Abstract: A power device including a power circuit assembly, a first plug assembly, and a second plug assembly is described herein. The first plug assembly is coupled to the power circuit assembly for transmitting power from a power source to the power circuit assembly at a first voltage. The second plug assembly is coupled to the power circuit assembly for controllably transmitting power from the power source to the power circuit assembly at a second voltage and at a third voltage.

Abstract: Catheters for occluding, visualizing, irrigating, evacuating, and delivering agents to a treatment area are disclosed. The catheters comprise a catheter body comprising five lumens, first and second occlusion balloons coupled to the catheter body, an optional space-occupying balloon coupled to the catheter body and disposed between the first and second occlusion balloons, and an optional visualization means that enables visualization between the first and second occlusion balloons. Methods for using these catheters are also disclosed. A method comprises inflating the first and second occlusion balloons, inflating the space-occupying balloon, allowing fluid to exit via an evacuation lumen, optionally irrigating or aspirating to facilitate fluid exit via said lumen, and delivering an agent to a treatment area via the agent lumen.

Abstract: Described are a system and method for lossless message delivery between two processing devices. Each device includes a remote direct memory access (RDMA) messaging interface. The RDMA messaging interface at the first device generates one or more messages that are processed by the RDMA messaging interface of the second device. The RDMA messaging interface of the first device outputs a notification to the second device that a message of the one or more messages is available at the first device. A determination is made that the second device has resources to accommodate the message. The second device performs an operation in response to determining that the processing device has the resources to accommodate the message.

Abstract: An energy efficient apparatus includes a switching device, a frequency dependent reactive device, and a control element is provided. The switching device is coupled to a source of electrical power and includes a pair of transistors and is adapted to receive a control signal and to produce an alternating current power signal. The frequency of the alternating current power signal is responsive to the control signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is electrically coupled to the pair of transistors for receiving the alternating current power signal and producing an output power signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is chosen to achieve a desired voltage of the output power signal relative to the frequency of the alternating current power signal. The control element senses an actual voltage of the direct current power signal and modifies the control signal delivered to achieve the desired voltage of the direct current power signal.

Abstract: Provided herein are polypeptides having ketol-aid reductoisomerase activity as well as microbial host cells comprising such polypeptides. Polypeptides provided herein may be used in biosynthetic pathways, including, but not limited to, isobutanol biosynthetic pathways.

Abstract: Because of being equipped with a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a sodium-ion nonaqueous electrolyte, and because the positive electrode includes a sulfur-based positive-electrode active material containing carbon (C) and sulfur (S), it is possible to inhibit sulfur from eluting out into electrolytic solution, thereby resulting in a sodium secondary battery that makes it feasible to undergo charging and discharging for 100 cycles or more reversibly.

Abstract: An energy efficient apparatus includes a switching device, a frequency dependent reactive device, and a control element is provided. The switching device is coupled to a source of electrical power and includes a pair of transistors and is adapted to receive a control signal and to produce an alternating current power signal. The frequency of the alternating current power signal is responsive to the control signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is electrically coupled to the pair of transistors for receiving the alternating current power signal and producing an output power signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is chosen to achieve a desired voltage of the output power signal relative to the frequency of the alternating current power signal. The control element senses an actual voltage of the direct current power signal and modifies the control signal delivered to achieve the desired voltage of the direct current power signal.

Abstract: A fabrication method for a light-emitting element package, the method comprising: providing a high precision wafer level mold module, the high precision wafer level mold module comprising an upper mold and a bottom mold; mounting a substrate with a plurality of light-emitting elements between the upper mold and the bottom mold; filling package materials into the high precision wafer level mold module to obtain package members mounted on the light-emitting elements; and removing the high precision wafer level mold module.

Abstract: An integrated circuit with debug capability includes a first packer and synchronizer to combine a multiple number of values of a first trigger signal received from a first circuit to form a first packed trigger signal and to output a synchronized first packed trigger signal in response to a trigger clock signal, the first trigger signal being synchronous with a first source clock signal, a first logic gate to provide a first output trigger signal indicative of whether any of the first multiple number of values of the first trigger signal in the first synchronized packed trigger signal is in a first state, and a debug state machine responsive to the first output trigger signal to selectively provide a first action signal.

Abstract: An energy efficient apparatus includes a switching device, a frequency dependent reactive device, and a control element is provided. The switching device is coupled to a source of electrical power and includes a pair of transistors and is adapted to receive a control signal and to produce an alternating current power signal. The frequency of the alternating current power signal is responsive to the control signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is electrically coupled to the pair of transistors for receiving the alternating current power signal and producing an output power signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is chosen to achieve a desired voltage of the output power signal relative to the frequency of the alternating current power signal. The control element senses an actual voltage of the direct current power signal and modifies the control signal delivered to achieve the desired voltage of the direct current power signal.

