Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry to execute instructions, issue circuitry to issue the instructions for execution by the processing circuitry, and candidate instruction storage circuitry to store a plurality of condition-dependent instructions, each specifying at least one condition. The issue circuitry is configured to issue a given condition-dependent instruction in response to a determination or a prediction of the at least one condition specified by the given condition-dependent instruction being met, and when the given condition-dependent instruction is a sequence-start instruction, the issue circuitry is responsive to the determination or prediction to issue a sequence of instructions comprising the sequence-start instruction and at least one subsequent instruction.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a controller including controller memory and logic are presented herein. The logic is configured to control access to a persistent storage media and, in response to one or more commands, the logic determines an intermediate parity value based on a first parity calculation, and using the intermediate parity value determines a final parity value based on the intermediate parity value and a second parity calculation. Determining the intermediate parity value includes sending a uni-directional command to read an old data value from an address indicated in the uni-directional command, perform an exclusive-or operation on the old data value and a new data value indicated in the uni-directional command to determine the intermediate parity value and store, in the persistent storage media, the intermediate parity value at a location associated to an index indicated in the uni-directional command.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, method and medium for data processing. The apparatus comprises a register file comprising a plurality of data registers, and frontend circuitry responsive to an issued instruction, to control processing circuitry to perform a processing operation to process an input data item to generate an output data item. The processing circuitry is responsive to a first encoding of the issued instruction specifying a data register, to read the input data item from the data register, and/or write the output data item to the data register. The processing circuitry is responsive to a second encoding of the issued instruction specifying a buffer-region of the register file for storing a queue of data items, to perform the processing operation and to perform a dequeue operation to dequeue the input data item from the queue, and/or perform an enqueue operation to enqueue the output data item to the queue.

Abstract: Shadow masks comprising a multi-layer membrane having a mechanical pre-bias that compensates the effect of gravity on the membrane are disclosed. A shadow mask in accordance with the present disclosure includes a membrane that is patterned with a desired pattern of apertures. The layers of the membrane are selected such that their residual stresses collectively give rise to a stress gradient that is directed normal to the plane of the membrane such that the stress gradient mitigates gravity-induced sag. In some embodiments, the membrane includes a layer pair having internal stresses that are of opposite signs to effect a tendency to bulge outward from the plane of the membrane prior to its release from the substrate. An exemplary membrane includes a layer pair comprising a layer of stoichiometric silicon dioxide that is under residual compressive stress and a layer of stoichiometric silicon nitride that is under residual tensile stress.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing the volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions in a ruminant, said method comprising the administration of a methane inhibitor to said ruminant. The increase in the VOC emissions can be used for monitoring and/or quantifying the reduction of methane emanating from the digestive activities of the ruminant affected by the feeding of said methane inhibitor.

Abstract: A power meter for measuring power usage in a circuit includes preprocessor and a weighting network. The pre-processor is configured to receive toggle data for a number of power proxy signals in the circuit for a plurality of clock cycles of the circuit in a first time window. The power proxy signals and weighting values are determined automatically from simulated or emulated toggle data. For each power proxy signal, the pre-processor averages the toggle data over one or more clock cycles in one or more second time windows, within the first time window, to provide averaged toggle data, and outputs the averaged toggle data for each second time window. The weighting network is configured to combine the averaged toggle data from the power proxy signals, based on a set of weight values, to provide a measure of the power usage.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

Abstract: A suspension system for supporting a body relative to at least four points, including: a respective front left, front right, back left and back right support arrangement between the respective point and the body, each respective support arrangement including a respective resilience arrangement and a respective control ram, each respective control ram including a respective compression chamber forming at least part of a respective compression control volume; a control arrangement including a first and a second diagonal reversible pump for displacing fluid between diagonally opposite compression control volumes. Each respective resilience arrangement can include a respective damping arrangement to restrict and/or selectively prevent compression and/or expansion of at least a portion of the respective resilience arrangement. Each respective control ram can further include a respective rebound chamber, the front control rams being cross connected and the back control rams being cross connected.

Abstract: An insert for an arthropod trapping device. The insert comprising a substrate and a frame for supporting the substrate, where a surface of the substrate has an adhesive disposed thereon, an optional mounting bracket spaced apart from the adhesive surface of the insert and located at a first end of the insert, and an optional graspable tab extending from the frame at a second end of the insert.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices for treating heart disease. In particular, the present disclosure relates to medical devices, systems, and methods for delivering artificial chordae tendineae in a patient. A system for delivering a chordae tendineae into a heart may include a delivery catheter. A clamp catheter may be configured to translate through the delivery catheter. A spreader may be disposed on the clamp catheter. A first clamp may be at least partially contained in the spreader in a closed configuration and may be attached to the chordae tendineae. An anchor catheter may be configured to translate through the delivery catheter and may have an anchor attached to the chordae tendineae. A sheath may be extended over the anchor catheter and anchor and may be configured to restrain an arm of the anchor.

