Novel methods for the medical treatment and/or inhibition of the development of breast cancer, hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia or atherosclerosis in susceptible warm-blooded animals including humans involving administration of selective estrogen receptor modulator and an amount of a sex steroid precursor selected from the group consisting of dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulf...

The invention relates to compounds of Formula (IIf) or a salt or solvate thereof, wherein R<3>, Het, X and Z<1> are as described in the specification, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, their use in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of a disease condition mediated through glucokinase (GLK), such as type 2 diabetes, and methods for their preparation.

A product, comprising a body delimited by a surface, is made of a vitroceramic with a base of lithium alumino-silicate. The vitroceramic , on at least a part of the surface, has a superficial layer of which the degree of crystallisation is greater than that of the vitroceramic at the heart of the body. - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for the preparation of this vitroceramic product.

Glazing prod. comprises a transparent substrate (1) e.g. of glass covered with at least 1 thin layer (4) comprising a mixed oxide of Si, Al and an element M that facilitates the formation of a homogeneous mixed oxide of Si and Al. The oxide layer (4) is of a mixed oxide of formula: SiAlxOyMzM'u (where, M = F; M' = C; x = 0.06-0.74 (0.14-0.33); y = 2.1-3.1 (2.3-2.5); z = 0.02-0.15 (0.04-0.08) and u...

The process uses a vessel (1) containing one or more filters (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5), each having a frame (3) with two opposite filtering walls (P1, P2) of a porous material making an enclosed volume connected to collector (CO) and user (CU) circuits. Water injected into the vessel is mixed with diatomite to produce a homogeneous milk from which the diatomite is removed by the filters. The process in...

A water treatment system that performs a water purifying treatment by use of ultraviolet radiation, comprises a front stage ultraviolet radiation device for radiating ultraviolet light in a front stage process in a water purifying treatment process, a rear stage ultraviolet radiation device for radiating ultraviolet light in a rear stage process, and a controller for controlling these ultraviolet ...

A method of treatment of waste water includes a sludge flocculating step of obtaining a supernatant liquid by flocculating within a flocculation tank 4 the sludge having been treated within an activated sludge aeration tank 3 where the waste water and an activated sludge are brought into contact with each other in an aerobic condition, a sludge concentration retaining step of retaining a concentra...

The system for transporting a stack (6) of printed material comprises a support (7) which fits against the rear of the stack. A conveyor belt (12) fits under the stack and transports it over a guide table (13). Two vertical conveyor belts (16, 17) support the sides of the stack during transport.

A surgical system having a cassette with an aspirant collection chamber and an aspiration exhaust line that drains into the aspirant collection chamber. A fluid line containing a valve allowing fluid from the irrigation fluid container to be vented into the aspirant collection chamber. A source of pressurized air is connected to the irrigation fluid container and is used to pressurize the fluid co...

An article conveyor having live rollers driven by a polymeric driven pad which has a wear indicator element co-extruded with the driven pad is disclosed. The element is visually distinct from the pad and has converging sides in the driven pad so that wear on the pad is indicated by the amount of the wear element visible to an observer.

Dans ce conditionnement, les deux parois longitudinales (5) de la barquette comportent à une de leurs extrémités une partie (5a) dont la hauteur par rapport au fond est au moins égale à celle des articles (2) à conditionner, tandis que la partie (3) formant couvercle comprend trois panneaux (11, 12) articulés entre eux par des lignes de pliage parallèles, qui sont perpendiculaires au fond de la ba...

The catalyst (17) for the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine (10) is managed to give an absorption of nitrous oxide (NOx) during a storage phase, and be regenerated in a regeneration phase. The shift between the phases is a function of the calculated NOx mass (mnospm) from a storage catalyst model (39) The measured oxide mass (mnosps) is registered by a sensor (30) located after the ca...

The valve has a passage allowing introduction of an object e.g. surgical guide, and partially closed by torsional deformation of a flexible portion (13) of a wall of the passage. A torsional deformation unit has fixed and movable parts (4, 5) integrated to two ends of the flexible portion. Each of the parts has a surface provided with radial striae that cooperate so as to fix the movable part in a...

The invention concerns a system for evaluation regeneration of pollution management means (1) integrated in an exhaust line (2) of a motor vehicle engine, characterized in that it comprises means (4) for determining the thermal power input by the exhaust gas upstream of the pollution management means during the regeneration phase thereof and means (4) for comparing said power to threshold values (...

The packaging conveyor for bottles has a conveyor belt (2) with multiple pushers (6) spaced regularly along it on a movable support (7). The pushers move in a closed path which extends in a plane (P) perpendicular to the conveying surface (S) and locally contiguous to it. Each pusher is movable between inactive and active positions. In the latter, the pusher extends from the conveying surface to e...

A processor (2) in a transaction processing system (1) has an event engine and a scenario engine. The event engine stores a framework (20) for each entity or type of service. The framework (20) has a parent class (21) and subsidiary classes (22-27). In real time the event engine instantiates an event object from a relevant class (22-27), giving it an effective time on a timeline of the parent clas...

A system for providing integration between partitions in a virtual machine environment includes a first and second partition and a transfer mechanism. The transfer mechanism allows for the transferring of information between the first and second partition by using at lest one of i) a ring buffer, and ii) any one of a transfer page and an address space manipulation.

Data system including processes (P1-PN) connected by a network (40). Each process be executed by a program of an operating system. A process includes a software library layer allowing the operating system access to protocol activation programs; a intermediate layer allowing connection between a process and a communication channel; a multiplexor (Xco) encapsulated in the software library. The multi...

The invention relates to an installation for producing oxygen of high purity, which is advantageously installed in a transportable container ( 21 ), comprising: an upstream pressure-swing-adsorption (PSA) device (A₁) containing a zeolite sieve; a downstream PSA device (A₂) containing a carbonaceous sieve; in a loop between the two devices, a permeation device (P) capable of s...

A process for producing a stabilized soy beverage from dehulled whole soybeans partially hydrolyzed with enzymes. The process includes: providing whole soybeans; hydrating the soybeans to activate endogenous enzymes within the soybeans; dehulling the soybeans; hydrolyzing the proteins within the dehulled soybean cotyledons by incubating the cotyledons at elevated temperatures; gelatinizing the inc...