Abstract: An air brush including a removable battery pack, a sprayer body and an air brush tool. The sprayer body includes a housing and a pump housed in the housing. The air brush tool includes an outlet that dispenses an aerosolized fluid. A hose connects the sprayer body and the air brush tool.

Abstract: Support systems for handpieces are provided. The support system includes a boom assembly having a rigid anchor base and a flexible rod having proximal and distal ends, and a connection assembly having a proximal end configured to couple to the distal end of the flexible rod and a distal end configured to couple to the handpiece. The flexible rod is pivotally secured at the proximal end thereof to the anchor base, and the flexible rod has a flexibility that increases from a distal end to the proximal end thereof. The connection assembly is configured to enable the handpiece to rotate in at least two degrees of freedom. The boom assembly is configured to support the connection assembly and the handpiece such that the connection assembly and the handpiece rest in a neutral position.

Abstract: Recombinant TGF-?2 monomers engineered to prevent dimerization and block TGF-? signaling are described. The engineered monomers lack the ability to bind and recruit TGF-? type I receptor (TbRI), but retain the capacity to bind the high affinity TGF-? type II receptor (TbRII). The TGF-?2 monomers also include additional modifications that increase their affinity for TbRII, reduce their aggregation and/or improve their folding. Nucleic acid molecules and vectors encoding the recombinant TGF-?2 monomers are also described. Isolated cells, such as T cells, can be re-programmed with a TGF-?2 monomer-encoding nucleic acid or vector to secrete the monomer. Use of the recombinant TGF-?2 monomers and/or cells producing the recombinant TGF-?2 monomers, to inhibit TGF-? signaling, such as to treat disorders associated with aberrant TGF-? signaling, are also described.

Abstract: A thermal management device includes a wicking heat spreader and a boiling enhancement surface feature positioned on at least one interior surface of the wicking heat spreader.

Abstract: A wellhead includes a wellhead housing, a hanger configured to support a casing, and multiple passages formed in or along the wellhead housing, through the hanger, external to the wellhead housing, or any combination thereof. The wellhead also includes at least one movable component configured to move relative to the multiple passages to selectively enable a flow of fluid via the multiple passages from an annular space defined between the wellhead housing and the hanger below the hanger to a portion of a bore within the wellhead housing above the hanger.

Abstract: The invention provides gastric residence systems with specifically tailored architectures and methods for making such systems. The components of the gastric residence systems can be manufactured by three-dimensional printing or by co-extrusion. The ability to construct precise architectures for the systems provides excellent control over drug release, in vivo stability, and residence time of the systems.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of a thermosettable compound and polymer particles functionalized with aminoalkyl ester groups. The composition is useful as a two-component waterborne curing system and is effective in providing corrosion and blister resistance in industrial coatings applications.

Abstract: A composition of matter is generally provided, in one embodiment, a titanium alloy comprising 5 wt % to 8 wt % aluminum; 2.5 wt % to 5.5 wt % vanadium; 0.1 wt % to 2 wt % of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of iron and molybdenum; 0.01 wt % to 0.2 wt % carbon; up to 0.3 wt % oxygen; silicon and copper; and titanium. A turbine component is also generally provided, in one embodiment, that comprises an article made from a titanium alloy. Additionally, methods are also generally provided for making an alloy component having a beta transus temperature and a titanium silicide solvus temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device, and/or a system of a wall-mounted pet accessory to prevent liquid and residue accumulation behind a feeding container. In one aspect, a pet accessory includes a rectangular surface, a first double-headed pin, and a second double-headed pin. The rectangular surface molded from silicone material has a width wider than a height. A first hole and a second hole is formed along the width of the pet accessory. The first double-headed pin includes a lower circular base portion, an upper circular base portion, a cylindrical spacer, and a long cylindrical shaft pin. A first indentation area is created between the lower and upper circular base portions of the first double-headed pin. A second indentation area is created between the lower and upper circular base portions of the second double-headed pin. The long cylindrical shaft pin is used to insert in a vertical surface.

Abstract: A catheter assembly is provided having a working lumen and a guide. The guide is configured to position a fragmentizing device within the working lumen. The guide is configured to prevent or minimize any unintended movement of a distal section of the fragmentizing device within the working lumen when the distal section of the fragmentizing device is positioned at a distal end of the working lumen.

