Abstract: A person-support surface comprises a non powered mattress and a coverlet positionable on the non powered mattress. The coverlet includes an entry positioned at a first end of the coverlet, an exit positioned at a second end of the coverlet opposite the entry, an upper air impermeable layer, and a lower air impermeable layer coupled to the upper air impermeable layer to form an air flow path along the coverlet between the entry and the exit. The upper air impermeable layer is a vapor permeable and the lower air impermeable layer is a vapor permeable.

Abstract: A liner for a bore of a waveguide is provided. The liner as an aperture passing through it and is formed of a metamaterial that has a relative electrical permittivity that is negative and near zero. When the liner is installed in the waveguide, it lowers the cutoff frequency of the waveguide while allowing the waveguide to remain hollow. This liner can be used in the bore of an MRI machine to lower the cutoff frequency of the bore of the MRI machine to allow the MRI machine to operate using waves having a lower frequency that if the liner was not used.

Abstract: In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving user count information that includes a user count value and an address identifier. Further, an operation is executed that includes using the user count information to determine whether a limit variable has been exceeded. An operation is executed that removes a member, identified by the address identifier, from a load balancing pool, where the limit variable has been exceed by the user count information. A further operation is shown that includes introducing a device into the load balancing pool, where the user count information is less than or equal to the difference between the limit variable value and a buffer variable.

Abstract: A well detection system includes a signal generator module and a detector module. Signal generator module is coupled to a well structure, and causes the well structure to emit a signal. The emitted signal is measured by the detector module. Based on measurements of the signal, the detector module can determine information pertaining to the source of the emitted signal and can, for example, determine the location of the well structure relative to the detector module.

Abstract: Wi-Fi access point performance management may include receiving a session analytic record related to a plurality of wireless access points, and analyzing the session analytic record related to the plurality of wireless access points to determine a root cause of at least one malfunctioning node related to at least one of the plurality of wireless access points, and predict failure of the at least one of the plurality of wireless access points. Further, a graphical user interface display or a report may be generated. The graphical user interface display or the report may be related to the determination of the root cause of the at least one malfunctioning node related to the at least one of the plurality of wireless access points, and prediction of the failure of the at least one of the plurality of wireless access points.

Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.

Abstract: Methods including deactivation and activation of permeability modifiers for use in subterranean formation operations. A first treatment fluid may be introduced into a subterranean formation having a first treatment zone having a first aqueous permeability value, the first treatment fluid comprising a first aqueous base fluid and a deactivated permeability modifier. The deactivated permeability modifier may be adsorbed onto a surface of the first treatment zone. A second treatment may thereafter be introduced into the subterranean formation, the second treatment fluid comprising a second aqueous base fluid and a cyclodextrin compound. The second treatment fluid may contact the deactivated permeability modifier to activate the permeability modifier by complexing the deactivating surfactant with the cyclodextrin compound, thereby forming an activated permeability modifier adsorbed onto the surface of the first treatment zone and reducing the aqueous permeability of the first treatment zone.

Abstract: A Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows a user to control multiple media streams at the same time. A user can display and configure multiple regions of the GUI to display information about, and control broadcast properties of, multiple media streams being broadcast at the same time. Multiple display regions of the same type can be displayed at the same time. The GUI is also highly customizable, allowing a user to configure multiple different display regions, each displaying information and controls useful for performing functions related to the type of display region. The information displayed in each region can be selected from a single media stream, or from different media streams.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for detecting outliers in real-time for a univariate time-series signal. The system may receive the univariate time-series signal, comprising a plurality of datasets, from a data source. The system may compute a standard deviation of a dataset of the plurality of datasets. Subsequently, the system may compute the optimal sample block size and the critical sample size of the dataset. Further, the system may determine the optimal operational block size of the dataset. The system may segment the plurality of datasets into blocks based upon the optimal operational block size. The system may detect the outliers by performing an outlier detection technique on the blocks, thereby ensuring improved execution time while minimally affecting precision and accuracy of the outcome of the outlier detection method.

Abstract: A method for controlling an angular orientation of a person support apparatus including a bladder portion containing fluidized particulate material, an upper frame, and a base frame may include adjusting a height of the upper frame with respect to the base frame with at least one of a first and second actuator at respective speeds, determining a dynamic angular orientation of the upper frame with respect to the base frame based on at least one of a respective operating characteristic of the first and second actuator, determining a corrected angular orientation based on the dynamic angular orientation and a floor angle indicative of the orientation of the base frame with respect to horizontal, comparing the corrected angular orientation with an orientation reference range, and adjusting at least one actuator speed when the corrected angular orientation is outside the orientation reference range until it is within the orientation reference range.

Abstract: A method includes receiving an image of drill cuttings with a data acquisition system that includes one or more processors, the drill cuttings originating from a wellbore being drilled and including a plurality of particles. The image of the drill cuttings is analyzed with the one or more processors by obtaining three two-dimensional distance measurements for each particle and obtaining four angular measurements for each particle. The one or more processors then determine at least one of a particle size distribution of the drill cuttings and a shape distribution of the drill cuttings based on the three two-dimensional distance measurements and the four angular measurements of each particle.

