Abstract: The present inventions are directed to systems and methods to increase the removal of PFAS and other recalcitrant organic compound contaminants from water, and particularly ground and drinking water, using sub-micron powdered activated carbon.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods facilitating the discharge of a firearm by sound are disclosed. The present invention relates to methods and means of firing a firearm on the firearms receipt of a sound avoiding the use of a mechanical trigger facilitating the grip of the firearm not changing during the act of firing avoiding any motion by the shooter therefore improving the accuracy of the aim of the firearm. No personalization or additional security is incorporated in the firearm.

Abstract: Provided is a production method for an insulated electric wire that enables a sealant to permeate between elemental wires with efficiency and high uniformity when a water-stopping treatment is applied to the insulated electric wire using the sealant, and also provided is an insulated electric wire that exhibits an excellent water-stopping performance at a portion between the elemental wires where the water-stopping treatment is applied.

Abstract: A vehicular positioning system utilizing multiple optical cameras having contiguous fields of view for reading coded markers having pre-determined positions for determining the position of vehicle inside a structure with a high degree of accuracy. The vehicle positioning system provides for the direct installation and use of a positioning apparatus on a vehicle with a limited number of coded markers to determine the vehicle's position to within millimeter level accuracy.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques that provide dynamic groups and attribute-based access control (ABAC) model (referred as CV-ABACG) to secure communication, data exchange and resource access in smart vehicles ecosystems. In embodiments, the model not only considers system wide attributes-based security policies, but also takes into account individual user privacy preferences for allowing or denying service notifications, alerts, and operations to on-board resources. Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide groups in vehicular IoT, which may be dynamically assigned to moving entities like connected cars, based on their current GPS coordinates, speed or other attributes, to ensure relevance of location and time sensitive notification services, to provide administrative benefits to manage large numbers of entities, and to enable attributes inheritance for fine-grained authorization policies.

Abstract: A medical apparatus of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to input third projection data to a first trained model to generate fourth projection data, the first trained model being generated through learning using first projection data collected by a first X-ray detector included in a first scanner and relatively greatly affected by scattered rays as learning data of an input side and using second projection data relatively less affected by scattered rays as learning data of an output side, the first trained model being configured to generate, on the basis of the third projection data collected by a second X-ray detector included in a second scanner, the fourth projection data in which the influence of scattered rays in the third projection data has been reduced. The first projection data is collected by the first X-ray detector in a case where a collimator provided in a first X-ray source included in the first scanner has a first opening width.

Abstract: A pump device includes: a drive shaft; a pump element; a pump housing including; a pump element receiving space, first and second bearing receiving spaces, a suction passage, a discharge passage, a return passage, and a seal receiving space, a first bearing including a first lubrication groove, received within the first bearing receiving space, and supporting the drive shaft; a second bearing which includes a second lubrication groove having a sectional area that is perpendicular to the rotation axis, and that is greater than a sectional area of the first bearing that is perpendicular to the rotation axis, which is received within the second bearing receiving space, and which supports the drive shaft; and a seal member provided within the seal receiving space, and arranged to seal between the drive shaft and the pump housing.

Abstract: A turbine engine mechanical reduction gear, for example, of an aircraft, the reduction gear comprising: a sun gear having an axis of rotation; a ring gear which extends around the sun gear and which is configured to be immobile in rotation about the axis; planetary gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and which are supported by a planetary carrier which is configured to be mobile in rotation about the axis; at least one lubrication oil distributor which comprises a stator portion immobile in rotation and a rotating integral rotor portion of the planetary carrier; and an annular oil deflector which is integral with the ring gear, wherein the stator portion of the distributor is integral with the deflector.

Abstract: Devices and methods for anchoring soft tissue, tissue grafts, and the like to a bone are provided. In one example, an assembly includes a suture anchor, suture, and inserter. In another example, a method provides for reattaching soft tissue to a bone.

Abstract: A terahertz full-polarization-state detection spectrograph is provided, which comprises a terahertz wave generator, a polarizer, a polarizing beam-splitting sheet, a horizontal terahertz detector, and a vertical terahertz detector. The terahertz wave generator produces a terahertz wave, and the purity of the terahertz wave is optimized by the polarizer; a detected sample modulates the terahertz wave, the purity of which is optimized, to obtain a terahertz modulated wave; the polarizing beam-splitting sheet decomposes the terahertz modulated wave into a horizontal terahertz wave and a vertical terahertz wave which are vertical to each other in a polarization state; the two corresponding terahertz detectors are used for detecting the two terahertz waves respectively, and then the characteristics of the detected sample are analyzed according to the detection result.

