The invention relates to a fail-safe electric power supply system (11), in particular in an aircraft, manages without the complex equipment and control technology and cabling for an emergency power supply, which is to be ramped up only as needed, when the regular power supply has power supply modules (13), such as batteries or in particular fuel cells, connected in parallel at the output end, whic...

There is proposed a multi-layer armour which consists of (preferably light) metal layers (11, 13) and at least one ceramic layer (12). In addition, a pure metal layer (13) is applied to one plate or to a shaped part (11) by thermal spraying, which layer follows further layers (14, 15) produced in the same way, in which a part of the metal in the spraying material is gradually replaced by a suitabl...

A system is disclosed herein whereby the current 'genlock' reference signals and distribution architectures used in media and broadcasting are replaced by use of an IP network and distributed timekeeping service, such as ISO/IEC 61588 / IEEE1588. In such a system, one master and multiple slave devices are used to distribute precision time and phase information to synchronize equipment and systems....

The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis of tumoural conditions and/ or of the corresponding state of advance, wherein a specimen of an organic fluid taken from the patient and having a high probability of containing at least one circulating tumour cell (CTC) or a disseminated tumour cell (CTD) is enriched in a population of CTCs or CTDs. According to the invention, at least one...