An electrolytic pot for the production of aluminum by the Hall-Héroult electrolysis process includes a cooling device for blowing air with localized jets, advantageously with variable flow, in order to evacuate and dissipate thermal energy from the pot. An aluminum production plant using the Hall-Héroult electrolysis process has at least some pots which, either individually or in common, include a...

The invention relates to substituted phenoxyacetic acids as useful pharmaceutical compounds for treating respiratory disorders, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and processes for their preparation.

Synthetic DNA molecules encoding the HPV45 L1 protein are provided. Specifically, the present invention provides polynucleotides encoding HPV45 L1 protein, wherein said polynucleotides have been codon-optimized for high level expression in a yeast cell. The synthetic molecules may be used to produce HPV45 virus-like particles (VLPs), and to produce vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions comprisi...

A method of emptying a large container of e.g. 12000 litres for the storage of fish, such as shellfish, e.g. shrimps, said container being emptied through a pipe in the container, air being supplied simultaneously with the emptying. The air is expediently supplied through/near the bottom of the container via holes which are provided in a pattern, or via a pipe distribution system which is lowered ...

The invention relates to the use of a compound of general formula (I) and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, racemates or pure enantiomers thereof for the production of a medicament used to treat depression. The substituents are defined as in the description.

A method for the preparation of citalopram comprising reductive hydrolysis of a compound of Formula (IV) wherein R is a N,N-disubstituted amid group or an optionally substituted 4,5-dihydro-1,3-oxazol-2-yl group, and conversion of the resulting 5-formyl compound to citalopram.

A vapor-permeable and waterproof sole for shoes, particularly but not exclusively for open shoes such as sandals, sabots and the like. The sole includes a lower element, on which a tread is integrated in a downward region, the lower element chosen between an element that is vapor-permeable at least in an upward region and a perforated element, and an upper vapor-permeable and/or perforated element...

DNA polymorphism identity determination using flow cytometry. Primers designed to be immobilized on microspheres are allowed to anneal to the DNA strand under investigation, and are extended by either DNA polymerase using fluorescent dideoxynucleotides or ligated by DNA ligase to fluorescent reporter oligonucleotides. The fluorescence of either the dideoxynucleotide or the reporter oligonucleotide...

This invention provides non-steroidal compounds with affinity for the androgen receptor and utility for androgen-receptor related treatments, having a structure according to the formula or a salt or hydrate form thereof.

The present invention is related to the field of immunology and more specifically with immunotherapeutic combinations used for controlling growth and/or cell proliferation of tumors. By means of the present invention a therapeutic effect against tumors is observed by the combination of idiotypic vaccines whose principle active is an anti-ganglioside antibody (Ab1), with idiotypic vaccines whose pr...

The present invention relates to the use of the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist (11²,17²)-11-(1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-17-hydroxy-17-(1-propynyl)estra-4,9-dien-3-one (Org 34517) for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of depression as well as to pharmaceutical preparations of Org 34517 for said use.

An actuator for an inhaler for administering medicament by inhalation, comprising: a main body (102) comprising an elongate tubular member (108) for receiving a canister (107) containing medicament and having a valve stem (111) extending therefrom, the tubular member (108) including a lateral opening (114) at one end thereof; and an outlet assembly (104) comprising a mouthpiece for guiding medicam...

An electroless pure palladium plating solution capable of forming a pure palladium plating film with less unevenness of plating film is provided. The solution is characterized by comprising an aqueous solution containing (a) 0.001 to 0.5 mol/L of a water-soluble palladium compound, (b) 0.005 to 10 mol/L of at least two members selected from aliphatic carboxylic acids and water-soluble salts thereo...

A control device for an elevator has a speed command generation section, a movement control section, and an acceleration limitation section. The speed command generation section calculates a speed command for controlling the speed of an elevator car. The movement control section controls the movement of the car based on the speed command. The acceleration limitation section determines whether the ...

Plural receiving recesses are radially formed at the periphery of the disc-like rotating body. The rotating body is rotatably installed at the base, and the cylindrical cover is provided at outside of the periphery of the rotating body. From the receiving region of the receiving recess for receiving the waterproof seal to downstream side of the rotational direction of the rotating body, the first ...

Disclosed is a device for sustaining different vacuum degrees for an electron column, including an electron emitter, a lens part, and a housing for securing them, to maintain the electron column and a sample under different vacuum degrees. The device comprises a column housing coupling part coupled to the housing to isolate a vacuum; a hollow part defined through the center portion of the device t...

An apparatus and a method for implementing an execution configuration for efficiently recording and reproducing data using distributed nodes are provided. When data recording processing is performed for a plurality of distributed nodes connected to a network or when data recorded in the distributed nodes is collected and reproduced, a processing command apparatus sets data for determining for the ...

Reproduction AV data obtained from an optical disc 41 is stored into a RAM 50. An AV signal whose reproduction start timing has been controlled is outputted from the RAM 50. Breath of a viewer is measured by a sensor 61. A measured signal is supplied to a peak detecting circuit 63 through a low pass filter 62 and timing of a peak value is detected. On the basis of the detected peak value, a change...

The present invention is directed to an image information encoding apparatus adapted for performing intra-image encoding on the basis of resolution of color components and color space of an input image signal. In the image information encoding apparatus (10), an intra prediction unit (23) serves to adaptively change block size in generating a prediction image on the basis of a chroma format signal...