Abstract: A system performs measurements in storage containers for storing items. The storage containers are stored in an automated storage system including a framework structure forming a three-dimensional storage grid structure for storing the storage containers. The grid structure forms vertical storage columns each having a horizontal area defined by the size of an access opening of the vertical storage columns. A rail system is arranged on the framework structure defining the circumference of each access opening on top of each storage column. The rail system provides available routes for container handling vehicles handling and transferring the storage containers to and from the storage columns. The system further includes a testing station, accessible to a container handling vehicle via the rail system, with measuring equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions and for performing measurements in said storage container. The testing station is configured to communicate measurement data to a computer system.

Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus includes first and second light sources, a rotatable polygonal mirror, a motor, first and second mirrors, first and second lenses, and a casing. Within a mounting range, a top wall of an accommodating portion is provided with at least one projection projecting toward an opening of the accommodating portion. The projection extends from a first side wall to a second side wall of the accommodating portion. The top wall includes a recess formed opposite from the projection, and is free from a portion projecting toward the opening over a range from the first side wall to the second side wall, other than the projection in the mounting range. A free end portion of the projection is in a position remoter from the opening than a reflecting surface of the rotatable polygonal mirror is with respect to a rotational axis direction of the motor.

Abstract: Disclosed techniques for performing a process can include performing, by a plurality of subjects, a first repetitive movement with a specified stress or strain per cycle; analyzing for soft tissue disorganization or partially torn soft tissue in each of the plurality of subjects; generating an association relating stress or strain to a number of cycles that cause a transition to subrupture damaged tissue or to incomplete tear damaged tissue; measuring a stress or strain per cycle for a second repetitive movement that makes up the process; determining a limit on a number of cycles of the second repetitive movement intended to avoid at least one of: a transition to subrupture damaged soft tissue or to incomplete tear damage tissue; and performing the second repetitive movement as part of the process while ensuring that no individual subject exceeds the limit on the number of cycles of the second repetitive movement.

Abstract: The present invention addresses to a system that aims at reproducing situations close to those found in oil wells, in relation to the thermodynamic conditions (pressure and temperature), and the fluids present (by means of the chemical species involved), aiming at representing in a more realistic way the production scenarios to be faced. The main scope is to represent on a laboratory scale the phenomenon of depressurization with the release of carbon dioxide inducing the precipitation of calcite (calcium carbonate), the growth and agglomeration of inorganic crystals, and the phenomena of adhesion and scale on common metallic surfaces of elements of completion of oil wells.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for predicting an affinity between a drug and a target substance, which is performed by a computing device including at least one processor according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The method for predicting an affinity between a drug and a target substance may include: extracting a feature value of each of the drug and the target substance by using a first neural network; performing a cross attention between the feature values by using a second neural network; and predicting the affinity between the drug and the target substance based on a result of performing the cross attention by using a third neural network.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance member 1 includes a diamond crystal including plural diamond nitrogen vacancy center, and a high-frequency magnetic field generator 2 applies magnetic field of microwave to the magnetic resonance member 1. The aforementioned plural diamond nitrogen vacancy centers include diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in directions of predetermined plural axes among four axes that indicates four connection directions of carbon atoms in the diamond crystal; and the aforementioned magnetic resonance member 1 is arranged in a direction that provides a substantially largest sensitivity of the measurement target magnetic field in the diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in the predetermined plural axes.

Abstract: A method is for measuring phase currents of a device under test, in particular of an inverter, in which a sensor arrangement, which has a component including a crystal lattice with a defect, is arranged in a region of the device under test. The method includes using the sensor arrangement to detect a magnetic field formed by a vector of magnetic fields, the magnetic fields each in turn being brought about by one of the phase currents of the device under test, and calculating a vector of the phase currents from the vector of the magnetic fields based on a coefficient matrix.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of Dixon-type MR imaging of an object (10) placed in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to provide a method that enables an improved Dixon water/fat separation in combination with a dual-acquisition gradient-echo imaging sequence.

Abstract: A cartridge attachable to and detachable from an image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording material, the cartridge includes: an image bearing member; a developer container that contains therein a developer; a developing member that is rotatable and carries the developer supplied from the developer container and supplies the developer to the image bearing member; a developer supplying member that is rotatable and provided in the developer container and in contact with the developing member to supply the developer to a surface of the developing member; and a contact member provided in the developer container and in contact with a surface of the developer supplying member, wherein the developer remaining on the image bearing member after image formation is collected to the developing member, and the developer collected to the developing member is collected into the developer container.

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for elevation tracking of devices are provided. Barometric pressure data points and elevation data points associated with a set of barometric measurement devices proximate a device are obtained. An interpolated field of barometric pressure is generated using the barometric pressure data points and the elevation data points. x, y location coordinates of the device are projected onto the interpolated field as a projected point within the interpolated field. Barometric leveling is executed upon a device barometric pressure value provided by the device and a barometric pressure data point at the projected point to determine a relative height difference between the device and the projected point. An elevation of the device is determined based upon the relative height difference.

