Abstract: A contactless visualization system for a microscope for eye surgery includes an ophthalmic loupe positionable in front of a patient's eye and supplies a real and vertically and laterally inverted image of the fundus in an intermediate image plane observable with the microscope. The loupe includes first and second lens elements. When positioned in front of the eye, the first lens element is closer to the eye than the second. A wall extending from the first to the second lens element has a free end in a form of a mount which holds the second lens element. The wall has a passage opening formed therein for removing liquid possibly present in an intermediate space between the first lens element and the second lens element. The first lens element has a boundary surface facing the second lens element. The passage opening includes a lower edge bordering on the boundary surface of the first lens element.

Abstract: A combination cooking appliance has a cooking chamber and a microwave source with a microwave power. In a method for the safe operation of the combination cooking appliance, a cooking chamber temperature prevailing in the cooking chamber is detected, and a convection-relevant parameter is determined. The detected cooking chamber temperature and the convection-relevant parameter are evaluated to determine a maximum permissible microwave power. The microwave power of the microwave source is limited to the maximum permissible microwave power.

Abstract: Testing device for testing segments that are suitable for forming a cell stack for the energy cell producing industry, wherein: a conveying apparatus with a plurality of receiving portions is provided for receiving and transporting a segment in each case, wherein the receiving portions are movable relative to a stationary part of the testing device by a movement of the conveying apparatus, characterized in that the receiving portions each comprise at least two contact surfaces for contacting, electrically and/or by signal, a segment received in the respective receiving portion, wherein at least two of the contact surfaces of one of the receiving portions can be connected to at least one measuring device by means of a switching matrix.

Abstract: A method is provided for operating an operator control element provided for a display device of a motor vehicle, wherein the display device is configured to display a list with at least one end, and wherein the operator control element is configured to output a control signal to the display device, which control signal is used to scroll through the displayed list, depending on a predetermined actuation of said actuator control element. The method determines whether the at least one end of the list has been reached by way of the predetermined actuation of the operator control element.

Abstract: A prosthesis liner provided for fitting over a stump of a limb. The prosthesis liner includes a main body having an inner face directed towards the skin of the stump, and an outer face directed away from the stump. The prosthesis liner also includes a proximal access opening and a side wall, which extends from the access opening as far as a closed distal end portion of the liner. At least one sealing lip is arranged on the outer face of the main body and protrudes radially outwards from the main body.

Abstract: A control device for activating an active haptics operator control element for a motor vehicle is configured to determine whether the operator control element is being operated with a short press or a long press. The control device is configured so as, if it has been determined that the operator control element has been operated with a short press, to determine whether the operator control element has an assigned long-press function that is performable after the operator control element has been operated with a long press, and to activate the operator control element to output an active haptic feedback if it has been determined that the operator control element has an assigned long-press function.

Abstract: The invention relates to a measurement system for measuring energy cells, for example battery cells, in particular dry monocells, wherein the measurement system has an alternating voltage measuring bridge or a self-balancing measuring bridge (auto-balancing bridge) and is designed to measure the electrical capacitance (C) and/or the ohmic resistance (R) of an energy cell by means of a high-frequency measurement. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: The way of predicting a current block by assigning constant partition values to the partitions of a bi-partitioning of a block is quite effective, especially in case of coding sample arrays such as depth/disparity maps where the content of these sample arrays is mostly composed of plateaus or simple connected regions of similar value separated from each other by steep edges. The transmission of such constant partition values would, however, still need a considerable amount of side information which should be avoided. This side information rate may be further reduced if mean values of values of neighboring samples associated or adjoining the respective partitions are used as predictors for the constant partition values.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liner system (1) for applying to a limb or a limb stump, with an inner liner (10) comprising an inner side (15) facing the limb or limb stump and an outer side (16) facing away from the limb or limb stump, and an outer liner (20) that comprises an inner side (25) facing the inner liner (10) and an outer side (26) facing away from the inner liner (10) and that is designed to be applied over the inner liner (10), with a sealing element (30) which is designed to be separate from the inner liner (10) and the outer liner (20), for arranging between the outer side (16) of the inner liner (10) and the inner side (25) of the outer liner (20).

Abstract: A control device actuates an active haptic operating element for a motor vehicle. The control device is designed to determine whether there is an activation of the operating element; to determine whether the operating element is assigned an available function if an activation of the operating element has been determined; and to actuate the operating element to emit an active haptic positive feedback when an activation of the operating element has been determined, and it has been determined that the operating element is assigned an executable function. The control device is designed to actuate the operating element to emit an active haptic negative feedback when an activation of the operating element has been determined, and it has been determined that no executable function is assigned to the operating element. The active haptic positive feedback and the active haptic negative feedback differ from one another.

