Abstract: A variable mold includes a plurality of hydraulic pin systems. Each pin system includes a valve in fluid communication with a supply of pressurized fluid, a tubing in fluid communication with the valve, and a pin coupled to the tubing. The pin is configured to extend from the tubing in response to the supply of the fluid through the valve to the tubing. A longitudinal axis of each pin is mutually parallel and arranged in a two-dimensional array. The variable mold includes a controller operably coupled to the valves that can control the displacement of each pin. The variable mold may include a pin displacement detector configured to detect a displacement of each pin. The pin displacement detector is operably coupled to the controller. The controller can close each valve in response to the pin displacement detector detecting that the pin corresponding to the valve extends a predetermined distance.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] Provided is a fluorescence measuring device that suppresses or eliminates fluctuations in a light source, problems of jitter associated with signal processing, and the influence of background light and performs highly sensitive and accurate quantification even when it is difficult to separate fluorescence from scattered light due to time difference or wavelength difference.

Abstract: Strategies, systems, compositions, and methods for genetically modifying cells to include one or more loss-of-function modifications and/or to include one or more gain-of-function modifications, as well as modified cells (and compositions of such cells) that include one or more loss-of-function modifications and/or that include one or more gain-of-function modifications, are described. In certain aspects, such modified cells include at least one gain-of-function modification within a coding region of an essential gene.

Abstract: For alignment of rotational shafts, two devices for attachment to circular faces of two shaft segments. Each of the two devices has a laser photoelectric device for ascertaining a dimension of displacement of the two shafts from a desired axis of rotation relative to each other. Each of the two devices having a base surface with two linear contact edges designed to engage with a circumferential surface of a shaft and to ensure alignment between the device and an axis of rotation of the shaft to within a tolerance compatible with alignment tolerances of the shaft.

Abstract: A private information detector for data loss prevention is described.

Abstract: The modular sea wall forms a sea wall constructed from two different blocking bodies: a front blocking body and a rear blocking body. The front blocking body is located seaward and the rear blocking body is located shoreward. The front blocking body provides a front wall that curves upward to the uppermost surface of the front blocking body. The front blocking body attaches to the rear blocking body at the top of the curve. The rear blocking body provides a rear wall that attaches to the front blocking body. The rear wall may be a vertical wall that extends vertically downward without curving or a curved wall that curves downwards from the attachment point to the rear end of the rear attachment body. The front wall and rear wall may provide openings that allow water to flow through the front wall and the rear wall.

Abstract: A variable mold includes a plurality of hydraulic pin systems. Each pin system includes a valve in fluid communication with a supply of pressurized fluid, a tubing in fluid communication with the valve, and a pin coupled to the tubing. The pin is configured to extend from the tubing in response to the supply of the fluid through the valve to the tubing. A longitudinal axis of each pin is mutually parallel and arranged in a two-dimensional array. The variable mold includes a controller operably coupled to the valves that can control the displacement of each pin. The variable mold may include a pin displacement detector configured to detect a displacement of each pin. The pin displacement detector is operably coupled to the controller. The controller can close each valve in response to the pin displacement detector detecting that the pin corresponding to the valve extends a predetermined distance.

Abstract: For alignment of rotational shafts, two devices for attachment to circular faces of two shaft segments. Each of the two devices has a laser photoelectric device for ascertaining a dimension of displacement of the two shafts from a desired axis of rotation relative to each other. Each of the two devices having a base surface with two linear contact edges designed to engage with a circumferential surface of a shaft and to ensure alignment between the device and an axis of rotation of the shaft to within a tolerance compatible with alignment tolerances of the shaft.

Abstract: The invention is generally directed to systems and methods of monitoring or predicting a service event for an industrial asset using an artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) system including an AIoT device, AIoT cloud, and a self-learning AI classification and analytics engine. The device may include one or more sensors and an inference engine for reducing power consumption and detecting anomalies at the edge and sending data associated with anomalies to a signal processor for classification and AI-driven automatic configuration. Classification may be based on narrow-band analysis and/or machine learning models. If an anomaly is detected power may be provided to a communication module to send sensor data to the signal processor for classification and/or further processing. Classifications or determinations made by the signal processor or detected through a work-order system may be used to automatically retrain the inference model on the edge, so that the system is self-learning.

Abstract: A system to assist in monitoring and improving services in hotels, motels and other lodging facilities. The system includes a plurality of fixed-location wireless devices that are situated throughout the facility and each service provider or asset to be monitored or tracked is provided with a cooperating mobile wireless device. The mobile devices may periodically transmit beacons that are received by the fixed location devices. The system may determine location based on evaluation of signal strength across a plurality of fixed devices. The system may include premapped calibration data on signal strength to assist in determining location. The location information may help to assess employee performance, to assist in improving performance and to provide improved services. The system may also interact with an application running on a hotel guest's electronic device to allow the system to track guest location. Guest location information can be used to provide improved guest services.

