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Methods and systems for managing and updating information relating to economic entities using sets of unique identifiers. A universe database contains record entries. Each of the record entries is associated with a unique universe identifier. A customer database contains customer record entries. Each customer record entry is associated with a unique customer identifier. A conversion table provides a mapping between the unique universe identifiers and the unique customer identifiers. The information contained in the customer database is updated using the unique universe identifiers, unique customer identifiers and the conversion table. The unique universe identifiers and the unique customer identifiers are stable over a period of time.

The invention relates to a cosmetic or dermatological composition containing a carrier comprising at least one fatty phase characterized in that it contains at least one derivative or a mixture of derivatives of 1,7-diphenyl-3,5-heptanedione having a particular structure and at least one oil having, in its structure, at least one amide unit.The invention also relates to its uses in cosmetics and dermatology, in particular for preventing or combating the harmful effects of UV radiation and pollution on human keratinous materials, and more particularly for preventing and / or treating photoaging of the skin.The invention also relates to a method for solubilizing a derivative or a mixture of derivatives of 1,7-diphenyl-3,5-heptanedione having a particular structure with at least one oil having, in its structure, at least one amide unit.

The invention relates to: A method for estimating residual noise in the frequency range (271) of a desired part (240) of a signal to a corresponding apparatus and to a mobile telephone utilizing the method.The object of the present invention is to generate a measure for the residual noise in a signal.The problem is solved in that the amplitude of the signal (114) comprising the noise is modified, and the signal (114) is combined with the modified signal (115) to create a noise estimation measure (116).The invention may e.g. be used in digital radio communications systems to contribute to the monitoring of link quality and therefore to improve payload throughput. One of the advantages of the invention is that an indication of link quality at an early stage in the receiver is provided.

An apparatus and processes for large scale inline manufacturing of CdTe photovoltaic modules in which all steps, including rapid substrate heating, deposition of CdS, deposition of CdTe, CdCl2 treatment, and ohmic contact formation, are performed within a single vacuum boundary at modest vacuum pressures. A p+ ohmic contact region is formed by subliming a metal salt onto the CdTe layer. A back electrode is formed by way of a low cost spray process, and module scribing is performed by means of abrasive blasting or mechanical brushing through a mask. The vacuum process apparatus facilitates selective heating of substrates and films, exposure of substrates and films to vapor with minimal vapor leakage, deposition of thin films onto a substrate, and stripping thin films from a substrate. A substrate transport apparatus permits the movement of substrates into and out of vacuum during the thin film deposition processes, while preventing the collection of coatings on the substrate transport apparatus itself.

An occluding device including expandable scaffold and a flow-limiting member is described. In some embodiments the scaffold is an expandable or self-expanding stent deliverable over a guide wire. The flow-limiting member can include a valve that can be closed following deployment. On deployment the stent and flow-limiting member can engage an inner surface of a body cavity lumen, blocking flow of material. In some embodiments the body cavity is a blood vessel, and the device can be used to block blood flow. In some embodiments the device includes bioactive agents.

An object of the present invention is to provide a material for an electrolytic solution having improved ionic conductivity and, showing excellent in low temperature property, being stable with time, and being electrochemically stable at a high potential, and an ionic material-containing composition exhibiting excellent fundamental performance such as electrochemical stability, and preferably used in a variety of utilities. Another object of the present invention is to provide utilities thereof.The material for an electrolytic solution is the material containing an ionic compound, and the material comprises a cyano group-containing anion represented by the formula (1);and 1 to 99% by mass of a solvent in 100% by mass of the material for an electrolytic solution.

The present invention provides nanoparticles having a core / shell structure consisting of a core comprising a Group III element and a Group V element at a molar ratio of the Group III element to the Group V element in the range of 1.25 to 3.0, and a shell comprising a Group II element and a Group VI element and having a thickness of 0.2 nm to 4 nm, the nanoparticles having a photoluminescence efficiency of 10% or more and a diameter of 2.5 to 10 nm; a method of producing the water-dispersible nanoparticles comprising bringing a dispersion of III-V semiconductor nanoparticles in an organic solvent into contact with an aqueous solution of a Group II element-containing compound and a Group VI element-containing compound to thereby transfer the III-V semiconductor nanoparticles of the organic solvent dispersion to the aqueous solution, and then irradiating the aqueous solution with light; and a method of producing a glass matrix having the nanoparticles dispersed therein.The present invention provides III-V semiconductor nanoparticles having a high photoluminescence efficiency in an aqueous solution, and a method of producing the nanoparticles. The invention further provides a fluorescent material with high PL efficiency containing the III-V semiconductor nanoparticles retained in a glass matrix, a method of producing the fluorescent material, and a light-emitting device containing the fluorescent material.

Nanoparticles having a core / shell structure consisting of a core comprising a Group III element and a Group V element at a molar ratio of the Group III element to the Group V element in the range of 1.25 to 3.0, and a shell comprising a Group II element and a Group VI element and having a thickness of 0.2 nm to 4 nm, the nanoparticles having a photoluminescence efficiency of 10% or more and a diameter of 2.5 to 10 nm; a method of producing the water-dispersible nanoparticles and a method of producing a glass matrix having the nanoparticles dispersed therein.

