Abstract: Organs-on-chips are microfluidic devices for culturing living cells in micrometer sized chambers in order to model physiological functions of tissues and organs. Engineered patterning and continuous fluid flow in these devices has allowed culturing of intestinal cells bearing physiologically relevant features and sustained exposure to bacteria while maintaining cellular viability, thereby allowing study of inflammatory bowl diseases. However, existing intestinal cells do not possess all physiologically relevant subtypes, do not possess the repertoire of genetic variations, or allow for study of other important cellular actors such as immune cells. Use of iPSC-derived epithelium, including IBD patient-specific cells, allows for superior disease modeling by capturing the multi-faceted nature of the disease.

Abstract: A method of using a Dynamic Rule Engine (DRE) with an application. At runtime of the application, the application determines that a trigger point has been reached. The DRE identifies one or more rules associated with the trigger point. Each of the one or more rules defines one or more conditions, and each condition is associated with one or more properties. For each of the one or more rules, the DRE evaluates the one or more conditions defined in the rule. Evaluating a condition includes determining a current value of each of the one or more properties associated with the condition, and comparing the one or more current values to one or more predetermined values. Based on the comparison, the DRE determines whether one or more actions are to be performed. If the one or more actions are determined to be performed, the application performs the one or more actions.

Abstract: A power supply system which connects a DC consumer to an AC supply includes an AC-DC converter and a UPS. The AC-DC converter has an input to which alternating current from the AC supply is applied and an output at which DC current is developed. The UPS has an input to which direct current from the AC-DC converter is applied and an output at which DC current is developed. The DC current developed at the output of the AC-DC converter and DC current developed at the output of the UPS are applied to the DC consumer selectively in parallel with each other or exclusively to each other.

Abstract: Developments relating to clothes hangers comprising a series of methods to bring increased width and contoured arms to substantially planar clothes hangers, by creating designs whereby an ecologically friendly material such as paper and cardboard may assume a similar strength to plastic or wood, and ways of attaching a wire-based hook to a planar clothes hanger.

Abstract: Constituent elements of a clothes hanger comprising one or more planar segments (1, 3) that can be assembled to form a clothes hanger for suspending a garment, the assembly typically involving folding the one or more planar segments and fixing them together, the fixing means (1A, 1B; 2A, 2B; 3A, 3B; 4A, 4B; 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B; 7A, 7B; 8A, 8B) including glue or tabs, wings etc. The clothes hanger may employ planar or tubular grippers hanger tubes for forming or bulking out arms of the hanger, etc. Manufacturing methods are also provided for manufacturing a clothes hanger.

Abstract: A power supply system which connects a DC consumer to an AC supply includes an AC-DC converter and a UPS. The AC-DC converter has an input to which alternating current from the AC supply is applied and an output at which DC current is developed. The UPS has an input to which direct current from the AC-DC converter is applied and an output at which DC current is developed. The DC current developed at the output of the AC-DC converter and DC current developed at the output of the UPS are applied to the DC consumer selectively in parallel with each other or exclusively to each other.

Abstract: Clothes hangers and clothes grippers are disclosed herein. One clothes hanger includes a first planar hanger profile piece including first and second hanger arms extending oppositely from a central portion and including respective pedestal portions folded upon the first and second hanger arms and the central portion, a second planar hanger profile piece including first and second hanger arms extending oppositely from a central portion, wherein the first and second planar hanger profile pieces are attached to one another with the planar pedestal portions disposed therebetween, the planar pedestal portions serving to space the first and second planar hanger profile pieces from one another.

Abstract: Developments relating to clothes hangers comprising a series of methods to bring increased width and contoured arms to substantially planar clothes hangers, by creating designs whereby an ecologically friendly material such as paper and cardboard may assume a similar strength to plastic or wood, and ways of attaching a wire-based hook to a planar clothes hanger.

