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20080261287 | Metabolic Engineering of Xylos Fermentation - The present invention relates to further genetic modifications in eukaryotic host cells that have been transformed to express a xylose isomerase that confers the host cell the ability of isomerising xylose to xylulose. The further genetic modifications are aimed at improving the efficiency of xylose metabolism and include e.g. reduction of unspecific aldose reductase activity, increased xylulose kinase activity and increased flux of the pentose phosphate pathway. The modified host cells of the invention are suitable for the production of a wide variety of fermentation products, including ethanol, in fermentation processes in which a source of xylose or a source of xylose and glucose are used as carbon source. | 10-23-2008 |
20100035306 | FERMENTATION OF PENTOSE SUGARS - The present invention relates to host cells transformed with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a eukaryotic xylose isomerase obtainable from an anaerobic fungus. When expressed, the sequence encoding the xylose isomerase confers to the host cell the ability to convert xylose to xylulose which may be further metabolized by the host cell. Thus, the host cell is capable of growth on xylose as carbon source. The host cell preferably is a eukaryotic microorganism such as a yeast or a filamentous fungus. The invention further relates to processes for the production of fermentation products such as ethanol, in which a host cell of the invention uses xylose for growth and for the production of the fermentation product. The invention further relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding eukaryotic xylose isomerases and xylulose kinases as obtainable from anaerobic fungi. | 02-11-2010 |
20100086965 | METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF ARABINOSE-FERMENTING YEAST CELLS - The invention relates to an eukaryotic cell expressing nucleotide sequences encoding the ara A, ara B and ara D enzymes whereby the expression of these nucleotide sequences confers on the cell the ability to use L-arabinose and/or convert L-arabinose into L-ribulose, and/or xylulose 5-phosphate and/or into a desired fermentation product such as ethanol. Optionally, the eukaryotic cell is also able to convert xylose into ethanol. | 04-08-2010 |
20110039327 | ORGANIC ACID PRODUCTION BY FUNGAL CELLS - Improved systems for the biological production of organic acids are described. | 02-17-2011 |
20110045559 | MALIC ACID PRODUCTION IN RECOMBINANT YEAST - The present disclosure relates to modified yeast, wherein the yeast has reduced pyruvate decarboxylase polypeptide (PDC) activity and methods of using such yeast to produce malic and/or succinic acid. | 02-24-2011 |
20110104736 | SELECTION OF ORGANISMS CAPABLE OF FERMENTING MIXED SUBSTRATES - The present invention relates to a method for selecting a strain of an organism capable of improved consumption of a mixed substrate comprising two or more carbon sources as compared to a reference strain of the organism, which method comprises: growing a population of the reference strain of the organism in the presence of the two or more carbon sources, wherein the number of generations of growth of the said population on each of the said carbon sources is at least about 50% of the number of generations of growth on the carbon source most preferred by the organism; and selecting the resulting strain of the organism, thereby to select a strain of the organism capable of improved consumption of a mixed substrate comprising the two or more carbon sources as compared to the reference strain of the organism. The invention also relates to strains of organisms selected using such a method. Strains of organisms identified using the selection method may be used in fermentation processes in which a mixed substrate is used. | 05-05-2011 |
20110275130 | FERMENTATIVE GLYCEROL-FREE ETHANOL PRODUCTION - The present invention relates to a yeast cell, in particular a recombinant yeast cell, the cell lacking enzymatic activity needed for the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis or the cell having a reduced enzymatic activity with respect to the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis compared to its corresponding wild-type yeast cell, the cell comprising one or more heterologous nucleic acid sequences encoding an NAD+-dependent acetylating acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.10) activity. The invention further relates to the use of a cell according to the invention in the preparation of ethanol. | 11-10-2011 |
20120064607 | FERMENTATION ON PENTOSE SUGARS - The present invention relates to host cells transformed with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a eukaryotic xylose isomerase obtainable from an anaerobic fungus. When expressed, the sequence encoding the xylose isomerase confers to the host cell the ability to convert xylose to xylulose which may be further metabolized by the host cell. Thus, the host cell is capable of growth on xylose as carbon source. The host cell preferably is a eukaryotic microorganism such as a yeast or a filamentous fungus. The invention further relates to processes for the production of fermentation products such as ethanol, in which a host cell of the invention uses xylose for growth and for the production of the fermentation product. The invention further relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding eukaryotic xylose isomerases and xylulose kinases as obtainable from anaerobic fungi. | 03-15-2012 |
