Abstract: One variation of a method for quantifying user engagement includes: serving a digital advertisement to a mobile device; recording a first proportion of pixels of the digital advertisement rendered on a display of the mobile device during a first sampling period; recording a second proportion of pixels of the digital advertisement rendered on the display of the mobile device during a second sampling period offset in time from the first sampling period; calculating a cumulative pixel exposure of the digital advertisement at the mobile device based on a combination of a first product of the first proportion of pixels and a duration of the first sampling period and a second product of the second proportion of pixels and a duration of the second sampling period; and storing the cumulative pixel exposure as an engagement metric for a user consuming the digital advertisement at the mobile device.

Abstract: A method for integration of real-world content into a game is described. The method includes receiving a request to play the game and accessing overlay multimodal data generated from a portion of real-world multimodal data received as user generated content (RGC). The overlay multimodal data relates to authored multimodal data generated for the game. The method includes replacing the authored multimodal data in one or more scenes of the game with the overlay multimodal data.

Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing resources of one or more computer systems is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an object at a first of a plurality of nodes from a second of the plurality of storage nodes within a cluster switch fabric, examining a value associated included within the received object, wherein the value is associated with a clock value of the second node and updating a clock operating at the first node with the received value.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that may use machine learning for implementing speaker recognition, verification, and/or diarization. The techniques include applying a neural network (NN) to a speech data to obtain a speaker embedding representative of an association between the speech data and a speaker that produced the speech. The speech data includes a plurality of frames and a plurality of channels representative of spectral content of the speech data. The NN has one or more blocks of neurons that include a first branch performing convolutions of the speech data across the plurality of channels and across the plurality of frames and a second branch performing convolutions of the speech data across the plurality of channels. Obtained speaker embeddings may be used for various tasks of speaker identification, verification, and/or diarization.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are described herein for processing data (e.g., image data) using convolution as a transformer (CAT) operations. The method includes receiving, at a convolution engine of a machine learning system, a first set of features, the first set of features being associated with an image and having a three-dimensional shape, applying, via the convolution engine, a depth-wise separable convolutional filter to the first set of features to generate a first output, applying, via the convolution engine, a pointwise convolutional filter to the first output to generate a second output based on global information from a spatial dimension and a channel dimension associated with the image, modifying the second output to the three-dimensional shape to generate a second set of features and combining the first set of features and the second set of features to generate an output set of features.

Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing resources of one or more computer systems is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an object at a first of a plurality of nodes from a second of the plurality of storage nodes within a cluster switch fabric, examining a value associated included within the received object, wherein the value is associated with a clock value of the second node and updating a clock operating at the first node with the received value.

Abstract: A request to activate a service may be received from a user device and a determination may be made as to whether the request is authorized or fraudulent. In particular, a geographical location of the user device may be determined. Whether to activate the service may be determined based on the geographical location of the user device.

Abstract: A controller for managing at least one MLC non-volatile memory space including at least one MLC non-volatile memory element and at least one SLC non-volatile memory space including at least one SLC non-volatile memory element. The controller is adapted to determine if a range of addresses listed by an entry and mapped to the at least one MLC non-volatile memory element fails a data integrity test performed at the controller based upon received data retained at the controller and which received data is stored in the at least one MLC memory element as stored data. In the event of such a failure, the controller remaps said entry to an the at least one SLC non-volatile memory element.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for managing communications amongst mobile computing units. The invention includes location detection, three-dimensional proximity detection and alert systems for and amongst mobile units, through the utilization of low-power local communications protocols. The systems and methods minimize power consumption by the mobile units, and enable for robust, reconfigurable real-time location and asset tracking.

Abstract: Dynamic thresholds are derived for each connection phase, using machine learning (e.g., K-means clustering) for an enterprise network. A time interval can be tracked between samples of collected data packets for each phase of connections, including the association phase, the authentication phase and the DHCP phase of connecting. A specific dynamic threshold for one of the connection phases is detected as out-of-range. Responsive to the out-of-range detection, network issues corresponding to the phase of the specific dynamic threshold are checked and automatically remediated.

Abstract: Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA), and methods of using the same, are provided.

Abstract: Compounds, compositions, and methods of use of such compounds and compositions are provided for reducing human dependency to nicotine. In one example, a method of treating an individual with an addiction to nicotine comprises administering to the individual a compound that is a structural analog of trans-cinnamaldehyde. Based on the administration, a rate at which nicotine is metabolized may be reduced, which in turn may reduce a desire for the individual to consume nicotine-containing products.

