Abstract: A method for processing electronic documents comprises an iteration including: (i) applying, by a computer device, a first statistical test process to a first subset of the documents, the first statistical test process estimating whether or not content of the documents of the first subset comply with a predefined criterion; (ii) in response to a result of the first statistical test process, estimating, by the computer device, that the documents of the first subset do not comply with the criterion, selecting, by the computer device, a part of the documents of the first subset, and moving, by the computer device, the part of the documents to a second subset of the documents; and (iii) applying, by the computer device, a second statistical test process to the second subset of the documents, the second statistical test process calculating at least one statistical metric related to the documents of the second subset.

Abstract: A microfluidic blood serum generator having a first port and a second port, between which there is formed a microfluidic structure, wherein the microfluidic structure has a supply duct communicating with the first port, a clotting region into which the supply duct discharges, and a discharge duct which communicates with the second port and into which the clotting region transitions, wherein the first port is designed to introduce a blood sample at a first pressure and the second port is designed to apply a second pressure that is lower than the first pressure, wherein the clotting region is formed by a single, coherent cavity, and wherein a barrier for retaining a clotted blood sample is arranged in the transition from the clotting region to the discharge duct. A method for separating off blood serum from a blood sample using a blood serum generator of this kind.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a virtual blockchain manager node, to a blockchain configured to store a plurality of user transactions committed by a user node, identifying, by the virtual blockchain manager node, a user request transaction from the plurality of the user transactions for a creation of a virtual blockchain for the user, wherein the user request transaction contains a rule, creating, by the virtual blockchain manager node, the virtual blockchain based on the user request transaction, populating, by the virtual blockchain manager node, the virtual blockchain with the user transactions from the plurality of the user transactions from the blockchain based on the rule, and executing, by the virtual blockchain manager node, a smart contract to record the rule and a hash of all blocks from the virtual blockchain onto the blockchain.

Abstract: A filter system is for the local attenuation of X-radiation. In an embodiment, the filter system includes a filter device, arranged in a beam path of an X-ray apparatus and including a channel arrangement, the channel arrangement including a multiplicity of channel sections extending in parallel on a plane; a supply device to provide a 2-phase fluid flow containing drops of an absorber liquid, to absorb X-radiation and a carrier liquid transparent to X-radiation; and a sorting section, including an input connected to the supply device, a first output connected to the channel arrangement, a second output, and a deflection device to direct individual drops of the absorber liquid to the first output or the second output.

Abstract: A filter system is for the local attenuation of X-radiation. In an embodiment, the filter system includes a filter device, arranged in a beam path of an X-ray apparatus and including a channel arrangement, the channel arrangement including a multiplicity of channel sections extending in parallel on a plane; a supply device to provide a 2-phase fluid flow containing drops of an absorber liquid, to absorb X-radiation and a carrier liquid transparent to X-radiation; and a sorting section, including an input connected to the supply device, a first output connected to the channel arrangement, a second output, and a deflection device to direct individual drops of the absorber liquid to the first output or the second output.

Abstract: A method for processing electronic documents comprises an iteration including: (i) applying, by a computer device, a first statistical test process to a first subset of the documents, the first statistical test process estimating whether or not content of the documents of the first subset comply with a predefined criterion; (ii) in response to a result of the first statistical test process, estimating, by the computer device, that the documents of the first subset do not comply with the criterion, selecting, by the computer device, a part of the documents of the first subset, and moving, by the computer device, the part of the documents to a second subset of the documents; and (iii) applying, by the computer device, a second statistical test process to the second subset of the documents, the second statistical test process calculating at least one statistical metric related to the documents of the second subset.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a virtual blockchain manager node, to a blockchain configured to store a plurality of user transactions committed by a user node, identifying, by the virtual blockchain manager node, a user request transaction from the plurality of the user transactions for a creation of a virtual blockchain for the user, wherein the user request transaction contains a rule, creating, by the virtual blockchain manager node, the virtual blockchain based on the user request transaction, populating, by the virtual blockchain manager node, the virtual blockchain with the user transactions from the plurality of the user transactions from the blockchain based on the rule, and executing, by the virtual blockchain manager node, a smart contract to record the rule and a hash of all blocks from the virtual blockchain onto the blockchain.

Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for performing an electronic discovery process using a blockchain. For at least two of phases of the electronic discovery process individual electronic data processing tools are used for executing the respective phase. For each of the phases of the electronic discovery process metadata of the electronic data objects subject to the respective phase of the electronic discovery process and to the electronic data processing tool used for executing the respective phase are stored in the blockchain. Furthermore, audit information about auditable actions carried out during the respective phase by the electronic data processing tool used for executing the respective phase on the electronic data objects is stored in the blockchain. The stored audit information provides an end-to-end audit trail for each of the electronic data objects subject to at least one of the phases of the electronic discovery process.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a device (20), a method and a computer program for providing information on at least one sequence, wherein the at least one sequence describes temporally successive signal states, comprising a device (10), a method and a computer program for a cytometer (100) for providing information on one or several cells in a medium in a channel and comprising a cytometer (100). The device (20) comprises an interface (22), which is configured to receive information on a number of the signal states. The device (20) a computational module (24) which is configured to generate a plurality of possible sequences based on the information on the number of the signal states. The computational module (24) is further configured to calculate for at least a subset of the possible sequences correlation functions between a sequence and at least a temporal scaling of the sequence, wherein a correlation function includes a main lobe and one or several side lobes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for performing an electronic discovery process using a blockchain. For at least two of phases of the electronic discovery process individual electronic data processing tools are used for executing the respective phase. For each of the phases of the electronic discovery process metadata of the electronic data objects subject to the respective phase of the electronic discovery process and to the electronic data processing tool used for executing the respective phase are stored in the blockchain. Furthermore, audit information about auditable actions carried out during the respective phase by the electronic data processing tool used for executing the respective phase on the electronic data objects is stored in the blockchain. The stored audit information provides an end-to-end audit trail for each of the electronic data objects subject to at least one of the phases of the electronic discovery process.

Abstract: A sensor for detecting a liquid in a fluid channel of a microfluidic component and to a microfluidic component having such a sensor. The sensor includes an electrode arrangement having a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode and a first shielding electrode, which are arranged in a coplanar manner on a plane and can be positioned above or below, adjacent to the fluid channel, wherein the transmitting electrode and the receiving electrode are capacitively coupled in that they each have an adjacently arranged edge having a dielectric therebetween.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a device (20), a method and a computer program for providing information on at least one sequence, wherein the at least one sequence describes temporally successive signal states, comprising a device (10), a method and a computer program for a cytometer (100) for providing information on one or several cells in a medium in a channel and comprising a cytometer (100). The device (20) comprises an interface (22), which is configured to receive information on a number of the signal states. The device (20) a computational module (24) which is configured to generate a plurality of possible sequences based on the information on the number of the signal states. The computational module (24) is further configured to calculate for at least a subset of the possible sequences correlation functions between a sequence and at least a temporal scaling of the sequence, wherein a correlation function includes a main lobe and one or several side lobes.

Abstract: A fluidic system having a first volume, a second volume and a membrane geometrically separating the two volumes, which has an open-pore microstructure for the passage of a first medium and a second medium. There is a contact angle (?) between the interface of the media and the pore surface. A first electrical field in the region of the membrane and a first electromagnetic radiation and a first heating of the membrane define a first state (Z1), in which the membrane is not wetted or is less wetted by the first medium and is more heavily wetted by the second medium such that a first contact angle ?1>90° is formed between the pore surface and the interface. The first medium and the second medium and the pore surface have a surface energy of which at least one surface energy can be reversibly changed in such a way that a second contact angle ?2<?1 occurs between the pore surface and the interface in a second state (Z2).