20120208231 | METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF ARABINOSE-FERMENTING YEAST CELLS - The invention relates to an eukaryotic cell expressing nucleotide sequences encoding the ara A, ara B and ara D enzymes whereby the expression of these nucleotide sequences confers on the cell the ability to use L-arabinose and/or convert L-arabinose into L-ribulose, and/or xylulose 5-phosphate and/or into a desired fermentation product such as ethanol. Optionally, the eukaryotic cell is also able to convert xylose into ethanol. | 08-16-2012 |
20120225451 | METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF XYLOSE-FERMENTING EUKARYOTIC CELLS - The present invention relates to genetic modifications in eukaryotic host cells that have been transformed to express a xylose isomerase that confers on the host cell the ability to isomerize xylose to xylulose. These genetic modifications are aimed at improving the efficiency of xylose metabolism and include. e.g., reduction of nonspecific aldose reductase activity, increased xylulose kinase activity and increased flux of the pentose phosphate pathway. The modified host cells of the invention are suitable for the production of a wide variety of fermentation products, including ethanol, in fermentation processes in which a source of xylose or a source of xylose and glucose are used as carbon source. | 09-06-2012 |
20130084617 | TRANSFORMED CELLS THAT FERMENT-PENTOSE SUGARS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE - The present invention relates to host cells transformed with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a eukaryotic xylose isomerase obtainable from an anaerobic fungus. When expressed, the sequence encoding the xylose isomerase confers to the host cell the ability to convert xylose to xylulose which may be further metabolized by the host cell. Thus, the host cell is capable of growth on xylose as carbon source. The host cell preferably is a eukaryotic microorganism such as a yeast or a filamentous fungus. The invention further relates to processes for the production of fermentation products such as ethanol, in which a host cell of the invention uses xylose for growth and for the production of the fermentation product. The invention further relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding eukaryotic xylose isomerases and xylulose kinases as obtainable from anaerobic fungi. | 04-04-2013 |
20130236932 | POLYPEPTIDES WITH PERMEASE ACTIVITY - The invention relates to a polypeptide having a mutation at one or more position corresponding to T219 of SEQ ID NO: 55, wherein the polypeptide has at least 50% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 55, and wherein the polypeptide has permease activity. | 09-12-2013 |
20140295514 | FERMENTATIVE GLYCEROL-FREE ETHANOL PRODUCTION - The present invention relates to a yeast cell, in particular a recombinant yeast cell, the cell lacking enzymatic activity needed for the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis or the cell having a reduced enzymatic activity with respect to the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis compared to its corresponding wild-type yeast cell, the cell comprising one or more heterologous nucleic acid sequences encoding an NAD | 10-02-2014 |
20150031076 | TRANSFORMED CELLS THAT FERMENT PENTOSE SUGARS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE - The present invention relates to host cells transformed with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a eukaryotic xylose isomerase obtainable from an anaerobic fungus. When expressed, the sequence encoding the xylose isomerase confers to the host cell the ability to convert xylose to xylulose which may be further metabolized by the host cell. Thus, the host cell is capable of growth on xylose as carbon source. The host cell preferably is a eukaryotic microorganism such as a yeast or a filamentous fungus. The invention further relates to processes for the production of fermentation products such as ethanol, in which a host cell of the invention uses xylose for growth and for the production of the fermentation product. The invention further relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding eukaryotic xylose isomerases and xylulose kinases as obtainable from anaerobic fungi. | 01-29-2015 |
20150104543 | ORGANIC ACID PRODUCTION BY FUNGAL CELLS - Improved systems for the biological production of organic acids are described. | 04-16-2015 |
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20110251988 | ADAPTIVE IMPLICIT LEARNING FOR RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an apparatus, method, and computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein user actions on content items are associated to explicit ratings on these content items and translated into a UI features profile, which is subsequently used by a recommender. This recommender rates new items based on user actions on this item and thus creates an implicitly learned rating history. This learning makes the implicit rating or scoring personalized. It can be combined in several ways with an explicitly learned rating history to improve overall performance and/or to mitigate the burden for the user, by having him/her rate less items explicitly. | 10-13-2011 |
20120116879 | AUTOMATIC INFORMATION SELECTION BASED ON INVOLVEMENT CLASSIFICATION - The present invention relates to an automatic selection or placement engine that, given an ancillary information belonging to a certain category, places it in a congruent or contrasting context depending on the degree of involvement of the user in that product category. User profiles are automatically classified as low or high user involvement in a certain category. | 05-10-2012 |
