Abstract: A device and a method for the adaptive degradation of collision energy. A deformation element is provided which carries out a first motion in one direction for degrading the collision energy and undergoes tapering. In addition, an actuator system is provided which adjusts the tapering for the adaptive degradation as a function of a control signal. The actuator system is configured for a second motion in the axis of the direction of the first motion and for adjusting the tapering of the deformation element. As a result of the second motion, the actuator system is able to hold at least one die plate having a respective opening through which the deformation element is driven for adjusting the tapering. A number of die plates held by the actuator system is a function of the control signal. The die plates held in each case cause tapering of the deformation element.

Abstract: A process for preparing optically active saturated aldehydes or alcohols of the formula (2) from ?,?-unsaturated aldehydes of the formula (1) by reduction in the presence of an enoate reductase (i) having the polypeptide sequence SEQ ID No. 1 or 2, or (ii) having a polypeptide sequence which is at least 80% identical to the sequence of SEQ ID No. 1 or 2.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer products that create, update, save, and propagate customized views of table and grid information, including spreadsheets. The embodiment of the invention comprises associating at least one column as a first view of the table, associating at least one column as a second view of the table; and combining the first view with the second view, thereby efficiently creating a third view. Further, the combining includes dragging the second view; and dropping the dragged second view into the first view. The combining also includes creating a thumbnail image representing the first view or the second view. It also comprises updating columns that are shared between views. Additionally, the views may be stored, and new views may be propagated from the stored views.

Abstract: A method to be performed in a procedure of manufacturing a product includes receiving, in a computer system, a request to initiate a manufacturing procedure including at least a first physical operation modeled as a manufacturing-type operation in the computer system and a second physical operation modeled as a warehouse-type operation in the computer system. Information to be used in the manufacturing procedure, identifying the manufacturing-type operation and the warehouse-type operation, is generated in response to the request. Using the information, the manufacturing procedure including the first and second physical operations is initiated. A post-manufacturing procedure for a product can include a manufacturing-type operation and a warehouse-type operation. A computer system includes an operation management module for managing a manufacturing-type operation and a warehouse-type operation. The computer system includes initiation components for initiating the operations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of optically active Citronellal by enzymatic reduction of Citral with a reductase from Zymomonas mobilis.

Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a goods tag, a production bill of material hierarchy, and/or a release order template business object.

Abstract: A first-wall component for a fusion reactor contains at least one heat shield having a first region inclined toward the plasma and a second region lying opposite the first region and formed of a graphitic material. The heat shield has one or more slots that end in the first or second regions and are oriented generally in the direction of an axis of the cooling tube. The components suitably cope with the mechanical stresses resulting both from production and from thermal cycling.

Abstract: The present invention provides the use of escin for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical preparation for the treatment of a Type IV hypersensitivity reaction or symptoms of a Type IV hypersensitivity reaction, such as in contact dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, chronic transplant rejection, graft versus host disease, cell mediated autoimmune diseases, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Sjogren's disease, adrenalitis, polymyositis, or pernicious anemia.

Abstract: A pulley comprises a hollow-cylinder support element rotatably supporting a hollow body about a rotational axis and having first and second dome-shaped axial ends. An attachment element has a central axis extending in an axial direction and a complementary dome-shaped axial end abutting the first dome-shaped axial end of the support element. A rod extends within the support element and has a first axial end fixedly connectable with the complementary dome-shaped axial end of the attachment element. A fixing element is connected with a second axial end of the rod and has a complementary dome-shaped axial end abutting the second dome-shaped axial end of the support element. The rotational axis of the hollow body is angularly pivotable relative to the central axis at the fixing element. One of the first and second dome-shaped axial ends of the support element is concave and the other is convex.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel proteins from Pseudomonas glumae, having esterase activity, in particular butynol I esterase activity, to nucleic acid sequences coding therefore, to expression cassettes, vectors and recombinant microorganisms; to methods for preparing said proteins and to the use thereof for enzymic, in particular enantioselective enzymic, ester hydrolysis or transesterification of organic esters.

Abstract: A micromechanical structure, includes at least two structure sections configured to bound a working gap, the at least two structure sections being movable relative to one another, and a working gap width setting device configured to broaden the at least one working gap by movement of a first structure section of the at least two structure sections relative to a second structure section of the at least two structure section, the first structure section is stationary relative to a reference point during operation of the micromechanical structure and (ii) the second structure section is movable relative to the reference point during operation.

Abstract: The present Invention relates to new nitrilases with modified Substrate acceptance, the method to obtain them and the use of the aforesaid nitrilases. Said nitrilases are encoded by a polypeptide sequence, which at a Position corresponding to Position 296 in wild-type Alcaligenes faecalis comprises an amino acid which is not tyrosine. The Invention further relates to nucleic acid sequences and amino acid sequences encoding Said nitrilases, expression constructs comprising Said nucleic acid sequences, vectors comprising the nucleic acid sequences or the exPression constructs, to organisms, preferably microorganisms, comprising the nucleic acid sequences, expression constructs or vectors. The Invention additionally relates to a method for preparing carboxylic acids, preferably substituted chiral carboxylic acids from racemic nitriles.

