Abstract: A method for monitoring an electric motor of a hydraulic brake system for a motor vehicle, wherein a first torque and a second torque are calculated and compared with one another. A fault can be detected on the basis of the comparison. The invention also relates to an associated electronic control module, to an associated hydraulic brake system and to an associated non-volatile computer-readable storage medium.

Abstract: A method for monitoring an electric motor of a hydraulic brake system for a motor vehicle, wherein a first torque and a second torque are calculated and compared with one another. A fault can be detected on the basis of the comparison. The invention also relates to an associated electronic control module, to an associated hydraulic brake system and to an associated non-volatile computer-readable storage medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improvement in a conventional method for the determination of uric acid involving uricase/catalase/aldehyde dehydrogenase, resulting in the formation of produced NAD(P)H as a measure of the initial uric acid present, which improvement comprises adding at least one compound selected from oxalates, malonic acid mono-lower alkyl esters, trihaloethanols, pyrazole, pyridine, substituted pyrazole and pyridine wherein the substituents are selected from lower alkyl and halogen, pyridine carboxylic acids, pyridine carboxylic acids substituted with a lower radical, pyridine carboxylic acid amides and pyridine carboxylic acid lower alkyl esters, thiourea, isobutyramide and chelate-forming complexing agents, in order to suppress disturbance-causing creep reactions in said method. Reagents containing such additive compounds are also provided.

Abstract: Porous tablets are produced by mixing the tablet components with a liquid solvent which is inert towards the components of the tablet and which freezes at a temperature from about -30 to +25.degree. C, the solvent constituting about 5 to 80% by weight of the total mixture, introducing the mixture into an inert cooling medium at a temperature low enough to solidify the solvent, pressing the mixture including the solidified solvent into tablets at a temperature below the freezing point of the solvent, and then evaporating the solvent from the tablets. Advantageously the solvent is water, cyclohexane, benzene and/or tert.-butanol, optionally containing alcohol. The tablets readily disintegrate in liquid.