Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for secure processing of image data are described. Image data included in image files may be encrypted and compressed in a single step using dynamically identified compression/encryption information such as code word tables.

Abstract: An expansion joint bridging device in the form of a plate-type roadway joint which bridges an expansion joint between two building components. The expansion joint is spanned by crossbeams which are braced in a load-bearing relationship on both building components. Supported on the crossbeams is at least one plate disposed above the crossbeams, the plate having two plate portions which lie flush with one another and are interconnected in a force-transmitting relationship. The plate portions are connected in situ by means of at least one cover plate which bridges the joint between the plate portions and connects the two plate portions in a force-transmitting relationship. At least one of the connections between the cover plate and the plate portions is hinged, having a rotational degree of freedom about an axis extending horizontally transversely to the orientation of the relevant plate.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for secure generation of one-time passcodes using a contactless card. In one example, an operating system (OS) of a device may receive a uniform resource locator (URL) and a cryptogram from a contactless card. The OS may launch an application associated with the URL. The application may transmit the cryptogram to an authentication server. The application may receive a decryption result from the authentication server indicating the authentication server decrypted the cryptogram. Based on the decryption result, the application may request an OTP. The processor may receive an OTP from an OTP generator. The application may receive an input value and compare the input value to a copy of the OTP. The application may determine that the comparison results in a match, and display, based on the determination that the comparison results in the match, one or more attributes of the account.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device includes a pump. The pump includes a first pump chamber and a second pump chamber on opposing sides of a separation element. Each of the first pump chamber and the second pump chamber have an inlet valve and an outlet valve configured to establish a pumping direction. The pump also includes a first actuator and a second actuator. The first actuator is associated with the first pump chamber and the second actuator is associated with the second pump chamber. The first actuator and the second actuator are each configured to change a chamber volume of the respective pump chamber. The pump further includes a common inlet, and a common outlet. The common inlet and common outlet are in fluid communication with the first pump chamber and the second pump chamber and are configured to establish a flow direction. The pumping direction is aligned with the flow direction.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for evaluation of the cement bonding condition in a wellbore based on borehole resonance mode using machine learning. An example method can include transforming the return signal into a resonance signal based on feature extraction of the return signal, determining a segment of the resonance signal in a time domain, and determining, via a machine learning model, a predicted borehole cement bonding based on the segment of the resonance signal. The example method can further include generating a bonding log based on the predicted borehole cement bonding.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating synthetic intercorrelated data are disclosed. For example, a system may include at least one memory storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include training a parent model by iteratively performing steps. The steps may include generating, using the parent model, first latent-space data and second latent-space data. The steps may include generating, using a first child model, first synthetic data based on the first latent-space data, and generating, using a second child model, second synthetic data based on the second latent-space data. The steps may include comparing the first synthetic data and second synthetic data to training data.

Abstract: An electronic smoking article includes a liquid supply including liquid material, a heater operable to heat the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol, a wick in communication with the liquid material and in communication with the heater such that the wick delivers the liquid material to the heater, at least one air inlet operable to deliver air to a central air passage upstream of the heater, and a mouth end insert having at least two diverging outlets.

Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a transaction message comprising a data value in a data field, determining a code table associated with the data field, and determining that the data value is not present within the code table. When the data value is not present within the code table, the method includes searching a first data storage for other transaction messages that comprise the data value. In response to searching, the method includes determining if a number of transaction messages with the data value in the first data storage exceeds a predetermined number and/or frequency. When the number of transactions messages with the data value in the first data storage exceeds the predetermined number and/or frequency, storing the transaction message comprising the data value in a second data storage.

Abstract: A system and/or method for coating a substrate. The method may include placing a substrate on a chuck with a first side of the substrate facing upward and a second side of the substrate facing downward. A coating material may be dispensed onto the first side of the substrate. A first gas may flow through a peripheral chamber of a shield member, the first gas exiting the peripheral chamber through an outlet and flowing towards the first side of the substrate. The substrate may be rotated about a rotational axis to form a film of the coating material on the first side of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and system for determining an elemental composition of a downhole formation using neutron-induced gamma ray spectroscopy and doping the borehole fluid with a neutron absorber to remove at least part of the borehole thermal neutron flux before it can capture borehole nuclei and emit gamma rays within a spectral range of interest. For example, a method for determining the elemental composition includes adding a dopant to a borehole fluid, wherein the dopant absorbs thermal neutrons in the borehole, lowering a logging tool comprising a gamma ray spectrometer, emitting neutrons into a downhole environment, generating neutron-induced gamma rays comprising borehole gamma rays and formation gamma rays, detecting gamma rays from the downhole formation, and extracting the elemental composition of the downhole formation. The dopant may not emit gamma rays above 0.5 MeV or their peaks background should be predictable and/or consistent to be removed during data processing.

