Abstract: A device may receive a uniform resource locator (URL) and encrypted data. The device may download a first application from an application server based on the URL. The device may download and execute the first application. The first application may receive the encrypted data.

Abstract: Provided is a float for use with a fluid flow control device, a fluid flow control device, a method for manufacturing a float, and a well system. The float, in one aspect, includes a fluid tight enclosure. The float, according to this aspect, further includes density specific material located within the fluid tight enclosure, the fluid tight enclosure and the density specific material creating a net density for the float that is between a first density of a desired fluid and a second density of an undesired fluid, such that the float may control fluid flow through a flow control device when encountering the desired fluid or the undesired fluid.

Abstract: Conversational agents (CAs) may analyze language input and generate and output a response to a user. For example, when receiving a user's support request, the CA may determine whether to conduct self-disclosure by including information about the CA's “self” in a response to the user. For example, based on performing sentiment analysis of a support request user input, the CA may determine that the user is expressing negative emotions. Based on the user's expression of negative emotions, the CA may perform self-disclosure as part of generating a response to the user. A CA that is configured to engage in self-disclosure, for instance by including information about a CA's self in an output response, may increase users' acceptance of the CA, which may make a user more likely to trust and/or interact with a CA.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a solution for monitoring stick-slip vibrations without using any surface torque measurements. Instead, the disclosure provides a method to monitor stick-slip vibrations based on rotational speed. A stick-slip monitor, a top drive controller and a method of operating a drill string are provided herein that use rotational speed for monitoring stick-slip vibrations. In one example, the method of operating a drill string includes: (1) performing a frequency domain analysis of an RPM signal associated with a top drive that is used to rotate a drill string, and (2) determining a presence of torsional oscillations of the drill string based on the frequency domain analysis of the RPM signal.

Abstract: A method that includes detecting the presence of a pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia lesion in a subject in vivo comprising administering to the subject a construct, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the construct comprises: (a) a polyethylene glycol-block-poly(L-lysine) polymer moiety, wherein the polyethylene glycol is thiol-functionalized; (b) a cholecystokinin-B (CCK-B) receptor ligand coupled to the polyethylene glycol of the polymer moiety; and (c) a detectable moiety complexed with, or conjugated to, the poly(L-lysine) of the polymer moiety, wherein the construct is neutralized.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing a virtual card token to facilitate Real-Time Payment (RTP) network transactions. An account management system may facilitate RTP transactions with consumer bank accounts using the virtual card token. After providing the virtual card token to a user device, the user device may present the virtual card token to a merchant system to conduct a transaction. The virtual card token may operate with existing merchant systems and/or point-of-sale (POS) terminals. The merchant system may provide the virtual card token to the account management system for transaction approval. The account management system may select and retrieve funding from a particular bank account based on user-defined parameters. Upon retrieving funding from the particular bank account via the RTP network, the account management system may approve the transaction and/or provide payment to the merchant system.

Abstract: Drug induced gene expression provides information covering various aspects of drug discovery and development. Recent advances in accessibility of open-source drug-induced transcriptomic data along with ability of deep learning algorithms to understand hidden patterns have opened opportunity for designing drug molecules based on desired gene expression signatures. Embodiments herein provide method and system for cell specific model where gene expressions are processed via pretrained Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) variational autoencoder (s-VAE) to produce new molecules. The model is trained with drug and drug induced gene expression data as input. Both pretrained s-VAE and profile variational autoencoder (p-VAE) are trained jointly. During joint training, difference between newly generated molecules and existing drug molecules is calculated as joint loss function composed of binary cross entropy loss and Kullback-Leibler divergence loss.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for processing and settling financial transactions. An example method comprises receiving a transaction from an originator. The transaction comprises information associated with an identification of an initiating user or the account. The method comprises determining the actual account number, transmitting a financial services transaction request comprising the actual account number to a financial institution, receiving a response, and transmitting a response back to the originator. Another method comprises receiving, from a user device, a request to associate a financial account with a user account. The method comprises generating and sending an association message to a payment network and receiving a key associated with the financial account for use in initiating financial transactions. Another method comprises utilizing such a key to generate and process a transaction request. Other systems, methods, and media are also provided.

Abstract: A downhole fluid sampling tool may include: a tool body; a flow port disposed on the tool body; a sample chamber disposed within the tool body and fluidly coupled to the flow port; a pump disposed within the tool body, wherein the pump is configured to pump a fluid through the flow port into the sample chamber; a filter disposed on an inlet of the flow port, wherein the filter is configured to filter the fluid entering the flow port; and a removable filter cover configured to prevent fluid contact with the filter.

Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for building data lineages for queries, such as SQL queries. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a lineage tool that is able to construct data lineages in a recursive manner that uses the text of a query to identify dependent tables. In several embodiments, the data lineage tool may parse SQL queries to identify columns and dependent tables, including analyzing interdependent queries used to populate dependent tables and proceeding until the true source of data is identified. In several embodiments, the data lineage tool may utilize the relationships and dependencies to build element and table level lineages.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes devices, and systems for monitoring and detection systems. Some of the methods may include monitoring one or more birds that each has a receiver-located tag and/or a global positioning satellite (GPS) tag, and for each of the bird(s) having a receiver-located tag: receiving, at at least one of a plurality of detection stations, a signal from the receiver-located tag, each of the detection stations comprising two or more directional antennas, determining bird heading information and bird distance information, estimating a position and trajectory of the bird; and calculating an amount of time for the bird to reach a boundary around a wind turbine (TTB). In some methods, for each of the bird(s) having a GPS tag: receiving GPS data from the GPS tag when the bird crosses a geo-fence that surrounds the wind turbine; estimating a position and trajectory of the bird.

