Abstract: A passive optical alignment coupling between two bodies each having a complementary interstitial two-dimensional planar array of protrusions defining an array of interstices. Each array of protrusions defines an array of discrete protrusions separated and isolated from one another on the surface of the corresponding bodies. When the bodies are pressed together, the array of protrusions defined on one body intermesh with protrusions defined on the other body with protrusions of one body received in corresponding interstices defined on the other body. The protrusion surfaces of each adjacent pair of protrusions are in point contact. The first body is removably attachable to the second body to define a demountable coupling, with the first array of alignment features against the second array of alignment features to define an elastic averaging coupling, thereby passively aligning the first body to the second body.

Abstract: A clean pneumatic conveying shield includes a shield body used for picking up an expanded material from an expanded material discharge port and pneumatically conveying the expanded material to the next process and provided with a hollow closed inner cavity, an outlet pipeline positioned in the middle of the top of the shield body and communicated with the inner cavity of the shield, and at least 2 inlet pipelines positioned at the top of the shield body, arranged around the outlet pipeline and communicated with the inner cavity of the shield. The shield body is provided with a splitter plate corresponding to each inlet pipeline and capable of rotating, an upper partition plate positioned above each splitter plate and a lower partition plate positioned below each splitter plate.

Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide patient care unit (PCU) order confirmation. A method may include authorizing a user to operate a medication delivery device. The method may also include retrieving, in response to the authorizing, a user history associated with the user, wherein the user history includes one or more dispensing records for pending medications. The method may also include determining, based on a context that includes the user history, one or more medication order candidates for present administration. The method may also include presenting a user interface for confirming a medication order from the one or more medication order candidates. The method may also include configuring at least one parameter of the medication delivery device based on the confirmed medication order received from the user interface.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally identifies a person's face, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the identification. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines a gaze location in a user interface, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally designates a user as being present at a sound-playback device in accordance with a determination that sound-detection criteria and verification criteria have been satisfied. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines whether a person is further or closer than a threshold distance from a display device, and optionally provides a first or second user interface for display on the display device in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally modifies the playing of media content in accordance with a determination that one or more presence criteria are not satisfied.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a network node in a radio access network, the method includes transmitting a resource allocation message comprising a bit field, the resource allocation message being transmitted for reception in a common search space to which a first bandwidth part with a first unit size of resource allocation is associated. The bit field allocates resources in a second bandwidth part with a second unit size of resource allocation. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method for updating a search distribution of an evolutionary strategies optimizer using an optimizer neural network comprising one or more attention blocks. The method comprises receiving a plurality of candidate solutions, one or more parameters defining the search distribution that the plurality of candidate solutions are sampled from, and fitness score data indicating a fitness of each respective candidate solution of the plurality of candidate solutions. The method further comprises processing, by the one or more attention neural network blocks, the fitness score data using an attention mechanism to generate respective recombination weights corresponding to each respective candidate solution. The method further comprises updating the one or more parameters defining the search distribution based upon the recombination weights applied to the plurality of candidate solutions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating speech from text. One of the systems includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement: a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network configured to: receive a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, and process the sequence of characters to generate a spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; and a subsystem configured to: receive the sequence of characters in the particular natural language, and provide the sequence of characters as input to the sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network to obtain as output the spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fungicidal composition comprising (a) at least one compound selected from the compounds of Formula 1, including all geometric and stereoisomers, tautomers, A-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein E, L, J, A and T are as defined in the disclosure; and (b) at least one additional fungicidal compound. Also disclosed is a method for controlling plant diseases caused by fungal plant pathogens comprising applying to the plant or portion thereof, or to the plant seed, a fungicidally effective amount of a compound of Formula 1, an A-oxide, or salt thereof (e.g., as a component in the aforesaid composition). Also disclosed is a composition comprising: (a) at least one compound selected from the compounds of Formula 1 described above, A-oxides, and salts thereof; and at least one invertebrate pest control compound or agent.

Abstract: For example, an apparatus may include a segment parser to parse scrambled data bits of a PPDU into a first plurality of data bits and a second plurality of data bits, the PPDU to be transmitted in an OFDM transmission over an aggregated bandwidth comprising a first channel in a first frequency band and a second channel in a second frequency band; a first baseband processing block to encode and modulate the first plurality of data bits according to a first OFDM MCS for transmission over the first channel in the first frequency band; and a second baseband block to encode and modulate the second plurality of data bits according to a second OFDM MCS for transmission over the second channel in the second frequency band.

