Abstract: A system optimizes an objective function by iteratively refining the objective function. The system evaluates an initial set of results for a set of initial candidates according to an objective function. The system generates a local model. The system identifies a plurality of new candidates. The system determines, for each new candidate, a prediction of whether the candidate violates a constraint. The system selects a new candidate based on the prediction for each of the candidates and updates the local model using the new candidate. The system identifies a potential optimal solution from the updated local model. The system distributes resources of a computing system according to the potential optimal solution.

Abstract: A transport service system comprises a plurality of drivers and riders over a plurality of cities. A resource allocation function using a plurality of variables associated with incentives that may be provided to the drivers and riders over the cities with an output describing a profitability of the system. The system evaluates an initial set of results for an initial set of randomized candidates according to a resource allocation function. The system generates a plurality of local models. Each local model is a Gaussian process posterior distribution over a trust region centered around a randomized candidate. The system samples a function from each distribution and identifies a candidate with an optimal result according to the sampled function. The system evaluates the best candidate chosen from among the identified candidates with the resource allocation function. The system then identifies an optimal solution from the evaluations and distributes resources according to the optimal solution.

Abstract: A device, vehicle, method and computer program for deactivating high-voltage components of a vehicle. The device for deactivating high-voltage components of a vehicle carries out an error analysis of the high-voltage components after detecting a vibration and deactivates the high-voltage components if an error in the high-voltage components results in the error analysis.

Abstract: A device, vehicle, method and computer program for deactivating high-voltage components of a vehicle. The device for deactivating high-voltage components of a vehicle carries out an error analysis of the high-voltage components after detecting a vibration and deactivates the high-voltage components if an error in the high-voltage components results in the error analysis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the ozonolysis of unsaturated fatty acids and derivatives thereof, comprising a) ozonolysis of a fatty acid or of a derivative thereof in an organic phase comprising an organic solvent, and b) contacting the organic phase with an aqueous phase comprising catalase and preferably a buffer, where the fatty acid or the derivative thereof has a linear chain having at least eight carbon atoms, and the use of catalase for removing reactive oxygen species from a reaction mixture comprising ozonolysis products of an unsaturated fatty acid.

Abstract: The invention provides a method to produce primary diamines by catalytic conversion of diols having a linear main chain of from 4 to 31 carbon atoms into the corresponding diamines. The reaction is conducted in a liquid or supercritical phase and is catalyzed by a homogeneous ruthenium-containing complex. The primary diamines obtained may be suitable for polyamide syntheses.

Abstract: The invention provides a method to produce primary diamines by catalytic conversion of diols having a linear main chain of from 4 to 31 carbon atoms into the corresponding diamines. The reaction is conducted in a liquid or supercritical phase and is catalyzed by a homogeneous ruthenium-containing complex. The primary diamines obtained may be suitable for polyamide syntheses.

Abstract: In a method for determining the state of charge of rechargeable batteries by integration of the amounts of current flowing during charging and discharging, a first state of charge value LZA is determined by continuous integration of the rechargeable battery current. A second state of charge value LZB is determined by measurement of the no-load voltage U0 after receiving or supplying a defined amount of charge Q which is sufficient in order to leave the region of the mixed potential of the electrodes and to reach a no-load voltage of the rechargeable battery, and by comparison of this measured no-load voltage U0 with empirically determined no-load voltage characteristics for the rechargeable battery.

Abstract: In a method for determining the state of charge of rechargeable batteries by integration of the amounts of current flowing during charging and discharging, a first state of charge value LZA is determined by continuous integration of the rechargeable battery current. A second state of charge value LZB is determined by measurement of the no-load voltage U0 after receiving or supplying a defined amount of charge Q which is sufficient in order to leave the region of the mixed potential of the electrodes and to reach a no-load voltage of the rechargeable battery, and by comparison of this measured no-load voltage U0 with empirically determined no-load voltage characteristics for the rechargeable battery.

Abstract: A method for producing a secondary lithium cell which has at least one lithium-cycling negative electrode, at least one lithium-intercalating positive electrode, at least one separator disposed between the positive and the negative electrode, and a nonaqueous lithium ion-conducting electrolyte. The method is carried out by the electrodes and/or the separator being coated, by means of electrostatic powder coating, with wax particles which are insoluble in the electrolyte and have a melting temperature of from about 50 to about 150 ° C. and a mean particle size of from about 6 to about 20 &mgr;m, the amount of wax being between about 0.5 and about 2.5 mg/cm2 of electrode area.

Abstract: In a method for the manufacture of armatures from sheet-metal parts stacked in the manner of laminated inductors, predeterminately shaped openings or indentations (6) and corresponding coaxially opposite projections (8) are defined in and during the formation of the sheet-metal parts (1, 2, 3), the sheet-metal parts are stacked so that the projections (8) nestedly engage the shaped openings or indentations (6) of the adjacent sheet-metal part (1, 2, 3) and thereby provide form-locked mechanical connections between the parts, and the stack (11) of sheet-metal shapes is secured against loosening and disengagement of the form-locked mechanical connections (10) by cementing or thermal bonding or the like of the sheet-metal parts one to another.

Abstract: A matrix pin print head, particularly of the biased construction, includes a base plate (1) made of a soft-magnetic material, an annular permanent magnet (2), a distance spacer ring (3), a spring (4) tensioned in each case radially outwardly, where an armature body (6) is attached at the spring (4), which armature body (6) can be biased in each case against the core (7) of an electromagnetic coil (8) disposed in each case on the base plate (1), wherein the magnet flux generated by the permanent magnet (2) can be balanced by feeding a current through the electromagnetic coil (8), and wherein the armature body (6), at which armature body (6) there is attached a print element (4a), can be shot off against a recording material carrier, and wherein there is possibly provided a side magnet flux circuit via a short circuit body in addition to the main magnet flux circuit (9) formed via the permanent magnet (2).