Abstract: An interbody spinal cage when implanted can be manipulated non-invasively to change dimensions conforming to contours of adjacent vertebral bones. The interbody spinal cage includes a flexible shell that encases multiple variable-length rods. Each of the multiple variable-length rods includes telescoping tubes and an actuator for increasing and decreasing the length of the telescoping tubes. Each of the variable-length rods includes a retention member to limit movements of the telescoping tubes, wherein the retention member can be engaged and disengaged. Both the retention member and the actuator can be operated from outside the body in which the interbody spinal cage is implanted.

Abstract: A version updating system and a version updating method are provided. The version updating system includes a cloud server configured to execute a version updating tool, a version matching component, and a heterogeneous system management module that communicates with a heterogeneous system and a sub-business system. When the cloud server receives a version updating request for a cloud application, the version updating tool executes and prompts the version matching component to obtain version information of the heterogeneous system through the heterogeneous system management module. When the version information fails to meet version requirements, the version matching component records that the version information does not meet the version requirements and transmits a version updating notification to the sub-business system.

Abstract: A method and a system for predicting a target descriptor value of a target object are provided. The method includes: obtaining m0 groups of descriptors of a target object, where each group of descriptors includes at least N descriptors related to the target object; performing level-0 inference based on each of the m0 groups of descriptors separately to obtain m0 initial predicted values TD0s corresponding to a target descriptor of the target object; and performing F levels of inference based on the m0 TD0s to obtain a final predicted value TDF of the target descriptor.

Abstract: A method and system for predicting a target descriptor value of a target object is provided, including: obtaining N pieces of attribute information for describing the target object; and running an adversarial neural network to obtain a target predicted value corresponding to a target descriptor of the target object, where the adversarial neural network is a network with i layers connected in sequence, each layer of the adversarial neural network includes a first-level regression neural network and a second-level regression neural network connected in sequence.

Abstract: A method and system for assessing the risk of a cardiac event in a patient which utilizes real-time and historical data from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems is described. A risk of a cardiac event is estimated, in real-time or near-real-time, for a patient who is currently in a hospital emergency department. Batch data for one or more past patients is extracted from EMRs into a machine learning model. Using the machine learning model, a risk level for one or more past patients is calculated. A real-time database is constructed from streams of real-time Health Level 7 (HL7) clinical data, wherein at least one stream of real-time HL7 clinical data is associated with the current patient, and a risk prediction is estimated by joining the calculated risk level for the patient in the machine learning model with the real-time HL7 clinical data from the patient.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting a facial apparatus including a facial image processor arranged to process an image or a stream of images to detect a facial apparatus on one or more faces represented within the image or the stream of images; and generating a notification output based on a detection of the facial apparatus on the one or more faces.

Abstract: A method for updating file system entity (FSE) metadata. The method may include receiving, by a first computing entity, a request to perform a case-sensitive FSE operation that comprises one of (a) adding a case-sensitive version of a name of a FSE to a data structure, or (b) deleting the case-sensitive version of the name of the FSE from the data structure, the data structure comprises multiple name blocks; finding, by the first computing entity, a certain name block of the multiple name blocks that is associated with the case-sensitive version of the name of the FSE.

Abstract: A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.

Abstract: A system and method uses a set of processors that each perform a logic function to identify portions of a data source meeting a criteria. Each logic function is performed against a row of a column of the data source, and a value that is derived from the criteria for that logic function, which is also derived from the criteria. The output of each of the logic functions is applied as an address to a table that has been configured to read true at the addresses corresponding to the criteria being met, and false otherwise. Data from the row of the database table having a table value of true are retrieved from the data source.

Abstract: A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.

Abstract: A system comprises at least one computer device in communication with one or more server computers. The system converts unstructured text into usable order details, and uses instant messaging to notify recipients of the order details. The notices include electronic web links that launch a web interface that generates an editable, pre-populated electronic order ticket based on the order details. Submission of the electronic order ticket launches an auction during which the recipients may respond with offers to fulfill to the electronic order ticket. If after the auction more than one response is needed to fill the electronic order ticket, the system automatically allocates how and in which order the responses will be used to fill the electronic order ticket. If the electronic order ticket is not completely filled after the auction, the electronic order ticket is submitted to one or more additional exchanges for further filling.

Abstract: A method and a system for dottization of an Arabic Rasm utilizes natural language processing to add dots to Arabic Rasm. Initially, an input sequence of Arabic Rasms i.e., Arabic words without dots, is converted into a machine-readable input sequence. Further, components such as URLs, symbols, punctuation marks, white spaces, diacritics, and Kashida characters are removed, producing a normalized sequence. This sequence is then further refined by consolidating characters that appear in varied forms into single form of character. The consolidated sequence undergoes tokenization, generating multiple tokens. Each token is then padded at both its ends and fed into a trained recurrent neural network for processing, generating Arabic Rasms with dots. The output sequence from the network are the Arabic words with dots (Arabic word representing the Arabic Rasm with their respective dots), the output sequence is also mapped to input sequence as training set.

