Abstract: Disclosed are methods for conducting diagnostic tests for the detection of the inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Also described are methods for monitoring a patient by administering tests of the present invention. Also described are methods for monitoring patient's treatment by administering tests of the present invention. Also described are methods for evaluating the effectiveness of a drug or a drug candidate by administering tests of the present invention to samples from patients, animal models, and cell cultures treated with a drug or a drug candidate. Also disclosed are methods for determining the usefulness of analytes, e.g. cytokines, for acting as diagnostic and monitoring markers for inflammatory bowel disease in the various methods of the invention.

Abstract: A factory processed and assembled optical fiber arrangement is configured to pass through tight, tortuous spaces when routed to a demarcation point. A connector housing attaches to the optical fiber arrangement at the demarcation point (or after leaving the tight, tortuous spaces) to form a connectorized end of the optical fiber. A fiber tip is protected before leaving the factory until connection is desired.

Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for systems and methods to incorporate skip-gram convolution to extract non-consecutive local n-gram patterns for comprehensive information for varying text expressions. In one or more embodiments, one or more recurrent neural networks are employed to extract long-range features from localized level to sequential and global level via a chain-like architecture. Comprehensive experiments on large-scale datasets widely used for the text classification task were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented deep skip-gram network embodiments. Performance evaluation on various datasets demonstrates that embodiments of the skip-gram network are powerful for general text classification task set. The skip-gram models are robust and may be generalized well on different datasets, even without tuning the hyper-parameters for specific dataset.

Abstract: A head-up display system includes a housing having an interior surface and defining a cavity configured for receiving a ray of light. The head-up display system also includes a lens disposed within the cavity and configured for reflecting the ray of light towards the interior surface. Further, the head-up display system includes a first cured film formed from a coating composition, disposed on the interior surface, and configured for absorbing a ray of light within the cavity. The head-up display system also includes a second deposited film formed by an ionized gas treatment of the first cured film. The second deposited film is configured for transmitting the ray of light to the first cured film to thereby minimize scatter of the ray of light within the cavity. A device including the head-up display system is also described.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a power supply system includes a power stage, a power supply controller configured to control operations of the power stage, a metering circuit configured to sense measured conditions of the power stage, and a system performance controller configured to be coupled to the power supply controller and the metering circuit. The system performance controller is configured to set or adjust a control parameter for the power stage based on energy conversion efficiency of the power stage. The system performance controller includes an efficiency computation circuit configured to compute the energy conversion efficiency of the power stage based on the measured conditions, and a control manipulation module configured to modify the control parameter until the energy conversion efficiency achieves a threshold condition.

Abstract: An anomalous user session detector is disclosed. A sequence of operations in a logon session for an authorized user is gathered. A supervised learning model is trained to identify the authorized user from the sequence of operations. An anomalous session is detected by querying the supervised learning model.

Abstract: Example embodiments of systems, methods, and devices for transaction card alignment are provided. In one example embodiment, a mobile device may include a first component and a second component foldable with respect to one another between a first configuration and a second configuration. The mobile device may further include a screen interface on an interior side of the first component, and an alignment feature along the interior side, the alignment feature providing alignment for a contactless card with respect to the screen interface, wherein the contactless card is uncovered by the second component in the first configuration and covered by the second component in the second configuration.

Abstract: A computer-assisted patient navigational communication system for receiving electronic and oral communications from a patient, scanning data to determine the medical needs of the patient, and displaying relevant information to appropriate medical personnel who can immediately advise the patient of the most appropriate source of medical assistance relating to the patient's identified symptoms.

Abstract: A control device includes a moving portion, a magnetic element coupled to the moving portion, at least one magnetic sensing circuit responsive to magnetic fields, and at least one magnetic flux pipe structure. The magnetic element may comprise alternating positive and negative sections configured to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic element may be any shape, such as circular, linear, etc. The magnetic sensing circuit may be radially offset from the magnetic element, and the magnetic flux pipe structure may be configured to conduct the magnetic field generated by the magnetic element towards the magnetic sensing circuit. The magnetic element may generate the magnetic field in a first plane, and the magnetic sensing may be responsive to magnetic fields in a second direction that is angularly offset from the first plane. The magnetic flux pipe structure may redirect the magnetic field towards the magnetic sensing circuit in the second direction.

