Abstract: Methods for operating a communications-enabled application, controlling a secure profile via an operating system, and operating a cellular network are provided. Operating a communications-enable application includes detecting a need for data transmission when the mobile device has a communications status which is incompatible with the need and sending a request to activate a secure profile. Controlling the secure profile includes receiving a request from an application to have data session access via a secure profile and activating a data session utilising a secure profile. Operating the cellular network includes receiving a request to establish a cellular network data communications session from a mobile device including the communications-enabled application and establishing a data session with the mobile device using the secure profile. A mobile device and cellular network for performing the methods are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention describes a selective glycerol oxidation process comprising a set of steps. In the first step, a glycerol-containing raw material and an oxidizing agent are fed into a reaction vessel containing an iron oxide-containing catalyst. Subsequently, the glycerol-containing raw material, the oxidizing agent, and said iron oxide-containing catalyst are brought into contact at a temperature in the range of 100 to 350° C., wherein the glycerol-oxidation reaction occurs.

Abstract: An installation for pre-assembling the turbine stators of a turbine each formed of several juxtaposed sectors, includes: an input carriage for conveying sectors intended to form the turbine stators. Each sector includes side faces provided with slots and being associated with a given turbine stator; an output carriage having various trays, each associated with a turbine stator; an automated device for inserting sealing pads configured to interact with a sector conveyed by an automated convey pallet, comprising a robot arm for inserting sealing pads into the slots in a side face of the sector; and another robot arm for gripping a sector equipped with pads from a pallet and depositing it on the tray associated with the turbine stator to pre-assemble the turbine stator.

Abstract: A process of chemical cleavage of leather or skins containing chromium The process using sodium, potassium or calcium methylates (CH3O?) or ethylates (CH3CH2O?), producing chromium hydroxide (green paste), ammonium sulfate and liquid fertilizer. The chromium trioxide III (Cr2O3) obtained was used in the production of Fe—Cr alloy. The liquid fertilizer was applied to strawberry, violet and acerola crops, and can be applied to other types of crops. The fertilizer is also compatible with pesticides, being able to compose a composition containing fertilizer and pesticide or even used to obtain products containing fertilizers and pesticides, which allow application in a single step, exempting the process in the field A solid NPK fertilizer formulation obtained by combining N recovered from waste and homogeneously mixed with K and P salts.

Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyst based on synthetic silica, in a heterogeneous catalysis method, to promote the effective conversion of residual glycerin, resulting from the production of biodiesel, into formic acid with high selectivity and stability, in a continuous flow reaction. The conversion of residual glycerin occurs by homogeneous catalysis, by the action of components remaining from the synthesis of biodiesel, with the formation of major compounds, such as formic acid, cyclic ethers and diglycerol, in continuous flow and reflow reactions. The reaction can also be carried out by adding sodium salts in the homogeneous catalytic conversion process of commercial glycerin. The process values the residual glycerin, without the need for purification before its transformation into products with high added value, but of renewable origin, adding more interest and potential.

Abstract: A device is suitable for inserting sealing pads into one of the sectors of a turbine stator of a turbine, wherein the turbine stator includes a plurality of sectors with adjacent side faces abutting each other and slots arranged opposite each other in the adjacent side faces of two successive sectors. Each stator is configured to receive a predefined sealing pad. The device includes a support for supporting the sector; a robot arm configured to grip the sealing pads, each predefined in accordance with the slot intended to receive it. The robot arm is configured to insert each predefined sealing pad into the slot intended to receive it of one of the side faces of the sector.

Abstract: Method for obtaining a material containing nanostructured reactive molecules based on niobium compounds, the products obtained, and the use thereof as a chemical/biological barrier on surfaces. The nanostructured hybrid material can be used as a component in cosmetic products, intensifying the efficiency and action time thereof. Furthermore, the material can be incorporated into different surfaces, including fabric, retaining its anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. The material can also be applied in the form of a gel or liquid spray. The niobium nanoparticles combined with quaternary ammonium compounds for sprays and with methylene blue colour to form sanitizing gels are highly efficient in deactivating coronavirus, with prolonged stability and activity.

Abstract: Nanostructured materials based on niobium oligomers, organic cations, quaternary ammonium salts and copper cations (Cu2+) with high foliar antifungal activity, which can also be used as biomarkers.

Abstract: A teeth whitening based on the generation of active oxygen in the form of oxygen radical species in situ and method for producing the whitening gel which has modified niobium compounds and its activity maximized if applied with hydrogen peroxide in low concentrations, with stabilization by a thickener. The whitening gel can be used without light treatment and with greater efficiency than commercial products and with a significant potential to reduce side effects. The whitening toothpaste and gels including modified niobium compounds associated with cations, the mechanisms of whitening action comes from electronic excitation, from the incidence of radiation on niobium compounds with cations, due to the action of the functional chemical groups present in the nanoparticles, even in the absence of light. In addition, the compounds can act as chemical whiteners, leading to a decrease in caries bacteria due to the oxidant functional groups in the nanoparticles.

