Abstract: Antibodies that bind to programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), compositions comprising such antibodies, and methods of making and using such antibodies are disclosed.

Abstract: A protective sleeve, adapted to receive at least a first light bulb, includes parallel first and second panels, wherein at least the second panel includes a plurality of apertures. The package also includes a pair of sidewalls generally perpendicular to and connecting the panels, wherein the first panel, second panel and sidewalls together define an interior space. A second sleeve is adapted to receive at least a second light bulb. When the sleeve and the second sleeve are received together into the outer shell in an inverted orientation relative to each other sleeve, the respective second panels of the sleeve are adjacent each other, and the bulb portion of each of first and second light bulbs positioned with the sleeve intrudes into an interior space of the adjacent sleeve through at least one of the plurality of apertures of each of the sleeves.

Abstract: A system for securing electronic devices includes a processor, a storage medium communicatively coupled to the processor, and a monitoring application comprising computer-executable instructions on the medium. The instructions are readable by the processor. The monitoring application is configured to receive an indication that a client has been affected by malware, cause the client to boot from a trusted operating system image, cause a launch of a secured security application on the client from a trusted application image, and analyze a malware status of the client through the secured security application.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for facilitating a transaction between two or more parties. An electronic document is received at a processing device. Each portion of the received electronic document is identified and designated as one of a read-only portion, a read-only portion containing one or more editable fields, a selectable portion or any combination thereof. The received electronic document is converted into an application or embeddable frame based on the designated portions for a first party using the processing device. The application or embeddable frame creates a completed electronic agreement that is legally binding on at least a second party when executed by the second party.

Abstract: Approximate Membership Query (AMQ) Filters are used in conjunction with graph queries to a relational graph to provide change monitoring that span views associated with the queries. Each node from the relational graph spanned by a graph query and the index structure for the view are added as members to an AMQ filter. When a change is made to the relational graph, the changed nodes are queried against the AMQ filter. When a changed node is noted as a candidate member of the AMQ filter, the graph query may be rerun to update the view associated with the query. Otherwise, the graph query is not rerun, thus saving computing resources and improving the systems hosting and querying the relational graph.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for backup communication. The method comprises: detecting a failure of a management interface between a processor and a baseboard management controller; in response to detecting the failure of the management interface, performing backup communication between the processor and the baseboard management controller using a control interface, wherein the baseboard management controller can obtain a physical parameter of the processor via the control interface; and transmitting a packet between the processor and the baseboard management controller via the control interface.

Abstract: In controlling the HVAC system, a need to determine an expected indoor temperature profile for a particular schedule of setpoint temperatures may arise. To make such a determination, a thermodynamic model of the structure is used. The thermodynamic model is generated by fitting weighting factors of a set of basis functions to a variety of historical data including time information, temperature information, and HVAC actuation state information. The set of basis functions characterize an indoor temperature trajectory of the structure in response to a change in HVAC actuation state, and include an inertial carryover component that characterizes a carryover of a rate of indoor temperature change that was occurring immediately prior to the change in actuation state.

Abstract: Dicyclohexylamine salt of fosaprepitant (fosaprepitant DCHA), a process for preparing fosaprepitant DCHA, and a use of fosaprepitant DCHA in the preparation of pharmaceutically acceptable fosaprepitant dimeglumine with high purity is provided. Fosaprepitant dimeglumine is prepared by treating fosaprepitant DCHA with an acid to form fosaprepitant, followed by adding N-methyl-D-glucamine to fosaprepitant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a polymer hydrogel comprising the steps of: (1) preparing an aqueous solution of a water soluble polysaccharide derivative and a polycarboxylic acid; (2) optionally agitating the solution, for example, by stirring; (3) isolating a polysaccharide derivative/polycarboxylic acid composite from the solution; and (4) heating the polysaccharide derivative/polycarboxylic acid composite at a temperature of at least about 80° C., thereby cross-linking the polysaccharide with the polycarboxylic acid. The invention also provides polymer hydrogels produced by the methods of the invention.

Abstract: The health monitoring toilet system includes an extendable, retractable, and rotatable wand with sensors on the head section. The sensors may include a variety of cameras and gas sensors for inspecting a user's urogenital, perineal, and anal region for health assessment. The wand may comprise a bidet wand. The bidet wand may also dispense cleansing and therapeutic substances. The toilet system may include a controller which may store the sensor readings as well as protocols for moving the wand to acquire optimal sensor readings. The controller may be accessible by a healthcare provider for diagnostic and treatment purposes. The toilet system may identify each user to store sensor reading acquired for different users in the controller.

