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: Systems and methods for pre-training and fine-tuning of neural-network-based language models to reason directly over tables without generating logical forms. In some examples, a language model can be pre-trained using masked-language modeling tasks synthetically generated from tables pulled from a knowledge corpus. In some examples, the language model may be further pre-trained using pairs of counterfactual statements generated from those tables, and/or one or more statements that compare selected data from those tables. The language model may then be fine-tuned using examples that include only a question, an answer, and a table, allowing fine-tuning examples to be harvested directly from existing benchmark datasets or synthetically generated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to crop protection compounds and to compositions which comprise specific compounds as safeners for reducing phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals, especially herbicides. The invention relates more particularly to certain [(1,5-di(heteraryl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)oxy] acetic acid derivatives of the general formula (I) and their salts, to processes for preparing them and to their use as plant protection compounds (safeners).

Abstract: The present invention relates to crop protection compounds and to compositions which comprise specific compounds as safeners for reducing phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals, especially herbicides. The invention relates more particularly to certain [(1-phenyl-5-(heteroaryl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)oxy]acetic acid derivatives of the general formula (I) and their salts, to processes for preparing them and to their use as crop protection compounds (safeners).

Abstract: A silencer for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine includes a silencer housing which surrounds a silencer interior and which has at least two housing portions which are adjacent to each other in an abutment region. The two housing portions are connected to each other. The silencer housing has at least one housing opening formed therein and an outlet pipe extends through the silencer housing in the region of the housing opening. The housing opening is completely formed in one of the two housing portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of [(1,5-diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy] acetic acid derivatives of the formula (I) and their salts (I) and compositions containing them, for reducing phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals, in particular of herbicides, in useful plants and crop plants. The invention also and in particular relates to certain [(1,5-diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy] acetic acid derivatives of the formula (I) and processes for preparing them.

Abstract: A method for characterizing sands with regard to adsorption of plasticizing additives includes: providing an aqueous mixture of the plasticizing additive with a defined concentration of the plasticizing additive; determination of a characteristic of the aqueous mixture whereby the characteristic is related to the proportion of the plasticizing additive in the aqueous mixture; contacting a sample of sand to be analyzed with the aqueous mixture or a sample thereof, so that the sand sample is completely immersed in the aqueous mixture or the sample thereof; taking a sample of supernatant liquid from the mixture of step; determination of the same characteristic as in step b) of the sample of supernatant liquid; and comparing the characteristic obtained in step b) with the characteristic of step e) in order to decide whether the characteristics differ from each other by more than a predefined threshold or not.

Abstract: The present invention relates to crop protection compounds and to compositions which comprise specific compounds as safeners for reducing phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals, especially herbicides. The invention relates more particularly to certain [5-(phenyl)-1-(heteroaryl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)oxy] acetic acid derivatives of the general formula (I) and their salts, to processes for preparing them and to their use as plant protection compounds (safeners).

Abstract: A brake pressure modulator (110; 106) includes a relay valve (202) for controlling a supply of pressurized air from a primary source (II) to at least one brake actuator (112a, 112b), a first valve sub-unit (204) configured to be electronically actuated and configured to receive a primary control pressure from the primary source (II) intended for operating the relay valve (202), and a second valve unit (206) configured to receive a secondary control pressure from a secondary source (‘BST’) and at least part of the primary control pressure from the primary source (II) and to transmit either the primary control pressure or the secondary control pressure to the relay valve (202). When the secondary control pressure is transmitted to the relay valve (202), the primary control pressure from the primary source (II) is disconnected.

Abstract: The invention relates to a child seat, wherein the child seat comprises a main body for receiving a child and an impact shield for holding the child, wherein the child seat is configured such that a center of gravity of the child, at least in an initial state at the beginning of a sudden deceleration of the motor vehicle and/or at the beginning of a rotation of the child relative to the vehicle seat and/or at the beginning of a rotation of the child relative to the main body during a sudden deceleration of the motor vehicle, for example in the event of a frontal impact, is at least approximately at or below, preferably slightly below, a level at which a child rotation axis is located, about which rotation axis the child rotates with respect to the main body, as soon as the child starts to rotate with respect to the main body, and/or is at least approximately at or below, preferably slightly below, a level at which at least one impact shield rotation axis is located about which the impact shield can rotate wit

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 and prophylaxis of diseases, in particular hyperproliferative disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.

