Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning a digital screen to provide high quality data are provided. Methods include determining a target level of participant data quality associated with accurate completion of an online survey, determining a participant screening threshold based on the target level of participant data quality, and adjusting a survey screen based on the participant screening threshold. Methods may achieve high data quality without sacrificing participant diversity. Methods may also include transmitting the survey screen to a computing device associated with a participant, and receiving a response of the participant to the survey screen on the computing device. When the response fails to achieve a predetermined threshold response, methods may include rejecting the participant from the survey.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for distributing secrets and sensitive information for autonomous vehicles. In particular, systems and methods are provided for automating the acquisition of secrets and sensitive information for autonomous vehicles. Secrets, such as certificates, passwords, storage account keys, shared access signatures, encryption keys, and decryptions keys, are securely distributed to autonomous vehicles for use by various services and applications in the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: Devices of a load control system may communicate with each other via a network. The load control system may include different control devices, such as load control devices, input devices, or other devices capable of communicating with each other to perform load control. These control devices may be capable of providing feedback to a user that indicates different network information that may be used for network diagnostics and/or configuration. For example, a lighting control device may be capable of providing feedback via a corresponding lighting load that indicates network information that may be used in network diagnostics and/or configuration.

Abstract: The lighting device may be configured to perform black body curve fading. For example, the control circuit may be configured to control the drive circuit such that the light emitted by the lighting load is adjusted (e.g., faded) along a black body curve. The control circuit may be configured to determine whether to fade from an initial color to a destination color in a Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) chromaticity space or an XY chromaticity space. The control circuit may be configured to determine whether the initial color and/or the destination color are on the black body curve. When the initial color and the destination color are determined to be on the black body curve, the control circuit may be configured to control the drive circuit such that the light emitted by the lighting device is adjusted from the initial color to the destination color along the black body curve.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a method including obtaining, using a camera system, imagery of one or more individuals in an environment; analyzing, using a processor, the individual data using a trained model to identify individuals and recognize gestures that are indicative of sickness behavior; presenting, using a display device, information about individuals that have displayed sickness behavior above a calculated threshold.

Abstract: Augmented reality-based user authentication for automatic teller machines is disclosed. Embodiments include a system with one or more memory devices storing instructions. The system may further include one or more processors configured to execute the instructions and to receive an authentication request from a user of an ATM. In some embodiments, the processor may retrieve, from the one or more memory devices, an augmented reality password specific to a user, the password comprising an augmented reality object. In other embodiments, the processor may identify a personal user device configured to receive the password, and personalize the password, based on information previously configured by the user. In yet other embodiments, the processor may be configured to present the augmented reality object via a display on the personal user device, and to determine, based on input provided by a user to the augmented reality object, whether to approve the authentication request.

Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, a composition for treating a cell population comprises an Affinity Medicant Conjugate (AMC). The medicant moiety can be a toxin including an acylfulvene or a drug moiety. The affinity moiety can be an antibody, a binding protein, a steroid, a lipid, a growth factor, a protein, a peptide or non peptidic. The affinity moiety can be covalently bound to the medicant via a linker. Novel linkers that can be directed to cysteine, arginine or lysine residues based on solution pH allow greater flexibility in preserving and/or generating specific epitopes in the AMC.

Abstract: An orbital wrapping apparatus for wrapping a cargo in a stretch film is provided and generally includes a base frame, a circular ring assembly mounted on the base frame, a stretch film dispenser mounted on the circular ring assembly, and a cutting assembly mounted to the base frame and extending through an opening defined by the circular ring assembly. The stretch film dispenser includes a roll of stretch film dispensing the stretch film by rotation of the circular ring assembly, a subframe fixed to the circular ring assembly and the roll of stretch film is mounted on a loading assembly attached to the subframe, and a first feed roller and a second feed roller are mounted to a portion of the subframe that is movable between a first position adjacent to an axis extending through the first and second end caps and a second position spaced further apart from the axis. The cutting assembly is adapted to cut and hold the stretch film.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for real-time visualization of a material during ultrasonic non-destructive testing. The system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) capable of showing a three-dimensional (3-D) image of a composite laminate constructed of a series of two-dimensional (2-D) cross sections. The GUI is capable of displaying the 3-D image as each additional 2-D cross section is scanned by an ultrasonic testing apparatus in real time or near real time, including probable defect regions that contain a flaw such as a hole, crack, wrinkle, or foreign object within the composite. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the system includes an artificial intelligence capable of highlighting defect areas within the 3-D image in real time or near real time and providing data regarding each defect area, such as the depth, size, and/or type of each defect.

Abstract: A temporary protective cover for a junction box has a sheet-like rectangular body with cleats at top and bottom ends. The cleats are flange-like formations bent at preferably non-right angles designed to press against embossments inside the cavity of a junction box. One or both cleats may be fitted with a notch to facilitate overlapping placement to accommodate large-size junction boxes. A stop tab extends laterally outwardly from each cleat and serves to limit penetration of the covering into the cavity of a junction box. One or two small removal holes are located in the body of the cover, near to the cleats, to facilitate removal from a junction box.

Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for coded streaming data to facilitate recovery from failed or slow processor(s). A batch of processing stream data can be partitioned into a plurality of data chunks. Parity chunk(s) for the plurality of data chunks. The plurality of data chunks and the parity chunk(s) can be provided to processors for processing. Processed data of at least some (e.g., one or more) of the plurality of data chunks, and, processed data of parity chunk(s) are received. When it is determined that processed data for a pre-defined quantity of data chunks has not been received by a pre-defined period of time, the processed data for particular data chunk(s) of particular processor(s) from which processed data has not been received are determined based, at least in part, upon the received processed parity chunk(s) and the received processed data chunk(s).

