Frying processes utilizing cooking oil at elevated temperatures can cause various degradation effects in the oil including oxidation, hydrolysis and/or polymerization. In the absence of additives to protect the oil, the nutritional profile and cooking performance of degraded oil diminishes the quality of food cooked therein. The disclosed methods and compositions provide beneficial and cost effect...

A method and circuit for reducing power consumption during idle mode to ultra-low levels, such as about 1/10th to 1/1000th or less of active power is disclosed. An ultra-low idle power supply comprises a primary circuit, a secondary circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit monitors behavior of the primary circuit and determines whether an idle state or no load condition exists, and if so...

A manual operator for a vehicle, wherein the manual operator can be simply operated, has a good appearance, and allows a sufficient space for a manual operator for a parking brake.  A first manual operator (13) pivotably mounted to a handlebar (11) has an output section (26) mounted so as to be pivotable about the center of a first support shaft (12).  A second manual operator (15) has an input ...

A user interface unit (13) to interpret signals from a multi-point touch sensitive device (3) is disclosed. The user interface unit (13) comprises a gesture unit (13a) configured to enable a user to touch at least one item of data using a finger and select the at least one item of data, hold at least two fingers in contact with the at least one selected item of data and stretch the two fingers apa...

A coffee machine (1) is described, comprising a boiler (23), a pump (21), and an infusion unit (27) for producing coffee, which is further provided with an auxiliary circuit (31), which can be connected to the output of the infusion unit (27), for the production of cold coffee.; Es descrita una máquina de café (1) que comprende una marmita (23), una bomba (21), y una unidad de infusión (27) para p...

A dispensing closure assembly includes a deck (74) having an outlet orifice (96), and an outlet conduit (97) extending through the deck generally coaxially with respect to the outlet orifice. An inner wall (50) extends generally coaxially with respect to the outlet conduit, wherein a fluid chamber (99) is at least partially defined radially inwardly of the inner wall. A baffle wall (56) is carried...

A method for preserving a polypeptide comprises (i) providing an aqueous solution of one or more sugars, a polyethyleneimine and said polypeptide wherein the concentration of polyethyleneimine is 25 μM or less based on the number-average molar mass (Mn) of the polyethyleneimine and the sugar concentration or, if more than one sugar is present, total sugar concentration is greater than 0.1 M; and ...

Provided is a radio communication device which can reduce ISI caused by destruction of an orthogonal DFT matrix even when an SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the clusters are respectively mapped to discontinuous frequency bands.  The radio communication device includes a DFT unit (110), a division unit (111), and a mapping unit (112).  The DFT unit (110) uses the DFT ma...

The use efficiency of the screen at the time of displaying a subtitle together with a stereoscopic video is improved. A video shift mode is set for each of the subtitles, and when the stereoscopic video is reproduced, a video plane is shifted upwardly or downwardly and cropped in accordance with the video shift modes of the subtitles, and black frames on the top and bottom are collected in the top...

An apparatus for azimuth measurements comprises an elongated housing, a plurality of gyro sensors, each of the gyro sensors having an input axis for angular velocity measurements, spherical sensor holders arranged along the longitudinal direction of the housing, at least one motor for driving the sensor holders, a transmission mechanism for transmitting a rotation force from the motor to each of t...

For uplink cooperation of a serving access node (100-1) and a supporting access node (100-2) with respect to a terminal (200), the serving access node (100-1) requests information relating to an Rx signal (10-2) received from the terminal (200) at the supporting access node (100-2). The requested information may include a baseband representation of the Rx signal (10-2), demodulated bits of the Rx ...

A refrigerator includes a cooling chamber, a door that is configured to open and close at least a portion of the cooling chamber, and a dispenser positioned on the door and configured to dispense ice pieces or water through the door when the door is oriented in a closed position. The refrigerator also includes a dispensing button unit configured to control a dispensing start time and a dispensing ...

A method and apparatus for calculating RQuickPage in a wireless communication system characterized in that , determining the value of the PreferredQuick-PageEnabled field and calculating RQuickPage wherein RQuickPage is used by the lower Medium Access Layer (MAC) Sublayer to determine if a quick page is received.

In the radius end mill of the present invention, main gash faces (17) whose angle of inclination with respect to an axis (O) is smaller than a twist angle (±) of chip discharge flutes (12) are formed on inner circumferential sides of distal end portions of wall surfaces (13) that face in a tool rotation direction of helically twisted chip discharge flutes (12) formed on an outer circumference of a...

A resist composition for electron beam or extreme ultraviolet (EUV), comprising a resin component (A) which exhibits changed alkali solubility under action of acid, and a photoacid generator component (B) that generates acid on exposure, wherein the component (B) comprises at least one onium salt selected from the group consisting of onium salts having an anion represented by formula (b-0-1) or (...

The claimed subject matter relates to providing appropriate QoS treatment to one or more traffic flows associated with a terminal, wherein the QoS treatment is defined within a profile assigned to the terminal and implemented when the terminal requests access to a network. An access mode can receive identifying indicia associated with the terminal and relays such indicia to an authentication and a...

A system and method for providing a secure environment for mobile telephones and other devices are disclosed. The system and method may utilize trust zoning, layered memory, and a secure matrix model having, for example, a memory protection module for protecting memory; a secure debug module for ensuring security of the debug module; a secure file system module for protecting the secure file syste...

A thin film three axes fluxgate and the implementation method thereof is provided to minimize power consumption while attenuating two pick up signal to obtain accurate data, so it is applied to small electronic device. In a thin film three axes fluxgate and the implementation method thereof, thin film flux gate is designed to sense the horizontal biaxial component of the magnetic field and it is a...

To facilitate an integrating operation and to make fabricating cost inexpensive. An idle gear 70 for transmitting rotation of an input gear 56 of a drive motor 54 to a cylindrical gear 61 is rotatably supported by an input side end portion of a specific one crank pin 40a, and therefore, the idle gear 70 may simply be supported by the crank pin 40a, further, a length in an axial direction of the c...

Method for thermally binding a bundle of loose leaves in a binding back (4), characterised in that on a side edge (2) of the above-mentioned bundle (1) to be bound is provided a strip of melting glue (3), after which this bundle (1) is placed in the above-mentioned binding back (4) with the side edge (2) with melting glue (3) and this binding back (4) is heated so as to make the strip of melting g...