Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) displays a flow of activities of a business process, including any portion thereof from which capture of data is permitted. The GUI receives, in an operation, at least an indication of a business process portion from which data is to be captured (“sensor”), an identification of an endpoint to which captured data is to be transferred, and a type of the endpoint which identifies (through a mapping) a predetermined software. A sensor may be added any number of times (through a single GUI or though multiple GUIs) by repeatedly performing the operation. Also, a given sensor may be associated with multiple endpoints. Computer(s) executing the business process check whether or not a sensor is present, on execution of the business process portion, and if present, then execute the corresponding predetermined software(s) to transfer data from the sensor directly to the respective endpoint(s).

Abstract: A measuring arrangement and measurement method determine the play of a cartridge pivot unit of an inkjet printing system that has at least one stop for the cartridge pivot unit. The cartridge pivot unit is driven by a first motor via a gear train and is equipped with a first movement sensor to establish a movement of the cartridge pivot unit upon leaving the stop. The cartridge pivot unit moves only when the play of the gear train is overcome. The stop for the cartridge pivot unit is formed by a mobile cleaning and sealing station. A counter is provided to count pulses, the count being representative of the play of the gear train of the cartridge pivot unit counting begins with leaving the mobile stop and continues until the movement of the cartridge pivot unit upon leaving the stop again ensues in conformity with the actuation by the first motor.

Abstract: In a method for monitoring fluid flow sensing a first sensed variable such as the differential pressure of the fluid flow as at least an indirect function of the fluid flow to be sensed and a second sensed variable such as the vortex shedding frequency at a bluff body located in the flow as at least an indirect function of the fluid flow and different from the first sensed variable is detected and/or determined; the first and second sensed variable are simultaneously detected and/or determined on the basis of one and the same basic physical sensing principle; and the first and second sensed variable are compared to each other.

Abstract: Projection objective, projection exposure apparatuses and related systems and components are disclosed.

Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention features a catadioptric projection objective having a plurality of optical elements arranged along an optical axis to image a pattern arranged in an object surface of the projection objective onto an image surface of the projection objective. The optical elements include a concave mirror; a first deflecting mirror tilted relative to the optical axis by a first tilt angle t1 about a first tilt axis to deflect light from the object surface towards the concave mirror or to deflect light from the concave mirror towards the image surface; and a second deflecting mirror tilted relative to the optical axis by a second tilt angle t2 about a second tilt axis. The first deflecting mirror has a first reflective coating with reflectivity Rs1(?1) for s-polarized light and a reflectivity Rp1(?1) for p-polarized light incident on the first deflecting mirror at first angles of incidence ?1 from a first range of angles of incidence according to (t1???1)??1?(t1+??1).

Abstract: In a method and arrangement for manipulation of the contents of a data memory with which a processing device can be connected to manipulate (in at least one manipulation step at least one first memory range of the data memory, the processing device monitors a monitoring range of the first memory range, the state progression of which allowing the conclusion of the manipulation of the first memory range to be detected. A processing device with a buffer is used, into which buffer the data are read from the data memory. A sub-range of the data memory is established as a first exclusion range of the data memory. The first exclusion range not being read into the buffer. The first exclusion range is established in an establishing step preceding the manipulation step. The exclusion range includes the monitoring range.

Abstract: A device determined the state of a soot particle filter of an internal combustion engine. An electrical measuring arrangement is embodied as a soot sensor for measuring a soot deposit and comprises an electrical component with a conductor structure for exciting an electrical or magnetic field which can be influenced by the soot deposit and characterizes an electrical or magnetic characteristic variable of the component. A measuring arrangement measures the electrical or magnetic characteristic variable of the component as a measure of the soot deposit. The conductor structure is arranged so that a partial volume region of the soot particle filter is penetrated by the electrical field, and the partial volume region forms part of the component.

Abstract: An improved metal mesh with lights and an arrangement of such a mesh on a building are proposed. A light carrier receptacle is integrated in a mesh and thereby allow a light carrier to be removed from the mesh and reinserted without disintegrating the light carrier receptacle. Alternatively, a light carrier receptacle is attached to a mesh or other hanging, to which the light carrier is then attached. Clips can be preferably used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a knife for cutting meat or meat-like products, cheese and the like, the knife being made up of a hub (9) and a cutting body (10). The cutting body has a cavity (4), preferably composed of a first (2) and a second half-shell (3). The invention also relates to a method for producing knives with a cavity as well as to a method for detecting leakage from the knife cavity, wherein a liquid is filled into the cavity.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a polarization-modulating optical element, wherein the element causes, for light passing through the element and due to stress-induced birefringence, a distribution of retardation between orthogonal states of polarization, the method comprising joining a first component and a second component, wherein a non-plane surface of the first component being provided with a defined height profile is joined with a plane surface of the second component, whereby a mechanical stress causing the stress-induced birefringence is produced in the such formed polarization-modulating optical element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the cutting head of an eccentric cutting machine, including a drive shaft (7) which is mounted to rotate in relation to a machine frame (14) and on which a rotor (13) is arranged, in which a substantially disk-shaped knife (1) is mounted to rotate and eccentrically arranged in relation to the drive shaft (7). The invention also relates to a slicing machine provided with the cutting head.

