A method for facilitating a reduction in artifacts includes receiving data regarding a first energy spectrum of a scan of an object, and receiving data regarding a second energy spectrum of a scan of the object, wherein the second energy spectrum is different than the first energy spectrum. The method further includes reconstructing at least one original first energy image using the first energy s...

The screw (1) anchorable in a bone canal of a ligament graft has a cylindrical proximal part (3), and a threaded conical intermediate part (4) having large threads (2), and converging towards a cylindrical distal part (5). The distal part has a smooth, rounded end having a diameter at least equal to the diameter of the bone canal. The bone canal includes a loop at its ends through which a syntheti...

Production of an antibiotic coating on a porous body comprises impregnation with a solution of gentamicin dodecyl sulfate or sulfonate (I) and evaporation of the solvent, where (I) has 1-5 dodecyl sulfate or sulfonate groups per gentamicin molecule. Independent claims are also included for: (1) a process for producing an antibiotic coating on a porous body, comprising impregnation with a solution ...

The structure has a canvas (11) sloping from an exterior towards center of the structure. The slope of the canvas directs runoff water towards a gutter (6) fixed at a support post (3,5). The pole is hollow and terminates the evacuation of rain water to a bottom level of stabilization of the structure. The canvas maintains a series of stems (7,9) articulated by a hinge to allow partial closure of t...

The sunshade is made from a single panel of waterproofed cardboard, cut and scored to make a number of flaps (1 - 10; 13, 14) which allow it to be erected to make a shelter of triangular section with an opening front flap. In the erected position the sunshade measures some 80 cm long by 25 cm wide and 50 cm high and is able to take seven 1.5 l bottles of water as well as personal effects. It folds...

The disclosure includes a flexible bag ( 1 ) intended to receive a biological fluid with a view to its centrifugation. The bag includes an external enclosure ( 2 ) formed by two sheets of flexible plastic ( 3, 3 ') connected at their periphery ( 4 ) so as to define an internal volume ( 5 ) for the fluid. The external enclosure ( 2 ) is provided with at least one inlet ( 6 ) and/or outlet ( 7 ) ori...

A computer implemented method of building a knowledge base for a legal topic classification system comprises imputing a plurality of training documents, parsing the plurality of training documents to extract classified legal concepts, extracting features (terms, legal phrases and case citations); generating relevance scores for each feature and storing features, topics and relevance scores in a kn...

A method of allowing a user of an interactive wagering application to follow wagers comprises: providing the user with an opportunity to create a wager for a race with the interactive wagering application; providing a plurality of television feeds for the race with the interactive wagering application where each of the plurality of television feeds includes at lest one camera view of the race and ...

The traceability of meat by applying a carcass-identification serial number to selected areas of a meat carcass before it is separated into primal cuts is disclosed. The serial number may be visible or invisible and is applied in a manually readable and an encoded, machine-readable form. An indelible ink which is specified for food applications is applied using a printing head carried and moved by...

A distributed computer system for a public policy auction system that promotes legislative adoption of more efficient public policies by creating a free market for the savings gained by such polices comprises: a central computer for registering a plurality of accounts for users and for maintaining a database record of the users and the new public policies stored therein; a plurality of innovator t...

Apparatus for monitoring an underground formation through which a borehole passes, comprises a conductive casing ( 6 ) located in the borehole ( 1 ) passing through the formation ( 4 ); a plurality of sensors ( 12 - 1 ) for measuring an electrical property of the formation ( 4 ) located in the borehole ( 1 ) outside the casing ( 6 ) and electrically insulated therefrom; and an electrical current s...

A water-based-mud (WBM) filtrate containing a fluorescent tracer dye is pumped into the borehole. A sample fluid from a selected downhole location is pumped through a flow line and is illuminated by fluorescent excitation light through a window in the flow line. The emission fluorescence of the sample fluid is measured to produce a value representative of the concentration of WBM filtrate in the f...

The invention relates to a procedure for operating an advertising and information system in a telecommunication network, which is suitable for sending and retrieving advertisements and information preferably making use of SMS messages. During the procedure according to the invention information is sent to a central store, where it is electronically stored and retrieved. The procedure according to ...

The invention is a system and a method for carrying out payment transactions, the system comprising a financing party (F) financing goods or services, a bank (12) handling the financing party's bank account (12F), a user (U) purchasing the piece of goods or service, and a POS terminal (11) for carrying out the purchase. According to the invention, the user (U) is furnished with a co-branded credit...

The slip regulation method determines a pair of torque/pressure force reserve values (13,44) dependent on detected and classified travel conditions, combined with an input value (22) for a variator regulator (16) for the automatic transmission (17) and a pressure force control (18) for the clutch (19), e.g. a slip regulator, respectively providing output signals (20,21) controlling the operation o...

An automated saw for high speed splitting of suspended carcasses, such as hog carcasses, through the backbone as the carcasses continuously move along a carcass rail includes a splitting station and a back roller station located on opposite sides of the carcass rail. The splitting station includes a splitting saw that can be driven in three directions, including horizontally towards a carcass to b...

The invention relates to a process for producing a building element (1) from ashes, during said process a solid unit stabilized physically and/or chemically is produced. During the process ashes produced during incineration are used as raw material and a bonding agent and/or stabilizer is added to said ashes and preferably additives are mixed to said ashes and a mixture produced this way is shaped...

The initial problem context and constraints are described accurately and the constraints and relations between constraints are modelled mathematically. The dynamic and evolution in the risk and uncertainty are described and the dynamic features and risk are modelled. The hybrid problem is transformed to a core of viability and then to a constraint which is solved by programming by constraint;

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The device has a control module (18) located in a transmission server to recover message transmission requests obtained from a terminal e.g. telephone set (14). The module (18) communicates with a calculation module (20), which elaborates quotas of the messages to users of a mail server for a given duration. An update module (22) communicating with the module (18) updates quotas based on the messa...

A server cluster for handling IP packet-based data communications which is at the same time reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient. The master server distributes packets belonging to the same connection to a certain set of slave servers. The master receives a communication packet containing a sequence number in accordance with Internet protocol security architecture (IPsec). It reads bits from ...