Abstract: A portable drink holder for a drinkable liquid having a first removable reservoir for storing the liquid at a first end of the holder, a second removable reservoir at a second end of the holder for receiving the liquid and a cooling cartridge having a plurality of passageways for selectively transporting liquid from the first reservoir to the second reservoir. The cooling cartridge including a cooling medium so that the liquid transitions to a second temperature lower than the first temperature as it flows from the first reservoir to the second reservoir.

Abstract: Methods of preparing a feed stream for supercritical water oxidation from at least two waste streams are described herein. The method generally involves monitoring contaminant concentration, total dissolved solids concentration, viscosity, salt concentration, and calorific value of each waste stream and combining those waste streams, and optionally a non-waste additive, into a single feed stream to achieve a specific contaminant concentration, total dissolved solids concentration, viscosity, salt concentration, and calorific value prior to supercritical water oxidation. The disclosure also describes systems capable of monitoring contaminant concentration, total dissolved solids, viscosity (solids concentration and particle size), salt concentration, and calorific value in at least two waste streams, combining those waste streams into a new feed stream, and monitoring that feed stream to ensure compatibility with continuous feed into a supercritical water oxidation reactor.

Abstract: Optimal template component printing includes reading from a pool, a set of printable pieces, each corresponding to a pattern for a respective garment, and each having known dimensions. A starting point is located on a section of a fabric substrate onto which the pieces are to be printed. Different piece combinations are then computed for different subsets of the pieces in the set for which a sum of the known dimensions of the pieces of the subset is less than or equal to a constraining dimension of the fabric substrate as measured from the starting point. A combination is selected which minimizes a difference between the constraining dimension and the sum and a printer is directed to print the pieces of the selected combination onto the fabric substrate. Finally, the pieces of the selected combination are removed from the pool and the process repeats for remaining pieces in the pool.

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing application programming interface (“API”)-based concurrent call path (“CCP”) provisioning. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a CCP provisioning request, a computing system may determine whether such a request would affect a set of trunk groups assigned to a customer based at least in part on network utilization data. If not, the computing system may cause the nodes in the network to increase or decrease, in near-real-time, the number of CCPs in at least one trunk group assigned to the customer based on the CCP provisioning request. If so, the computing system may cause the nodes in the network to increase or decrease, in near-real-time, the number of trunk groups assigned to the customer and may cause the nodes in the network to increase or decrease, in near-real-time, the number of CCPs in the updated number of trunk groups.

Abstract: A mechanical energy amplification system and method, where the system includes a frame that supports a cylindrical rotary reactor magnet assembly, an oscillating reactor magnet assembly, and an input impulse magnet assembly. The input impulse magnet assembly rotates an axial shaft connected to both the rotary reactor magnet assembly and a flywheel, and the oscillating reactor magnet assembly when pivoted back and forth, and generates a greater output energy than an energy input at the input impulse magnet assembly by increasing the pivoting of and torque of an output pivot shaft by the rotation of the shafts of the rotary reactor magnet assembly and the oscillating reactor magnet assembly.

Abstract: A transaction card having a partial glass layer including an interior glass member connected to a non-glass frame. The frame defines opposite planar surfaces, has an outer periphery coextensive with the outer periphery of the card, and has a frame inner periphery spaced radially inward from the frame outer periphery. The frame inner periphery defines an interior area occupied by the glass member. The transaction card further includes at least one additional layer having a periphery coextensive with the periphery of the card, and a payment module configured for contactless operation or dual interface contact/contactless operation.

Abstract: In method for video decoding in a decoder, prediction information of a current block in a current picture is decoded from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an inter prediction mode with a potential usage of a refinement technique based on a first reference picture and a second reference picture. Whether a first equal weighting condition of chroma components from the first reference picture and the second reference picture is satisfied is determined. The refinement technique is disabled in a reconstruction of a sample in the current block when the first equal weighting condition of the chroma components from the first reference picture and the second reference picture is not satisfied.

Abstract: In a network including a wide area network and a local area network, an edge server may be within the wide area network and geographically close to a customer device of the local area network. Such an edge server may be vulnerable to attacks, such as distributed denial of service attacks, including SYN floods. Systems and methods for customer control of edge service are provided while mitigating such attacks.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding/decoding. One method performed by a decoder includes: receiving a current block and a reference block; grouping samples in the current block into at least a first class and a second class based on a predefined criteria, the first class and the second class being associated with a first linear model and a second linear model, respectively, wherein the first linear model has at least a scale factor ?1 or an offset ?1, the second linear model has at least a scale factor ?2 or an offset ?2; determining the first and the second linear model; predicting samples in the first class based on the reference block and the first linear model; predicting samples in the second class based on the reference block and the second linear model; reconstructing the current block based on predicted samples in the first class and the second class.

