Abstract: An implant for fusing a joint between first and second bone portions. The implant includes a screw member, and a washer polyaxially rotatable relative to the screw member. The screw member includes a head, a lag zone, and a threaded engagement zone. The implant includes a fusion zone for joint compression, extending from the washer to the proximal end of the engagement zone. Fenestrations may be present in the fusion zone. The length of the fusion zone ranges from about 10 mm to about 37 mm. Different surface finishes including roughened and non-roughened may be applied selectively to selected portions of the implant. In an embodiment, the joint is a sacro-iliac joint, and upon implantation the implant extends from the exterior of the ilium, across the joint and into the sacral vertebral body. Instrumentation and methods for preparing the joint and implanting the implant are disclosed.

Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request to access a portion of a building graph of the building from a system, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building and the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause one or more processors to determine whether the system has access to the portion of the building graph based on a policy indicated by the plurality of nodes and edges of the building graph and provide the portion of the building graph to the system in response to a determination that the system has access to the portion of the building graph.

Abstract: A method of navigating a media stream includes streaming a media stream to a user device, wherein the media stream comprises a plurality of media segments, and each media segment of the plurality of media segments corresponds to a non-overlapping portion of the media stream. Additionally, the method includes receiving, from the user device, a request to navigate from a current position in the media stream to a requested position in the media stream. Further, the method includes locating a media segment of the plurality of media segments, wherein the media segment corresponds to the requested position in the media stream. Moreover, the method includes determining an optimal position within the media segment based on one or more waveform criteria. Finally, the method includes streaming the media stream to the user device from the optimal position in the media segment.

Abstract: The present invention is in the field of soybean variety LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 in a breeding program.

Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a tubular garment using a knitting machine having a first knitting bed and a second knitting bed are disclosed. An embodiment of the method includes knitting a first fabric panel in the first knitting bed and knitting a second fabric panel in the second knitting bed. The first fabric panel and the second fabric panel being joined to define a first tubular portion of the tubular garment. The method includes temporarily transferring the first fabric panel from the first knitting bed to the second knitting bed and knitting a third fabric panel in the first knitting bed. The method includes joining the third fabric panel to the first fabric panel to define a second tubular portion of the tubular garment. The method includes disposing an electrically conductive bus through the second tubular portion for electrical communication with at least one conductive yarn integrated within the tubular garment.

Abstract: Methods of additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object include irradiating a first build plane region using a first energy beam defining a beam diameter, the first energy beam travelling along a first oscillating path in a first direction to consolidate a first wall defining a thickness perpendicular to the first direction, wherein a build material adjacent a first side of the first wall and the build material adjacent a second side of the first wall, opposite the first side of the first wall, remains unconsolidated; and wherein the thickness of the first wall is greater than the beam diameter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for retaining, positioning and releasing a prosthetic heart valve. The system includes a valve holder, and a control handle. The valve holder includes a connection base and at least one holding arm. The holding arms are distributed around a periphery of the connection base, with the holding arms having positioning structures at the distal side thereof for engaging with an outflow side of the prosthetic heart valve. The control handle is coupled to the valve holder for controlling the valve holder.

Abstract: In an aspect, an apparatus for human performance exhalation sensing is presented. An apparatus includes a housing. A housing includes an inlet tube configured to receive exhaled gas from an individual. A housing includes a sensing device positioned within an inlet tube, wherein the sensing device is configured to detect a breath parameter. A housing includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor to receive a breath parameter from a sensing device through a communicative connection. At least a processor is configured to compare a breath parameter to a performance metric. At least a processor is configured to generate a performance determination of an individual as a function of a comparison.

Abstract: Aspects relate to systems and methods for dynamic active noise reduction including at least a sensor configured to sense a physiological characteristic of a user and transmit a physiological signal correlated to the sensed physiological characteristic, at least an environmental microphone configured to transduce an environmental noise to an environmental noise signal, a processor configured to receive the environmental noise signal, generate a noise-reducing sound signal as a function of the environmental noise signal, and, modify the noise-reducing sound signal as a function of the physiological signal, and a speaker configured to transduce a noise-reducing sound from the modified noise-reducing sound signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for sample analysis. The system comprises a container. The container comprises a sample receptacle and a cap, and the cap comprises a reservoir for retaining a composition, a first piercing member and a first pierceable barrier for sealing said composition within said reservoir. There is also provided a method for sample analysis.

Abstract: The present invention is in the field of soybean variety LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 in a breeding program.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing sheet product is provided. The dispenser includes a housing with an outlet through which sheet product is dispensed. A knife drum is rotatable with respect to the housing. A knife is movable between a retracted position within the knife drum and an extended position where the knife protrudes outside of the knife drum to cut the sheet product. A cam follower surface is fixed with respect to the housing. A cam follower is attached to the knife and operable to engage the cam follower surface and travel therealong to transition the knife between the retracted position and the extended position. A spring assembly biases the knife drum during rotation toward a predetermined position. The spring assembly comprises a first spring and a second spring. The spring assembly is attached at a single mount position that is fixed with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A building system includes one or more memory devices comprising instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform one or more first operations based on a digital twin of a building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to update a schema of the digital twin by adding a property or tag to an entity class of the schema, add, based on the schema, one or more data elements representing the property or tag to the digital twin, the one or more data elements related to an entity of the entity class, and perform one or more second operations based on the one or more data elements representing the property or tag.

Abstract: A reference to a digital item is stored as a digital card. The digital card can also be contained in, and/or refer to, other digital cards. The digital card can also include properties or attributes that may be added from the digital item that is being referred to. The digital card can be stored in a data pod within a de-centralized data storage system architecture.

Abstract: The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1463825, CL1560023, CL1560457, CL1560517, CL1561938, CL1562168, CL1562319, CW1410004, CW1660237, EC1661076, EE1660540, and EW1660267 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean varieties CL1463825, CL1560023, CL1560457, CL1560517, CL1561938, CL1562168, CL1562319, CW1410004, CW1660237, EC1661076, EE1660540, and EW1660267 and to the seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny of each or any of these cultivars, and methods of using CL1463825, CL1560023, CL1560457, CL1560517, CL1561938, CL1562168, CL1562319, CW1410004, CW1660237, EC1661076, EE1660540, or EW1660267 in a breeding program.

Abstract: Aspects relate to system and methods for determining a user specific mission operational performance, using machine-learning processes.

Abstract: Provided herein are EMCN-specific antigen-binding domains, and chimeric proteins including the EMCN-specific antigen-binding. Also provided herein are cells, nucleic acids, vectors, compositions, and methods directed to proteins including the EMCN-specific antigen-binding domains.

Abstract: An example apparatus to monitor media that is presented via a mobile device includes: an application monitor to determine when media presentation software is being executed by the mobile device; and a metering information collector to collect at least one of a signature or a code of the media presented by the media presentation software based on the media presentation software being executed by the mobile device.

Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to manage a plurality of entitlements for a plurality of subscriptions of one or more buildings with a building entitlement model, receive a first request to perform a first operation for a first subscription and a second request to perform a second operation for a second subscription, and implement the first operation on first computing resources of a first zone based on the building entitlement model in response to a first determination that the first subscription has the first entitlement and implement the second operation on second computing resources of the second zone based on the building entitlement model in response to a second determination that the second subscription has the second entitlement.

Abstract: A building system includes one or more memory devices comprising instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform one or more first operations based on a digital twin of a building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to update a schema of the digital twin by adding a property or tag to an entity class of the schema, add, based on the schema, one or more data elements representing the property or tag to the digital twin, the one or more data elements related to an entity of the entity class, and perform one or more second operations based on the one or more data elements representing the property or tag.