Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method for making substituted furan compounds using bioderived coupling partners and a heterogeneous catalyst. In particular disclosed embodiments, the method comprises coupling a furan compound with the coupling partner (e.g., an aliphatic or heteroaliphatic coupling partner) in the presence of the heterogeneous catalyst to provide the substituted furan compound.

Abstract: A preform is provided for blow-molding to form a container. The preform includes a finish portion for rotatably engaging a closure to seal contents within an interior of the container. The finish portion comprises a cylindrical body that begins at an opening to the interior and extends to and includes a tamper evidence ledge. A bevel at a beginning of the opening receives a plug seal of the closure. A sealing surface adjacent to the bevel is disposed along an interior of the finish portion and includes a polished buffer zone to cooperate with the plug seal to seal the container. A transition surface extends from the sealing surface to a handling surface that receives equipment to form the preform into the container. In some embodiments, the transition surface includes a polished buffer zone to cooperate with an end of the plug seal to seal the contents in the container.

Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having an interior cavity and a front portion. The golf club head may include a face portion on the front portion and having a front surface and a back surface with a center portion and a perimeter portion at least partially surrounding the center portion. The golf club head may include a face bracket portion having at least one bracket arm with end portions attached to the perimeter portion. The golf club head may further include a face insert portion located between and coupled to the back surface of the face portion and to the face bracket portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: A write request is transmitted from a client to a metadata server (“MDS”), wherein the write request comprises an object identifier associated with a data object. An object store location is received for an object store from the MDS. A metadata request is transmitted to the object store using the object store location, wherein the metadata request includes the object identifier. A metadata response is received from the object store. Determine the metadata response contains an object designator. A count associated with a mapping between the object identifier and the object designator is incremented, wherein the mapping resides on an object version manager shared with a second MDS.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing data storage and improving the speed of data retrieval in a data store, such as a storage server connected to a large network through the use of bucketing techniques to create efficient data structures for storing received key-value datasets at one or more storage servers. Fast key-value read requests and key-value retrievals may be accomplished through the use of multiphase lookup operations on the one or more storage servers. The system is optimized for best performance of retrieval through the separation of the write and read mechanisms. Systems and methods provided herein control the level of wastefulness on the back end of a system and reduce read operation inefficiencies on the front end of a system.

Abstract: The three-dimensional lattice structures disclosed herein have applications including use in medical implants. Some examples of the lattice structure are structural in that they can be used to provide structural support or mechanical spacing. In some examples, the lattice can be configured as a scaffold to support bone or tissue growth. Some examples can use a repeating modified rhombic dodecahedron or radial dodeca-rhombus unit cell. The lattice structures are also capable of providing a lattice structure with anisotropic properties to better suit the lattice for its intended purpose.

Abstract: A method for updating a theme element of a presentation includes causing display of a user interface on a client computer of a user, the user interface comprising a first slide of the presentation and a first option to edit an element of the first slide, and receiving a user selection of the first option to edit the element of the first slide, wherein the user selection of the first option comprises a request to modify the element of the first slide.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a vehicle propulsion system. The vehicle propulsion system includes a first electric machine including a first set of machine windings that are configured to cause a rotor to rotate about an axis to selectively drive a transmission during a first vehicle operating state and a second electric machine including a second set of machine windings that are configured to cause a rotor to rotate about an axis selectively drive the transmission during at least one of the first vehicle operating state or a second vehicle operating state. The second vehicle operating state different from the first operating state, and a number of series turns per phase for the first set of machine windings is different from a number of series turns per phase for the second set of machine windings.

Abstract: An emergency deorbit device provided in a satellite flying on an orbit around the earth includes a propulsion module generating thrust for separating the satellite from the orbit, a reception unit receiving a repeat signal repeatedly sent at an interval from an sending unit of a satellite bus in the satellite, a detection unit outputting a detection signal when the reception unit does not receive the repeat signal in a set time period or when the reception unit receives a deorbit command from the sending unit or from an outside of the satellite, an activation device performing, in response to the detection signal, processing for activating the propulsion module, and a power supply device provided separately from a power supply device of the satellite bus and supplying electric power to the reception unit, the detection unit, and the activation device.

Abstract: Embodiments for granular replication of data with high efficiency. A defined metadata element embodied as a tag is assigned to each file. Tag filtering is used to direct the data to the proper location. Files with different tags can be selected for transfer. Embodiments can be used with a defined backup system file replication process, such as present in the Data Domain File System. By using snapshots, incoming new data is continued to be ingested while the replication is in process and maintaining data consistency at the same time. This is achieved by performing operations on B+ Tree snapshots in conjunction with tag filtering on keys present in the leaf pages of these structures. This method efficiently makes a single pass walk of a B+ Tree in contrast with previous methods that look up files one-by-one via their pathname.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for utilization of vehicle speed and barometric pressure sensors. In one example, a method may include measuring a change in a barometric pressure resulting from a measured change in a vehicle speed, modeling the change in the barometric pressure based on a change in a ram-air pressure resulting from the change in the vehicle speed, and indicating a degraded barometric pressure measurement when a difference between the measured and the modeled change in the barometric pressure is greater than a threshold pressure difference.