Abstract: A chain guide for a wall of a grain elevator of an agricultural vehicle. The chain guide includes an elongated body. A rib extends from a surface of the elongated body, the rib being configured to engage with a chain of the grain elevator. A mating surface is either formed on or in the body, and the mating surface is configured to be connected to the wall of the grain elevator.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an isolated Thiomonas isabelensis (ECOAU001) strain deposited at the Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection under the Accession number NRRL No. B-67995 according to the Budapest Treaty. The disclosed newly discovered bacterial strain is useful in precious metal extraction, production, and amplification. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to a novel microorganism useful to extract, produce and/or amplify precious metals and/or rare earth metals from an environmental substrate that it is cultured in.

Abstract: Compositions comprising perforated, unseparated amnion/chorion; perforated, separated amnion; and perforated, separated chorion derived from the placenta and methods of preparing and using those compositions are provided. Perforation of placental tissue before or during processing may allow for one or more benefits such as more efficient removal of blood remnants, retention of wound healing and tissue regeneration components, better handling characteristics, or improved healing capacity. The present invention also includes methods of healing a wound of the skin, eye, nerve, tendon, or dura comprising applying the perforated compositions of the invention to the wound.

Abstract: An assembly and a method are provided for manufacturing a joined assembly. A method for manufacturing includes fitting together and datuming a beam and a node, wherein at least one of the beam and the node is formed with an aperture, and wherein a cylindrical interface is formed between the beam and node. Further, the method includes advancing a mechanical fastener through the aperture to temporarily hold the beam and the node in an engagement. Also, the method includes injecting a structural adhesive into the cylindrical interface between the beam and the node. The method includes final joining the beam and the node by curing the structural adhesive.

Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion having a toe portion, a heel portion, a front portion, a rear portion, a top portion, and a sole portion. A retention cavity is located at the sole portion and includes an opening and a plurality of interior side walls connected to the opening. The plurality of interior side walls define two or more ball retention areas configured to frictionally engage at least a portion of a golf ball within the retention cavity. The two or more ball retention areas are located at or proximate the opening and frictionally engage the golf ball along a ball circumference located above an equator of the golf ball. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Techniques are described to support shared applications, including a shared application that permits retrieval, presentation and traversal of information resources. The innovative techniques enable multiple participants at different locations to both see and interact with assets such as a web-based content. The innovative techniques centralize the functionality of an application that is to be shared. A shared application is executed, during a collaboration, at a centralized location in a manner that does not require any local resources to create an application instance.

Abstract: In a network system, network switching devices such as routers may store routes to various networks. The system may on occasion be reconfigured, e.g., as new network switching devices are brought on line, or as servers are moved to new locations. Such reconfiguring may involve the storing of new routes in a network switching device, or the deletion of routes stored in a network switching device. As such, systems and methods for cloaking routes are provided.

Abstract: A method performed by a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream including a current picture, a first reference picture, a second reference picture, and a joint motion vector difference (JMVD) associated with at least one block in the current picture. The method includes determining whether one or more scaling factors are used for an adaptive motion vector difference resolution (AMVD) based JMVD based on a predetermined condition. The method includes, in response to determining the one or more scaling factors are used for the AMVD based JMVD, scaling the JMVD based on the one or more scaling factors. The method includes deriving a first MVD for the first reference picture based on the scaled JMVD. The method includes deriving a second MVD for the second reference picture based on the derived first MVD. The method includes reconstructing the at least one block based on the derived first MVD and the derived second MVD.

Abstract: Wireless networks may have thousands of configurable parameters, so manual tuning is infeasible. A self-organizing network (SON) can provide automation. However, automated algorithms are not designed to interact with a wireless network, and network experimentation can jeopardize reliability. To address the former, a SON facilitator of a wireless network management node exposes an API that can translate network configuration information for consumption by a SON enhancer, which may implement an AI algorithm for network tuning. The SON facilitator can also transform output from the SON enhancer into directions for controlling a test scenario, including generating a DL SON message describing the test to a UE. To further increase reliability during the test scenario, the UE can be provisioned with two wireless connections. A first connection is unchanged by the test scenario for stability, and a second connection is used for testing.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to calculate an update characteristic value for a capacity plan having multiple sub-ledgers. One system can include a communication network interface, a memory, and one or more processors. The memory can store a ledger to broadcast exchanges associated with the capacity plan. The one or more processors can identify a predetermined capacity plan characteristic value indicating a minimum update per cycle value for the capacity plan or a time period for completion of an update of a value of the capacity plan to zero. The one or more processors can calculate an update characteristic value for updating the value of the capacity plan to zero. The one or more processors can transmit, via the communication network interface, a record comprising the update characteristic value.

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for probabilistic neural network architecture generation. In an example, an underlying distribution over neural network architectures based on various parameters is sampled using probabilistic modeling. Training data is evaluated in order to iteratively update the underlying distribution, thereby generating a probability distribution over the neural network architectures. The distribution is iteratively trained until the parameters associated with the neural network architecture converge. Once it is determined that the parameters have converged, the resulting probability distribution may be used to generate a resulting neural network architecture. As a result, intermediate architectures need not be fully trained, which dramatically reduces memory usage and/or processing time.