Abstract: A tube-holding accessory for retaining a tube in connection with a mobile device. The accessory includes a magnetically or adhesively secured attachment portion for attaching the accessory to the mobile device and an engagement portion including a pair of resilient flanges for removably retaining a tube of lipstick or other tube-shaped personal item.

Abstract: A support system comprising a suction device that is configured to be selectively coupled to a bracket, wherein the bracket includes a radial slot.

Abstract: A vehicle and method of operating the vehicle that is operationally non-disruptive to one or more other rail vehicles or equipment of a railroad. The vehicle including a frame, drive wheels, and articulatable arms. The articulatable arms extend from the frame and supporting the drive wheels. The articulatable arms are selectively transitionable between first orientations and second orientations, and the drive wheels are engageable with rails that are configured to support the rail vehicle having wheel pairs. In the first orientations the drive wheels engage with the rails to support the frame, and in the second orientations the drive wheels disengage from the rails.

Abstract: An IHS detects unauthorized access to the IHS, identifies one or more types of the unauthorized access to the IHS, determines a severity level of the unauthorized access to the IHS, based, at least in part, on an identified one or more types of the unauthorized access to the IHS, determines a type of self-destruction of the IHS, and destructs availability of the IHS, by the IHS in accordance with a determined type of self-destruction of the IHS. The IHS may send a notification that the IHS will self-destruct, and/or may collect evidence of the unauthorized access to the IHS prior to destructing availability of the IHS, by the IHS.

Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a system and method for controlling film thickness, and a film deposition system and method using same. In one such embodiments, a vapour deposition system for spatially controlling a deposited film thickness on a substrate comprises: an emission source; a substrate holder; and a translatable shutter comprising a flux barrier disposed between said emission source and the substrate and operable to translate said flux barrier through a deposition flux according to a designated linear translation profile designated to spatially control the deposited film thickness.

Abstract: A pipe inspection system includes a cable storage drum and a housing configured to removably receive and rotatably support the cable storage drum. A push-cable with a plurality of conductors is stored in the drum. An inspection camera may be attached to a distal end of the push-cable. The drum includes a hollow core outer cone configured to accept an inner core removable module. The removable module may include electrical, mechanical, wireless, satellite, and power/battery interfaces. The module mates with a contact plate sealed inside the inner cone. The inner core components, including the battery module, are stationary relative to the inner core. The inner core is free to rotate bidirectionally inside the outer cone as the camera is being fed into, and out of a pipe or conduit for inspection. Slip-rings are not required to maintain connectivity because the electronics and battery module are stationary relative to each other.

Abstract: A method and system for order management that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: A method for execution on a storage network begins with receipt of a data object for storage by a plurality of users and continues with a storage network processing unit determining whether the data object is associated with a replica storage node of a plurality of replica storage nodes associated with the storage network. When the data object is associated with a replica storage node, the method continues by facilitating storing the data object in each replica storage node of the plurality of replica storage nodes and receiving a plurality of access responses from at least some replica storage nodes of the plurality of replica storage nodes. The method then continues by determining whether an access response threshold number of access responses have been received and finally, in response to a determination that an access response threshold number of access responses have been received, transmitting an acknowledgement to the plurality of users.

Abstract: Methods and Systems implement patient management. In some cases, a patient management system may include one or more respiratory pressure therapy devices to deliver respiratory pressure therapy to patients, and generate therapy data relating to a therapy session for a patient. The patient management system may include a data server communicating with the therapy device(s). The data server may compute, from therapy data, therapy summary data for the session, the summary data may include one or more statistics summarising therapy data. The patient management system may include a therapy management server communicating with the data server. The therapy management server may apply one or more rules to the summary data, update or generate one or more workflow groups of patients, each workflow group corresponding to a rule, depending on results of the respective rule applications; and/or serve a graphical layout representing one or more workflow groups.

Abstract: Use of hardware-accelerated raytracing for intelligent robot task execution is disclosed. In various embodiments, data comprising a geometric representation of a robot and one or more obstacles in a workspace in which the robot is located are used to determine, with respect to a pose of the robot in the workspace, whether the pose is associated with a collision condition with respect to one or more of the one or more obstacles, at least in part by performing hardware accelerated ray tracing with respect to rays originating from each of a plurality of points associated with the robot.