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The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for configuring a modulator in a digital broadcast system using service information that is also broadcast to wireless terminals. In an embodiment of the invention, the service information is provided by a generator that encapsulates the service information in a transport stream that is received by a cell transmitter. The service information is parsed by each cell transmitter to determine the current modulator parameters. If at least one of the modulation parameters has changed, the associated modulator is reconfigured with the updated modulation parameters. The invention also provides methods and apparatuses for supporting repeaters in the digital broadcast system in order to provide supplementary RF coverage in associated cells. A repeater may retransmit a received radio signal at the same frequency or at a different frequency.

A system and method for discarding expired network data packets is provided. A time stamp value is assigned to data packets that are received in a data packet queue, wherein the time stamp value is based on a counter value. The time stamp value is extracted after the counter value changes or a new data packet is received at the head of the data packet queue. The extracted time stamp value is then compared with the counter value. Data packets with expired timer value are discarded.

An instrument(10) for use in performing arthroplasty is provided. The instrument(10) includes a first portion(11) adapted to prepare a convex surface(64) on the head(5) of the long bone(4). The instrument (10) also includes a second portion (13) adapted to prepare an elongated cavity (62) or a third portion (14) adapted to prepare a central support surface (56) on the head (5) of the long bone (4), or both second portion (13) and the third portion (14). The third portion (14) and the second portion (13) are operably associated with the first portion(11).

In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for producing a composite magnetic material, wherein the non-magnetic binder comprises a layered compound having an insulation property and the non-magnetic binder and soft magnetic metal powder is admixed with each other, the admixture is compacted to a desired shape, and the compact is heat-treated under predetermined condition to form a thin insulating layer made of the insulating layered compound on the surface of the soft magnetic metal powder, thereby producing the composite magnetic material having a withstand voltage of 20 V or more.

An installation for combustion (1) of carbon-containing solids includes an oxide reducing reactor (2), a first cyclone (5), a recuperator (6), an oxidation reactor (3), a second cyclone (4), wherein flows an oxide which is reduced then oxidized in each of the two reactors (2 and 3). In the installation, the fuel is ground before being introduced into the reduction reactor (3). The reduced size of the solid fuel particles enables more complete and faster combustion and enables almost 100% production of fly ashes which are separated from the circulating oxides.

The present invention is based on the surprising observation, that a high degree of expression of certain distinct Genes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells is associated with in inflammatory process with a higher probability than it is the case for other Genes. Therefore, the present invention provides a method for diagnosis of an inflammatory process comprising monitoring expression levels of 4-6 selected targets in peripheral blood mononuclear cells as compared to expression levels of said selected targets in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in healthy individuals, characterized in that over-expression or repression of the majority of said selected Genes is indicative for an inflammatory process.

A static pressure sensing probe has an aerodynamically shaped cross section, and extends laterally from an aircraft surface sufficiently so that an outer end of the probe is a short distance outside the boundary layer on the aircraft surface on which the probe is mounted. The probe has surface corrugations or ridges along the probe, and the ridges include an upstream ridge adjacent the leading edge, and a downstream ridge spaced rearwardly from the upstream ridge. The ridges cause pressure disturbances along the probe surfaces. Static pressure sensing ports are positioned on the surfaces of the probe relative to the ridges in regions of pressure disturbances caused by the ridges. The probes can be mounted on opposite sides of the aircraft and pneumatically or electrically connected to average the pressures from selected sets of ports.

Disclosed herein is an anaerobic digester. More specifically, disclosed is an apartment-shaped anaerobic digester configured to include a first input reactor 3 into which livestock wastewater or food waste (hereinafter, ‘inflow’) is introduced; a second input reactor 4 into which the inflow passing through the first input reactor is introduced; a first region 5, a second region 6, a third region 7, and a fourth region 8 of an anaerobic digestion reactor designed for the inflow passing through the second input reactor 4 to perform methane fermentation in a first-in and first-out order to produce and transfer biogas simultaneously into the next anaerobic digestion region; an inlet pipe 41 in a lower layer portion of the fourth region 8 of the anaerobic digestion reactor, into which sludge liquid is drawn in from the lower layer; an inlet pipe 42 in an upper layer portion of the forth region of the anaerobic digestion reactor, into which activated liquid is drawn in from the upper layer; a biogas capturing device which is connected to a gas layer in the fourth region 8 of the anaerobic digestion reactor; a first heat exchange 2 tube provided inside the first input reactor 3 to allow the sludge liquid drawn in from the inlet pipe 41 in the lower layer portion to perform heat exchange with a new inflow; a first region 11, a second region 12, a third region 13, and a fourth region 14 of a subsequent treatment reactor provided on the upper layer of the anaerobic digestion reactor, to allow the sludge liquid whose heat exchange is completed to be introduced in a first-in and first-out order, and to treat gas odor components generated from the sludge liquid; and a liquid-composting reactor in which the emitted sludge whose odor components have been removed is stored.

