Abstract: A process for taking a dental impression and/or conducting a dental retraction. The process includes the steps of: (a) providing a composition (A) having the consistency (a1), composition (A) including curable components, and a catalyst suitable to initiate or catalyze the curing of the curable components, composition (A) being contained in a device, (b) applying a portion (I) of composition (A) with a consistency (a2) into the sulcus of a tooth, (c) applying a portion (II) of composition (A) with a consistency (a1) in contact with composition (A) applied in step (b), (d) removing portion (I) together with portion (II) of composition (A) from the surface of the tooth, consistency (a2) being higher than consistency (a1).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing a transitory ischemic attack (TIA) in a subject who is suspected to have exhibited a transitory ischemic attack, but who did not exhibit a stroke. The method is based on the determination of the amount of NT-proANP in a sample from said subject. Moreover, the present invention is directed to a method for diagnosing an acute cerebral ischemic event in a subject based on the determination of the amounts of NT-proBNP and NT-proANP in a sample from a subject. The method further comprises the step of calculating a ratio of the amounts of NT-proBNP and NT-proANP. Further envisaged by the present invention are kits and devices adapted to carry out the method of the present invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gripper for a tufting machine, which has a gripper body and an insert. In the longitudinal direction, the gripper has a holding section and a guiding section. At the end further away from the holding section, in the longitudinal direction, the guiding section terminates in a hook which has an inner side in which a joint gap is arranged between the gripper body and the insert. According to the invention, the gripper is characterised in that a stop means, against which the insert abuts in the longitudinal direction towards the holding section, is arranged on the gripper body in the gripper's guiding section in order to limit the size of the joint gap in the inner side of the hook.

Abstract: System and method for uplink precoding in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus is operable in a communication system and includes processing circuitry configured to identify an antenna element of a user equipment to disregard for uplink precoding, and provide an instruction to direct the user equipment to remove an antenna port associated with the antenna element from a codebook employed by the user equipment to precode a communication within the communication system.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an EGR cooler comprising a phase-change material. In one example, exhaust gas may be conducted through the EGR cooler when an engine is deactivated to maintain an engine temperature.

Abstract: A glass ribbon in the form of a glass roll is provided that is optimized with respect to the requirements of a long service life and at the same time compact dimensions. A bending radius on the inner side of the thin glass roll is determined by performing breakage tests on samples of the glass material, statistical parameters are determined on the basis of the breakage tests, and the statistical parameters are converted into a range of bending radii which meet the requirements on service life and the most compact dimensions possible of the thin glass roll.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dumbbell comprising a dumbbell bar (1) that is used as a handle (3), and weight plates (2) at the ends that can be plugged or clipped onto the dumbbell bar (1) and can be replaced with different weights; the weight plate (2) has an outer surface (5) that faces outward in the mounted state. The disclosed dumbbell is characterized in that the outer surface (5) is formed by an asymmetrically weight-loaded flywheel (6) which is mounted on the weight plate (2) so as to be parallel thereto and be able to rotate about a central axis in such a way that the flywheel (6) always has the same orientation or angular position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for embedding a discrete electronic device in a chip module. The chip module comprises a multilayer substrate which comprises a plurality of electrically conductive layers stacked above each other and an electrically non-conductive layer arranged between each pair of electrically conductive layers. The chip module is configured to receive one or more chips to be mounted onto a top surface thereof. Each electrically conductive layer comprises one or more electrically conductive structures. A recess is provided in a side surface of the chip module. The discrete electronic device is inserted into the recess. A first electrically conductive connection between a first electrical contact of the discrete electronic device and a first electrically conductive structure is established. Further, a second electrically conductive connection between a second electrical contact of the discrete electronic device and a second electrically conductive structure is established.

Abstract: A light guide for a lighting device, wherein the light guide extends along a longitudinal axis and has a coupling-out area which runs over the longitudinal axis and from which light can be emitted along the longitudinal axis, and wherein the light guide has, in its longitudinal extent, an end region which is provided with a cover in order to suppress high-intensity light emission in the end region. The cover is formed by laser-machining the light guide material in the end region of the light guide. The invention further relates to a method for forming a cover in the end region of the light guide.

