Abstract: Arcuate fixation members with varying configurations and/or features are provided, along with additional components for use therewith in provided intervertebral implants. The arcuate fixation members may be of different lengths, cross sectional geometries, and/or cross sectional areas. Applications of intervertebral implants utilizing arcuate fixation members are particularly suitable when a linear line-of-approach for delivering fixation members is undesirable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polynucleotide comprising a Nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) binding site sequence and a reverse complement of said NFAT binding site sequence separated by a spacer sequence, to said polynucleotide for use in treating and/or preventing disease, and to viral particles, compositions, and uses related thereto. The present invention further relates to a polynucleotide comprising a Nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) binding site sequence and a reverse complement of said NFAT binding site sequence for use in treating and/or preventing an NFAT-mediated disease.

Abstract: An injector for introducing a fluid includes a main body designed as an insert and including a first tool contact surface for an injection-molding tool and a second tool contact surface for the injection-molding tool; and an injection-molded housing that completely encloses the main body on at least one portion of the main body, the injection-molded housing including at least one first opening that extends linearly towards the main body.

Abstract: The presently claimed invention relates to a process for the recovery of 3-methyl-3-buten- -ol from a stream comprising (Z)-3-methylpent-2-ene-1,5-diol, (E)-3-methylpent-2-ene-,5-diol and 3-methylenepentane-1,5-diol by treating the stream with isobutene and water.

Abstract: A method for making a capsule provided with a body containing a filtering element suitable for receiving a product for preparing a beverage, including: supplying a first film of thermoplastic material and a second film of filtering material to a forming mold according to a supplying direction, superimposing the second film on the first film, the forming mold including a lower half mold in which a plurality of cavities is obtained and an upper half mold provided with a plurality of stretching elements, one for each cavity, which are movable in one direction that is perpendicular to the supplying direction; pre-heating to a softening temperature the first film of thermoplastic material, by a pre-heating device arranged upstream of the forming mold; closing the forming mold bringing the lower half mold and the upper half mold towards one another until they clamp between one another the first film of thermoplastic material and the second film of filtering material; simultaneously forming in the cavities the bodie

Abstract: Coaxial gear mechanism, with a toothing system which is oriented axially with regard to a rotational axis of the coaxial gear mechanism; a tooth carrier with axially oriented guides; teeth which are received in the guides for engagement with the toothing system, the teeth being oriented with their respective longitudinal axes axially in the guides and being mounted in the guides such that they can be displaced axially; a cam disc which can be rotated about the rotational axis for the axial drive of the teeth; and a housing, in which a setting element for mounting the cam disc is provided, at least one bearing with rolling bodies being arranged between the setting element and the cam disc.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining and responding to an internal state of a self-driving vehicle. For instance, an image of an interior of the vehicle captured by a camera mounted in the vehicle is received. The image is processed in order to identify one or more visible markers at predetermined locations within the vehicle. The internal state of the vehicle is determined based on the identified one or more visible markers. A responsive action is identified action using the determined internal state, and the vehicle is controlled in order to perform the responsive action.

Abstract: A stirring unit of a machine for making liquid or semi-liquid food products, including: a first base element rotatable about a first axis and having a plurality of first mixing vanes and a plurality of scraping appendages connected to the mixing vanes; a first actuator, connected to the base element to set it in rotation about the first axis, a second base element rotatable about a second axis and having a second mixing vane; a processing container forming a processing chamber for processing a base product and in which the first base element and the second base element are mounted; a second actuator, connected to the second base element to rotate it, the first base element and the second base element being configured to rotate independently of each other and the first actuator and the second actuator being configured to be activated independently of each other.

Abstract: A machine tool is provided with two vertically oriented tool spindles that are arranged to hold tools and that are movable vertically in a first direction and horizontally in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Furthermore, the machine tool is provided with two workpiece support devices for clamping workpieces in place. At least one of the two workpiece support devices is movable horizontally in a third direction orthogonal to the first and the second direction. The two tool spindles and the two workpiece support devices are mounted on a common machine frame with a common working space, wherein the two tool spindles are movable parallel to one another in the second direction. The two tool spindles are facing one another.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a nonwoven fabric from thermoplastic plastic filaments has an air permeable deposit conveyor having a horizontal face displaceable in a horizontal travel direction and a spinneret above the conveyor for spinning the filaments and depositing the spun filaments on the deposit conveyor in a deposit area of the conveyor as a nonwoven web for conveyance in the travel direction. An extractor beneath the conveyor draws air or process air through the deposit conveyor in the deposit area in a main extraction area below the deposit conveyor and is delimited by, relative to the travel direction, upstream and downstream suction partitions. One of the partitions has an upper edge set at a predetermined vertical spacing below the conveyor equal to between 10 mm and 250 mm.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns variable valve timing of a four-stroke ICE. The ICE comprises: an exhaust valve and an intake valve an exhaust camshaft an intake camshaft and a cylinder arrangement. The cylinder arrangement comprises a combustion chamber a cylinder bore and a piston. The control arrangement is configured to: perform a first sequence of changes in the timings of the exhaust and intake camshafts in order to arrive from a first camshaft timing setting at a second camshaft timing setting based on a first current maximum cylinder pressure within the combustion chamber around top dead centre fire and/or around to dead centre gas exchange.

