Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring an internet-of-things (IoT) battery device (IBD). An example IBD includes a radio transceiver to communicate with an IoT charging device (ICD), a battery, and a battery monitor to determine a state of charge for the battery. An alerter is included to send an alert message to the ICD, via the radio transceiver, to indicate that the SoCh is less than an alert threshold.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a generator input shaft assembly comprising a generator input shaft (160) arranged to receive a drive input to the generator, and a disconnect input shaft (120) arranged to deliver a drive input from the generator input shaft to a disconnectable drive transfer means (116). The disconnectable drive transfer means is configured to transfer rotational drive from the generator input shaft assembly to a rotor (110) of the generator. The generator input shaft assembly is configured such that the generator input shaft can: float axially relative to the disconnect input shaft and/or drive the disconnect input shaft with an axis of rotation of the generator input shaft non-parallel to an axis of rotation of the disconnect input shaft, so as to compensate for a misaligned input to the generator input shaft. Other aspects of the invention relate to a generator and a system comprising the generator input shaft assembly.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the preparation of a myceliated cacao bean or other agricultural product. This method includes providing cacao beans or other agricultural substrate, optionally hydrating the cacao beans or other agricultural product, and optionally pasteurizing or sterilizing the cacao beans or other agricultural substrate to provide prepared cacao beans or other agricultural substrate, and a step of inoculating the prepared cacao beans or other agricultural substrate with a prepared fungal component and culturing the inoculated cacao beans or other agricultural substrate to prepare the myceliated product.

Abstract: A tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue in a body lumen includes an elongate body and a tissue-removing element mounted on a distal end portion of the elongate body. The tissue-removing element is configured to remove the tissue as the tissue-removing element is rotated by the elongate body within the body lumen. An inner liner is received within the elongate body. The inner liner defines a guidewire lumen. The inner liner isolates an interior of the guidewire lumen from the elongate body and tissue-removing element such that rotational forces are not transferred from the elongate body and tissue-removing element to the interior of the guidewire lumen when the elongate body and tissue-removing element are rotated during removal of tissue from the body lumen.

Abstract: A system for extracorporeal organ support can include an organ chamber and a cross-circulation circuit. The organ camber can be configured to hold an extracorporeal organ. The cross-circulation circuit be configured to connect the extracorporeal organ and a host organism to maintain the extracorporeal organ by perfusing veno-arterial-venous (V-AV) blood through the extracorporeal organ and the host organism, wherein physiologic stability of the host organism is maintained.

Abstract: A server device receives an enrollment indication from an employer computing device, wherein the enrollment indication includes personal information for each of a plurality of employees for an employer. For each employee of the plurality of employees, the server device assigns a unique record number to the respective employee, wherein each unique record number assigned by the server device includes a same alphanumeric string at a same position as a portion of the unique record number. The server device stores an indication of the same alphanumeric string and the same position at a banking system at which an entity associated with the server device holds an individual account.

Abstract: A method for managing virtual desktop management placement comprises obtaining, by a virtual desktop management placement service, a request for assigning a virtual desktop management service to one of a plurality of management environments based on an end-user experience (EUE), in response to the request: sending an EUE form to an administrator of a front-end environment, obtaining a response to the EUE form, wherein the response comprises EUE requirements, performing a management environment analysis on the plurality of management environments based on the response to assign a management environment to implement the virtual desktop management service, and initiating a deployment of the virtual desktop management service on the management environment based on the management environment analysis.

Abstract: A method for managing virtual desktop management placement comprises obtaining, by a virtual desktop management placement service, a request for assigning a virtual desktop service manager to one of a plurality of management environments based on a security profile of the management environment, in response to the request: performing a security profile analysis on the plurality of management environments to assign a management environment to implement the virtual desktop service manager, and initiating a deployment of the virtual desktop service manager on the management environment based on the security profile analysis.

Abstract: A method for managing specialized hardware resources includes obtaining, by a disaster recovery (DR) virtual resource agent, a request for a DR environment for a set of virtual resources in a primary site, in response to the request: monitoring the primary site to obtain virtual workload information corresponding to the set of virtual resources, performing a workload analysis on the set of virtual resources in the primary site using the virtual workload information to obtain a virtual resource mapping of each virtual resource in the primary site to a tiered component in the DR environment, and initiating a DR environment allocation of DR virtual resources based on the virtual resource mapping.

Abstract: A method at a client device includes displaying media library information corresponding to a set of media items. The media items include one or more local media items, the one or more local media items including media items stored at the client device, and one or more remote media items, the one or more remote media items including media items stored at a remote system and not at the client device. The method also includes displaying, concurrently with displaying the media library information, affordances identifying the remote media items; detecting user interaction with an affordance identifying a respective remote media item; and in response to detecting the user interaction, initiating a process for downloading a copy of the respective remote media item to the client device for storage at the client device.