Abstract: Constituent elements of a clothes hanger comprising one or more planar segments (1, 3) that can be assembled to form a clothes hanger for suspending a garment, the assembly typically involving folding the one or more planar segments and fixing them together, the fixing means (1A, 1B; 2A, 2B; 3A, 3B; 4A, 4B; 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B; 7A, 7B; 8A, 8B) including glue or tabs, wings etc. The clothes hanger may employ planar or tubular grippers hanger tubes for forming or bulking out arms of the hanger, etc. Manufacturing methods are also provided for manufacturing a clothes hanger.

Abstract: A power supply system which connects a DC consumer to an AC supply includes an AC-DC converter and a UPS. The AC-DC converter has an input to which alternating current from the AC supply is applied and an output at which DC current is developed. The UPS has an input to which direct current from the AC-DC converter is applied and an output at which DC current is developed. The DC current developed at the output of the AC-DC converter and DC current developed at the output of the UPS are applied to the DC consumer selectively in parallel with each other or exclusively to each other.

Abstract: A produce harvester that is operable to utilize a produce collection assembly wherein the produce collection assembly is rotatably moved during the collection of produce from a tree. The produce collection assembly includes a body that is spherical in shape having an upper portion and a lower portion forming an interior volume. The upper portion is rotatably mounted to the lower portion with the lower portion being secured to a conventional mechanical articulating boom that is operable to move the produce collection assembly in three axial directions. The upper portion includes an outer surface that has formed thereon a plurality of longitudinally oriented concave portions. Intermediate the plurality of concave portions are transition ridges. A conical protrusion is integrally formed with the upper portion and extends outward from the upper portion. A plurality of fruit apertures are journaled through the upper portion providing access to the interior volume.

Abstract: A clothes hanger (1,2, 2X) comprising one, two or more planar elements together defining a hanger shape for suspending a garment, at least one of the planar elements having an opening (5, 7B, 7D) an indicating element (9) or other information element, and movable into a position, retained between the planar elements, in which position at least one marking on the indicating element (9) may be visible through said opening (5, 7B, 7D). The indicating element (9) may bear a plurality of different markings and may be movable into different such positions in which a different one or ones of the markings is or are visible through the opening (5, 7B, 7D). The indicating (9) element may be insertable between the planar elements through a hole (6) in one of said elements or through a gap between said elements at the edge of the hanger. There is also provided attachable shoulder-pieces (21 A, 21 B, 46R, 46L) which may be moulded or made from one or more layers of material to provide a contoured support for a garment.

Abstract: Apparatus for packaging a Compact Disc (21), formed from a plurality of panels (5, 6, 7) of paper, card, plastic or the like, comprising a tray formed from a section (9, 16) cut out from one or more of said panels (5, 6), rotatable about an axle (14) located near an outer edge of the tray, from a closed position in which a recess (8) for holding a disc is closed by said one or more panels or by another of the panels (7), to an open position allowing access to the disc. Alternative embodiments include further recesses and are arranged to hold more than one disc.

Abstract: In an exchange of data between a client terminal (1) and a secure database server (2) the data is encoded using positional information generated by a combination generator (7) in a separate security server (3). The positional information is used to produce an image specific to a communication event which is accessed by the client terminal (1) and is the basis for the entry of sensitive data at the client terminal (1). The three-way communication link between the client terminal, database server and security server greatly increases the difficulty of successfully intercepting and decoding the data entered at the client terminal. This method of secure data communication is particularly suited to the communication of password data for example in the banking industry.

Abstract: A picture display card (2) which may be rectangular, circular or any shape, comprising an interior sliding member (16), which is attached to the end of a display panel (24), at an extension (26), which when pulled at tab (19) from the opposite end of the device (2) raises the said panel (24) from the top-surface (23) into a vertical position, by levering the said panel (24) about a fulcrum on two projecting arms (28), cut from the top surface (23). A projecting spur (27) extending from the base of the display panel (24) engages with a slit (20), cut into the base (18), going through an aperture (17) on the sliding member (16), locking the said panel (24) into the vertical position.