Abstract: The present invention relates to operating a biopsy unit. In order to provide an enhanced and facilitated way of controlling a biopsy unit, a control device (10) for controlling a biopsy unit is provided that comprises a support structure (12) with a housing (14), and a user interface unit (16) with a plurality of control elements (18). The control elements are configured to control the movement of a biopsy needle device along at least three moving direction lines. At least two of the moving direction lines are aligned to axes of a Cartesian coordinate system (20) and one moving direction line is aligned to a needle axis direction (22) of an elongated needle device of the biopsy unit, the needle axis direction being inclined to at least one of the axes of the Cartesian coordinate system. For each moving direction line, the housing is provided with a surface portion (24, 26, 28) that is aligned with a respective one of the moving direction lines.

Abstract: A positioning system for positioning an object. The positioning system includes a stage, a balance mass and an actuator system. The stage is for holding the object. The actuator system is arranged to drive the stage in a first direction while driving the balance mass in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The stage is moveable in the first direction in a movement range. When the stage is moving in the first direction and is at an end of the movement range, the positioning system is arranged to collide the stage frontally into the balance mass.

Abstract: A method and a system for providing source evidence in support of information to be used for conducting a transaction, such as a fairness opinion to be used for a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction, is provided. The method includes displaying, on a screen, a plurality of fields that relate to the transaction; receiving first user inputs that correspond to some of the fields; prompting the user to provide source evidence that relates to the received first user inputs; receiving a second user input that activates a button for accessing a document library; displaying a list of documents included in the document library; receiving third user inputs that correspond to respective documents selected by the user; displaying a content of each selected document; receiving fourth user inputs that correspond to screenshots of respective portions of the displayed content; and automatically linking the screenshots to the corresponding fields.

Abstract: The present invention related to a media transfer system comprising a user terminal and a network storage device communicable over a network. The user terminal is adapted to provide a network address and a session ID identifying the network storage device to a mobile device. The network storage device is adapted to receive media data from a mobile device under the session ID. The user terminal is adapted to interrogate the network storage device and download any media data uploaded under the given session ID, provide a customisation interface to allow the user to customise a product with any downloaded media, and upload the customised product design to the network storage device.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory is organized in pages and has a word writing granularity of one or more bytes and a block erasing granularity of one or more pages. Logical addresses are scrambling into physical addresses used to perform operations in the non-volatile memory. The scrambling includes scrambling logical data addresses based on a page structure of the non-volatile memory and scrambling logical code addresses based on a word structure of the non-volatile memory.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor includes the following operations: the clamping of a workpiece in a grinding machine; the performance of one or more cylindrical grinding operations whereby a rotor shaft section is ground to the desired diameter with a cylindrical grinding disk; the performance of one more profile grinding operations whereby a rotor body is profiled with a profile grinding disk. During the manufacture of the rotor in the grinding machine, the workpiece is not undamped and the cylindrical grinding operations and the profile grinding operations are done with the same grinding machine.

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for reducing an amount of time that a user of a drive-up banking system is exposed to outdoor environmental conditions. A method includes detecting, by a drive-up banking system, a presence of a vehicle proximate the drive-up banking system; projecting, by the drive-up banking system, a user interface onto a vehicle window such that the user interface is visible to the occupant of the vehicle; receiving, by the drive-up banking system, information indicative of an identity of the occupant of the vehicle; determining, by the drive-up banking system, an account corresponding to the occupant of the vehicle; requesting, by the user interface, transaction information; receiving, by the user interface, information indicative of the transaction information; and conducting, by the drive-up banking system, a transaction based on the transaction information.

Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a generic parser module are disclosed. A repository that stores a plurality of files each having a corresponding file format. A processor accesses the repository to obtain the plurality of files and format each file into a class-based logical hierarchy. The processor also creates a Java model based on the formatted files having the class-based logical hierarchy, each file having a plurality of data and the Java model having file-level classes that contain a list of said plurality of data; generates Java annotations identifying each file type included in the file-level classes; injects the Java annotations into the file-level classes of the Java model to indicate how to process each file; calls a method along with the file containing the data; and parses the file to read the data into the Java model injected with the Java annotations.

Abstract: Individual bits of a K bit unary data word, wherein K is greater than one, are applied to K polyphase finite impulse response filter circuits. Each polyphase finite impulse response filter circuit receives a different bit and operates with a single bit precision to generate from each received bit a filtered output data word. A gain adjustment is applied by a gain stage circuit to each filtered output data word to generate a corresponding gain adjusted output data word. The gain adjusted output data words from the gain stage circuits are summed to generate an output data word. The unary data word may be output from a source such as a data encoder or a quantizer.

Abstract: A method for generating a new test for a set of software code is provided. The method includes accessing a plurality of existing unit tests; implementing a machine learning algorithm; determining intended objectives of the set of software code; selecting a subset of the plurality of existing unit tests based on the determined objectives and an output of the machine learning algorithm; and using the selected unit tests to automatically generate the new test.

