Abstract: A method to evaluate the potential of cancer therapeutics to produce skin related side effects is disclosed. The method, which involves use of biological markers, can also be used to evaluate the efficacy of a composition in reducing the effects of cancer therapeutics on skin.

Abstract: Disclosed is the non-therapeutic use, as a DNA-demethylating agent, of at least one organometallic compound including an iron atom bound to two terpyridine groups. Further disclosed are method related to applying such agent as medicine.

Abstract: A pixel circuit for a ultra-low power image sensor, including: an integration node, on which a photodiode current is integrated, a comparator arranged to compare a voltage at the integration node with a reference voltage, a n+1 bits digital memory, a writing pulse signal generator arranged to generate a writing pulse signal, on the basis of the comparator output voltage and on the voltage at a memory node, the start of the pulse triggering the writing of the digital word in the n-bits digital memory part. The comparator includes a switch in series with a current source and arranged to be commanded by the voltage at the memory node so that the switch is open at the end of the pulse, so as to drastically limit the consumption of static power of the pixel circuit during the integration phase.

Abstract: There is described an ultrasound tracking system for tracking a position and orientation of an anatomical feature in computer-assisted surgery. The system generally has: an ultrasound imaging system having a phased-array ultrasound probe unit for emitting ultrasound signals successively towards different portions of said anatomical feature, measuring echo signals returning from said portions of said anatomical feature and generating respective imaged echo datasets; a coordinate tracking system tracking coordinates of said ultrasound phased array probe unit during said measuring, and generating corresponding coordinate datasets; and a controller being communicatively coupled to said ultrasound imaging system and said coordinate tracking system, said controller performing the steps of: registering said imaged echo datasets in a common coordinate system based on said coordinate datasets; and tracking said position and orientation of said anatomical feature based on said registering.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a slide comprising a fixed profile and a movable profile mounted on the fixed profile so as to slide in a longitudinal direction, the slide comprising a longitudinal adjustment screw, the fixed profile presenting a bottom having an outer face opposite the adjustment screw, the adjustment screw having one end integral with a support which comprises two longitudinal side walls able to receive the end. The bottom comprises two longitudinal parallel slots, and the bottom and the support each have a hole which are in line with one another and are able to receive an attachment part for attaching the fixed profile to the floor of a vehicle when the side walls are engaged in the slots with the rest of the support facing the outer face.

Abstract: A method for producing a powder of a reinforced alloy (ODS alloy) in which the grains forming the particles of the powder comprise a metal matrix, in the volume of which crystalline oxide particles are dispersed, said method comprising the following successive steps: i) providing a powder mixture to be milled comprising a master alloy intended to form the metal matrix and an additional powder comprising at least one intermediate intended to incorporate atoms intended to form the dispersed oxide particles; ii) milling the powder mixture according to a mechanical synthesis process for making a precursor powder; iii) subjecting the precursor powder to a thermal plasma generated by a plasma torch comprising a plasma gas, in order to obtain the reinforced alloy powder. The method of the invention is particularly suitable for producing an ODS alloy that has optimized characteristics of composition and/or microstructure.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for encrypting portions of data for storage and processing in a remote network. For example, methods may include receiving a message that includes data for forwarding to a server device; encrypting a portion of the data to determine an encrypted portion; determining metadata based on the portion of the data, wherein the metadata indicates one or more properties of the portion of the data and enables one or more operations to be performed by the server device that depend on the one or more properties; determining a payload including the data with both the encrypted portion and the metadata substituted for the portion of the data; and transmitting the payload to the server device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a thin film on a substrate by RPCVD which provides for very low levels of carbon and oxygen impurities and includes the steps of introducing a Group VA plasma into a first deposition zone of a growth chamber, introducing a Group IIIA reagent into a second deposition zone of the growth chamber which is separate from the first deposition zone and introducing an amount of an additional reagent selected from the group consisting of ammonia, hydrazine, di-methyl hydrazine and a hydrogen plasma through an additional reagent inlet into the second deposition zone such that the additional reagent and the Group IIIA reagent mix prior to deposition.

Abstract: A method for acquiring at least one scene, the method including a) positioning at least three different targets at different target locations of the scene, b) taking digital images of the scene and the target by means of an imaging device comprising at least one camera, the image-taking locations being chosen such that at least two of the images intersect, and c) scanning the scene and the targets by means of an optical remote detection device, each target including: a characteristic pattern identifiable by digital analysis of the scan data, called “pattern to be scanned”, and a characteristic pattern identifiable by photogrammetry, called “photogrammetric pattern”.

Abstract: Part comprising a steel material whose constituent grains comprise a matrix in which precipitates are incorporated, the precipitates comprising at least one metallic element selected from a metallic element M, a metallic element M?, a metallic element M? or mixtures thereof; the microstructure of the steel being such that the grains are equiaxed and the average grain size being such that the average of their largest dimension “D max” and/or the average of their smallest dimension “D min” is comprised between 10 ?m and 50 ?m. The steel material has optimised, stable and isotropic mechanical properties, in particular so that the steel material can best withstand mechanical and/or thermal stresses.