Abstract: A coolant pump for an internal combustion engine. The coolant pump includes a delivery duct, a drive shaft, a coolant pump impeller arranged on the drive shaft to rotate therewith and to convey a coolant, and an adjustable control slide which controls a throughflow cross-section of an annular gap arranged between an outlet of the coolant pump impeller and the surrounding delivery duct. The control slide comprises a first pressure chamber arranged on a side of the control slide facing away from the coolant pump impeller and a second pressure chamber arranged opposite thereto. A control pump includes a control pump impeller arranged at the drive shaft to rotate therewith. A connecting duct fluidically connects the flow duct to the second pressure chamber. A pressure duct fluidically connects the flow duct outlet to the first pressure chamber. A valve opens and closes a throughflow cross-section of the pressure duct.

Abstract: A pad assembly adapted to be mounted in a caliper body for a disc brake has a pad-housing pocket. The disc brake defines an axial direction, either coinciding or parallel with the direction of the rotation axis of the brake disc associable with the caliper body, a radial direction (R-R), orthogonal to the axial direction, and a tangential (T-T) or circumferential (T-T) direction, orthogonal both to the axial direction and to the radial direction (R-R). The pad-housing pocket has at least one pocket wall to form a tangential abutment for a brake pad associable with the caliper body. The pad assembly has a brake pad having a support plate, adapted to form a support for at least one associable friction material, where the support plate has a main extension along the radial (R-R) and tangential (T-T) directions.

Abstract: Integrating a further communication bridge into a running data processing system. The data processing system includes a communication client running a first operating system having no own communication stack and at least a first communication bridge running a second operating system having an own communication stack. The first communication bridge is configured as a master communication bridge. The further communication bridge announces itself as a slave communication bridge at an announcement time. The master communication bridge executes a quiesce process on the network adapter and on the API of the communication client when there are no data packets in the queue with a sending time earlier than the announcement time. The master communication bridge extracts the state of its communication stack and sends it to the further communication bridge. The master communication bridge resumes the network adapter and the API.

Abstract: A crown cork closure and closing method. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

Abstract: A template for forming a contour on an eyebrow, having a hair-removing means, having a flat, flexible support, which has a support edge that follows the lower contour curve to be formed for the eyebrow and a hair-removing region adjoining this support edge, which is coated with a hair-removing means, and having an optical positioning aid provided on at least one lateral half of the template for positioning the template relative to the eyebrow. For a simple use of the template with reproducible results, it has a positioning aid on each of the two halves.

Abstract: A process for producing an olefin having N carbon atoms is proposed in which using a dehydrogenation a process gas is formed which contains at least the olefin having N carbon atoms, a paraffin having N carbon atoms and a hydrocarbon having N?1 carbon atoms and in which using at least a portion of the process gas a separation input is formed which is subjected to a low temperature separation in which the separation input is cooled stepwise over a plurality of temperature levels and condensates are separated from the separation input, wherein the condensates are at least partly subjected to a first low temperature rectification to obtain a first gas fraction and a first liquid fraction, wherein the first gas fraction contains at least the olefin having N carbon atoms in a lower proportion than in the condensates and the hydrocarbon having N?1 in a higher proportion than in the condensates.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of generating a local audio file comprising audio captured of a user participating in a teleconference, receiving one or more other local audio files of the teleconference captured by one or more other audio devices that participated in the teleconference, determining a synchronized playback order for audio portions of the generated local audio file and audio portions of the one or more received local audio files based on timing information included in the generated local audio file and the received timing information, and outputting a playback of the audio portions of the generated local audio file and the detected audio portions of the one or more received local audio files synchronized together based on the determined synchronized playback order.

Abstract: A cognitive method, system and computer readable medium comprising: monitoring a user interaction of a user; generating user interaction data based upon the user interaction; receiving data from a plurality of data sources; processing the user interaction data and the data from the plurality of data sources to perform a cognitive learning operation, the processing being performed via a cognitive inference and learning system, the cognitive learning operation comprising analyzing the user interaction data, the cognitive learning operation generating a cognitive learning result based upon the user interaction data; associating a cognitive profile with the user based on the cognitive learning result; and, performing a cognitive procurement assistant operation based upon the cognitive profile, the cognitive procurement assistant operation assisting the user in performance of a procurement task.

Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

Abstract: A transmission device for a motor vehicle includes a multi-speed transmission; a multidisc clutch assigned to the multi-speed transmission for changing gears of the multi-speed transmission, and an actuating device for actuating the multidisc clutch, wherein the actuating device has a wedge mechanism which is operatively connected with the multidisc clutch for actuating the multidisc clutch.