20150134476 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A RECOMMENDATION - A device and a method for automatic generation of a recommendation for an item p to a user u. The device is at least indirectly connected to an item database containing a user profile database and a user interrelation database. A standard recommender engine accesses the item database and user profile database to calculate a score s(p,u) in a [0,1] interval indicating a “like” degree of an item p for user u based on a user profile of user u. The device further has a content discovery recommender to access the user interrelation database and to find at least users v that have a direct connection to user u to determine a fraction of the users v that know an item p and to generate a recommendation based on the score s(p,u) of item p. | 05-14-2015 |
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20080256579 | Assisted User Control in Recommenders - A method and arrangement for modifying settings of a television program recommender ( | 10-16-2008 |
20120142999 | ACTIVE PILLOW SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MANIPULATING A PERSON'S RESTING CONDITIONS - The present invention relates to a an active pillow system and a method for manipulating a person's resting conditions, wherein the actual resting conditions of the person are determined by a sensor unit, an actigraph, a temperature sensor and/or a humidity sensor for instance, and wherein an acoustic synthetic jet cooling mechanism, is triggered by the determined actual resting conditions for manipulating the person's resting conditions. | 06-07-2012 |
20130097153 | Profile Based Content Retrieval for Recommender Systems - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein a user profile normally used by a recommender to predict user ratings is employed to generate a targeted query for the remote database yielding a set of results that can be scored by the recommender and provided as suggestions to the user. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097477 | CONTENT TRANSFORMATION FOR LEAN-BACK ENTERTAINMENT - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for adapting a document with actively selectable content, e.g., web-based content, for consumption in a lean-back mode. The document is rendered in a way that it can be optimally consumed in the lean-back mode. The multimedia content of the document (images, text, etc.) is transformed into a continuous information flow (e.g. video) that can be rendered as if it were a television channel, for example. | 04-18-2013 |
20130151340 | COORDINATED AUTOMATIC AD PLACEMENT FOR PERSONAL CONTENT CHANNELS - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for automatically inserting advertisements into a media stream, wherein subscription information which specifies categories of advertisements to be scheduled for insertion is stored and a category of a target advertisement is determined. Based on the result of the determination those advertisements of a stored list of scheduled advertisements, which according to their subscription information are subscribed to the determined category, are triggered and subjected to a predetermined modification processing selected based on the result of the determination. | 06-13-2013 |
20130204740 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR STIMULATING A USER TO RECOMMEND AN ITEM TO A CONTACT OF THE USER - The present invention is related to a recommender system ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130268975 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PERSONAL CHANNEL - The invention relates to an apparatus ( | 10-10-2013 |
20140020027 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PERSONAL CHANNEL - The present invention relates to an apparatus ( | 01-16-2014 |
20140115082 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - The present invention relates to a method of operating a recommender system arranged for being coupled to a computer implemented social network ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140136621 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF GENRE-SPECIFIC RELEVANCE OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention relates to an operating method of operating a recommender system, a filtering apparatus ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140173436 | EASY 2D NAVIGATION OF VIDEO DATABASE - The present invention relates to a method of operating an apparatus for displaying content items on a display, a corresponding computer program for operating an apparatus and to an apparatus ( | 06-19-2014 |
20140214839 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SORTED LIST OF ITEMS - An electronic device and method for automatic generation of a sorted list of items related to a seed item comprises a relatedness determinator to compare the seed item with a plurality of further items and to determine a relatedness value for each further item with respect to the seed item. The device also has a clustering engine to cluster the further items by determining a relative relatedness between (among) the further items. Each further item is assigned to one cluster. The device also has a list generator to generate a sorted result list by sorting the further items according to both, their relatedness value and their belonging (or membership) to a cluster in that once an item is added to the sorted list, the relatedness value depending ranking of the further items in that cluster is at least momentary lowered so as to promote adding items of further clusters. | 07-31-2014 |
