Abstract: Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.

Abstract: A system includes a location identifier device and a computer system. The location identifier is configured to transmit an identifier to a user device when the user device is within a predetermined range of an area and receive location information from the user device associated with a user. The computer system is configured to receive the location information from the user device within the area via the location identifier device and receive a request for an ATM transaction from the user device. The request includes attribute information associated with the user. The computer system is configured to receive attribute information associated with the user comprising an indication of a license plate within the area and identify, based on a determination that the attribute information at least partially matches the attribute information from the request, the user associated with the request.

Abstract: In an embodiment a processing system includes a plurality of storage elements, each storage element comprising a latch or a flip-flop and being configured to receive a write request comprising a data bit and to store the received data bit to the latch or the flip-flop, a non-volatile memory configured to store data bits for the plurality of storage elements, a hardware configuration circuit configured to read the data bits from the non-volatile memory and generate write requests in order to store the data bits to the storage elements and a hardware circuit configured to change operation as a function of a logic level stored to a latch or a flip-flop of a first storage element of the plurality of storage elements, wherein the first storage element comprises a further latch or a further flip-flop and is configured to store, in response to the write request, an inverted version of the received data bit to the further latch or the further flip-flop.

Abstract: A comb for a hair cutting appliance having a cutting direction is provided. The comb has a comb connection part that connects a first comb part and a second comb part. The first comb part has a plurality of first comb teeth, the comb teeth being arranged to guide hair toward the hair cutting appliance for cutting hair. The second comb part has a plurality of second comb teeth aligned with the first comb teeth. The first and second comb teeth are connected together by connection comb teeth. The first comb teeth and the second comb teeth are at least partially formed from a plastics material and the connection comb teeth are at least partially formed from metal. During use of the comb, the first comb teeth precede the connection comb teeth and the second comb teeth trail the connection comb teeth when viewed in the cutting direction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for using machine learning for managing application incidents. An embodiment takes the form of a method that includes receiving extracted data pertaining to one or more applications. Model-input data is generated from the extracted data. Model-output data is generated at least in part by processing the generated model-input data with one or more machine-learning models trained to make one or more application-incident predictions. Based at least in part on the model-output data, an application-incident-likely determination is made that a likelihood of an occurrence of an application incident exceeds an application-incident-likelihood threshold, where the application incident corresponds to a given application of the one or more applications. Responsive to making the application-incident-likely determination, one or more alerts of the likelihood of the occurrence of the application incident are output.

Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a requesting device and a data device configured for multi-party computation to select a close record from a database. The data device performs a filtering of its candidate records by selecting candidate records from the database for which a received set of similarity values for a target record are close to a set of similarity values for a candidate record. For one or more selected candidate records, the requesting device and the data device performing a multiparty computation protocol to jointly compute a second closeness measure between the target record and the selected candidate record.

Abstract: Connector for connecting rebar intersections of a foldable FRP rebar cage includes two channels for receiving the intersecting FRP rebar. One channel has a spherical member and the other has arms shaped to hold the spherical member, to allow the connected rebar to rotate in the X, Y and Z axes.

Abstract: A pellicle suitable for use with a patterning device for a lithographic apparatus. The pellicle comprising at least one breakage region which is configured to preferentially break, during normal use in a lithographic apparatus, prior to breakage of remaining regions of the pellicle. At least one breakage region comprises a region of the pellicle which has a reduced thickness when compared to surrounding regions of the pellicle.

Abstract: An apparatus where a vertical image position of the scene point may depend on the horizontal image position. A mapper generates a modified image having a modified projection by applying a mapping to the first wide angle image corresponding to a mapping from the first projection to a perspective projection followed by a non-linear vertical mapping from the perspective projection to a modified vertical projection of the modified projection and a non-linear horizontal mapping from the perspective projection to a modified horizontal projection of the modified projection. Then a disparity estimator generates disparities for the modified image relative to a second image and representing a different view point than the first wide angle image.

Abstract: A nozzle (14) for use with a personal care device (10), comprising: (i) a nozzle housing (50/52) defining a central channel (54) through which a stream of liquid and/or air is directed, and comprising a housing orifice (56) at the end of the central channel; (ii) a magnetorheological liquid housing (58) located over at least a portion of the nozzle housing at the housing orifice, and comprising a tip with an adjustable diameter orifice (59) through which the stream of liquid and/or air exits, wherein the adjustable orifice is adjustable between at least a first diameter and a second diameter; and (iii) one or more magnets (62) configured to control magnetorheological liquid (60) in the magnetorheological liquid housing to adjust between the at least first diameter and second diameter of the adjustable diameter orifice.

