Abstract: A compatibility layer, in particular a shim layer, is configured to provide flexible choice of network protocols in a multi-path environment. The compatibility layer includes a first set of communication interfaces that is associated to a first communication link, a second set of communication interfaces that is associated to a second communication link, an access unit configured to get access to a library of network protocols, and a converting unit. The converting unit is configured to convert data packets received from a network entity via the first communication link and/or the second communication link to at least one of the network protocols; and/or the converting unit is configured to convert data packets received from a communication network via the first communication link and/or the second communication link to one standard network protocol.

Abstract: A control circuit and a method for delaying an electronic signal are provided, along with a time-to-digital converter including the control circuit. The example control circuit includes a first delay circuit having a first plurality of delay elements electrically connected in series and configured to generate a first control voltage associated with a first delay time. The control circuit further includes a second delay circuit having a second plurality of delay elements electrically connected at least in part in series. The second delay circuit is configured to generate a second control voltage associated with a second delay time. A first group of delay elements within the second plurality of delay elements exhibits the first delay time based on the first control voltage, and a second group of the second plurality of delay elements exhibits a second delay time based at least in part on the second control voltage.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optochemical sensor element comprising: a substrate layer having a first substrate side facing toward a measurement medium and an opposite second substrate side; a functional layer, on the first substrate side and having a first reference dye, an indicator dye, and a second reference dye, wherein the first reference dye comprises an inorganic material, is insensitive to pH, and is suitable to emit a first luminescence signal upon stimulation, wherein the indicator dye comprises an organic material and is sensitive to pH, and is suitable to emit a third luminescence signal upon stimulation, wherein the second reference dye comprises an organic material, is insensitive to pH, and has a passivated functional group, and is suitable to emit a second luminescence signal upon stimulation, wherein the substrate layer is transparent to the stimulation signal and the luminescence signals.

Abstract: Systems are provided for the arrangement of decoupled electric and acoustic modules for a transducer array of an ultrasound probe. In one embodiment, the decoupled modules are independently coupled to a flex interconnect, apart from one another, allowing for electric communication between all modules through the flex interconnect. As one example, an ultrasound transducer array for an ultrasound probe comprises an acoustic backing, a flex interconnect coupled to the backing at a first surface of the flex interconnect, a matrix acoustic array coupled to a second surface of the flex interconnect, the second surface opposite the first surface, and an electric module coupled to the second surface of the flex interconnect at a location spaced away from where the matrix acoustic array is coupled to the flex interconnect.

Abstract: Described is a process for making a dry and stable hemostatic composition, said process comprising a) providing a first component comprising a dry preparation of a coagulation inducing agent, b) providing a second component comprising a dry preparation of a biocompatible polymer suitable for use in hemostasis, c) providing said first component and said second component in a combined form in a final container, c1) either by filling said first component and said second component into said final container so as to obtain a dry mixture in said final container, c2) or by providing said first component or said second component in said final container and adding said second component or said first component so as to obtain a combination of said first component with said second component in said final container, d) finishing the final container to a storable pharmaceutical device containing said first component and said second component in a combined form as a dry and stable hemostatic composition.

Abstract: A feed unit for articles includes a guide extending along a guide longitudinal axis to define a linear feed path for such articles. The guide is for accommodating articles arranged in a row one after the other and to guide the articles as the articles move along the linear feed path. The articles have a characteristic length corresponding to their size along the longitudinal axis. At least one segment of the guide is progressively rotated about the guide longitudinal axis by a total angle greater than 180° and with an angular variation per unit of linear measurement such that, substantially for each portion of the linear feed path equal to the characteristic length of the articles, the guide is rotated about the longitudinal axis by an angle greater than 4°.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for remote assessment of a patient, comprising: a first device associated to a physician, a second device associated to the patient, a medical device associated to the patient, wherein the second device is configured to communicate with the medical device, and wherein the medical device is configured to be programmed via the second device, wherein the first device is further configured to communicate with the second device, and wherein the second device is configured to be controlled via the first device, and wherein the second device is configured to acquire data indicative of at least one physiological parameter or of several physiological parameters of the patient. Furthermore, a method for remote assessment is provided.

Abstract: A radar system includes a first integrated radar circuit having a plurality of first transmission paths and a local oscillator configured to generate a local oscillator signal. The first integrated radar circuit has a first terminal configured to output an oscillation signal based on the local oscillator signal. The radar system includes a second integrated radar circuit having a second transmission path and a second terminal. The radar system includes a partially reflective element coupled to the first terminal via a first line section and to the second terminal via a second line section. The partially reflective element is configured to reflect back a first portion of the oscillation signal as a reflected signal via the first line section to the first terminal and to pass on a second portion of the oscillation signal as a forward signal via the second line section to the second terminal.