Abstract: A cryogen supply system for supplying a consumer with a cryogen, comprising a process pipe through which the cryogen can be conducted, a protective barrier, in which the process pipe is received, a gap, which is provided between the process pipe and the protective barrier, a heat conduction device, which is arranged in the gap and which is designed to transfer heat from the process pipe to the protective barrier or vice versa, and a temperature sensor arranged outside the protective barrier for detecting a temperature of the cryogen, the temperature sensor being thermally coupled to the heat conduction device.

Abstract: Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning.

Abstract: An inhaler vaporizer cartridge includes a housing body with a flow channel, a liquid storage tank, and a vaporizer unit. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and heating member and is liquid-permeable such that liquid is conveyed from the tank through the vaporizer unit to the flow channel. The housing body has a cavity forming the tank and a wick member receiving chamber, and housing is divided by an intermediate wall and a flow channel section. An access opening from the receiving chamber to the flow channel is formed in the intermediate wall and covered by the heating member. Granular grains in the receiving chamber form the wick member and bear against the heating member. The grains form microchannels and are retained by a cover element. An access opening, covered with a liquid-permeable grid structure, establishes a liquid connection from the tank to receiving chamber in the intermediate wall.

Abstract: In a method for ascertaining correction information for correcting a magnetic resonance imaging scan, respective first and second magnetic resonance data for at least one gradient direction are acquired, where the first magnetic resonance data is acquired while the magnetic field gradient is applied in the respective gradient direction, and the second magnetic resonance data is acquired while the magnetic field gradient is applied counter to the respective gradient direction. The method may further include determining a respective phase difference for reference points along a respective position space line in the position space that extends in the respective gradient direction based on the first and second magnetic resonance data, and providing the phase differences of at least one subgroup of the reference points as correction information or ascertaining the provided correction information based on the phase differences of at least the subgroup of the reference points.

Abstract: A hierarchical system for controlling an automated vehicle. The system includes: a first hardware-based layer designed to receive a first control signal and to carry out a conversion in terms of control technology of the first received control signal, or another base layer, and: a second reflex-based layer, hierarchically superordinate to the first hardware layer; and/or a third motion-based layer hierarchically superordinate to the second reflex-based layer; and/or a fourth intent-based layer; and/or a fifth context-based layer.

Abstract: A hierarchical system architecture for controlling an automated vehicle. The hierarchical system architecture includes: a performance layer; a safety layer; a hardware layer, wherein the safety layer is arranged between the performance layer and the hardware layer; the performance layer is configured to generate a first control signal and to transmit it to the safety layer; the safety layer is configured to detect whether a safety-critical driving situation is present for the vehicle, and a first system reaction is to be carried out to bring the vehicle into a safe state by transmitting a corresponding second control signal to the hardware layer instead of the first control signal, and the safety layer includes at least one detector module which detects whether a special case is present in the safety-critical driving situation of the vehicle which requires an associated second system reaction instead of the first system reaction.

Abstract: RNAs, such as miRNA and siRNA, and their use in treating complement-mediated disorders, are described.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for gradient delay time correction of MR data using an MR device, wherein the magnetic resonance data is recorded using a three-dimensional recording technique with linear recording trajectories which are oriented in different readout directions of a readout plane that is perpendicular to a partition direction. The method includes: in a calibration measurement using the magnetic resonance device, recording calibration data which describes readout-direction-dependent shifts, caused by delay effects, of measurement points in the k-space; determining correction data by evaluating the calibration data; correcting the MR data based on the correction data in order to compensate for the delay effects, wherein the calibration data, which covers a coverage region in partition direction is recorded in a resolved manner, and the correction data is determined and applied in a manner that is dependent on partition direction.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to gradient delay time correction of magnetic resonance data. For recording the magnetic resonance data, use is made of a three-dimensional recording technique with linear recording trajectories oriented in different readout directions of a readout plane that is perpendicular to a partition direction. Calibration data is recorded which covers a plurality of partitions in partition direction and which describes readout-direction-dependent shifts, caused by delay effects, of measurement points, e.g. sampled k-space sections in the k-space. Correction data is determined by evaluating the calibration data, and the magnetic resonance data is corrected on the basis of the correction data in order to compensate for the delay effects. The calibration data, which covers a coverage region in partition direction, is recorded in a resolved manner in partition direction, and at least one acceleration technique is applied in the partition direction during the recording of the calibration data.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable memory devices are provided for greater efficiency in the configuration of a database cluster for performing a query workload. A database cluster configuration system is provided that includes a database cluster comprising one or more compute resources configured to perform database queries. A query workload comprising a plurality of queries is received. An initial workload-level configuration is applied. For each query of the query workload, a query-level configuration is generated using a query configuration model corresponding to each query in a contextual Bayesian optimization with centroid learning while also leveraging the query plan for each executing query for query characterization and including application of virtual operators. Query events are collected and used to update the corresponding query configuration model. The workload-level configuration is updated based on the query events and cached for use during a subsequent execution of the workload.