Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are disclosed. The compositions can be electrostatically charged, can be attractive for translocation by the social insects into nesting, tunneling, and/or gathering structures of the social insects, or both. Kits comprising the compositions and a powder delivery device operable to electrostatically charge a pest control composition during delivery are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a distance measuring device and a distance measuring system that can suppress crosstalk between channels. Provided is a distance measuring device including a photonic integrated circuit that has a function compatible with a coherent LiDAR method that measures distance based on interference between reception light, which is reflected light of transmission light irradiated on a target, and reference light. The photonic integrated circuit independently includes a first coupler for the transmission light and a second coupler for the reference light as optical couplers that couple the inside and outside of an optical waveguide. The present disclosure can be applied to a distance measuring device that measures distance using a coherent LiDAR method.

Abstract: A sheet storage device includes a regulation cursor and a hold mechanism. The hold mechanism includes a guide shaft, and a stopper having a guide hole in which the guide shaft is inserted, and being capable of reciprocating with the regulation cursor. When the stopper is inclined to one side, movement of the regulation cursor is restricted. When the stopper is raised to the other side, movement of the regulation cursor is enabled. The stopper has a contact part that contacts the regulation cursor, so as to restrict the stopper from inclining to the other side, when the regulation cursor is enabled to move.

Abstract: A medical services kiosk supporting private and secure telemedicine sessions between a patient and a remote network terminal utilized by a remote health care professional. The medical services kiosk comprising at least one privacy chamber having at least one door and at least one window. Each privacy chamber may include a user interactive display terminal that includes a display device, an input device, and a centralized processor, wherein the centralized processor is electronically communicable with the remote network terminal and a cloud based system. Each patient station may each include at least one documentation receiving device, at least one biometric device for obtaining biometric health measurements of the patient utilizing the at least one patient station, an arm mechanism, a seating mechanism, a camera, a retractable diagnostic camera device, a lighting mechanism that lights the privacy chamber, and a purification system.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system and an information processing method capable of preventing a black belt from occurring in a case of imaging a display section. A control unit of a vertical blanking period control unit controls a vertical blanking period of a video displayed on a video wall on the basis of the exposure time of a video camera that captures the video wall. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a re-imaging system used in virtual production in which a video displayed on an LED display is re-imaged as a background, and a PC, a video wall controller, a video wall, a video camera, and the like constituting the re-imaging system or.

Abstract: A network element includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the network element to: designate a first user plane function, from among the plurality of user plane functions, as a designated broadcast forwarder from which to receive broadcast control traffic, and receive the broadcast control traffic forwarded from the first user plane function, from among the plurality of user plane functions.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a unit cell including an electrode assembly provided with a tab bundle and having a round portion, and a cap member in the vicinity of the round portion of the electrode assembly. The cap member includes a pair of first surfaces which are parallel to an upper surface and a lower surface of the electrode assembly, a pair of second surfaces which are parallel to both side surfaces of the electrode assembly, one third surface which connects the pair of first surfaces and the pair of second surfaces, and a contact member provided in an internal space formed by the pair of first surfaces, the pair of second surfaces, and the one third surface and in contact with the round portion of the electrode assembly. The third surface is provided with a through hole through which the tab bundle passes.

Abstract: A manhole platform is provided for mounting on an upper slab of a concrete manhole to allow the manhole to be lifted into or out of position and to provide a safe platform on top for users to stand on. The manhole platform has a support plate for mounting on an upper surface of the upper slab to cover an access hole of the upper slab. A clamping bracket is provided that extends downwardly from a lower side of the support plate, through the access hole, to clamp the manhole platform to the upper slab. An actuator is located above an upper surface of the support plate to operate the clamping bracket between a clamping position in which the manhole platform is clamped to the upper slab, and an unclamped position in which the manhole platform can be lifted off of the upper slab.

Abstract: An electrode assembly including a negative electrode including a sliding region, wherein a first negative electrode thickness ratio of the thickness TN1 of the negative electrode mixture layer at the first face-to-face position where the negative electrode faces the lower end part of the positive electrode, to the thickness TNC of the negative electrode mixture layer at the center part of the negative electrode, and a first positive electrode thickness ratio of the thickness TP1 of the positive electrode mixture layer at the lower end part of the positive electrode, to the thickness TPC of the positive electrode mixture layer at the center part of the positive electrode satisfy the disclosed Condition 1 below. When the disclosed Condition 1 is satisfied, the risk of local NP ratio reversal in the sliding region can be effectively prevented.

