Abstract: An optical communication system includes an optical transmitter and one or more processors. The optical transmitter is configured to output an optical signal, and includes an average-power-limited optical amplifier, such as an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The one or more processors are configured to receive optical signal data related to a received power for a communication link from a remote communication system and determine that the optical signal data is likely to fall below a minimum received power within a time interval. In response to the determination, the one or more processors are configured to determine a duty cycle of the optical transmitter based on a minimum on-cycle length and a predicted EDFA output power and operate the optical transmitter using the determined duty cycle to transmit an on-cycle power that is no less than the minimum required receiver power for error-free operation of the communication link.

Abstract: An example computer-implemented method is described which creates a distributed ledger for a blockchain via encapsulation of off-chain data. The off-chain data may be data records with different structured and unstructured formats, and are ingested from multiple different and disparate data storage locations external to the blockchain. The method includes creating, via encapsulation, a plurality of field-value pairs representative of the given external data record of off-chain data. The plurality of field-value pairs are created dynamically without regard to the underlying data structure of the given external data record of off-chain data. The created plurality of field-value pairs are then added as blockchain transactions to a body portion of each of one or more blocks across the blockchain. These created field-value pairs represent a distributed ledger by which data can be added as blockchain transactions across all blocks of the blockchain.

Abstract: Aspects relate to a charging port of an electric aircraft and methods of use terminating a charging connection between a charger and the electric aircraft. A charging port includes a controller that is configured to receive a control signal from a remote device and terminate the charging connection in response to the control signal.

Abstract: In one aspect, a system for generating and monitoring an antimicrobial is provided, the system including: a microprocessor and/or a microcontroller; an external communications device; a computational system; an antimicrobial sensor and/or an environmental sensor; and an antimicrobial generator, wherein the external communications device, the computational system, the antimicrobial generator, and the antimicrobial sensor and/or the environmental sensor are operatively connected to the microprocessor and/or the microcontroller. The system may further include a separate sensor sub-system comprising: a sensor sub-system microprocessor and/or a sensor sub-system microcontroller; a sensor sub-system external communications device; a sensor sub-system antimicrobial sensor and/or a sensor sub-system environmental sensor; and a sensor sub-system computational system.

Abstract: An apron includes a skirt configured to hang down from the waist of a wearer, a resilient spring member secured to the skirt and configured to partly extend about a waist of the wearer to hold the skirt in place at the waist of the wearer, and at least one accessory removably secured to the skirt. The resilient spring member includes a ferromagnetic material and the at least one accessory has a magnet removably secured to the resilient spring member by magnetic attraction. The accessory can be a towel, a potholder and/or the like.

Abstract: Magnetic field closed loop sensors including offset reduction circuitry to reduce undesired baseband components attributable to offset associated with magnetoresistance elements are described. A superimposed signal including a main signal portion indicative of a parameter of a target and an offset reduced signal portion is coupled to feedback circuitry. The feedback circuitry generates a feedback signal to drive a feedback coil. Main processing circuitry is operative to extract the main signal portion from the superimposed signal and produce a sensor output signal based on the main signal portion. Example offset reduction circuitry can take the form of AC coupling circuitry or a ripple reduction loop.

Abstract: A node includes a plurality of processing core resources. Each processing core resource of the plurality of processing core resources includes a corresponding processing module, a corresponding memory interface module, a corresponding memory device, and a corresponding cache memory. The plurality of processing core resources of the node is operable to collectively perform corresponding operations of the node. Each processing core resource of the plurality of processing core resources of the node is operable to perform operations independently from other ones of the plurality of processing core resources of the node.

Abstract: Techniques performed by a data processing system for operating a speaker disposed within a sealed enclosure herein include obtaining a first input signal to be output by the speaker; determining a first volume level associated with the first input signal; selecting a first Linkwitz Transform and a first Multiband Compressor (MBDRC) from volume- dependent configuration data based on the first volume level; generating a first intermediate signal by applying the first Linkwitz Transform to the first input signal to increase a low- frequency response of the speaker; generating a first output signal by applying the first MBDRC to the first intermediate signal by compressing the at least a portion of the first intermediate signal; and driving the speaker to produce first audio output using the first output signal.

Abstract: For one embodiment of the present invention, a method of object instance edge detection and segmentation is described. The method includes obtaining an input image with a shape and extracting, with a feature extractor of a point supervised transformer model, a hierarchical combination of features from the input image including a set of feature maps having different levels. The method further includes receiving, with a transformer decoder, an output including a feature map from the feature extractor, and object queries each with d dimensions, training the point supervised transformer model with a sparse set of keypoint annotations along a boundary of each object instance, and generating a box prediction, a classification prediction, and a coefficient prediction for each object instance based on an output from the transformer decoder.

