Abstract: Disclosed herein are “ketone body-HMB” or “KB-HMB” compositions including a combination of: (1) hydroxymethyl butyrate; (2) a ketone body component such as beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) and/or acetoacetate; and (3) optionally a dietetically or pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also disclosed herein are methods of using such compositions for producing desired physiological effects, such as fat loss, in a mammal. The compositions beneficially enhance fat loss through ketosis while also reducing or eliminating muscle wasting and/or promoting muscle formation.

Abstract: A soil sensing system includes a mechanical component of an agricultural implement and at least one sensor disposed on the mechanical component. The sensor generates an electromagnetic field through a region of soil as the agricultural implement traverses a field. The sensor comprises at least one radar transmitter and at least one radar receiver and the sensor measures different soil parameters including a soil dielectric constant.

Abstract: Various implementations relate to asynchronous training of a machine learning model. A server receives feedback data generated by training the machine learning model from a worker. The feedback data are obtained by the worker with its own training data and are associated with previous values of a set of parameters of the machine learning model at the worker. The server determines differences between the previous values and current values of the set of parameters at the server. The current value may have been updated for once or more due to operation of other workers. Then, the server can update the current values of the set of parameters based on the feedback data and the differences between values of the set of parameters. Thus, the updating does not only take the training result of each worker into consideration but also makes proper compensation for delay between different workers.

Abstract: A connector body includes mating guide parts having mating recesses into which counterpart mating guide parts are inserted, the reinforcing bracket includes a body part attached to end wall parts of the mating guide parts, and a pair of left and right connection arms connected to both ends of the body part, the connection arms extending to the longitudinal center of the connector body and being attached to side wall parts of the mating guide parts, the connection arm includes a side plate part and a side wall upper cover part connected to an upper end of the side plate part, at least a part of the outside of the side plate part is covered with an outside part of the side wall part, and the side wall upper cover part is curved such that a tip faces the mating recess and covers at least a part of the upper surface of the inside part of the side wall part.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for providing schemes for setting allowable motion vector different values when implementing adaptive resolution for motion vector difference. An example method for processing a current video block of a video stream is disclosed. The method may include receiving the video stream; determining that the current video block is inter-coded based on a prediction block and a motion vector (MV), wherein the MV is to be derived from a reference motion vector (RMV) and a motion vector difference (MVD) for the current video block.

Abstract: A decorative-flame burner includes a manifold elongated along an axis and a plurality of nipples supported by the manifold. A jet is supported by and protrudes outwardly from each nipple. Each nipple is elongated transverse to the axis from a first end of the nipple to a second end of the nipple. Each nipple has threads at the first end of the nipple and the manifold includes threaded holes spaced from each other along the axis and threadedly engaged with the threads on the first ends of the nipples.

Abstract: An air delivery assembly having a baffle and an ionizer. The baffle is constructed to affect air flow such that air flowing through the air delivery assembly has an air velocity and a direct flow to the ionizer that is effective to deliver ions through a diffuser of the air delivery assembly and up into a room. The air delivery assembly may be included with a damper and/or an upper diffuser to form an air terminal, which may be used in a raised floor air distribution system.

Abstract: A gaming display system and method, the method including receiving, at a gaming machine, from a player, an indication to bet on one or more live sporting events, determining a sub-event of a selected event that is a discrete portion of the selected event, determining one or more propositions for the sub-event, where each proposition is associated with a different potential outcome of the sub-event, applying at least one bet to the one or more propositions, initiating display of a non-sporting display to the player, determining one or more resolutions for the one or more propositions while displaying the non-sporting video display, displaying a result of the non-sporting video display to the player according to the one or more resolutions, and determining a payout for each proposition of the one or more propositions according to odds of the respective proposition and the resolution of the respective proposition.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to positioning animated images within a dynamic keyboard interface. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive, from a user device on which an application is executed, data indicating a context of: the application, and/or a dynamic keyboard interface provided in association with the application; identify, based at least in part on the data indicating the context, a plurality of different animated images, including an animated image comprising an advertisement, for presentation by the dynamic keyboard interface; communicate, to the user device, data indicating the plurality of different animated images; receive, from the user device, data indicating a selection of the animated image comprising the advertisement; and determine, based at least in part on the data indicating the selection and the data indicating the context, a position within the dynamic keyboard interface for presenting the animated image comprising the advertisement.

