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A valve sizer for determining an appropriate replacement valve size when performing a heart valve replacement procedure is provided. In one version the valve sizer has a hollow shaft with proximal and distal ends. A movable sizing element couples to the distal end of the shaft and is radially expandable between first, contracted and second, expanded positions. An actuator assembly on a handle includes an actuator coupled to a clutch member via a ball-spring-detent clutch. A rod extends through the shaft and maintains a fixed distance between the handle and a distal hub in the sizing element. Movement of the actuator causes axial movement of the shaft, thereby causing radial expansion of sizing petals relative to the hub. The clutch slips when a predetermined reaction force from the surrounding valve annulus is met by the petals.

The invention relates to graphene derivatives, as well as related devices including the graphene derivatives and methods of using the graphene derivatives.

The device includes a material defining a reaction region. The device includes a plurality of chemically-sensitive field effect transistors (chemFET) each having a common floating gate (370) in communication with the reaction region. The device also includes a circuit to obtain respective output signals from the chemically-sensitive field effect transistors indicating an analyte within the reaction region.

A breathable air safety system and method having an air storage sub-system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a safety system of a structure includes a supply unit of a building structure to facilitate delivery of breathable air from a source of compressed air to an air distribution system of the building structure, a distribution structure that is compatible with use with compressed air that facilitates dissemination of the breathable air of the source of compressed air to multiple locations of the building structure, and an air storage sub-system to provide an additional supply of air to the building structure in addition to the source of compressed air.

The invention relates to a method for processing a gas in order to reduce the carbon dioxide content thereof, wherein the method is characterised in that it comprises contacting the gas with a compound of at least one rare earth element, whereby the carbon dioxide is adsorbed on the compound and a carbon-dioxide depleted gas is obtained. The compound may more particularly contain an oxide, and the rare earth element may particularly be selected from cerium, lanthanum or praseodymium.

A method of providing sensor-based information from a sensor device to an application program includes receiving, in a sensor device, sensor data obtained using a sensor. The method includes determining, in the sensor device , whether the sensor data meets a predefined condition associated with an application program in a computer system. If the sensor data meets the predefined condition, the method includes forwarding an event message associated with the predefined condition from the sensor device for receipt by the application program. A sensor device includes a sensor configured to make sensor readings of a physical characteristic, and a data processing component configured to forward, if the sensor data meets the predefined condition, an event message associated with the predefined condition for receipt by the application program. A system includes a computer system configured to execute an application program, a first sensor device and a second sensor device.

An enterprise business planning system includes a server to an application server to execute an enterprise planning activity in accordance with a model that defines a set of enterprise users. The system further includes an extension manager to selectively deploy software extensions to the enterprise users in accordance with the model. The model may, for example, define roles for the enterprise users, and the extension manager selectively deploys the software extensions to the enterprise users based on the roles assigned to the enterprise users. As another example, enterprise model may comprises a multi-level hierarchy of related nodes, and associates the enterprise users with the nodes. The extension manager may selectively deploy the software extensions to the enterprise users based on the levels of respective nodes associated with the enterprise users.

According to the invention, the unmanned aerial vehicle cruises to shoot the road surface video and transmits the road surface video to the computing device; the computing device receives the road surface video, then obtains a plurality of video frames corresponding to the road surface video, detects and tracks vehicles in the plurality of video frames, then calculates a transformation matrix between adjacent video frames, further calculates the detected displacement of each vehicle in the actual scene, and finally judges whether the vehicle stops running in the actual scene or not by counting the accumulated displacement of each vehicle in a period of time. Compared with an existing traditional method, the invention does not need to delploy monitoring equipment on site in advance, the application is flexible, deployment cost and management cost are low, and the parking behavior on the road surface can be monitored in a large range; the unmanned aerial vehicle can always move and fly without hovering in the air to fix a monitoring picture, so that more convenient, efficient and flexible road surface parking identification can be realized.

The present disclosure provides a bearing saddle assembly and a shaft end generator assembly of a generator. The saddle assembly includes a first portion configured for mounting to a car truck and a second portion connected to the first portion, and a second portion configured to together form a stator for mounting an electrical generator base.

