Abstract: In an embodiment a pulse sensor includes two light sources configured to emit light in a direction of a perfused tissue of a living being so that the perfused tissue scatters the light and so that the scattered light is modulated on basis of a pulse of the living being, at least one luminescent concentrator including an entry face, an exit face smaller than the entry face, and a fluorescent material arranged in a light path between the entry face and the exit face, wherein the luminescent concentrator is configured to receive at least some of the modulated scattered light entering through the entry face, convert the entered light by the fluorescent material and emit the modulated converted light from the exit face, and one light detector configured to detect at least some of the modulated converted light emerging from the exit face, wherein, in plan view, the luminescent concentrator is strip-shaped and extends perpendicular to a connecting line between the two light sources, wherein side faces of the lumines

Abstract: An electronic device with a multi-layer contact and a system is disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first electrode terminal located on a first surface and a second surface electrode terminal located on a second surface, the first surface being opposite to the second surface, an electrical contact layer disposed directly on the first electrode terminal, a functional layer directly disposed on the electrical contact layer, an adhesion layer directly disposed on the functional layer, a solder layer directly disposed on the adhesion layer; and a protection layer directly disposed on the solder layer, wherein the semiconductor device is a power semiconductor device configured to provide a vertical current flow.

Abstract: In a method for operating a household appliance which includes a display device having a display element comprising an adjustable property and which includes a control apparatus for actuating the display device, an optical sensor of an external device detects an item of activation information from an object. A processing unit of the external device processes the detected activation information to generate an activation signal which is transmitted to the control apparatus for activating an adjustment of the property of the display element.

Abstract: In a method for operating a household appliance which includes a display device having a display element comprising an adjustable property and which includes a control apparatus for actuating the display device, an optical sensor of an external device detects an item of activation information from an object. A processing unit of the external device processes the detected activation information to generate an activation signal which is transmitted to the control apparatus for activating an adjustment of the property of the display element.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for integrated data privacy services. An example method includes receiving, from a requesting application in a landscape that includes a set of multiple applications, a data subject information request for a data subject. A set of target applications is determined from the set of multiple applications. The data subject information request is provided to each target application in the set of target applications. A data subject information response is received from each of the target applications. Each data subject information response includes application data for the data subject that was retrieved by a respective target application in response to the data subject information request. The received data subject information responses are aggregated to generate an aggregated data subject information response.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a scientific instrument support apparatus including memory hardware configured to store instructions and processing hardware configured to execute the instructions. The instructions include loading a batch of raw spectrum files generated by a mass spectrometer, dividing the raw spectrum files into a first subset and a second subset, processing each of the first subset of raw spectrum files with a machine learning model to generate a first subset of spectrum match files, generating a screening list from the first subset of spectrum match files, and processing each of the second subset of raw spectrum files and the screening list with the machine learning model to generate a second subset of spectrum match files.

Abstract: A method operates an electrically driven working device with at least one battery pack that is intended to supply the working device with electric drive power. The method includes the following steps: detecting a temperature of the battery pack, in particular of a battery cell of the battery pack, by way of a temperature sensor of the battery pack; determining a resistance variable of the battery pack on the basis of the detected temperature by way of the battery pack; and operating the working device on the basis of the determined resistance variable.

Abstract: A method operates an electrically driven working device with at least one battery pack that is intended to supply the working device with electric drive power, wherein the working device and the battery pack are electrically connected to one another in detachable fashion for power supply purposes. The working device is selected from a set of different working devices able to be electrically connected to the battery pack in detachable fashion, which working devices differ in terms of a respective power consumption variable, and/or the working device has different operating modes that differ in terms of a respective power consumption variable. At least one power consumption variable, in particular during operation of the working device with the battery pack, is at least temporarily higher than a continuous power output variable of the battery pack.

Abstract: An in-flight entertainment system kit and an installation method thereof are disclosed for a passenger seat and an aircraft. The in-flight entertainment system kit includes a display assembly, and the display assembly includes a flexible support board and a flexible display screen installed on a passenger side surface of the flexible support board. The passenger seat includes the in-flight entertainment system kit. The aircraft includes the in-flight entertainment system kit or the passenger seat. The in-flight entertainment system kit and the installation method thereof, the passenger seat and the aircraft can improve the in-flight safety, and provide a compact design, which can provide the necessary auxiliary functions without occupying the available space of the passenger, and can further realize the quick assembly and disassembly of the in-flight entertainment system kit.