Abstract: An ultra-wideband electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure includes multiple EBG units in an array. Each EBG unit includes a power plane, a dielectric substrate and a ground plane from top to bottom. The power plane includes a patch, a coupled complementary split ring resonator (C-CSRR) and a plurality of semi-improved Z-bridge structures. Each edge of the patch is provided with a semi-improved Z-bridge structure. The C-CSRR is provided within a ring formed by the semi-improved Z-bridge structures. The Z-bridge structure includes a first horizontal branch, a first vertical branch, a second horizontal branch and a second vertical branch connected in sequence. The second vertical branch is connected to the patch. First horizontal branches of adjacent EBG units are connected to each other. A circuit board including the aforementioned EBG structure is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are polypeptides which are covalently bound to molecular scaffolds such that two or more peptide loops are subtended between attachment points to the scaffold. More particularly, the invention provides peptide mimetics of PD-L1. Also disclosed are multimeric binding complexes of polypeptides which are covalently bound to molecular scaffolds such that two or more peptide loops are subtended between attachment points to the scaffold that are mimetics of PD-L1. Also disclosed are methods of using said peptides in treating a disease or disorder mediated by PD-L1 nuclear localisation.

Abstract: A device configured to identify a first link between a value of a first data element in a first plurality of data elements and values of a first set of data elements in a second plurality of data elements and to remove the first link between the first data element and the first set of data elements. The device is further configured to input the data elements into a machine learning model that is configured to output a second link between the first data element and a second set of data elements. The device is further configured to create an entry in a relationship table that identifies the first data element and the second set of data elements. The device is further configured to generate a data stream with the first data element and the second set of data elements and to output the data stream.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for generating a merged dataset, comprising: accessing data comprising a core dataset and an additional dataset; identifying a plurality of common attributes between the core dataset and the additional dataset; determining a plurality of similarity scores between an inquiring entity in the core dataset and a plurality of candidate entities in the additional dataset, including, for each candidate entity of the plurality of candidate entities: calculating a similarity score for the candidate entity based at least in part on a distance-based score and a weight influence score; selecting one or more matches for the inquiring entity in the core dataset from the plurality of candidate entities in the additional dataset based at least in part on the plurality of similarity scores; and generating the merged dataset by adding the one or more selected matches for the inquiring entity to the core dataset.

Abstract: An audio system is for a motor vehicle having a passenger compartment. The system includes a plurality of microphones disposed in the passenger compartment and each producing a respective microphone signal indicative of audible voices in the passenger compartment. A plurality of loudspeakers are disposed in the passenger compartment and emit sounds based on infotainment audio signals. An audio processor receives the microphone signals, and determines from the microphone signals respective locations of people in the passenger compartment who are participating in a voice conversation. The audio processor modifies the infotainment audio signals sent to individual ones of the loudspeakers based on the determined locations such that the sounds emitted by the loudspeakers are quieter as heard by the people participating in the voice conversation than as heard by at least one other person in the passenger compartment.

Abstract: A distributed computing system includes a blockchain comprising a plurality of blockchain services comprising an oracle service, a predictive analytics service, a loan service, and a consensus service. The oracle service configured to receive input data comprising at least one of financial data associated with at least one of the plurality of syndicate participants, macroeconomic data, geo-location data, disaster data, or public health data. The predictive analytics service configured to utilize the input data to determine whether a first syndicate participant of the plurality of syndicate participants has an excess of funds and whether a second syndicate participant of the plurality of syndicate participants has a lack of funds where the first syndicate participant is different than the second syndicate participant. The loan service configured to facilitate a loan agreement between the first syndicate participant and the second syndicate participant.

Abstract: A method and a system for detecting suspicious transactions and providing warnings in advance of executing the transactions in order to prevent fraud are provided. The method includes: receiving a request to conduct a transaction with an entity by using a digital payment application, the request including first profile information that relates to the entity; retrieving second profile information that relates to the requestor; comparing the first profile information with the second profile information; and determining, based on a result of the comparison, whether to suspend the requested transaction. When a determination is made that the proposed transaction may be fraudulent, the transaction may be suspended and a warning message may be sent to the requestor in order to afford an opportunity to avoid the fraud.

Abstract: The present application provides a battery module and an electric vehicle. The battery module includes a case, a longitudinal beam, and a tray. The case is provided with at least one exhaust port. The longitudinal beam is disposed in the case and is abutted against a bottom surface of the case to partition accommodating areas in the case on both sides of the longitudinal beam along a width direction. The tray is disposed in one of the accommodating areas and is configured to install a battery cell. A through hole opposite to an end of the battery cell is defined on the tray, the tray is spaced from the bottom surface of the case to define a pressure relief cavity, the through hole and the exhaust port are respectively communicated with the pressure relief cavity.