

Abstract: A particle beam system comprises: an object mount for mounting an object to be examined; a particle beam source; a lens for focusing the particle beam; a detector; and a cooling system for cooling the object mount. The cooling system comprises: a coolant passage through the object mount; a supply port; an outlet; a heat exchanger having two passages; a first connecting line connected to the inlet of the coolant passage and the first passage through the heat exchanger; a second connecting line connected to the outlet of the coolant passage and the second passage through the heat exchanger; a third connecting line connected to the first passage through the heat exchanger and the supply port; a fourth connecting line connected to the second passage through the heat exchanger and the outlet; and a cooling mechanism for cooling a portion of the first connecting line.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for adapting gain elements in digital filter chains. In one example, a digital filter chain includes a first digital filter and a second digital filter. The first digital filter includes a fixed point finite impulse response (FIR) filter and includes an output gain element. The second digital filter has an input coupled to an output of the first digital filter and includes an IIR filter. The output gain element applies a common output gain value that is based on a product of an input gain configured in association with the second digital filter and an FIR output gain that is based on a scaling factor K associated with the first digital filter.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of determining the aggressiveness, prognosis and response to therapy for cancer, such as non-small cell lung carcinoma (NS-CLC), which includes determining an expression level of one or a plurality of differentially expressed protein markers in an exosome sample from a subject. A method and agent for treating cancer are also provided.

Abstract: An aircraft wing has a leading edge, a fixed wing portion and a leading-edge spoiler device. The spoiler device is hingedly mounted relative to the fixed wing portion adjacent the leading edge, moveable between retracted and deployed positions. In the retracted position a spoiler surface forms a continuous surface with a fixed wing portion upper aerodynamic surface, and in the deployed position the spoiler surface is rotated relative to the upper aerodynamic surface. In the retracted position the spoiler surface has a first portion forward of the hinge and a second portion aft of the hinge. A center of pressure of the local wing section acts on the spoiler surface providing a moment about the hinge in a first direction to bias the spoiler device to the retracted position and providing a moment about the hinge in a second, opposite direction, rotating the spoiler device to the deployed position.

Abstract: A system and a method for measuring eddy currents with long time constants includes initiating, via a processor, a calibration scan of a phantom utilizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. The system and the method also include utilizing, via the processor, a train of gradient echo sequences to simultaneously generate and measure the eddy currents during the calibration scan. Both eddy current generation and measurement are completed within each gradient echo sequence of the train of gradient echo sequences. The system and the method further include acquiring, via the processor, k-space data from the train of gradient echo sequences. The system and the method still further include converting, via the processor, the k-space data to eddy current gradient fields. The system and the method even further include estimating, via the processor, the eddy currents as a function of time based on the eddy current gradient fields.

Abstract: A control arrangement for a frequency-dependent damping valve of a vibration damper having a control pot with a cylindrical pot wall and a pot base adjoining the pot wall, a control piston arranged axially displaceable in the control pot between first and second end positions. The pot base has a deformation portion produced by plastic deformation that defines the first end position. The control piston is slidingly guided at a guide bush. The deformation portion defines a trough in which the guide bush is received by a first axial end and a spring unit supported at the control piston acts on the control piston with a spring force. The guide bush has a cutout at the first axial end arranged in the trough and in which a base material of the control base is displaced by plastic deformation to form a positive engagement connection.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to needle arrays, wearable medicament delivery devices, and targeted methods of medicament delivery into the skin utilizing sensing microneedles. The needle array includes an injection needle that can deliver the medicament to a patient and a sensing microneedle that can sense a characteristic. The characteristic can be associated with a depth that the sensing microneedle is inserted into the patient. A tip of the sensing microneedle is offset from a tip of the injection needle.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive ultrawide band (UWB) radar signals. The electronic device also includes a processor operatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to, based on the received UWB radar signals, detect a human within a detection area of the transceiver. The processor is further configured to perform, based on the detection of the human within the detection area of the transceiver, a motion detection operation, and perform, based on a result of the motion detection operation, a fall detection operation.

Abstract: A laser frequency conversion system with ultraviolet-damage mitigation includes a nonlinear crystal for frequency converting a laser beam, and a one-dimensional beam expander arranged to receive the laser beam from the nonlinear crystal and expand a first transverse dimension of the laser beam. This expansion protects subsequent optical elements from ultraviolet damage. To mitigate ultraviolet damage to the nonlinear crystal and the beam expander, the system also includes one or more translation stages configured to translate the nonlinear crystal and the beam expander along a translation direction that is orthogonal to the first transverse dimension of the laser beam and non-parallel to a propagation direction of the laser beam through the nonlinear crystal and the beam expander.

