Abstract: A replaceable or quick-change liner for use in a welding torch assembly that includes a liner guide, a section of liner, and a sealing feature for creating a pneumatic seal between the replaceable liner and the welding torch assembly.

Abstract: A weighted golf club is disclosed herein. More specifically, a golf club head includes a chassis with a heel opening and a toe opening defined therein. A heel weight member is disposed within the heel opening and a toe weight member is disposed within the toe opening. The heel weight member and the toe weight member are securely mechanically attached to the chassis by a fastener.

Abstract: A method of emulsification of an oil phase in an aqueous continuous phase, by dispersing core-corona microparticles into the aqueous phase, adding the oil phase, and applying shearing force for a time sufficient to emulsify the resulting mixture. The core-corona microparticles are obtained by radical co-polymerization of a polyethylene oxide macromonomer with at least one hydrophobic acrylate monomer and at least one hydrophobic acrylamide monomer.

Abstract: An example computing device includes a connector. The connector is to mate with a display unit. The connector is to receive power from the display unit and output a display signal to the display unit. The computing device includes a non-transitory computer readable medium. The computing device also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor is to retrieve a form factor of the display unit, including retrieving cooling capabilities of the display unit. The processor also is to configure the processor to comply with the cooling capabilities of the display unit.

Abstract: A method for controlling an energy production and distribution system includes identifying sources that supply input resources, subplants that produce output resources using the input resources, and sinks that consume the output resources. The method includes obtaining a cost function including a cost of producing the output resources and generating a transit time constraint that requires the input resources be sent from the sources to the subplants at a first departure time that occurs before a first arrival time at which the input resources are predicted to be used by the subplants. The method includes solving an optimization problem to determine an amount of the output resources to produce at each of multiple time steps within a time period. Solving the optimization problem includes performing an optimization of the cost function subject to the transit time constraint.

Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions that the processor may execute to access an audio signal captured by a microphone of a user's speech while the microphone is in a muted state. The processor may also execute the instructions to analyze a spectral or frequency content of the accessed audio signal to determine whether the user was facing the microphone while the user spoke. In addition, based on a determination that the user was facing the microphone while the user spoke, the processor may execute the instructions to unmute the microphone.

Abstract: An aircraft door translation hinge assembly connects a passenger door of an aircraft to the aircraft fuselage structure and enables the passenger door to move through a desired opening motion. The opening motion of the passenger door is controlled by a simplified mechanism that utilizes a pair of linkages connected by a cam surface follower that engages in sliding engagement with a cam surface. The simplified mechanism controls a pivoting movement of the passenger door as the passenger door is first opened, and then controls a translation movement of the passenger door as the passenger door is continued to be opened from a passenger door opening in the aircraft fuselage.

Abstract: Methods for performing a hydraulic fracturing operation are provided. The methods include pumping a hydraulic fracturing fluid through a wellbore into a subsurface formation, in which the hydraulic fracturing fluid comprises a plurality of proppants. Individual proppants of the plurality of proppants travel a first distance into the subsurface formation and have a persistent diameter homogeneity. The methods further include shutting in the wellbore to facilitate crushing individual proppants under formation pressure to form microproppants and resuming pumping the hydraulic fracturing fluid after crushing individual proppants and forcing the microproppants to a second distance within the subsurface formation, in which the second distance is beyond the first distance relative to the wellbore.

Abstract: An invert-emulsion drilling fluid may include a dispersed aqueous phase including an aqueous base fluid, a continuous non-aqueous phase including a non-aqueous base fluid, and a first bridging package. The first bridging package may include one or more particulate carbonate materials. All of the particulate carbonate materials of the invert-emulsion drilling fluid may be part of the first bridging package. The first bridging package may have a trimodal particle size distribution such that the particle size distribution of the first bridging package includes three peaks, wherein each peak may be in the range of less than or equal to 300 microns in the particle size distribution. The invert-emulsion drilling fluid may be included in methods for reducing lost circulation in subterranean formations during drilling operations.

Abstract: A fuel assembly inspection system that utilizes a pressure transducer mounted to a utility's spent fuel handling tool to detect a relative change in depth of a fuel assembly during fuel inspections. The system then wirelessly transmits the signal to a fuel inspection recording system, which converts the signal to a relative height along the fuel assembly being viewed by a camera, and displays the relative height along with the applicable fuel assembly feature being viewed by the camera (e.g., nozzle, grid, span) via a text overlay on the video image of the inspection.

