Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to determine whether to adjust an acceleration limit level associated with an acceleration limit operation for a corresponding vehicle speed range. The adjustment may be performed by using driver information acquired based on biometric information of a driver. The apparatus may be configured to control an adjustment of the acceleration limit level. The apparatus may be configured to change a limit acceleration of the vehicle that is accelerated based on a degree of accelerator pedal manipulation by the driver and the adjusted acceleration limit level.

Abstract: A request associated with a user for content recommendation may be determined. At least one content item indicative of a viewing history associated with the user may be determined. The at least one content item indicative of the viewing history associated with the user may include content that the user has previously watched. Data associated with at least one image associated with each of a plurality of candidate content items may be determined. The plurality of candidate content items may include secondary content items that may be recommended to the user. Based on comparing data associated with at least one image associated with the at least one content item with the data associated with the at least one image associated with each candidate content item, at least one candidate content item may be determined. An indication of the at least one candidate content item may be sent, to a device associated with the user.

Abstract: A method for moving a vehicle in a reverse direction is provided. The method includes: providing an internal combustion engine, a transmission, and an electric machine; adjusting a valve timing of either an intake valve or an exhaust valve during a non-firing mode of the internal combustion engine to reduce a rotational resistance; and, rotating the internal combustion in a backwards or reverse direction so that the vehicle moves in a reverse direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dimethyl ether-fueled (DME-fueled) generator. Since the DME-fueled generator uses DME which is a clean fuel, there is no fine dust in the exhaust gas.

Abstract: A piston may have an annular body including a crown portion defining a longitudinal axis, a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a plane containing the longitudinal axis and the radial direction, and a contoured combustion bowl. In the plane containing the longitudinal axis and the radial direction, the crown portion includes a radially outer squish surface, and a swirl pocket having a reentrant surface that extends axially downwardly and radially outwardly from the squish surface defining a tangent that forms a reentrant angle with the squish surface that ranges from 53.0 degrees to 57.0 degrees.

Abstract: Provided are methods of detecting replication competent virus, e.g., replication competent retrovirus such as gammaretrovirus or lentivirus, in a sample containing a cell transduced with a viral vector particle encoding a recombinant and/or heterologous molecule, e.g., heterologous gene product. The methods may include assessing transcription of one or more target genes, such as viral genes, that are expressed in a retrovirus but not expressed in the viral vector particle. Replication competent retrovirus may be determined to be present if the levels of RNA of the one or more target genes is higher than a reference value, which can be measured directly or indirectly, including from a positive control sample containing RNA from the respective target gene at a known level and/or at or above the limit of detection of the assay.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are primers and probes related to the detection of SARS-CoV-2 via nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT), for example to amplify and determine the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in test samples and/or to diagnose Covid-19. Specifically, the present disclosure describes primers and probes that bind to the N gene, ORF1ab, or E gene of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus for detection via loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and molecular beacon hybridization.

Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna device having a contact structure, and the antenna device includes: a radiator formed on a carrier; a printed circuit board having a power supply module configured to supply a power supply signal to the radiator; and a first contact structure configured to electrically connect the radiator and the printed circuit board, wherein the first contact structure includes: a conductive gasket formed with a through hole therein, installed on the radiator to be fixed onto the radiator; a torsion suppression member inserted into the conductive gasket through the through hole to suppress the torsion of the conductive gasket; and a separation suppression member extending from the radiator along an outer wall of one side of the conductive gasket in a height direction of the conductive gasket to suppress the separation of the conductive gasket.

Abstract: An internal conductor device for a waveguide radiator, in particular for a waveguide radiator has at least one slotted waveguide, at least one support rail, at least one dielectric unit that is arranged on the at least one support rail and comprises at least one dielectric element, and has at least one internal conductor that is arranged on the at least one dielectric unit, wherein the at least one internal conductor is fixed at least substantially mechanically on the at least one dielectric element and/or that the at least one dielectric element is fixed at least substantially mechanically on the at least one support rail.

Abstract: A filter element has a filter mat web (10) with free, mutually adjacent web ends (12) joined along a joint (16) forming a hollow body. The joint (16) is made of at least one connecting part (18), which is provided with groove-shaped receiving channels (20, 22. Each of the receiving channels is used to receive one web end (12) of the filter mat (10).

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter cartridge (32) for a liquid such as fuel, said filter cartridge being intended to be positioned inside a filter housing (30) and comprising a filter media (38) defining an inner volume (V38), a lower end plate (40), and an upper end plate (42), including a liquid passage opening (O42), which communicates with the inner volume of the filter media. The upper end plate (42) includes an automatic degassing valve (50).

