Abstract: Apparatus and methods for assisting a flight crew with (e.g., pre-flight) functional testing of aircraft systems are disclosed. An aircraft condition can be used to select one or more functional tests that are applicable based on the aircraft condition. The aircraft condition can be used to initiate the execution of the one or more applicable selected functional tests. The aircraft condition can also be used to identify the one or more functional tests that are applicable on a display device so as to guide the flight crew during the execution of the functional tests.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for assisting a flight crew with (e.g., pre-flight) functional testing of aircraft systems are disclosed. An aircraft condition can be used to select one or more functional tests that are applicable based on the aircraft condition. The aircraft condition can be used to initiate the execution of the one or more applicable selected functional tests. The aircraft condition can also be used to identify the one or more functional tests that are applicable on a display device so as to guide the flight crew during the execution of the functional tests.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for assisting a flight crew with (e.g., pre-flight) functional testing of aircraft systems are disclosed. An aircraft condition can be used to select one or more functional tests that are applicable based on the aircraft condition. The aircraft condition can be used to initiate the execution of the one or more applicable selected functional tests. The aircraft condition can also be used to identify the one or more functional tests that are applicable on a display device so as to guide the flight crew during the execution of the functional tests.

Abstract: A distribution of sand sediment class in a subsurface of the Earth is identified. Three-dimensional stratigraphic images of sediment distribution in a subsurface of the Earth are constructed, including at least two depositional domains, by simulating sediment transport and deposition over a selected time interval of sediments originating from one or more clastic sediment input sources. The simulation uses at least two equilibrium surfaces bounding the at least two depositional domains and at least two sediment classes, and updates the equilibrium surfaces in a sequence of timesteps, by accounting for sediment feed from the one or more clastic sediment input sources, erosion and deposition in accordance with mass-balance equality constraints. The images are used to identify a distribution of sand sediment class in the subsurface of the Earth suitable for acquiring hydrocarbons or fresh water, or for storing gas or liquids.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for assisting a flight crew with (e.g., pre-flight) functional testing of aircraft systems are disclosed. An aircraft condition can be used to select one or more functional tests that are applicable based on the aircraft condition. The aircraft condition can be used to initiate the execution of the one or more applicable selected functional tests. The aircraft condition can also be used to identify the one or more functional tests that are applicable on a display device so as to guide the flight crew during the execution of the functional tests.

Abstract: A distribution of sand sediment class in a subsurface of the Earth is identified. Three-dimensional stratigraphic images of sediment distribution in a subsurface of the Earth are constructed, including at least two depositional domains, by simulating sediment transport and deposition over a selected time interval of sediments originating from one or more clastic sediment input sources. The simulation uses at least two equilibrium surfaces bounding the at least two depositional domains and at least two sediment classes, and updates the equilibrium surfaces in a sequence of timesteps, by accounting for sediment feed from the one or more clastic sediment input sources, erosion and deposition in accordance with mass-balance equality constraints. The images are used to identify a distribution of sand sediment class in the subsurface of the Earth suitable for acquiring hydrocarbons or fresh water, or for storing gas or liquids.

Abstract: A trans-impedance amplifier arrangement has an input configured to receive an output from a photo-detector, a current monitoring circuit configured in use to provide a current monitor signal dependent on a current through the photo-detector, and an output configured to output said current monitor signal to a control module, said output further configured to receive control information from said control module. A control module is configured to receive the current monitor signal and to provide the control information.

Abstract: A trans-impedance amplifier arrangement has an input configured to receive an output from a photo-detector, a current monitoring circuit configured in use to provide a current monitor signal dependent on a current through the photo-detector, and an output configured to output said current monitor signal to a control module, said output further configured to receive control information from said control module. A control module is configured to receive the current monitor signal and to provide the control information.

Abstract: Trans-impedance amplifier circuitry having an amplifier; a feedback resistor arranged between an output of the amplifier and an input of the amplifier; and at least one further resistor arranged physically parallel to the feedback resistor.

Abstract: A trans-impedance amplifier arrangement has an input configured to receive an output from a photo-detector, a current monitoring circuit configured in use to provide a current monitor signal dependent on a current through the photo-detector, and an output configured to output said current monitor signal to a control module, said output further configured to receive control information from said control module. A control module is configured to receive the current monitor signal and to provide the control information.

Abstract: Trans-impedance amplifier circuitry having an amplifier; a feedback resistor arranged between an output of the amplifier and an input of the amplifier; and at least one further resistor arranged physically parallel to the feedback resistor.

Abstract: The subject matter of the present disclosure relates to an in vitro method for the screening of anti-cancer compounds based on the capacity for these compounds to interact with neurotrophin 3 (NT-3 or NT3), to the extracellular domain or TrkC receptor and/or to inhibit the dimerization of the intracellular domain of the TrkC receptor expressed in tumor cells, particularly in neuroblastoma. The disclosure also relates to a method for predicting the presence of metastatic cancer or a bad prognosis cancer, or for determining the efficiency of an anti-cancer treatment based on the measuring of the expression level of neurotrophin 3. The disclosure further comprises kits and compounds as a medicament for the treatment of neuroblastoma or cancer overexpressing neurotrophin 3 by the tumor cells.

Abstract: The subject matter of the present disclosure relates to an in vitro method for the screening of anti-cancer compounds based on the capacity for these compounds to interact with neurotrophin 3 (NT-3 or NT3), to the extracellular domain, or TrkC receptor and/or to inhibit the dimerization of the intracellular domain of the TrkC receptor expressed in tumor cells, particularly in neuroblastoma. The disclosure also relates to a method for predicting the presence of metastatic cancer or a bad prognosis cancer, or for determining the efficiency of an anti-cancer treatment based on the measuring of the expression level of neurotrophin 3. The disclosure further comprises kits and compounds as a medicament for the treatment of neuroblastoma or cancer overexpressing neurotrophin 3 by the tumor cells.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive detector comprising a stack of layers having different magnetic characteristics (magnetic metal multilayers) wherein there is provision, under the effect of an electrical field, for a transfer of electrons perpendicularly to the layers. To ensure several perpendicular transfers through the same stack of layers, this stack is enclosed between two electrodes, and the electrical conduction of the entire piece is interrupted by a cutting out of the structure in the form of teeth in a Greek key pattern.

Abstract: Field effect transistors are provided and more particularly those which work at very high frequencies.According to the invention the field effect transistor has a vertical structure, comprising an access electrode, source or drain, on each of the two faces of the substrate wafer. The gate is formed by an N type epitaxial layer thickness sandwiched between two N.sup.+ type layers. The gate thickness is then limited by the epitaxial layer thickness which can be obtained of the order of a few hundred angstroms. The gate contact is taken by means of lateral metal layers, on the chamfered sides of the epitaxial layer.

Abstract: A system for automatic regulation of the density of a given molecular type at a pre-arranged point in an apparatus called a "flux or molecular jet", intended to make epitaxy layers. In a vacuum enclosure a probe for mass spectrometry analysis (electrostatic, four pole apparatus) picks up the types projected by evaporating units, ionizes them, filters and detects them as a function of their respective masses. The heating in each unit is regulated by a servo-control loop which contains means for analyzing the type concerned.