Abstract: A dialysis system, comprising: a dialysis machine; a voice recognition component configured to identify a voice command in audio information received by a microphone of the dialysis system; an authentication component configured to determine a source of the voice command; and a processor configured to perform a function determined based on the voice command.

Abstract: Disclosed is an antibody which binds to paliperidone, which can be used to detect paliperidone in a sample such as in a competitive immunoassay method. The antibody can be used in a lateral flow assay device for point-of-care detection of paliperidone, including multiplex detection of aripiprazole, quetiapine, olanzapine, and risperidone/paliperidone in a single lateral flow assay device.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for generating and displaying comprehensive transaction information is disclosed. Operands including transaction-specific details from an electronic receipt and a pre-shared salt are hashed to produce a unique purchase identifier (PID). A user may submit the electronic receipt to a transaction recorder who also possesses the pre-shared salt. The transaction recorder may create a duplicate of the PID using the electronic receipt and the pre-shared salt. The duplicate PID may be associated with transaction entry stored in a transaction database.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds which can act as aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) modulators and, in particular, as AhR antagonists. The invention further relates to the use of the compounds for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and/or conditions through binding of said aryl hydrocarbon receptor by said compounds.

Abstract: A store profile generation method includes moving a mobile base around a product facility which includes an arrangement of product display units for displaying products. Product labels are associated with the display units. The product labels display product-related data for the displayed products. With an image capture assembly mounted on the mobile base, images are acquired of the product display units at a sequence of locations of the mobile base. With a computer processor, the product-related data is extracted from the acquired images and a store profile is constructed, based on the extracted product-related data, a spatial characterization of the image capture assembly, and information on the locations of the mobile base when the images were acquired, which indicates locations of the product labels throughout the product facility.

Abstract: A liquid filling system is provided that contains a container and a nozzle, while such nozzle contains liquid flow passages that are configured to generate different liquid influxes that are directed differentially toward the bottom and the sidewall(s) of such containers.

Abstract: A method of operating a RAM inlet header (RIH) is provided. The method includes determining a temperature of RAM air flows in a body through which RAM air flows from an inlet toward a heat exchanger, determining a temperature of excess air for use in an environmental control system (ECS) and, in an event the temperature of the excess air is less than the temperature of the RAM air flows, directing a curtain of the excess air from a nozzle body and along a wall of the body into flows of the RAM air and toward the heat exchanger.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for dynamically optimizing memory traffic in multi-client systems are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of client devices, a memory subsystem, and a communication fabric coupled to the client devices and the memory subsystem. The system includes a first client which generates memory access requests targeting the memory subsystem. Prior to sending a given memory access request to the fabric, the first client analyzes metadata associated with data targeted by the given memory access request. If the metadata indicates the targeted data is the same as or is able to be derived from previously retrieved data, the first client prevents the request from being sent out on the fabric on the data path to memory subsystem. This helps to reduce memory bandwidth consumption and allows the fabric and the memory subsystem to stay in a low-power state for longer periods of time.

Abstract: A service enables a command that refers to a file system object using a hierarchical namespace identifier to be executed against the file system object in a flat namespace. The service selectively distributes the command to one of a plurality of name resolution nodes based on a directory name included in the hierarchical namespace identifier. The identified node resolves the directory name to a flat namespace identifier that is used to execute the command against the flat namespace. After communicating with at least one storage node to resolve a directory name, each name resolution node stores a mapping of the directory name to the corresponding flat namespace identifier in a cache, so that subsequent resolutions of that directory name may be performed more efficiently. Cache entries may be invalidated when an operation occurs that impacts the relevant mapping and/or based on system considerations such as cache expiry.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system having a first plurality of transmitters for launching according to a signal, first electromagnetic waves, and a second plurality of transmitters for launching, according to the signal, second electromagnetic waves. The first electromagnetic waves and the second electromagnetic waves combine at an interface of a transmission medium to induce a propagation of a third electromagnetic wave, the third electromagnetic wave having a non-fundamental wave mode and a non-optical operating frequency, and wherein the second plurality of transmitters are spaced apart from the first plurality of transmitters in a direction of propagation of the third electromagnetic wave. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A dishwasher includes a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber with an access opening and having a top wall. A door is movable between opened and closed positions to selectively close the access opening. A receiving collar is coupled to one of the tub or the door and has an opening and a deflecting surface accessible through the opening. A strike plate is coupled to the other of the tub or the door and received within the opening in the receiving collar in an insertion direction. The strike plate has at least one biasing element.

