Abstract: Provided herein is an implant for delivering a hydrophobic active agent to a target tissue. The implant may include a scaffold defining a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the scaffold is substantially impermeable to a hydrophobic active agent, and a silicone tubing having a wall permeable to the active agent, wherein a first length of the silicone tubing is affixed to the first surface of the scaffold, wherein the two ends of the silicone tubing extend from the first surface, and wherein a path outlined by a second length of the tubing within the first length is circuitous. Also provided is a method of using the implant to locally deliver a hydrophobic active agent to a target tissue, and kits that find use in performing the present method.

Abstract: An anti-polish ring for an internal combustion engine is provided. The anti-polish ring includes an axially extending ring portion that is configured to scrape a top portion of a piston in a cylinder liner. The anti-polish ring is configured to accommodate passage of an intake or exhaust valve thereby. The anti-polish ring may include an alignment feature so that the anti-polish ring is inserted in a predetermined orientation in the cylinder. The anti-polish ring may include a heat shield and/or a seating member.

Abstract: A fluid end for use with a power end. The fluid end comprises a plurality of fluid end sections positioned adjacent one another. Each section includes a single horizontally positioned bore. A plunger is installed within the bore and includes a fluid passageway. Low-pressure fluid enters the bore through the plunger and high-pressure fluid exits the fluid end through an outlet valve installed within the bore. The intake of low-pressure fluid within the fluid end section is regulated by an inlet valve installed within the plunger. Low-pressure fluid enters the plunger through an inlet component attached to both the plunger and an inlet manifold.

Abstract: A magnet assembly is disclosed for steering ions used in the formation of a material layer upon a substrate during a pulsed DC physical vapour deposition process. Apparatus and methods are also disclosed incorporating the assembly for controlling thickness variation in a material layer formed via pulsed DC physical vapour deposition. The magnet assembly comprises a magnetic field generating arrangement for generating a magnetic field proximate the substrate and means for rotating the ion steering magnetic field generating arrangement about an axis of rotation, relative to the substrate. The magnetic field generating arrangement comprises a plurality of magnets configured to an array which extends around the axis of rotation, wherein the array of magnets are configured to generate a varying magnetic field strength along a radial direction relative to the axis of rotation.

Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for generating and applying vehicle maintenance models to vehicle telematics data. A vehicle telematics analytics (VTA) computing device is configured to receive vehicle telematics data associated with operation of a subject vehicle, and apply the received vehicle telematics data to a vehicle maintenance model to determine whether the operation of the subject vehicle is better or worse than standard operation of like vehicles. The VTA computing device may adjust a maintenance cost and/or determine if a user of the vehicle is eligible for a reward based upon this determination. The VTA computing device is configured to transmit an itemized report to the user including the adjusted maintenance cost and/or the reward as well as one or more other vehicle costs.

Abstract: A truss assembly for supporting a roof, floor, bridge or other structure, the truss having a plurality of work points spaced apart along a length of the truss, wherein at least one work point comprises a gusset plate secured directly between two parallel and adjacent members of a chord of the truss to join the two parallel and adjacent members of the chord, and the gusset plate also secured between first ends of two parallel and adjacent strut members of the truss to join the parallel and adjacent strut members to the chord at the gusset plate.

Abstract: A system associated with an enclosure for providing a controlled environment for growing of plants, produce, and the like. The system may be configured to provide customized illumination to individual plants based on the plant species, size, health, and/or stage of lift. In some cases, the system may include multiple sensors for capturing data associated with the enclosure to, thereby, identify plants and provide customized illumination.

Abstract: Provided herein are drug implants comprising Darolutamide for the treatment of disease in a subject. In some cases, the drug implant may comprise a polymer matrix and Darolutamide disposed therein. Additionally provided are methods for manufacturing the drug implants and methods of treating diseases with the implants. In some cases, the drug implant may be used for the treatment of a proliferative disease of the prostate.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein describe a drug delivery device and a method of use thereof. The device includes a medicament container, a compressed gas container, an outlet, and a double-sided needle located within the housing. When a user presses an actuation button, the compressed air container is moved towards the medicament container and towards a proximal end of the double-sided needle. The double-sided needle pierces both the compressed gas container and the medicament container, opening fluid flow communication between the two containers, and causing medicament to be expelled out of the medicament container.

Abstract: The present specification describes a medicine dispensing system for automatically dispensing medication at a predetermined time. The system includes a cartridge that carries a strip of medicine pouches. When the cartridge is dropped into a dispensing unit, it automatically aligns with the dispensing unit without requiring any installation work from the user. The automatic alignment is enabled because of self-aligning features manufactured in the cartridge housing.

Abstract: The disclosed system may include a processor configured to encode, using an encoding scheme that reduces a number of bits needed to represent one or more instructions from a set of instructions in an instruction buffer represented by a dependency matrix, a dependency indicating that a child instruction represented in the dependency matrix depends on a parent instruction represented in the dependency matrix. The processor may also be configured to store the encoded dependency in the dependency matrix and dispatch instructions in the instruction buffer based at least on decoding one or more dependencies stored in the dependency matrix for the instructions. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: Flow batteries can include a first half-cell containing a first aqueous electrolyte solution. a second half-cell containing a second aqueous electrolyte solution, and a separator disposed between the first half-cell and the second half-cell, The first aqueous electrolyte solution contains a first redox-active material, and the second aqueous electrolyte solution contains a second redox-active material. At least one of the first redox-active material and the second redox-active material is a nitroxide compound or a salt thereof. Particular nitroxide compounds can include a doubly bonded oxygen contained in a ring bearing the nitroxide group, a doubly bonded oxygen appended to a ring bearing the nitroxide group, sulfate or phosphate groups appended to a ring bearing the nitroxide group, various heterocyclic rings bearing the nitroxide group, or acyclic nitroxide compounds.

