Blood flow information is used to reduce noise manifest in blood vessel ultrasound B-mode images. A blood flow signal is obtained by a flow detector. After wall filtering, only the flow signal power in the blood vessel lumen remains, while signal power from stationary tissue region is suppressed. The flow signal component is used to calculate a flow component parameter that is used to generate a g...

The present invention provides an immunogenic influenza composition in a dose volume suitable for human use, comprising an influenza virus antigen or antigenic preparation thereof and an adjuvant composition comprising an oil-in-water emulsion, wherein said oil-in-water emulsion comprises a metabolisable oil at a level of below 11 mg and an emulsifying agent at a level of below 5 mg and optionally...

A laying device (28) that is configured to lay fiber pieces (40, 40′, 40″) has a flexible surface (164) that applies and presses the fiber pieces against a preform surface.

Disclosed is an at least partly crosslinked coating (K) composed of a near-surface coating zone (K1) and a volume coating zone (K2), the coating obtained from a composition comprising at least two different crosslinkable components (D1) and (D2), at least part of component (D1) having one or more surface-active structural units, wherein (i) the coating both in zone (K1) and in zone (K2) is at leas...

The invention relates to a hard metal tool which rotates about its own longitudinal axis, has an l/d ratio of 2 to 200 and is intended for the drilling or milling of materials. The hard metal tool contains a hard material phase and a binder phase, wherein the main binder constituents are iron, nickel and cobalt, the iron content is between 50 and 90% by weight, the nickel content is between 10 and...

The valve has a movable anchor arranged and supported radially inside a coil carrier (2), where the movable anchor is connected indirectly with a closing unit. The anchor and a core (4) are arranged radially within a bearing bush (19), which is radially arranged within the coil carrier. The control unit controls a valve seat between inlet and outlet channels. The bearing bush is formed of plastic ...

According to one embodiment, a system for confirmation data transfer in a distributed trading network includes a memory and an account manager. The memory stores a confirmation address associated with a trading account. The account manager receives a trading order associated with the trading account and sends a confirmation message to the confirmation address, where the confirmation message indica...

The invention relates to an accumulator (10), particularly a prismatic lead accumulator, comprising a housing and (a) at least one stack (29) of plates, (b) which has a plurality of spaced-apart pole plates (14, 16) that are entirely suspended by a fixing element (28) in at least one circumferential direction (U). According to the invention, the fixing element (28) is fixedly connected to the hous...

Multiplex overlap-extension RT-PCR provides an efficient method of linking two or more nucleotide sequences encoding for domains or subunits of a heteromeric protein, in a single reaction. Especially, the linkage of variable region encoding sequences from e.g. immunoglobulins, T cell receptors or B cell receptors is eased with the method of the present invention. This allows for a more efficient w...

A vehicular drive control apparatus that improves vehicle maneuverability is disclosed. The control apparatus performs control so as to reduce total drive torque (Tt) of all wheels (11L, 11R, 12L, 12R) while maintaining a distribution difference (”T), which is the difference between the drive torques (Tl, Tr) of the left and right wheels (12L, 12R) during turning of the vehicle (10).

The invention relates to an arrangement with a high voltage electrode (1) and a process vessel (2) assigned to the high voltage electrode (1), wherein the high voltage electrode (1) and the process vessel (2) can be positioned relative to each other in such a manner that the high voltage electrode (1) with its operational electrode end (5) in an operating position is immersed in the process vessel...

The present invention relates to an apparatus for inserting ferro-alloy and inserting method without submerging into slag and liquid steel for reducing absorption of oxygen and absorption of nitrogen capable of inserting ferro-alloy by minimizing an incorporation of oxygen and nitrogen in a ladle treatment process of a steelmaking process upon performing a steelmaking operation, comprising: a supp...

A decision feedback equalizer for processing a data signal provides concurrent equalizer outputs (Zok, Z1k) for hard decision directed and soft decision directed modes. The joint architecture in accordance with the present invention takes advantage of the fact, herein recognized, that for each equalizer output symbol soft decision bit representation, a subset of these bits corresponds to the hard ...

Acarryingdevice includes: a supply portion (16) for supplying a recording sheet (3) from a supply roll (11) wound with the recording sheet (3); a platen (18), which is opposed to a recording head (7) for performing recording on the recording sheet (3) supplied from the supply portion (16), for supporting the recording sheet (3); a take-up portion (20) in which the recording sheet (3) on which reco...

For easy maintenance and cleaning, a rigid structure and a low cost, a shredder for shredding a by-product such as a sprue, a runner and the like generated when molding a thermoplastic synthetic resin product, to be reusable shredded pieces, is structured such that front and rear oscillating side walls (11) are openable, right and left stationary side walls (9) are connected by two support shafts ...

A method and apparatus for the cross-hole pressing of cutting inserts (10) is disclosed whereby a green part (110) is fabricated using metallurgical powder (260) and an opening (25) is imparted within the green part by placing the metallurgical powder about an oval-shaped core rod (235). Using a press (200) with a uni-axial press motion, a core rod is placed within the cavity (210) of a mold and m...

Compositions of matter including articles derived from (a) from 5 to 99.99 wt % of a modified polybutylene terephthalate random copolymer that (1) is derived from polyethylene terephthalate and (2) contains a at least one residue derived from polyethylene terephthalate selected from the group consisting of antimony, germanium, diethylene glycol groups, isophthalic acid groups, cis isomer of cycloh...

The invention relates to a method for protecting street furniture against the effect of fireworks. For this purpose cavities, recesses, gaps and the like in the street furniture are where possible filled. This preferably takes place by placing attachments such as filler piece (4) in the cavities, recesses, gaps and the like and subsequently securing these attachments.

A method of non-destructively determining the amount of ultraviolet degradation of a surface and/or paint adhesion characteristics of the surface corresponding with UV damage including determining a physical property of a composite material/surfacing film by providing a series of composite materials/surfacing films which are subjected to increasing UV light experience to create a set of UV damage ...

A finger vein authentication device includes a finger information register unit for extracting information of a vein pattern from a vein image and registering the same as a matching template in a memory, and a finger vein authentication unit for extracting information of a vein pattern from the vein image and matching the same with the matching template to perform personal authentication. The devi...