Abstract: A unitary dispensing nozzle for co-injecting two or more liquids of different viscosity, solubility and/or miscibility at high filling speed to improve homogeneous mixing of such liquids, while said nozzle is an integral piece free of any movable parts and substantially free of dead space.

Abstract: A non-toxic vehicle for hormone therapy. The non-toxic vehicle includes a cationic lipid or a neutral lipid and polyethylene glycol.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a system includes a housing having a cavity defined therein for holding a test sample, a first inlet in fluid communication with the cavity to deliver fluid to the test sample, a second inlet in fluid communication with the cavity to deliver fluid to the test sample, the first inlet configured to deliver fluid to the test sample in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction that the second inlet is configured to deliver fluid to the test sample, an outlet in fluid communication with the cavity to receive fluid from the test sample, and a force applicator configured to apply compressive force to the test sample within the cavity. The force applicator forms a seal with the housing while applying compressive force to the test sample. The system also comprises at least one sensor configured to, while fluid flows from at least one of the inlets through the test sample to the outlet, determine a fluid characteristic, a test sample characteristic, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A stimulation device includes an energy source; an electronics unit; an actuator that is coupled with the electronics unit and/or the energy source. The electronics unit includes a controller. The energy source, the electronics unit and the actuator are arranged in a housing. A fixing unit which is coupled with the housing and affixes the stimulation device on a heart or in a heart. The actuator emits electromagnetic waves for the stimulation of genetically manipulated tissue, and the controller controls the stimulation of the tissue by way of the electromagnetic waves of the actuator.

Abstract: A building system that utilizes an improved beam and coupling system for building a frame or structure having improved strength and durability and improving performance and/or spanning distance of the beam.

Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes a dielectric antenna having a longitudinal axis, a feed point and an aperture. A cable comprising a core is coupled to the feed point of the dielectric antenna. A transmitter, coupled to the cable, facilitates a transmission of first electromagnetic waves to the feed point of the dielectric antenna, the first electromagnetic waves guided by the core. The first electromagnetic waves propagate along the core without requiring an electrical return path, and the first electromagnetic waves generate free-space wireless signals from the aperture of the antenna in accordance with a hollow-boresight antenna beam pattern.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical patch comprising a Lidocaine constituent and a Diclofenac constituent, wherein the relative weight content ratio of the Lidocaine constituent to the Diclofenac constituent is within the range of from about 7:1 to about 4:1, based on the equivalent weight of the non-salt form of Lidocaine and of Diclofenac, for use in the local treatment or prevention of pain, wherein the pain is neuropathic pain or wherein the pain has a neuropathic pain component. The pharmaceutical composition is suitable for topical administration and local pharmacological action via delivery of Lidocaine and Diclofenac into the skin and possibly also through and to other deeper tissues such as the synovial fluid without significant systemic exposure.

Abstract: Described herein is a new antidote for the rapid elimination of carbon monoxide from hemoglobin, including brain, heart, and red cell hemoglobin. The disclosed therapy involves the use of modified human globins, particularly neuroglobins modified at residue 64 and cytoglobins modified at residue 81, which bind carbon monoxide with extremely high affinity. The monomeric mutant globins are infused into blood, where they rapidly and irreversibly sequester carbon monoxide, and thus limit toxic effects of carbon monoxide on cellular respiration and oxygen transport and utilization.

Abstract: A system for creating a synthetic voice identifier may include a plurality of synthesized voice authorization (SVA) devices and a biometric combinatory device (BCD). The SVAs may be communicatively coupled to the BCD via a network and may communicate utilizing a markup language. The SVA devices may capture an audio signal of a voice of a user, modify the audio signal with a randomized audio frequency signal to generate a modified audio signal, and communicate, the modified audio signal as a synthesized voice signal associated with the user.