Abstract: An operational transconductance amplifier used in conjunction with a multiple chip voltage feedback technique allows multiple strings of LEDs and current sinks to be efficiently powered by a simple feedback oriented voltage regulator within an appliance. A connected series of differential amplifiers or multiplexors are used to monitor the voltages between the connected LEDs and the current sinks, in order to progressively determine the lowest voltage. The operational transconductance amplifier compares this voltage to a reference voltage and injects or removes current from the feedback node of a voltage regulator, thereby altering the voltage present at the feedback node. This causes the voltage regulator to adjust its output, ensuring that the current sinks of the LED strings have adequate voltage with which to function, even as the LEDs have different forward voltages and the strings are asynchronously enabled and disabled.

Abstract: Provided is a method and system for browsing Internet of Things (IoT) so as to browse resource-limited things with rich UI. The method includes; at a user terminal, recognizing tag information attached to an intelligent thing and confirming an address of a things domain corresponding to the tag information via a dynamic domain name system (DDNS) server; accessing the intelligent thing based on the address of the things domain and acquiring a default web page; at the user terminal, accessing a fixed content provision server and receiving fixed content of the default web page; and, at the user terminal, acquiring dynamic content to be displayed on a web page via the intelligent thing.

Abstract: A new lettuce variety designated ‘Mondo’ is described. ‘Mondo’ is a romaine lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.

Abstract: An integrated circuit with multiple clock domain tracing capability includes a debug module including a global time stamp counter for counting pulses of a reference clock signal to provide a global time stamp, a first granularity counter for counting pulses of a first clock signal to provide a first granularity count, a second granularity counter fir counting pulses of a second clock signal to provide a second granularity count and a trace cache buffer for selectively storing in a first partition the global time stamp, the first granularity count, and first data synchronous to the first clock signal, and for selectively storing in a second partition the global time stamp, the second granularity count, and second data synchronous to the second clock signal.

Abstract: A prosthetic device made of a first specific type of polyarylene, taken alone or in combination with a second specific type of polyarylene, featuring some unexpected advantages such as a very high strength and stiffness, good elongation properties, high chemical resistance, good biocompatibility as well as an outstanding impact resistance.

Abstract: An exemplary system for minimizing a perceptual disturbance caused by shorted electrodes in an auditory prosthesis system includes a sound processor (104) configured to determine that a first electrode and a second electrode included in a plurality of electrodes implanted in a patient are shorted together, detect that a main electrical stimulation pulse intended only for the first electrode is to be delivered by an auditory prosthesis to the first electrode, and direct, in response to the detecting, the auditory prosthesis to concurrently deliver the main electrical stimulation pulse to the first electrode and one or more compensating electrical stimulation pulses to one or more additional electrodes included in the plurality of electrodes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for direct digital synthesis (DDS) of signals using Taylor series expansion is provided. The DDS may include a modified phase-to-amplitude converter that includes read-only-memories (ROMs), registers and, a single size, such as a coarse, intermediate, and fine ROM corresponding to respective higher resolution phase angles. The outputs of the ROMs when combined can form a digital output signal in the form of a Taylor series of a sinusoid function.

Abstract: A processing system comprises one or more processor devices and other system components coupled to a stacked memory device having a set of stacked memory layers and a set of one or more logic layers. The set of logic layers implements a metadata manager that offloads metadata management from the other system components. The set of logic layers also includes a memory interface coupled to memory cell circuitry implemented in the set of stacked memory layers and coupleable to the devices external to the stacked memory device. The memory interface operates to perform memory accesses for the external devices and for the metadata manager. By virtue of the metadata manager's tight integration with the stacked memory layers, the metadata manager may perform certain memory-intensive metadata management operations more efficiently than could be performed by the external devices.

Abstract: Improvements in a semiconductor wafer container for reducing movement of semiconductor wafers within a wafer carrier using flexible wall segments, panels or flexible inserts in the base member's main inner containment diameter. These walls allow a vertical containment surface to move and capture the entire stack of wafers rather than a few wafers. The surface that contacts the wafers moves uniformly inward. The wafer stack is secured by reducing or eliminating the gap between the wafer container and the wafer stack. Further improvements include the addition of a ramped engagement surfaces in the top and/or bottom cover that provides mechanical advantage for easier assembly of the top and bottom cover. This design also allows for automated loading and unloading of the wafer stack because once the top cover is removed, the flexible walls spring back outward. Thus providing a small gap in which to freely remove the wafers.

Abstract: A liner having a tubular body portion with a top circumferential edge and a bottom circumferential edge, a generally circular bottom portion sealed to the tubular body portion along the bottom circumferential edge, and a generally circular top portion sealed to the tubular body portion along the top circumferential edge. The top portion may include a fitment sealed thereto. The tubular body portion may include at least one weld seam extending from the top circumferential edge to the bottom circumferential edge. In a particular embodiment, the tubular body portion may include two sheets welded together to form a tubular body, the tubular body portion thus having two weld seams extending from the top circumferential edge to the bottom circumferential edge.