Abstract: An article of footwear has an upper, an outsole and a midsole. The outsole has upper and lower surfaces. The midsole has a midsole lower surface that contacts the upper surface of the outsole. The midsole has at least one cavity located in a heel or a forefoot portion, which cavity opens to a midsole upper surface. A cushion is located in the cavity. The cushion includes resilient balls located in a resilient matrix material. The balls have a first durometer and the matrix material has a second durometer that is different than the first durometer. The midsole has a lower cavity in the lower surface of the midsole, which lower cavity is aligned with an opening in the outsole. Balls are located in the lower cavity. A retainer keeps the balls in the lower cavity and provides a visual indication of the balls in the lower cavity.

Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve includes a first upper frame portion and a stent frame connected to the first upper frame portion via at least two stent frame extensions. The stent frame includes a base and at least two stent posts extending upwardly from the base towards the first upper frame portion. The first upper frame portion, the base, and the at least two stent posts each has an inner surface and an outer surface. The prosthetic heart valve also includes at least one sheet of leaflet material configured to encircle the stent frame and weave through the stent frame between the first upper frame portion and the base.

Abstract: A computing platform may train, using historical information classification information, an information classification model, which may configure the information classification model to classify information and identify, based on the classification, a storage location. The computing platform may receive, from a user device, a request to store information. The computing platform may identify, using the information classification model, a cloud based storage location for the information. The computing platform may generate an NFT representative of the first cloud based storage location. The computing platform may direct a cloud based storage system to store the information at the cloud based storage location. The computing platform may send, to the user device, the NFT. The computing platform may receive, from the user device, the NFT and a request to access the information. Based on validating the NFT, the computing platform may grant the user device access to the information.

Abstract: A disinfection device may include a housing having a concave shape, a light source coupled to the housing, where the light source provides light configured to disinfect a surface, a contact sensor coupled to the housing, where the contact sensor is configured to detect contact with a body of a user.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data processing system and method for operating one or more enterprise applications developed by a codeless platform. The invention includes a layered platform architecture for supporting and executing data processing in enterprise applications. The data processing system and method provides generation of one or more scenarios by a bot utilizing a domain model structure and at least one application module for execution of one or more operations associated with the one or more scenarios.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to using machine learning models to performing real-time cache updates. A computing system may receive a request to update an unreferenced object of a user interface of an application. A block may be generated in a blockchain stored in a second cache tier. The block may comprise a non-fungible token (NFT) based on the unreferenced object and may indicate that the unreferenced object is not authorized to indicate a system of record update. Based on the request to update the unreferenced object meeting one or more criteria, a block comprising an NFT that is referenced by the unreferenced object may be generated in a first cache tier. A block indicating that the NFT is referenced by the unreferenced object may be generated in a first cache tier and the unreferenced object may be updated in the user interface of the application.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may establish a network interface link with a centralized unit (CU). The network node may establish a set of one or more network interface links with a set of one or more distributed units (DUs). The network node may receive a first communication intended for a destination node via the network interface link. The network node may transmit the first communication to a first DU of the set of one or more DUs via a first network interface link of the set of one or more network interface links. The network node may receive a second communication intended for the destination node via the network interface link. The network node may transmit, after transmitting the first communication via the first network interface link, the second communication to a second DU via a second network interface link. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for network-assisted signaling for uplink digital pre-distortion (DPD). A gNB may use an uplink reference signal (RS) to measure a user equipment's (UE's) power amplifier (PA) nonlinearity, where the UE may transmit its UE-specific RS with maximum transmit (Tx) power at a PA measurement window in the uplink. The gNB may train an artificial intelligence-based model to approximate the pre-distortion function (with PA parameters). The gNB may signal DPD-related information, and the UE may determine (and adjust) its DPD function based on the gNB signalling.

Abstract: A method for converting carbon dioxide to carbon (e.g., graphite, graphene, or amorphous porous carbon), the method comprising passing the carbon dioxide through a molten anhydrous salt maintained at a temperature within a range of 400° C.-800° C. while the molten anhydrous salt is in contact with a cathode and an anode that are electrically interconnected to impart a voltage to the molten anhydrous salt, wherein the cathode has a metal composition comprising at least one of nickel, iron, and cobalt, wherein the voltage is within a range of 2 V to 3.5 V, and wherein the temperature and voltage are applied for a period of time of 5 minutes to 10 hours (or, e.g., 0.1-10 or 1-10 hours) to result in conversion of the carbon dioxide to carbon.

Abstract: Methods of treating aqueous systems with treatment compositions including non-triazole compounds are provided that are effective to inhibit corrosion of corrodible metal surfaces in the aqueous systems. The non-triazole compounds show comparable or better corrosion inhibition as compared to conventional triazole corrosion inhibitors, and have low toxicity and good stability in the presence of halogens such as halogen-containing biocides or free chlorine.