Abstract: A system and method of the device may include receiving a commit statement that is part of a transaction, where the transaction is initiated by a client to be executed on the database system. In addition, the device may include validating the transaction in a pessimistic manner by placing a commit pause on data cells modified during the execution of the transaction, where the commit pause enables an atomicity of a distributed transaction commitment. The device may include returning an acknowledgment to the client that the transaction is committed, where the acknowledgment is returned upon validation of the transaction.

Abstract: An energy storage device, a method for an energy storage device to determine whether a converter device connected thereto has a neutral line, and a power supply system are provided. The energy storage device includes a connection terminal, a neutral line switch, an energy storage unit and a control unit. The control unit is adapted to: obtain, when the energy storage device is in a shutdown state and the converter device is in a state of charging the energy storage device, two port voltages of the energy storage device when a preset condition is satisfied, and determine whether a change of a voltage difference between the two port voltages is within a preset range when the preset condition is satisfied. If the result is yes, the neutral line switch is controlled to be switched on; otherwise, the neutral line switch is controlled to be switched off.

Abstract: A sign language recognition system is described. The system includes a motion sensor, a processing circuitry and a display device. The motion sensor captures and records a dynamic sign language gesture as a sign video stream. The processing circuitry is configured with a key postures extractor, an accumulative video motion (AVM), and a sign recognition network (SRN). The key postures extractor captures main postures of the dynamic sign language gesture by extracting key frames in the sign video stream. The AVM captures motion of the sign video stream frames and transforms the motion in an AVM frame into a single AVM image. The SRN is configured as a convolutional network. The main postures and AVM image are fed into a two-stream network. The features from the two stream network are concatenated and fed into the SRN for learning fused features and performing classification of the sign language gesture.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for backing up a data object in blocks. One of the methods includes determining, for a data object of a backup process, whether a size of the data object or an estimated backup time of the data object satisfies a criterion that, when satisfied, indicates that at least two blocks of the data object should be separately fetched from the source system by different workers; determining one or more markers for end points of the at least two blocks using data from a prior backup of the data object; and causing, at least partially concurrently for two or more blocks from the at least two blocks, a respective backup worker to fetch the respective block from a source system using at least one marker from the one or more markers that defines an end of the respective block.

Abstract: Methods, storage systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention for data access that include identifying a set of tables in a database to be accessed by an application, and identifying first and second application programming interface (API) calls having different, respective access properties for accessing records in the tables via an API. Respective counts of the records in the tables are computed by a processor, and the set of tables are partitioned into first and second subsets responsively to the respective counts. The records in the first subset of the tables are accessed by having the application convey the first API call to the API, and the records in the second subset of the tables are accessed by having the application convey the second API call to the API.

Abstract: A data processing system and a method of automatically initiating a process. The data processing system includes a local server and a cloud server. The cloud server includes a storage apparatus and a processor. The processor is coupled to the storage apparatus, and configured to executed a file identification-parsing device and a detection system. The local server outputs a file to the cloud server, such that the file identification-parsing device performs an identification-parsing operation to generate a file content. The cloud server stores the file content in a database. The detection system performs a detection operation on the database to generate a file change content. The detection system generates business process information according to the file change content, and outputs the business process information to a process system. The process system executes the business process information, and displays manual operation information and an execution result on a display screen.

Abstract: A method for enrolling patient candidates in a clinical trial includes generating first prediction data indicating predicted progression of a condition for a first group of patients that participated in a first clinical trial using a predictive model and clinical data associated with the first group of patients; grouping clinical trial data into subsets based on the first prediction data; analyzing each subset of clinical trial data to generate a measure of efficacy of the treatment; establishing screening criteria for a second clinical trial by identifying at least one subset that has a measure of efficacy that is higher than a measure of efficacy of the treatment for the full first group of patients; receiving clinical data of a candidate for the second clinical trial; generating second prediction data for the candidate; and enrolling the candidate in the second clinical trial when the second prediction data satisfies the screening criteria.

Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication system for transmitting periodic data from a first device to a plurality of second devices by wireless communication comprising: a first wireless device connected to the first device; and a plurality of second wireless devices connected to the plurality of second devices, respectively, wherein the first wireless device includes a first wireless portion and a first control portion, the second wireless device includes a second wireless portion and a second control portion, and the first control portion and the second control portion synchronize the first wireless device and the plurality of second wireless devices when a time until the first wireless device receives a response from the second wireless device after the first wireless device has transmitted the periodic data from the first device is equal to or less than a set value.