Abstract: In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a system includes a fuel line, an electrically driven fuel pump configured to supply fuel to a first fuel line branch and a second fuel line branch, and a selector valve disposed in the fuel line at a juncture of a first fuel line branch and a second fuel line branch configured to communicate the electrically driven fuel pump with the first fuel line branch or the second fuel line branch based on a position of the selector valve. In a first position, the selector valve is configured to fluidly connect the electrically driven fuel pump with the first fuel line branch to supply fuel to a combustor of the engine and drive a high pressure shaft at a first speed. In a second position, the selector valve is configured to fluidly connect the electrically driven fuel pump with the second fuel line branch to drive a hydraulic rotation unit configured to drive the high pressure spool of the engine at a second speed different from the first speed.

Abstract: A matching app provides a method of matching first and second users and may schedule a personal meeting between them. Potential matches are based, at least in part, upon the respective interests of the parties and their locations. Information is received indicating favored activities of the first and second users. When one user wants to personally meet the other user, the matching app proposes a suggested activity and a suitable nearby location. The proposed location and activity are displayed to a user on a communication device, allowing the first user to send an electronic message inviting the second user to meet to engage in the suggested activity at the proposed location.

Abstract: Provided is a valve device in which a valve body can come into close contact with a valve seat to reliably close the valve even if a shaft moves slightly off-axis or tilted. In a valve device including: a housing 10 defining an upstream passage 12a and downstream passages 13a and 14a through which a fluid passes, and valve seats 11d and 11e interposed between the upstream passage and the downstream passages; a shaft 60 reciprocating along a predetermined axis S; and valve bodies 20 and 30 fixed to the shaft and seated on and separated from the valve seats, the valve seats 11d and 11e are formed into annular tapered surfaces forming a part of conical surfaces centered on the axis, and the valve bodies 20 and 30 are formed to include convex curved surfaces 22a and 32a that come into contact with the annular tapered surfaces when seated.

Abstract: An electroconductive pattern includes a third mesh portion that does not include the end electroconductive line as one side constituting the mesh portion, and in a case where a triangular virtual mesh portion including a portion extended from one electroconductive line of the first electroconductive line and of the second electroconductive line which constitute the third mesh portion to the end electroconductive line, a virtual line assuming that another electroconductive line is extended to the end electroconductive line, and the end electroconductive line is set, a length of a common electroconductive line between the first mesh portion and the third mesh portion is longer than the virtual line of the virtual mesh portion, and each of an opening area of the first mesh portion and an opening area of the second mesh portion is larger than an opening area of the virtual mesh portion.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator includes: a movable element 50, reciprocating along an axis S; a coil 122 for excitation; a shaft 60, fixed to the movable element; a first inner yoke 70, movably receiving the movable element; a second inner yoke 80, attracting the movable element through energization of the coil and movably receiving the shaft; and an outer yoke 90, 100, surrounding the coil and bonded to the first inner yoke and the second inner yoke. In a cross section including the axis, a first bonding region between the first inner yoke and the outer yoke and/or a second bonding region between the second inner yoke and the outer yoke have a bonding length Hd1+Hs1, Hd2+Hs2 greater than a plate thickness T of the outer yoke.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for self-adjusting robotic build infrastructure for software application development. The present disclosure is configured to receive a set of input parameters associated with the planned build; analyze the set of input parameters associated with the planned build; determine a robotic build infrastructure from a robotic build infrastructure database using the analyzed set of input parameters associated with the planned build; compile an image test of the planned build based on the robotic build infrastructure determined from the robotic build infrastructure database; validate the image test through a performance test; adjust the image test based on the analyzed set of input parameters and the performance test validation; initiate a final build of the robotic build infrastructure based on the adjusted image test; and certify the final build of the adjusted robotic build infrastructure.

Abstract: A light emitting module includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources fixed on the substrate and generating individually controllable outputs; a light shielding member disposed between the light sources; a first lens that is disposed above the light sources and on which the light emitted from each of the light sources becomes incident; and a drive unit capable of rotating the substrate. The light sources include a first light source and a second light source. The angle formed by the axis of rotation of the substrate and the optical axis of first light emitted by the first light source and exiting the first lens differs from the angle formed by the axis of rotation and the optical axis of second light emitted by the second light source and exiting the first lens. The second light can irradiate a first circular track having the axis of rotation as its center.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for automatic selection of a runtime environment for execution of an application. Techniques include identifying the application at a server for execution in a runtime environment and then accessing a state portion and a logic portion of the application. Techniques further include selecting the runtime environment by determining a location scenario of the state portion and the logic portion of the application. Techniques to determining the location scenario is at least one of: the state portion and the logic portion of the application are present on the server, the state portion is sent to a client device by the server and the logic portion is present on the server, the logic portion is sent to the client device by the server and the state portion is present on the server, the state portion and the logic portion of the application are sent to the client device by the server.