Abstract: Efficient memory operation using a destructive read memory array is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a system may include a memory configured to store data of a first logic state in a ferroelectric capacitor when an electric polarization of the ferroelectric capacitor is in a first direction. A system may include a controller configured to erase the data from the memory by commanding the electric polarization of the ferroelectric capacitor in a second direction, opposite of the first direction and skipping a subsequent write operation of a null value to the memory.

Abstract: Medical systems and related methods useful to estimate the depth of a target are described. The system may include a medical device that includes a handle and a shaft, the medical device also including an imager, a processor, and at least one laser source coupled to a first laser fiber and a second laser fiber. The first and second laser fibers may be configured to transmit respective first and second collimated beams of light onto a target simultaneously without fragmenting the target. The processor may be configured to determine a depth of the target from a proximal facing surface of the target to a distal facing surface of the target based on pixel characteristics of the first and second collimated beams of light in at least one image generated by the imager.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may transmit, to a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) controller associated with an RIS, a configuration for applying an RIS pattern. The network node may receive, from a network element, a measurement report indicating received observations of pilot signals reflected by the RIS in accordance with the RIS pattern. The network node may transmit, to the RIS controller and based at least in part on the measurement report, an indication of one or more of an updated codebook or a phase drift associated with a calibration of the RIS. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for generating data models secure from malfeasant manipulation for use in predictive modeling. The system is configured for retrieving training data associated with predictive modeling from a data source, processing the training data retrieved from the data source, transmitting the training data to a local linear model to generate a predictive output, retrieving historical data from the data source, transmitting the predictive output from the local linear model and the historical data retrieved from the data source to a Huber loss estimator module, validating, via the Huber loss estimator module, the predictive output received from the local linear model based on the historical data retrieved from the data source, and determining, via the Huber loss estimator module, if the training data has been manipulated by a malfeasant actor based on validating the one or more data points associated with the predictive output.

Abstract: One or more parameters may be used to configure wireless communications between a wireless device and a base station. A transmission configuration indication selection field may indicate which of two (or more) resources is to be used for a transmission/reception. A transport block size for a transmission occasion may be determined using one of the resources, and the same transport block size may be used for another transmission occasion using another of the resources, for example, if the transmission configuration indication selection field indicates using two resources or if the transmission configuration indication selection field is absent.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method assesses an impact of a change management strategy implementation. A first change management index score is identified. A graph theory is used to compute a degree centrality and a betweenness centrality of nodes, based on an adjacency matrix. A change management strategy framework is deployed based on the degree centrality, the betweenness centrality, and a closeness in a social media chain, to transition to one of the nodes having a probability above a predetermined probability threshold of influencing a change from one state to another. Personas are created that are associated with a particular technology, the identified first change management index score, the degree centrality, and the betweenness centrality of the nodes. A Markov chain model transition matrix measures a second change management index score after a time t is measured. A change management strategy framework is altered based on a parametric regression or a polynomial regression.

Abstract: A slew rate controllable system for powering an electric machine. The system may include a plurality of power switches operable for converting a direct current (DC) input into an alternating current (AC) output suitable for electrically powering the electric machine. The system may include a gate drive system operable for controlling a slew rate associated with transitioning the switches between opened and closed states.

Abstract: A plasma treatment device is provided and includes a first electrode, a dielectric body supportive of the first electrode and a second mesh electrode having an opposite polarity as the first electrode and comprising a seating portion. The second mesh electrode is disposed proximate to the dielectric body to define a gap receptive of particles for collection in the seating portion. The gap is sized such that, with the second mesh electrode activated, a plasma field is generated to treat the particles in the seating portion. The seating portion is configured to retain the particles during treatment in opposition to ionic winds resulting from the plasma field.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a process for the conversion of used cooking oil into aromatics (BTEX) hydrocarbon as petrochemical building blocks. The process provides an aromatic rich hydrocarbon from used cooking oil in the presence and absence of steam/hydrogen over supported bimetallic alumina-silicates zeolites. The catalyst contains no precious metal entities and may contain one metal form zinc (Zn), a second metal (X), comprising at least one selected from cobalt (Co), gallium (Ga), chromium (Cr), Iron (Fe) and third elements from cerium (Ce), boron (B) supported on alumina-silicates zeolites. The present invention relates to a catalyst excluding novel metals to produce aromatics in a continuous fixed bed reactor system under atmospheric pressure. More particularly, the present invention relates to a low-temperature process to produce aromatic over alumina-silicates zeolites. The process provides used cooking oil conversion of 84-89% with aromatic selectivity of 87-91%.

Abstract: Case fragment management includes obtaining a case model definition for a case, and generating a case model from the case model definition. Generating the case model includes obtaining a case fragment expression, executing the case fragment expression using data gathered from a data source to obtain a case fragment identifier, selecting, from multiple case fragments, a case fragment corresponding to the case fragment identifier, and populating the case model with the case fragment. Case fragment management also includes storing the case model.