Abstract: An assembly fixture device for attaching a vial adapter to a vial includes a base, a support member secured to the base, a handle connected to the support member, a vial adapter grip assembly connected to the handle and comprising an adapter grip member configured to engage and hold a vial adapter, and a vial grip assembly connected to the base comprising first and second grip members that are movable relative to each other and configured to engage and hold a vial. The first grip member is biased toward the second grip member to provide a vial engagement force, where the vial engagement force is about constant when a distance between the first and second grip members is less than 40 mm.

Abstract: A body support structure includes a structural lattice structure having a first stiffness, and a compressive lattice structure supported by the structural lattice structure and having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness. A skin lattice structure is supported by the compressive lattice structure, wherein the skin lattice structure is resistant to shear deformation in response to a normal force and is expandable in a direction transverse to the normal force.

Abstract: A clearance control assembly for a gas turbine engine that defines an axial direction and a radial direction and includes a stage of rotor blades and a shroud hanger. The assembly includes a case configured to be positioned outward along the radial direction from the stage of rotor blades when installed in the gas turbine engine. The case is further configured to be engaged with the shroud hanger at a first location when installed in the gas turbine engine. The assembly also includes a baffle positioned outward along the radial direction from the case to define a chamber therebetween. The baffle has a forward end and an aft end. The forward end of the baffle is engaged with the case to form a first seal and the aft end of the baffle is engaged with the case to form a second seal. The baffle, the case, or both define an inlet to allow a fluid to enter the chamber and the case defines an outlet to allow the fluid to exit the chamber.

Abstract: An implantable device for estimating neural recruitment arising from a stimulus, has a plurality of electrodes. A stimulus source provides stimuli to be delivered from the electrodes to neural tissue. Measurement circuitry obtains a measurement of a neural signal sensed at the electrodes. A control unit is configured to control application of a selected stimulus to neural tissue using the stimulus electrodes; and after the selected neural stimulus, apply a probe stimulus having a short pulse width. A remnant neural response evoked by the probe stimulus is measured; and the control unit estimates from the remnant neural response a neural recruitment caused by the selected neural stimulus.

Abstract: An implantable device for controlling electrical conditions of body tissue. A feedback sense electrode and a compensation electrode are positioned proximal to the tissue to make electrical contact with the tissue. A feedback amplifier is referenced to ground, and takes as an input a feedback signal from the feedback sense electrode. The output of the feedback amplifier is connected to the compensation electrode. The feedback amplifier thus drives the neural tissue via the compensation electrode in a feedback arrangement which seeks to drive the feedback signal to ground, or other desired electrical value.

Abstract: A product container made of a certain plastic material, and the coupling of multiple such product containers together are disclosed herein. Each of the product containers includes either a solid or a solid/liquid combination product therein, which impacts the process of coupling the product containers.

Abstract: There is provided an electrical switch comprising a length of superconducting material. In some forms the electrical switch is configured to be controlled between a low-resistance state and a higher-resistance state by the selective application of one or more switching mechanisms. In the higher-resistance state, current flowing through the length of superconducting material may approach the critical current of the length of superconducting material, may be substantially equal to the critical current or may be greater than the critical current. In some forms, the length of superconducting material is a length of high temperature superconducting material.

Abstract: Technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating the allocation, scheduling, and management of network slice resources. According some embodiments, a system can facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include facilitating receiving information regarding a characteristic of a potential connection, by a user device, to respective network devices of a group of provider networks. The operations can further include facilitating selecting an identifier resource from a group of identifier resources, the group comprising the identifier resources available to the user device for a connection to a corresponding network device of a provider network from the respective network devices of the group of provider networks, resulting in a selected identifier resource. Further, the operations can include communicating the selected identifier resource to the user device for use by the user device to establish the connection to the corresponding network device.

Abstract: A self-cleaning filter apparatus includes a filter unit and a plunger unit. The filter unit includes a screen device; and a filter unit housing that houses the screen device. The plunger unit includes a rod end housing coupled to the filter unit housing; a plunger rod with a first plunger rod end positioned within the rod end housing and a second plunger rod end within the filter unit housing; and a plunger assembly secured to the second plunger rod end. During a first filter cleaning event segment, the plunger rod is configured to translate between a nominal position in which the plunger assembly is proximate the first screen device end and a cleaning position in which the plunger assembly is proximate the second screen device end. The plunger rod is configured to dislodge, at least in part, debris from within the screen device during at least the first filter cleaning event segment.

Abstract: Recording evoked neural responses comprises delivering a stimulus from one or more stimulus electrodes to a neural pathway in order to give rise to an evoked compound action potential (ECAP) on the neural pathway. And, recording with measurement circuitry, during delivery of at least part of the stimulus, a neural compound action potential signal sensed at one or more sense electrodes. And, processing the recording of the neural compound action potential signal to determine at least one characteristic of the ECAP. At least one characteristic of the stimulus is then defined based on the determined at least one characteristic of the ECAP.

