Abstract: This disclosure relates to administration of a combination of: 1) about 100-110 mg, about 104-106 mg, or about 105 mg of bupropion hydrochloride, or a molar equivalent amount of a free base form or another salt form of bupropion; and 2) about 40-50 mg, about 44-46 mg, or about 45 mg of dextromethorphan hydrobromide, or a molar equivalent amount of a free base form or another salt form of dextromethorphan in certain patient populations, such as patients having moderate renal impairment, patients receiving a concomitant strong CYP2D6 inhibitor, patients who are known CYP2D6 poor metabolizers, those in need of an NMDA antagonist that does not cause dissociation, and those at risk of QT prolongation.

Abstract: Techniques for adaptively visualizing content in an artificial environment based on the attention of a user. In one particular aspect, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes obtaining input data from a user, inferring content that is of interest to the user based on features gathered from the user's attention in the input data, identifying virtual content data based on the content that is of interest to the user, determining modifications to be applied to the virtual content data based on relevancy, applying the modifications to the virtual content data to generate a final format for the virtual content data, and rendering virtual content in the extended reality environment displayed to the user based on the final format for the virtual content data. The virtual content rendered from relevant virtual content data is more prominently displayed as compared to the virtual content rendered from semi-relevant and non-relevant virtual content data.

Abstract: In at least one aspect, an inductive position sensor comprising a target. The inductive position sensor can include a stator including an excitation coil being inductively coupled to the target, and a receiver coil including a first loop connected in series with a second loop, and inductively coupled with the target such that a receiver coil voltage is generated at the receiver coil. The second loop can be offset, on the stator and relative to the first loop, by a portion of a harmonic period corresponding with a harmonic for nullification in the receiver coil voltage. The inductive position sensor can include a control unit configured to receive a plurality of receiver coil voltages including the receiver coil voltage, the control unit configured to generate an angular position signal based on the plurality of receiver coil voltages.

Abstract: A rolling tarp locking system comprising a bow including a cam plate defining a cam profile having a proximal end and a distal end; and a locking assembly including an arm configured to move between a locked position and an unlocked position, the arm having a follower configured to move relative to the cam profile of cam plate from the proximal end and to the distal end such that when the arm moves from the unlocked position to the locked position the bow is pulled toward the locking assembly to a fixed position.

Abstract: A traction powertrain system of an electrified vehicle includes a power electronics module and a controller. The power electronics module, such as in the form of an inverter, is configured to drive a traction motor with power from a traction battery via a DC-link capacitor. The controller has an on-board power source, such as in the form of a super capacitor. The controller is configured to, in response to detecting an event in which the DC-link capacitor is to be discharged, use power from the on-board power source for controlling the power electronics module and control the power electronics module to operate in a manner causing the DC-link capacitor to be discharged.

Abstract: System, apparatus, and methods are described for monitoring communication sessions and determining to merge two or more of the communication sessions sharing a common ground into a common communication session. A common communication channel may be determined for the common communication session. The two or more communication sessions may be merged to generate the common communication session using the common communication channel.

Abstract: A system and method for limited rate context-based eye gaze encoding includes generating, based on an outward looking camera situated in a vehicle, a first video stream of a surrounding environment to a controller. The controller generates a scene description based on the first video stream and selects a corresponding scene from a predefined list of known scenes. Further, the controller, based on the selected corresponding scene, selects a codebook of encoding and decoding parameters from a plurality of predefined codebooks. Based on an inward looking camera situated in the vehicle, a second video stream of a face of a driver to an eye tracker controller is generated, where the eye tracker controller estimates a gaze direction of the driver. Encoded data comprising the estimated gaze direction of the driver is transmitted over a bandwidth limited channel to a decoder, based on the selected codebook, the encoded data.

Abstract: An animal collar device may include a circuit board, a sensing component carried by the circuit board and configured to collect data about an animal, a first elongate patch antenna carried by the circuit board and having a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side opposing the first longitudinal side, and a first end and a second end opposing the first end. The first and second ends are between the first and second longitudinal sides. The second longitudinal side may include a slots. The animal collar device may include a processor carried by the circuit board and coupled to the sensing component and the first elongate patch antenna, the processor configured to communicate the data about the animal to a base station and a mobile device.

Abstract: Vehicle perception techniques include obtaining a training dataset represented by N training histograms, in an image feature space, corresponding to N training images, K-means clustering the N training histograms to determine K clusters with respective K respective cluster centers, wherein K and N are integers greater than or equal to one and K is less than or equal to N, comparing the N training histograms to their respective K cluster centers to determine maximum in-class distances for each of K clusters, applying a deep neural network (DNN) to input images of the set of inputs to output detected/classified objects with respective confidence scores, obtaining adjusted confidence scores by adjusting the confidence scores output by the DNN based on distance ratios of (i) minimal distances of input histograms representing the input images to the K cluster centers and (ii) the respective maximum in-class.

