Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling the output of driver information to a driver of a vehicle, with the objective of entertaining the driver and/or the passengers of the vehicle and/or increasing the driver attentiveness of the driver. A database of points of interest or objects of general interest, a database of topographic information, a device for determining the whereabouts of the vehicle, and an evaluation device to which these information items are delivered, are provided. The evaluation device ascertains, from the current whereabouts of the vehicle and from the topographic information, which points of interest or objects of general interest are present in the driver's field of view, and outputs via an output device the driver information regarding the point of interest or the object of general interest which has been ascertained by the evaluation device to be located in the driver's field of view.

Abstract: A filter element for cleaning an operating liquid of a machine tool is provided with a pressure-stable jacket permitting flow therethrough. A filter medium is arranged in the pressure-stable jacket. A first end disc and a second end disc are seal-tightly connected to opposite ends of the filter medium. The filter medium surrounds an inner raw-side cavity. The pressure-stable jacket surrounds the filter medium and is connected fixedly to the first and second end discs. The first end disc has an inlet opening for the operating liquid. The second end disc has a drainage opening provided with a releasable closure element that closes the drainage opening.

Abstract: A modular coco coir grow bag system for cannabis plant includes a starter block comprising a growth medium, wherein the growth medium is adapted to receive a peat based plug with a seedling or cutting of the plant. The system further includes a grow bag comprising a growth medium, wherein the growth medium is adapted to receive at least a portion of the starter block. The growth media of the starter block and the grow bag comprises coconut materials, wherein the starter block and grow bag are provided in a compressed format which expands upon hydration. The grow bag further comprises apertures for water drainage and a mesh insert adapted to hinder exit of coarse particulate matter during water drainage.

Abstract: An actuator for adjusting an element to be moved in a beam path of an optical arrangement contains the element to be moved, a carrier and at least one SM element, the SM element being connected to the element to be moved and designed such that it is supported on the carrier, so that when the dimension of the SM element changes, a directed force effect is produced between the element to be moved and the carrier.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle having a driver assistance system intervening in a transverse dynamics of the vehicle, comprising the steps: detecting a driver intervention in a driving behavior of the vehicle due to an intervention of at least one actuator triggered by the driver assistance system; interpreting the driver intervention as an override of the intervention of the actuator; and reducing in a defined manner the intervention of the actuator as a function of the interpretation of the driver intervention in such a way that a driving task is returned to the driver in a controlled and defined manner.

Abstract: A purification system and method may include a container receiving portion, pump, and magnetic field generating element. The container receiving portion may be configured to receive and support a container containing a mixture. Magnetic beads may be added to the container for separating a target substance from a remainder of the mixture. The magnetic field generating element may be movable relative to the container receiving portion between a non-working position remote from the container receiving portion and a working position adjacent an outer periphery of the container receiving portion. In the working position, the magnetic field generating element may attract the magnetic beads and hold them firmly against an interior surface of the container. While the magnetic beads are immobilized by the magnetic field generating element, the pump may remove the mixture from the container, leaving behind the magnetic beads bound tightly but reversibly to the target substance.

Abstract: A purification system and method may include a container receiving portion, pump, and magnetic field generating element. The container receiving portion may be configured to receive and support a container containing a mixture. Magnetic beads may be added to the container for separating a target substance from a remainder of the mixture. The magnetic field generating element may be movable relative to the container receiving portion between a non-working position remote from the container receiving portion and a working position adjacent an outer periphery of the container receiving portion. In the working position, the magnetic field generating element may attract the magnetic beads and hold them firmly against an interior surface of the container. While the magnetic beads are immobilized by the magnetic field generating element, the pump may remove the mixture from the container, leaving behind the magnetic beads bound tightly but reversibly to the target substance.