Abstract: A cooling system control method for an autonomous driving controller may include detecting the temperature of the autonomous driving controller by the controller when a vehicle is driving; determining whether a current temperature of the autonomous driving controller is lower than a target temperature by the controller; and terminating the controlling of the cooling system if the condition is satisfied in determining whether the current temperature of the autonomous driving controller is lower than the target temperature.

Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may determine, for a geographic region and based on geolocation data, a plurality of sub-regions, where each sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions may include real properties with a shared profile. The system may associate, with each sub-region, a collection of coordinate pairs, where each coordinate pair comprises a latitude and a longitude, and the collection describes a boundary of a geometric shape corresponding to the sub-region. The system may associate, with the geographic region, geometric shapes corresponding to the plurality of sub-regions. The system may associate, with each geometric shape, a rating factor for the real properties located within the sub-region corresponding to the geometric shape. The system may store the geometric shapes and rating factors, and may generate, based on the rating factor and for the real properties located within the sub-region, an output, and provide the generated output.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a pressing member including a nip plate, and an electron beam-irradiated fluorinated resin film is to be on an outer surface of the nip plate facing toward the backup member.

Abstract: The present application provides a borate ester compound suitable for being used as a proteasome inhibitor, a preparation method and use thereof, and the compound has the following structure wherein, R1, R2 is asymmetric substituent in para-position, and R1 and R2 are both selected from the group consisting of halogen; and when R1 is F, R2 is not Cl; when R1 is Cl, R2 is not Br or F; and when R1 is Br, R2 is not Cl; X1, X2 is selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, or X1 and X2 together form a substituted or unsubstituted 4 to 10 membered ring containing 1 to 4 heteroatoms being selected from the group consisting of O, N and S.

Abstract: An example of an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an extraction engine to extract a plurality of patches from an image of a printed document. The apparatus further includes a classification engine to analyze each patch of the plurality of patches and to assign a defect probability to each patch of the plurality of patches. The apparatus also includes a rendering engine to generate a map based on the defect probability of each patch of the plurality of patches. The map is to identify defects in the printed document.

Abstract: A duty cycle adjustment system includes a time-to-digital converter to generate a plurality of time-to-digital codes from an input signal, a duty cycle index generator to compute a duty cycle of the input signal based upon the plurality of time-to-digital codes, and assign a duty cycle index based upon the computed duty cycle, an input phase assignment generator to generate a first output and a second output based upon the duty cycle index, a first delay line to delay the first output to generate a third output, and a duty cycle generator to adjust the duty cycle of the input signal based upon the third output and the second output.

Abstract: Present disclosure provides method and device in communication nodes for wireless communication. The communication node determines that a radio connection failure occurs in a first cell, generates a first failure message; when the first condition set is satisfied, transmits a first signaling; when the first condition set is not satisfied, transmits a second signaling; and receives a third signaling; the first signaling is used for initiating a radio connection recovery performed on the first cell, the first signaling comprises a first failure sub-message; the first failure message comprises the first failure sub-message; the second signaling is used for requesting a radio resource control reestablishment; the first condition set comprises a phrase for determining that the radio connection failure occurs in the first cell; the third signaling is used for updating a radio connection; when the first condition set is satisfied, the first signaling is used for triggering the third signaling.

Abstract: A system for thinning a substrate includes a chuck and a first liquid supply unit. The chuck includes a base portion and a frame portion disposed on the base portion, where the substrate is configured to be placed on a carrying surface of the chuck. The first liquid supply unit extends along sidewalls the frame portion and the base portion, an outlet of the first liquid supply unit is disposed next to the carrying surface of the chuck, the first liquid supply unit delivers a first liquid from a bottom of the chuck to the outlet, and the first liquid discharges from the outlet to cover a sidewall of the substrate.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to: divide an image into a first block and a second block; encode the first block using fixed-length coding based on a determination that a first data size is equal to or greater than a threshold, the first data size being a data size for the first block in a case where the first block is encoded using variable-length coding; and encode the first block using variable-length coding based on a determination that the first data size is less than the threshold.

Abstract: A method including receiving a model of a composite structure having an inconsistency. The model includes a pre-calculated heating model that specifies areas of the inconsistency for which corresponding different amounts of heating are applied to an uncured composite material that is applied to the inconsistency. A design for heating elements of varying density across the areas is generated from the model. The design is configured to cause the heating elements in a first sub-area of a heat blanket system to generate a first amount of heat in a third area in the areas, and to cause the heating elements in a second sub-area of the heat blanket system to generate a second, different amount of heat in a fourth area of the areas. The heating elements are printed according to the design on a blanket to manufacture the heat blanket system.