Abstract: Systems, methods, and catheters for endovascular treatment of a blood vessel are disclosed. In one aspect, a catheter for endovascular treatment of a blood vessel. The catheter comprises a housing. The catheter further comprises a treatment portion. The catheter further comprises a fistula forming element. And the catheter further comprises an intravascular ultrasound imaging device.

Abstract: A boot assembly for use with a leg on a support stand of a lighting fixture, including a body portion formed by a side wall defining a recess having a top opening, and a base portion including a substantially planar bottom surfacer, a top wall, and a perimeter side wall extending therebetween, wherein the body portion extends upwardly from the top wall of the base portion and a distal end of the leg is slidably received in the recess of the body portion.

Abstract: A system for providing information through a metal wall employs a device adapted to be arranged on one side of the metal wall and a magnetic-permeability element, provided at, near or connected to the device. The magnetic-permeability element is based on a material having a relative magnetic permeability of at least 2000. The disclosure also provides use of said system. The use may involve the step of optimizing the magnetic-permeability element using equivalent inductive mass (EIm). The system can for example be used to magnetically sense the location of a cable present on the outside of a wellbore tubular using a magnetic orienting tool that is located within the wellbore tubular.

Abstract: Stereoscopic 3D systems include a conversion system having a polarization beam-splitting element to separate a randomly polarized incident image-beam into one transmitted image-beam and at least one reflected image-beam, first and second polarization modulators arranged to modulate states of the transmitted and reflected image-beams between first and second output linear polarization states, the modulators including first and second pi-cell liquid crystal elements aligned in mutually crossed orientation and switched between first and second optical-states, one of the optical-states having in-plane optical retardation corresponding to a quarter-wave plate (QWP), an additional QWP proximate to one of the pi-cell liquid crystal elements and perpendicularly aligned to the optical axis for the in-plane optical retardation for one of the pi-cell liquid crystal elements.

Abstract: A system and method for collecting heat generated by the microbial action in a septic system effluent disposal area that is then transferred to a building structure where it may provide, for example, the temperature differential for a heat exchanger in a heat pump, thereby being the energy source for heating and cooling buildings.

Abstract: A metal wellbore tubular wall of a wellbore tubular, having a cable system arranged on an outside thereof, is to be perforated downhole. The cable system contains a fiber-optic cable, and a magnetic-permeability element with a relative magnetic permeability ?r,m of at least 2,000, such as an electrical steel, is configured along a length of the fiber-optic cable. The cable system is located by sensing the magnetic-permeability element through the metal wellbore tubular wall, using a magetic orienting tool which is being lowered into the wellbore tubular. subsequently, the metal wellbore tubular wall is perforated in a direction away from the cable system.

Abstract: A system and method for collecting heat generated by the microbial action in a septic system effluent disposal area that is then transferred to a building structure where it may provide, for example, the temperature differential for a heat exchanger in a heat pump, thereby being the energy source for heating and cooling buildings.

Abstract: A system for providing information through a metal wall employs a device adapted to be arranged on one side of the metal wall and a magnetic-permeability element, provided at, near or connected to the device. The magnetic-permeability element is based on a material having a relative magnetic permeability of at least 2000. The disclosure also provides use of said system. The use may involve the step of optimizing the magnetic-permeability element using equivalent inductive mass (EIm). The system can for example be used to magnetically sense the location of a cable present on the outside of a wellbore tubular using a magetic orienting tool that is located within the wellbore tubular.

Abstract: Stereoscopic 3D systems include a conversion system having a polarization beam-splitting element to separate a randomly polarized incident image-beam into one transmitted image-beam and at least one reflected image-beam, first and second polarization modulators arranged to modulate states of the transmitted and reflected image-beams between first and second output linear polarization states, the modulators including first and second pi-cell liquid crystal elements aligned in mutually crossed orientation and switched between first and second optical-states, one of the optical-states having in-plane optical retardation corresponding to a quarter-wave plate (QWP), an additional QWP proximate to one of the pi-cell liquid crystal elements and perpendicularly aligned to the optical axis for the in-plane optical retardation for one of the pi-cell liquid crystal elements.

Abstract: A flow velocity meter, for measuring flow velocity of a fluid, has a distributed acoustic sensor along aq longitudinal direction, which has a distributed sensing element. The distributed sensing element is acoustically coupled to a distributed fluid-contact surface via a distributed acoustic path extending between the distributed fluid-contact surface and the distributed sensing element. Moreover the distributed acoustic path is fully bypassing the fluid. At least a part of the fluid-contact surface is provided with a flow-disturbing surface texture having a surface relief with a pre-determined pattern in said longitudinal direction. Acoustic flow noise, emitted as a result of the fluid flowing along and in contact with the flow-disturbing surface texture, is picked up by the distributed sensing element as a distributed acoustic signal.