Abstract: A system for measuring velocities and densities of a particle-free flow of molecules is provided. In various embodiments of the disclosure, the system may include a laser configured to form a two-dimensional light sheet for interrogating a flow of molecules at a measurement region with the two-dimensional light sheet. The system may include a first camera coupled with a first filter and a second camera coupled to a second filter. The cameras can be oriented toward the measurement region at a first angle and a second angle, respectively, with respect to a direction of the two-dimensional light sheet. The cameras are configured to capture images of scattered light from the measurement region through the filters. The two-dimensional spatial distribution of density and velocity values of the flow of molecules can be determined based on the images acquired via the first camera and the second camera.

Abstract: A system and method comprises execution of a segmented magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence, the pulse sequence including a plurality of shots, each of the plurality of shots including an inversion recovery preparation pulse and acquiring a respective segment of k-space lines, wherein each shot comprises a different inversion time between a peak of the inversion recovery pulse and a midpoint of the acquisition of the respective segment of k-space lines, and reconstruction of an image based on the acquired respective segments of k-space lines. In some aspects, the k-space lines acquired by each shot are consecutive in a phase encoding direction of k-space and each shot acquires the segments of k-space lines acquired by prior shots in the sequence, and a time delay between the inversion recovery preparation pulse and acquisition of a first segment for each shot is equal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, temperature control method, and temperature control device are provided. The apparatus includes the device, which acquires a first temperature difference between a temperature estimation value of a fixer, which is obtained by simulating a member temperature of a temperature control target serving as a heat capacitor-resistor circuit at an initial stage of operation of the fixer, and a detected temperature detected by a temperature sensor, and acquires a second temperature difference between a temperature estimation value of the fixer, which is obtained during an operation after the first temperature difference is acquired, and a detected temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a state of at least one cell of a battery, wherein the battery has a plurality of cells, which are connected in series with each other, the method comprising at least the following steps: a) applying an alternating current to the plurality of cells; b) measuring the alternating voltage produced thereby at at least a first cell and a second cell; c) analyzing a phase position of the measured alternating voltage of each cell; wherein a difference at least between a first phase position of a first alternating voltage measured at the first cell and a second phase position of a second alternating voltage measured at the second cell forms a conclusion about a difference between the states of at least the first cell and the second cell.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor chip for parallelized magnetic sensing of a plurality of samples, a system for parallelized magnetic sensing of a plurality of samples and a method for probing a plurality of samples using optically addressable solid-state spin systems. The sensor chip comprises an optically transparent substrate comprising a plurality of optically addressable solid-state spin systems arranged in a plurality of sensing regions in a surface layer below a top surface of the substrate. The sensor chip further comprises a plurality of sample sites, wherein each sample site is arranged above a respective sensing region. The sensor chip has a light guiding system configured to provide an optical path through the substrate connecting each of the sensing regions.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for determining a multi-qubit measurement result, and a quantum computer. In the method, during determining multi-qubit measurement results, qubit readout feedback signals are first acquired for N associated qubits, then quantum state measurement values of the respective qubits are acquired based on the qubit readout feedback signals, and finally, measurement results of the N associated qubits are determined based on information weights of the respective qubits and the quantum state measurement values of the respective qubits.

Abstract: A flow tube (10) has a housing (12, 14) including at least a first housing half (12) and a second housing half (14). Each housing half (12, 14) has a connection surface (20, 22) intended for combination with the other housing half (12, 14). The connection surfaces (20, 22) enclose a mounting gap (30) for an orifice element (16). Outside of the mounting gap (30) the connection surfaces (20, 22) butt against each other in some sections by respective abutting surface portions (32, 34), and outside of the mounting gap (30) and outside of the abutting surface portions (32, 34) the housing halves (12, 14) are integrally combined with each other. A method is provided for producing the flow tube, namely for integrally joining the housing halves (12, 14).

Abstract: An operation log acquisition device includes processing circuitry configured to store a determination image that is an image of a characteristic area of an operation screen that is used to perform a predetermined operation, an event occurrence area in which an event may occur when the predetermined operation is performed, operation type specifying information that specifies an operation type, and an acquisition image area that is to be acquired when the predetermined operation is performed, in association with each other, upon detecting an occurrence of the event, acquire an occurrence time of the event, an occurrence position of the event, and a captured image of the operation screen, and determine whether or not the captured image acquired includes a matching area that the determination image matches, and acquire an event occurrence area of the determination image if the captured image includes the matching area.

Abstract: A rotation detection device includes a sensor unit including a magnetic sensor and a housing portion covering the magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor includes a plate-shaped detection portion including a magnetic detection element to detect a magnetic field from the detection target member and connection terminals extending out of the detection portion. The magnetic detection element includes a magnetoresistive effect element to detect a magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to a plate thickness direction of the detection portion. The sensor unit is positioned such that a fore-end portion of the detection portion of the magnetic sensor faces toward an axial end face of the detection target member, the fore-end portion being an end portion located opposite to the side where the connection terminals extend out.

Abstract: A pressure detection module and an electronic device are provided. The pressure detection module is disposed between a support and an inner surface of a housing of the electronic device. The pressure detection module includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a controller. The first electrode is fixed to an inner surface of a force input region of the housing, the second electrode is fixed to the support, and the second electrode is disposed opposite to the first electrode. The force input region of the housing is configured to drive the first electrode to move towards the second electrode based on a received external pressure. The controller is configured to determine a pressure detection result of the external pressure based on a capacitance change between the first electrode and the second electrode. The pressure detection module occupies small space in the electronic device, and is easy to mount.