Abstract: A communication system that includes a master communication device at a first location in a defined indoor area, a service communication device at a second location in the defined indoor area, and passive optical routing devices at a plurality of locations in the defined indoor area. The master communication device obtains first signal from data source or modem and directs first laser beam carrying the first signal in a downstream path to the service communication device directly or via the plurality of passive optical routing devices. The master communication device receives Laser Beam Network Control instructions from a cloud server, and dynamically changes a laser beam-based communication route from the master communication device to the service communication device by changing a path of laser communication from first set of passive optical routing devices to second set of passive optical routing devices to reach to the service communication device.

Abstract: Described herein are nucleic acid having constitutive promoter activities and the use of such nucleic acid having constitutive promoter activities to express a polynucleotide of interest in plants.

Abstract: A roller sub for reducing torque along a downhole tool string. The roller sub defines a tubular body comprising an elongated shaft. The elongated shaft defines a bore, with the bore receiving an electrical wire or data cable therein. The tubular body also comprises first threads at the first end for engaging a first wellbore tool, and second threads at the opposing second end for engaging a second wellbore tool. The roller sub further comprises a roller body that is releasably clamped onto the elongated shaft of the cylindrical body between a first shoulder and a second shoulder. The roller body defines a second outer diameter that is greater than the first outer diameter and comprises at least two bearing members that permit relative rotational movement between the roller body and the elongated shaft.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting phishing cyberattacks. The method involves parsing a code segment retrieved using a suspect uniform resource locator (URL) to identify any links included in the code segment. From these links, additional code segments may be recovered in accordance with a code segment recovery scheme. Thereafter, analytics are performed on the retrieved and possibly recovered code segments. The analytics include determining whether any of the code segments is correlated with a code segment associated with a known prior phishing cyberattack. Upon completing the analytics, an alert message including meta-information associated with results from the analytics is generated to identify that the URL is associated with a known prior phishing cyberattack when one or perhaps a combination of code segments associated with the URL are correlated to any code segment associated with a known prior phishing cyberattack.

Abstract: A cartridge for use with an aerosol generating device includes a housing defining a closed end, an open end, and an aperture between the closed end and the open end. The cartridge further includes a composition including nicotine in the housing in proximity to the closed end. The cartridge also includes a flow control apparatus in the housing. The flow control apparatus includes a proximal end, a distal end, and an internal airflow passageway between the distal end and the proximal end. A seal is formed between an exterior of the flow control apparatus and an interior of the housing. The seal is between the open end of the housing and the aperture of the housing. A channel is at least partially defined by the interior of the housing. The channel is in communication with the aperture and directs air from the aperture towards the composition including nicotine.

Abstract: This application relates to automatically scheduling timeslots, such as timeslots for scheduling item pickups and deliveries. The embodiments may employ machine learning process to determine, for each of a plurality of timeslots, a timeslot capacity. The embodiments may further determine a time as to when each of the plurality of timeslots become available for selection, such as on a webpage. In some examples, the time determined to make available for selection each of the plurality of timeslots is based on a predetermined amount of time before the timeslot. Further, the embodiments may provide for display each of the plurality of timeslots at the determined time. The embodiments may further include receiving a selection of one of the plurality of timeslots, and scheduling a pickup or delivery based on the selected timeslot. The machine learning processes may be trained with features generated from historical timeslot data and workforce availability.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of providing rider service for an autonomous vehicle (AV) system, including operating an AV to provide a trip to a passenger; associating the passenger with a unique passenger identifier (UPID); receiving passenger metadata for the passenger according to the UPID; and responding to a rider service instance, comprising customizing the response according to the UPID and the passenger metadata.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for privacy-aware machine learning using an improved data encoding that withholds more information. The disclosed systems and methods encode a corpus of data and encode each query used in searching and generating query results from the corpus of encoded data.

Abstract: A cartridge includes an air flow passageway defining a first airflow direction, a heating element having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis perpendicular to the first airflow direction, and a jacket at least partially surrounding the heating element along the longitudinal axis of the heating element and defining a second airflow direction perpendicular to the first airflow direction.

Abstract: Provided are a circuit unit for a lamp and the lamp including the circuit unit. The circuit unit for the lamp may include: a first power stage receiving a first power signal from an Alternating Current (AC) power supply, performing an Alternating Current—Direct Current (AC-DC) conversion for the first power signal to generate a second power signal and performing a dimming signal conversion for the first power signal to generate a first dimming signal, and a second power stage connected with the first power stage to receive the second power signal output from the first power stage, herein, the second power stage adjusts the second power signal based on at least the first dimming signal, in this way a third power signal is generated, and the second power stage provides a light-emitting unit of the lamp with the third power signal to drive the light-emitting unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for natural language processing using neural network models and natural language virtual assistants. The system and method include receiving a natural language phrase including a word sequence, computing corresponding error probabilities that the words are errors, and for a word with a corresponding error probability above a threshold, then computing a replacement phrase with a low error probability to provide a response from the virtual assistant depending on the replacement phrase.