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An apparatus and method for metabolic cooling and insulation of a user in a cold environment. In its preferred embodiment the apparatus is a highly flexible composite material having a flexible matrix containing a phase change thermal storage material. The apparatus can be made to heat or cool the body or to act as a thermal buffer to protect the wearer from changing environmental conditions. The apparatus may also include an external thermal insulation layer and/or an internal thermal control layer to regulate the rate of heat exchange between the composite and the skin of the wearer. Other embodiments of the apparatus also provide 1) a path for evaporation or direct absorption of perspiration from the skin of the wearer for improved comfort and thermal control, 2) heat conductive pathways within the material for thermal equalization, 3) surface treatments for improved absorption or rejection of heat by the material, and 4) means for quickly regenerating the thermal storage capacity for reuse of the material. Applications of the composite materials are also described which take advantage of the composite's thermal characteristics. The examples described include a diver's wet suit, ski boot liners, thermal socks, gloves and a face mask for cold weather activities, and a metabolic heating or cooling blanket useful for treating hypothermia or fever patients in a medical setting and therapeutic heating or cooling orthopedic joint supports.

A computing device for obtaining a first cryptographic key during an enrollment phase, the computing device comprising a key generator for generating the first cryptographic key in dependence upon a seed, the computing device being configured for storing the first cryptographic key on a storage of the computing device for later cryptographic use of the first cryptographic key on the computing device during a usage phase coming after the enrollment phase wherein, the computing device further comprises a physically unclonable function, the key generator being configured for deriving the seed from an output of the physically unclonable function, and an encryption module for encrypting the first cryptographic key using a second cryptographic key derived from the output of the physically unclonable function, the computing device being configured for storing the first cryptographic key on the storage in encrypted form.

A method of selectively providing cartographic features on a video display of a navigation system for improved rendering is provided. The method includes the steps of determining an operational mode of the navigation system, selecting a desired cartographic entity for a cartographic feature based upon the operational mode, and displaying the desired cartographic entity on the video display. For example, less detailed cartographic entities are selected for display when the navigation system is in an operational mode that requires the video display to be updated frequently ore a mode in which it is desirable to focus the user's attention on a different cartographic entity. The less detailed cartographic entity may have a lower intensity than or contrast less with surrounding cartographic entities. In this manner, the user may be provided the desired level of map details with the video display regenerated rapidly.

The invention discloses an artificial nerve conduit of double layer and the method for preparing same. The said nerve conduit comprises an inner conduit and an outer layer, which are made from degradable and adsorptive material in living body. The slit between said inner conduit and outer conduit is filled with fiber albumen glue (used for regeneration of nervous tissue and blood vessel). The artificial nerve conduit of double layer can be used for bypass surgery for damaged round nerve and spinal marrow, and it will be degraded and adsorbed in living body after nerve regeneration. The said artificial nerve conduit possesses good elasticity and strength, and the degradation time is adaptive to growing speed of nervous fiber (about 1-6 months).

A medical device for body cavity which has a main stent body and a sheet-shaped member having an opening and covering at least a part of the main stent body as described above. It is desirable that, when the main stent body is dilated from the first diameter in the compressed state to the second diameter, the above-described sheet-shaped member spreads so as to cover at least a part of the main stent body without restricting the movement of the main stent body toward the circumferential direction while the shape of the opening of the above-described sheet-shaped member is retained even after the dilation of the main stent body. The above-described medical device for body cavity is applied to a delivery system which has a first catheter for transporting the medical device for body cavity into the body. In this delivery system, the above-described medical device for body cavity is located at the front end of the first catheter as described above so as to allow indwelling thereof.

The present invention includes a process for the dehydration of ethanol by adsorption of water at elevated pressure and for the regeneration (purging) of adsorbent at a lower pressure than the pressure used for the adsorption of water where the ratio of the duration of the regeneration (purge) step to the duration of the water adsorption step is higher than 0.1 and the temperature of adsorption is greater than 260 degree Fahrenheit.

