Abstract: A processing method for preventing microbiologically influenced corrosion of steel fire sprinkler pipes, includes clearly acid washing a steel pipe, applying anti-rust oil on the interior of the steel pipe, sealing and soldering two ends of the steel pipe to form two soldered and sealed portions on the steel pipe, galvanizing the steel pipe to form a zinc coating layer on the outer surface of the steel pipe, and cutting the two soldered and sealed portions of the steel pipe.

Abstract: A palm cooling assembly for cooling a device used to lower a body temperature of a user includes a housing having a base wall and a peripheral wall. The peripheral wall is attached to and extends upwardly from the base wall defining an interior area. The peripheral wall has an upper edge defining an opening into the interior area. A panel is coupled to the upper edge and extends across the opening to enclose the interior area. The panel has a well therein. A palm cooling object is removably positionable in the well. The palm cooling object has a shape that is configured to at least partially cover a palm of a hand of a user who is gripping the palm cooling object. A refrigeration system controls a temperature of the interior area whereby the palm cooling object is cooled to the temperature when positioned in the well.

Abstract: An electromechanical actuator (EMA) assembly. The assembly includes: an electric motor; a drive shaft in engagement with the motor to be rotated about a shaft axis by operation of the motor; an output ring around the drive shaft, the output ring caused to rotate with rotation of the drive shaft, the output ring configured to be connected, in use, to a load to be driven by the EMA; a gear assembly between the drive shaft and the output ring to transmit rotation of the drive shaft to rotation of the output ring at a gear ratio. The gear assembly comprises a sun gear in engagement with the drive shaft, an outer gear in engagement with the outer ring, and planetary gears rotating between and transmitting rotation between the sun gear and the outer gear; and a planet carrier plate mounted to the planetary gears to rotate with the planetary gears.

Abstract: Described are room temperature stable gabapentin powders that can be readily reconstituted in water for dosing as an oral solution. The gabapentin powder formulations have improved chemical stability, palatability, portability, storage, and ease of administration, as well as fast reconstitution time, and prolonged product shelf life. The gabapentin powder formulations comprise gabapentin, a sugar alcohol, one or more artificial sweeteners and, optionally, a flavoring agent.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical element, wherein a hologram recording medium having a recording layer containing a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator is subjected to multiple recording exposure of a hologram under conditions where average exposure intensity based on the following formula (1) is 6 mW/cm2 or more. Average ? exposure ? intensity = ? i = 1 m ? ( ET i × EPW i ) ? i = 1 m ? ( ET i + EIT i - 1 ) ( 1 ) (In the formula (1), ETi is a single exposure time, which indicates exposure time (seconds) per multiple recording exposure. EPWi is exposure light intensity, which indicates total light intensity (mW/cm2) of reference light and object light. EITi-1 is exposure interval time, which indicates time (seconds) between one recording exposure and another recording exposure in the multiple recording exposure. m is a natural number indicating a total number of multiplexes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a medical device having a structure with excellent operability. According to the present invention, there is provided a medical device (100) including: an elongated medical device body (10); a first operation wire (41) and a second operation wire (42), each of which extends along a longitudinal direction of the medical device body (10); and an operation part (70) that is configured to individually and simultaneously pull the first operation wire (41) and the second operation wire (42), in which the first operation wire (41) and the second operation wire (42) are disposed at opposite extreme positions in a transverse section of the medical device body (10).

Abstract: This application disclose a method and an electronic device. One example method includes: When a hand is located in a detection range of a depth detector, and the hand approaches a physical surface or when the hand is placed on the physical surface, a head mounted display device displays a virtual hand and a virtual keyboard in virtual space. The head mounted display device displays typed information in an interface of the virtual space in response to a typing operation of the finger of the hand. A size of the hand is positively correlated with a dimension of the virtual keyboard. When the hand is of a first size, the dimension of the virtual keyboard is a first dimension. When the hand is of a second size, the dimension of the virtual keyboard is a second dimension, where the first size is greater than the second size.

Abstract: A depth filter is formed by rolling a fiber assembly into a cylinder. The fiber assembly is formed of melt blown fibers formed of a thermoplastic resin A and melt blown fibers formed of a thermoplastic resin B having a lower melting point than the thermoplastic resin A. This depth filter has a gradient where the average fiber diameter of the melt blown fibers formed of the thermoplastic resin A and the average fiber diameter of the melt blown fibers formed of the thermoplastic resin B continuously decrease from the outer circumference toward the inner circumference of the cylinder of the depth filter; and the average fiber diameters of the melt blown fibers formed of the thermoplastic resin A and the melt blown fibers formed of the thermoplastic resin B are decreased from the range of 20 ?m to 1 ?m to the range of 0.99 ?m to 0.1 ?m.

Abstract: The present teaching relates to communication related to predictions. A communication chain is created with multiple chain units, each operating independently to provide prediction services related to a prompt with embedded information therein associated with predictions for the prompt to enable prediction services. A request is received for a requested operation related to a query prompt on one of prediction solicitation, prediction entry, verification entry, and prediction access. If a chain unit for the query prompt, the request is directed to the chain unit to perform the requested operation. If not, a new chain unit is created for the query prompt and the request is forwarded to the new chain unit to carry out the requested operation.

Abstract: Protective device for safeguarding an operating gap of a bending machine, having an optical source to provide an optical beam along the operating gap, having an optical receiver arranged opposite the optical source to receive the optical beam, a safety-oriented light barrier controller that performs redundant processing of sensor signals provided from the optical receiver, and a linear drive system for attachment to the bending machine and for providing linear movements for the optical source and the optical receiver relative to an upper tool of the bending machine. The linear drive including a linear drive and a safety-oriented position measuring system with a position sensor and a position checking system, in which a safety-oriented linear drive controller is connected to the linear drive system and processes sensor signals from the position sensor and signals from the position checking system and provides a closed loop control for the linear drive.

