Pharmaceutical liposomal formulations are described for photodynamic therapy comprising a, hydrophobic porphyrin photosensitizer, a monosaccharide and one or more synthetic phospholipids, which are stable in storage especially through freeze-drying process. The liposomal formulations provide therapeutically effective amounts of the photosensitizer for intravenous administration. In particular deri...

A method for the production of a fuel cell stack, involving the following steps: a) piling up the fuel cell stack (1) and (b) putting together the fuel cell stack (1) while heating and compressing the piled fuel cell stack (1). At least one regulated force is applied to the piled fuel cell stack (1) during the compression thereof.

An on-line system and method for buyers and sellers of international container transportation services is disclosed. Specifically, the system offers importing and exporting customers the opportunity to request and select specific service patterns offered by participating carriers in the booking of full container shipments. The system includes user interfaces that allow a shipper to track and trace...

An on-line system and method for buyers and sellers of international container transportation services is disclosed. Specifically, the system offers importing and exporting customers the opportunity to request and select specific service patterns offered by participating carriers in the booking of full container shipments. The system includes user interfaces that allow a shipper to track and trace...

A method for producing a polyimide film comprises the steps of: preparing a polar organic solvent solution of a polyimide precursor obtained by mixing a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride compound and a diamine compound; adding a dehydrating agent and an imidization catalyst to the polar organic solvent solution so as to prepare a resin solution composition; and drying the resin solution composition...

A preparation, in particular a cosmetic preparation, in the form of an O/W emulsion, which besides usual cosmetic ingredients, contains a wax component, a fatty acid, a polyvalent alcohol, a film-forming agent and a gel component, wherein the gel component comprises a hydrocolloid.

A pattern formation apparatus has a drum-like intaglio 1 rolling along a transferred medium. After the intaglio 1 is charged by a charger, a pattern of toner particles is formed by supplying a liquid developer of each color to the intaglio 1 via a developing machine and an electric field is formed between the intaglio 1 and the transferred medium by rolling the intaglio 1 along the transferred med...

The present invention relates to AMPA receptor potentiators of Formula (I), formulations comprising them, methods for their use, and intermediates useful for their preparation.

This invention relates to fluid filters and filter cartridges and connections for the filters/cartridges to piping, valving, brackets, and other holders that cooperate with the filters/cartridges to make them operative in a flowing fluid system. More specifically, this invention relates to a "keyed" system for keying a particular filter cartridge or filter to a particular cooperating filter head m...

A base station ( 103 ) operates a hybrid retransmission scheme for a communication to a first subscriber unit ( 101 ) over a communication channel of an air interface of a cellular communication system. The base station ( 103 ) comprises a retransmission parameter controller ( 209 ) which sets a transmission parameter, such as a transmit power or an error correcting scheme, for a transmission of t...

A method and a system for switching a mobile device ( 102 ) from a source Base Transceiver Station (BTS) to a target BTS in a mobile network ( 100 ) are disclosed. The method includes detecting an intention to switch the cell transmitted by the mobile device. A Base Station Controller (BSC) ( 112 ) then receives the switch detect time from the source BTS and/or the target BTS. The switch detect ti...

Systems and methods of generating quick paging messages having nearly unique identifiers and variable capacity are described. The system generates a quick paging message identifying an access terminal to indicate the presence of a scheduled paging message for that access terminal. The system generates a quick paging notification for each access terminal having a scheduled paging message and genera...

In order to improve photoelectric conversion properties of a silicon-based thin-film photoelectric converter to which a conductive SiO x layer is inserted to obtain an optical confinement effect, the silicon-based thin-film photoelectric converter according to the present invention includes an i-type photoelectric conversion layer of hydrogenated amorphous silicon or an alloy thereof, an i-type b...

According to a picture coding method of the present invention, a coded picture identified by a picture number is stored, as a reference picture, into a storage unit; commands indicating correspondence between picture numbers and reference indices for designating reference pictures and coefficients used for generation of predictive images are generated; a reference picture being used when motion co...

With commands from a terminal divided into a command to designate an access area and a command to gain access, the terminal adds verification data of the terminal to an argument of the command to gain access, and it is thereby possible to verify the identity of a terminal application that issues the command to designate an access area, a terminal application that issues the command to gain access,...

In a boom 15 for a working machine 10 attached to an upper rotational body 30 supported on a center of an upper portion of a crawler-type traveling device 40 to be transversely rotatable, the boom 15 includes, as portions cast by integral molding, a boom support point part 16, a boom cylinder rod support point part 18, and an arm support point part 19, and is configured so that the boom support po...

The present invention provides a bonding method in which a bonded portion having a sufficient bonding strength can be obtained at a relatively low temperature, for example, in die bonding a semiconductor chip. A metal paste 20 was applied to a semiconductor chip 10, the metal paste 20 consisting of metal powder of one or more kinds selected from gold powder, silver powder, platinum powder, and pal...

The channel estimation method involves at least one base station (BS) transmitting information to at least one subscriber station (MS) about the beam shaping vector used for the connection from the at least one base station to the at least one subscriber station, based on which the at least one subscriber station carries out channel estimation. AN Independent claim is also included for the follow...

A method provides for evaluating the power performance of an OFDM multi-antenna transmitter, wherein a sum signal formed according to the WiMAX standard and transmitted from the multi-antenna transmitter, which represents a superposition of a preamble transmitted signal from a preamble transmit antenna of the multi-antenna transmitter and of at least one transmitted signal from a further transmit ...

A mounting bracket (30) for mounting a drain pump (40) to a heat insulator (25) is integrated with a lid element (32) for blocking an opening of a wire receiving groove (26). When the mounting bracket (30) is mounted to the heat insulator (25), a wire (41) extending from the drain pump (40) is held between the wire receiving groove (26) and the lid element (32).