Abstract: The invention relates to a fixation kit (1) comprising an assembly part (2) comprising a housing comprising a first and second fixation member each comprising a head, said kit being characterized in that said housing is designed to cooperate with either of the fixation members and being shaped to create a seat against which the head is intended to rest, the seat and the head being shaped so that the cooperation of the seat and the head of the first fixation member locks the latter, and so that the cooperation of the seat and the head of the second fixation member enables a variation of the orientation thereof.

Abstract: An acoustic power transmitting unit for thermoacoustic systems includes at least one stage provided with at least two thermoacoustic units each of which includes a regenerator or a stack and two heat exchangers, an acoustic resonator including a tube and containing a fluid and in which a magnetic field having high impedance and low-impedance areas is arranged, wherein certain thermoacoustic units are placed in high dimensionless impedance areas. Each high dimensionless impedance area also includes a thermoacoustic unit, wherein two successive thermoacoustic units are always separated by low dimensionless impedance. The resonator includes a reduced diameter section between each couple of successive thermoacoustic units and each cross-sectional narrowing is associated with at least one by-pass which includes a deviation cavity and makes it possible to deviate the major part of a volume flow rate.

Abstract: A system and method for determining a carrier layout using cornered chip-to-chip input/output is presented. Each of a plurality of individual integrated circuit carriers communicatively interfaceable through cornered input/output ports is oriented at a uniform rotation relative to an edge of a carrier layout. Each carrier defines a set of rectilinear edges. Each carrier is placed juxtaposed at an open corner to at least one other carrier within a rectilinear lattice topologically arranged in the carrier layout to substantially minimize Hamming distances between each of the carriers.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of integrated circuits for propagating data between at least one central processing unit and another component of the system. The plurality of integrated circuits are configured for proximity I/O communication. The plurality of integrated circuits is configured such that data propagation through the plurality of integrated circuits is unaffected by a rotation of at least one of the plurality of integrated circuits by 90 degrees.

Abstract: An electronic system is described in which integrated circuits employing cornered I/O are arranged in a framework including an optional path manager and at least one updateable routing table. Packet routing options are described with solutions being provided to minimize transmission latency and pathway alternatives.

Abstract: The invention provides an osteosynthesis and compression screw that is self-boring and self-tapping for the purpose of coaptation of small bone fragments.

Abstract: The present invention describes a computer network including a network membership manager. In particular, a group of nodes on a computer network are managed by a distributed membership manager. Nodes of the computer network contain membership managers that manage the interaction between the nodes. Management of the computer network includes propagating configuration data to the nodes, providing an election process for determining the master node within a group of nodes, and monitoring the health of each node so that a change in the configuration and/or management structure can be accommodated by the nodes of the network.

Abstract: This granular material consists of a granular porous support bearing negative or positive charges, coated on its surface with a first layer of impregnation with a hydrophilic polymer bearing charges opposite to those of the support, the quantity of said charges present on said polymer being substantially equal to that of the charges present at the surface of the support; and another layer, bound to the first by irreversible chemical coupling, of another hydrophilic polymer which is functional, namely bearing groups endowing said functional hydrophilic polymer with a specific but reversible affinity for at least one biological substance. Among the applications of this material, there are mentioned the separation and purification of antithrombin III and coagulation factors (factors II, VII, VIII, IX, X), and separation of activated coagulation factors (activated factor II, activated factor IX, activated factor X) in solutions containing said non-activated factors.