Abstract: Analysis of a breath sample is a noninvasive point-of-care tool with ever increasing clinical applicability. Herein we describe a method to analyze the content of low-level, trace volatile organic compounds from alveolar breath captured as a breath sample from a patient suspected of having a fatty liver disease. The breath sample is then analyzed using a gas phase analysis methodology, such as gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (“GCMS”), to generate an analysis result, such as a GCMS spectrum. A computer system is then used to develop a fingerprint pattern from the analysis result. The fingerprint pattern is then used to determine a patient status for the patient. The fingerprint pattern is typically a grouping of 75 to 450 compounds of known concentration which are indicative of a particular fatty liver disease.

Abstract: An apparatus and methods are provided for a syndesmosis treatment assembly that includes an insertion assembly and a syndesmosis suture construct for securing a first bone against a second bone. The syndesmosis suture construct is configured to be passed through a bone hole drilled across the first bone and the second bone and cinched to press the bones together. The insertion assembly includes a sleeve and a push rod for inserting the syndesmosis suture construct through the bone hole. The sleeve maintains the syndesmosis suture construct and the push rod in an elongate configuration suitable for being inserted through the bone hole. The push rod enables deploying a distal fixator comprising the syndesmosis suture construct to be anchored against a distal contact surface of the second bone. The sleeve and push rod are removable from the bone hole before the syndesmosis suture construct is cinched to secure the bones.

Abstract: A pulley block may include an alpha pulley block including an alpha connector, a beta pulley block including a beta connector, wherein the alpha pulley block is coupled to the beta pulley block when the alpha connector is coupled to the beta connector. At least one of the alpha connector and the beta connector may comprise magnets.

Abstract: Chemical reactor with high speed rotary mixing, system thereof, and method thereof, for catalytic thermal conversion of organic (hydrocarbon-containing) materials (coal, plastics, rubber, plant matter, wood shavings, biomass, organic wastes) into diesel and other liquid fuels (automobile or/and jet engine fuels). Relevant to non-conventional commercial scale production of liquid fuels, and to commercial scale processing and disposing of organic waste materials. Chemical reactor includes: integrated combination of a reactor stationary assembly (RSA), having only stationary components remaining stationary during chemical reactor operation, and a reactor rotary mixing assembly (RRMA), having only rotatable components rotating during chemical reactor operation. May include anti-abrasion shield for shielding inner surface of reactor central housing from abrasion during chemical reactor operation. Rotor may include a reinforcement disc.

Abstract: A window cutting system includes a window mill having a body including a connector member, a tip portion, and a plurality of blades arranged between the connector member and the tip portion. Each of the plurality of blades supports a plurality of cutting elements. A lug pocket is formed in at least one of the plurality of blades adjacent the plurality of cutting elements. A whipstock connector detachably coupled to the window mill. The whipstock connector including an outer surface and an inner surface, and at least one lug projecting radially inwardly from the inner surface. The at least one lug is selectively received by the lug pocket to connect the whipstock connector to the window mill.

Abstract: A method is provided comprising: storing one or more tickets in a ticket database, each of the tickets being associated with a corresponding test system, and each of the tickets being associated with an error that is generated as a result of executing one of a plurality of tests on the ticket's corresponding test system; executing a reclamation agent that is configured to: retrieve a plurality of tickets from a ticket database, detect if each of the tickets satisfies a predetermined condition, and return the ticket's corresponding test system to a pool of available test systems when the predetermined condition is satisfied by the ticket.

Abstract: Systems and methods for disposing of blackwater are disclosed. A first vessel contains a screw running through the vessel from a first end to a second end. The screw is surrounded radially by a filter. The first vessel has a blackwater inlet adjacent the first end. An extrusion plate is adjacent the second end of the first vessel. A combustor vessel is configured to receive a solids component from the extrusion plate. A blackwater stream, consisting of a liquid component and the solids component, is passed through the blackwater inlet into the first vessel, is conveyed by the screw from the first end to the second end, and is pressurized against the extrusion plate. The liquid component is thereby forced from the blackwater stream through the filter and the solids component is forced through the extrusion plate into the combustor. The combustor is configured to combust the solids component.

Abstract: A protective assembly having a protective sheath assembly with a tubular catheter body with a proximal and distal end, and at least one connection fitting at the proximal end; and a holding device assembly with a housing, an introducer tip, a retention device. The tubular catheter body provided graduated marks or a moveable marker to identify depth of penetration. The protective assembly can deliver anesthetic to a tract, and serve as a protective sheath for medical devices.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for real-time visualization of a material during ultrasonic non-destructive testing. The system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) capable of showing a three-dimensional (3-D) image of a composite laminate constructed of a series of two-dimensional (2-D) cross sections. The GUI is capable of displaying the 3-D image as each additional 2-D cross section is scanned by an ultrasonic testing apparatus in real time or near real time, including probable defect regions that contain a flaw such as a hole, crack, wrinkle, or foreign object within the composite. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the system includes an artificial intelligence capable of highlighting defect areas within the 3-D image in real time or near real time and providing data regarding each defect area, such as the depth, size, and/or type of each defect.