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Nano-scale particles of materials can be produced by vaporizing material and allowing the material to flow in a non-violently turbulent manner into thermal communication with a cooling fluid, thereby forming small particles of the material that can be in the nano-scale size range. A raw material feeder can be configured to feed raw material toward a heater which vaporizes the raw material. The feeder can include a metering device for controlling the flow of raw material toward the heater. A gas source can also be used to cause gas to flow through a portion of the raw material feeder along with the raw material.

A punch element is mounted for sliding movement in the guide sleeve or casing with the punch point at its lower end for forming or punching a workpiece. A stripper element is located at the lower end of the guide sleeve which defines the casing of the punch assembly, and the stripper element has an opening aligned with the punch point through which the punch point passes to engage the workpiece. A matrix placement chamber is provided within the casing between the punch point and the guide sleeve so as to at least partially surround the punch point and at least one flexible lubrication matrix body is contained in the matrix placement chamber inside the housing. The matrix which is enclosed entirely within the casing of the unitary punch assembly in which the punch reciprocates comprises an integral porous elastic multi-cellular polymeric body containing a multiplicity of hollow communicating cells adapted to hold a lubricant in fluid communication with the sidewalls of at least the point of the punch and in a preferred form completely surrounds the punch point. The lubrication matrix can also hold a cleaning agent or an abrasive in particulate form.

A method of manufacturing a grid (1) for selective transmission of electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-ray radiation, is proposed. The method comprises: providing a support element (3) having self-supporting stability, wherein the support element (3) is made with a material which essentially absorbs no electromagnetic radiation to be selectively transmitted through the grid; applying a metal layer (5) at a surface of the support element (3); and building a selective transmission structure (7) at a surface of the metal layer (5) with a material which absorbs electromagnetic radiation to be selectively transmitted through the grid, wherein the transmission structure is build using selective laser sintering. As the support element (3) provides sufficient mechanical stability but does not absorb the respective radiation, the selective transmission structure (7) build thereon using selective sintering might not have to be subsequently separated from a manufacturing substrate thereby preventing separation/dicing losses and, furthermore, might be structurally held and protected against damage during handling of the grid.

An animal feeder includes a feeder body. The feeder body includes an upper surface, a first reception chamber and a second reception chamber. The upper surface has a first opening with a first configuration and a second opening with a second configuration different from the first configuration. The first reception chamber is defined by a first continuous side wall and a first bottom surface, the first reception chamber being connected to the upper surface at the first opening such that the first opening enables access into the first reception chamber. The second reception chamber is defined by a second continuous side wall and a second bottom surface, the second reception chamber being connected to the upper surface at the second opening such that the second opening enables access into the second reception chamber.

Provided are food, dietary supplements and/or drug compositions having prebiotic effect and their use in human and animal care.

A vehicle lighting fitting can include a housing including an opening end portion, a lens, an outer peripheral portion of which is laser-welded to the opening end portion to define a lighting chamber, and a decorative member disposed in the lighting chamber. The resin decorative member can include an outer peripheral portion on which a joint portion and a non-joint portion are alternately formed along a perimeter thereof, wherein the joint portion of the decorative member and the opening end portion of the housing are laser-welded in a state in which clearances are maintained between the non-joint portion of the decorative member and the housing, and between the lens and the housing.

The invention relates to a functional food composition rich in phenolic compounds, obtained from the combination of citric and olive species extracts, comprising: between 5 and 25% of oleuropein; between 0.1 and 1% of verbascoside, between 0.1 and 1% of hydroxytyrosol, between 1 and 5% of neohesperidin; between 1 and 10% by weight of naringin; between 0.5 and 5% of naringenin and between 0.1 and 2% of apigenin, and its use in food products and supplements.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that identifies a substantially minimal set of phase conflicts in a PSM-layout that when corrected renders the layout phase-assignable. During operation, the system constructs a phase-conflict graph from a PSM-layout such that the PSM-layout is phase-assignable if and only if the phase-conflict graph is bipartite. Next, the system removes a first set of edges from the phase-conflict graph to make the graph planar, and then removes a second set of edges to make the graph bipartite. The system then adds zero or more edges of the first set of edges, and determines a set of phase conflicts in the PSM-layout based on the remaining edges in the first set of edges and the second set of edges. The system can also be used to correct a given set of phase conflicts in a PSM-layout. The system identifies a set of lines in the layout, such that adding space along the set of lines will result in a phase-assignable PSM-layout. A substantially minimal set of lines can be determined by solving an equivalent minimum-weight set covering problem.

The disclosure provides various embodiments of systems to facilitate the cutting of luminal tissue structures percutaneously.

A display apparatus includes a first area including at least one opening, a second area disposed around the first area, and a third area disposed between the first area and the second area. The second area includes a plurality of display elements, and the third area includes a groove. The display apparatus further includes a thin film encapsulation layer covering the plurality of display elements and including an inorganic encapsulation layer and an organic encapsulation layer, a planarization layer disposed over the groove, a first insulating layer disposed over the thin film encapsulation layer, a second insulating layer disposed over the planarization layer, and a cover layer overlapping the first end of the planarization layer and partially overlapping the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A first end of the planarization layer overlaps the thin film encapsulation layer, and the second insulating layer includes a first through hole.