Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of chemical manufacture. In particular, it relates to a method for manufacturing racemic methylglycinediacetic acid (MGDA) comprising the steps of contacting a solution comprising or being enriched in D-alanine or L-alanine to an alanine racemase at a temperature of at least 50° C. and alkaline conditions for a time sufficient to allow conversion of said solution into a racemic alanine solution, obtaining a racemic alanine solution, and chemically converting the racemic alanine into racemic MGDA. The invention further contemplates an alanine racemase which is capable of converting a solution comprising or being enriched in D-alanine or L-alanine into racemic alanine solution at a temperature of at least 50° C. and under alkaline conditions as well as the use of said alanine racemase for converting a solution comprising or being enriched in D-alanine or L-alanine into racemic alanine solution at a temperature of at least 50° C. and under alkaline conditions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of processing a user initiated request for information is disclosed. The method may provide receiving a user initiated request including a uniform resource locator (URL) submitted to a web browser application and receiving a response that the URL is an invalid URL that cannot be resolved to a corresponding webpage. The method may also include blocking a subsequent attempt to transmit the user initiated request as a browser modified search request that includes modifications to the user initiated request.

Abstract: The invention relates to a test and/or practice ammunition having at least one projectile with a projectile head and a fin which can be found at the end of the projectile for example or a projectile with a projectile base and a projectile ogive. A cartridge shell is used to receive a drive and has a shell base, wherein an interface is attached in or on the shell base. The test and/or practice ammunition is characterized by a programmable fuze which is arranged in the projectile head or the projectile ogive. The projectile head/projectile ogive is equipped with at least one fuze amplifier and an electronic fuze system and optionally a separating charge.

Abstract: A receiver for a light transmission system includes a camera having an image sensor, and a light-sensitive area of the image sensor includes a plurality of rows of light-sensitive elements. The image sensor is configured such that the light-sensitive area of the image sensor is scanned row by row or column by column. An attachment element is arranged such that light incident on the light-sensitive area of the image sensor passes through the attachment element beforehand. The attachment element has at least one lenticular region and at least one planar region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for providing a treated fluid, in particular of drinking water, comprising a treatment device with at least one treatment container for treating the fluid and a temperature control device for controlling the temperature of the fluid in the at least one treatment container, preferably for cooling it, wherein at least one pre-temperature control device is provided with at least one container for the temperature control of the untreated fluid, wherein the container has an inlet for non-temperature-controlled, untreated fluid and an outlet where temperature-controlled, untreated fluid can be supplied, and that the temperature control device is designed such that a) the temperature-controlled, untreated fluid in the direction of flow prior to treatment by the treatment device can be temperature-controlled by the temperature control device for the treatment device, or b) the untreated fluid can be temperature-controlled by the temperature control device before and/or during trea

Abstract: A device for administering a fluid is provided, with a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, a receiving block (10), a nonreturn valve, a tensioning device, a ramp, a motor (12) a ramp track, a roller and a driver (50).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for analyzing an element of a photolithography process, said apparatus comprising: (a) a first measuring apparatus for recording first data of the element; and (b) means for transforming the first data into second, non-measured data, which correspond to measurement data of a measurement of the element with a second measuring apparatus; (c) wherein the means comprise a transformation model, which has been trained using a multiplicity of first data used for training purposes and second data corresponding therewith, which are linked to the second measuring apparatus.

Abstract: Herbicide/safener combinations based on safeners from the class of substituted [(1,5-diphenyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)oxy]acetic acids and their salts The present invention relates to combinations comprising one or more component (A) effective as safener and one or more herbicidally active compounds (component (B)), where component (A) represents one or more compounds of the general formula (I) or agrochemically acceptable salts thereof and component (B) represents one or more herbicides. The application further relates to a process and the use of the herbicide/safener combinations according to the invention for control of harmful plants or for regulation of growth.

Abstract: An airtight housing, in particular electronics housing, is suitable for use in different ambient pressure conditions. The housing has housing walls of a plastics material. At least one of the housing walls has a pressure compensating device that seals a cutout in the housing wall in an airtight manner. The pressure compensating device has an elastic, flat compensating element located on top of the cutout.

Abstract: Distance measurement system for a vehicle, wherein the distance measurement system includes a measurement unit for non-contact determination of a distance to an object and the measurement unit includes: a sensor unit configured to emit a signal and to receive a signal reflected by the object; an evaluation unit determining a distance between the measurement unit and the object from the signals emitted and received by the sensor unit; and a signal deflection apparatus arranged in the area of the sensor unit with a reflector surface deflecting the signal emitted by the sensor unit in a direction deviating from the propagation direction of the signal, in particular at an essentially right angle to the propagation direction of the signal, in the direction of the object.

Abstract: A radar sensor having at least one antenna structure and at least one coupling structure, which is designed to couple substrate waves out of an antenna substrate used as a carrier for the antenna structure and the coupling structure, and to emit them as coupled waves into an emission region. The radar sensor has an absorber which is situated in the emission region in order to absorb the coupled waves.

Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention there is provided a wind turbine blade comprising a blade shell that extends in a spanwise direction from a root end to a tip end, and in a chordwise direction from a leading edge to a trailing edge. The blade shell comprises a spar cap formed from a plurality of substantially planar strips of reinforcing material, the strips being arranged in a plurality of stacks extending longitudinally in the spanwise direction and arranged side-by-side in the chordwise direction. In each stack an uppermost strip defines an upper surface of the stack, a lowermost strip defines a lower surface of the stack, and longitudinal edges of the stacked strips define side surfaces of the stack. The blade further comprises a retaining clip comprising a plurality of side-by-side substantially U-shaped sections. The U-shaped sections each comprise a pair of mutually-spaced side portions defining a stack-receiving region therebetween, and the side portions are joined by a bridging portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to an actuator having a drive device which drives a drive shaft, a first actuating element which is operatively connected to the drive shaft, a spring element which can be supported on one side on a housing component of the actuator and is supported on the other side on a second actuating element which is configured for stressing the spring element, wherein a rotational element which can be driven by means of the drive shaft and is rotatably mounted is provided. According to the invention, a further actuating element for actuating a switching device is provided, which further actuating element is operatively connected to the first actuating element, and a transmission device with a transmission element is provided between the first actuating element and the actuating element of the switching device.

Abstract: Provided herein are oligomeric reagents, including oligomeric reagents of streptavidin or a streptavidin mutein, and compositions thereof and methods for manufacturing oligomeric reagents, including methods for reliably manufacturing oligomeric particle reagents of a desired size. In some cases, the reagents are oligomeric particle reagents containing a plurality of binding sites for agents, and thus the one or more agents are multimerized by reversibly binding to the oligomeric particle reagent, e.g., thereby creating a multimerized oligomeric particle reagent, having stimulatory agents multimerized thereon. Also provided are methods for using the oligomeric reagents for incubation or culturing, such as to induce stimulation of expansion (proliferation), activation, costimulation and/or survival, of a composition of cells such as a population of lymphocytes. In some aspects, the disclosure provides methods and reagents for the stimulation, e.g.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for use in the treatment of skin irritations due to interactions with plants or animals on or in the skin, the composition containing at least one osmotic and/or hygroscopic substance.

Abstract: A device for actuating a park lock in an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, in which a gear position selector can be used to set at least one drive-, neutral- and park position. When the park position is selected, a park lock that is operatively connected to the automatic transmission can be actuated, and it can then be activated or deactivated with an emergency actuator device that can be operated manually. The emergency actuating device has a toothed wheel (gear) that can be made to engage with a spur gear that is configured as an intermediate toothed wheel (gear). A first engaging element engages into a control cam provided on the spur gear and, when the spur gear moves, the first engaging element can be moved in order to activate and deactivate the park lock in the control cam.

Abstract: A laser processing system includes a laser beam source that produces a raw laser beam; a beam expansion system that receives the raw laser beam and produces an expanded laser beam; a homogenization system that receives the expanded laser beam and produces a laser beam that is homogenized and has a line-shaped beam cross section in the processing plane, wherein the homogenization system includes a first homogenization arrangement that homogenizes along the short axis and a second homogenization arrangement for homogenization along the long axis, each of the homogenization arrangements includes optical elements that split the laser beam into a multiplicity of partial beams and a condenser system that superposes the partial beams in a superposition plane, and the first homogenization arrangement includes a first condenser system with at least one first mirror and the second homogenization arrangement includes a second condenser system with at least one second mirror.

Abstract: An electromechanical or electromagnetic wheel brake cylinder for a braking system, embodied with at least one hydraulic braking circuit, of a vehicle, including a pressure chamber that is embodied in the electromechanical or electromagnetic wheel brake cylinder and is delimited by a displaceable first brake piston of the electromechanical or electromagnetic wheel brake cylinder, and is linkable to a sub-volume of the at least one hydraulic braking circuit of the braking system in such a way that the first brake piston is displaceable by way of a pressure that is increased at least in in the respective sub-volume. The electromechanical or electromagnetic wheel brake cylinder encompasses an electromechanical or electromagnetic actuator and a second brake piston which is displaceable by operation of the electromechanical or electromagnetic actuator.

Abstract: Techniques and devices are disclosed for forming wettable flanks on no-leads semiconductor packages. A lead frame assembly may include a plurality of leads, each lead including a die surface and a plating surface, and an integrated circuit die arranged on the die surface. The plating surface for each of the leads may be plated with an electrical plating. A connecting film may be applied and lead frame assembly may be singulated into individual semiconductor packages by a series of cuts through each of the plurality of leads and the electrical plating of each of the plurality of leads to a depth up to or through a portion of the connecting film to create a channel exposing lead sidewalls of each of the plurality of leads. The lead sidewalls of each of the plurality of leads may be plated with a second electrical plating and the connecting film may be removed.

Abstract: Provided herein are oligomeric reagents, including oligomeric reagents of streptavidin or a streptavidin mutein, compositions thereof, and methods for manufacturing oligomeric reagents, including methods for reliably manufacturing oligomeric particle reagents of a desired size. In some cases, the reagents are oligomeric particle reagents containing a plurality of binding sites for agents, and thus the one or more agents are multimerized by reversibly binding to the oligomeric particle reagent, e.g., thereby creating a multimerized oligomeric particle reagent, having stimulatory agents multimerized thereon. Also provided are methods for using the oligomeric reagents for incubation or culturing, such as to induce stimulation of expansion, activation, and/or survival, of a composition of cells such as a population of lymphocytes.