Abstract: Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for generation and maintenance of a central identity databank for a user's digital life. The identity databank may include identity elements with payload values and metadata values corresponding immutable attributes of the user. A multifactor identity authentication protocol allows service provider devices to more reliably validate transactions with user devices via an identity system. The identity databank may include passwords, which may be generated by the identity system linked to user accounts and/or service providers. The passwords may be provided to service provider devices, eliminating the need for users to conceive of a multitude of varying passwords for the user's accounts.

Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for computing data contraction and similarity from heterogeneous data descriptors are disclosed. A processor computes common features data among a first data point and a second data point by comparing the first data point and the second data point and their respective data distributions; links a pre-computed knowledge graph with the first data point and the second data point; computes, in response to linking, knowledge-comparable features data among the first data point and the second data point based on other features, received as input, that are not common features; computes knowledge-comparable data based on the knowledge-comparable features data and the common features data; computes similarity of the first data point and the second data point based on the knowledge-comparable data; and generates a data contraction map along with assigned similarity score based on the computed similarity.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a provider computing system, a desired transfer tag from a user device. The computer-implemented method further includes performing, by the provider computing system, a tag conversion process on the desired transfer tag to create a desired-tag-based identifier corresponding to the desired transfer tag. The computer-implemented method further includes registering, by the provider computing system, an account of a user associated with the user device for a transfer service provided by a transfer service computing system using the desired-tag-based identifier.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a use of octenylsuccinyl anhydride substituted starch (OSA starch) for increasing the dry weight content and/or the fat content of a liquid composition that is subjected to a spray-drying step, and also to a process for preparing powders. The present invention enables the spray-drying of emulsions that contain a high amount of fat. The present invention also relates to the powder products obtainable by the process and nutritional products such as an infant milk powder, grow up milk, toddler milk or as a medical nutritional product that can be formulated therewith.

Abstract: A HEMT transistor includes: a first semiconductor layer; a gate located on a first face of the first semiconductor layer; and a first passivating layer made of a first dielectric material which extends over the said first face of the first semiconductor layer, the sides of the gate, and at least a peripheral portion of a face of the gate opposite with respect to the first semiconductor layer, wherein a second passivating layer made of a second dielectric material extends between the said face of the gate and the first passivating layer, the sides of the gate being free of the said second passivating layer.

Abstract: A method and a system for providing a framework of configurable components, services, and modules that are reusable for construction of complex workflow applications in order to reduce volume and redundancy in manual coding requirements are provided. The method includes: receiving user criteria that relate to a task to be performed by executing the application to be constructed; analyzing each of the criteria; identifying, based on a result of the analysis, component software modules that are usable for satisfying some of the criteria; and transmitting information that relates to constructing the application by using the identified component software modules to the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a set of electronic assets from a single location are disclosed. The method includes providing a portal with a network security access control. The method includes determining that login credentials input to the access control are associated with a set of electronic assets corresponding to a plurality of third-party computing systems with application programming interface (API) gateways configured to accept API calls directed to changes in functionality of the electronic assets. The method includes presenting, via the portal, a virtual icon to identify a coordinated action with respect to the set of electronic assets and, in response to a selection of the virtual icon, executing a set of API calls that include an asset-specific API call to each third-party computing system in the plurality of third-party computing systems to implement the coordinated action on all electronic assets in the set of electronic assets.

Abstract: A processing device includes memory circuitry having stored therein a set of weight values and a threshold value and instructions which, when executed in the processing device, cause the processing device to apply a first artificial neural network (ANN) processing to a set of sensing signals, producing as a result a set of compressed representations of the sensing signals. The first ANN processing is trained to produce the set of compressed representations using a set of training signals distributed according to a set of training classes having an integer number L of classes. The instructions further cause the processing device to configure weight values of a plurality of computing units of a set of ANN processing circuits as a function of a set of weight values.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an array of ultrasound devices. Each ultrasound device includes a first piezoelectric stack carried by a membrane and forming, together with the membrane, a first piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT), and a plurality of second piezoelectric stacks carried by the membrane and positioned about a periphery thereof, each second piezoelectric stack forming, together with the membrane, a second PMUT. During operation, the first piezoelectric stack is configured to vibrate the membrane in response to application of an alternating voltage to the first piezoelectric stack to thereby generate at least one outgoing ultrasonic pulse toward a target, and during operation, the plurality of second piezoelectric stacks are configured to generate sense voltages in response to bending thereof induced by vibration of the membrane by incoming ultrasonic reflections off the target.