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The driving manner has an enormous influence on the fuel consumption of cars. Possible savings by changing the manner range from 10% to 60%. The described invention can help to unlock this potential. It comprises an assistance system, which captures the characteristics of the way ahead of the driver, e.g. using a navigation system, and then calculates driving recommendations in the form of “tasks”. The tasks are suposed to motivate the driver to adapt his driving, resulting in a changed manner in the long run. It is possible to implement a broad and extensive gamification-concept based on the invention.

This novel software technique automates the comparison of HTML pages across many browsers and a diverse range of formats. In a first step, screen shots from different browser and format combinations are automatically superimposed and compared. Relevant differences are highlighted in color to alert the web designer where additional work is required. To scale up for a large number of pages, the process can generate key numerical metrics that characterize the visual match.

Novel electro-spun fibers with integrated molecular switches (e.g. spin-crossover compounds) offer a multitude of interesting applications in the field of bio-medical research and microsensor technology. Future applications can be the new implants like e.g. cochlea implants.

Chinese Hamster ovary (CHO) cells are commonly used as a mammalian expression system for the production of recombinant proteins. They are one of the few cell types that can be grown at high cell density as the cells are resistant to metabolic stress. However, given the considerable production costs it is of major importance to maximize the recombinant protein yield. The present invention allows for significantly increasing the recombinant protein expression level in CHO cells using a standard promoter. This is achieved by silencing the Galectin-1 gene through RNAi. The lentiviral Galectin-1-knockdown (>90%) increases the expression level of the protein of interest more than 1,5-fold. No further amendments are required.

The invention concerns a process for the production of bifurcated vascular prostheses by the polymer-processing technology electrospinning.

The present innovation provides stable aqueous suspensions of water-insoluble, but biodegradable diblock copolyesters which can be further processed in multiple ways, for instance via electrospinning.