Abstract: A system for providing information through a metal wall employs a device (10), such as a fiber optic cable, adapted to be arranged on one side of the metal wall (20) and a magnetic-permeability element (11), provided at, near or connected to the device. The magnetic-permeability element is based on a material having a relative magnetic permeability of at least 2000. The disclosure also provides use of said system. The use may involve the step of optimizing the magnetic-permeability element using equivalent inductive mass (Elm). The system can for example be used to magnetically sense the location of a cable (10) present on the outside of a wellbore tubular (20) using a magnetic orienting tool that is located within the wellbore tubular.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a time-multiplexed stereoscopic 3d projection system that provides a higher level of on-screen image-brightness and image quality as compared to other prior-art technologies based on a single-beam architecture. The invention is based on the insight that a polarization beam-splitting element can be arranged to split an incident image-beam generated by a projector into one transmitted image-beam and at least one reflected image-beam, wherein each of said transmitted and reflected image-beams possess the same common state of polarization. Furthermore, by utilization of at least one reflecting surface, polarization rotator, polarization modulator, polarization-preserving projection-screen and passive polarized viewing-glasses, a stereoscopic 3d projection system is disclosed that provides for a high level of on-screen image-brightness and image quality.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a time-multiplexed stereoscopic 3d projection system wherein the image-beam from a digital cinema projector is separated by a polarization beam-splitting element into one primary image-beam possessing a first state of polarization and at least one secondary image-beam possessing a second state of polarization. Polarization modulators are provided in order to modulate the polarization state for each of said primary and secondary image-beams thereof and arranged so that all left-eye images possess a first modulated state of polarization and all right-eye images possess a second modulated state of polarization.

Abstract: A flow velocity meter, for measuring flow velocity of a fluid, has a distributed acoustic sensor along aq longitudinal direction, which has a distributed sensing element. The distributed sensing element is acoustically coupled to a distributed fluid-contact surface via a distributed acoustic path extending between the distributed fluid-contact surface and the distributed sensing element. Moreover the distributed acoustic path is fully bypassing the fluid. At least a part of the fluid-contact surface is provided with a flow-disturbing surface texture having a surface relief with a pre-determined pattern in said longitudinal direction. Acoustic flow noise, emitted as a result of the fluid flowing along and in contact with the flow-disturbing surface texture, is picked up by the distributed sensing element as a distributed acoustic signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a time-multiplexed stereoscopic 3d projection system wherein the image-beam from a digital cinema projector is separated by a polarization beam-splitting element into one primary image-beam possessing a first state of polarization and at least one secondary image-beam possessing a second state of polarization. Polarization modulators are provided in order to modulate the polarization state for each of said primary and secondary image-beams thereof and arranged so that all left-eye images possess a first modulated state of polarization and all right-eye images possess a second modulated state of polarization.

Abstract: The present invention discloses the design of active 3d shutter-glasses for the viewing of time-multiplexed stereoscopic three dimensional (3d) images that offer both an improved level of on-screen image-brightness as well as reduced manufacturing costs as compared to other prior-art technologies. The disclosed invention is based on the insight that a tangential in-plane electrical-field can be utilized in order to provide for a voltage-assisted relaxation switching step together with cholesteric liquid crystal materials, thereby increasing the relaxation speed of said cholesteric liquid crystal materials thereof. Furthermore, dichroic-dye materials can additionally be added to said cholesteric liquid crystal materials in order to absorb at least some of the scattered light and hence reduce the overall level of perceived on-screen image-haze.

Abstract: A method of providing optical fiber in a wellbore may include lowering a spindle holding the optical fiber through the wellbore and anchoring a distal end of the optical fiber in the wellbore. The method may also include drawing the optical fiber from the spindle by pulling the spindle back through the wellbore. A device for providing optical fiber in a wellbore may include a spindle configured to hold at least a portion of the optical fiber as the spindle moves through the wellbore. The optical fiber is drawn from the spindle as the spindle passes through the wellbore.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a stereoscopic 3d projection system that is based on elliptical polarization, and more specifically a time-multiplexed stereoscopic 3d projection system that enables the viewer to observe stereoscopic 3d images on the surface of a polarization-preserving projection-screen via utilization of passive elliptically-polarized viewing-glasses. The disclosed invention provides a stereoscopic 3d projection system that is capable of operating at higher frame-rates and/or with higher optical light efficiency as compared to other prior-art technologies that are instead based on circular polarization.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for migrating interdependent data objects from a first device to a second device. In use, at least one first data object to be migrated from a first device to a second device associated with a target code is received. Further, it is determined that the second device associated with the target code requires at least one second data object to be present at least one of before the at least one first data object or at a same time as the at least one first data object. Additionally, the at least one first data object to be migrated from the first device to the second device associated with the target code is stored in a cache. Furthermore, an interdependency event associated with the at least one first data object and the at least one second data object is detected. In response to detecting the interdependency event, the at least one second data object to be migrated from the first device to the second device associated with the target code is received.

Abstract: A time-multiplexed stereoscopic 3d projection system including a beam-splitting element to split the randomly polarized image-beam generated by a single-lens projector into one primary image-beam, possessing a first state of linear polarization, and two secondary image-beams, both possessing a second state of linear polarization. The polarization states are mutually orthogonal. The primary and secondary image-beams recombine to form a complete image on the surface of a polarization-preserving projection-screen. There are polarization modulators that modulate the first and second states of linear polarization between a left and right circular polarization state. There is a contrast enhancement film in the optical-path of the primary or secondary image-beams located between the polarization modulator and the projection-screen.