Abstract: An implantable device for estimating neural recruitment arising from a stimulus, has a plurality of electrodes. A stimulus source provides stimuli to be delivered from the electrodes to neural tissue. Measurement circuitry obtains a measurement of a neural signal sensed at the electrodes. A control unit is configured to control application of a selected stimulus to neural tissue using the stimulus electrodes; and after the selected neural stimulus, apply a probe stimulus having a short pulse width. A remnant neural response evoked by the probe stimulus is measured; and the control unit estimates from the remnant neural response a neural recruitment caused by the selected neural stimulus.

Abstract: A method of controlling a neural stimulus, the neural stimulus being defined by at least one stimulus intensity parameter. The method comprises generating a stimulus intensity parameter to control a stimulator that generates a stimulus current for application to a tissue, measuring a response of the tissue, evoked by the stimulus current, determining a forward adjustment parameter as a function of the stimulus intensity parameter, determining a feedback parameter derived from the measured response and the forward adjustment parameter and adjusting the stimulus intensity parameter according to the feedback parameter.

Abstract: A monitoring and analysis system is disclosed that gathers and analyzes information about distributed enhanced content delivery to end user or other equipment. The system may establish communications connections along the content delivery system, filter content received from different locations of the system, and compare the received content with an expected content characteristic. Also, a radio frequency signal from the distribution network may be converted into an Internet Protocol (IP) format by a converter so that the transformed signal may be similarly analyzed as other signals from the system. A report may be consequently generated that is indicative of the received enhanced content and any detected discrepancies with respect to expected enhancement events. Identification of the enhanced content may be based on the program association table and the program map table in order to determine the packet ID of the application signals.

Abstract: An optical scanning microscope includes an illumination system (160) and an objective lens (134) operable together to provide the excitation radiation (152, 154) in a focal volume (124) at sufficient intensity to cause emission of emission radiation from a sample in the focal volume. The objective lens (134) is scanned by an objective scanner (130, 132). In this example an x-y transducer (xyXD) (130) is connected to a kinematic flexure mechanism (132) which acts as a scanning lens mount. The kinematic flexure mechanism is operable to scan the objective in two dimensions transverse with respect to the objective's optical axis so as to scan the emitting focal volume in corresponding dimensions. The kinematic flexure mechanism may be a unitary 3D-printed member.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for increasing plaque stabilization using LXA4, Resolvin E1, or analog thereof. Methods are also provided for treating or preventing arterial disorders that would benefit from increased plaque stabilization using LXA4, Resolvin E1, or analog thereof.

Abstract: Controlling a neural stimulus comprises applying the neural stimulus to a neural pathway in order to give rise to an evoked action potential on the neural pathway, the stimulus being defined by at least one stimulus parameter. A neural compound action potential response evoked by the stimulus is measured, and from the measured evoked response a feedback variable is derived. Loop backoff behaviour is adjusted by applying a non-identity function to the feedback variable to produce a revised feedback variable, and completing a feedback loop by using the revised feedback variable to control the at least one stimulus parameter so as to maintain the feedback variable at a setpoint. Additionally, or alternatively, loop gain can be adjusted in response to a change in the loop setpoint, and/or a logarithm of the stimulus parameter can be controlled.

Abstract: An implantable device is configured to control application of a neural stimulus as defined by a stimulus parameter; measure via the measurement circuitry a characteristic of a neural compound action potential response evoked by the stimulus; and compute, using the stimulus parameter and the measured characteristic of the evoked neural compound action potential response, a characteristic of an evoked response that would be obtained from the neural stimulus if the patient were in a reference posture. A posture of the patient can be estimated from the computed characteristic and/or the computed characteristic can be used as a feedback variable of a feedback loop. Multidimensional histograms of datasets comprising at least one of the stimulus parameter and a feedback variable can be stored.

Abstract: A method of controlling a neural stimulus, the neural stimulus being defined by at least one stimulus intensity parameter. The method comprises, generating a stimulus intensity parameter to control a stimulator that generates a stimulus current for application to a tissue, measuring a response of the tissue, evoked by the stimulus current, determining a response parameter indicative of the measured response, in response to the response parameter being less than a first threshold, setting the stimulus intensity parameter to a desired stimulus intensity level; and in response to the response parameter being greater than a second threshold, adjust the stimulus intensity parameter according to a feedback variable derived from the measured response.

Abstract: A heating appliance includes a housing defining a food product compartment having at least a front door and a rear wall opposite the front door. The heating appliance also includes a rack configured to support a food product within the food product compartment. The heating appliance also includes a heating assembly disposed within the food product compartment and an elongate heating device having a first length, and an angled heat distribution member having a second length disposed between the heating device and the rack. The heat distribution member includes a pattern of apertures and the heat distribution member is configured to prevent infrared radiation produced by the heating device from directly reaching the rear wall of the housing, except for infrared radiation that passes through the apertures of the heat distribution member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a neuromodulation system comprising a neuromodulation device for controllably delivering a neural stimulus, and a processor.