Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices for use in transplanting cells. The devices can include a housing defining a cavity; and a support structure separating the cavity into a cell chamber and a reservoir chamber, wherein the support structure comprises a membrane for fluid communication between the cell chamber and reservoir chamber. The cell chamber can define a first opening comprising a microstructure containing an array of micro-channels, each having a diameter to facilitate growth of vascular tissues; and an array of micro-reservoirs, each having a diameter to facilitate housing of cell aggregates individually. The membrane can define a surface area that is at least 50% of a total surface area of the support structure. Methods of treating a subject for a disease condition, such as diabetes, are also disclosed.

Abstract: One example method includes identifying emerging hybrid technologies. Datasets are data mined to identify transactions that are related to technology. Associations are generated based on the transactions and the associations are processed to identify emerging hybrid technologies from the transactions.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to implement a first ledger node of a first cloud having a first set of cloud resources. The first ledger node of the first cloud is configured to communicate over one or more networks with a plurality of additional ledger nodes associated with respective additional clouds having respective additional sets of cloud resources, to monitor auditable information relating to cloud resources of the first cloud and cloud services provided by the first cloud, to associate the auditable information with one or more cloud service transactions, and to generate a cryptographic block characterizing the one or more cloud service transactions and the associated auditable information. The cryptographic block is entered into a blockchain distributed ledger collectively maintained by the first and additional ledger nodes.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices for use in transplanting cells. The devices can include a housing defining a cavity; and a support structure separating the cavity into a cell chamber and a reservoir chamber, wherein the support structure comprises a membrane for fluid communication between the cell chamber and reservoir chamber. The cell chamber can define a first opening comprising a microstructure containing an array of micro-channels, each having a diameter to facilitate growth of vascular tissues; and an array of micro-reservoirs, each having a diameter to facilitate housing of cell aggregates individually. The membrane can define a surface area that is at least 50% of a total surface area of the support structure. Methods of treating a subject for a disease condition, such as diabetes, are also disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to receive results of intermediate percentile computations performed on respective ones of a plurality of datasets in respective ones of a plurality of distributed processing nodes configured to communicate over at least one network. The processing device is further configured to perform at least one global percentile computation based at least in part on the results of the intermediate percentile computations, and to utilize results of the intermediate and global percentile computations to populate an interactive user interface associated with at least a given one of the distributed processing nodes. The distributed processing nodes are illustratively associated with respective distinct data zones in which the respective datasets are locally accessible to the respective distributed processing nodes.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to discover data sources associated with respective edge devices configured to communicate over at least one network, to obtain metadata characterizing the data sources, and to control performance of distributed analytics across a plurality of distributed processing nodes of the network utilizing the obtained metadata and locally accessible data provided by the corresponding data sources. In some embodiments, the edge devices comprise respective IoT gateways each associated with a set of IoT data sources. The IoT gateways are illustratively arranged in respective data zones that also encompass their respective sets of IoT data sources, and the distributed analytics is performed without requiring that locally accessible data from the IoT data sources leave the corresponding data zones.