Abstract: Process for the manufacture of a steel material, wherein the grains of which it is composed comprise a matrix into which precipitates are incorporated, the precipitates comprising at least one metallic element selected from a metallic element M, a metallic element M?, a metallic element M? or mixtures thereof; the microstructure of the steel being such that the grains are equiaxial and the average size of the grains being such that the average of their largest dimension “Dmax” and/or the average of their smallest dimension “Dmin” is in the range 10 ?m to 50 ?m. The steel material has optimised, stable and isotropic mechanical properties, in particular so that the steel material is more resistant to mechanical and/or thermal stresses.

Abstract: Steel material whose constituent grains comprise a matrix in which precipitates are incorporated, the precipitates comprising at least one metallic element selected from a metallic element M, a metallic element M?, a metallic element M? or mixtures thereof; the microstructure of the steel being such that the grains are equiaxed and the average grain size being such that the average of their largest dimension “Dmax” and/or the average of their smallest dimension “Dmin” is comprised between 10 ?m and 50 ?m. The steel material has optimized, stable and isotropic mechanical properties, in particular so that the steel material can best withstand mechanical and/or thermal stresses.

Abstract: Process for the treatment of a steel material, wherein the grains of which it is composed comprise a matrix into which precipitates are incorporated, the precipitates comprising at least one metallic element selected from a metallic element M, a metallic element M?, a metallic element M? or mixtures thereof; the microstructure of the steel being such that the grains are equiaxial and the average size of the grains being such that the average of their largest dimension “Dmax” and/or the average of their smallest dimension “Dmin” is in the range 10 ?m to 50 ?m. The steel material has optimised, stable and isotropic mechanical properties, in particular so that the steel material is more resistant to mechanical and/or thermal stresses.

Abstract: A device for the inflation of an inflatable life vest, notable in that it includes a storage casing containing at least two cartridges of pressurized gas which are arranged side-by-side and touching one another to form a row, and a release casing comprising at least one striker device that makes it possible, in the event of activation, to puncture each of the said cartridges simultaneously or in succession to release the gas they contain in gaseous form to the outside of the inflation device through at least one orifice made on the release casing, the said storage and release casings being in the overall shape of a flattened hollow parallelepiped and joined together removably and in a manner that is gastight with respect to the gas contained in the said cartridges.

Abstract: A method for providing personal information of a user requested by a given online service. The method includes, by a security server of a mobile terminal operator of be user: (a) receiving a request for the personal information, including comprising a unique identifier of the user and an identifier of the online service; (b) sending, to the mobile terminal, a response authorisation request; (c) if a response authorisation confirmation is received, sending data, which is associated in a database with the unique identifier and the identifier of the online service. Each pair of a unique identifier and an online service identifier is also associated in the database with a parameter representative of a level of security required in order to confirm the response authorisation on the mobile terminal. The step (b) includes: determining the value of the parameter; and integrating the determined value in the response authorisation request.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid recovery system for a motor vehicle and to a vehicle including such a recovery system that that includes at least one liquid intake that communicates with a tank and is referred to as the first tank, which is designed to store liquid from the liquid intake and where the liquid intake is arrangeably designed below the vehicle's beltline.

Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane intended to be arranged in all or part of an air flow of an aircraft bypass turbomachine fan, the vane comprising an aerodynamic part equipped with at least one interior lubricant cooling passage delimited in part by an intrados wall and an extrados wall of the vane, there being flow-disturbing lugs, made as one piece with one of the intrados and extrados walls, passing across the passage. According to the invention, in any plane of section passing orthogonally through the lugs, the space defined between these lugs has a geometry defined exclusively by a set of annulus shapes of the same dimensions, partially overlapping one another and each in part delimiting at least two of these lugs.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for creating an interface between a smart contract to be executed on a decentralized architecture and a user component, the method comprising: receiving code corresponding to the smart contract at an interface server; the interface server parsing an application binary interface (ABI) corresponding to the smart contract; the interface server constructing an enhanced application binary interface (EABI) based on the ABI; and the interface server creating a REST API interface specific to the smart contract based on the EABI.

Abstract: A system and method for encrypting portions of data for storage in a remote network have been provided. The system comprises a memory with instructions executable by a processor to receive data for forwarding to a server device, wherein the received data comprises an indication of one or more portions of the received data to be encrypted; identify a portion comprising the one or more portions of the received data based at least in part on the indication; encrypt the identified portion of the data; generate a payload that comprises the encrypted portion and one or more unencrypted portions of the received data; and transmit, to the server device, the payload.

Abstract: A digitizer and processor device for a swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) imaging system, comprising: an input configured to receive an OCT signal; a control input configured to receive a k-clock signal; a combiner unit (130) receiving the OCT signal and the k-clock signal configured to output a composite signal; a digitizing unit (60) arranged to convert the composite signal into a digital composite signal (69); a data processing unit (70) arranged to determine a profile of optical density in a sample that generated the OCT signal based on the digital composite signal (69).