A method for regenerable adsorption includes providing a substrate that defines at least one layer of ultra short channel length mesh capable of conducting an electrical current therethrough, coating at least a portion of the substrate with a desired sorbent for trace contaminant control or CO₂ sorption, resistively heating the substrate, and passing a flowstream through the substrate and in contact with the sorbent.

The invention relates to a method for regenerating activated carbon. The method is characterized in that the method comprises the steps of mixing a regeneration solvent having a solution temperature of 50-120 DEG C and waste activated carbon in a volume ratio of 3:1-1:3 and soaking for 10-60min; carrying out solid-liquid separation on the soaked mixture; washing the separated activated carbon to be treated with water in a volume ratio of the activated carbon to be treated to water of 1:2-1:5; and activating the washed pre-treated activated carbon with microwaves, wherein the regeneration solvent is composed of 1-10% of alkaline substance, 65-95% of organic solvent and 1-25% of water by mass percentage. The method can remove organic substances and inorganic substances adsorbed on the surface and in the micropores of the activated carbon to the maximum extent, the regenerates can be circularly utilized, the regeneration speed of the activated carbon and the quality of the regenerated carbon are improved, the regeneration cost of the activated carbon is reduced and the regeneration efficiency and the regeneration quality of the activated carbon are improved.

The invention provides a biocompatible article having a surface comprising collagen fibrils attached to said surface via one or more linker molecules, wherein each of said collagen fibrils is attached to at least one of said one or more linker molecules at a proximal end of the fibril, and wherein each of said collagen fibril has a proximal portion extending from said proximal end to a point P along said fibril, wherein, for a majority of said fibrils, each fibril at said point P is oriented so as to form an angle α_P in the range of 0° to 45° to the surface normal N at the point of attachment of said fibril to said surface. The collagen fibril-coated surface has improved biocompatibility and is useful in a medical implant intended for implantation into soft tissue or bone tissue.

This invention relates to a method for electrooxidation degradation of dye waste-water by utilizing activated carbon fiber, particularly by using the activated carbon felt as anode material. It comprises steps of: (1), feeding wastewater into the electrolytic cell, (2), the cell is equipped anode activated carbon fiber and stainless steel cathode, (3), power-in the DC power and starting the agitator, proceeding electrolysis with current density of 15-35mA/cm2, voltage of 5-12V. The absorption makes the enrichment of organic dye on the surface of the activated carbon, and oxidation and degradation of the absorbed dye occurs by electrocatalysis oxidation, after the treatment, the decolourisation is upto 99%, COD removal rate is 87.9%.

The invention relates to an anti-infection bio-derived hernia and body wall repair material, a preparation and an application thereof, the repair material comprises a small intestinal submucosal acellular matrix (SIS) with the thickness of 80mu m-100mu m and nano-silver particles which are implanted in the SIS. The preparation method comprises the steps of preparing the nano-silver particles into working solution with the concentration of 50ppm-500ppm, carrying out flat immersion into the SIS under the conditions that the volume ratio of working solution/SIS is 100-120:1, the temperature is 37 DEG C and the CO2 concentration is 5% and turning over the SIS at 1 time/30 minutes, thereby obtaining the nano-silver SIS. The repair material has the advantages of safety, no toxicity, anti-infection property, high tissue affinity, absorbability, rapid tissue regeneration, light adhesion, low hernia recurrence rate and the like, the anti-infection property is characterized by high efficiency, durability, broad antibacterial spectrum, no drug resistance and the like, and the composite material can be applied in repair of body wall wounds, fascial defects or hernia accompanied with contamination or infection.