Abstract: A hybrid abutment for restorative dental systems includes a restoration interface with an overdenture portion and a restoration portion that are each operable to couple to a plurality of restorative abutment components along a restorative axis, a receiver interface with at least one region operable to couple to a corresponding region on a receiver along an installation axis, and a restorative platform separating the restoration interface and the receiver interface. The restorative abutment component can include an overdenture or a restorative component with an optional resilient insert. The overdenture and the restorative component are interchangeable without switching either the hybrid abutment or the receiver. The hybrid abutment includes a main body with a single-build or multi-piece build or configuration. Where the receiver is an implant, at least a portion of the hybrid abutment and the implant can be formed as a monolithic component.

Abstract: A method for correcting optical path length measurement errors of a measurement scanner at a laser processing optical unit includes incoupling a measurement beam of the measurement scanner for distance measurement purposes coaxially into a processing laser beam, moving the measurement beam laterally in an x-y plane over a workpiece in a vicinity of the processing laser beam, measuring distance values by the measurement scanner at different measurement points of the workpiece, and correcting the distance values in a z-direction by change values. The change values are obtained from calculated or previously known optical path lengths of the measurement beam at different selection points in the x-y plane.

Abstract: A gradient coil arrangement of an MRI system is described that defines a first and at least one second axis in different spatial directions. Disposed in each spatial direction is at least one gradient coil which generates a magnetic gradient field along the respective axis. The magnetic gradient fields each have a maximum field region which corresponds to a region in which the field strength attains a predetermined percentage of the maximum strength. The gradient coil of the first axis is configured such that the overlap of its maximum field region with that of the at least one second axis is less than a limit value.

Abstract: A printed circuit board including (a) a heat sink projecting from a first primary surface and defining a first section and a second section of the first primary surface, (b) one or more rectifier components, (c) a smoothing component disposed at the first section in electrical communication with the one or more rectifier components, (d) inverter components in electrical communication with the one or more rectifier components and the smoothing component, the inverter components including (i) at least one capacitor and at least one connector for an induction coil both disposed at the second section and (ii) a controllable solid-state switching device functionally operable with the at least one capacitor and the at least one connector disposed at a second primary surface of the printed circuit board or second section of the first primary surface.

Abstract: A thermal management device includes a first connecting element, a second connecting element, and a hollow volume between the first and second ports. The first connecting element includes a first base element with a first side and a second side, at least one first port on the first side and one second port on the second side. The second connecting element includes a second base element with a third side and a fourth side, at least one third port on the third side, and a fourth port on the fourth side. The thermal management device also includes a second hollow volume between the third and fourth sides. The first and second connecting elements are positioned at an angle relative to each other such that a volume for the attachment of a thermal management component to the first or second connecting element is formed.

Abstract: A nozzle arrangement for applying fluids onto a substrate, the nozzle arrangement comprising a spray nozzle having a nozzle body extending in a longitudinal direction of the spray nozzle and a first fluid channel coaxially extending to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle body for the fluids to be applied onto the substrate. The spray nozzle also includes a nozzle housing in which the nozzle body is received. Second fluid channels are in regions between a lateral surface and an inner surface of the nozzle body for shaping air. The second fluid channels extend over their entire length in the longitudinal direction parallel to the first fluid channel and, at an end-side nozzle outlet region of the spray nozzle, are open into a tapered or conical gap that tapers towards a nozzle outlet opening of the nozzle body.

Abstract: A method for producing a silicon anode for lithium batteries, wherein an active layer made of silicon is deposited onto a substrate, preferably copper, said active layer then being subjected to a rapid annealing process. The aim of the invention is to provide a method with which the stress in the deposited layers for producing a silicon anode for lithium batteries can be minimized and which can be easily integrated into an existing production process. This is achieved in that a substrate surface is structured by means of a process prior to applying the active layer, the substrate surface is modified in an unstructured state by means of a process, or the active layer is structured during the production thereof by means of photolithography and a subsequent physical deposition process, preferably sputtering or vapor deposition, and an annealing process, preferably a rapid annealing process, so as to form segments.

Abstract: Systems and methods for transferring aircraft within a landing area of an aerial transport are provided. A system includes a plurality of robotic devices configured to move aircraft within the landing area. The system obtains facility data to dynamically determine accessible and prohibited areas of the landing area. The system determines a robotic device to transfer an aircraft based on map data representing the prohibited/accessible areas of the landing area and robotic data representing attributes of each robotic device. The system determines a number of routes for the selected robotic device to transfer the aircraft within the landing area while avoiding prohibited areas of the landing area. The system generates command instructions for the selected robotic device and provides the command instructions to the selected robotic device to travel in accordance with the number of routes.

Abstract: A method for achieving the simultaneous washing/delamination of multilayer films via treatment with an alkaline aqueous solution during a mechanical recycling process, thereby improving the yield and/or purity of a desired polyolefin.