Abstract: A communication function is provided. An activation request to enable a communication profile in a first user equipment is received at a mobile network operator (MNO). The communication profile is associated with a user. A maximum number of communication profiles associated with the user can be provided at the same time. A number of communication profiles which are associated with the user and which are currently enabled are determined by the MNO. In response to determining that the number of communication profiles which are associated with the user and which are currently enabled is equal to the maximum number of communication profiles are determined, a communication profile associated with the user in a second UE is disabled, and a communication profile associated with the user in the first UE is enabled.

Abstract: A method of determining the quantity of two or more species in a polydisperse sample is provided. The method comprising the steps of: performing a series of dilution steps of the polydisperse sample; adding a probe into the polydisperse sample, wherein the probe is configured to bind to two or more species to form two or more probe-target species complexes; separating two or more probe-target species complexes at each dilution step into two or more bins; determining the concentration of each separated probe-target species complex in each bin at each dilution step; and determining the quantity of each target species in the sample and/or the affinity of each target species to the probe.

Abstract: Methods for producing an object by generative manufacturing, a component, and a computer-readable medium. In one method, a sheet-like part is formed with bulges. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with an arch formed by arch segments converging in the buildup direction and meet at an arch tip. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with a strut of a cloverleaf-like cross-sectional shape. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with a sheet-like part connected to the object and formed to project obliquely forward from the object in the buildup direction. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with a sheet-like part extending substantially along the buildup direction, the sheet-like part formed with apertures.

Abstract: What are described are compounds of the general formula (I) and agrochemically acceptable salts thereof and their preparation and their use in the crop protection sector.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a pressure sensor comprises may comprise a housing, a flexible membrane which, together with the housing, forms a hermetically closed cavity, a sensor element arranged in the hermetically closed cavity, and a gaseous medium in the hermetically closed cavity. The sensor may measure an external pressure on the flexible membrane based on at least one of: a pressure of a gas in the hermetically closed cavity, and/or an amount of time of a time of flight of an optical pulse or a sound pulse emitted by the sensor element reflected from the flexible membrane.

Abstract: Oxathiazin-like compounds, processes for making new oxathiazin-like compounds, compounds useful for making oxathiazin-like compounds, and their uses are disclosed. Processes of treating patients suffering from cancers, bacterial infections, fungal infections and/or viral infections by administering oxathiazin-like compounds are also disclosed. These compounds were found to have significantly longer half-life compared to taurolidine and taurultam.

Abstract: A vaporizer device for an inhaler comprises at least one electric vaporizer for vaporizing liquid fed to the vaporizer, wherein the liquid is transported by capillary forces from an inlet side through at least one liquid channel to an outlet side, where vaporized liquid can be added to an air stream, a carrier retaining the vaporizer, and at least one electrical line electrically contacting the vaporizer. The electrical line comprises a planar contact area, and the vaporizer and the planar contact area of the electrical line are materially and electrically conductively bonded to each other.

Abstract: A method of determining diffusion coefficient of one or more components in a polydisperse sample is provided. The method comprising the steps of: introducing an auxiliary fluid flow into a fractionation channel; introducing the polydisperse sample comprising one or more components into the fractionation channel; allowing the sample and the auxiliary fluid to create a combined flow; fractionating the combined flow into two or more fractions by diffusive sizing; subsequently separating two or more components from each fraction by creating a distribution of the components within a separation channel; detecting a characteristic of each the two or more components in each fraction; and comparing the characteristic of each component in each fraction in order to determine the diffusion coefficient of each of the one or more components in the polydisperse sample.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) useful as antineoplastic and antimicrobial agents are disclosed Compositions and methods of using antineoplastic and antimicrobial compounds are disclosed.

Abstract: Illumination systems or strips which include one or more lights, such as LED lights, connected with a rechargeable battery, such as through copper or aluminum wiring, and a solar panel for recharging a rechargeable battery during sufficiently high-light ambient conditions, thus enabling the rechargeable battery to provide power for the illumination system during low-light ambient conditions.

Abstract: Oxathiazin-like compounds, processes for making new oxathiazin-like compounds, compounds useful for making oxathiazin-like compounds, and their uses are disclosed. Processes of treating patients suffering from cancers, bacterial infections, fungal infections and/or viral infections by administering oxathiazin-like compounds are also disclosed. These compounds were found to have significantly longer half-life compared to taurolidine and taurultam.