A current sensor has a power MOSFET Q1, connected between an electric load and a power supply, for controlling current that flows through said electric load, a mirror MOSFET Q2, connected in parallel to said power MOSFET Q1, in which a portion of the current flowing through said power MOSFET flows, and a current detection resistor RC connected between a source electrode of said power MOSFET and a source electrode of said mirror MOSFET. An inverting amplifier circuit CP of the current sensor 3 inverts and amplifies the voltage signal, which has been converted to voltage by the current detection resistor RC, and outputs the signal, thereby converting positive and negative voltages generated across the current detection resistor RC to a positive voltage.

The invention relates to methods of supporting a transfer of a multimedia message. In order to simplify such a transfer, at least one header with information required for the transfer of the multimedia message is specified in an extensible mark-up language structure. In addition, a data content of the multimedia message is specified in an extensible mark-up language structure. The extensible mark-up language structure including the specified header and the specified data content is then provided for a transfer. When such an extensible mark-up language structure is received, the multimedia message is extracted from it. The invention relates equally to modules, to electronic devices, to a system and to software program products supporting such a transfer of a multimedia message.

The invention relates to a method for quantitative measurement of glycated hemoglobin (HbAIc) in a blood sample containing hemoglobin molecules. In this method, the hemoglobin molecules are extracted from the blood sample, adsorbed onto a roughened metal surface and subjected to a Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) measurement. The invention provides a universal method for the measurement of the HbAIc concentration in blood.

The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for configuring and arranging heliostats for use in a solar power system. The present invention seeks to improve the overall energy harvesting capacity of a heliostat system while using minimal land area and providing maximum access paths. The present invention teaches that, instead of raising the height of the tower or spacing heliostats according to a rigid schedule, it may be advantageous to vary the height of individual mirrors within a heliostat group, thus mitigating blocking while nonetheless permitting adjacent rows of heliostats to be placed close to one another.

An instrument and a method for conveniently collecting nucleic acids from a biological nucleic acid-containing sample are provided. A nucleic acid-capturing tip having silica-containing solid phases enclosed therein in such a state as being capable of coming into contact with a liquid, wherein the solid phases have a water-flowing regions and the average interval among solid phases in the water-flowing regions is regulated to 25 μm or less.

A self charging ion current sensing circuit is provided. The self charging ion current sensing circuit is coupled to spark generation circuitry, and utilizes the spark plug electrodes as the ion current sensing electrodes. The self charging is achieved by utilizing the spark current during an ignition event to charge an ion bias capacitor. After the ignition event, the charge voltage build up on the ion bias capacitor is used to provide an ion current across the spark plug gap. The ion current is passed through an offset stage that translates the ion current sense voltage to a voltage that can be buffered and amplified from a single power source available in automotive and vehicular applications. The output of the circuit provides tri-state information, including spark current, null current, and linear representation of ion sense current.

A multi-function catalyst article for treating both NO and carbon monoxide emissions in a flow of a combustion exhaust gas from a stationary emission source comprises a honeycomb monolith substrate comprising one or more channels which are open at both ends and extend along an axial length thereof and through which, in use, a combustion exhaust gas flows, which catalyst article comprising a catalyst composition comprising a combination of a first, vanadium-containing SCR catalyst component and a second component which is a compound of a transition metal comprising copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, nickel or cerium or a mixture of any two or more thereof and optionally a third, crystalline molecular sieve component.