Abstract: A method and related system for application resilience by proactively switching data center regions based on detected failures in shared intermittent components by determining shared components of a first data center region based on monitoring data associated with a set of deployed applications with or without requiring the occurrence of active traffic. The method includes determining an intermittent component of the shared components based on the monitoring data and an activity gap threshold. The method further includes probing the intermittent component, obtaining a set of responses from the intermittent component, and determining a combined resource value based on performance data associated with the set of deployed applications. The method further includes, in response to a determination that the set of responses satisfies a set of region-switching criteria, provisioning a second set of infrastructure resources of a second data center region based on the combined resource value.

Abstract: A method and system for integrated control of a first renewable energy system, a second renewable energy system, and a load system to implement a hybrid plant system. A first renewable energy system is configured to generate a first source of energy and to store at least a part of the energy generated by the first source of energy. A second renewable energy system is configured to generate a second source of energy and to store at least a part of the energy generated by the second source of energy. At least one controller is configured to receive a respective status for the first renewable energy system, the second renewable energy system, and the one or more loads and determine and perform common control of at least two of: the first renewable energy system; the second renewable energy system; and the one or more loads.

Abstract: The cartridge includes a housing, an airflow path being defined within the housing, a reservoir within the housing, the reservoir configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation, the reservoir including a first compartment in fluid communication with a second compartment, and a fluid permeable heater between the first compartment and the second compartment, the fluid permeable heater having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface at least partially defining the airflow path, the second surface being in communication with the second compartment.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, an apparatus for making pouch products includes a conveyor system. The conveyor system includes a first receiving location along a path of the conveyor system, and a dosing location along the path of the conveyor system. The apparatus also includes a first material dispensing station configured to transfer a first material to the first receiving location. The first material includes a first elastic layer and a first support layer. The first material dispensing station includes a dispenser roller configured to hold a roll of the first material, a plurality of rollers configured to convey the first material from the dispenser roller to the first receiving location, and a stripper plate configured remove at least a portion of the first support layer from a portion of the first elastic layer.

Abstract: Organizations across the world faces major losses due to cyber-attacks. Hence training users regarding URL can reduce the chances of cyber-attacks. The training content offered by the existing training platform is generic and static in nature. Hence there is a challenge in providing dynamic training content without exploiting working hours of users/employees. The present disclosure provides real time cybersecurity training for users which provides continuous feedback and dynamic content to train the users in URL components. This training allows employees to learn and apply their skills in their actual work environment, making it more practical and relevant. The present disclosure computes priority of training content to be displayed based on user performance and weight associated with URL components dynamically.

Abstract: Existing question answering approaches have the disadvantages that they possess limited contextual understanding due to which the retrieval process they use is inefficient in nature. Embodiments disclosed herein provide a method and system for domain-driven knowledge augmented question answering. The system receives a raw corpus data as input, wherein the raw corpus data is a domain specific data. Further, an indexed corpus is generated from the raw corpus data, during which a document chunking approach is used. The indexed corpus is then used for processing received queries received, in order to generate response to the received user queries.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods to obtain representative formation pore pressure and formation mobility from pressure measurements with a formation testing tool. One of the methods for performing a pressure test includes measuring the pressure in the fluid passageway by a pressure sensor, performing a pre-test with the pressure sensor, measuring the drawdown pressure, measuring the buildup pressure, performing another pre-test when the drawdown pressure is superior to the buildup pressure, and validating a formation flow when the drawdown pressure is equal to the buildup pressure, wherein a measured pressure obtained at an asymptote of a pressure curve after the buildup pressure corresponds to the formation pore pressure.

Abstract: A direct current (DC) power system electrically connected to an alternating current (AC) grid and method are disclosed. One or more renewable generation or storage systems and one or more electrical charging stations may connect to a DC bus. The DC power system and method are configured to maintain stable operations on the DC bus, such as by distributed an automated control. In particular, distributed control may be implemented with the renewable generation systems (such as the PV systems) the storage systems (such as the battery systems), and within the electrical charging stations. This distributed control may work in combination with a centralized control so that the distributed control may control, in the short-term or in real-time, the power to or from the DC bus, whereas the central control may control thereafter.

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments provide an improved approach to preventing exfiltration through email messages. The exemplary embodiments process outbound email messages to determine whether an outbound email message contains sensitive subject matter based on contextual information. The determination may be made based at least in part on the context reflected in the contextual information. In the exemplary embodiments, the determination of whether an outbound email message contains sensitive subject matter that should not be exfiltrated may be based at least in part on analysis performed by a trained neural network model.

Abstract: An architecture of an enterprise can be fully on on-premises with multiple computing systems or on cloud or on Hybrid. Enterprise information technology (IT) departments are continually adopting new technologies and changes leads more complex, and increased probability of service disruption, through malfunctions in software, hardware, networks, natural disasters, simple human error. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system to detect problem associated with the computing system in an enterprise. A plurality of data associated with each resource in the enterprise is received. The plurality of data is considered to iteratively perform (a) derive a parameter associated with a metric data, and an incident data to obtain an analyzed data, (b) detect a problem associated with each resources by processing the plurality of analyzed data based on a propositional logic, and (c) generate a feedback associated with each problem of the resources in a subsequent iteration.