Abstract: An example method of upgrading an application in a software-defined data center (SDDC) includes: deploying, by lifecycle management software executing in the SDDC, a second appliance, a first appliance executing services of the application at a first version, the second appliance having services of the application at a second version, the services in the first appliance being active and the services in the second appliance being inactive; setting, by the lifecycle management software, the first and second appliances as a preemptive pair, where the first appliance is protected and the second appliance is unprotected by fault domain management (FDM) software executing in the SDDC; performing, by the lifecycle management software, a switchover to stop the services of the first appliance and start the services of the second appliance; and setting, by the lifecycle management software, the first appliance as unprotected and the second appliance as protected by the FDM software.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for treating an individual in need of a composition having a compound having the following structure: Formula (I) The methods may be used to disrupt mitochondrial unfolded protein response. In various examples, a compound of the composition binds to heat shock protein 60 (HSP60) and inhibits the interaction of HSP60 to ClpP, thus interrupting the mitochondrial unfolded protein response. For example, the composition may be used as a therapeutic approach for treating advanced prostate cancers that are no longer sensitive to AR targeted therapies.

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to ensuring quality of meat cuts. In some embodiments, a system for ensuring quality of meat cuts comprises a capture device comprising an image capture device configured to capture an image of a cut of meat, a depth sensor configured to capture depth data, a transceiver configured to transmit the image and the depth data, a microcontroller configured to control the image capture device, the depth sensor, and the transceiver, a database configured to store meat cut specifications, and the control circuit configured to receive, from the capture device, the image and the depth data, retrieve, from the database, a meat cut specification, evaluate the image of the cut of meat and the depth data associated with the cut of meat, and classify the cut of meat.

Abstract: Enterprises need assurance that their internal documents like policies, procedures, controls, standard operating procedures (SOPS) are adherent to the regulatory obligations. In conventional practice this requires a manual effort where legal, business and IT experts collaborate for assuring completeness and consistency in enterprise documents with respect to regulatory obligations, thereby establishing regulatory hygiene. Governance risk and compliance (GRC) frameworks help experts with collaboration but do not provide automation aids necessary to reduce the analysis and synthesis burden. Present disclosure provides system and method for determining hygiene in the plurality of enterprise documents with respect to the plurality of regulatory obligations by extracting concept ontology models from multiple enterprise documents and multiple regulations and enabling navigation across multiple documents via the ontology.

Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein for expediting a user's interaction with a digital assistant. In one implementation, the technique involves receiving a system prompt generated by a digital assistant in response to an input command provided by a user via an input device. The technique then generates a predicted response based on linguistic content of the system prompt, together with contextual features pertaining to a circumstance in which the system prompt was issued. The predicted response corresponds to a prediction of how the user will respond to the system prompt. The technique then selects one or more dialogue actions from a plurality of dialogue actions, based on a confidence value associated with the predicted response. The technique expedites the user's interaction with the digital assistant by reducing the number of system prompts that the user is asked to respond to.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for improving yield strength of one or more workpieces. The method includes positioning the one or more workpieces in a punch and die assembly and operating the punch and die assembly such that, a plurality of surface protrusions are formed on the one or more workpieces. The plurality of surface protrusions are formed by plastic deformation on the one or more workpieces, to improve yield strength of the one or more workpieces. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus to improve yield strength of the one or more workpieces. The present disclosure is configured to improve yield strength of the one or more workpieces, without altering its mechanical characteristics.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an apparatus for supporting automatic speech recognition in an electronic device capable of performing natural language processing, and an operating method thereof. To this end, based on one or more partial texts recognized sequentially from an audio signal input from a microphone, the electronic device may identify an utterance type for the input audio signal. The electronic device may adaptively determine a hangover time, based on the utterance type, and may detect an end of an utterance of the audio signal by applying the determined hangover time.

Abstract: The systems and methods provide assistance in employee interactions. The systems and methods automatically schedule meetings between a manager and a report in response to changes in human resource data. The systems and methods track the meetings between the manager and the report during a time period and obtain meeting minutes for the meetings. The systems and methods analyze the meeting minutes and automatically generate feedback based on the analysis of the meeting minutes. The feedback is provided to the report or the manager.

Abstract: A plug-in based framework provides high availability (HA), including fault tolerance, in a distributed system, such as provided by a virtualized computing environment. The framework uses blueprints that define entities to be monitored, failure conditions, failover actions, restoration actions, and other aspects associated with HA. Microservices execute the blueprints, and a load balancer may balance the execution of the blueprints amongst microservices.

Abstract: An example endoscope includes an elongated handle extending between first and second ends. An elongated insertion part is coupled to and extends from a proximal end portion thereof to terminate in a distal end portion of the insertion part. A housing is coupled to the first end of the handle, the housing including an actuator therein configured to cause movement of the distal end portion of the insertion part. A mount coupling can be on the housing or the handle. The mount coupling is adapted to connect to a mating part of a support structure, such that when connected to the mating part of the support structure, the endoscope is held in a fixed position with respect to the support structure, and when not connected to the mating part of the support structure, the endoscope can be manipulated manually independently from the support structure.