Abstract: A multi-engine malicious code scanning method for scanning data sets from a storage device is provided. The method includes, among other steps obtaining at least one data set from a storage device and generating a single forensic image of the data set and also applying a recover data application to the data set to generate a single recovered data set. A scanning is initiated of the single forensic image and the single recovered data set using the selected plurality of malware engines, where each of the malware engines, installed on the indepenent operating systems of the virtual operating system may be run concurrently on the single forensic image and the single recovered data set. A report is generated combining each of the malware engines reporting the results of the scans.

Abstract: A vehicle mounted H2S monitoring system is shown having a first sensor, a control module, a second sensor, and a vehicle. The first sensors are coupled to exterior locations on the vehicle and monitor air quality prior to a worker within the vehicle exiting. Second sensors are coupled to a portion of the worker and travel with that worker outside the vehicle. Both sets of sensors monitor environmental conditions for safety of the workers. The control module processes readings received from the sensors to assess environmental conditions and may automatically activate or broadcast an alert in real time to show the safety of the current levels. Alerts may be transmitted to a remote location for oversight.

Abstract: The technology relates to assisting in the closing of a vehicle door by automatically pulling a door closed. One or more computing devices having one or more processors may receive, from one or more sensors, information indicating that a door on the vehicle is not closed. In response to the received information indicating that the door is not closed, the one or more computing devices may determine to send a triggering signal to close the door. The one or more computing devices may send the triggering signal to the actuator and the actuator may receive the triggering signal. In response to receiving the triggering signal the actuator may be activated to close the door of the vehicle without user input.

Abstract: An embodiment of a system for measuring a parameter includes at least a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber configured to be disposed in one or more boreholes in an earth formation, the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber including a plurality of sensing locations. The system also includes a first light source configured to launch a first optical signal into at least the first optical fiber, and a second light source configured to launch a second optical signal into at least the second optical fiber, wherein the first optical signal and the second optical signal are launched at least substantially simultaneously. The system further includes a processor configured to receive measurement data generated based on backscattered signals from at least the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber the reflected signals, the processor configured estimate the parameter based on the measurement data.

Abstract: A connector to connect to a liquid metal wire includes a hollow conduit configured to connect to a tubular wire casing, and further includes a reservoir including a solid metal conductor. The reservoir is to receive liquid metal to substantially fill a volume of the reservoir such that the liquid metal extends into the tubular wire casing. The tubular wire casing, filled with the liquid metal, becomes the liquid metal wire.

Abstract: An ability to limit and manage the number of multiple radio access bearer (mRAB) initiations, which are transitions from a Circuit Switched (CS) voice session, is provided. Moreover, the system, within a Radio Access Network (RAN), can identify vulnerable radio conditions for a user equipment (UE) on an uplink (UL) and/or a downlink (DL), and then subsequently determines whether a Packet Switched (PS) data session is allowed to pass through to the UE, during a CS voice call. In addition, the system can temporarily block a network-initiated data request to the existing CS voice call, if the voice call is likely to be dropped on initiating an mRAB. As the vulnerable radio conditions improve, the system can deliver the previously blocked data request to the UE.

Abstract: To realize processing for switching a reproduction state from broadcast data to network data and resuming the reproduction of the original broadcast data. A browser (241) acquires, via a network, an XML-AIT having a content equivalent to a broadcast AIT defining a life cycle of a broadcast application while a VoD content is reproduced after being switched from the broadcast application. The browser (241) manages the broadcast application based on the XML-AIT and resumes the reception of the broadcast application after the reproduction of the VoD content is ended. With this structure, processing of separating two transport streams at the same time becomes unnecessary, and one demultiplexer (23) only needs to be provided.

Abstract: Implementations relate to automatic suggested responses based on message stickers provided in a messaging application. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method to provide message suggestions in a messaging application includes detecting a first message sent by a first user device to a second user device over a communication network, programmatically analyzing the first message to determine a semantic concept associated with the first message, identifying one or more message stickers based at least in part on the semantic concept, and transmitting instructions to cause the one or more message stickers to be displayed in a user interface displayed on the second user device.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR, over the Rayleigh fading channel. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity.

Abstract: Examples described herein generally relate to rendering digital pencil ink on a display of a computer device. The computer device may render a frame via a graphics queue of a graphics processing unit (GPU). The computer device may fetch updated digital pencil ink input from an input buffer at a designated time before scanning at least a portion of the frame including the digital pencil ink. The computer device may determine a set of input stamps based on the updated digital pencil ink input, each input stamp being associated with stamp properties. A compute shader thread for each block within a portion of the frame may determine whether each of the input stamps intersects the block. At least one compute shader thread for each pixel of a respective block may determine a cumulative effect of each of the input stamps intersecting the respective block on the pixel based on the stamp properties.