Abstract: A control device controls sectors for the assembly of turbine stators of a turbine. Each turbine stator is formed of an assembly of sectors juxtaposed to one another, and each sector has a reference. The control device includes an automated system for identifying the sector with means for reading the sector reference, a database of the references of the sectors that form the turbine stators of the turbine, and means for associating the read reference of the sector with a determined turbine stator of the turbine.

Abstract: A control device controls sectors for the assembly of turbine stators of a turbine. Each turbine stator is formed of an assembly of sectors juxtaposed to one another, and each sector has a reference. The control device includes an automated system for identifying the sector with means for reading the sector reference, a database of the references of the sectors that form the turbine stators of the turbine, and means for associating the read reference of the sector with a determined turbine stator of the turbine.

Abstract: An installation for pre-assembling the turbine stators of a turbine each formed of several juxtaposed sectors, includes: an input carriage for conveying sectors intended to form the turbine stators. Each sector includes side faces provided with slots and being associated with a given turbine stator; an output carriage having various trays, each associated with a turbine stator; an automated device for inserting sealing pads configured to interact with a sector conveyed by an automated convey pallet, comprising a robot arm for inserting sealing pads into the slots in a side face of the sector; and another robot arm for gripping a sector equipped with pads from a pallet and depositing it on the tray associated with the turbine stator to pre-assemble the turbine stator.

Abstract: A device is suitable for inserting sealing pads into one of the sectors of a turbine stator of a turbine, wherein the turbine stator includes a plurality of sectors with adjacent side faces abutting each other and slots arranged opposite each other in the adjacent side faces of two successive sectors. Each stator is configured to receive a predefined sealing pad. The device includes a support for supporting the sector; a robot arm with means for gripping the sealing pads, each predefined in accordance with the slot intended to receive it. The robot arm is configured to insert each predefined sealing pad into the slot intended to receive it of one of the side faces of the sector.

Abstract: The invention refers to the process of obtaining porous spheres based on CaO modified with carbon nanotubes for the capture of CO2. The invention also refers to the spheres obtained and their use to capture CO2 generated by a vehicular internal combustion engine, aiming to reduce the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere.

Abstract: The present invention describes a selective glycerol oxidation process comprising a set of steps. In the first step, a glycerol-containing raw material and an oxidizing agent are fed into a reaction vessel containing an iron oxide-containing catalyst. Subsequently, the glycerol-containing raw material, the oxidizing agent, and said iron oxide-containing catalyst are brought into contact at a temperature in the range of 100 to 350° C., wherein the glycerol-oxidation reaction occurs.

Abstract: Various embodiments determine a remaining battery capacity of a battery in an energy storage battery support system. In one embodiment, a battery is operated at a state of charge which may include being charged, being discharged, and being idle. A change in the state of charge is detected after a duration of time. The amount of remaining battery capacity is calculated based upon the duration of time and the state of charge of the battery during the duration of time. The operating, detecting and calculating are repeated until the amount of remaining battery capacity reaches a predetermined value. The remaining battery capacity after the duration of time is calculated using the battery capacity at the beginning of the duration of time. The battery may be used as an energy source in an electric power distribution grid. The battery is replaced when the remaining battery capacity reaches an end-of-useful-life value.

Abstract: Various embodiments determine a remaining battery capacity of a battery in an energy storage battery support system. In one embodiment, a battery is operated at a state of charge which may include being charged, being discharged, and being idle. A change in the state of charge is detected after a duration of time. The amount of remaining battery capacity is calculated based upon the duration of time and the state of charge of the battery during the duration of time. The operating, detecting and calculating are repeated until the amount of remaining battery capacity reaches a predetermined value. The remaining battery capacity after the duration of time is calculated using the battery capacity at the beginning of the duration of time. The battery may be used as an energy source in an electric power distribution grid. The battery is replaced when the remaining battery capacity reaches an end-of-useful-life value.

Abstract: Methods are provided for treating a human having cancer comprising detecting at least one mutation in a Ras protein or a gene encoding at least one Ras protein from at least one tumor cell from said human and treating said human having at least one mutation in at least one Ras protein or a gene encoding at least one Ras protein with a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one MEK inhibitor comprising a compound of Structure (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof.

Abstract: Invented is a method of treating thrombocytopenia in a human in need thereof which comprises the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a 3?-{N?-[1-(3,4-Dimethylphenyl)-3-methyl-5-oxo-1,5-dihydropyrazol-4-ylidene]hydrazino}-2?-hydroxybiphenyl-3-carboxylic acid to such human.

Abstract: A method and system is presented for correcting a data error in a primary Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) in a Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM). Each DRAM has a left half (for storing bits 0:3) and a right half (for storing bits 4:7). A determination is made as to whether the data error was in the left or right half of the primary DRAM. The half of the primary DRAM in which the error occurred is removed from service. All subsequent reads and writes for data originally stored in the primary DRAM's defective half are made to a half of a spare DRAM in the DIMM, while the DRAM's non-defective half continues to be used for subsequently storing data.