20140223488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS - A recommender engine for recommending content items to a user comprises a profile generation unit having a pre-profile input unit, which is configured to receive pre-profile data comprising pre-profile text data suitable for identifying entities of interest to a given user, and having a pre-profile analysis unit, the entities of interest and to generate an initial user profile data set for the given user from the extracted identification data; a query generation unit, to generate at least two queries semantically different from each other to be directed to at least one content repository; a content retrieval unit, to issue the generated queries to the content repository and to receive in response to the queries, content-related response data comprising respective hit lists and an interleaver unit to generate from the different hit lists a single recommendation list. | 08-07-2014 |
20150037769 | GENERATING A CIRCADIAN TIME DIFFERENCE - Information about a person's circadian rhythm is generated in terms of a difference between a reference and a specific circadian time for a specific wall-clock time or in terms of a difference between a special and a specific wall-clock time for a specific circadian time event. | 02-05-2015 |
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20080288982 | Method and Apparatus for Generating a Recommendation for at Least One Content Item - A recommender engine ( | 11-20-2008 |
20090210533 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR SHARING RESOURCES IN A NETWORK OF PEERS - A device and a method for sharing resources in a network of peers are disclosed. A user may compile a wish list ( | 08-20-2009 |
20110022992 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING A REPRESENTATION BASED UPON A USER INSTRUCTION - The invention relates to a method for modifying a representation based upon a user instruction and a system for producing a modified representation by said method. Conventional drawing systems, such as pen and paper and writing tablets, require a reasonable degree of drawing skill which not all users possess. Additionally, these conventional systems produce static drawings. The method of the invention comprises receiving a representation from a first user, associating the representation with an input object classification, receiving an instruction from a second user, associating the instruction with an animation classification, determining a modification of the representation using the input object classification and the animation classification, and modifying the representation using the modification. When the first user provides a representation of something, for example a character in a story, it is identified to a certain degree by associating it with an object classification. In other words, the best possible match is determined. As the second user imagines a story involving the representation, dynamic elements of the story are exhibited in one or more communication forms such as writing, speech, gestures, facial expressions. By deriving an instruction from these signals, the representation may be modified, or animated, to illustrate the dynamic element in the story. This improves the feedback to the users, and increases the enjoyment of the users. | 01-27-2011 |
20120036084 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RATING ITEMS - Items are rated for use in a recommender. A record of a plurality of previously rated items and their associated ratings is maintained and upon receiving a rating for a first item ( | 02-09-2012 |
20120124635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNELS TO AT LEAST ONE DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER - A method and system for transmitting channels to at least one digital video recorder is described. A server receives at least one recording schedule from a plurality of digital video recorders (step | 05-17-2012 |
20130117102 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPLACING AN ADVERTISEMENT - A method and apparatus ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130124310 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A USER - A method and apparatus for creating recommendations for a user is described. A user input relating to an item is received (step | 05-16-2013 |
20140236989 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF RATING REQUESTS FROM A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - The recommender system uses stored representations of relations between users. Access to an item by one or more first users in the storage system is recorded. When the recommender system detects a request for a rating of the item from a second user, the recommender system selects at least one of the first users that occurs in a stored relation with the second user. A query message that refers to the second user is then automatically transmitted to enter a rating for the item to a user address associated with the selected first users. Preferably at least one first user is selected for which it has been recorded that it has accessed the item but for which it has not yet given a rating. Preferably, the rating from the first user is passed to the second user via the recommender system, which records the rating for further use. The selection of the first user may be based on recorded data that measures correlation between ratings from the first and second user. | 08-21-2014 |
20140331241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH AUTOMATED MEDIA-FILE-BASED QUIZZING - Automatic generation of questions and evaluation answers about a media item is provided for a system such as a video on demand system. A virtually unlimited number of questions can be generated without the need for subjective information. Questions about a media item are generated by selecting a media segment of the media item. At least part of the media item within the selected media segment is shown to a user. The user is asked to indicate a position within the media item where the user thinks that the segment is located. The indicated position is compared to the actual position of the segment to evaluate the answer. | 11-06-2014 |