Abstract: A process for producing a setting and/or curing accelerator for mineral binders is characterized in that a mineral solid is subjected to milling in a liquid medium.

Abstract: Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo integration are simple numerical recipes for solving complicated integration problems, such as valuating financial derivatives or synthesizing photorealistic images by light transport simulation. A drawback of a straightforward application of (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration is the relatively slow convergence rate that manifests as high error of Monte Carlo estimators. Neural control variates may be used to reduce error in parametric (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration—providing more accurate solutions in less time. A neural network system has sufficient approximation power for estimating integrals and is efficient to evaluate. The efficiency results from the use of a first neural network that infers the integral of the control variate and using normalizing flows to model a shape of the control variate.

Abstract: Neural network performance is improved in terms of training speed, memory footprint, and/or accuracy by learning a compressed neural graphics primitive representation. A neural graphics primitive is a mathematical function involving at least one neural network, used to represent a computer graphic, where the graphic can be an image, a 3D shape, a light field, a signed distance function, a radiance field, 2D video, volumetric video, etc. Instead of being input directly to a neural network, inputs are effectively mapped (encoded) into a higher dimensional space via a function. The input comprises coordinates used to identify a point within a d-dimensional space. The point is quantized and a set of vertex coordinates corresponding to the point are used to access an indexing codebook and a features codebook that store learned index offsets and learned feature vectors, respectively. The learned feature vectors are then provided as inputs to the neural network.

Abstract: The application relates to a semiconductor device for particle measurement having a cavity housing and a MEMS chip arranged inside the cavity housing. The housing includes a first opening, via which the cavity is connected to the surroundings and in which a first grating is arranged, which is capable by setting it to a first electrical potential of attracting particles from the surroundings and/or electrically charging them. The MEMS chip includes a membrane facing toward the first opening, which is capable by setting it to a second electrical potential of attracting particles. The application furthermore relates to a method for operating a semiconductor device having a cavity housing and a MEMS chip arranged inside the cavity housing.

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.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for optical image recognition and classification, comprising an optical setup (10) to split the optical image into n = 1, 2, N local optical power values Pn, a detector array (1) with n = 1, 2,... N photoactive pixels (2, 2?, 2?) to pick up the local optical power values Pn, wherein each pixel (2, 2?, 2?) is segmented into m = 1, 2,... M subpixels (3), and each subpixel (3) comprises a semiconductor photodiode which, under optical illumination, delivers a photocurrent Imn depending on its photoresponsivity Rmn and the local optical power Pn received at the pixel (2, 2?, 2?), and wherein the photoresponsivity values Rmn are not identical, and the outputs of each subpixel (3) are connected to form M output lines (4), wherein each output line (4) sums the photodetector currents produced by the m-th subpixels (3) in all N pixels (2, 2?, 2?) and delivers a detector current of Formel (I), to be used for recognizing and classifying the optical image.

Abstract: At a switch terminal of a flyback converter in a discontinuous conduction mode in a power meter, an apparatus determines a resonant frequency of the flyback converter. The apparatus determines whether the resonant frequency satisfies a condition. Through a controller, the apparatus triggers an event responsive to determining that the resonant frequency satisfies the condition.

Abstract: A dental material dispensing device has a plunger means which for dispensing the dental material is movable for urging at least one component of a dental material toward a dispensing area. The device further has cure control means with an energy source and a flow path on which the dental composition and/or the dental material flows past the energy source during dispensation. The device is operable for exposing the dental composition and/or the dental material to a specific energy by control of the energy source and/or by control of the speed of the flow of the dental composition and/or the dental material on the flow path. The device is configured for dispensing a coherent strand of dental material in a dispensing cycle. The device is further configured for operating in a first dispensing mode and additionally in a second dispensing mode during the same dispensing cycle. The ratio between the specific energy in the second dispensing mode and the specific energy in the first dispensing mode is smaller than 1.