Abstract: A program that defines and assesses the dynamic risk of software vulnerabilities and considers the dynamic risks into patch scheduling to reduce security risks posed by vulnerabilities and provide formal guidance to security operations at various organizations.

Abstract: The present disclosure teaches an advanced auxiliary power system designed for personal watercraft. The system includes an energy storage system, a power management system, a comprehensive wiring harness, a watertight mounting system, a universal accessory mount, and a multimodal user interface. The energy storage system includes one or more rechargeable batteries and a battery management system. The power management system includes an advanced charge controller, one or more solar panels, a DC-DC converter, and a power distribution system. The universal accessory mount includes one or more adjustable mounting points wherein the universal accessory mount is configured to attach to the watertight mounting system.

Abstract: A computing device and methods of making and using a computing device having machine learning capabilities to analyze course text content based on prompting to generate a list of course learning objectives, and in particular embodiments, having machine learning capabilities to analyze presentation content text against each of the course learning objectives to generate a course competency score with supportive reasoning for each course learning objective and an overall presentation score.

Abstract: A tab-less metal can end for seaming onto a metal can body. The can end comprises a substantially circular and planar panel, a chuck wall extending around the periphery of the panel and defining a curl, and a discontinuous score formed in said panel and following a circular path substantially concentric with said chuck wall, the score defining a hinge between first and second ends of the score.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating black-box adversarial inputs to a perception component using a surrogate model of the perception component comprises receiving an initial input to the perception component and repeatedly perturbing the initial input until an adversarial input is found that satisfies an attack objective by: performing a primary attack process by perturbing the initial input based on a computed gradient of a surrogate attack loss function of the surrogate model that encodes the attack objective; wherein, if the primary attack process terminates without finding any perturbed input satisfying the promising attack condition, a backup attack process is performed to perform a randomized search of the input space of the perception component, guided by the surrogate model, until a perturbed input satisfying the promising attack condition is found; wherein the primary attack process is repeated based on the perturbed input found by the primary attack process or backup process.

Abstract: A water dispensing system, comprising a hot water tank configured to carry hot water; a water outlet located higher than the hot water tank, said water outlet is configured to output the hot water; a hot water tube configured to carry the hot water traveling from the hot water tank to the water outlet; a pump for pumping the hot water from the hot water tank towards the water outlet, wherein the pump operates in a continuous manner during Shabat day; a valve located between the pump and the water outlet, said valve has an open state in response to a request to supply water, said open state enables passage of the hot water from the hot water tube to the water outlet, said valve has a closed state in which the hot water flows back to the hot water tank.

Abstract: Subject of the invention is a carbon capture system onboard a vessel which comprises an internal combustion engine for producing power and an exhaust gas, a molten carbonate fuel cell, which comprises a cathode and an anode, for producing electric energy, a cathode outlet stream and an anode outlet stream, wherein the cathode is in fluid communication with the internal combustion engine for receiving at least a portion of the exhaust gas, and a CO2 separation means which is in fluid communication with the anode for receiving at least a portion of the anode outlet stream, wherein the CO2 separation means is configured to separate CO2 from the at least a portion of the anode outlet stream for producing a CO2 rich stream and a CO2 depleted stream wherein the molten carbonate fuel cell has an electric connection with the CO2 separation means for at least partially using the electric energy to at least partially operate the CO2 separation means.

Abstract: Provided is a technique that makes it possible to improve the joining strength between a metal material and a resin while facilitating a process of integrating the metal material and the resin. An adhesive laminate 10 of one aspect of the present invention includes a base material layer 30 including a nonwoven fabric, and an adhesive layer 20 laminated on one main surface of the base material layer and including an adhesive having a glass transition temperature Tg of ?40° C. or more and 20° C. or less. An adhesive-impregnated layer 32 impregnated with the adhesive is formed in a part of the base material layer 30 on a side adjacent to the adhesive layer 20. The base material layer 30 has a thickness of 10 to 100 ?m. A portion 34 not impregnated with the adhesive in the base material layer 30 has a thickness of 5 to 50 ?m. The adhesive-impregnated layer 32 in the base material layer 30 has a thickness of 5 to 95 ?m. In addition, the adhesive layer 20 has a thickness of 5 to 60 ?m.

Abstract: An antenna module includes an antenna structure, a grounding plane, and an electromagnetic shielding structure. The antenna structure includes a radiating portion and a feeding portion coupled to each other. The grounding plane is adjacent to the antenna structure in a width direction of the antenna module. The feeding portion is coupled between the radiating portion and the grounding plane. The electromagnetic shielding structure is integrally connected to the grounding plane. In addition, an electronic device including the antenna module is also provided.

Abstract: A film-forming method for forming a film on a substrate includes (A) forming the film on the substrate by, in a process chamber, rotating the substrate, moving one of the substrate or a nozzle gas discharge mechanism relative to another of the substrate or the nozzle gas discharge mechanism such that a discharge hole of the nozzle gas discharge mechanism passes over a center of the substrate, and discharging a processing gas toward the substrate from the discharge hole; and (B) changing a discharge condition of the processing gas from that in (A), and adjusting a film thickness of the film formed on the substrate by, in the process chamber, rotating the substrate, moving one of the substrate or the nozzle gas discharge mechanism relative to another of the substrate or the nozzle gas discharge mechanism, and discharging the processing gas toward the substrate from the discharge hole.