Abstract: A multilayer integral geogrid, including one or more cellular layers, has a plurality of oriented multilayer strands interconnected by partially oriented multilayer junctions with an array of openings therein. The multilayer integral geogrid having one or more cellular layers is produced from a coextruded or laminated multilayer polymer starting sheet. The integral geogrid has a multilayer construction, with at least one outer layer thereof having the cellular structure. By virtue of the cellular layer structure, the multilayer integral geogrid provides for increased layer vertical compressibility under load, resulting in enhanced material properties that provide performance benefits to use of the multilayer integral geogrid to stabilize and strengthen soil, aggregates, or other particulate materials.

Abstract: Techniques are described for reducing capacity fragmentation by using an Automatic Defragmentation Service (ADS). More particularly, hypervisors (HVs) that are candidates to defragment are identified, an HV to defragment is selected, and one or more VM instances are migrated from the selected HV to a different HV. According to certain implementations, instead of migrating a VM to a new HV, the VM is live migrated to an existing HV.

Abstract: A vehicle system includes a first machine having a first controller, a second machine having a second controller, and a third controller in communication with the first controller and the second controller. The third controller is configured to receive a movement command, and send the movement command to the second controller. In response to receiving the movement command, the second controller is configured to send the movement command to the first controller, so that the first machine and the second machine perform the movement command substantially simultaneously.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate thread scheduling is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic to store barrier usage data based on a magnitude of barrier messages in an application kernel and a scheduler to schedule execution of threads across a plurality of multiprocessors based on the barrier usage data.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a heating cavity defined therein, wherein a heat source is in thermal communication with the heating cavity. A cooling channel is disposed proximate a sidewall of the housing. A blower selectively operates to move at least cooling air through the cooling channel and to an air outlet. A vent aperture extends through the sidewall between the heating cavity and a ventilation channel. The ventilation channel includes a narrowed portion proximate the vent aperture, wherein during operation of the blower, the narrowed portion defines a low static pressure region of the ventilation channel that draws cavity air from the heating cavity and directs the cavity air into the ventilation channel to be combined with the cooling air.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods for determining system performance for application migration are provided. The method includes receiving an application test request from an end-point device associated with an application. The application test request includes an existing technology indicator and a new technology indicator. The method also includes causing an execution of at least a portion of the application using the at least one of the new technology types via a cloud device. The method further includes comparing one or more metrics for the application performed between at least one of the new technology type(s) and at least one of the existing technology type(s). The method still further includes determining a new technology performance indicator for each of the new technology type(s). The method also includes causing a transmission of the new technology performance indicator(s) to the end-point device associated with the application.

Abstract: A refrigeration unit includes a cabinet with a refrigerator compartment, a freezer compartment, and a machine compartment. The cabinet includes a mullion region between the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment, a first pass-through therethrough providing access from an external environment to the refrigerator compartment, and a second pass-through therethrough providing access from the external environment to the freezer compartment. The cabinet further includes a third pass-through extending through the mullion region, and a refrigerant system. The refrigerant system includes a three-way valve configured to direct a refrigerant down a first flow path or a second flow path, the refrigerant in the first flow path flows through the first pass-through, a first evaporator, the third pass-through, and the second evaporator, and the refrigerant in the second flow path flows through the second pass-through and the second evaporator.

Abstract: The illustrative embodiments provide for dynamic tuning of pre-initialization environment provisioning and management. An embodiment includes accepting a request from a group of applications to generate a performance-based index table for a workload based on a feature of the applications and generating the performance-based index table. The embodiment includes building a label feature by analyzing a static program feature of the applications and the performance-based index table. The embodiment includes constructing, using clustering algorithms, a model for provisioning a pre-initialization environment using the label features. The embodiment includes loading the applications into a pre-initialization environment. The embodiment includes introducing a selection policy for a switch in the pre-initialization environment in multiple applications to balance usage of a resource.

Abstract: A measurement device includes a vision sensor that has a plurality of pixels, each outputting an event signal in an asynchronous manner according to a luminance change of an incident light, a cluster forming unit that forms, as a cluster, a point group of events generated by identical target particles on the basis of an event signal input in a predetermined period, a feature amount calculating unit that calculates the feature amount of the cluster, and a cluster classifying unit that classifies the cluster on the basis of the feature amount calculated by the feature amount calculating unit.

Abstract: A compute system that includes an Internet of things (IoT) device is provided. The IoT device includes a common services interface (CSI) to create a self-managing network of devices with other nodes comprising the CSI.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a vaporization chamber in which a sample containing a target component is placed, a measurement chamber that is spatially connected to the vaporization chamber and forms enclosed space integrally with the vaporization chamber, a light source that applies, to the measurement chamber, laser light whose wavelength varies, a detector that detects the laser light having been applied from the light source and having passed through the measurement chamber, and an arithmetic unit that calculates the amount of the target component contained in the sample by analyzing a light-receiving signal of the laser light detected by the detector. The arithmetic unit acquires the amount of the target component, based on an integral value of a spectrum of absorbance of the laser light that is absorbed by the target component while the laser light passes through an interior of the measurement chamber.

Abstract: The present invention assists an operator in accurately understanding the situation at a scene, even while talking to a caller. A conversion unit converts inputted speech data into text data, an extraction unit extracts words contained in the text data from the text data, a classification unit classifies the text data into one of multiple types on the basis of the words extracted from the text data, and a display unit stores and displays information contained in the text data in a form for each type according to the type of the text data.