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A radio frequency identification device (RFID) antenna structure includes electrically-conductive material. The antenna structure includes low effective resistance-material areas and high effective resistance areas in regions where there would be little current flow if there were more low effective resistance material. The high effective resistance areas may be spaces within the antenna structure in which there is substantially no electrically conductive material. Alternatively, high effective resistance material in the high effective resistance areas may have a non-zero lower electrical conductivity than the low effective resistance material in the low effective resistance-material areas. Conductive material for the antenna structure may include conductive ink. By reducing or eliminating the amount of conductive material in the high effective resistance areas, it will be appreciated that reduced-cost devices may be obtained.

A novel multilayer flexible metamaterial that can work at near infrared (NIR) regime that can be fabricated on transparent PET substrate using flip chip transfer (FCT) technique. An embodiment of the present invention also provides novel NIR metamaterial device that can be transformed into various shapes by bending the PET substrate, wherein said metamaterial device is tunable via physical manipulation of its flexible substrate with no requirement to change the material composition of the substrate. The flexibility allows the novel NIR metamaterial device to bend and stretch, which can alter the device structure. Since the resonant frequency of each device is a function of the device structure, the resonant frequency can be tuned by the bend and stretch of the substrate. Another embodiment of the present invention further provides novel tunable sensors and emitters using such flexible metamaterials and devices.

A system for controlling operation of a radiofrequency treatment device to apply radiofrequency energy to tissue to treat tissue to create lesions without ablating the tissue. The system includes a device having flexible outer tube, an expandable basket having a plurality of arms movable from a collapsed position to an expanded position, a plurality of electrodes movable from a retracted position to an extended position to extend through the openings in the arms, and an advancer slidably disposed within the outer tube to move the electrodes. An elongated spacer is positioned within the outer tube, the spacer having a central lumen to receive the advancer and to maintain a central position of the advancer.

An automatic machine for arrissing the edges of glass sheets, comprising devices that allow to work glass sheets by way of rigid tools, such as diamond grinding wheels, by acting simultaneously on the two face edges along the perimeter of the sheet. The machine comprises at least one working head, provided with a tool with a probe and feedback circuits for grinding symmetrically the glass sheet and following the perimetric profile of the sheet by a combined action of moving the glass sheet and at least one working head.

The invention is a shift lockout guide for a vehicle equipped with a manual gearbox. It includes a user-operable means that, in preferred embodiments, is mounted to the shifter of the gear box and is linked to an engagement portion that interacts with guide plates defining a path of travel for the shifter. A biasing means urges the engagement portion into the guide plates but this can be overridden by the driver through the user-operable means. The invention provides the driver of a vehicle fitted with the invention in the selection of specific gears while also preventing certain other gears from being selected. This reduces the risk of inadvertent overrevving of the vehicle's engine through inappropriate gear selection.

A curable coating composition comprising: (a) a silicate, such as sodium silicate, potassium silicate or lithium silicate; (b) a phosphate, such calcium phosphate, magnesium phosphate or sodium phosphate; and (c) a metal oxide, such as magnesium oxide, aluminum (III) oxide, scandium (III) oxide, yttrium (III) oxide, or zirconium oxide. Such curable coating compositions may be used as non-thermochromic (tailored based on expected operating environment) thermal control coating compositions for application to spacecraft and components thereof. As an alternative metal oxide component, for use in lower temperature applications, or in applications for which thermochromism at elevated temperatures is not a concern, the metal oxide may comprise zinc oxide. Also provided is a curable coating composition comprising: (a) a silicate (e.g. as above); (b) a phosphate (e.g. as above); and (c) a metal sulphate, such as a barium sulphate. Cured coatings are also provided, as are thermal control coatings, thermal control paints, and processes for making coated substrates.

A mixed solvent is prepared by dissolving acetic acid and lithium acetate in a mixture of isopropanol and water. This mixed solvent together with titanium alkoxide and carbon nanofiber (CNF) were introduced into a rotary reactor, the inner tube was rotated at a centrifugal force of 66,000 N (kgms−2) for 5 minutes to form a thin film of the reactant on the inner wall of the outer tube, and sheer stress and centrifugal force were applied to the reactant to allow promotion of chemical reaction, yielding CNF on which highly dispersed lithium titanate nanoparticle precursors are supported. The obtained composite powder was heated under nitrogen atmosphere at 900° C. for 3 minutes, yielding a composite powder in which highly dispersed lithium titanate nanoparticles are supported on CNF, wherein crystallization of lithium titanate was allowed to progress.

The invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutical compositions capable of treating amyloid diseases and other diseases characterized by oligomerization and / or fibrillation of amyloidogenic peptides such as amyloid beta peptide (Abeta or Aβ).