Abstract:
A method to prevent a disease, comprising: (1) administering a peptide comprising Delta6PV into a subject comprising a human or an animal; wherein the disease comprises one of more of Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Sjogren's syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Grave's disease, Giant cell artereitis, Ankylosing spondylitis, and Guillian Barre Syndrome; and (2) monitoring the disease in the subject.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to processes to make neosaxitoxin, and analogues and variants thereof, and intermediates in the production of neosaxitoxin in recombinant host cells. Neosaxitoxin and the analogues and variants thereof may be used in the production of pharmaceutical compositions.
Abstract:
Improved method of enhancing a population of one or more target micoorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract of an animal, the improvement comprising providing to the animal a selected modified or unmodified resistant starch or mixtures thereof, such that the one or more microorganisms will selectively utilize the starch and/or increase in number and/or activity in the gastrointestinal tract, either uniformly throughout the gastrointestinal tract or at specific site or regions.
Abstract:
Gate-controlled quantum dots based on silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloy heterostructures are provided. Also provided are quantum computing systems incorporating the gate-controlled quantum dots. The quantum dots are formed in a semiconductor heterostructure in which a SiGe alloy quantum well is sandwiched between SiGe alloy barriers or between Ge barriers. The presence of germanium in the quantum dots increases the average valley splitting for quantum dots confined in the SiGe. As a result, the yield of quantum dots having a sufficiently high valley splitting for device applications is increased by the use of a SiGe alloy in the quantum well.
Abstract:
An occupancy detection system for at least one vehicle seat includes: an antenna arrangement having an antenna; a control device that applies a radio-frequency transmission signal to, and receives a response signal from, the antenna arrangement; and a transmit array having a plurality of structured metallic layers disposed above each other and extending laterally, each two neighbouring metallic layers isolated from each other by an intermediate dielectric layer. The antenna arrangement transmits a radio-frequency transmission field through the transmit array onto the vehicle seat in response to the transmission signal and receives a radio-frequency response field through the transmit array to generate the response signal. The transmit array is adapted to refract at least one of the transmission field and the response field. The transmit array has a receive section that focuses a response field from a position of a vehicle seat to a position of a receive antenna.