Abstract: An electrical contact assembly having a braided Litz wire and an electrical contact. The electrical contact has a contact portion and a Litz wire termination portion. The contact portion is configured to make an electrical connection with a mating contact. The Litz wire termination portion has serrations which engage the braided Litz wire. The Litz wire termination portion has a length to allow the Litz wire termination portion to make an electrical connection with each individual wire of the Litz wire.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises adding a plurality of soybeans to an extractor, the soybeans having an average protein:oil ratio of greater than 2.3, heating the soybeans, removing hulls from the plurality of soybeans, and grinding the plurality of soybeans with water at a temperature between 180° F. and 190° F. to yield a soy extract having hexanal levels of less than 50 parts per billion (ppb).

Abstract: A method of evaluating a subterranean formation includes conveying a tool along a borehole. The tool includes a transmitter that transmits a drive pulse and a receiver that receives at least one formation response to the drive pulse. The method further includes calculating a signal-to-noise ratio of the at least one formation response and comparing the signal-to-noise ratio to a programmable threshold. The method further includes determining, based on the comparing, an adjusted drive pulse to transmit and transmitting the adjusted drive pulse. The method further includes and receiving at least one formation response to the adjusted drive pulse and deriving formation data from the at least one formation response to the adjusted drive pulse. The method further includes displaying a representation of the formation based on the formation data.

Abstract: A computer-implemented process receives, from a client representative communication device, a request to initiate a voice-based communication to a customer communication device on behalf of a client entity. The request comprises a telephone number associated with the customer communication device. The client representative device being is operated by a client representative that speaks a first human-spoken language, and the customer communication device is operated by a customer that speaks a second human-spoken language, which is distinct from the first human-spoken language. The computer-implemented process routes, with a processor, the request to a language interpreter communication device. The computer-implemented process initiates, with the processor, a communication request from the language interpreter communication device to the customer communication device.

Abstract: A vaporizing assembly for an aerosol-generating system may comprise a delivery device and a heater assembly. The heater assembly may comprise a heat resistive substrate and a heating element. The delivery device is configured to deliver an aerosol-forming substrate to at least a surface of the heat resistive substrate, wherein the heating element is isolated or separated from the aerosol-forming substrate by the heat resistive substrate. The present disclosure is also directed to a method for generating an aerosol.

Abstract: Various disclosed borehole imaging tools and methods provide an improved high-resolution electrode configuration suitable for imaging in both water-based and oil-based muds. In at least some embodiments, the imaging tools employ a unitary conductive body to provide a wall-contacting face with grooves that define multiple sensing surfaces. Toroids may be seated in the grooves around each sensing surface for measuring the current flow through each sensing surface. Such placement enables a nearly ideal equipotential surface to be maintained and a straightforward “full coverage” electrode configuration due to a minimal electrode separation. Moreover, the disclosed configuration promises robust and reliable performance in the hostile conditions often experienced by logging while drilling (LWD) tools. This wall-contacting face can be provided on an extendable sensor pad or embedded on the outer surface of a LWD stabilizer fin.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for a foamed treatment fluid in a wellbore. A method of treating a lost circulation zone comprising: introducing a foamed treatment fluid into a lost circulation zone in a subterranean formation, wherein the foamed treatment fluid comprises: a cement; a viscosifying agent; a thixotropic additive; a foaming surfactant; a gas; and water; allowing the foamed treatment fluid to set in the lost circulation zone to seal the lost circulation zone. A foamed treatment fluid comprising: a cement; a viscosifying agent; a thixotropic additive; a foaming surfactant; a gas; and water.

Abstract: A method of making a multifunctional catalyst for upgrading pyrolysis oil includes contacting a hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support with a solution including at least a first metal catalyst precursor and a second metal catalyst precursor, each or both of which may include a heteropolyacid. The hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support may have an average pore size of from 2 nm to 40 nm. Contacting the hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support with the solution deposits or adsorbs the first metal catalyst precursor and the second catalyst precursor onto outer surfaces and pore surfaces of the hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support to produce a multifunctional catalyst precursor. The method further includes removing excess solution and calcining the multifunctional catalyst precursor to produce the multifunctional catalyst comprising at least a first metal catalyst and a second metal catalyst deposited on the outer surfaces and pore surfaces of the hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support.

Abstract: A mattress includes a first, phase changeable component and a thermal management system adapted to control the temperature of the phase changeable component in order to change the firmness of the mattress. In one embodiment the phase changeable component includes two dimensional lattices separated from each other and a spring element extending between the lattices. Some embodiments of the mattress include an optional single phase component. The firmness can be made spatially and/or temporally uniform or nonuniform, and can be controlled based on one or more sensed parameters.

Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for determining the amount of bulk material being choke-fed into an inlet of a blender from one or more bulk material containers placed on a support structure are disclosed. The system includes sensors placed on the support structure beneath the one or more containers for determining the amount of bulk material contained within the container at any given time. By monitoring the change in the mass of the material in the containers overtime the amount of material being fed into the blender can be determined. The material is metered into a mixer within the blender using a metering mechanism, such as a sand screw, which supplies a fixed capacity of bulk material into the blender. The ability to precisely measure the amount of bulk material being choke-fed into the blender enables operators to calibrate the sand screw continuously.