Abstract: A delay chain circuit with series coupled delay elements receives a reference clock signal and outputs phase-shifted clock signals. A multiplexer circuit receives the phase-shifted clock signals and selects among the phase-shifted clock signals for output as in response to a selection signal. The selection signal is generated by a control circuit from a periodic signal having a triangular wave profile. A sigma-delta modulator converts the periodic signal to a digital signal, and an integrator circuit integrates the digital signal to output the selection signal. The selected phase-shifted clock signal is applied as the reference signal to a phase locked loop which generates a spread spectrum clock signal.

Abstract: An alignment sensor apparatus includes an illumination system, a first optical system, a second optical system, a detector system, and a processor. The illumination system is configured to transmit an illumination beam along an illumination path. The first optical system is configured to transmit the illumination beam toward a diffraction target on a substrate. The second optical system includes a first polarizing optic configured to separate and transmit an irradiance distribution. The detector system is configured to measure a center of gravity of the diffraction target based on the irradiance distribution outputted from a first polarization branch and a second polarization branch. The processor is configured to measure a shift in the center of gravity of the diffraction target caused by an asymmetry variation in the diffraction target and determine a sensor response function of the alignment sensor apparatus based on the center of gravity shift.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gradient shield coil (5) for a MRI apparatus (1). The gradient shield coil (5) according to the invention comprises windings (6, 7) around its longitudinal axis (A), wherein at least one winding (7) is arranged as a meandering winding (7). This meandering winding (7) comprises multiple contiguous sections (8) along its circumference, wherein in each of these sections (8) a pair of conductor loops (9, 10) is provided in such a way that a current in the meandering winding (7) would run in opposite directions in the two conductor loops (9, 10). In this way, dissipation in the superconductive coils of a superconductive magnet (2) of a respective MRI apparatus (1) may be further reduced.

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for providing an interactive computer simulation of a life of a user via a user device operated by the user by determining a goal of the user, accessing a transaction history of the user, determining an initial state of the user based on the transaction history of the user, determining a virtual path to the goal, the initial state of the user being a starting point of the virtual path to the goal, configuring the user device to display the virtual path of the goal, determining that the user has selected at least one of selectable in-simulation decisions, updating the virtual path to generate an updated virtual path based on the selected at least one of the plurality of selectable in-simulation decisions, and configuring the user device to display the updated virtual path.

Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing an automated testing module are disclosed. A processor creates a draft test suite that incorporates a plurality of features, each feature including a test scenario that comprises steps that describe the test scenario in a human readable form. The processor also compiles the steps of the test scenario into a single step in a reusable format; receives a request to perform a testing for an application; de-compiles the single step, in response to received request, to create a complete list of steps used in the scenario; generates a final test suite based on the de-complied single step in response to the received request; and automatically executes the final test suite to test the application without rewriting code.

Abstract: A data synchronization unit including first flip-flops, operating on a first clock domain and a reset of a second clock domain, sampling data from the first clock domain; a second flip-flop, operating in the first clock domain, sampling a request signal when enabled by a request pulse; a request signal path configured to delay the request signal by a first delay and to generate an enable signal for recirculation multiplexers in accordance with the delayed request signal; a reset signal synchronization path configured to delay the reset signal of the first clock domain by a second delay, wherein the second delay is shorter than the first delay; and multiplexers having first inputs for receiving outputs of the recirculation multiplexers, a second input for receiving a reset value of a programmable register, the multiplexers being configured to selectively output signals at inputs to outputs.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are approaches for monitoring a patient in real-time for ARDS development and providing a biomarker-driven ventilation therapy recommendation tool based on the correlation of various therapy patterns and an ARDS biomarker score. When the ARDS biomarker indicates that a patient has a high ARDS risk, the recommendation tool suggests possible therapy routes based on clinical practice. In response to a high score output by the ARDS detection model, the tool outputs a recommendation to initiate a lung protective ventilation strategy (Low Tidal Volume, high Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP)). A high ARDS score is recognized to be predictive of the appropriateness of such therapy up to several hours before such intervention is typically initiated under current clinical practices.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to identify and quantify the microorganisms present in a sample. Sequence reads are classified using existing methods, but the classification results are corrected to account for the number of reads expected to be falsely classified as determined through simulation. With statistics on the expected number of reads misclassified, a linear least squares method (non-negative or otherwise) or other related technique can be used to adjust the number of reads that are classified to various taxonomic units (e.g., species) and to determine more accurate values for the quantities of those taxonomic units actually present in the sample, eliminating microorganisms in taxonomic units falsely determined to be present in the sample.

Abstract: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is provided in circuits which use of a tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) or an impact ionization MOSFET (IMOS). These circuits are supported in silicon on insulator (SOI) and bulk substrate configurations to function as protection diodes, supply clamps, failsafe circuits and cutter cells. Implementations with parasitic bipolar devices provide additional parallel discharge paths.

Abstract: A method of MR imaging of a body (10) of a patient reduces contrast blurring in PROPELLER imaging combined with multi-echo acquisitions.