Abstract: Described herein are battery packs and electric vehicles using these packs. In some examples, a battery pack comprises two portions/covers and a set of battery modules positioned within the enclosed cavity formed by these portions. A battery pack may comprise a set of pressure-relief valves positioned in and protruding through a wall of at least one portion. Each valve can be coaxial with a corresponding gap provided between two adjacent modules. The valve is configured to provide a fluid path (to the exterior of the battery pack) when the pressure inside the pack exceeds a set threshold. In some examples, the battery pack comprises an inlet tube fluidically coupled to the inlet port of each module and an outlet tube fluidically coupled to the outlet port of each module. A set of specially configured orifices or controllable valves is positioned on the fluid path through each module.

Abstract: An unmanned vehicle includes at least one navigation sensor configured to measure navigation data indicative of an environment, at least one status sensor configured to measure status data indicative of operating parameters of a hardware system and a computing system. The computing system includes a navigation engine configured to receive the navigation data and status data and plan a path through the environment and a security engine. The security engine is configured to detect that an unauthorized user is attempting to access the navigation data or the status data, send an alert to an authorized user indicating that the unauthorized user is attempting to access navigation data or status data, and send, to the unauthorized user, simulated data including one or both of simulated navigation data and simulated status data.

Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a central body; at least one rotor motor configured to drive at least one propeller to rotate, rotation of the at least one propeller generating thrust and causing the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly; and an integrated micro hybrid generator system configured to provide power to the at least one rotor motor. The integrated micro hybrid generator system includes an engine configured to generate mechanical energy, and a generator motor directly coupled to the engine and configured to generate AC power using the mechanical energy generated by the engine.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes combination therapies comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1) and a Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist that is a CpG-C type oligonucleotide, and the use of the combination therapies for the treatment of cancer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus may include receiving, by a user equipment from a first access point which supports a first radio access technology, a radio-resource-control (RRC) reconfiguration message including an RRC configuration information of a second access point, after an initiation of a slave RRC at the second access point has been determined. The second access point supports a second radio access technology, and performing, by the user equipment, a random access procedure with the second access point based on the RRC reconfiguration message. The user equipment is configured to have an RRC connection with the first access point and the first access point is a master node.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising: means for sending (500) a duplicate sidelink transmission to a user equipment on each carrier of a group of carriers; means for receiving (502) feedback from the user equipment for each carrier; and means for determining (504) a sidelink carrier aggregation capability of the user equipment on the group of carriers based on the feedback.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for optimizing calculations of latency metrics for user experiments, comprising receiving from a user device over a network, experiment parameters related to a first experiment of a set of experiments, the set of experiments comprising at least one of a treatment group and at least one of a control group. The experiment parameters are associated with at least one webpage. The user device receives over a network time till interaction (TTI) data for the first experiment, wherein the TTI data comprises a time value and a unique identifier. TTI is calculated for each treatment group experiment and for each control group experiment. If the treatment group experiment value is greater than the predetermined threshold value, the systems and methods send a notification informing users or disable activation of the treatment group experiment.

Abstract: Method of analysis text message syntactically and by content, which entails: step 1; Split syntaxes (made available to subscribers by the network operator) into tokens to store in a Syntax Trie; step 2. Pre-process an incoming text from a subscriber; step 3. Split the text (pre-processed in Step 2) into tokens; step 4. Look up paths that include the tokens (obtained in Step 3) in the Syntax Trie (initialized in Step 1); step 5: Return the look-up result, which is the path in the Syntax Trie that best reflects the user intent.

Abstract: Among other things, techniques are described for predicting how an agent (e.g., a vehicle, bicycle, pedestrian, etc.) will move in an environment based on prior movement, the road network, the surrounding objects and/or other relevant environmental factors. One trajectory prediction technique involves generating a probability map for an agent's movement. Another trajectory prediction technique involves generating a trajectory lattice, for an agent's movement. In addition, a different trajectory prediction technique involves multi-modal regression where a classifier (e.g., a neural network) is trained to classify the probability of a number of (learned) modes such that each model produces a trajectory based on the current input.

Abstract: A device is disclosed. The device includes a first epitaxial region, a second epitaxial region, a first gate region between the first epitaxial region and a second epitaxial region, a first dielectric structure underneath the first epitaxial region, a second dielectric structure underneath the second epitaxial region, a third epitaxial region underneath the first epitaxial region, a fourth epitaxial region underneath the second epitaxial region, and a second gate region between the third epitaxial region and a fourth epitaxial region and below the first gate region. The device also includes, a conductor via extending from the first epitaxial region, through the first dielectric structure and the third epitaxial region, the conductor via narrower at an end of the conductor via that contacts the first epitaxial region than at an opposite end.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for increasing recovery, or flowback, of hydrocarbon compounds from hydrocarbon-containing subterranean fractured rock formations (tight shale reservoirs). The flowback compositions include an anionic dimer surfactant, an anionic monomer surfactant, and a demulsifier. The flowback compositions convert oil-wet rocks to water-wet, yet exhibit a low tendency of composition components to sorb to the rock. The flowback compositions do not cause formation of emulsions with hydrocarbon compounds within the subterranean fractured rock formations. The flowback composition are useful for increasing the yield of hydrocarbons recovered from tight shale reservoirs.

Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting a breakdown pressure of a formation and fracturing the formation account for filter cake effects. The systems and methods measure a time-dependent permeability and a time-dependent thickness of a filter cake formed by a first drilling mud. The systems and methods determine a time-dependent permeability model and a time-dependent thickness model of the filter cake. The systems and methods select a breakdown pressure model based on (i) the time-dependent thickness of the filter cake, (ii) the time-dependent permeability of the filter cake, and (iii) the permeability of the formation. The systems and methods use the selected breakdown pressure model to predict the breakdown pressure of the formation and fracture the formation using a drilling fluid having a mud weight associated with the predicted breakdown pressure of the formation.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for pooling local features for fine-grained image classification. The deep features learned by the deep network are augmented with low level local landmark features by learning a pooling strategy that pools landmark features from earlier layers of the deep network. These low level landmark features are combined with the deep features and sent to the classifier.

Abstract: A method for image-based data collection and analysis of a tissue sample comprising a tumor or permeable microchannels to simulate blood vessels. The method may comprise providing a microfluidic platform to hold the tissue sample or microchannels. The method may further comprise providing an imaging system capable of processing fluorescent images and directing a fluorescent dye through the microfluidic platform to illuminate the tumor or microchannels. The method may further comprise the imaging system capturing a plurality of fluorescent images of the tissue sample over a period of time. The method may further comprise a computing device processing the plurality of fluorescent images and determining a plurality of parameters based on the images.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a chamber for an electronics manufacturing system includes flowing a gas mixture comprising oxygen and a carrier gas into a remote plasma generator. The method further includes generating a plasma from the gas mixture by the remote plasma generator and performing a remote plasma cleaning of the chamber by flowing the plasma into an interior of the chamber, wherein the plasma removes a plurality of organic contaminants from the chamber.

Abstract: A technology for retrieving data from a database. The technology includes receiving a search query specifying a target attribute and a target attribute value, accessing an index to determine one or more target files in which the target attribute value appears, the index including a plurality of attribute values, and for each of the attribute values, one or more files in which the attribute value appears, and retrieving data from the one or more target files.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing a wellbore downhole tool, including providing a pre-polymer resin and processing the pre-polymer resin. Processing the pre-polymer resin includes applying directed energy from a directed energy source such that the pre-polymer resin is at least partially polymerized to form a polymer seal of the wellbore downhole tool, the polymer seal having one of more mechanical properties that differ along one or more dimensions of the polymer seal. A downhole tool for use in a wellbore, the downhole tool including a polymer seal. The polymer seal is a continuous single monolithic piece, includes polymer structures having a polymer chain including same types of monomers that are bonded together, and the polymer structures are altered along one or more dimensions of the polymer seal and one of more mechanical properties of the polymer seal differ along a same corresponding one of the or more dimensions of the polymer seal.

Abstract: Novel date palm charcoal iron oxide nanocomposites (DPC-Fe3O4) are presented, as well as processes for making the same. These synthesized magnetic DPC-Fe3O4 nanocomposites have wide potential significant applications such as in energy storage devices, electronic devices, sensors, in drug delivery and medicine, catalytic application and also in water purification as an effective strong adsorbent.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for physical sidelink transmission for sidelink inter-user equipment resource allocation. A method may include receiving at a first user equipment based on a decision of a second user equipment, a resource allocation from the second user equipment. The method may also include determining whether to transmit a sidelink control information associated to a transmission using the resource allocation over a control channel. The method may further include performing a transmission using the resource allocation.

Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods for selective deployment of experimental configurations are disclosed The systems and methods may include performing steps of deploying a webpage comprising a plurality of configurations, wherein the plurality of configurations exhibit different behaviors; configuring a traffic container comprising a first bucket and a second bucket based on user input; assigning one or more experiments to the traffic container based on the user input, wherein the one or more experiments determine appropriate configurations for the first bucket and the second bucket; accepting incoming traffic for accessing the webpage; randomly assigning a first subset of the incoming traffic to the first bucket and a second subset of the incoming traffic to the second bucket; transmitting the webpage in appropriate configurations based on the random assignments; and obtaining one or more measurements indicative of relative performances of the appropriate configurations.