Abstract: A networked system includes: a communication device configured to communicate with a computing device executing a browser extension application and a web browser application; a memory storing instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising: displaying, through the web browser application, a web page on the computing device, the web page being associated with a merchant and including a field requiring population; receiving, through the browser extension application, a secure token mapped to data corresponding to the field, the browser extension application being configured to: (i) detect the field, (ii) automatically populate the field with the secure token sufficient for a financial service provider system to authenticate, (iii) detect a submission script associated with the web page, and (iv) automatically execute the submission script to submit the secure token to the networked system; and transmitting the secure token to the financial service provider s

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel immunogenic compositions that protect swine from disease caused by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). The present invention is also directed to novel immunogenic compositions that protect swine from disease caused by porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV), alone or as combination vaccine to protect against PEDV. The compositions of the invention provide killed viruses whose effectiveness is enhanced by the selection of preferred adjuvants. Novel culture methods are also employed to increase reproducible yield of cultured viruses. Live vaccines are also provided from the Calaf14 PEDV isolate.

Abstract: An example method for modeling a geological formation includes receiving a set of measurements from an electromagnetic logging tool and representing at least one characteristic of the geological formation as at least one continuous spatial function. At least one coefficient of the at least one continuous spatial function may be determined based, at least in part, on the set of measurements. At least one characteristic of the geological formation may be determined based, at least in part, on the at least one continuous spatial function.

Abstract: A method of producing a non-dairy cheese includes fermenting non-dairy milk with lactic acid bacteria and mixing the fermented non-dairy milk with dry ingredients. The dry ingredients include one or more gums and one or more starches. The method further includes heating the fermented non-dairy milk and dry ingredients to 180 degrees and mixing oil into the fermented non-dairy milk in an in-line high shear mixer creating an oil/non-dairy milk mixture. The method further includes circulating the oil/non-dairy milk mixture through the inline high shear mixer until the droplet size of the oil in the non-dairy milk is 15 micrometers or less, removing air from the oil/non-dairy milk mixture, and packaging the oil/non-dairy milk mixture to yield a non-dairy cheese product.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to detect anomalous formation resistivity values within measured formation resistivity data, based on mud resistivity associated with a borehole in a geological formation, the measured formation resistivity data comprising the anomalous formation resistivity values and acceptable formation resistivity values. Additional activity may include transforming the anomalous formation resistivity values into corrected formation resistivity values, inverting the corrected formation resistivity values and the acceptable formation resistivity values to provide true resistivity values for a geological formation, and operating a controlled device according to the true resistivity values for the geological formation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: Reported herein are novel recombinant respiratory syncytial viruses (RSV) having an attenuated phenotype in which the native positions of the NS1 and/or NS2 genes in the RSV genome are shifted to a higher position, that is at positions that are more distal to the promoter. The changes in the gene positions may be present in combination with mutations at other loci to achieve desired levels of attenuation and immunogenicity. The recombinant RSV strains described here are suitable for use as live-attenuated RSV vaccines. Also provided are polynucleotide sequences capable of encoding the described viruses, as well as methods for producing and using the viruses.

Abstract: This disclosure may generally relate to drilling operations and, more particularly, to systems and methods for sidetracking an existing well. Specifically, examples of the present disclosure may include creating a window by introducing a pH-modifying fluid downhole to degrade a portion of a casing string, thereby creating the window through which a secondary wellbore may be drilled. A method for creating a window in an oilfield tubular may comprise of providing a pH-modifying fluid in the oilfield tubular disposed in a wellbore and contacting a degradable section of the oilfield tubular with the pH-modifying fluid to degrade at least a portion of the degradable section and form an exit window in the oilfield tubular.

Abstract: A user device may output an indication of an incoming call from a calling device. The user device may receive a request to screen the incoming call. The user device may analyze a transcription of voice input, received from the calling device, for one or more keywords related to a request for funds. The user device may output one or more input options, which permit a user of the user device to respond to the request for funds, including an input option to transfer funds from a first account associated with the user device to a second account associated with the calling device. The user device may detect a user interaction with the input option to transfer funds from the first account to the second account. The user device may transmit a request that causes funds to be transferred from the first account to the second account.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for controlling objects being loaded or unloaded from a storage structure or vehicle, such as a trailer. In example embodiments, a plurality of parcels may be stored in or on a trailer that is attached to a cab of a delivery vehicle. Upon arrival at a deposit location, the trailer loaded with the one or more parcels may be removably secured to a an adjustable platform designed to be raised to a predetermined angle for unloading of the one or more parcels. Once the adjustable platform is raised to the predetermined angle, a plurality of adjustable dividing mechanisms may be configured to pivot, allowing for the movement of a controlled volume of the one or more parcels onto the receiving platform.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate a method for real time management of transportation services. The method includes determining a discrete control process with respect to a plurality of states of a vehicle. Each state in the plurality of states corresponds to a station and a count of vacant seats in the vehicle at the station. A set of rules is generated to maximize a key performance parameter of the vehicle, based on at least the determined discrete control process. A valuation parameter is determined, in real time, for one or more vacant seats in the vehicle at each of one or more subsequent stations based on the generated set of rules. The determined valuation parameter for the one or more vacant seats corresponding to each of the one or more subsequent stations is transmitted to a plurality of mobile computing devices associated with a plurality of commuters.