Abstract: A lid for a candle is provided. The lid comprises an inner housing which includes an inner housing aperture, as well as an iris including an iris guide section and at least two blades. The iris guide section has a respective blade guide slot for each of the at least two blades. Each of the at least two blades has opposing ends, and at least one bolt aperture at each of the opposing ends. A respective bolt extends through each at least one blade guide slot and each bolt aperture thereby engaging the at least two blades with the iris guide section. The iris has an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the inner housing aperture of the lid is open, and in the closed position, the blades of the iris extend over the inner housing aperture, thereby closing the inner housing aperture.

Abstract: Systems and processes for the treatment of a naphtha range hydrocarbon feedstock comprising sulfur-containing compounds, nitrogen-containing compounds, olefins, diolefins, and aromatics. The systems and processes are configured to treat the naphtha range hydrocarbon feedstock to convert the sulfur-containing compounds, nitrogen-containing compounds, and olefins, diolefins while less than 2 wt % aromatics are hydrogenated, producing an olefin lean overheads fraction comprising less than 0.2 wt % olefins and less than 100 mg/kg sulfur and an aromatics rich fraction comprising less than 50 ppmw olefins, less than 0.5 ppmw sulfur and less than 0.5 ppmw nitrogen.

Abstract: A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W1; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength L1 to a greater wavelength L2 and including W1, where 30 nm?L2?L1?50 nm and L1 is greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength L3 corresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.

Abstract: Cable assemblies for providing electrical communication between hinged sections of an electronic device are described. The cable assemblies can include a cover that covers one or more cables that run through a hinge region of the electronic device. The cable and cover can be drawn over a mandrel of the hinge region. The cover and the portions of the mandrel can be visible to a user at the hinge region of the electronic device. The cover can be sufficiently rigid to guide a path of the cable and protect the cable from bending beyond a prescribed angle during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region. The cover can also be sufficiently rigid to prevent ceasing or folding of the cover and the cable during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region.

Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional object is carried out by: (a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; (b) filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, the polymerizable liquid comprising a mixture of: (i) a light polymerizable liquid first component, and (ii) a second solidifiable component that is different from the first component; (c) irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member to form a solid blocked polymer scaffold and advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having the same shape as, or a shape to be imparted to, the three-dimensional object, with the intermediate containing the second solidifiable component; and then (d) solidifying and/or curing the second solidifiable component to form from said three-dimensional intermediate the three-dimensional object.

Abstract: A system and a process for dimerizing cyclopentadiene (CPD) including producing a C6+C7 rich bottoms stream and a C5 rich side draw from a debutanizer, where the C5 rich side draw and at least a portion of the C6+C7 rich bottoms stream are directed to a dimerizer where the CPD is thermally dimerized to dicyclopentadiene (DCPD). DCPD is more stable than CPD and thus safer to handle.

Abstract: Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects around the vehicle, e.g., so the vehicle can navigate relative to the objects. Sensor data generated by the time-of-flight sensor can include returns associated with highly reflective objects that cause glare. In some examples, a depth of a sensed surface is determined from the sensor data and additional pixels at the same depth are identified. The subset of pixels at the depth are filtered by comparing a measured intensity value to a threshold intensity value for the depth. Other threshold intensity values can be applied to subsets of pixels at different depths.

Abstract: A system and method for determining a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) power control parameter h(nCQI,nHARQ) for two Carrier Aggregated (CA) PUCCH formats—PUCCH format 3 and channel selection. The value of h(nCQI,nHARQ) may be based on only a linear function of nHARQ for both of the CA PUCCH formats. Based on the CA PUCCH format configured for the User Equipment (UE), the e-Node B (eNB) may instruct the UE to select or apply a specific linear function of nHARQ as a value for the power control parameter h(nCQI,nHARQ), so as to enable the UE to more accurately establish transmit power of its PUCCH signal. Values for another PUCCH power control parameter—?F_PUCCH(F)—are also provided for use with PUCCH format 3. A new offset parameter may be signaled for each PUCCH format that has transmit diversity configured.

Abstract: A wireless communication device, method and system. The device includes a memory, and a processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is to: decode at least one signal field portion of a signal field of a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) Data Unit (PPDU) received over a bonded channel, the bonded channel comprising a plurality of subchannels including a punctured subchannel, the signal field portion on at least one unpunctured subchannel of the plurality of subchannels; determine, from the at least one signal field portion, information on a resource allocation for the device, the resource allocation indicating at least one resource unit (RU) used in a data field of the PPDU for the device; and decode a data field portion of the data field of the PPDU, the data field portion received on a part of the punctured subchannel based on the resource allocation.