Abstract: A logging apparatus for use in a well can include at least one sensor that senses a well parameter, at least one buoyancy control device, and the logging apparatus extending helically between opposite ends of the logging apparatus. A method of logging in a subterranean well can include installing at least one logging apparatus in the well, and the logging apparatus helically displacing in the well as a sensor of the logging apparatus senses a well parameter. A well system can include at least one logging apparatus disposed in a wellbore, the logging apparatus including multiple segments, the segments including at least one buoyancy control device and at least one sensor that senses a well parameter, and the segments being helically arranged in the wellbore.

Abstract: According to an example, event anomaly analysis and prediction may include accessing a master directed graph that specifies known events and transitions between the known events, and ranking each of the known events. Each of the ranked known events may be clustered into a plurality of anomaly categories. A plurality of rules to analyze new events may be determined based on the plurality of anomaly categories. A determination may be made, based on an application of the plurality of rules to data that is to be analyzed for an anomaly, whether the data includes the anomaly. In response to a determination that the data includes the anomaly, a device associated with the data may be controlled.

Abstract: In a method for repairing a fractured coated continuous sucker rod, the pin end segment of the broken rod is discarded, the remaining rod is cut off, and the existing rod coating is trimmed back from the rod cut-off point. A replacement pin end, incorporating a rod portion and an upset pin end, is welded to the cut-off end of the sucker rod. A resilient cylindrical repair sleeve with a longitudinal slit is spread open and urged by radial force over and around the rod portion of the replacement pin end and the adjoining exposed portion of the sucker rod. Using an appropriate fusing apparatus, the edges of the repair sleeve's longitudinal slit are then fused together, and one end of the sleeve is circumferentially fused to the trimmed-back existing coating. Repair sleeves can also be used to repair damaged sections of coating on unfractured sucker rods.

Abstract: Methods and Systems for automatic information extraction by performing self-learning crawling and rule-based data mining is provided. The method determines existence of crawl policy within input information and performs at least one of front-end crawling, assisted crawling and recursive crawling. Downloaded data set is pre-processed to remove noisy data and subjected to classification rules and decision tree based data mining to extract meaningful information. Performing crawling techniques leads to smaller relevant datasets pertaining to a specific domain from multi-dimensional datasets available in online and offline sources.

Abstract: According to an example, data acceleration may include receiving indications of levels of capabilities respectively needed for data movement, data processing, and data interactivity, and/or operational parameters associated with the data movement, the data processing, and the data interactivity. Data acceleration may further include determining, based on an analysis of the received indications and/or the operational parameters, specifications for the data movement to include streaming and/or batch, the data processing to include a big data platform, complex event processing, and/or an appliance, and the data interactivity to include an in-memory database (IMDB) and/or a distributed cache.

Abstract: Direct field cancelation with optional receive antenna compensation is provided in at least some gradient induction logging tool embodiments. Illustrative embodiments include a spatial gradient antenna arrangement having multiple spatially-separated multi-component coil antennas and a multi-component coil antenna having bucking coils that cancel the effects of both the direct field and the gradient of the direct field on the receive signal. Other tool embodiments include a multi-component coil antenna and a spatial gradient antenna arrangement having spatially separated multi-component coil antennas with bucking coils that cancel the effects of both the direct field and the gradient of the direct field on the receive signal. Those embodiments employing a spatial gradient antenna arrangement for receiving may further be configured to provide compensated measurements by combining measurements from rotated orientations of the spatial gradient antenna.

Abstract: The present application is directed to a submersible pumping system operable under hydrostatic pressure. The system suitably comprises a prime mover submersible within a first fluid; a pump means submersible within the first fluid and sealably coupled to the prime mover; and a fluid source in fluid communication with the prime mover, the fluid source providing a second fluid effective to act on the prime mover to power the pump means; wherein the second fluid is discharged in the first fluid after acting on the prime mover; and wherein the second fluid has a chemical composition substantially similar to the first fluid.

Abstract: A banking system operates responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine comprising a card reader. The card reader includes a movable read head that can read card data along a magnetic stripe of a card that was inserted long-edge first. The card reader includes a card entry gate. The gate is opened for a card that is determined to be properly oriented for data reading. The card reader can encrypt card data, including account data. The machine also includes a PIN keypad. The card reader can send encrypted card data to the keypad. The keypad can decipher the encrypted card data. The keypad can encrypt both deciphered card data and a received user PIN. The card data and the PIN are usable by the machine to authorize a user to carry out a financial transfer involving the account.

Abstract: Embodiments include a person support apparatus including a plurality of air fluidizable material, a tub, a foam bolster disposed along at least one wall of the tub and extending over the at least one wall, and an inflatable air bladder disposed above the foam bolster along the at least one wall of the tub. A method of assisting a person with ingress or egress of a person support apparatus by deflating the inflatable air bladder and adjusting a level of fluidization of the air fluidizable material such that the surface supporting the portion of the person is substantially level with a top of the foam bolster is also described.