Abstract: Provided is a food composition which include a myceliated high-protein food product and methods to make such compositions, which are mixtures of myceliated high-protein food products and other edible materials. A food composition includes dairy alternative products, ready to mix beverages and beverage bases; extruded and extruded/puffed products; sheeted baked goods; meat analogs and extenders; baked goods and baking mixes; granola; and soups/soup bases. Food compositions also include texturized plant protein which can be used for making meat-structured plant protein meat analog or meat extender products. The food compositions have reduced undesirable flavors and reduced undesirable aromas due to use of myceliated high-protein food products as compared to use of similar high-protein material that is not myceliated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymeric blend and a method of making and using the same. The polymeric blend includes 75 wt. % to 99 wt. % of a first polypropylene composition comprising polypropylene and having a melt flow rate (MFR) of A g/10 min as measured by ASTM D1238 (230° C./2.16 kg), wherein the first polypropylene composition has been previously extruded prior to forming the blend, and 1 wt. % to 25 wt. % of a second polypropylene composition comprising polypropylene and an organic peroxide and having a MFR of B g/10 min as measured by ASTM D1238 (230° C./2.16 kg), wherein the second polypropylene composition has been previously extruded prior to forming the blend, wherein the polymeric blend has a MFR of C g/10 min as measured by ASTM D1238 (230° C./2.16 kg), and wherein C is greater than A.

Abstract: In immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL), the unique antibody light chain (LC) protein that is secreted by monoclonal plasma cells in each patient misfolds and/or aggregates, a process leading to organ degeneration. For treating AL patients, such as those with substantial cardiac involvement who have difficulty tolerating existing chemotherapy regimens, provided herein are small molecule compounds of Formula Ia, Formula Ib, and Formula II that are kinetic stabilizers of the native dimeric structure of full-length LCs, which compounds can slow or stop the amyloidogenicity cascade at its origin.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a connection system with a projection on a first connector and a co-operating cavity on a second connector to provide push-through connection of the connectors in first and second configurations in which the projection extends to first and second depths respectively within the cavity, wherein one or more of the projection or cavity is movable in two dimensions perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the projection when received in the cavity, wherein the first and second connectors have cooperating locking surfaces arranged to engage each other when the projection is received at the second depth to prevent said movement in two dimensions and wherein the cooperating locking surfaces do not engage each other so as to prevent said movement in two dimensions when the projection is received at the first depth in the receiving cavity.

Abstract: A vehicle drive unit that provides improved power transfer to a differential input member of a differential assembly. The vehicle drive unit is configured with an interlock system that is configured to inhibit the supply of electrical power from a source of electrical power if certain predetermined conditions are not met.

Abstract: A computing device includes an appliance status table to store at least one of reliability and performance data for one or more network functions virtualization (NFV) appliances and one or more legacy network appliances. The computing device includes a load controller to configure an Internet Protocol (IP) filter rule to select a packet for which processing of the packet is to be migrated from a selected one of the one or more legacy network appliances to a selected one of the one or more NFV appliances, and to update the appliance status table with received at least one of reliability and performance data for the one or more legacy network appliances and the one or more NFV appliances. The computing device includes a packet distributor to receive the packet, to select one of the one or more NFV appliances based at least in part on the appliance status table, and to send the packet to the selected NFV appliance. Other embodiments are described herein.

Abstract: The invention encompasses components from microbial cells which are useful for antibody production, including peptides, polypeptides comprising these peptides, polynucleotides which encode these peptides or polypeptides, and antibodies directed to these peptides, polypeptides, or polynucleotides. The invention also encompasses to expression vectors and host cells for producing these peptides, polypeptides, polynucleotides, and antibodies. The invention further encompasses methods and compositions, especially vaccine compositions, for detecting, targeting, and inhibiting microbial cells, especially methanogen cells, using one or more of the disclosed peptides, polypeptides, polynucleotides, antibodies, expression vectors, and host cells.

Abstract: A hydration formula developed through evidence-based research to keep people hydrated for peak performance. Ingredients used to deliver key components include calcium lactate, dextrose, a branched-chain amino acid, a citric acid, a citrate, stevia, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, and water. The synergistic action of the disclosed formulation allows for rapid hydration or rehydration of the human body especially after physical activity and exercise, and in particular after high intensity exercise or activity.

Abstract: A graphics processing management system includes a virtual machine coupled to client devices and a graphics processing system including graphics processing device(s). A graphics processing management subsystem is coupled to the virtual machine system and the client devices, and operates to monitor a usage of the graphics processing device(s) via the virtual machine system by a first client device. The graphics processing management subsystem then uses a graphics processing usage class equation to determine that feature(s) of the usage of the graphics processing device(s) by the first client device identifies a first graphics processing usage class. Based on determining that the usage of the graphics processing device(s) by the first client device identifies the first graphics processing usage class, the graphics processing management subsystem then performs a usage action with the first user that is associated with the first client device.

Abstract: A lighting assembly includes at least one light source array provided in a housing and a light scattering primary transmissive optical element having at least one focal region positioned substantially parallel or concentric with the light source array. Lens features of the optical element may include a Fresnel lens pattern to produce at least one focal region. An auxiliary transmissive optical element may be provided to further control light distribution and brightness uniformity.