Abstract: A method for forming a component for a plasma processing chamber is provided. An internal mold is provided. An external mold is provided around the internal mold. The external mold is filled with a ceramic powder, wherein the ceramic powder surrounds the internal mold. The ceramic powder is sintered to form a solid part. The solid part is removed from the external mold.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods that apply artificial intelligence to augmented reality for enhanced user experience. A sensor, such as a camera, on a mobile phone can capture output data of a laptop computer or other computing device, such as a user interface. The captured image can be assessed by the mobile phone to determine an intent of a user and to display a three dimensional rendering, such as an avatar, on the mobile phone overlaid on top of the user interface of the laptop. The avatar can help navigate the user, such as pointing to areas of a webpage of interest, or inviting the user to scroll down on a webpage to a portion of the webpage that may not be in current view.

Abstract: An array of laundry washing machines that includes a plurality of laundry washing machines. Each of the laundry washing machines has an operator side. A plurality of pump systems, each of which is connected to two or more washing machines, is provided. For 80% to 100% of the laundry washing machines in the array, adjacent laundry washing machines having the operator sides out of alignment from one another by less than 90 degrees are not connected to the same pump system.

Abstract: A cable tie application tool is described that includes an electro-mechanical tensioning system. When the electro-mechanical tensioning system is controlled by a processor to tighten a cable, a reactionary force through a drive nut that is pivotally mounted to a tension bar can be monitored and measured by a strain gauge, a load cell, or other sensing system. This reactionary force is an indication of tension on the cable tie and is monitored by the processor until the tension reaches a predetermined tension, at which point, the processor causes a motor in the tensioning system to stop increasing the tension on the cable tie. The processor activates a cut-off system to cut the cable tie that has been tightened to the predetermined tension.

Abstract: Dynamic state-space modeling within a special purpose hardware platform to determine non-conversion risks for each trial user and churn risks for each active subscriber having exhibited a sequence of behaviors. The state-space model may be operable to determine a loss risk for each of a provider's active trial users and/or subscribers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition comprising: an epoxy-containing component, elastomeric particles in an amount of greater than 11% by weight to 25% by weight based on total weight of the composition; and a curing component activatable by an external energy source, the curing component comprising at least one guanidine having a D90 particle size of 25 µm measured by dynamic light scattering. Also disclosed is the composition in an at least partially cured state. Also disclosed is a method for treating a substrate comprising applying the composition to a surface of a substrate; and applying an external energy source to cure the composition. Also disclosed are substrates comprising the composition. Also disclosed are substrates formed by the method of the present invention.

Abstract: A neural network has a synapse module with a plurality of synapses. A steering circuit is coupled to an output of the synapse module. A plurality of processing elements is coupled to an output of the steering circuit. Each of the processing elements share the synapses of the synapse module through the steering circuit. A first processing element of the plurality of processing elements receives a first current from a first output of the first synapse and a second current from a second output of the first synapse through the steering circuit. The first processing element has a first capacitor receiving the first current, and a second capacitor receiving the second current to generate a pulse width modulate output signal of the first processing element. A polarity inversion circuit is coupled for receiving the first current and reversing flow direction of the first current.

Abstract: To simplify assisting a user in their day-to-day activities, a communication for performing an action may be sent to a user in the form of a query, where the query includes the most likely set of choices for the action arranged in a group of dichotomous (e.g., yes/no) or multiple choice answers. In this manner, a user may respond to the query by simply selecting one of the dichotomous or multiple choice answers. Historical logs of past actions, responses, queries, and so forth, may be used to predict future user actions or needs, and to formulate future queries for sending to the user. These techniques may be implemented, for example, through a remote coordination server or directly through a user's personal electronics device.

Abstract: The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating, identifying, analyzing, and quantifying biological materials from fluid samples. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity biological materials from complex fluids such as blood, serum, or plasma.

Abstract: One example computer-implemented method may include (i) maintaining, within an online social network environment, a content channel that defines both which user accounts within the online social network environment have access to the content channel and a sequence for displaying items of social network media content to a user account viewing the content channel, (ii) ranking content channel items by calculating scores for the content channel items indicating an estimated level of priority for displaying the content channel items to the user account, the ranking including at least one of ranking the content channel among at least one other content channel or ranking the items of social network media content within the content channel, and (iii) displaying the content channel items to the user account in an order corresponding to the ranking. Various other methods, systems, and media are also disclosed.

Abstract: A device, method, and system for consuming a beverage is disclosed herein. The device includes a golf club, a tee coupled to a club head of the golf club, and a shot glass coupled to the tee. In use, a user pours the beverage into the shot glass, lifts the golf club and the shot glass connected thereto, and consumes the beverage from the shot glass.