Abstract: An ink supplying mechanism includes an ink container containing ink, an ink tank storing the ink supplied from the ink container to a recording head, a decompressing part decompressing the ink tank and a degassing channel circulating the ink flowed out from the ink tank and flowing the ink into the ink tank. To the recording head, the ink tanks are arranged in parallel. When one ink tank among the ink tanks is used for printing, a degassing tank to be degassed is selected from other ink tanks, whose dissolved oxygen amount of the ink have not arrived a predetermined supplying target value, according to predetermined degassing selection criteria, and the ink inside the degassing tank is circulated by using the degassing channel, in a state that the degassing tank is decompressed by the decompressing part, to perform degassing operation of degassing the ink inside the degassing tank.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inter-module busbar including a metal plate for electrical connection, a first insulating layer configured to enclose at least a part of the metal plate and being expandable at high temperatures, and a second insulating layer added to the first insulating layer and being configured to be ceramized at high temperatures. The metal plate in the busbar is not exposed in the event of fire, whereby short circuit due to contact with the metal plate may be prevented.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glenoid trial implant for reverse total shoulder prosthesis including a metaglene intended to be assembled in a stabilized and temporary manner inside the glenoid fossa of a patient who will receive surgery, and a glenosphere integrally assembled to the metaglene.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a time measuring device and a control device. The time measuring device measures a predetermined time. The control device operates as a transition processor, a detector, and a determiner. The transition processor performs transition processing for allowing the image forming apparatus to transition to an energy-saving mode. The detector detects that the transition processing has been completed. The determiner determines, when not yet obtaining from the detector detection information indicating completion of the transition processing at a time when the time measuring device has measured lapse of the predetermined time from start of the transition processing, that the transition processing has not yet been completed.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating rotating body, a pressure rotating body, and a fixing frame. The fixing frame supports the heating rotating body and the pressure rotating body. The fixing frame includes a pair of side plates and a plurality of stays. The side plates are disposed to face each other, and supports both axial end portions of the heating rotating body and both axial end portions of the pressure rotating body. The stays are disposed between the side plates. In a XYZ coordinate in which an axis along a direction in which the side plates face each other is defined as the X-axis, and axes perpendicular to the X-axis and perpendicular to each other are defined as the Y-axis and the Z-axis, each of the stays is fastened to the side plates at least two axial directions of the three axial directions of the XYZ coordinates.

Abstract: Implementations are directed to processing a content object model through a ML model to provide a set of base content feature representations, processing a style object model through the ML model to provide a set of base style feature representations, executing iterations including: generating, by the ML model, a set of stylized feature representations for an initial stylized object model, the initial stylized object model having one or more adjusted parameters relative to a previous iteration, determining a total loss based on the set of stylized feature representations, the set of base content feature representations, and the sets of base style feature representations, and determining that the total loss is non-optimized, and in response, initiating a next iteration, executing an iteration including determining that the total loss is optimized, and in response providing the initial stylized object model as output of the iterative process.

Abstract: A device management system includes a frontend and a backend. The frontend includes a first domain. The backend includes a domain of a relay system as a relay backend domain that is a domain of the backend. The frontend accesses the relay backend domain when an access that uses a URL including the first domain as a domain name is received from a client via the relay system, and a request for an API is thus received from the client. The backend generates a relay Cookie including the relay backend domain as a domain used for establishing the session. The frontend transmits the relay Cookie to the client via the relay system.

Abstract: Management of spot colors and spot color adjustments includes associating these color printing resources with print conditions, customer accounts, or projects for a printing device. A spot color adjustment is associated with a print condition, a customer account, or a project used for printing operations. A print job is received that specified a selected print condition, a selected customer account, or a selected project. The associated spot color adjustment is determined using these attributes. The spot color adjustment is applied during color printing operations for a document using the spot color. The spot color is printed within the document according to the specified spot color adjustment.

Abstract: Distributed radio frequency (RF) communication systems for automotive are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, an RF communication system for an automobile includes an RF module located close to an antenna to satisfy a specified output power with small insertion loss. Additionally, the baseband processor is placed remotely from the RF module in a different area of the automobile to provide a lower temperature environment. Additionally, the RF module communicates with the baseband processor in a digital format eliminating the need for higher cost cabling (for instance, due to higher noise immunity arising from using digital signaling) and using digital transfer cabling, which can already be present in the automobile for other purposes. The RF module can include an RF front-end (RFFE) and a transceiver used for providing frequency conversion, for instance, between RF and baseband.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a resistance heating element, and a power supply control portion. The fixing member fixes a toner image transferred onto a sheet. The resistance heating element is used for heating the fixing member, and an electrical resistance thereof increases as a temperature increases. The power supply control portion gradually increases, when a heating timing of the fixing member arrives, input power to be input to the resistance heating element toward a predetermined upper limit value.

Abstract: A cryogenic freezer and a method of controlling temperature within the cryogenic freezer. The cryogenic freezer includes an inner vessel. The inner vessel defines a storage chamber. The cryogenic freezer includes an outer vessel surrounding the inner vessel. The outer vessel may define a vacuum-insulated space in between the outer vessel and the inner vessel. The cryogenic freezer includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature within the storage chamber. The cryogenic freezer includes a controller coupled to the temperature sensor. The controller is configured to pulse an amount of cryogen into the storage container to control the temperature within the storage container.