Abstract: An equipment housing assembly removably securable to a hi-rail vehicle operable to advance along first and second rails of a railroad track includes a housing that houses and/or supports at least one rail sensor. The at least one rail sensor is operable to sense at least one property of at least one of the first and second rails as the hi-rail vehicle advances along the first and second rails. The at least one rail sensor is advanceable from a retracted configuration relative to the equipment housing to a deployed configuration relative to the equipment housing to sense the at least one property of at least one of the first and second rails. A power distribution system is removably and electrically connectable to a power source in the hi-rail vehicle. A control system is communicatively coupled the at least one sensor to control operation thereof and communicate sensor data therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention provides for novel methods for regulating and detecting the cytosine methylation status of DNA. The invention is based upon identification of a novel and surprising catalytic activity for the family of TET proteins, namely TET1, TET2, TEM3, and CXXC4. The novel activity is related to the enzymes being capable of converting the cytosine nucleotide 5-methylcytosine into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine by hydroxylation.

Abstract: Multispectral laser speckle analysis techniques have been widely used for applications such as the analysis of seed qualities, detection of fungal infections in fresh produce, estimation of blood flow velocities, and the like. However, the conventional methods fail to address color bias in images which is a major concern in terms of accuracy in applications like activity prediction. and the present disclosure provides a novel image processing algorithm which performs activity prediction without any color bias. Here, an RGB input image is segmented, and mask is generated. Distance based clustering is performed on the masked image to obtain cluster map. Simultaneously, color coded activity map is generated for each color component of the image. Further, the color coded activity map is multiplied with cluster contrast values and thereby an optimal color coded activity region is selected for activity map generation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing a digital container. In some embodiments, the system determines whether an access code to refresh access provisions for a user with respect to a digital asset was received within a period of time. Based on determining that the access code was not received within the period of time, the system executes one or more modification processes to render at least a portion of the digital asset inaccessible. Subsequent to the period of time elapsing, the system receives the access code to refresh the access provisions for the user with respect to the digital asset. Based on receiving the access code, the system executes one or more restoration processes to reverse the one or more modification processes, thereby restoring the access provisions for the user with respect to the digital asset.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for authorizing age-restricted interactions. A first request may be received at an interaction authorization system from a computing device based on the computing device detecting (1) an age restriction associated with an interaction and (2) a certification mechanism for age validation associated with an account. The first request may include an account identifier, where the account is identified from a data store using the identifier to receive an age identifier of the account holder stored in association with the account. A first message including the age identifier may be generated and provided to the computing device for use in determining the account holder's age meets the age restriction. Based on the determination, a second request may be received at the interaction authorization system from the computing device to approve the interaction, and a responsive second message indicating an interaction approval may be generated and provided.

Abstract: Several factors have contributed to an increased demand for an enterprise blockchain in various industries such as reduced administrative cost, faster transaction processing, reduced likelihood of fraud etc. Several blockchain applications and technologies have emerged, however, there is a need to interoperate with various blockchain platforms by defining the interoperability semantics. Embodiments herein provide a method and system for a framework to orchestrate and manage the transactions within or across various blockchain platforms without making any change to the underlying platform protocols. Framework allows to orchestrate operations within or across various blockchain platforms without impacting blockchain protocol layer thereby reducing time and effort needed in creating targeted interoperability solution for each blockchain platform.

Abstract: The present invention provides for novel methods for regulating and detecting the cytosine methylation status of DNA. The invention is based upon identification of a novel and surprising catalytic activity for the family of TET proteins, namely TET1, TET2, TET3, and CXXC4. The novel activity is related to the enzymes being capable of converting the cytosine nucleotide 5-methylcytosine into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine by hydroxylation.

Abstract: Many of the existing approaches for grouping of jobs for processing are manual in nature, and are based on intuition. Other approaches involve modeling batches as node-edge graphs and use existing graph theory solutions such as connected components or cliques to find logical subgraphs. However, this approach isn't efficient due to the fact that there may be various constraints unique to batch systems. The disclosure herein provides a method and system for creating logical groups of jobs meeting objective function and satisfying constraints. In this method, a logical grouping of jobs is performed such that all defined constraints are satisfied. If any job is not satisfying one or more of the defined constraints, smaller components of the jobs are derived such that the smaller components satisfy the constraints. The logical groups are formed by merging the jobs and the smaller components satisfying the constraints.

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing data governance as a service is disclosed and may include onboarding a database to a governance as a service system, the database including at least one data set, executing, via the data governance as a service system, at least one core capability, wherein the at least one core capability is applicable to the at least one data set, determining data governance metadata for the at least one data set, wherein the data governance metadata is a subset of a data set metadata, applying at least one policy rule of the core capability to the data governance metadata, determining a violation based on applying the at least one policy rule, generating a first alert based on the violation, and transmitting the first alert to a designated system.