Methods of assaying the presence of enzymatically active hydrolases (i.e., hydrolytic enzymes) in a sample or specimen are disclosed. In particular, a method of detecting candidiasis by assaying for the presence of enzymatically active aspartic protease in a sample is provided. In these methods, a sample or specimen is contacted with a solid support. The solid support with which the sample is contacted has a reporter enzyme (i.e., a signal generating enzyme) immobilized thereon. The reporter enzyme is immobilized on the solid support in a manner such that it is released from the solid support upon action of the enzymatically active hydrolase if the enzymatically active hydrolase is, in fact, present in the sample. The sample after having been contacted with the solid support is combined with an indicator. The indicator is any chemical species which is susceptible to a detectable change, usually a change in color, upon action of the reporter enzyme. A detectable change in the indicator is an indication that the enzymatically active hydrolase is present in the sample. Moreover, the presence of an enzymatically active hydrolase in a sample may indicate the presence of a particular pathogen or disease state such as, for example, candidiasis. In addition to the methods of assaying for the presence of enzymatically active aspartic protease and other hydrolytic enzymes, a dry, self-contained test device for assaying for the presence of an enzymatically active hydrolase in a sample is disclosed. In particular, a dry, self-contained test device for testing a sample for the presence of candidiasis by assaying for the presence of enzymatically active aspartic protease is also disclosed. These test devices combine a reporter enzyme immobilized on a solid support, an indicator, and all other reagents and components necessary to achieve a detectable indication of the presence or absence of the enzymatically active hydrolase whose presence is being detected in the sample, and preferred embodiments contain positive and negative controls as well.

To make a user inhale a medicine having a constant particle diameter, an inhaler with which the user inhales the medicine through a suction port (6) has a gas holding part (2) in which exhaled air of the user or other air is to be stored, an air flow path (3) which is connected with the gas holding part and guides the medicine to the suction port by inhalation of the user, and a medicine ejection part (4) from which the medicine is to be ejected to the interior of the air flow path when the user inhales through the air flow path the exhaled air or other air stored in the gas holding part.

The invention relates to cosmetic and dermatological emulsion. The emulsion is characterized by comprising at least one aqueous phase, at least one fatty phase, at least one flavylium salt which is unsubstituted in position 3; which is substituted with at least one radical chosen from hydroxyl and alkoxy radicals; and which is, for example, obtained at least one of synthetically, from a plant extract, and from an enriched plant extract, in an amount which is effective for artificially coloring the skin, for example, effective for obtaining, 30 minutes after application of the emulsion to a fair skin in an amount of 2 mg / cm2, a darkening of the skin color characterized in the L*a*b* colorimetric measuring system by a DELTAL* ranging from -0.5 to -20, and at least one organomodified silicone, where the emulsion is configured as at least one of a cosmetic and a dermatological emulsion.

This specification describes technologies relating to an intervertebral disc prosthesis used to strengthen and stabilize the spine. Implementations of the technology described herein comprise a surgical device that is implanted through a small surgical incision into a portion of a human intervertebral disc, various support tools used to insert such a surgical device, and a method by which the device is used to strengthen and stabilize the spine.

The present application provides a method of treating castrate resistant prostate cancer in a patient, comprising administering to the patient a combination of afuresertib and CFG920, wherein the castrate resistant prostate cancer is also resistant to one or more standard of care treatments.

A drug delivery device with removable pods is described and related pods methods and systems. The drug delivery device comprises a plurality of receptacles, each receptacle configured to accept a corresponding drug pod, wherein each receptacle comprises: a recess configured to accept a protrusion in the corresponding drug pod, or a protrusion configured to insert in a recess in the corresponding drug pod. The corresponding drug pod comprises a shell, made of an impermeable polymer, having a first base comprising an opening configured to allow delivery of a drug, a second base, a lateral surface, a protrusion attached to, and extending away from, the lateral surface, or a recess in the lateral surface.

The present invention relates to graphene derivatives, and related devices comprising graphene derivatives and methods of using graphene derivatives.

This invention relates to thiourea compounds described herein. These thiourea compounds can be used to treat hepatitis C virus infection.

The invention relates to the technical field of machine learning, and discloses a black box model-oriented representation diagnosis, model comparison and training sample collection method and system, which can realize automatic explanation of internal logic of a black box model to obtain an AND-OR graph model representing the internal logic of the black box model, and improve the accuracy of the internal logic of the black box model. Therefore, black box model-oriented characterization diagnosis, model comparison and training sample collection are realized. The method comprises the following steps: providing a black box model; inputting a sample into the black box model, wherein the sample comprises an input unit with a certain dimension; based on the middle-layer output characteristics of the black box model, modeling is carried out on the interaction cooperation effect between the input units of the sample, the interaction strength of combinations formed by the input units is calculated, and the black box model is expressed as the'and plus relationship 'between the combinations of the input units; the reference value on each input unit in the interactive calculation is optimized, so that the expression of the'and addition relationship 'obtained from the black box model is more concise; and establishing an AND-OR graph model for expressing the internal logic of the black box model based on the relationship.