Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane bundle useful for manufacturing a wide variety of hollow fiber membrane modules having different flow configurations includes hollow fiber membranes arranged around a porous support tube, a cured resin tubesheet formed at first end of the bundle, and either a cured resin nub or a cured resin tubesheet formed at a second end of the bundle. The bore(s) of the hollow fiber membranes are open at a face of the tubesheet adjacent the first end of the bundle. The tubesheet has an annular structure that encapsulates the hollow fiber membranes and the porous support tube at the first end of the bundle but which does not completely block a bore of the porous support tube, wherein the collection tube has a plurality of orifices formed therein at least at positions adjacent the nub.

Abstract: Devices, systems, processes, etc., for creating/printing 3D target objects without the need for pre-existing tanks that hold resins from which the target object is created. Such target objects can be created, for example, through the use of stereolithography (SLA) or digital light projection in combination with selected light sources and photosensitive polymers and resins. In certain embodiments, a dynamic shell that holds the resin is created simultaneously with the target object.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a crossbow comprises a stock, a first limb assembly arranged to support a first rotatable member and a second limb assembly arranged to support a second rotatable member. The first rotatable member comprises a first cable track and a second cable track, and the second rotatable member comprises a third cable track and a fourth cable track. A bowstring extends between the first rotatable member and the second rotatable member. The bowstring defines a bowstring plane. A latch is attached to the stock and arranged to engage the bowstring. A trigger is arranged to release the latch. A first cable segment is oriented above the bowstring plane and engaged with the first cable track. A second cable segment is oriented below the bowstring plane and engaged with the second cable track. A third cable segment is oriented above the bowstring plane and engaged with the third cable track. A fourth cable segment is oriented below the bowstring plane and engaged with the fourth cable track.

Abstract: A method for dynamically matching energy demand of a population of electric vehicles (EVs) with energy supply of a population of charging stations within a geofenced perimeter includes receiving, via a cloud-based server, EV information from each respective EV, and receiving charging station information from each respective charging station. The method includes generating an SoC map and a charging station power map from the EV information and the charging station information, respectively, and predicting the energy supply and demand using the maps. The server dynamically matches the EVs to at least one of the charging stations or vice versa using a reward function, the predicted energy supply, and the predicted energy demand, including generating a rank-ordered listing for each of the EVs and/or each of the charging stations in a manner that maximizes an expected discounted future reward.

Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive power converters are provided. In one embodiment, an adaptive power converter comprises: a power converter controller; a switching power conversion circuit comprising an input switch, a low-pass filter, and a non-linear control feedback compensator, the input switch controlled using feedback control from the non-linear control feedback compensator, wherein the non-linear control feedback compensator controls the input switch to regulate an output from the power conversion circuit based on multiple regulation profiles; a measurement estimate and gain module; and a power converter state detection and correction function. The measurement estimate and gain module evaluates power converter state information from the power converter state detection and correction function.

Abstract: A method of making a trim article includes the steps of 1) obtaining specified criteria of a target component part comprised of a plurality of materials; 2) processing the specified criteria into a design envelope that includes parameters of the target component part within which the trim article to be created is to be confined, 3) inputting the design envelope into an additive manufacturing device supplied with a single forming material; and 4) forming the trim article using the additive manufacturing device from the single material. The formed trim article includes an outer casing with an interior portion having one or more lattice matrices disposed therein and having varying density profiles to simulate the specified criteria of the target component part. The formed trim article is created as a fully integrated monolithic whole via the additive manufacturing device.

Abstract: A method for capturing carbon from a source of volatile pollutants includes the steps of capturing a mixture of volatile pollutants and air from the source of volatile pollutants, transporting the volatile pollutant-air mixture to an oxidizer module, converting the volatile pollutants into carbon dioxide within the oxidizer module, transporting the carbon dioxide from the oxidizer module to a contactor, loading the carbon dioxide onto sorbents within the contactor, and separating the carbon dioxide from the loaded sorbents to produce a concentrated carbon dioxide product stream. The step of separating the carbon dioxide from the loaded sorbents may optionally include the steps of passing the loaded sorbents to the oxidizer module, and then heating the loaded sorbents in the oxidizer module with the combustion of the mixture of volatile pollutants and air within the oxidizer module to produce the concentrated carbon dioxide product stream while regenerating the sorbents.

Abstract: Described herein are polymer compositions including at least one semi-crystalline, semi-aromatic polyester polymer and at least one impact modifier. The blends have excellent impact resistance and excellent dimensional stability. The blends also have excellent chemical resistance, whiteness, colorability and anodization resistance. The polymer compositions can optionally include at least one amorphous polymer. The at least one amorphous polymer can be an amorphous polycarbonate polymer or an amorphous polyester polymer or a polyester-carbonate. In some embodiments, the polymer composition can optionally include one or more additives. The polyester compositions described herein can be desirably incorporated into mobile electronic device components.

