Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic multilayer system (1) which is arranged on a substrate (6) which is made of a material from the group consisting of a plastic from the group of polymers, metal, metal alloy and paper and/or which is at least one element from the group consisting of a document and packaging. The invention further relates to packaging which comprises such a magnetic multilayer system (1). According to the invention, the multilayer system (1) is used for proving the authenticity of an object. Likewise according to the invention are a method for marking an object with a magnetic multilayer system for proving the authenticity of an object and a method for reading a magnetic multilayer system for proving the authenticity of an object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a conversion set for a pipe bundle heat exchanger having a cylindrical housing. Using said conversion set, existing tube bundle heat exchangers can be changed over such that the efficiency and thus the heat transfer thereof is improved, large exchange surface areas are provided, and energy costs are reduced. The conversion set can also be used in high-pressure applications for pressures above 300 bar.

Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic multilayer system (1) which is arranged on a substrate (6) which is made of a material from the group consisting of a plastic from the group of polymers, metal, metal alloy and paper and/or which is at least one element from the group consisting of a document and packaging. The invention further relates to packaging which comprises such a magnetic multilayer system (1). According to the invention, the multilayer system (1) is used for proving the authenticity of an object. Likewise according to the invention are a method for marking an object with a magnetic multilayer system for proving the authenticity of an object and a method for reading a magnetic multilayer system for proving the authenticity of an object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a conversion set for a pipe bundle heat exchanger having a cylindrical housing. Using said conversion set, existing tube bundle heat exchangers can be changed over such that the efficiency and thus the heat transfer thereof is improved, large exchange surface areas are provided, and energy costs are reduced. The conversion set can also be used in high-pressure applications for pressures above 300 bar.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for analyzing the presence of a bacterial pathogen in a clinical sample comprising the steps of (i) at least partially isolating nucleic acid from said sample, characterized in that said nucleic acid is selected from a group consisting of either total nucleic acid, total DNA or total RNA, (ii) quantifying the amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen, and (iii) determining whether said amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen exceeds a first predetermined cut off value.

Abstract: A method and a disposable to avoid false nucleic acid amplification results based on the alklylation of DNA present at surfaces of disposables. More particularly, the present invention is directed to an improved method and a disposable, whereby the alkylation of DNA is performed using ethylene oxide.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for analyzing the presence of a bacterial pathogen in a clinical sample comprising the steps of (i) at least partially isolating nucleic acid from said sample, characterized in that said nucleic acid is selected from a group consisting of either total nucleic acid, total DNA or total RNA, (ii) quantifying the amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen, and (iii) determining whether said amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen exceeds a first predetermined cut off value.

Abstract: According to the invention, the desoxyribonuclease with increased thermolability is a variant, by way of amino acid substitution, of bovine pancreatic desoxyribonuclease I. The variant protein retains desoxyribonuclease activity. Moreover, the specific desoxyribonuclease activity of the variant of bovine pancreatic desoxyribonuclease I is approximately zero units per mg of protein following heating of the variant of bovine pancreatic desoxyribonuclease I for about 5 min at a temperature below 95° C. In addition, the variant of bovine pancreatic desoxyribonuclease I has no measurable ribonuclease activity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a starch-containing shape body and a homogenised, starch-containing mass and shape bodies manufactured therefrom. The method is carried out in a manner such that the value of the limiting viscosity index of the mass manufactured therewith is at least 40 ml/g. Such a valve of the limiting viscosity index ensures an elongation at rupture of the extruded material of at least 150%, by which means soft capsules with a one-part capsule casing may be manufactured with the rotary die process.

Abstract: A respiratory flow sensor, which is suitable for use near a patient, covers a broad gas volume flow measuring range with a low breathing flow resistance and good, reproducible measured signal quality at the same time. The respiratory flow sensor has a first air resistance body (3) with a blunt end and with an opposite pointed end. The air resistance body (3) is arranged between the measuring transducer (5), of which there is at least one, and the patient-side end (P) of the respiratory flow sensor. The pointed end of the first air resistance body (3) points toward the measuring transducer (5). A second air resistance body (4) with a pointed end is arranged between the measuring transducer (5), of which there is at least one, and the end of the respiratory flow sensor that is away from the patient. The pointed end of the second air resistance body (4) also points toward the measuring transducer (5).

Abstract: An improved respirator with a breathing circuit (100) and a corresponding process for operating the respirator are provided. Defined breathing gas volumes can be delivered to the patient and the current operating state can be reliably monitored despite a strong breathing gas volume flow being delivered in the breathing circuit (100). A gas delivery element (1) designed as a rotary compressor is connected on the inlet side to a reversible breathing gas reservoir (7) and on the outlet side to a patient connection piece (9) for inspiration via a first gas volume flow sensor (2) with a first nonreturn valve (11). A second gas volume flow sensor (5) is located in the connection line between the patient connection piece (9) and the patient being inspirated. The patient connection piece (9) is connected for expiration to a second nonreturn valve (10) via a third gas volume flow sensor (3) and to the reversible breathing gas reservoir (7) via a controllable shut-off valve (4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a preparation which contains at least one physiologically effective iron complex and at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid in free or chemically bonded form, in particular for use as a medication and/or food supplement. The preparation according to the invention may be preferably used for manufacturing a medication and/or food supplement for treating or the prevention of deficiency symptoms as they may occur during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Furthermore antioxidizing agents and folic acid may be contained in the preparation according to the invention.