Abstract: A system includes a user equipment (UE) traveling at least at a predetermined velocity. The UE is in RRC_INACTIVE state since time T. The system further includes at least a first base station and a second base station. The first base station receives an RRC_INACTIVE state message from the UE. The RRC_INACTIVE state message includes a location and a velocity of the UE, and a time-lapse, which is an elapsed duration since T. In response to a paging message from a core network, the first base station predicts a location of the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the first base station, the first base station sends the paging message to the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the second base station, the first base station sends a request to the second base station to send the paging message to the UE.

Abstract: Example methods include receiving training data comprising a plurality of audio clips and a plurality of textual descriptions of audio. The methods include generating a shared representation comprising a joint embedding. An audio embedding of a given audio clip is within a threshold distance of a text embedding of a textual description of the given audio clip. The methods include generating, based on the joint embedding, a conditioning vector and training, based on the conditioning vector, a neural network to: receive (i) an input audio waveform, and (ii) an input comprising one or more of an input textual description of a target audio source in the input audio waveform, or an audio sample of the target audio source, separate audio corresponding to the target audio source from the input audio waveform, and output the separated audio corresponding to the target audio source in response to the receiving of the input.

Abstract: A foil displacement system includes one or more foils that can be deployed and stowed. When deployed, each foil can exert downforce or uplift depending on its orientation. For example, each foil may be positioned to have an angle of attack that creates a downward force effectively transmitted to the hull to pull the hull deeper within the water to, for example, create a larger wake. Use of the foil displacement system can enhance or replace the use of a ballast tank system, can be integrated into a new boat or retrofitted to existing boats, can be electronically or manually positioned, can enhance activities such as wake surfing, wake boarding, water skiing or other similar or related water sports.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method in a mobile computing device for tracking health and usage of electric vehicle (EV) batteries using Quick Response (QR) codes (or NFC or RFID tags) is provided. The method may include (1) capturing, by a camera associated with a mobile computing device, an image of a tag affixed to an EV; (2) analyzing the image of the tag affixed to the EV; (3) identifying, by the one or more processors of the mobile computing device, the EV based upon analyzing the image of the tag affixed to the EV; (4) determining vehicle battery data associated with a rechargeable battery that powers the identified EV; (5) determining based upon the vehicle battery data associated with the rechargeable battery that powers the identified EV, a battery status indication corresponding to the identified EV; and/or (6) providing, via a user interface, the battery status indication corresponding to the identified EV.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method in a mobile computing device for tracking health and usage of electric vehicle (EV) batteries using Quick Response (QR) codes (or NFC or RFID tags) is provided. The method may include (1) capturing, by a camera associated with a mobile computing device, an image of a tag affixed to an EV; (2) analyzing the image of the tag affixed to the EV; (3) identifying, by the one or more processors of the mobile computing device, the EV based upon analyzing the image of the tag affixed to the EV; (4) determining vehicle battery data associated with a rechargeable battery that powers the identified EV; (5) determining based upon the vehicle battery data associated with the rechargeable battery that powers the identified EV, a battery status indication corresponding to the identified EV; and/or (6) providing, via a user interface, the battery status indication corresponding to the identified EV.

Abstract: A processor includes a load/store unit and an execution pipeline to execute an instruction that represents a single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) operation, and which references a memory block storing operand data for one or more lanes of a plurality of lanes and a mask vector indicating which lanes of a plurality of lanes are enabled and which are disabled for the operation. The execution pipeline executes an instruction in a first execution mode unless a memory fault is generated during execution of the instruction in the first execution mode. In response to the memory fault, the execution pipeline re-executes the instruction in a second execution mode. In the first execution mode, a single load operation is attempted to access the memory block via the load/store unit. In the second execution mode, a separate load operation is performed by the load/store unit for each enabled lane of the plurality of lanes prior to executing the SIMD operation.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of predicting and providing an efficient driving route for an electric vehicle (EV) based upon battery health impact includes (i) receiving geographical telematics data; (ii) generating one or more driving routes for the electric vehicle based upon at least the geographical telematics data; (iii) predicting a projected battery health impact on a battery of the electric vehicle for each driving route of the one or more driving routes, wherein the projected battery health impact for each driving route is based at least upon geographical characteristics of the driving route; (iv) determining one or more battery-efficient driving route recommendations based upon at least the projected battery health impact for each driving route; and/or (v) providing the one or more battery-efficient driving route recommendations to a user.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of monitoring one or more batteries of an electric vehicle (EV) includes (i) detecting an indication of a battery failure event for an electric vehicle; (ii) determining a response to the battery failure event based upon the indication; (iii) determining, based upon the battery failure event, an assistance location for the electric vehicle; (iv) generating a route from a location of an autonomous vehicle to the assistance location for the electric vehicle; and (v) transmitting a command to the autonomous vehicle to drive to the assistance location for the electric vehicle, wherein the command includes the response to the battery failure event and the route from the location of the autonomous vehicle to the assistance location.