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: The present disclosure provides a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions tangibly stored thereon, wherein when executed by a processing entity, the instructions cause the processing entity to carry out a method of evaluating influence of an action performed by an external entity, the method comprising: receiving sensor data; determining a signal reliability factor for the received sensor data, wherein the signal reliability factor represents a statistical quality indication between the received sensor data and an expected value or an expected range of values; and associating the signal reliability factor with the received sensor data. There is also provided a system configured to communicate with an autonomous driving system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a seat assembly for a cabin of a means of transportation, having an aisle which is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the cabin, two mutually spaced cabin walls which are oriented parallel to the aisle at least in some regions and laterally delimit the cabin, two outer passenger seat regions which are separated from one another by the aisle and each of which adjoins one of the two cabin walls, wherein the outer passenger seat regions have at least one row of seats with a respective inner first seat module which faces the aisle, a central second seat module adjoining the first module, and an outer third seat module adjoining the respective cabin wall.

Abstract: A construction machine for special civil engineering, includes a leader on which an advancing carriage is guided, which carriage has a holder for a work device, in particular a drilling implement or pile-driving implement, and which carriage is connected with a first drive, by way of which it can be moved along the leader. An additional auxiliary carriage is arranged on the leader, which carriage can be moved along the leader by way of a second drive, wherein at least one actuator and/or at least one sensor is/are arranged on the auxiliary carriage.

Abstract: A battery storage device, in particular a battery storage device for a vehicle, said storage device being simple and in particular inexpensive to produce and allowing a reliable seal. This is achieved in that the battery storage device comprises the following: a battery storage housing that encloses an interior in which one or more battery modules are received or can be received; and one or more temperature-controlling elements through which a temperature-controlling medium can flow in order to control the temperature of one or more battery modules which are received or can be received in the interior of the battery storage housing, wherein the one or more temperature-controlling elements comprise a temperature-controlling medium inflow connection and a temperature-controlling medium discharge connection which are arranged outside of the interior of the battery storage housing, and the one or more temperature-controlling elements are produced by roll bonding in particular.

Abstract: The present invention relates to combination therapies employing PD-1 axis binding antagonists and LRRK2 inhibitors and, and the use of these combination therapies for the treatment of cancer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system, which comprises: a distance measuring unit configured to emit a plurality of first pulses towards an object located in a field of view (FOV), wherein the object is associated with one or more markers; and a detector configured to receive at least one second pulse from the one or more markers of the object, wherein each of the at least one second pulse indicates object information identifying the object.

Abstract: An electronic device with a multi-layer contact and a system is disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first electrode terminal located on a first surface and a second surface electrode terminal located on a second surface, the first surface being opposite to the second surface, an electrical contact layer disposed directly on the first electrode terminal, a functional layer directly disposed on the electrical contact layer, an adhesion layer directly disposed on the functional layer, a solder layer directly disposed on the adhesion layer; and a protection layer directly disposed on the solder layer, wherein the semiconductor device is a power semiconductor device configured to provide a vertical current flow.

Abstract: A passenger cabin area includes at least one aisle extending along a longitudinal axis of the passenger cabin area, a seating area next to the aisle in the direction of a transverse axis, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, of the passenger cabin area and in which at least one passenger seat is provided, and a plurality of sleeping berths arranged above the seating area in the direction of a vertical axis, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis, of the passenger cabin area. Each sleeping berth is accessible from the aisle of the passenger cabin area via a stairway element assigned individually to the sleeping berth.

Abstract: A civil engineering device, in particular a pile-driving or drilling device, has at least one positioner, in particular a working carriage for accommodating an implement, connected with a carrier device by relatively movable links within a kinematic chain and connected by joints and/or linear adjusters and with at least six actuators for changing their corresponding position and/or orientation, and with a control and regulation device for controlling them. The control and regulation device has an input module for specifying a positioner target position, and is connected with a computer module that determines at least one displacement path for moving the positioner from its current (starting) position to the target position, and, using inverse kinematics, the locations of the individual actuators required for implementing the path, and sends these locations to the control and regulation device to control the actuators. A method multi-dimensionally, free positions a civil engineering device positioner.

Abstract: A module layer and to a battery system made therefrom, which, as a device for supplying and storing electrical energy between two final end components, comprises a number of battery modules that are electrically connected to one another in series. Each module here consists of a number of elementary cells, which are generally lithium-ion batteries. The module layer is embodied as a structural unit, wherein the cells in the module layer are positioned next to one another in a tray, in an upright position on a base element of the tray, and are enclosed by an outer frame that is embodied as a heat sink and constitutes the rim of the tray, the outer frame has a seal, and the module layer has a section of a central shaft into which bus bars protrude, which produce a conductive connection with the cells of the respective module layer.