Abstract: Described are systems and methods for eliminating measurement lag. An example method comprises deploying control agents in a customer data center, each of the control agents being associated with at least one of a set of customer nodes of the customer data center; receiving a query for local state data at a service provider data center; pushing down execution of the query from the service provider data center to the control agents deployed in the set of customer nodes in the customer data center. The deployed control agents may be configured to, in response to receiving the query pushed down from the service provider data center to the customer data center, coordinate and execute at least a task for the set of customer nodes to collect the local state data. In addition to query execution, remediation can also be executed by the control agents at the customer data center.

Abstract: For alignment of rotational shafts, two devices for attachment to circular faces of two shaft segments. Each of the two devices has a laser photoelectric device for ascertaining a dimension of displacement of the two shafts from a desired axis of rotation relative to each other. Each of the two devices having a base surface with two linear contact edges designed to engage with a circumferential surface of a shaft and to ensure alignment between the device and an axis of rotation of the shaft to within a tolerance compatible with alignment tolerances of the shaft.

Abstract: A masonry block has a front, a back, a top surface, a bottom surface, a first side and a second side. The front has a front-top edge and a front-bottom edge. A number of steps (e.g. two steps) that rise above the top surface are setback from the front-top edge by a first setback distance. An equal number of notches are formed/cut into the bottom surface. A first notch of the notches is setback from the front-bottom edge by a second setback distance. When stacked to form a wall, the steps of a lower masonry block interface with the notches of a next higher masonry block and the first setback distance is greater than the second setback distance resulting in an overall setback as defined by a difference between the first setback distance minus the second setback distance.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring alignment of two shafts. Two magnetic bases each have two linear contact edges designed to engage with a circumferential surface of the two shafts and to ensure alignment between the base and an axis of rotation of the shaft to within a tolerance compatible with alignment tolerances of the shaft. Brackets attached to the bases are designed to attach laser photoelectric devices, the photoelectric devices designed to measure shaft misalignment.

Abstract: Chat-based systems and methods for data loss prevention are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an enable command from a chat service by a data loss prevention service, scanning data from a data source with the data loss prevention service in response to the enable command to detect private information in the data, generating an alert for the private information by the data loss prevention service, and sending the alert to the chat service to cause the chat service to broadcast a chat alert to a group of users.

Abstract: Described are systems and methods for executing a pipeline command sequence designed for execution on a single node across a fleet of nodes. An example method may commence with receiving the pipeline command sequence. Based on a type of the pipeline command sequence, a subset of available nodes for optimal execution of the pipeline command sequence across the fleet of nodes may be determined. The method may continue with defining a plurality of tasks for the subset of available nodes. The method may further include translating the pipeline command sequence into the plurality of tasks and executing the plurality of tasks on the subset of available nodes.

Abstract: Described are systems and methods for scaling performance across a large number of customer nodes by delegating management of execution of one or more tasks to the customer nodes. An example method may commence with ascertaining a set of the customer nodes eligible for delegation of the one or more tasks. The method may continue with deploying one or more control agents to the eligible set of the customer nodes. The one or more control agents may be configured to coordinate and execute the one or more tasks on the eligible set of customer nodes and selectively take one or more actions based on results of the execution of the one or more tasks.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for lysis of cells that combine three lysis steps—(1) heat, (2) detergent and (3) base—into a single step and that can be completed in a short period of time, e.g., a few minutes. The methods combine a normally incompatible detergent and base lysis, allow for simplified removal of detergent after lysis, and importantly, limits damage to DNA, such as shearing, that typically results from separate application of conventional lysis methods, yielding improved quality and quantities of genomic DNA (gDNA).

Abstract: Described are methods and systems for automated remediation for networked environments. An example method includes receiving a definition of actions associated with each remediation of issues for a network fleet. The method can further include automatically converting each definition into automated flows in a pipeline language for execution across the network; automatically determining that there is variance between an observed state of the network fleet and a desired state of the network fleet that is causing at least one issue in the network; automatically executing the automated flows to take actions for automatically remediating the variance across the entire network fleet; and receiving feedback after the automatic execution. The automated flows may include flows for alerting and for taking one or more actions across the entire network fleet.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for screening biological samples for the presence unknown microbes, such as bacteria and archaea or unknown eukaryotes using rRNA gene sequences or other highly conserved genetic regions, across multiple biological samples using a unique sequence tag (barcode) corresponding to the sample. The screening process tracks the unknown microbe or eukaryote in a diluted sample where the DNA has been prepared using whole genome amplification. The whole genome of the unknown microbe or eukaryote is then sequenced and assembled.