Abstract: This application relates to combination compositions for use in treatment of depression, and which can alleviate the anxiogenic side effects of certain antidepressant and antipsychotic medications. Methods for treatment of depression and medicament side effects, particular anxiety, akathisia, and associated suicidality are also described herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides pneumococcal conjugate vaccine formulations comprising surfactant systems incorporating polysorbate 20 or a combination of a poloxamer and a polyol.

Abstract: A modular structure supports elevated rail segments for delivering electrical power to a moving work machine, such as a hauler at a mining site. Opposite ends of a roadside barrier contain complementary tubular couplers arranged vertically. A lower end of a dielectric post positioned in one of the tubular couplers has opposing dielectric plates at an upper end. A top edge of each plate has a creepage concavity between a pair of rail recesses. Another dielectric post of similar configuration is positioned in the other of the tubular couplers. Holes within the couplers and the posts ensure alignment of respective rail recesses in which conductive rails are placed. Dielectric inserts frictionally lock the rails into the rail recesses.

Abstract: A motor drive unit may include a motor and a magnetic brake. The motor may be configured to be located within a motor drive unit housing of the motor drive unit. The motor may include a motor drive shaft defining a motor drive shaft rotational axis in a longitudinal direction. The motor drive shaft may be configured to rotate a roller tube of a motorized window treatment. The magnetic brake may include a stationary portion that includes a first plurality of magnets and a rotating portion that includes a second plurality of magnets. The first plurality of magnets may be configured to repel the second plurality of magnets such that repulsion between the first plurality of magnets and the second plurality of magnets generates a holding torque to prevent the motor drive shaft rom rotating when the motor is not driving the motor drive shaft.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates a telecommunication enclosure having a compact configuration. In one example, the telecommunication enclosure supports both optical splicing and connectorized patching.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for automatically testing and applying codes to electronic shopping carts. For instance, the method may include: monitoring a browsing session of a user on an e-commerce website; determining whether a trigger condition is present based on the monitoring; when the determining determines the trigger condition is present, automatically performing a code test process for a first set of codes to obtain a first test result, the first set of codes being one or more codes among a plurality of codes for the e-commerce website; and upon completion of the code test process for the first set of codes, displaying a first menu, the first menu including information corresponding to the first test result.

Abstract: A software and/or hardware facility for scoring the quality of traffic to a site accessible via the Internet or other network. The facility may generate training set data and use the training set data to identify parameters indicative of fraudulent traffic to a site and reduce the effect of fraudulent traffic advertisers and publishers. The facility may score the quality of traffic and determine combinations of parameters that are indicative of the quality of traffic to the site. Traffic to the site may be scored based on the combination of parameters associated with the one or more sessions. Lower scores are indicative of traffic having little value to a publisher, advertiser, or third party; higher scores are indicative of traffic having greater value.

Abstract: A control device configured for use in a load control system to control an external electrical load may provide simple feedback regarding the operation of the control device. For example, the control device may comprise a base portion configured to be mounted to an electrical wallbox or over a mechanical switch, and a control unit connected to the base portion. The control unit may comprise a rotation portion rotatable with respect to the base portion, an actuation portion, and a light source. The control unit may be configured to control the light source to illuminate at least an illuminated portion of the actuation portion in response to actuations of the rotation portion and the actuation portion. In addition, the control unit may provide a limit indication on the illuminated portion by blinking the illuminated portion when the electrical load has reached a limit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding JVET video, including receiving a bitstream, and parsing said bitstream to identify a syntax element indicating an intra direction mode to use for generating at least one predictor. The intra direction mode is a first intra direction mode in a plurality of intra direction modes that includes at least one weighted intra direction mode that corresponds to a non-weighted intra direction mode. The syntax element may identify whether to use a non-weighted or weighted intra direction mode to generate the at least one predictor. Thus, the coding unit may be coded in accordance with the at least one generated predictor associated with the selected intra direction mode.

Abstract: A method includes positioning a patient on a surgical support structure having a fixture. The method includes attaching, to a portion of a body of the patient, a first adhesive layer on a widened pad end of a surgical restraint device. The method includes extending an elongate strap member of the surgical restraint device in a direction in which the portion of the body of the patient is to be moved relative to a remaining portion of the body using tension in the elongate strap member. The method includes attaching an attachment end of the elongate strap member to the fixture of the surgical patient support structure to maintain the moved portion of the body in tension, exposing a surgical site on the body.

Abstract: A method for authentication of an electric aircraft for recharging. The method includes receiving, at a charging connector, an authentication datum from an electric aircraft. The charging connector is configured to mate with an electric aircraft port of the electric aircraft. The method further includes verifying, at a computing device communicatively connected to the charging connector, the authentication datum. The method further includes enabling charging of the electric aircraft, at the charging connector and by the computing device, as a function of the verification of the authentication datum. A system for authentication of an electric aircraft for recharging is also provided.