Abstract: A respiratory flow sensor, which is suitable for use near a patient, covers a broad gas volume flow measuring range with a low breathing flow resistance and good, reproducible measured signal quality at the same time. The respiratory flow sensor has a first air resistance body (3) with a blunt end and with an opposite pointed end. The air resistance body (3) is arranged between the measuring transducer (5), of which there is at least one, and the patient-side end (P) of the respiratory flow sensor. The pointed end of the first air resistance body (3) points toward the measuring transducer (5). A second air resistance body (4) with a pointed end is arranged between the measuring transducer (5), of which there is at least one, and the end of the respiratory flow sensor that is away from the patient. The pointed end of the second air resistance body (4) also points toward the measuring transducer (5).

Abstract: A respiratory flow sensor is provided with two identical or substantially identical first and second wires arranged at spaced locations from one another in a housing through which the respiratory flow flows. The first and second wires can be heated by a respective associated power source. An air resistance body is arranged in the vicinity of the second wire. A third wire is arranged in the housing at a spaced location from the first and second wires and is used to determine the temperature of the respiratory flow via an associated measuring device for the temperature-dependent electric resistor. A central control and evaluating unit is connected to the power sources and to the measuring device and compensates a temperature change of the respiratory flow. The change is detected with the third wire by a change in the heating current flowing through the first and second wires, so that these wires have an operating temperature that is above the temperature of the respiratory flow by a defined amount.

Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring arrangement for measuring the flow velocity of a gas. With a single measuring sensor, a physical quantity of the gas as well as the gas temperature can be measured. During a first measuring phase in which the measuring sensor is heated to an operating temperature by a heating current, a first measurement quantity is determined from the change of the heating current caused by the physical quantity. During a second measuring phase, the measuring sensor is connected to a resistance measuring device and the heating current of the measuring sensor is reduced in such a manner that the inherent warming of the measuring sensor is small compared to the operating temperature. A second measurement quantity is determined from the resistance of the measuring sensor which is proportional to the temperature of the gas.

Abstract: An arrangement for measuring the temperature of fluids has a measuring sensor (4) to which a measuring current is supplied by a current source (11). This arrangement is improved in that the temperature measurement is carried out without significant inherent warming of the measuring sensor (4). The invention is also directed to a method for carrying out the temperature measurement wherein measuring current pulses are applied to the measuring sensor (4) and the voltage maximum and current maximum, which are generated by the measuring current pulses, drop across the measuring sensor (4) and are detected. A quotient of the voltage maximum and the current maximum is formed and this quotient is an index for the temperature of the fluid.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the production of a multilayer lacquer coating on a substrate having an autophoretically coatable, metallic surface, in which a first priming coat of an autophoretically depositable coating composition is autophoretically deposited and then stoved and one or more subsequent coats are then applied by spraying, wherein the autophoretically depositable coating composition contains one or more constituents having an adhesion promoting action and/or wherein before one or more further coats are applied by spraying, the stoved priming layer produced by autophoretic deposition is physically and/or chemically treated and/or provided with an adhesion promoting coat.

Abstract: An electrolysis cell with a fixed-bed electrode and its use for the purification of waste gases. The electrolysis cell includes a fixed-bed electrode, a counterelectrode which is separated from it and designed as a gas diffusion electrode, devices for the supply and flow-off of an electrolyte as well as for the inlet and outlet of the gas to be purified and a space associated with the counterelectrode with devices for the supply and the removal of a gas. In order to purify gas the fixed-bed electrode is operated as a trickle bed and the gas to be purified flows in cocurrent or countercurrent flow to the electrolyte. In reductive purification hydrogen is supplied to the gas diffusion electrode and in oxidative purification oxygen is used.

Abstract: Process for producing a multilayer lacquer coating, in which a primer of an electrophoretically depositable aqueous coating agent (1) is electrophoretically applied on to an electrically conductive substrate and is then stoved, whereupon a color-giving and/or effect-producing base lacquer coat of an aqueous coating agent (II) is applied and stoved and this coat is then provided with one or more clear lacquer coatings, in which processa) as the coating agent (I), a coating agent which, in the stoved state, will produce an electrically conductive primary coat is used,b) the base lacquer coat is formed by an electrophoretically depositable aqueous coating agent (II) by a process of electrophoretical deposition,c) the overall dry layer thickness of the dry lacquer coat or dry lacquer coats is about 40 and 80 .mu.m, andd) the overall dry layer thickness of the multilayer lacquer coating is about 80 to 110 .mu.m.

Abstract: In a process for producing a multilayer lacquer coating, eg for motor vehicles, a first coating layer of an aqueous coating agent (1) is electrophoretically applied on to an electrically conductive substrate and is then stoved. As the coating agent (I), a coating agent which, in the stoved state, will produce an electrically conductive coating layer is used. An electrically insulating second coating layer of an aqueous coating agent (II), which differs from (I), is electrophoretically deposited and stoved. A third basic lacquer coating layer of a colour-giving and/or effect-producing coating agent is applied, and a fourth transparent coating layer of a clear lacquer coating agent is applied, the last-mentioned two coats being stoved together. One or more further transparent coating layers may be applied.