Abstract: Panels of LED arrays and LED lighting systems are described. A panel includes a substrate having a top and a bottom surface. Multiple backplanes are embedded in the substrate, each having a top and a bottom surface. Multiple first electrically conductive structures extend at least from the top surface of each of the backplanes to the top surface of the substrate. Each of multiple LED arrays is electrically coupled to at least some of the first conductive structures. Multiple second conductive structures extend from each of the backplanes to at least the bottom surface of the substrate. At least some of the second electrically conductive structures are coupled to at least some of the first electrically conductive structures via the backplane. A thermal conductive structure is in contact with the bottom surface of each of the backplanes and extends to at least the bottom surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An antenna system includes a substrate of a dielectric material. A conductive layer defines a feed slot joins a number of side slots arranged in a line forming an array. The side slots are spaced from one another and the conductive layer is disposed on the substrate. The array is configured to radiate a radiation pattern characterized by a first beam width in a first plane and a second beam width in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane, wherein the first beam width is wider than the second beam width.

Abstract: The present invention describes methods to produce a synthetic or semi-synthetic cysteine synthase/PLP-dependent decarboxylase (sCs/PLP-DC). More particularly, the invention relates to genetic modification of organisms including eukaryotes and prokaryotes to express a functional sCs/PLP-DC. The invention includes methods to produce taurine in organisms that contain native or heterologous (transgenic) taurine biosynthetic pathways or cells that have taurine by enrichment. The invention also relates to methods to increase taurine levels in the cells and to use the said cells or extracts or purifications from the cells that contain the invention to produce plant growth enhancers, food, animal feed, aquafeed, food or drink supplements, animal-feed supplements, dietary supplements, health supplements or taurine.

Abstract: Lighting devices are disclosed for use with handheld surgical instruments, along with holsters for supporting surgical instruments with lighting devices thereon and kits containing surgical instruments and lighting devices.

Abstract: An iridocorneal angle of the eye can be opened with a plurality of treatment locations at least about 2 mm radially outward from a limbus of the eye. The opening on the angle can be beneficial for treating both narrow angle glaucoma and open angle glaucoma. The plurality of treatment locations located away from the limbus can decrease invasiveness and complexity of the procedure. The plurality of treatment locations at least about 2 mm away from the limbus can provide tensioning to zonules coupled to the lens of the eye to flatten the lens of the eye, which can allow the iris to move posteriorly so as to open the iridocorneal angle. The plurality of treatment locations may comprise scleral locations, in which shrinkage of scleral tissue at the plurality of treatment locations provides tensioning to the zonules.

Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a system for detecting defects in a printed construct includes one or more processors, one or more image sensors, and one or more memory modules. The one or more image sensors are communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. Machine readable instructions are stored on the one or more memory modules that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to collect image data of a three-dimensional printed construct from the one or more image sensors, and detect one or more defects within the image data of the three-dimensional printed construct.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for selecting recommendations based on title transition embeddings. During operation, the system obtains a word embedding model of a set of job histories. Next, the system calculates similarities between pairs of the embeddings produced by the word embedding model from attributes associated with titles in the set of job histories. The system then identifies, based on the similarities, job titles with high similarity to a current title of the candidate. Finally, the system outputs the job titles for use in selecting job recommendations for the candidate.

Abstract: A removeable band for confining a stack of cutlery pieces. The band can include a body having a first end and a second end. The body being an elongated strip of fiber-based material. A window can be formed through the body, and an adhesive can be disposed at least partially over the window. The adhesive can be configured to adhere a portion of the first end of the body to a portion of the second end of the body when the ends of the body overlap to form a continuous band.

Abstract: An oral care product dispensing system includes a container and a plurality of individually packaged items arranged in an organized fashion according to a predetermined treatment plan. At least one of the individually packaged items, or the packages in which it is contained, may be identified with a predetermined time for use. The plurality of individually packaged items may be arranged sequentially according to the predetermined time for use, such as meals, times of day, days, or intervals.

Abstract: A method of producing a hydrocarbon from a hydrocarbon deposit in a fracked well using CO2 in supercritical form as a fracking fluid. The fracking fluid does not include any water or particulates introduced from a source external to the well. In some instances, CO2 can be sequestered. In some cases, the hydrocarbon deposit is green shale or young shale.

Abstract: According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method may be used for determining one or more vehicle recommendations. The method may include receiving data pertaining to a user's internet browsing activity. The received data may be indicative of the user's automotive vehicle preferences. The method may include comparing the received data to a collection of stored vehicle qualities. The method also may include identifying, based on the received data and the comparison of the received data to the collection of stored vehicle qualities, a vehicle characteristic of interest to the user. Using the vehicle characteristic of interest, one or more vehicle recommendations may be determined. One or more vehicle recommendations may be communicated to the user.