A process for desulfurising an olefin-containing hydrocarbon feedstock including sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compounds as impurities, the process comprising passing a hydrocarbon feedstock containing one or more olefins through a reactor containing a crystalline silicate selected from the group consisting of an MFI-type crystalline silicate having a silicon / aluminum atomic ratio of at least 180 and an MEL-type crystalline silicate having a silicon / aluminum atomic ratio of from 150 to 800 which has been subjected to a steaming step to produce an effluent with an olefin content of lower molecular weight than that of the feedstock and removing hydrogen sulphide from the effluent.

A data storage system and method for reorganizing data to improve the effectiveness of data prefetching and reduce the data seek distance. A data reorganization region is allocated in which data is reorganized to service future requests for data. Sequences of data units that have been repeatedly requested are determined from a request stream, preferably using a graph where each vertex of the graph represents a requested data unit and each edge represents that a destination unit is requested shortly after a source unit the frequency of this occurrence. The most frequently requested data units are also determined from the request stream. The determined data is copied into the reorganization region and reorganized according to the determined sequences and most frequently requested units. The reorganized data might then be used to service future requests for data.

A process for manufacturing a transparent body for use in a touch panel is provided. The process includes: depositing a first transparent layer stack over a substrate with a first dielectric film, a second dielectric film, and a third dielectric film. The first and the third dielectric films have a low refractive index and the second dielectric film has a high refractive index. The process further includes depositing a transparent conductive film in a manner such that the first transparent layer stack and the transparent conductive film are disposed over the substrate in this order. At least one of the first dielectric film, the second dielectric film, the third dielectric film, or the transparent conductive film is deposited by sputtering of a rotatable target. Further thereto, a deposition apparatus for manufacturing a transparent body for use in a touch panel and a transparent body for use in a touch panel are provided.

The invention relates to cosmetic or therapeutic compositions that contain hydrolysed yeast proteins as an active ingredient, to the use of said cosmetic or therapeutic compositions, and to a method for cosmetic treatment.

Powder treated with a powder treating agent comprising organohydrogenpolysiloxane, characterized in that the organohydrogenpolysiloxane has a weight average molecular weight of from 300 to 100,000, at least one SiH bond per molecule, and at least one selected from (R23SiO1 / 2) unit and (SiO2) unit, wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, and alkyl, fluorinated alkyl, aryl and aralkyl groups each having 1 to 30 carbon atoms.

The Holographic Beam Combiner, (HBC), is used to combine the output from many lasers into a single-aperture, diffraction-limited beam. The HBC is based on the storage of multiple holographic gratings in the same spatial location. By using a photopolymer material such as quinone-doped polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) that uses a novel principle of “polymer with diffusion amplification” (PDA), it is possible to combine a large number (N) of diode lasers, with an output intensity and brightness 0.9 N times as much as those of the combined outputs of individual N lasers. The HBC will be a small, inexpensive to manufacture, and lightweight optical element. The basic idea of the HBC is to construct multiple holograms onto a recording material, with each hologram using a reference beam incident at a different angle, but keeping the object beam at a fixed position. When illuminated by a single read beam at an angle matching one of the reference beams, a diffracted beam is produced in the fixed direction of the object beam. When multiple read beams, matching the multiple reference beams are used simultaneously, all the beams can be made to diffract in the same direction, under certain conditions that depend on the degree of mutual coherence between the input beams.

The present invention relates to scaffolds which can be used as medical devices for guided tissue regeneration and repair, in particular the invention is directed to a scaffold comprising fibres having a mean fibre diameter of between from about 1.2 to 4.0 microns, wherein the fibres comprise a glycolide. The invention further relates to the use of the scaffolds for the selective capture of cell populations for a cell source material.

The invention discloses a thrust rack in-situ calibration system, which comprises a standard sensor assembly, a hydraulic system and a loading and unloading control system, wherein the standard sensor assembly comprises a sensor pull rod, a front universal flexible element, a standard sensor and a back universal flexible element, the hydraulic system comprises a hydraulic cylinder, a press cavity oil filling valve, a hand lifting pump, a pulling cavity oil filling valve, an electric joint pressure meter and a pressure cavity energy accumulator, the loading and unloading control system comprises a self control pump, a wide frequency servo motor, a pulse automatic tracking system, a computer and a collecting card, the in-situ thrust calibration system controls the work of the self control pump through the pulse automatic tracking system and the wide frequency servo motor, in addition, measurement signals of the standard sensor are fed back to the computer, the computer transmits the pulse signals to the pulse automatic tracking system through software operation, the automatic loading and unloading on the standard sensor by the hydraulic cylinder is realized, in addition, the necessary time can be stabilized, the loading stability can reach 0.004 percent F.S per 30 minutes (or longer time).