Abstract: A ring can include a housing. The housing can include a first power source configured to be charged by a second power source removably positioned adjacent to the housing. The housing also can include a component. The component can be configured to draw energy from the first power source. The component also can sense a physical phenomenon external to the housing. The component further can send communication signals to a communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A design optimization method based on active learning, which involves dynamic exploration and exploitation of the design space of interest using an ensemble of machine learning algorithms. In this approach, a hybrid methodology incorporating an explorative weak learner which fits high-level information about the response surface, and an exploitative strong learner (based on committee machine) that fits finer details around promising regions identified by the weak learner, is employed. For each design iteration, an aristocratic approach is used to select a set of nominees, where points that meet a threshold merit value as predicted by the weak learner are selected to be evaluated using function evaluation. In addition to these points, the global optimum as predicted by the strong learner is also evaluated to enable rapid convergence to the actual global optimum once the most promising region has been identified by the optimizer.

Abstract: A safe, quiet, easy to control, efficient, and compact aircraft configuration is enabled through the combination of multiple vertical lift rotor assemblies, tandem wings, and forward thrust propellers. The vertical lift rotor assemblies, in combination with a front and rear wing, permits a balancing of the center of lift with the center of gravity for both vertical and horizontal flight. This wing and multiple rotor system has the ability to tolerate a relatively large variation of the payload weight for hover, transition, or cruise flight while also providing vertical thrust redundancy. The propulsion system uses multiple lift rotor assemblies and forward thrust propellers of a small enough size to be shielded from potential blade strike and provide increased perceived and real safety to the passengers. Using multiple independent rotor assemblies provides redundancy and the elimination of single point failure modes that can make the vehicle non-operable in flight.

Abstract: A system for automatically checking in a user device at an event via an e-wallet transaction includes one or more processors configured to schedule the event based on receiving one or more scheduling parameters from the user device, wherein the one or more scheduling parameters include a location of the event; transmit to the user device an event confirmation notification for the scheduled event, wherein the event confirmation notification includes an e-wallet merchandising card; authorize the e-wallet merchandising card transaction upon determining that one or more transaction parameters associated with a request for authorizing an e-wallet merchandising card transaction are each within a threshold value; and automatically checking in the user device at the scheduled event in response to the e-wallet merchandising card transaction being authorized.

Abstract: The system controls batch configuration of devices based on roles, such as presenter, in a meeting. The lifespan of such configurations on each device is limited to the duration of the event or associated activities, such as rehearsal, and will automatically revert back to previous pre-batch configuration settings outside the event or once the event ends. In such embodiments, a system can control batch configurations for devices during a rehearsal, then reverts the devices to a pre-batch configuration after the rehearsal and the event. A method for controlling batch configurations of a plurality of computing devices associated with a communication session can select computers of people having pre-determined roles, e.g., presenters, organizers, audience members. The system can configure a subset of devices of the plurality of computing devices to operate using a pre-batch configuration. The system reverts to the batch configuration after a second condition is determined for an event.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating speech from text. One of the systems includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement: a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network configured to: receive a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, and process the sequence of characters to generate a spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; and a subsystem configured to: receive the sequence of characters in the particular natural language, and provide the sequence of characters as input to the sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network to obtain as output the spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards methods of etherification including modifying a zeolite catalyst with silica to provide a silica modified zeolite catalyst; and contacting the silica modified zeolite catalyst with an olefin and an alcohol to produce a monoalkyl ether.

Abstract: An integrated qubit readout circuit is presented, which includes a superconducting parametric amplifier, a circuit board arranged to mount the superconducting parametric amplifier, a circulator mounted on the circuit board and connected to the superconducting parametric amplifier, wherein the circulator comprises a termination port electrically connected to a termination resistor arranged to terminate a pump tone received by the superconducting parametric amplifier, and wherein the termination resistor is mounted on the circuit board.

Abstract: A system for controlling a turbine is disclosed. The system includes a turbine control fuel governor that has a plurality of VCPIDs operating in parallel with one another. Each VCPID is associated with a respective turbine parameter and one or more external parameters. Each VCPID incorporates feedback from the parallel operating VCPIDs to feed an integral term of a current VCPID in the following manner: a previous derivative gain and a previous proportional gain are summed and subtracted from a selected output for the turbine to yield a result, and the result is input to an integral gain portion of the current VCPID.