The invention discloses a bone implant and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of the bone implant comprises a step of coating or mixing type II collagen with at least one porous bone material comprising metals, bio-ceramics, natural biopolymers and synthetic polymers. Another manufacturing method of the bone implant comprises the steps of loading type II collagen with or without at least one porous bone material in a container, and lyophilizing the type II collagen to generate a type II collagen sponge construct with or without the porous bone material as the bone material. The manufactured bone implants are effective, with or without loading cells having differentiation tendency towards osteogenesis, to facilitate bone repair upon introduction of the bone implant into various osseous defects.

A two-stage fermenting process for preparing composite biologic flocculant includes such steps as physically and chemically pretreating cellulose, preparing culture liquid, adding inorganic salt, regulating pH value, sterilizing, adding cellulose gradating bacteria to convert cellulose to glucose and cellodiase, and adding flocculant generating bacteria.

A novel, resistance-based porous silicon sensor with Pd nano structures as the hydrogen sensing layer is presented. The sensor operates at room temperature. The hydrogen sensor of the present includes a p-Type Si substrate that is subjected to porous Si etching to form a nanoporous substrate. The substrate is then coated with a thin layer of Pd and annealed at 900 degrees C. This results in some Pd getting oxidized on porous Si and a thin PdO layer forms on the surface of the substrate. The sensor in accordance with the present invention exhibits an inverse relationship between increased hydrogen concentration versus resistance.

The invention provides an outdoor display device of ideologies and politics. The device comprises a base, a groove formed in the base, a display mechanism arranged in the groove, a retracting mechanism arranged between the display mechanism and the groove for lifting the displaying mechanism in the groove, and a water drainage mechanism arranged at the periphery wall of the groove. According to the outdoor display device of ideologies and politics, the lifting mode is used for administering self-protection measures during the occurrence of severe convection weather to retract the device into the groove to lower the height. At the same time, a sealed display structure is used for preventing the phenomenon that stagnant water enters the display mechanism, and combined with the inclined ring groove and the ring water seal, the display mechanism can not only retract freely in the groove, but also achieve the automatic water drainage. An emergency protection mechanism is used for implementing further self-protection during the occurrence of severe convection weather to guarantee that the device can achieve intelligent and automatic control after being inducted for once, the personnel maintenance is reduced, and reconstruction investment for the damages caused by the severe convection weather can be lowered.

The present invention relates to the field of tissue engineering and more specifically to amphiphilic peptides and peptide matrices thereof useful in vitro and in situ biomineralization and inducing bone repair. The present invention provides peptides, which are useful in hydrogels and other pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and kits of use for bone repair and promotion of biomineralization. Certain hydrogels according to the invention comprise cells within or adhered to the peptide matrix.

The invention belongs to the biology and biological technical field, and discloses a plant in-situ regeneration and agrobacterium transformation method. Agrobacterium is coated on a wound of a plant root stock, a callus which is generated by inducing a plant in-vitro tissue on a culture medium is used as a scion, and the scion is grafted onto the root stock through a cleft graft method. Root stock wound cells can realize in-situ organ regeneration under the induction of an exogenous callus, so that a transgenic regeneration bud can be obtained. Compared with the traditional plant genetic transformation method combining the tissue culture, a one-by-one genotype fumbling tissue culture condition can be avoided, a novel technological platform can be provided to the genetic transformation of plants, meanwhile, a novel plant regeneration system is established, and a research system is provided to the study of plant development biology.

The invention provides vacuum swing adsorption processes that produce an essentially carbon monoxide-free hydrogen or helium gas stream from, respectively, a high-purity (e.g., pipeline grade) hydrogen or helium gas stream using one or two adsorber beds. By using physical adsorbents with high heats of nitrogen adsorption, intermediate heats of carbon monoxide adsorption, and low heats of hydrogen and helium adsorption, and by using vacuum purging and high feed stream pressures (e.g., pressures of as high as around 1,000 bar), pipeline grade hydrogen or helium can purified to produce essentially carbon monoxide -free hydrogen and helium, or carbon monoxide, nitrogen, and methane-free hydrogen and helium.