Abstract: A client device has a browser application to present webpages, accessed via a network, to a user. The client device has a storage device with instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor of the client device, cause the client device to present a browser application on a client device display, wherein a graphical user interface (GUI) of the browser application includes a feedback tool and communicate with a server via the network to access a webpage having a page head including webpage metadata. The method further includes identifying a webpage owner contact information from the webpage metadata and, in response to selection of the feedback tool, transmitting feedback information to the webpage owner based on the webpage owner contact information.

Abstract: Delivering communication services is provided. A request for a mobile number from a mobile number authority is received from a subscriber. In response to receiving the request from the subscriber, the mobile number is assigned to the subscriber and sent to the subscriber. A request to register with the mobile number authority is received from a communication service provider. In response to receiving the request from the communication service provider, the communication service provider is registered with the mobile number authority. The mobile number from the mobile number authority may be used by the subscriber to subscribe at the same time to a plurality of communication services for a mobile device from a plurality of different communication service providers registered with the mobile number authority.

Abstract: A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform functions comprising: receiving a drug profile for a drug identified as part of a high-risk look-alike-sound-alike (LASA) drug pair prior to filling a prescription for the drug; generating an anomaly score based on direction components of the drug profile; and transmitting an alert to a fulfilment screen when the anomaly score exceeds a predetermined threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Executing workflows can include receiving, via an interface associated with execution of a workflow, an entry corresponding to a particular workflow object from among a plurality of workflow objects of a datacenter, communicating the entry to a third-party system, receiving, from the third-party system, search results corresponding to the entry, wherein the search results include indications of a subset of the plurality of workflow objects of the datacenter that each have a threshold correlation with the entry, displaying, via the interface, a plurality of items respectively corresponding to the subset of the plurality of workflow objects of the search results, receiving a selection, via the interface, of an item of the plurality of items, and designating a workflow object of the subset of the plurality of workflow objects of the search results that corresponds to the selected item as an input parameter of the workflow responsive to the selection.

Abstract: Disclosed are various examples of unified application management for heterogeneous application delivery. Application metadata for various applications can be received from management services and can be analyzed according to application unification rules to identify multiple application variants of a particular application. A unified application can be generated to represent the multiple application variants that are identified. Application entitlements can be defined for the unified application model, and the management services can provide access to the particular application according to the entitlements.

Abstract: Methods, system, and non-transitory processor-readable storage medium for a policy proposal system are provided herein. An example method includes applying at least one policy to data stored on a storage system to identify matched data, where the matched data is data to be moved from the storage system to a secondary storage system. The policy proposal system identifies unmatched data stored on the storage system, where the unmatched data is data that is not identified as the data to be moved from the storage system to the secondary storage system. The policy proposal system trains a machine learning system with the matched data and the unmatched data. The policy proposal system predicts at least one new policy, where application of at least one new policy identifies at least a subset of the unmatched data to be moved from the storage system to the secondary storage system.

Abstract: Disclosed are a fibrinogen solution and a thrombin solution. The fibrinogen solution comprises fibrinogen at a concentration of at least 40 mg/ml, factor XIII, pharmaceutically acceptable additives and water. The dynamic viscosity of the fibrinogen solution measured at 20° C. increases at most by 35% after storing the solution at 20° C. for 30 days. The thrombin solution comprises thrombin, pharmaceutically acceptable additives and water. The thrombin activity decreases at most by 15% after storing the solution at 25° C. for 14 days. Also disclosed is a fibrin sealant kit with a first container comprising the fibrinogen solution and a second container comprising the thrombin solution. Further, methods for preparing a fibrin sealant and methods for treating a wound are disclosed.

Abstract: A plug-in based framework provides high availability (HA), including fault tolerance, in a distributed system, such as provided by a virtualized computing environment. The framework uses blueprints that define entities to be monitored, failure conditions, failover actions, restoration actions, and other aspects associated with HA. Microservices execute the blueprints, and a load balancer may balance the execution of the blueprints amongst microservices.

Abstract: An interpolation method may include scheduling spatially adjacent image blocks for interpolation, and calculating ranges of values of an attribute of the image blocks, wherein at least one value for a first one of the image blocks may be used for a second one of the image blocks. Calculating the ranges of values may include calculating a root value of the attribute at a root location of an array of the spatially adjacent image blocks, and adding incremental values of the attribute to the root value at points of the image blocks that are offset from the root location. The root location may be centrally located in an array of the spatially adjacent image blocks. The interpolation may be calculated in a diagonal hierarchical manner based on a plane equation.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for transitioning a supplicant from one virtual local area network (VLAN) to another using a change of authorization (COA) message. This may be accomplished by an authentication server notifying a network device that a host should be granted access to the network, wherein the authentication server authenticates the host using MAC based authentication. Based on this notification and the MAC address of the host, the network device assigns the host to a first VLAN. If the authentication server determines that the host needs to change from the first VLAN to a second VLAN the authentication server generates a COA message, associated with the host, wherein the COA message comprises a VLAN identifier related to the second VLAN. The authentication server transmits the COA message to the network device causing the network device to route traffic to and from the host using the second VLAN.