A conducting switch mechanism includes a housing, an operating stem is exposed from the housing, a fixed terminal set, a movable terminal module, a fulcrum bar, and an elastic member. The fixed terminal set is fixed on a base of the housing, and includes a pair of constant contact terminals, a pair of first pathway terminals, and a pair of second pathway terminals. The movable terminal module has a first movable terminal, a second movable terminal, and an insulating member. The insulating member partially clads the movable terminals. The structures of movable terminals are integrally stamped. One end of the movable terminals correspondingly abuts against the constant contact terminals, and another end of the movable terminals correspondingly contacts the first pathway terminal or the second pathway terminal. The elastic member is connected between the fulcrum bar and the movable terminal module.

An embodiment relates to a sheet comprising an acrylic resin layer and a fluorinated polymer resin layer directly formed on one surface of the acrylic resin layer; a laminated steel plate comprising the sheet; and a manufacturing method therefor.

An electrical submersible pump (ESP) isolates its motor lubricant from pumped product without requiring a bellows, diaphragm, bladder, or external lubricant pressurizing system. A pair of nested isolation chambers below the motor housing are filled with a barrier fluid that is non-reactive, non-miscible, and higher in density than the pumped product and the motor lubricant. As the motor lubricant expands and contracts after pump start-up and shut-down, motor lubricant and barrier fluid are exchanged between the motor housing and the isolation chambers via three interconnections, while pumped product is exchanged with the inner barrier chamber, while being isolated from the motor housing. The interconnections extend between the bottom of the motor housing and the bottom of the outer barrier chamber, between the top of the outer barrier chamber and the bottom of the inner barrier chamber, and between the top of the inner barrier chamber and the pumped product.

The invention relates to a method for extracting mycotoxins from grain and other food products or from feed and its subsequent quantification. Fields of application are the food industry, the animal feed industry or biotechnology. The objective of the present invention was to develop an extraction method with which it is possible to uniformly extract mycotoxins with different dissolving properties. It was found that with the aid of aqueous, buffered naphthyl and / or phenyl compounds or their heterocyclical analogues, both hydrophobic and hydrophilic mycotoxins can be extracted. The method is characterized in that the buffered solutions of naphthyl and / or phenyl compounds and / or their heterocyclical analogues, which carry at least one sulphonic acid or at least one carbonate acid group, are brought into contact with the grain or other food products or animal feed, the aqueous solution is separated and the content of the extracted mycotoxins in the solution is determined.

Disclosed herein is an anaerobic digester configured to include input reactors into which livestock wastewater or food waste (hereinafter, ‘inflow’) is introduced; regions of an anaerobic digestion reactor designed for the inflow passing through an input reactor to perform methane fermentation to produce and transfer biogas simultaneously into the next region; an inlet pipe into which sludge liquid is drawn; an inlet pipe into which activated liquid is drawn; a biogas capturing device; a first heat exchange tube to allow the sludge liquid to perform heat exchange with a new inflow; regions of a subsequent treatment reactor to allow the sludge liquid whose heat exchange is completed to be introduced and to treat gas odor components generated from the sludge liquid; and a liquid-composting reactor in which the emitted sludge whose odor components have been removed is stored.

A conducting switch mechanism includes a housing, an operating stem is exposed from the housing, a fixed terminal set, a movable terminal module, a fulcrum bar, and an elastic member. The fixed terminal set is fixed on a base of the housing, and includes a pair of constant contact terminals, a pair of first pathway terminals, and a pair of second pathway terminals. The movable terminal module has a first movable terminal, a second movable terminal, and an insulating member. The insulating member partially clads the movable terminals. The structures of movable terminals are integrally stamped. One end of the movable terminals correspondingly abuts against the constant contact terminals, and another end of the movable terminals correspondingly contacts the first pathway terminal or the second pathway terminal. The elastic member is connected between the fulcrum bar and the movable terminal module.

An electrical submersible pump (ESP) isolates its motor lubricant from pumped product without requiring a bellows, diaphragm, bladder, or external lubricant pressurizing system. A pair of nested isolation chambers below the motor housing are filled with a barrier fluid that is non-reactive, non-miscible, and higher in density than the pumped product and the motor lubricant. As the motor lubricant expands and contracts after pump start-up and shut-down, motor lubricant and barrier fluid are exchanged between the motor housing and the isolation chambers via three interconnections, while pumped product is exchanged with the inner barrier chamber, while being isolated from the motor housing. The interconnections extend between the bottom of the motor housing and the bottom of the outer barrier chamber, between the top of the outer barrier chamber and the bottom of the inner barrier chamber, and between the top of the inner barrier chamber and the pumped product.