Abstract:
A sensing device for measuring force and/or torque includes a top part with a top electrode structure, a bottom part with a bottom electrode structure, and a support structure. The support structure includes spring elements for supporting the top part on the bottom part with the top electrode structure parallel to and facing the bottom electrode structure. The spring elements provide a gap between the top and bottom electrode structures and allow displacement of the top part relative to the bottom part in three orthogonal directions two parallel and one perpendicular to the bottom plate, and for rotation of the top part relative to the bottom part around three orthogonal axes, corresponding with said two parallel and one perpendicular directions. The displacement and/or rotation induce a change in distance between and/or overlap area of the top and bottom electrodes and a corresponding change of capacitance.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods for providing polymeric composites with bone forming, such as with osteogenic and/or osteoinductive and/or osteoconductive, properties. The present invention further relates to polymeric composites provided by the present method and the use of thereof for bone implants, or grafts, specifically the use thereof for orbital floor reconstruction. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for providing a composite with bone forming properties, the method comprises the steps of: a) providing a liquid, or liquefied, polymeric composition of homopolymers or copolymers of 1,3-trimethylene carbonate (TMC); b) adding to said liquid, or liquefied, polymeric composition one or more agents with osteogenic and/or osteoinductive and/or osteoconductive properties thereby providing a dispersion of said agents in said liquid or liquefied polymeric composition; and c) crosslinking the product obtained, thereby providing a composite with bone forming properties.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a process to prepare an object coated with an active agent by contacting an object, wherein the surface of the object has a pKa of between 4 and 7.4, with a buffered aqueous coating solution comprising a negatively charged active agent and wherein said buffered solution has a pH below the pKa, or by contacting an object, wherein the surface of the object has a pKa of between 7.4 and 10, with a buffered aqueous coating solution comprising a positively charged active agent and wherein said buffered solution has a pH above the pKa of the surface. The surface of the object may also be modified with organic molecules comprising ionisable groups which are bases and ionisable groups which are acids.
Abstract:
Manipulator (1) comprising a fixed base and a movable platform (2), wherein there are four motor-driven chains (3, 4, 5, 6) of articulated links (3', 3", 4', 4", 5', 5", 6', 6") that connect the base to the movable platform, wherein each chain has two links, and wherein the platform is movable in a plane with a predefined orientation in said plane and that in every position of the platform in the plane, said platform divides the plane in a left portion that is located left of the platform and in a right portion that is located right of the platform, and that there are two motor-driven chains (3, 4) in the said left portion and two motor-driven chains (5, 6) in the said right portion, wherein the chains in the left portion comprise upper links (3', 3") and lower links (4', 4") that are in every position of the platform parallel in pairs, and wherein the chains in the right portion comprise upper links (5', 5") and lower links (6', 6") that are in every position of the platform parallel in pairs.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a boronated polymer according to Formula (1): a process for making the boronated polymer according to Formula (1), drug 10 delivery systems, aggregates, nanoparticles and hydrogels comprising the boronated polymer according to Formula (1).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a hollow fibre membrane having a supporting layer and a separating layer, said process comprising: (a)extruding a spinning composition comprising a first polymer and a solvent for the first polymer through an inner annular orifice of a hollow-fibre die; (b)co-extruding a composition comprising an organic nucleophilic reagent and a mixtures of a solvent and a non-solvent for the first polymer, wherein the composition is either extruded through a central annular orifice of the hollow-fibre die or through an outer annular orifice of a hollow-fibre die; and (c)passing the hollow-fibre through a coagulation bath. The hollow fibre membrane according to the present invention can be used in gas separation processes, vapour separation processes and liquid filtration processes.
Abstract:
A method for determining the acoustic absorption coefficient and/or the transmission coefficient at a chosen position in a space in which a certain sound field prevails as a result of the operation of a sound-emitting source.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a road with at least one traffic lane for motorized vehicular traffic, to which road are added sound attenuating means which limit, at least for determined frequency ranges, the lateral emission of sound caused by traffic travelling over the road, and has the feature that a pattern of resonators placed in distributed manner is arranged at least locally over a chosen length along the traffic lane, which resonators each comprise an acoustically hard, non-absorbing resonance space placed under the surface and debouching in an orifice situated at least roughly at a level of the surface of a roadside edge adjacent to the traffic lane, which resonators have resonance frequencies lying in the range of the frequencies of the sound for attenuating, in particular frequencies around about 1 kHz.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for determining the bone forming potential of a mesenchymal stem cell comprising determining the level of expression of a marker gene, characterised in that said gene is CADM1.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a treatment of diabetes, a scaffold and a method of preparing a scaffold. In a first aspect, this object is met by providing a scaffold comprising beta cell aggregates, wherein the aggregates are distributed over the scaffold in a predetermined pattern.