Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus for generating a coherent laser beam from an emission of a series of diode lasers, comprising at least one row of source diodes and a system for transforming the primary light emission emitted by the source diodes into secondary coherent light emission, wherein the system for transforming the primary emission into secondary coherent light emission includes a hologram, which comprises an image of an interference pattern of the primary light emission and the secondary coherent light emission, so that when illuminating the hologram with the primary light emission, the hologram reflects the secondary coherent light emission, and in that a mirror is provided in the path of the secondary coherent light emission, which reflects at least some of the secondary coherent light emission vie the hologram to the diode lasers.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an inorganic scintillator material of general composition M1-xCexCl3, wherein: M is selected among lanthanides or lanthanide mixtures, preferably among the elements or mixtures of elements of the group consisting of Y, La, Gd, Lu, in particular among the elements or mixtures of elements of the group consisting of La, Gd and Lu; and x is the molar rate of substitution of M with cerium, x being not less than 1 mol %and strictly less than 100 mol %. The invention also concerns a method for growing said monocrystalline scintillator material, and the use of said scintillator material as component of a scintillating detector in particular for industrial and medical purposes and in the oil industry.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the field of immunology, more specifically to adjuvants used to increase the immunogenicity of antigens, e.g. for incorporation in vaccines. The invention provides use of a pulmonary surfactant or a component thereof as adjuvant substances that are able to stimulate an immune response but that in general are homologous to substances native to the body.
Abstract:
The invention relates to peptides with antimicrobial activity, consisting of an amino acid chain which contains a domain of 10 to 25 amino acids, wherein the majority of the amino acids of the one half of the domain are positively charged amino acids and the majority of the amino acids of the other half of the domain are uncharged amino acids.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of producing mushroom using a heat inducible promoter. The invention further relates to a heat inducible promoter, a nucleic acid construct, a vector and a fungus or mushroom comprising a heat inducible promoter of the invention and to methods for producing such a mushroom or fungus or a substance of interest.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the production of biofuels, proteins, peptides and other value-added compounds from crude carbon sources. The inventors identified genes encoding novel pentose transporters, in particular transporters of L-arabinose and/or D-xylose. Regulation of the Aspergillus niger genes by xlnR and araR was instrumental in the identification of these genes and their substrate specificities. Provided are novel pentose transporters and their encoding nucleic acids. Also provided are host cells (over)expressing a transporter, and industrial applications thereof, for instance in biofuel production.
Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and agents useful in the manipulation of plant physiological and biochemical properties. More particularly, the present invention provides genetic and proteinaceous agents capable of modulating or altering the level of acidity or alkalinity in a cell, group of cells, organelle, part or reproductive portion of a plant. Genetically altered plants, plant parts, progeny, subsequent generations and reproductive material including flowers or flowering parts having cells exhibiting an altered cellular including vacuolar pH compared to a non-genetically altered plant are also provided.
Abstract:
A thermoacoustic imaging apparatus comprises an electromagnetic radiation source configured to irradiate a sample area and an acoustic signal detection probe arrangement for detecting acoustic signals. A radiation responsive acoustic signal generator is added outside the sample area. The detection probe arrangement detects both signals generated in a sample area in response to the irradiation and an acoustic signal from the radiation responsive acoustic signal generator that has travelled through the sample area. A computing system distinguishes first acoustic signal detections attributed to the acoustic signal generated by the radiation responsive acoustic signal generator and second acoustic signal detections attributed to the acoustic signals generated by the sample area. The computing system performs a tomographic computation of an acoustic transmission parameter as a function of a position in the sample area from the first acoustic signal detections. The acoustic transmission parameter may be a speed of sound or absorption. The acoustic transmission parameter may be used to correct the computation of a thermoacoustic image.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 1,4,5- trisubstituted triazoles and 3,4,5-trisubstituted triazoles according to Formulas (Ia) and 5 (Ib), and mesomers and tautomers thereof, wherein a compound according to Formula (II) or Formula (III): is reacted with a compound according to Formula (IV). The process is very useful for the selective and site-specific addition of azide compounds to optionally activated alkynes to form 1,4,5-trisubstuted triazoles and mesomers and tautomers thereof and the application of this process to the covalent functionalisation of biomolecules.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a semiconductor optical element for processing at least one optical pulse, comprising an optical path for propagating the optical pulse through the optical element from an input to an output, one or more pairs of optical processing units being situated in the optical path, wherein each pair of optical processing units comprises at least one saturable optical amplifier and at least one saturable optical absorption unit, the absorption element being arranged for entering into saturation when a pulse energy received by the absorption element is higher than a saturation energy of the absorption element, and the amplifier elements being arranged for entering into saturation when a pulse energy received by the amplifier element is higher than a saturation energy of the amplifier element, whilst it holds for each pair of processing units that the saturation energy of the absorption element is lower than the saturation energy of the amplifier element.