Abstract: A filter arrangement with filter element for purifying a dielectric of a machine for electrical discharge machining has a dielectric inlet with a connector for connecting a dielectric feed connection element of the machine for electrical discharge machining. The filter arrangement has an adapter form fit element that connects detachably to an adapter form fit element of the machine for electrical discharge machining. In a closed position of the adapter form fit elements, the dielectric inlet of the filter arrangement is fluid-tightly connected to the dielectric feed connection element. The adapter form fit elements permit the closed position only in a defined angle position, thereby determining a position of an identification element of the filter arrangement relative to the adapter form fit element of the machine for electrical discharge machining and of a corresponding reading device at the machine for electrical discharge machining relative to the an identification element.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods of enabling an on-the-fly generation of at least one user-defined montage from EEG electrodes positioned in a patient's brain, on the patient's brain and/or on the patient's scalp. The methods includes generating a graphical interface to display a view of the patient's brain and/or scalp overlaid with the EEG electrodes, each of which is uniquely identified with reference to its position in the patient's brain, on the patient's brain and/or on the patient's scalp, displaying a tool within the graphical interface for selecting at least one electrode from the displayed EEG electrodes, indicating a reference electrode corresponding to the selected electrode, accessing EEG signals corresponding to the electrode and the reference electrode, and generating another graphical interface to display an EEG trace indicative of a comparison of EEG signals of the electrode and the reference electrode.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the electrodeposition of a contact metal layer on contact areas of semiconductor components in a wafer assemblage. The method comprises: a) providing a wafer having components having at least one pn junction; b) arranging a non-conductive homogenizing device with respect to the first surfaces of the components, and an electrical contact device at a second surface of the wafer; c) introducing the wafer into an electroplating bath having an electrode, wherein the surface thereof consists at least partly of a first contact metal, and wherein the first surface of the components is in contact with the electroplating bath; d) applying a voltage to the electrode and to the contact device, as a result of which current flows between the electrode and the contact device, through the electroplating bath and the component and contact metal is thus deposited at the first contact areas of the components.

Abstract: A method and device for the optical scanning of a chromatographic sample (3), where a sample plate (2) holding the sample (3) is illuminated with light from a first illumination device (13) and the light emitted by the sample plate (2) is detected by an optical detector device (15) which detects in cell form or area form, a second illumination device (14) is preferably firstly activated in a preparation step. The sample plate (2) is displaced in a first displacement direction relative to the detector device (15), illuminated by the first illumination device (13) and a first measurement image is recorded. The sample plate (2) is displaced in a second displacement direction relative to the detector device (15), illuminated by the second illumination device (14), and a second measurement image is recorded.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for producing inorganic particulate material, the material obtainable by such process, a modified release delivery system comprising the material and the use of the material for the administration of a bioactive agent.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the specification, are useful in treating conditions or disorders prevented by or ameliorated by positive allosteric modulation of the ?-aminobutyric acid B (GABA-B) receptor. Methods for making the compounds are described. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions of compounds of formula (I), and methods for using such compounds and compositions.

Abstract: A filter element for cleaning an operating liquid of a machine tool is provided with a pressure-stable jacket permitting flow therethrough. A filter medium is arranged in the pressure-stable jacket. A first end disc and a second end disc are seal-tightly connected to opposite ends of the filter medium. The filter medium surrounds an inner raw-side cavity. The pressure-stable jacket surrounds the filter medium and is connected fixedly to the first and second end discs. The first end disc has an inlet opening for the operating liquid. The second end disc has a drainage opening provided with a releasable closure element that closes the drainage opening.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the specification, are useful in treating conditions or disorders prevented by or ameliorated by positive allosteric modulation of the ?-aminobutyric acid B (GABA-B) receptor. Methods for making the compounds are described. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions of compounds of formula (I), and methods for using such compounds and compositions.

Abstract: For fault detection in a switch system including multiple switches, for a respective switch its operating data are acquired and transmitted to a central control. For a respective first switch of the switch system, a deviation of an operating behavior of the first switch from a set behavior is determined by the central control on the basis of its operating data. If there is a deviation, operating data of the first switch are compared with operating data of other, second switches of the switch system and, depending on that, a second switch with similar operating data is selected.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for identifying faults in a computer-aided manner for a technical system including a switch and a switch drive is provided. A fault or a disruption in the switch and/or in the switch drive is detected by capturing a temporal profile of a measurement variable of the switch drive. A simulation model is provided for the technical system and a fault situation is set by means of setting values of the simulation model, wherein the setting values are assigned to the fault situation. The technical system is simulated by means of the simulation model, wherein a simulated temporal profile of the measurement variable is captured. The simulated temporal profile is compared with the temporal profile of the measurement variable of the switch drive, wherein the fault situation is assigned to the detected fault on the basis of the comparison.

Abstract: An annular clamping nut which is provided for being placed onto the end of a tie bar, in order to brace the latter, and which has in addition to a central recess for receiving the tie bar parallel to a longitudinal direction passages at uniform radial spacings in the ring circumferential direction which are directed parallel to the longitudinal direction of the central recess and are provided for receiving clamping screws. An external thread is provided on the outer surface of the clamping nut, which outer surface is arranged on a side which lies substantially opposite the wall of the central recess, which external thread runs substantially in the ring circumferential direction of the outer surface.

Abstract: An actuator for adjusting an element to be moved in a beam path of an optical arrangement contains the element to be moved, a carrier and at least one SM element, the SM element being connected to the element to be moved and designed such that it is supported on the carrier, so that when the dimension of the SM element changes, a directed force effect is produced between the element to be moved and the carrier.