Abstract: A system may include a processor to receive vehicle data from a vehicle system at a first location and communicate the data to a second location. The processor may integrate the data into a database of diagnostic data at the second location and identify a diagnostic code that indicates an expected operation of the vehicle system or an unexpected operation. The processor may determine a maintenance operation based on the diagnostic code. A method may include receiving vehicle data from a vehicle system at a first location and communicating the vehicle data to a second location. The method may include integrating the vehicle data into a database of first diagnostic data and identifying a diagnostic code that indicates whether the vehicle data represents an expected operation of the vehicle system or an unexpected operation of the vehicle system. The method may include determining a maintenance operation based on the code.

Abstract: ALD and p-CVD methods to generate MgB2 and MgB2-containing films in the growth temperature range of 250-300° C. The thermal ALD and p-CVD methods shown herein ensure that the high-temperature-induced roughening, which causes high surface resistances in MgB2 coatings grown by the mentioned conventional techniques, is avoided. The MgB2 and MgB2-containing films exhibit superconductive properties at above 20° K.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to non-aqueous, curable film-forming compositions comprising: a) an anhydride functional compound; b) at least one of: (i) a hydroxyl functional compound having at least two hydroxyl functional groups and (ii) a carbodiimide functional compound; and c) hydrolyzable functional groups. After application of the curable film-forming composition to a substrate to form a coated substrate, and upon subjecting the coated substrate to curing conditions, the curable film-forming composition undergoes multiple cure reactions. The present invention is further directed to methods of preparing coated substrates with these compositions.

Abstract: A system for determining shale rock maturity includes a dual mode microwave cavity configured to receive a shale sample, a heating system configured to heat the shale sample to a range of different temperatures using microwave emissions of a first frequency, and a measuring system configured to measure a complex permittivity of the shale sample using a microwave signal of a second frequency.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are curable compositions comprising an epoxide-functional polymer, a curing agent capable of reacting with the epoxide-functional polymer that is activatable by an external energy source, and a fluoropolymer that is substantially free of a reactive functional group. The epoxide-functional polymer may be a solid epoxide-functional polyurethane comprising a di-isocyanate. Also disclosed are articles comprising one of the compositions in an at least partially cured state positioned between first and second substrates. Also disclosed are methods of forming an adhesive on a substrate.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for correlating information corresponding to multiple related frames on a web page are provided. In some embodiments, a method for identifying corresponding iframes on a web page to a server is provided, the method comprising: loading a web page including a plurality of iframes; receiving the requested content and identifying information for a first iframe; loading an event listener; determining a location of the first iframe in the structure of the web page; transmitting a message to a second iframe including the first identifying information and location of the first iframe; receiving, using the event listener, a message from the second iframe including second identifying information and location of the second iframe; determining that the second iframe is nested within the first iframe; and transmitting a third message to a server including at least the second identifying information and location of the second iframe.

Abstract: A system comprising one or more computers implements a synthetic sensor service configured to deploy synthetic sensors to in-vehicle computing devices implementing an in-vehicle distributed computing environment. A synthetic sensor may be placed monolithically at a single computing device (e.g. ECU) in the vehicle, or may be modularly placed on multiple computing devices (e.g. multiple ECUs) of the vehicle that each have resources or inputs that the synthetic sensor requires. The modular components of the synthetic sensor may execute in a runtime environment of the in-vehicle distributed computing environment, such that the modular components function as a unified synthetic sensor even though they are placed on different computing devices of the vehicle (e.g. different ECUs).

Abstract: To simplify assisting a user in their day-to-day activities, a communication for performing an action may be sent to a user in the form of a query, where the query includes the most likely set of choices for the action arranged in a group of dichotomous (e.g., yes/no) or multiple choice answers. In this manner, a user may respond to the query by simply selecting one of the dichotomous or multiple choice answers. Historical logs of past actions, responses, queries, and so forth, may be used to predict future user actions or needs, and to formulate future queries for sending to the user. These techniques may be implemented, for example, through a remote coordination server or directly through a user's personal electronics device.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a dental hygiene appliance, a pad usable in such an appliance, and a method of using such an appliance. The dental hygiene appliance comprises a plurality of mushroom-shaped bristles, wherein the mushroom-shaped bristles comprise a material with Shore 00 hardness between about 50 and about 100. The mushroom-shaped bristles comprise a stipe, a pileus, and optionally a brim. The dental hygiene appliance may be a monolithic body, or comprises a monofacial pad, or bifacial pad, that is held by a dental hygiene appliance frame. The advantage of having a brim is that it offers a larger area for dental hygiene appliance to interact with the tooth surface, and the brim allows the brim to get into crevices of teeth that are too small for pileus to enter. The interstitial space between the mushroom-shaped bristles may also comprise a dentifrice composition.