Abstract: A radiation-emitting component is specified with—a carrier which has a top surface a radiation-emitting semiconductor chip arranged on the top surface of the carrier and configured to generate primary electromagnetic radiation, a first reflector layer arranged above a top surface of the semiconductor chip, and a cover body arranged between the first reflector layer and the radiation-emitting semiconductor chip, wherein a side surface of the cover body is inclined to the top surface of the carrier. Furthermore, a method for producing such a radiation-emitting component is specified.

Abstract: A crowd-sourced modeling system to perform operations that include: receiving image data that comprises image attributes; accessing a 3D model based on at least the image attributes of the image data, wherein the 3D model comprises a plurality of parts that collectively depict an object or environment; identifying a change in the object or environment based on a comparison of the image data with the plurality of parts of the 3D model, the change corresponding to a part of the 3D model from among the plurality of parts; and generating an update to the part of the 3D model based on the image attributes of the image data.

Abstract: Example embodiments described herein relate to an augmented-reality system to generate and cause display of interactive augmented reality content at a client device.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antigen binding protein specifically binding to a CT45 antigenic peptide that is in a complex with a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) protein, wherein the CT45 antigenic peptide comprises or consists of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 138 (KIFEMLEGV) and wherein the antigen binding protein comprises a first polypeptide comprising a variable domain VA comprising complementarity determining regions CDRa1, CDRa2 and CDRa3 and a second polypeptide comprising a variable domain VB comprising CDRb1, CDRb2 and CDRb3. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the antigen binding proteins, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, recombinant cells expressing the antigen binding proteins and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antigen binding proteins. The invention further provides the antigen binding proteins for use in medicine and a method of producing the antigen binding protein.

Abstract: An example method may include receiving, from a key device, a first counter value and a first encoded counter value, identifying, among one or more mapping table entries in an access control unit mapping table, an access control unit mapping table entry specifying a second counter value that corresponds to the received first counter value, determining whether a second encoded counter value specified by the identified access control unit mapping table entry corresponds to the received first encoded counter value, and responsive to determining that the second encoded counter value corresponds to the received first encoded counter value, sending, to a control unit, an indication that permission is granted. The first encoded counter value may include a cryptographic encoding of the first counter value generated in view of a secret key.

Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided including a transporter peptide derived from the loop2 domain of the neuronally-derived lynx1 protein which can be conjugated to an effector agent to form a transporter-effector complex for transport of the therapeutic effector agent to a target that is found across the blood brain barrier.

Abstract: Multi-species pest control methods, which contact or subject a target pest to a yeast strain belonging to the species Pichia kluyveri and/or with a lysate, filtrate, isolate or extract thereof. The yeast strain belonging to the species Pichia kluyveri and/or the lysate, filtrate, isolate or extract thereof is incorporated into the body of the agricultural target pest.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of repairing a heart valve accesses an interior of a patient's beating heart minimally invasively and inserts one or more sutures into each of a plurality of heart valve leaflets with a suturing instrument. The suture ends of the sutures are divided into suture pairs, with each pair including one suture end from a suture inserted into a first valve leaflet and one suture end from a suture inserted into a second valve leaflet. One or more tourniquet tubes is advanced over the suture pairs to the leaflets to draw the sutures together to coapt the leaflets and then the sutures are secured in that position.

Abstract: A fiber optic sensing (FOS) system and method. The system may include one or more interrogator units and a proximal wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) and a distal WDM optically connectable to the one or more interrogator units, an upgoing transmission fiber, a down-going transmission fiber, and one or more downhole sensing fibers. The method may include transmitting one or more light pulses from an interrogator unit, multiplexing the one or more light pulses from the interrogator unit with a proximal WDM into an upgoing transmission fiber and a down-going transmission fiber, and receiving the one or more light pulses with a distal WDM. The method may further include multiplexing the one or more light pulses from the upgoing transmission fiber and the down-going transmission fiber into one or more downhole sensing fibers and receiving backscatter light from at least one of the one or more downhole sensing fibers.

Abstract: A driving circuit for controlling a MEMS oscillator includes a digital conversion stage to acquire a differential sensing signal indicative of a displacement of a movable mass of the MEMS oscillator, and to convert the differential sensing signal of analog type into a digital differential signal of digital type. Processing circuitry is configured to generate a digital control signal of digital type as a function of the comparison between the digital differential signal and a differential reference signal indicative of a target amplitude of oscillation of the movable mass which causes the resonance of the MEMS oscillator. An analog conversion stage includes a ?? DAC and is configured to convert the digital control signal into a PDM control signal of analog type. A filtering stage of low-pass type, by filtering the PDM control signal, generates a control signal for controlling the amplitude of oscillation of the movable mass.