Abstract: A method and device for explosives identification bombards a sample with neutrons the energy of which is to the positron activation energy of nitrogen and to the required energy for a neutron proton nuclear reaction of neutrons with 16O to 16N. Electron positron annihilation radiation emitted by the sample due to the neutron bombardment is then detected as a function of time. The respective concentration and the concentration ratio of oxygen and nitrogen in the sample is determined from the time dependency of the annihilation radiation, and the explosive is identified by the comparison of the concentration ratios of the specific concentrations of oxygen and nitrogen with the corresponding substance ratios of known explosives. By radiation with neutrons at the same time radionuclides 13N are created from the nitrogen contained and 16N from the oxygen contained, the decay of which generates electron positron annihilation radiation with characteristic half-lives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a first-wall component of a fusion reactor, which comprises at least one heat shield of a graphitic material and a cooling tube of copper or a copper alloy. Arranged between the heat shield and the cooling tube is a tube segment, which is connected at least in certain regions to the heat shield and to the cooling tube via copper-containing layers.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer products that create, update, save, and propagate customized views of table and grid information, including spreadsheets. The embodiment of the invention comprises associating at least one column as a first view of the table, associating at least one column as a second view of the table; and combining the first view with the second view, thereby efficiently creating a third view. Further, the combining includes dragging the second view; and dropping the dragged second view into the first view. The combining also includes creating a thumbnail image representing the first view or the second view. It also comprises updating columns that are shared between views. Additionally, the views may be stored, and new views may be propagated from the stored views.

Abstract: A process for preparing optically active alkanols of the formula I in which n is an integer from 0 to 5; Cyc is an optionally substituted, mono- or polynuclear, saturated or unsaturated, carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, and R1 is halogen, SH, OH, NO2, NR2R3 or NR2R3R4+X?, with R2, R3 and R4 independently of one another being hydrogen or a lower alkyl or lower alkoxy radical and X? being a counterion, which process comprises incubating in a medium comprising alkanone of the formula II ?in which n, Cyc and R1 are as defined above, an enzyme having a polypeptide sequence (i) SEQ ID NO: 1 or (ii) in which, compared to SEQ ID NO:1, up to 25% of the amino acid radicals have been altered by deletion, insertion, substitution or a combination thereof and which retains at least 50% of the enzymic activity of SEQ ID NO:1, with the compound of the formula II being enzymically reduced to give the compound of the formula I, and isolating the product formed.

Abstract: A bearing arrangement has at least two anti-friction bearings which are spaced apart along a central axis. At least one bearing is configured as a tapered roller bearing, the tapered roller bearing having a number of frustoconical rolling bodies. A cone angle between a line of symmetry of each rolling body and the central axis is between 20° and 33°.

Abstract: A method for the enzymatic preparation of amino acids of the general formula (3) or (4) from alpha-dehydroamino acids of the general formula (1) or (2) wherein R1, R2 are independently of one another H, C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, an optionally substituted carbo- or heterocyclic, aromatic or nonaromatic radical, or an alkylaryl radical, or a carboxyl radical (—COOR), R3 is H, formyl, acetyl, propionyl, benzyl, benzyloxycarbonyl, BOC, Alloc, R is H, C1-C6 alkyl, aryl, by reducing a compound of the formula (1) or (2) in the presence of a reductase.

Abstract: Gear shift arrangement for a shiftable manual gearbox (300) provided in a vehicle, e.g. an off road vehicle, scooter or snowmobile, comprising a shift operating mechanism (9, 8) to be operated by a driver, said gearbox having a first set of gears with positions for high speed, and at least one further gear from the group of gears low speed, neutral and parking, and a second set of gears with positions for at least forward and reverse. The positions of the first set of gears are shiftable under influence of a first shift lever (9), that the positions of the second set of gears are shiftable under influence of a second shift lever (8) separate from the first one, and each shift lever is movable in essentially only one plane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing the optically active alkanols of formula (I), wherein n is an integer of from 0 to 5; Cyc represents an optionally substituted, mononuclear or polynuclear, saturated or unsaturated, carbocylic or heterocyclic ring, and R1 represents halogen, SH, OH, NO2, NR2R3 or NR2R3R4+X?, wherein R2, R3 and R4 independently represent H or a lower alkyl or lower alkoxy group and X? represents a counterion. According to the invention, an enzyme (E) selected from the groups of dehydrogenases, aldehyde reductases and carbonyl reductases is incubated in a medium containing the alkanone of formula (II), wherein n, Cyc and R1 are defined as above, in the presence of reduction equivalents.