Abstract: Presenting and manipulating task items includes creating a task item within a productivity application in association with a content item created with the productivity application and assigning the task item to one or more users. When the task item has been assigned, the task item is displayed to each user when each users opens the productivity application, or when the productivity application is already open to the user. User activity is then monitored in relation to the content item that is associated with the task item such that metadata for the user activity is captured. Based on the captured metadata, the users are alerted to the user activity that has occurred on the content item.

Abstract: Insulating films suitable for use in magnet wire, electrical machines, and other applications may include at least one layer formed from extruded material. The extruded material may include a blend of a first polymeric material and a second polymeric material different than the first polymeric material. The first polymeric material may include one of polyetheretherketone, polyaryletherketone, polyetherketoneketone, polyphenylsulfone, polyphenylene sulfide, or polybenzimidazole, and the second polymeric material may include one of polyphenylsulfone, polyetherimide, polyethersulfone, polyphenylene sulfide, polycarbonate, or polyester.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a fuse structure includes a region of semiconductor material having a major surface. A dielectric region is over the major surface. A first fuse terminal is over a first part of the dielectric region, a second fuse terminal is over a second part of the dielectric region and spaced apart from the first fuse terminal to provide a gap region, and a fuse body over a third part of the dielectric region interposed between and connected to the first fuse terminal and the second fuse terminal. A dummy structure is over the dielectric region in the gap region on a first side of the fuse body, the dummy structure spaced apart and electrically isolated from the fuse body, the first fuse terminal, and the second fuse terminal. The dummy structure is configured to reduce the presence of or reduce the effects of defects, such as cracks or voids that can emanate from the fuse structure.

Abstract: A method is disclosed comprising: instantiating a first plurality of type-1 network sockets on a source computing system, each of the type-1 network sockets having a first queue depth; instantiating a second plurality of type-2 network sockets on the source computing system, each of the type-2 network sockets having a second queue depth that is greater than the first queue depth; transitioning the source computing system into a first state, the first state being one in which data replication messages are transmitted by the source computing system to a target computing system by using both the type-1 and type-2 network sockets; transitioning the source computing system from the first state.

Abstract: An apparatus for bioprocessing includes a housing, a drawer receivable within the housing, the drawer including a plurality of sidewalls and a bottom defining a processing chamber, and a generally open top, the drawer being movable between a closed position in which the drawer is received within the housing, and an open position in which the drawer extends from the housing enabling access to the processing chamber through the open top, and at least one bed plate positioned within the processing chamber and configured to receive a bioreactor vessel.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for aggregating Mortgage Loans based upon servicing records verified via a blockchain distributed ledger. The Blockchain is distributed to Participants in the Loan, such as the Borrowers, Regulators, Servicers, and Vendors. Participants may submit an aggregation criteria, such as for example a criteria used for selecting loans to be included in a securitization pool. The present disclosure further provides a method for homogenizing a variety of loan criteria and memorializing execution of a smart contract on the Blockchain.

Abstract: A system for repelling sharks is disclosed. Magnets are connected to a rod along its length. If necessary, the rod may be extended. Additionally, one or more flotation devices may be connected to the rod to manipulate or adjust the buoyancy of the system, depending on the user's objective(s). The rod is connected to a fishing line once a fish is hooked and is in close proximity to the boat or other structure from which the fisherman is fishing. The weight of the rod and magnets cause the rod to slide down to the end of the fishing line, where the rod will come in contact with the hooked mouth of the fish. As the fish struggles during the fight, the rod creates a protective magnetic field around the fish to deter sharks from engaging the fish.

Abstract: A method for distributing a shareable video experience among plural video-consumer devices includes receiving a data stream defining the shareable video experience and generating first and second shared video experiences. The first experience is configured for video-consumer devices capable of real-time interaction with the shareable video experience; it includes a first video stream conveying visual content of the shareable video experience and a first set of interface controls, the first set of interface controls being useable by video-consumer devices capable of real-time interaction to modify the shareable video experience. The second experience is configured for video-consumer devices incapable of real-time interaction; it includes a second video stream conveying visual content of the shareable video experience and a second set of interface controls that are useable by video-consumer devices incapable of real-time interaction to present supplementary data in connection to the shareable video experience.

Abstract: A communication system uses multiple communications links, preferably links that use different communications media. The multiple communications links may include a high latency/high bandwidth link using a fiber-optic cable configured to carry large volumes of data but having a high latency. The communications links may also include a low latency/low bandwidth link implemented using skywave propagation of radio waves and configured to carry smaller volumes of triggering data with a lower latency across a substantial portion of the earth's surface. The triggering data may be sent in a data stream as data frames without headers, security information, or error checking codes. The two communications links may be used together to coordinate various activities such as the buying and selling of financial instruments.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for improved data comparison, particularly when scanning large amounts of data for particular conditions or configurations. With respect to cyber-security, this improvement takes the form of receiving a plurality of threat conditions for cyber threats against a networked computer device; identifying commonalities among the plurality of threat conditions by comparing each threat condition in the plurality of threat conditions against the plurality of threat conditions; generating, based on the commonalities, a hierarchy for scanning of the cyber threats; and scanning for the cyber threats according to the hierarchy.