Abstract: One or more triggered-instruction processing elements are provided, a given triggered-instruction processing element comprising execution circuitry to execute processing operations in response to instructions according to a triggered instruction architecture. Input channel processing circuitry receives a given tagged data item (comprising a data value and a tag value) for a given input channel, and in response controls enqueuing of the data value of the given tagged data item to a selected buffer structure selected from among at least two buffer structures mapped onto register storage accessible to one or more of the triggered-instruction processing elements in response to a computation instruction for controlling performance of a computation operation. The selected buffer structure is selected based at least on the tag value, so data values of tagged data items specifying different tag values for the given input channel are allocatable to different buffer structures.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry to execute instructions, issue circuitry to issue the instructions for execution by the processing circuitry, and candidate instruction storage circuitry to store a plurality of condition-dependent instructions, each specifying at least one condition. The issue circuitry is configured to issue a given condition-dependent instruction in response to a determination or a prediction of the at least one condition specified by the given condition-dependent instruction being met, and when the given condition-dependent instruction is a sequence-start instruction, the issue circuitry is responsive to the determination or prediction to issue a sequence of instructions comprising the sequence-start instruction and at least one subsequent instruction.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, method and medium for data processing. The apparatus comprises a register file comprising a plurality of data registers, and frontend circuitry responsive to an issued instruction, to control processing circuitry to perform a processing operation to process an input data item to generate an output data item. The processing circuitry is responsive to a first encoding of the issued instruction specifying a data register, to read the input data item from the data register, and/or write the output data item to the data register. The processing circuitry is responsive to a second encoding of the issued instruction specifying a buffer-region of the register file for storing a queue of data items, to perform the processing operation and to perform a dequeue operation to dequeue the input data item from the queue, and/or perform an enqueue operation to enqueue the output data item to the queue.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods, systems, and compositions for determining a base in a polynucleotide. In various aspects, the methods, systems, and compositions presented herein are useful for performing 4-base, 5-base, or 6-base sequencing of polynucleotide molecules, for example, from liquid biopsy samples or wherein the base is a low frequency mutation.

Abstract: A controller of a quantum system identifies a phase update trigger for a quantum object of the quantum system and an interaction time. Responsive to identifying the phase update trigger, the controller determines, for between a first time and the interaction time, (a) a location/transport effect on a phase of the quantum object based on locations thereof and transport operations performed thereon, and (b) a quantum operation effect on the phase of the quantum object based on any quantum operations applied thereto. The immediately previous phase update for the quantum object occurred at the first time. Based on the location/transport effect, the quantum operation effect, and the interaction time, the controller determines an interaction time phase of the quantum object. The controller adjusts operation of a manipulation source such that a phase of a signal generated by the manipulation source corresponds to the interaction time phase at the interaction time.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods for providing a reward to a machine learning algorithm, which can include receiving an image, and a task description defined in text; slicing the image into a plurality of sub-images; executing an embedding model to embed the text of the task description and the sub-images to generate a distribution for the sub-images based on relevance to the task description; and generating the reward from the distribution for the sub-images.

Abstract: A robot system for servicing a semiconductor tool includes a cart frame. An arm support frame is fixed to the cart frame and is coupled to a robot arm. An arm frame is connected by hinges to the arm support frame at a first end and to a fixture connect interface at a second end. The fixture connect interface connects to a docking fixture of the semiconductor tool. An arm locking mechanism is attached to the arm support frame for locking the arm frame, when rotated, to an extended position or a folded position. The fixture connect interface connects the cart frame to the semiconductor tool, when the arm frame is locked in the extended position.

Abstract: An article having recyclability properties including a combination of: (a) at least one polyolefin polymer; and (b) a waterborne adhesive composition having a recyclability property, wherein the recyclability property of the waterborne adhesive composition is such that when the article with the waterborne adhesive composition is reprocessed, the article with the waterborne adhesive composition exhibits less than a 40% decreased change in performance compared to a control article without the waterborne adhesive composition that is reprocessed the same way as the article with the waterborne adhesive composition; a recyclable laminate structure including (a) at least one first polymer film layer; and (?) at least one layer of the above waterborne laminating adhesive composition; and a process for manufacturing the above recyclable laminate structure.

Abstract: An article having recyclability properties including a combination of: (a) a polyolefin polymer; and (b) a solvent-borne adhesive composition having a recyclability property, wherein the recyclability property of the solvent-borne adhesive composition is such that when the article with the solvent-borne adhesive composition is reprocessed, the article with the solvent-borne adhesive composition exhibits less than a 40% decreased change in performance compared to a control article without the solvent-borne adhesive composition that is reprocessed the same way as the article with the solvent-borne adhesive composition; a recyclable laminate structure including at least: (a) at least a first polymer film layer; and (b) a layer of the above solvent-borne laminating adhesive composition; and a process for manufacturing the above recyclable laminate structure.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a metal-ligand complex of formula (I). In addition, a polymerization process includes polymerizing at least one olefin in the presence of a catalyst system comprising the metal-ligand complex and at least one activator to produce an olefinic polymer.