Abstract: Method for joining a fluid conduit and a connection hub. There is provided a method for joining a fluid conduit 2 and a connection hub 7, wherein a fluid 2 conduit is provided having an at least partially transparent end section 1. Also provided is a connection hub 7 comprising a hub cavity 9 having a shape complementary to a shape of the end section of the fluid conduit 1. The end section of the fluid conduit 1 is at least partly introduced into the hub cavity 9 through an opening in the hub, wherein a contact interface between at least a lateral wall part of the end section 1 and a hub cavity 9 wall is established. The method includes heating a target zone 27 in the contact interface, for joining the fluid conduit 2 and the connection hub 7 at the target zone 27, by directing a light beam 29 across the at least partially transparent end section 1 of the fluid conduit 2 from a side of the fluid conduit 2 which is opposite a side of the target zone 27.

Abstract: A virtual reality wearable system. The system includes a sensor, an actuator, a sleeve-type first wearable part fittable over a user's bodily part, the at least one second wearable part being wearable over the first wearable part. The first wearable part and the second wearable part are releasably connectable to each other. The at least one second wearable part supports the sensor and the actuator. A cable or cables connect the sensor and the actuator with a portion of the second wearable part distant from the sensor and the actuator. The at least one second wearable part comprises a first portion and a second portion that are separate from each other. The first portion is placeable on a first bodily part of a user, and said first portion supports the sensor and the actuator, and the second portion is placeable on a second bodily part of the user distant from the first bodily part.

Abstract: Method for joining a fluid conduit and a connection hub. There is provided a method for joining a fluid conduit 2 and a connection hub 7, wherein a fluid 2 conduit is provided having an at least partially transparent end section 1. Also provided is a connection hub 7 comprising a hub cavity 9 having a shape complementary to a shape of the end section of the fluid conduit 1. The end section of the fluid conduit 1 is at least partly introduced into the hub cavity 9 through an opening in the hub, wherein a contact interface between at least a lateral wall part of the end section 1 and a hub cavity 9 wall is established. The method includes heating a target zone 27 in the contact interface, for joining the fluid conduit 2 and the connection hub 7 at the target zone 27, by directing a light beam 29 across the at least partially transparent end section 1 of the fluid conduit 2 from a side of the fluid conduit 2 which is opposite a side of the target zone 27.

Abstract: The invention relates to an antimicrobial peptide for use in a method of preventing or treating fungal nail infection (onychomycosis). The invention further relates to a composition comprising an antimicrobial peptide and a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent or excipient, for use in a method of preventing or treating onychomycosis. The invention also relates to a method of treating a patient suffering from onychomycosis, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antimicrobial peptide thereof to the cuticle of a nail affected by onychomycosis.

Abstract: The present invention is directed at a combination of (i) serine, (ii) cysteine, (iii) arginine and (iv) at least one branched amino acid, for use in the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of inflammation or infection, wherein the combination is to be administered enterally and at a combination of (i) serine, (ii) cysteine, (iii) arginine and (iv) at least one branched amino acid, for use in the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of an imbalance in the metabolic use of amino acid resources from the body or from nutrition in a subject having an inflammation or an infection, wherein the combination is to be administered enterally.

Abstract: The invention relates to field of biochemistry, molecular biology as well as medicinal chemistry. More in specific, the invention relates to polypeptides derived from human lactoferrin and their use in therapeutic or prophylactic treatment. The invention provides a polypeptide comprising a mutant of the amino acid sequence RRRRSVQWC (SEQ ID NO:2), which mutation comprising polypeptide has comparable antimicrobial activity against at least one micro-organism if compared to a reference polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence RRRRSVQWC (SEQ ID NO:2).

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a composition comprising proteinaceous matter, said providing at least 24.0% of the energetic value of the composition (en %) and at least 12 wt. % based on proteinaceous matter leucine in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of insulin resistance and to a composition suitable for administration to a mammal comprising a protein fraction, a carbohydrate fraction and a lipid fraction, wherein the protein fraction provides at least 24.0 % (en %), the carbohydrate provides up to 46 en %, the lipid fraction provides up to 30 en % and wherein at least 12 wt. %, based on proteinaceous matter, of leucine.

Abstract: The invention relates to the treatment or the reduction of the incidence of muscle wasting in humans and to a complete nutritional composition patients suffering from muscle wasting comprising betaine and preferably coenzyme Q10.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for storing hydrogen in a clathrate hydrate. The clathrate hydrate according to the present invention originates from a composition, which comprises water and hydrogen, as well as a promotor compound. The promotor compound provides a large reduction of the pressure needed and/or an increase of the temperature needed to form a clathrate hydrate. Also, the desorption of hydrogen gas from the clathrate hydrate is easily obtainable by decreasing the temperature to room temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a reinforced oblong concrete product for longitudinal load-bearing purposes, in particular a driving pile. According to the present invention reinforcing fibers are used to prevent break-up of the concrete due to radial forces which occur during driving, and the concrete composition is provided with said reinforcing fibers before the concrete composition is applied to the reinforcing wire. This method reduces the amount of heavy labour and cost. The invention also relates to a driving pile comprising reinforcing fibers.

Abstract: The display device includes a vacuum-tight envelope having a transparent front wall which is provided with a display screen. The display device comprises an internal selection structure (67) which is provided with holes and with a plurality of electrodes for addressing desired pixels on the display screen. The display device is provided with connection elements (71, 72) which each comprise a springy end portion (73, 74), which contacts an electrode (61, 62) on the selection structure (10), and which connection elements further comprise a feed-through portion (75, 76) to make an electric connection, through a wall of the envelope, between the electrodes (61, 62) and a voltage source situated outside the envelope. Preferably, the springy end portion (73, 74) includes a material which retains its springiness up to temperatures of at least 450.degree. C. for example a spring steel, and the material of the feed-through portion (75, 76) is adapted to the expansion of the material of the envelope.

Abstract: A vacuum tube is provided with a line-shaped getter, which includes a holder (2) with a longitudinal axis, which holder (2) contains a getter material (3) over at least a part of its length, said getter being provided with clamping means to clamp the holder (2). The vacuum tube includes aligning means for exerting a torque about the longitudinal axis of the holder (2), said torque being as small as possible for a preferred orientation of the holder (2) relative to the clamping means. The clamping means preferably includes two leaf springs (7, 7'), which are bent so as to be S-shaped and which are provided with apertures (9, 9', 9") at locations where the leaf springs (7, 7') intersect, for passing the holder (2), and a member (6; 19) is provided on the holder (2) in a clamping manner and the clamping means are provided with an orientation surface (17, 17'; 18, 18'), which extends radially relative to the longitudinal axis of the holder (2).

Abstract: Low-pressure discharge lamp having an elongate discharge vessel which contains a thinly distributed filamentary body permeable to the gas discharge, said body comprising a helical support filament which is supported by the inner surface of the discharge vessel and is at least one further filament, supported by the support filament and extending therefrom towards the axis fo the discharge vessel.

Abstract: A method of producing low-pressure gas discharge lamps wherein filamenting wool is prepared into a mat and then brought into the discharge space.