An electromechanical microstructure including a first mechanical part formed in a first electrically conductive material, and which includes a zone deformable in an elastic manner having a thickness value and an exposed surface, and a first organic film having a thickness, present on all of the exposed surface of the deformable zone. The thickness of the first film is such that the elastic response of the deformable zone equipped with the first film does not change by more than 5% compared to the response of the bare deformable zone, or the thickness of the first film is less than ten times the thickness of the deformable zone.

Antiseptic compositions comprising at least one salt of EDTA are disclosed. These compositions have broad spectrum antimicrobial and antifungal activity and they also have anticoagulant properties. The antiseptic compositions have also demonstrated activity in penetrating and breaking down microbial slime, or biofilms. They are safe for human and medical uses and may be used as prophylactic preparations to prevent infection, or to reduce the proliferation of and / or eliminate existing or established infections.

An aspect of the present invention relates to an iron nitride powder. The iron nitride powder is comprised chiefly of Fe16N2 and comprises, on at least a portion of the powder surface, a coating layer comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of rare earth metal elements, aluminum, and silicon, and cobalt-containing ferrite having a composition denoted by (CoxFe1−x)Fe2O4, wherein 0<x≦1. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing iron nitride powders and a magnetic recording medium comprising the iron nitride powder.

The present application relates to a composition in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising an oily phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, characterized in that the composition is free of surfactant and in that it contains cellulose fibrils which have a length of greater than 1 micron and a length / diameter ratio of greater than 30. The invention also relates to the use of the composition, especially for the care, the treatment, the makeup or the cleansing of the skin, lips, eyelashes and / or hair, as well as for the care of sensitive or dry skin.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for nurturing phalaenopsis orchid seedlings with stalk with a high performance of land use, and comprises a nurture room having an air conditioning equipment for a temperature control; a multi-layer planting bed rack installed in the nurture room for placing the phalaenopsis orchid seedlings; and an illumination rack fixed above each planting bed, and having an artificial light source installed thereon for illuminating the phalaenopsis orchid seedlings in the planting beds. With the aforementioned arrangement, the large quantity of phalaenopsis orchid seedlings placed on each planting bed are grown under the conditions controlled at a temperature at 17° C. ˜25° C. and a light intensity of 100˜11000 Lux, so as to achieve the effects of improving the production efficiency, lowering the cost and providing a stable shipping time.

Embodiments of the present invention provide stable lithium niobate waveguide devices, and methods of making and using the same. A lithium niobate-based waveguide device may include a Z-cut lithium niobate substrate having upper and lower surfaces, an optical waveguide embedded within the lithium niobate substrate, a signal electrode disposed on the upper surface of lithium niobate substrate and parallel to the optical waveguide, guard electrodes disposed on the upper surface of the lithium niobate substrate and flanking but spaced apart from the signal electrode, and a conductive layer on the lower surface of the lithium niobate substrate, wherein the conductive layer serves as a common ground reference for the signal and guard electrodes.

A process for the catalytic cracking of at least one olefin in an olefinic stream containing impurities, the cracking process being selective towards light olefins in the effluent, the process comprising contacting a feedstock olefinic stream containing at least one sulphur-, nitrogen- and / or oxygen-derivative impurity with a crystalline silicate catalyst of the MFI-type, the catalyst having a silicon / aluminum atomic ratio of at least about 180, to produce an effluent stream having substantially the same olefinic content by weight as, but a different olefin distribution than, the feedstock stream.

A light-assisted sensor and method of light-assisted sensing of gaseous species involves contacting a gaseous medium with a material selected to adsorb on its surface one or more gaseous species of interest and illuminating the surface of the material from a source to induce a change of an electrical property, such as conductivity, of the material in the presence of the one or more gaseous species. The change in the electrical property of the material is measured and can be used to identify and quantify the gaseous species of interest in the gaseous medium.

The invention relates to technology field of voltage-controlled oscillator specially a type of voltage-controlled oscillator with automatic range control. It includes: negative resistance type difference structure voltage-controlled oscillator, oscillating range distinguishing circuit, range-controlled feedback diffluence circuit, voltage-controlled oscillator offset circuit and filter circuit, norm current generating circuit and oscillating output buffer circuit, it characterized in that: the oscillating range distinguishing circuit and range-controlled feedback diffluence circuit generate the feedback control signal to adjust the current output by offset circuit to the voltage-controlled oscillator according to the output amplitude of voltage-controlled oscillator, so the output amplitude can be stabled automatically.

Methods of coating the surfaces of the microchannels of a microfluidic device are provided. These methods include silylating a first portion of the surfaces of the microchannels with a first silylating reagent to produce a first silylated surface, and silylating a second portion of the surfaces of the microchannels with a second silylating reagent to produce a second silylated surface.

The invention discloses the use of biometric fingerprint sensing equipment and corresponding data processing algorithms for the authentication of printed documents or products, in particular intaglio printed indicia on banknotes, value, or identity documents. A corresponding authentication device is also disclosed.