Abstract: One embodiment of a method for generating representations of scenes includes assigning each image included in a set of images of a scene to one or more clusters of images based on a camera pose associated with the image, and performing one or more operations to generate, for each cluster included in the one or more clusters, a corresponding three-dimensional (3D) representation of the scene based on one or more images assigned to the cluster.

Abstract: Switch assemblies and network devices incorporating same. An example playback device includes a housing, one or more microphones, and a switch assembly configured to enable and disable the microphone(s). The switch assembly may include a slider cage coupled to the housing, an electrical actuator, and a sliding switch sub-assembly configured to slide laterally between first and second positions along a path constrained by the slider cage, the sliding switch sub-assembly including an actuator portion that extends through an opening in the housing to an exterior of the playback device and a translation component that converts lateral motion of the sliding switch sub-assembly between the first and second positions into vertical motion that activates the electrical actuator to enable the microphone(s) when the sliding switch sub-assembly is in the first position and deactivates the electrical actuator to disable the microphone(s) when the sliding switch sub-assembly is in the second position.

Abstract: A computer system includes one or more database search models configured to search data contained in a plurality of database tables. The one or more database search models can include a plurality of structural containers and one or more search enabling containers. The plurality of structural containers can represent objects having a structural relationship and contain property data of the objects. The property data of the objects can be obtained from the plurality of database tables. The plurality of structural containers can be shared by the one or more database search models. The one or more search enabling containers can correspond to the one or more database search models and specify a scope for searching data and a format for presenting search results.

Abstract: A relay valve module for an electronically controllable pneumatic brake system for actuating wheel brakes of a utility vehicle includes: a reservoir connection for receiving a reservoir pressure; a brake control pressure connection for receiving a brake control pressure; at least one first service brake connection for outputting a service brake pressure; a relay valve with a relay valve reservoir connection, which is connected to the reservoir connection, a relay valve working connection, which is connected to the first service brake connection, a relay valve ventilation connection, and a relay valve control connection; an electropneumatic pilot control unit, which is connected to the reservoir connection, the electropneumatic pilot control unit providing a pilot control pressure; and a shuttle valve with a first shuttle valve inlet, a second shuttle valve inlet, and a shuttle valve outlet. The first shuttle valve inlet is connected to the brake control pressure connection.

Abstract: The present invention features solid pharmaceutical compositions comprising Compound 1 and Compound 2. In one embodiment, the solid pharmaceutical composition includes (1) a first layer which comprises 100 mg Compound 1, as well as a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophilic polymer and a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant, all of which are formulated in amorphous solid dispersion; and (2) a second layer which comprises 40 mg Compound 2, as well as a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophilic polymer and a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant, all of which are formulated in amorphous solid dispersion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, comprising a surroundings sensor system, a controller, and an analysis module. The controller is equipped and designed so as to ascertain an assistance function control signal on the basis of surroundings data detected by the surroundings sensor system, said assistance function control signal being in a specified functional relationship with at least one assistance system parameter and the detected surroundings data, and to actuate the vehicle so as to provide an assistance function by means of the assistance function control signal. The analysis module is equipped and designed so as to ascertain a success value for the assistance function control signal using reference information and to initiate an optimization of the at least one assistance system parameter if the success value falls below a success threshold.

Abstract: A flow apparatus for measuring at least one biophysical property of one or more components is provided. The apparatus comprises one or more microfluidic devices. Each microfluidic device comprises: a sample channel having a sample inlet port for introducing a sample fluid flow comprising one or more components at a first flow rate into an elongate distribution channel, an auxiliary channel having an auxiliary inlet port for introducing an auxiliary fluid flow at a second flow rate into the elongate distribution channel. The distribution channel is configured to enable a lateral distribution of the components from the sample fluid flow into the auxiliary fluid flow. Each microfluidic device further comprises two or more capillary channels provided downstream and in fluid communication with the distribution channel, at least one outlet port provided downstream of each of the capillary channels.

Abstract: The present invention provides triazolone compounds of general formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein, methods of preparing said compounds, intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and the use of said compounds for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of hyperproliferative disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.

Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver includes a first receiving module tunable to a foreground broadcast service to extract a program information, a first decoder module coupled to the first receiving module and decoding the program information, an output module switchably coupled to the first decoder module and adapted to output the program information, at least one second decoder module coupled to the first receiving module and tunable to a background broadcast service to decode a program information associated with the background broadcast service, and a control unit adapted to tune the first receiving module and the first decoder module to the foreground broadcast service and to tune each of the at least one second decoder modules to a background broadcast service. The control unit determines the foreground broadcast service based on a user input and determines the background broadcast services based on the foreground broadcast service and a predefined rule.