Abstract: A method for operating a drive device for adjusting an automated clutch in a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has a control device by which at least one control of the drive device and one capture of measurement data of a clutch travel sensor takes place for determining the setting of the automated clutch. The drive device has a drive motor with a drive connection to a displaceable element to be positioned. A travel range of the displaceable element is monitored and a referencing procedure is performed cyclically after a prescribed time and is followed by a plausibility check if referencing is permitted at the point in time.

Abstract: A method for operating a drive device for adjusting an automated clutch in a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has a control device by which at least one control of the drive device and one capture of measurement data of a clutch travel sensor takes place for determining the setting of the automated clutch. The drive device has a drive motor with a drive connection to a displaceable element to be positioned. A travel range of the displaceable element is monitored and a referencing procedure is performed cyclically after a prescribed time and is followed by a plausibility check if referencing is permitted at the point in time.

Abstract: A work surface lighting arrangement for lighting the work surface under an extractor hood, such as a cooking surface in a kitchen area. The lighting arrangement includes at least two lights in the hood with one light being user activated and the second activated by operation of the hood. The lights can include a dimming function and the second light can be activated with the hood exhaust fan. The second light also can be activated only after activation of the first light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for performing a diagnostic operation in motor vehicles, a method for operating a motor vehicle, a electronic control unit, and an electronic testing device, that differs from conventional methods and/or control units and/or testing devices by at least one characterizing feature and that it is novel relative to the known methods and/or devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel heterocyclic amide derivatives of the formula 1

Abstract: A method for controlling and/or adjusting a torque transmission system in the drive chain of a vehicle, especially a motor vehicle, wherein a clutch torque is modified according to a starting resistance of the vehicle in order to provide a strategy for the start of said vehicle. According to the invention, said strategy is modified in such a way that the progression of said clutch torque is adapted to a starting situation.

Abstract: A work surface lighting arrangement for lighting the work surface under an extractor hood, such as a cooking surface in a kitchen area. The lighting arrangement includes at least two lights in the hood with one light being user activated and the second activated by operation of the hood. The lights can include a dimming function and the second light can be activated with the hood exhaust fan. The second light also can be activated only after activation of the first light.

Abstract: A motor vehicle with an automated clutch in its drive train has a clutch control device for controlling the automated clutch and at least a further control device. The clutch control device and the further control device can be activated by means of an activation element which, when the ignition is switched on, sends an ignition signal VZ to the clutch control device and to the further control device. The clutch control device is or remains activated if at least one of the ignition signal VZ and an activity signal of the further control device is present.

Abstract: The invention relates to the spatial structure of the ligand-binding domain of the ultraspiracle protein, to the use of this structure for generating protein models of this protein in various conformations and of related proteins, and to methods of finding ligands of the ultraspriracle protein and of related proteins.

Abstract: A method of sorting a block of data is provided which includes ordering a plurality of data values into a source data block. A non-unique sort order, based on a limited number of comparisons of the data values in the source data block, is established and, after the comparisons, a unique sort order of the data values based on position of the data values in the source data block is established. The method further includes restoring the source data block from the unique sort order. An apparatus for sorting a block of data is also provided, the apparatus including, inter alia, a first mechanism for calculating a non-unique sort order based on a limited number of equal comparisons of the data values in the source data block and a second mechanism for establishing, after the comparisons, a unique sort order of the data values based on position of the data values in the source data block. The apparatus further includes a third mechanism for restoring the source data block from the established sort order.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to new substituted nitrogen heterocycles of general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of each other, stand for hydrogen or alkyl,X stands for oxygen, sulfur or an NR.sup.3 group,Y stands for carbon (C or CH) or nitrogen,Z stands for an electron-attracting group,T stands for the remainder of an unsaturated ring system broken possibly by other heteroatoms or heteroatom groups,Q stands for possibly substituted aryl or possibly substituted hetaryl, wherein R.sup.3 stands for hydrogen, alkyl or alkenyl, method for preparing them and their use as pesticides.