Abstract: A method is provided, comprising: developing particular application code that is part of a particular application configured to cooperate with an electronic device including a touch screen and memory coupled to at least one processor, where the particular application code, when installed on the electronic device, cooperates with an operating system of the electronic device to cause the electronic device to: display an object and at least a portion of an interface; detect a gesture via the touch screen on the object; perform a first function in a first touch state; perform a second function in a second touch state; identify a change in a pressure of the gesture being detected via the touch screen on the object; and based on the change in the pressure of the gesture being detected via the touch screen on the object, blur the at least portion of the interface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reactive filter, that is a selective catalytic reduction filter or an oxidative reaction filter, including a porous substrate including internal pores having their inner surface, totally or partially, directly coated with a catalytic zeolite material resulting from an in situ hydrothermal synthesis. Also disclosed is a process for preparing such a reactive filter and the use thereof in an engine exhaust depolluting system.

Abstract: A blood pump system includes a first implantable housing, an implantable blood pump independent from the first implantable housing, and a percutaneous extension. The first implantable housing includes a rechargeable power storage device. The implantable blood pump supplements the pumping function of a heart. The rechargeable power storage device supplies electrical power to the implantable blood pump. The percutaneous extension is coupled to the rechargeable power storage device and adapted to traverse the skin. The percutaneous extension is configured to releasably connect to an external power supply adapted to provide power for recharging or supplementing the rechargeable power storage device to power the implantable blood pump.

Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising 3-[5-amino-4-(3-cyanobenzoyl)-pyrazol-1-yl]-N-cyclopropyl-4-methylbenzamide for use in the treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in human patients having <2% blood eosinophils. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of AECOPD in a human patient having <2% blood eosinophils, comprising administering to the patient three separate therapeutically effective doses of 3-[5-amino-4-(3-cyanobenzoyl)-pyrazol-1-yl]-N-cyclopropyl-4-methylbenzamide over a period of not longer than ten days with at least one day between every dose.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to cross-flow membrane emulsification devices. The devices disclosed herein can have a continuous phase plate, a dispersed phase plate, an outlet, and a chamber. The chamber is located between the continuous phase plate and the dispersed phase plate and is bisected by a membrane with a plurality of pores. The chamber can include at least one channel on a first side of the membrane formed from at least one groove in the continuous phase plate and the membrane. In addition, the chamber can also include a cavity on a second side of the membrane formed in the dispersed phase plate.

Abstract: A method and a system for reselecting of a payment method of a plurality of payment methods associated with a consolidated payment device are provided.

Abstract: In a picture coding method for generating a coded signal corresponding to each picture by coding a plurality of coded signals, a switching picture which is capable of switching a plurality of coded signals and subsequent pictures of the switching picture can refer to only a group of pictures of the same time in the coded signals. More specifically, the case where picture numbers of an adjacent picture of an S picture and the S picture are not continuous is not considered as an error.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for sequencing oligosaccharides, which makes it possible to identify the primary sequence of an oligosaccharide of unknown structure, including its monosaccharide composition, the position (regiochemistry) and configuration (stereochemistry) of glycosidic bonds, the nature and position of functional modifications, and its branched structure, particularly including the identification of the reducing end.

Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for solving a dynamic programming problem using a quantum computer. The method comprises receiving an indication of a dynamic programming problem, the dynamic programming problem comprising a plurality of transition kernels, receiving data representative of the dynamic programming problem, generating at least one oracle for the transition kernels of the dynamic programming problem, until a stopping criterion is met determining at least one linear programming problem for the dynamic programming problem, solving the at least one linear programming problem using a quantum computer comprising the generated at least one oracle to determine at least one solution, and providing the determined at least one solution; and providing a solution to the dynamic programming problem.

Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for estimating a trace operator to be used in a machine learning task. The method comprises obtaining an indication of a pair of points; constructing a quantum circuit comprising a single control qubit and a plurality of register qubits using the obtained pair of points, the constructing comprising receiving an encoding pattern and an architecture of a quantum circuit, encoding the pair of points into the plurality of register qubits, initializing the quantum circuit, and compiling the quantum circuit for a quantum device; evolving the quantum circuit on the quantum device; obtaining an indication of at least one measurement on the single control qubit of the corresponding quantum circuit; determining an indication of an estimated trace of the unitary operator representing the plurality of register qubits using the obtained indication of at least one measurement on the single control qubit and providing the indication of the estimated trace of the unitary operator.

Abstract: Various “contactless” bearing mechanisms including hydrodynamic and magnetic bearings are provided for a rotary pump as alternatives to mechanical contact bearings. In one embodiment, a pump apparatus includes a pump housing defining a pumping chamber. The housing has a spindle extending into the pumping chamber. A spindle magnet assembly includes first and second magnets disposed within the spindle. The first and second magnets are arranged proximate each other with their respective magnetic vectors opposing each other. The lack of mechanical contact bearings enables longer life pump operation and less damage to working fluids such as blood.

Abstract: Systems and related methods for supplying power to a medical device employ serially-connectable portable batteries. A method of supplying electrical power to a medical device includes discharging a first external battery to output electrical power to a second external battery. Distribution of the electrical power received by the second external battery is controlled to simultaneously charge the second external battery and output electrical power from the second external battery to supply electrical power to the medical device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotary blood pump with both an attractive magnetic axial bearing and a hydrodynamic bearing. In one embodiment according to the present invention, a rotary pump includes an impeller assembly supported within a pump housing assembly by a magnetic axial bearing and a hydrodynamic bearing. The magnetic axial bearing includes at least two magnets oriented to attract each other. One magnet is positioned in the spindle of the pump housing while the other is disposed within the rotor assembly, proximate to the spindle. In this respect, the two magnets create an attractive axial force that at least partially maintains the relative axial position of the rotor assembly. The hydrodynamic bearing is formed between sloping surfaces that form tight clearances below the rotor assembly.

Abstract: A device positions and/or orients in the body of a patient, a surgical tool carried by a tool-holder, including a platform capable of being placed on the body of the patient, an orientable carrier, at least one part of which is rigidly connected to the tool-holder, means for guiding the orientable carrier rotationally relative to the platform in two directions of a plane parallel to the platform, at least 2 pneumatic actuators which engage with the orientable carrier such that a variation in pressure of at least one of the pneumatic actuators causes the orientable carrier to rotate in the first direction and/or the second direction, in which the pneumatic actuators are volumes that can deform in a predetermined direction as a function of the internal pressure.

Abstract: Novel and useful quantum structures that provide various control functions. Particles are brought into close proximity to interact with one another and exchange information. After entanglement, the particles are moved away from each other but they still carry the information contained initially. Measurement and detection are performed on the particles from the entangled ensemble to determine whether the particle is present or not in a given qdot. A quantum interaction gate is a circuit or structure operating on a relatively small number of qubits. Quantum interaction gates implement several quantum functions including a controlled NOT gate, quantum annealing gate, controlled SWAP gate, a controlled Pauli rotation gate, and ancillary gate. These quantum interaction gates can have numerous shapes including double V shape, H shape, X shape, L shape, I shape, etc.