Abstract: A partial dental arch is provided with dentin material and with cutting material and a boundary area therebetween. It includes a primary-position tooth region and additional tooth regions which are arranged more distally. A wavy structure of the boundary area is provided whose amplitude—when viewed in the distal direction—decreases in at least one section of the mesial-distal and/or occlusal-gingival extension, in particular with regard to the occlusal-gingival direction.

Abstract: RF co-designed bandpass filters/isolators (BPFIs) are based on series-cascaded non-reciprocal resonant stages, microwave resonators and multi-resonant cells. The non-reciprocal stages are shaped by an in-parallel cascaded transistor-based path and a transmission line (TL) that result in a zero-phase resonance in the forward direction and high isolation in the reversed one. This includes coupling routing diagrams (CRDs) of BPFs that result in low- and high-order transfer functions with and without transmission zeros in their forward direction and high levels of isolation in the reverse one. BPFIs provide alternative-type of filtering responses (e.g., flat-passband, quasi-elliptic) with and without gain in the forward direction and high levels of isolation in the reversed one. BPFIs include five planar microstrip/lumped element (LE) prototypes using hybrid combinations of non-reciprocal resonant stages, microwave resonators and multi-resonant cells.

Abstract: An electrical data connector includes a socket having a socket body that defines a plug connector cavity and electrically conductive shields within the cavity. A plug connector has a plug body telescopically slid into the plug connector cavity. The plug body has an insert cavity and adjacent spring openings, each of the spring openings aligning with a respective one of the shields. A cable head has an insert module telescopically slid into the insert cavity. The cable head includes an electrically conductive fixation element that is fixed to the insert module and fixed to a cable. The fixation element includes integral spring elements that extend generally radially outwardly from the insert module and are each configured to extend through respective spring openings into contact with respective shields.

Abstract: A modulation and coding scheme for a transmission to an apparatus may be selected by at least sampling a posteriori probability distribution that has been calculated using a first probability distribution and a second probability distribution. The first probability distribution is calculated using at least a newest first feedback and a plurality of older first feedbacks, a first feedback indicating channel quality. The second probability distribution is calculated using at least a newest second feedback and a plurality of older second feedbacks, a second feedback indicating a success or failure of an earlier transmission transmitted from the apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to bacterial strains and compositions thereof for use in the treatment of viral infections of the respiratory tract, preferably from coronavirus, such as for example a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (COVID-19), by stimulating and/or modulating cytokines and/or markers involved in the inflammatory processes of said viral infections of the respiratory tract.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; and an elongate susceptor arranged longitudinally within the aerosol-generating substrate, the susceptor extending all the way to a downstream end of the rod of aerosol-generating substrate, the susceptor having a thickness from about 55 micrometers to about 65 micrometers, and a ratio between a length of the susceptor and an overall length of the aerosol-generating article being from about 0.2 to about 0.35.

Abstract: A composition may include microcapsules containing at least one odor-neutralizing agent, and agents may include such a composition. Furthermore, such compositions or agents may reduce malodors and/or be used for treating a surface, for treating room air, or for washing and/or caring for textiles using such compositions or agents.

Abstract: An example system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, and a supervisor. The supervisor is configured to allocate a memory space in the memory to a workload executing on the processor. The supervisor is configured to store data written by the workload as dirty memory in the memory space at least until the data is written back to a data storage. Based on a type of the workload being a first type, the supervisor is configured to trigger write back of at least a portion of the dirty memory into the data storage in response to the dirty memory exceeding a threshold level. Based on the type of the workload being a second type, the supervisor is configured to delay write back of the dirty memory into the data storage in response to the dirty memory exceeding the threshold level.

Abstract: A loudspeaker including a first diaphragm, a second diaphragm spaced from the first diaphragm, a first voice coil coupled to the first diaphragm, a second voice coil coupled to the second diaphragm, and a magnet assembly. The magnet assembly includes a magnet, a magnetic piece and a spacer of non-magnetic material connecting the magnet and the magnetic piece such that a gap is provided between the magnet and the magnetic piece. The first voice coil is arranged at a first end of the gap and the second voice coil is arranged at a second end of the gap opposite the first end of the gap.