Abstract: A scanning unit for scanning light comprises a deflection element with a mirrored surface and a support element. The deflection element is self-supporting, relative to the fixed structure. The scanning unit has one additional support element extending with an offset to the plane defined by the support element. The scanning unit has a controller in order to control an actuator which can resonantly excite a torsion mode of the support element and of the additional support element. Preferably, the support element and the deflection element are integrally formed and the support element and the further support element are not integrally formed. Preferably, both the support element and the further support element are designed as rod-type torsion springs. Preferably, the support element and the further support element are interconnected by bonding at their respective contact surfaces in an end region facing the fixed structure. The invention further relates to a method for producing a scanning unit.

Abstract: A device comprises a first emission beam path, which extends from a pulsed first light source via a scanner to surroundings of the device. The device also comprises a reception beam path, which extends from the surroundings via the scanner to a detector. The device also comprises at least one second emission beam path, which extends from at least one pulsed second light source and not via the scanner to the surroundings.

Abstract: A tool for handling a long and heavy object, in particular a wind turbine rotor blade, includes a clamping unit which can be fixed to the rotor blade. The clamping unit has a first clamp and a second clamp spaced from the first clamp with respect to a longitudinal direction of the object. A first rod unit is rotatably coupled to the first clamp of the clamping unit at a first coupling site is also and coupled to a traverse. A second rod unit is rotatably coupled to the second clamp of the clamping unit at a second coupling site and is also coupled to the traverse via by a rope. A length of a rope section between the second rod unit and the traverse is adjustable by a winch.

Abstract: The present application provides heat-curing preparations containing (a) a triglyceride fraction, the fatty acid distribution of which has a proportion of at least 5 wt. %, in particular at least 60 wt. %, of one or more ?-3 fatty acids and/or one or more ?-6 fatty acids, (b) at least one vulcanizing agent selected from the group consisting of (b1) sulfur, (b2) peroxidic vulcanizing agents, (b3) quinones and/or quinone dioximes and/or (b4) dinitrosobenzenes, and (c) at least one inorganic filler.

Abstract: The present application provides heat-curing preparations containing (a) a triglyceride fraction, the fatty acid distribution of which has a proportion of at least 5 wt. %, in particular at least 60 wt. %, of one or more ?-3 fatty acids and/or one or more ?-6 fatty acids, (b) at least one vulcanizing agent selected from the group consisting of (b1) sulfur, (b2) peroxidic vulcanizing agents, (b3) quinones and/or quinone dioximes and/or (b4) dinitrosobenzenes, and (c) at least one inorganic filler.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a plant pathogenic fungus are provided. A method for enhancing fungal pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a pathogenic fungus or nematode, are provided. A method for enhancing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a pathogenic fungus or nematode, are provided. A method for enhancing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a pathogenic fungus or nematode, are provided. A method for enhancing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a plant pathogenic fungus are provided. A method for enhancing fungal pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include novel amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from maize. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the embodiments are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant a DNA construct comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a plant pathogenic fungus are provided. A method for enhancing fungal pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a plant pathogenic fungus are provided. A method for enhancing fungal pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a plant pathogenic fungus are provided. A method for enhancing fungal pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antifungal polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a pathogenic fungus or nematode, are provided. A method for enhancing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of quantification of nucleic acid sequences with minimal alterations conducting a real time PCR quantification assay with allele-specific primers. Further, the present invention provides the method for quantifying allelic differences of bovine mitochondrial DNA sequences and allele-specific primers to be used in said method.

Abstract: In a cleaning device on a printing press for cleaning outer cylindrical surfaces of cylinders and rollers, there is provided a cleaning cloth unwindable from a supply roll and guidable via a pressure bar to a drivable soiled-cloth take-up roll, the cleaning cloth being pressable during the cleaning operation by the pressure bar against the outer cylindrical surface to be cleaned, the cleaning cloth being formed with a fleece material of stiffened and constrained microfibers having a large surface, high wear resistance, constant density distribution, high absorbability, and low lint formation.

Abstract: A thermoelectric cooler temperature control circuit provides a periodic control signal having a substantially constant peak-to-peak magnitude and an average value dependent on a sensed temperature to be regulated. The control signal is coupled to control the heating or cooling of a thermoelectric cooler. In a preferred embodiment, complementary positive and negative going control signal pulse streams are provided. A switch selectively couples one of the complementary pulse streams to cool the thermolectric cooler or the other stream to heat the cooler. The control signal pulse streams can be pulse width modulated signals.

Abstract: Apparatus for adjusting the temperature of a plurality of liquids which includes temperature adjusting means having a corresponding plurality of separate flow paths, a pump arrangement for circulating the liquids through said separate paths and means for maintaining predetermined temperature differences between the liquids, wherein the temperature adjusting means includes a single temperature controlling member and a number of pipes which correspond in number to the number of separate flow paths for the liquids of which the temperatures are to be adjusted. The temperature controlling member and the pipes are interconnected in heat conducting so that the total thermal impedance between the first of said pipes and the temperature controlling member integrated from the inlet end to the outlet end of said first pipe differs from the corresponding total thermal impedance of at least a second of said pipes.

Abstract: A sacking connection for filling sacks that are open at the top with dusty products has two spreading flaps that can be pivoted around horizontal axes. Clamping jaws can be pivoted around horizontal axes and hold the edge of the opening of the sack against the spreading flaps. The front of the spreading flaps are connected by dustproof aprons made of a flexible material and fastened in the vicinity of the side edges of the flaps. When folding-sided sacks are filled, a folding device that can be displaced along with its functions of folding from outside the sacking connection into the space inside the sacking connection is associated with each apron. When flat sacks are filled, a spreading device that can be displaced outward from inside along with its functions of spreading is associated with each apron. The functions of folding or of spreading connect the edge of the sack opening with the aprons to prevent dust from building up on the inside of the edge of the opening of the sack.