Abstract: A sensor for detecting a liquid in a fluid channel of a microfluidic component and to a microfluidic component having such a sensor. The sensor includes an electrode arrangement having a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode and a first shielding electrode, which are arranged in a coplanar manner on a plane and can be positioned above or below, adjacent to the fluid channel, wherein the transmitting electrode and the receiving electrode are capacitively coupled in that they each have an adjacently arranged edge having a dielectric therebetween.

Abstract: A method and system for using spatially modulated excitation/emission and relative movement between a particle (cell, molecule, aerosol, . . . ) and an excitation/emission pattern are provided. In at least one form, an interference pattern of the excitation light with submicron periodicity perpendicular to the particle flow is used. As the particle moves along the pattern, emission is modulated according to the speed of the particle and the periodicity of the stripe pattern. A single detector, which records the emission over a couple of stripes, can be used. The signal is recorded with a fast detector read-out in order to capture the “blinking” of the particles while they are moving through the excitation pattern. This concept enables light detection with high signal-to-noise ratio and high spatial resolution without the need of expensive and bulky optics.

Abstract: A filter arrangement can transmit and/or reflect light emanating from a moving object so that the emanating light has time variation, and the time variation can include information about the object, such as its type. For example, emanating light from segments of a path can be transmitted/reflected through positions of a filter assembly, and the transmission functions of the positions can be sufficiently different that time variation occurs in the emanating light between segments. Or emanating light from a segment can be transmitted/reflected through a filter component in which simpler transmission functions are superimposed, so that time variation occurs in the emanating light in accordance with superposition of two simpler non-uniform transmission functions. Many filter arrangements could be used, e.g. the filter component could include the filter assembly, which can have one of the simpler non-uniform transmission functions.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of detecting particles which move along a trajectory and which produce or at least influence electromagnetic radiation, an electrical field or a magnetic field, wherein the electromagnetic radiation S, the electrical field or the magnetic field is detected, in which a structuring device is used, which either ensures that the particles along the trajectory produce or at least influence electromagnetic radiation, an electrical field or a magnetic field substantially only at non-periodic spatial spacings, or ensures that the electromagnetic radiation S, the electrical or the magnetic field is detected substantially only at non-periodic spatial spacings along the trajectory.

Abstract: An implantable product such as an article, device, or system can include analyte and non-analyte containers in parts that can be operated as optical cavities. The product can also include fluidic components such as filter assemblies that control transfer of objects that affect or shift spectrum features or characteristics such as by shifting transmission mode peaks or reflection mode valleys, shifting phase, reducing maxima or contrast, or increasing intermediate intensity width such as full width half maximum (FWHM). Analyte, e.g. glucose molecules, can be predominantly included in a set of objects that transfer more rapidly into the analyte container than other objects, and can have a negligible or zero rate of transfer into the non-analyte container; objects that transfer more rapidly into the non-analyte container can include objects smaller than the analyte or molecules of a set of selected types, including, e.g., sodium chloride.

Abstract: A method is provided for extracting the position of a particle, e.g., a moving or stationary particle that is excited or is emitting light. The method includes, among other steps, detecting and recording a signal based on, for example, the movement of the particle, a correlation step to eliminate noise and to create a transformed signal, a matching or fitting step to match the transformed signal to a fit function and an extracting or determining step to determine the position of the particle from the fit function. In one form, at least two particle positions are detected so that the distance between the subject particles can be determined.

Abstract: A fluidic system having a first volume, a second volume and a membrane geometrically separating the two volumes, which has an open-pore microstructure for the passage of a first medium and a second medium. There is a contact angle (?) between the interface of the media and the pore surface. A first electrical field in the region of the membrane and a first electromagnetic radiation and a first heating of the membrane define a first state (Z1), in which the membrane is not wetted or is less wetted by the first medium and is more heavily wetted by the second medium such that a first contact angle ?1>90° is formed between the pore surface and the interface. The first medium and the second medium and the pore surface have a surface energy of which at least one surface energy can be reversibly changed in such a way that a second contact angle ?2<?1 occurs between the pore surface and the interface in a second state (Z2).