A method for metallising solid substrates involves the use of non-equilibrium plasma treatment of a supported metal precursor layer. This technique can be used to make pure metal or alloy coatings. An oxidising plasma pre-treatment step of the supported metal precursor layer, or the incorporation of a plasma polymer coupling layer prior to metallisation, can result in improved adhesion. The method...

What is proposed is an electrically operated hair removing device, such as shaver, hair/beard clipper, epilation device or the like, having an operating system-connected to a housing-for clipping and/or plucking hair, which system has at least two operating elements which are movable relative to one another and at least one of which is driven, and having at least one illumination device for illumi...

The invention relates to glass ionomer for enhancing mineralization of hard tissue of mammals. The glass ionomer comprises, a inert biocompatible ceramic and a bioactive ceramic. The invention also relates to a method for enhancing mineralization of hard tissue of mammals with the aid of said glass ionomer. The invention further relates to the use of said glass ionomer for the preparation of produ...

A ferromagnetic resonator for use in a marker in a magnetomechanical electronic article surveillance system has improved magnetoresonant properties and/or reduced eddy current losses by virtue of being annealed so that the resonator has a fine domain structure with a domain width less than about 40 mum, or less than about 1.5 times the thickness of the resonator. This produces in the resonator an ...

A magnetic flux guiding apparatus comprises a conduit having a wall that comprises an electrically conducting material. An electrically insulating gap is formed in the wall along an entire length of the conduit. The electrically insulating gap prevents the conduit from having a closed electrical path that links any of the desired magnetic flux paths. For example, the electrically insulating gap ca...

The invention relates to an RFID label comprising a resonant circuit consisting of a coil and a capacitor. Said RFID label is provided with an additional element (13, 17, 20, 21) for regulating the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit, this element being applied to the surface of the RFID label after production of the same. The additional element can be especially, a sticker with a conducti...

An information processing apparatus comprises a key and a proximity sensor. When the user places a finger on a depressing portion of the key, the proximity sensor detects the event, and inputs, to the information processing apparatus, proximity information indicating that the user's finger is in proximity to the key. Based on the proximity information which has been input, the information processi...

The invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for multiplexing a number of video signals. According to the invention, the video signals are reduced in their information, combined into a single video signal, and then the video signal is compressed by one compressor. This saves circuits for compressors.

An active pixel sensor is disposed on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, and comprises a plurality of semiconductor regions disposed in the substrate, each successive one of the semiconductor regions and alternating between the first conductivity type and a second conductivity type opposite to that of the first conductivity type being enclosed entirely within another enclosing...

Digital audio data which have a predetermined packet structure are divided into units including a predetermined number of bits; each unit of the divided digital audio data is converted into specific data to be encoded; the encoded data are arranged in blanking intervals of video data; the digital audio data are transmitted as well as the video data using a transmission line for the video data, and...

An inflatable display includes an inflatable balloon, a projector having a projection lens, an internal support structure that supports the inflatable balloon and the projector so that the projection lens is eccentrically disposed inside the inflatable balloon. The inflatable display also includes an external support structure that supports the internal support structure. Also included is a method...

The invention concerns a method for segmenting video images into elementary objects. Said method consists in defining (A) an initial boundary (CD) entirely surrounding the object (OBJ); defining (B), on the basis of the initial boundary (CD), an original active boundary (CAO) constituting of a set of nodes, each formed by a point of said contour and an elastic energy function representing the dist...

A method and apparatus for providing a smooth transition of the transmission over a network between a first FGS encoded video stream and a second FGS encoded video stream wherein each of the FGS encoded video streams contains a base layer. The method comprises selecting a transmitted P-frame of the first video stream, selecting a next P-frame to be transmitted in the second video stream, determini...

An image processing method for extracting a characteristic amount of a photographed image from the photographed image obtained by photographing an object, comprises a passing through deleting step of deleting a passing through area from the photographed image, a preparing step of preparing a projection from the image from which the passing through area is deleted, and a setting step of setting a c...

A complex comprising cisplatin and a poly(ethylene glycol)/poly(glutamic acid) block copolymer, wherein the cisplatin is enclosed in the copolymer through ligand displacement in which a carboxyl anion of the copolymer is replaced with a chlorine ion of the cisplatin. This complex can give a medicine reduced in toxicity and usable by a new method of administration.

A gelatin-based substrate for fabricating protein arrays, the substrate comprising: gelatin having at least one surface; a polymer scaffold affixed to the gelatin surface; wherein the polymer in the scaffold is rich in reactive units capable of immobilizing proteins.

Stabilising compositions for lubricant base stocks and lubricant formulations are composed of a mixture of (a) at least one aromatic aminic amine antioxidant optionally blended with at least one hindered phenolic antioxidant and (b) at least one neutral organo phosphate or phosphite, optionally blended with at least one acid organo phosphate or phosphite. These stabilising composition mixtures are...

The present invention relates to a novel retinoid derivative compound represented by the formula I: wherein X, R<1>, R<2 >and R<3 >are as defined herein or pharmaceutically acceptalbe salts thereof. Also, the present invention relates to processes for producing the compound of the formula I and to an anti-cancer composition comprising the compound of the formula I. The compound of the formula I ac...

Bicyclo-pyrazole compounds of formula (I), as herein defined, are useful for treating diseases linked to disregulated protein kinases.

Stable self-etching copolymerizable primer compositions including are provided including compounds having a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated groups and acidic groups, and optionally comonomers and suitable solvents. Such compositions are used in conjunction with dental adhesives to provide one or multi-component dental systems capable of etching or decalcifying tooth dentin and enamel witho...