Abstract: A method of streaming immersive media includes receiving, from a client end-point, a video content request that identifies video content; transmitting, to the client end-point based on the video content request, a profile request; receiving, from the client end-point, at least one neural network model associated with one or more characteristics of the client end-point; ingesting the identified video content in a two-dimensional video format; converting the ingested video content to a three-dimensional video format based on the at least one neural network model such that the ingested video content converted to the three-dimensional video format includes at least one scene interpolated from one or more scenes of the ingested video content in the two-dimensional video format; and streaming the converted video content to the client end-point.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for processing a nucleic acid sample. For example, a method of the present disclosure may simultaneously process two populations of nucleic acid (NA) templates for two different sequencing modalities: (i) a first population comprising circularized NA templates having a size smaller than a size threshold (e.g., smaller than 2 kilobase (kb)), and (ii) a second population comprising uncircularized NA templates having a size greater than or equal to the size threshold.

Abstract: A system for piloting an aircraft includes a throttle, a flight parameter sensor system, and an engine calculator controlling thrust parameters of an engine of the aircraft. The piloting system includes a flight control unit connected to the engine calculator, the sensors and the throttle. The flight control unit generates a thrust control vector from a flight control law and sends a digital signal including the generated thrust control vector to the engine calculator. The engine calculator controlling said thrust parameters of the engine depending on the generated thrust control vector received.

Abstract: An engine control device includes: a compression release cylinder selecting part that selects, from a plurality of cylinders, one or more compression release cylinders to which fuel is not to be injected, depending on the magnitude of a required torque of an engine having the plurality of cylinders connected to an exhaust pipe provided with a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas; an exhaust valve control part that opens the exhaust valve of the compression release cylinder; a fuel injection amount determining part that determines the amount of fuel to be injected into an operating cylinder that differs from the compression release cylinder among the plurality of cylinders, according to a load torque generated by opening the exhaust valve and the required torque; and an injection control part that causes fuel, according to the determined amount of fuel injection, to be injected into the operating cylinder.

Abstract: An antenna module includes feeding elements arranged adjacent to each other and filters connected to the respective feeding elements. Each of the filters includes a plurality of resonant lines that is not connected to each other. The filters are arranged between the feeding elements so as to cross a virtual line equidistant from the feeding elements when the antenna module is viewed in plan from the normal direction.

Abstract: Described herein is a complex comprising multiple nucleic acid molecules that are hybridized together, each comprising, from 5? to 3?, a first complementary sequence, a spacer sequence and a second complementary sequence, and either/or a 5? end sequence that is 5? of the first complementary sequence and terminates in a 5? phosphate and a 3? end sequence that is 3? of the second complementary sequence and terminates in a 3? hydroxyl. In this complex: the first complementary sequence of one molecule is directly or indirectly hybridized with the second complementary sequence of another molecule in the complex and the spacer sequence and the 3? and/or 5? end sequences are single-stranded. Methods of making and using the complex are also provided.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine for gaseous fuel includes a cylinder and a piston for reciprocal movement in the cylinder along a reciprocal axis, whereby a combustion chamber is at least partially delimited by the cylinder and the piston. The piston includes a piston crown facing the combustion chamber, a piston crown projection of the piston crown in a direction parallel to the reciprocal axis and onto a piston crown plane extending transversally to the reciprocal axis having a piston crown center point, the piston crown comprising a piston bowl surface defining a piston bowl and a piston rim portion enclosing the piston bowl surface. A piston bowl opening is the intersection between the piston rim portion and the piston bowl surface. The piston bowl opening has an opening center of gravity in the piston crown plane. The opening center of gravity is offset from the piston crown center point.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a steering device, a steering control device, a surroundings monitoring device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a route calculating process of calculating a target route, a trajectory calculating process of calculating a target trajectory of an own vehicle in one or more roads of the target route; a steering-angle calculating process of calculating a target steering angle; a behavior detecting process of detecting information on a behavior of the own vehicle; a rut determining process of determining presence or absence of a rut on the target trajectory based on a detection result obtained by the surroundings monitoring device and/or a detection result obtained in the behavior detecting process, a drivable or non-drivable determining process of determining whether the own vehicle is drivable over the rut, and a correcting process of correcting the target trajectory and/or the target route.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically analyze a live streaming media file, and identify portions of the media that are highlights. The content classified as a highlight can be shared across social media platforms, and indexed for searching respective to attributes of the video content. The streaming and highlight media content is renderable in a novel, modified video player that enables variable playback speeds for how content is classified, and enables on-demand selections of specific content portions and adjustable rendering displays during streaming.