Abstract: Impact tools are described herein. An example of an impact tool includes a first elongate member and an impact member. The impact member is attached to the first elongate member and has a first end, a second end, a length that extends from the first end to the second end, a first side, a second side, and a plurality of projections disposed on the second side. Each projection of the plurality of projections has a first end attached to the impact member and a second end. The plurality of projections are configured on the impact member such that at least two projections of the plurality of projections intersect a first hypothetical plane disposed between the impact member second end and the second end of each projection of the plurality of projections.

Abstract: An exercise machine has a supporting frame; a resistance fan on the supporting frame, the resistance fan being configured to provide an amount of resistance to a user of the exercise machine; a housing enclosing the resistance fan, the housing having a plurality of openings through which air from the resistance fan is directed towards the user of the exercise machine; and a shroud on the housing. The shroud is movable with respect to the plurality of openings so as to redirect the air from the resistance fan without changing the amount of resistance provided to the user of the exercise machine.

Abstract: Methods of making a composite article are provided herein. The method can include an unwinding step including unwinding a fiber substrate material from a creel at an unwinding velocity and an impregnation step including applying an uncured resin composition to the fiber substrate material to form a resin-fiber material. The method further includes a winding step comprising applying the resin-fiber material onto a shaped surface at a winding velocity and a solidifying step comprising applying heat to the resin-fiber material to initiate an exothermic reaction comprising polymerization, cross-linking, or both of the uncured resin composition. Temperature of the resin-fiber material can be monitored during operation of the method and a polymerization front velocity set point (vpfs) and an operating polymerization front velocity (vpfo) can be determined. Parameters can be adjusted to maintain a vpfo that is substantially the same as the vpfs. Systems for performing said methods are also provided.

Abstract: A restraint system includes an A pillar, a dash extending in a cross-vehicle direction from the A pillar, a door extending in a vehicle-rearward direction from the A pillar, and an airbag mounted to the A pillar and inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag includes a side chamber and a front chamber. The side chamber is elongated along the door when the airbag is in the inflated position, and the front chamber is elongated along the dash when the airbag is in the inflated position.

Abstract: A system includes a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to: receive, from a radar sensor of a vehicle, radar data indicative of a stationary object proximate to the radar sensor; receive, from a non-radar sensor of the vehicle, vehicle state data indicative of a vehicle state, the vehicle state data indicative of at least a longitudinal velocity and a yaw rate of the vehicle; determine an orientation estimate and an offset estimate of the radar sensor based on the radar data and the vehicle state data; and determine whether to actuate a vehicle system based on at least one of the orientation estimate or the offset estimate.

Abstract: A vector memory subsystem for use with a programmable mix-radix vector processor (“PVP”) capable of calculating discrete Fourier transform (“DFT/IDFT”) values. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a vector memory bank and a vector memory system (VMS) that generates input memory addresses that are used to store input data into the vector memory bank. The VMS also generates output memory addresses that are used to unload vector data from the memory banks. The input memory addresses are used to shuffle the input data in the memory bank based on a radix factorization associated with an N-point DFT, and the output memory addresses are used to unload the vector data from the memory bank to compute radix factors of the radix factorization.

Abstract: Example brake systems and apparatus for providing pitch control on bicycles are described herein. An example rear brake caliper described herein includes a caliper housing to be coupled to the bicycle. The caliper housing includes a first port to be fluidly coupled to a first fluid line fluidly coupled to a front brake actuator and a second port to be fluidly coupled to a second fluid line fluidly coupled to a front brake caliper. The rear brake caliper also includes a valve between the first port and the second port. The valve is operable to affect fluid flow between the first port and the second port.

Abstract: A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, a method of identifying, by a system comprising a processor, network communication degradation in one or more layers of a multi-layered communication protocol above a physical layer, wherein the network communication degradation is associated with communications taking place through a network, in part over a radio frequency link, between a plurality of communication devices, obtaining, by the system, data from a layer below the one or more layers of the multi-layered communication protocol identified as having the network communication degradation, determining, by the system, one or more geographic regions of the network associated with the network communication degradation from the data, and mitigating, by the system, effects of the network communication degradation in the one or more geographic regions of the network. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses Hemipteran insect inhibitory proteins, methods of using such proteins, nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins, methods of detecting and isolating such proteins, and their use in agricultural systems.

Abstract: Methods and systems for spinal radio frequency neurotomy. Systems include needles capable of applying RF energy to target volumes within a patient. Such target volumes may contain target medial branch nerves along vertebrae or rami proximate the sacrum. Such procedures may be used to ablate or cauterize a portion of the targeted nerve, thus blocking the ability of the nerve to transmit signals to the central nervous system. Disclosed needles may be operable to asymmetrically, relative to a central longitudinal axis of the needle, apply RF energy. Such asymmetry facilitates procedures where a tip of the needle is placed proximate to anatomical structures for location verification. Then RF energy may be applied in a selectable direction relative to the needle tip to ablate volumes that include the targeted medial branch nerves or rami, thus denervating facet joints or the sacroiliac joint, respectively, to relieve pain in a patient.