Abstract: Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer program products to: train a prediction model using a machine learning process, the prediction model configured to estimate whether further application of a hyperparameter tuning technique will cause an improvement in at least one of the hyperparameters; select the hyperparameters using the tuning technique; apply the prediction model to determine if further adjustment of the hyperparameters is likely to improve the success metric; and terminate the tuning technique when: accuracy of the prediction model in predicting improvement in a hyperparameter is above a predetermined accuracy threshold, and the prediction model predicts that further application of the tuning technique will not result in an improvement to the hyperparameter; or the accuracy of the prediction model in predicting improvement in the parameter is below the predetermined accuracy threshold, and an accuracy of hyperparameter adjustment is determined to be below a predetermined adjustment

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed that process requested changes to operating parameters of an Internet of Things (IoT) device. In some embodiments, a client computing device originates a requested change to the IoT device. An IoT services system may process the requested change and determine whether an early indication of success is appropriate. If an early indication of success is appropriate, the IoT services system, prior to the requested change being applied to the IoT device, transmits to the client computing device a first message that provides an indication of success for the requested change.

Abstract: A planned trajectory is analyzed by an L4 emergency braking module, before the trajectory is navigated by the autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). An L4 emergency braking signal is generated in response to an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) determining that any portion of a planned trajectory of the ADV has a deceleration that is less than ?2 m/sec2 and a time to collision with the ADV, by a vehicle following the ADV at a speed Z and a distance Y<100 m, during a period of 1 to 8 seconds after time 0 of the planned trajectory, if T X + Y Z ? X for any time X?{1 second . . . 8 seconds} after time 0, wherein TX is the location of the ADV in the trajectory at time X. Optionally, a sharp braking command can be issued by the L4 emergency braking module in response to activating the emergency braking signal.

Abstract: An automotive radar system includes multiple radar antennas and a radar front end chip. The front end chip includes a plurality of phase rotators coupled to a local oscillator, wherein each phase rotator of the plurality of phase rotators is coupled to multiple digital phase modulators; a plurality of switches that couple selectable ones of the multiple digital phase modulators to respective amplifiers, each amplifier coupled to a respective antenna output; and a controller which provides digital control signals to the plurality of phase rotators, the multiple digital phase modulators, and the plurality of switches to synthesize transmit signals for each of the multiple radar antennas.

Abstract: A system and method for rich content transformation are provided. The system and method allow rich content transformation to be separately processed on a client device and on a cloud-based server. The client device downsizes a rich content and transmits the downsized rich content to the cloud-based server via a network. The cloud-based server calculates function parameters based on the downsized rich content using one or more machine learning models included in the server. The calculated function parameters are transmitted to the client device via the network. The client device then applies these function parameters to the rich content on the client device to obtain the transformed rich content.

Abstract: A system and method for typing training are disclosed in which a fingerprint recognition system is included. The system recognizes a typist's fingers or fingerprints while the typist types the keys on a keypad such that the system determines which finger has pressed a particular key and can notify the typist when an incorrect finger is used to press a particular key. The system is well suited for tutorial typing where the typist is reinforced to use the correct finger to type each particular key. The system may be implemented using a specially designed keyboard or it may be implemented as an application.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for modifying scheduled events based on bandwidth availability. To modify the scheduled event, the system determines a plurality of user devices corresponding to an event. The system receives first network conditions for a first user device and generates a feature input based on the first network conditions. The system inputs the feature input into an artificial intelligence model to determine a first available bandwidth metric and aggregates the first available bandwidth metric with respective available bandwidth metrics for other user devices of the plurality of user devices to determine a composite available bandwidth metric. The system can compare the composite available bandwidth metric to a threshold available bandwidth metric and in response to determining that the composite available bandwidth metric equals or exceeds the threshold available bandwidth metric, the system generates for display, on a user device interface, a recommendation for modifying the event.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that implements specialized logic to facilitate distribution of items in accordance with an automatically adaptive schedule, for example, via an interface. In some examples, a method may include predicting data representing, for example, a zone of time in which depletion of an item is predicted. The method may monitor whether to replenish the item, and transmit via a network an electronic message including one or more item characteristics associated with the item to be replenished. The method may also include receiving another electronic message, and transmitting a control message to a merchant computing system to initiate adaptive distribution to replenish the item, among other things.

Abstract: A system and method for transposing markers added to a first ultrasound imaging mode dataset to a second ultrasound imaging mode dataset is provided. The method includes acquiring a first ultrasound image dataset according to a first mode. The method includes processing the first ultrasound image dataset according to the first mode to generate a first mode image. The method includes causing a display system to present the first mode image. The method includes adding at least one marker to the first mode image in response to a user input. The method includes receiving a selection to switch to a second mode. The method includes causing the display system to present a second mode image having the at least one marker added to the first mode image.