Abstract: A multi-fiber cable assembly includes a pigtail segments spliced to a trunk segment using multiple mass fusion splices. The splices are disposed at axially spaced positions within a hollow, flexible conduit. Fibers of the trunk segment are axially fixed at a first demarcation region disposed at the first end of the conduit. Fibers of the pigtail segments are axially fixed at a separate, second demarcation region disposed at the second end of the conduit.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for realizing a multimodal image classifier. In an aspect, a method includes, for each image of a plurality of images: processing the image by a textual generator model to obtain a set of phrases that are descriptive of the content of the image, wherein each phrase is one or more terms, processing the set of phrases by a textual embedding model to obtain an embedding of predicted text for the image, and processing the image using an image embedding model to obtain an embedding of image pixels of the image. Then a multimodal image classifier is trained on the embeddings of predicted text for the images and the embeddings of image pixels for the images to produce, as output, labels of an output taxonomy to classify an image based on the image as input.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a convertible carrier rack and platform including a platform, a front rail including a pair of front rail segments, and a back rail including a pair of back rail segments, wherein the front and back rail segments are each removable and/or rotatable between a wall position along the front and back faces of the platform and a leg position for operation in a table-type mode.

Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting an outcome for a marketing asset. The systems and methods comprise first determining by a computing device, for a marketing asset received by the computing device, at least one asset type of the marketing asset. The marketing asset is parsed, by the computing device, into a plurality of segmented components, based on the determined at least one asset type. For at least one of the plurality of segmented components, at least one discrete marketing message conveyed by the marketing asset is determined, by applying at least one of a predictive model or rules to the at least one segmented component, where the at least one predictive model or rules are stored in a memory associated with the computing device. The method further includes determining, for each of the at least one discrete marketing message, at least one associated score.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for governing phenotypic outcomes in plants. One method includes obtaining a model input comprising time series data, wherein the time series data comprises, for each previous time point of one or more previous time points, at least one of i) first multi-omics data corresponding to a plant at the previous time point, or ii) phenotypic data corresponding to the plant at the previous time point; and processing the model input using a machine learning model to obtain a model output that comprises, for each future time point of one or more of future time points, a prediction of at least one of i) a phenotype of the plant at the future time point, or ii) second multi-omics data corresponding to the plant at the future time point.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, from a server, a filter including a set of encrypted identifiers each encrypted with a server key controlled by the server. The method includes obtaining a request that requests determination of whether a query identifier is a member of a set of identifiers corresponding to the set of encrypted identifiers. The method also includes transmitting an encryption request to the server that requests the server to encrypt the query identifier. The method includes receiving, from the server, an encrypted query identifier including the query identifier encrypted by the server key and determining, using the filter, whether the encrypted query identifier is not a member of the set of encrypted identifiers. When the encrypted query identifier is not a member of the set of encrypted identifiers, the method includes reporting that the query identifier is not a member of the set of identifiers.

Abstract: Systems and methods for deploying countermeasures against unauthorized scripts interfering with the rendering of content elements on information resources are provided herein. A computing device can receive an information resource including a content rendering verification script and a first content element. The computing device can execute the script. The computing device can render the first content element for display on the information resource in a first format. The computing device can determine that the first content element is not successfully displayed in the first format. The computing device can render the first content element for display on the information resource in a second format, responsive to the determination. The computing device can determine that the first content element is successfully displayed in the second format. The computing device can display a second content element of the information resource responsive to the determination.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for increasing a quality of computed tomography (CT) images reconstructed from high helical pitch scans. In one embodiment, the current disclosure provides for a method comprising generating a first computed tomography (CT) image from projection data acquired at a high helical pitch; using a trained multidimensional statistical regression model to generate a second CT image from the first CT image, the multidimensional statistical regression model trained with a plurality of target CT images reconstructed from projection data acquired at a lower helical pitch; and performing an iterative correction of the second CT image to generate a final CT image.

Abstract: A method for Scheduling Request (SR) resource prioritization for Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first SR configuration from a Base Station (BS), receiving a second SR configuration from the BS, triggering a first SR procedure for a BFR procedure based on the first SR configuration, triggering a second SR procedure for a Buffer Status Report (BSR) procedure based on the second SR configuration, in a case that the first SR procedure and the second SR procedure are triggered and not cancelled and the first SR resource overlaps the second SR resource in the time domain, prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource, and transmitting an SR on the first SR resource after prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource.

Abstract: A fire sprinkler support assembly includes a bracket assembly comprising a first plate defining a first end and a second end, wherein a plate opening is formed through the first plate between the first end and the second end; a second plate defining a first end and a second end, the first end of the second plate extending through the plate opening, the second plate rotatable between a first position and a second position relative to the first plate at the plate opening; and a lever assembly coupling the first plate to the second plate, the lever assembly operable to rotate the second plate relative to the first plate to adjust a distance between the first plate and second plate.