Abstract: A method fabricates a semiconductor structure having a plurality of memory cells that are provided in a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and contains a plurality of planar selection transistors and a corresponding plurality of storage capacitors connected thereto. The selection transistors have respective first and second active regions of a second conductivity type. The first active regions are connected to the storage capacitors and the second active regions are connected to respective bit lines, and respective gate stacks, which are provided above the semiconductor substrate in a manner insulated by a gate dielectric. In this case, a single-sided halo doping is effected, and an excessive outdiffusion of the halo doping zones is prevented by introduction of a diffusion-inhibiting species.

Abstract: A portable mobile communications device for diverting the destination of a mobile broadcast program broadcast by a mobile broadcast service provider includes a mobile broadcast device, a processor running a mobile broadcast diversion application communicable with the mobile broadcast service provider, and a user interface for controlling the mobile broadcast device and the mobile broadcast diversion application such that mobile broadcast programs can be diverted to an alternate device when the received signal quality of the mobile broadcast falls to unsatisfactory levels. The alternate device can include a home media server, a computer, or a mobile radio access network (M-RAN) coupled to and communicable with the mobile broadcast service provider via the Internet.

Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) displays a flow of activities of a business process, including any portion thereof from which capture of data is permitted. The GUI receives, in an operation, at least an indication of a business process portion from which data is to be captured (“sensor”), an identification of an endpoint to which captured data is to be transferred, and a type of the endpoint which identifies (through a mapping) a predetermined software. A sensor may be added any number of times (through a single GUI or though multiple GUIs) by repeatedly performing the operation. Also, a given sensor may be associated with multiple endpoints. Computer(s) executing the business process check whether or not a sensor is present, on execution of the business process portion, and if present, then execute the corresponding predetermined software(s) to transfer data from the sensor directly to the respective endpoint(s).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating an electronic program guide on a portable mobile communications device is presented. The portable mobile communications device is part of a larger network that is communicable with a mobile radio access network (MRAN) and capable of receiving broadcasts from a mobile television service provider. The portable mobile communications device displays a list of programs available and accepts input that selects one of the programs. This causes a display of the list of options that can be applied to the selected program. The portable mobile communications device then accepts input and performs the selected option for the selected program. The list of options includes an option to record the selected program locally, remotely, or on a home personal video recorder (PVR). In addition, list of options that can be applied to the selected program includes an option to set a reminder for the selected program.

Abstract: Artificial antibodies or antibody mimics are described. They consist of polymers that carry specific binding sites mimicking the properties of antibodies. There is also described a method for producing artificial antibodies, in which polymerisable monomers carrying functional groups and crosslinking monomers are polymerised in the presence of a print molecule and subsequently the print molecule is removed leaving specific binding sites complementary to the print molecules. There are also described methods for determination and isolation of organic molecules using the artificial antibodies as well as therapeutic and diagnostic methods using these antibodies.

Abstract: An exhaust gas sensor is proposed for detecting a gas component in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, having a control and evaluation unit and a sensor unit with an electrode structure with a first terminal and a second terminal, and a method for operating an exhaust gas sensor to determine the concentration of a gas component in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine is also proposed. The control and evaluation unit applies a bias voltage to the first terminal and/or the second terminal of the electrode structure, it being possible for the level of the bias voltage to be set in dependence on a characteristic of the sensor and/or in dependence on a loading of the sensor. A bias voltage is applied to the first terminal and/or to the second terminal of the electrode structure, with the level of the bias voltage being set in dependence on a characteristic of the sensor and/or in dependence on a loading of the sensor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a slicing device for slicing foodstuffs (1), in particular, sausages, meat or blocks of cheese with a rotating cutting blade (2), which may be displaced parallel to the rotation axis (3) thereof. The invention further relates to a method for the axial displacement of a cutting blade (2) and the use of axially-displaceable counterweights (4) for stabilisation of the action of a cutting blade (2) on a cutting machine, the use of the axial displacement of the cutting blade (2) of a slicing machine, for adjustment of the initial point and the use of the axial displacement of the cutting blade (2), for adjustment of the wheel gap between the cutting blade (2) and a cutting strip.

Abstract: The invention concerns an optical element, in particular for an objective or an illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, including a substrate which for light of a predetermined working wavelength which passes through the substrate causes a first retardation between mutually perpendicular polarization states, and a layer which is epitaxially grown on the substrate and which is made from a material with non-cubic crystal structure, which by virtue of natural birefringence causes a second retardation between mutually perpendicular polarization states, which at least partially compensates for the first retardation caused in the substrate.

Abstract: In a device for determining an exhaust gas recirculation rate (EGR) in an internal combustion engine, wherein the device includes a sensor unit, which in a first region is exposed to an exhaust-gas atmosphere from an exhaust gas recirculation line and in a second region is exposed to an exhaust gas/fresh air atmosphere in an intake line of the internal combustion engine downstream of a location where the exhaust gas recirculation line opens into the intake line, the sensor unit disposed in the intake line is tubular with the inner side of the sensor unit being exposed to the exhaust gas atmosphere and the outer side of the sensor unit being exposed to the exhaust gas/fresh air atmosphere. The sensor unit is preferably positioned centrally within the intake line away from the wall of the intake line.