Abstract: A technique to characterize moisture in a dielectric layer of a printed circuit board is provided. A method comprises applying a test signal to test circuitry comprising a test capacitor that is formed with the dielectric layer of the printed circuit board; measuring at least one characteristic of a least one of signal transmission and signal reflection from the test circuitry; and determining, from the at least one measured characteristic, at least one parameter value indicative of moisture content in the dielectric layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires output data from a trained model by entering examination data acquired at an examination, the examination data corresponding to first data, the output data corresponding to second data, into the trained model configured to, based on the first data acquired through transmission of an ultrasound wave for a first number of times, output the second data acquired through transmission of an ultrasound wave for a second number of times that is greater than the first number of times.

Abstract: An electric drive device includes: a motor housing for housing an electric motor, wherein the motor housing includes an end face part opposite to an output part of a rotating shaft of the electric motor; and an electronic control part arranged at the end face part. The electronic control part includes a control circuit part, a power supply circuit part, and a power conversion circuit part, which are covered by a metal cover, wherein the metal cover is fixed water-tightly to the end face part. The end face part includes a power conversion heat dissipation region and a power supply heat dissipation region. Each of the control circuit part and the power supply circuit part is contained on a circuit board, wherein the circuit board is placed along a plane perpendicular to the rotating shaft, and layered with each other in an axial direction of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: The subject disclosure presents systems and computer-implemented methods for automatic immune cell detection that is of assistance in clinical immune profile studies. The automatic immune cell detection method involves retrieving a plurality of image channels from a multi-channel image such as an RGB image or biologically meaningful unmixed image. A cell detector is trained to identify the immune cells by a convolutional neural network in one or multiple image channels. Further, the automatic immune cell detection algorithm involves utilizing a non-maximum suppression algorithm to obtain the immune cell coordinates from a probability map of immune cell presence possibility generated from the convolutional neural network classifier.

Abstract: A fuze setter interface for substantially simultaneously and wirelessly transferring power and data between a fuze setter and fuze. The fuze setter interface includes separate power and communications interfaces. In the power interface, an induction coil is provided in each of the fuze setter and fuze. Power is transferred by magnetic field coupling between the induction coils. In the communications interface, a communications member is provided in each of the fuze setter and fuze, along with appropriate functions to generate alternating-current (AC) waveforms, and condition, modulate or demodulate signals. In one example, both communications members are induction coils that transfer data by magnetic field coupling. In another example, both communications members are radio-frequency (RF) transceivers that transfer data by radio signal. The RF transceiver in the fuze may be a Height of Burst (HoB) sensor.

Abstract: A method for recognising a capsule (1) in an apparatus (2) that uses capsules (1) for making beverages, comprising the operating steps of: acquiring an image in electronic format which shows at least one part of the outer surface (5) of the disk-shaped lid (4) of the capsule (1) and in which both an asymmetrical graphical element (6) and a graphical code (7) are present; identifying in the electronic image the asymmetrical graphical element (6) or one or more parts of it, identifying its position in the image and saving that position as a reference position; and starting from the reference position and using a known predetermined position of the graphical code (7) relative to the asymmetrical graphical element (6), identifying in the electronic image both a position in which the graphical code (7) is located and a graphical code (7) reading orientation; reading the graphical code (7) taking into account the position and the orientation previously identified in the electronic image, obtaining a code in electro

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire medical image data on the basis of tomosynthesis imaging of a test object, and input the acquired medical image data of the test object to a trained model to acquire a two-dimensional image data, the trained model being generated by learning of two-dimensional image data on the basis of X-ray imaging of a person and image data on the basis of tomosynthesis imaging of the person who is subjected to the X-ray imaging.

Abstract: A method of operating a video camera includes capturing a scene of imaging data using a focal plane array (FPA) module of the video camera. The scene of imaging data is characterized by a first bit depth. The method also includes processing, using an image processing module coupled to the FPA module, the scene of imaging data to provide display data characterized by a second bit depth less than the first bit depth. The method further includes forming a super frame including the display data and the scene of imaging data and outputting the super frame.

Abstract: A region of a positive charge formed around an arrester is made as small as possible to effectively suppress generation of an upward streamer. An inner electrode body to be grounded, an outer electrode body provided to surround the inner electrode body with a predetermined gap, an electrical insulating layer provided in the gap to hold the inner electrode body and the outer electrode body in an electrically insulated state, and a support that supports at least one of the inner electrode body and the outer electrode body are included, in which the inner electrode body is formed in a rod shape, and the outer electrode body is formed in a cylindrical shape.

Abstract: A method for identifying transmitter usage characteristics of at least one transmitter. The method includes the procedures of receiving by an array of dual polarized antennas, transmissions from a plurality of transmitters. Each one of the transmitters transmits over the same frequency band and according to the same transmission protocol. Each one of the transmitters is associated with unique multi-access information. The method further includes the procedure of receiving a control transmission from a base station. The base station employs the protocol. The control transmission at least includes a plurality of unique multi-access information respective of the transmitters. The method also includes the procedure of associating between each one of the transmitters and the respective multi-access information and identifying transmitter usage characteristics of at least one selected transmitter according to the received transmission therefrom.