Abstract: A method of electrically connecting a wire to a connection pad of a flexible circuit strip using a joining tool, which method comprising: receiving the flexible circuit strip on a support surface, wherein the flexible circuit strip includes a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of connection pads and conductive traces connecting each of the plurality of electrodes to a connection pad of the plurality of connection pads; positioning a joining tool over a first connection pad of the flexible circuit strip; monitoring a first capacitance between said joining tool and a conductive layer positioned under the connection pads, wherein said conductive layer is sized, shaped, and positioned to extend over a footprint of said plurality of connection pads; controllably lowering said joining tool toward said first connection pad until the first capacitance reaches a first predefined capacitance threshold, wherein said first predefined capacitance threshold defines a first height of said joining tool with respect to said

Abstract: A DC-to-DC converter for an electrical aircraft propulsion system designed to be connected in series with an electrical energy storage unit of the electrical propulsion system. The DC-to-DC converter includes an inverter, a transformer and a rectifier, and further includes a current source that is connected to the rectifier and is configured to control the power passing through the DC-to-DC converter. The transformer includes a primary and two secondaries, the two secondaries sharing a common terminal designed to be connected to a high-voltage DC bus of the electrical propulsion system and two other terminals that are connected to the rectifier. The rectifier includes two arms including at least two transistors that are each in series and are connected, on the one hand, to the two other terminals of the transformer and, on the other hand, to the current source.

Abstract: An electronically driven lubrication system including an electric lubrication pump; at least one bearing for a gas turbine engine component; an oil cooler fluidly coupled with the electric lubrication pump; lubrication oil fluidly coupled with the electric lubrication pump, at least one bearing and oil cooler; at least one sensor in operative communication with the lubrication oil; a controller comprising a processor in operative communication with the at least one sensor, the electric lubrication pump, the at least one bearing and the oil cooler; and the processor configured to provide processor outputs to the electric lubrication pump responsive to data collected from the at least one sensor, wherein the processor employs an operational configuration for the electronically driven lubrication system.

Abstract: The present document discloses a method and system for blocking a computer system based on tickets issued by a remote server, with an operating system configured for booting from a UEFI, wherein the blocking system comprises: a transfer engine, i.e. an agent, of tickets comprised in an application or module of the operating system; an authentication engine comprised in said UEFI; a data or file transfer area accessible by both engines; wherein the transfer engine is configured for receiving tickets and storing tickets; wherein the authentication engine is configured for: reading a stored ticket; checking authentication and obtaining read ticket type; and if the authenticity is verified, processing the verified ticket, depending on the type: a normal ticket, setting the system to a leased state wherein the operating system can start; or a block ticket, setting the system to a blocked state wherein the operating system cannot boot.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cell geometries for use in panel designs which may allow for an increased amount of energy absorption under lateral loading, as well as axial loading. The cell geometry that may withstand more energy from different angles as compared to standard honeycomb geometry. This cell geometry may be employed as a core of repeating cells to provide an increased amount of energy absorption under lateral loading in addition to energy absorption under axial loading. The cell geometry may be composed of a portion having a squared cross-section, but with internal diagonal walls, which are neither fully parallel nor perpendicular to the cell axis. This configuration is believed to possibly increase stiffness and energy absorption of a resulting core in the lateral direction.

Abstract: A population of capsules comprising: a core comprising a benefit agent and a shell surrounding the core; wherein the shell surrounding the core comprises a substantially inorganic first shell; wherein the substantially inorganic first shell comprises a condensed layer comprising a condensation product of a mixture of precursors; and wherein the mixture of precursors comprises a silica precursor and a crosslinking metal-oxide precursor.

Abstract: The present disclosure, at least in part, relates to compositions (e.g., engineered nucleic acids and engineered proteins) and methods for increasing gene expression. The engineered proteins include RNA-binding proteins (e.g., RNA-binding proteins that comprise a Interleukin Enhancer Binding Factor 3 (ILF3) sequence, a Cas sequence, or a combination thereof). In some aspects, the disclosure provides methods of identifying engineered nucleic acids that are shorter in length than a gene of interest to induce expression of the gene of interest and also provides RNA-binding proteins for inducing gene expression.

Abstract: A fencing sword cover system includes a sheath, a guard cover, and/or one or more emblems. The sheath may be configured to surround at least a portion of a blade of a fencing sword. The guard cover may include a sheath coupling, a connecting wall, and a guard coupling. The sheath coupling may be coupled to the sheath. The connecting wall may be contiguous with the sheath coupling. The connecting wall may include one or more input receptors. The guard coupling may be coupled to a guard of the fencing sword. The guard coupling may be contiguous with the connecting wall and separated from the sheath coupling by the connecting wall. The one or more emblems may include respective adaptors. The adaptors may be configured to be selectively coupled to the one or more input receptors.

Abstract: Aspects relate to wireless communication at a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may include a transmitter configured to communicate using a first communication protocol, a receiver configured to communicate using a second communication protocol, different from the first communication protocol, a first antenna coupled to the transmitter, a second antenna coupled to the receiver and physically separated from the first antenna by a variable distance. The wireless communication device transmits, via the first antenna, a first transmission within a first frequency range, and receives via the second antenna, a second transmission within a second frequency range that overlaps the first frequency range.

Abstract: It is suggested to process radar signals including: (i) receiving reception signals via at least one antenna of a first receiving circuit; (ii) determining an interim result by processing the reception signals via a frequency transformation; (iii) determining an error compensation vector based on the interim result and an expected characteristic; and (iv) applying the error compensation vector on other reception signals that have been processed via the frequency transformation.

Abstract: In some examples, dual-end loopback-based multi-fiber cable measurement may include connecting at least two multi-fiber loopback devices respectively to a near end and a far end of a multi-fiber cable to place at least two fibers of the multi-fiber cable in series. The at least two multi-fiber loopback devices may include a near-end multi-fiber loopback device connected to a fiber optic reflectometer and to the near end of the multi-fiber cable to connect together at least two near-end fibers of the multi-fiber cable. Further, the at least two multi-fiber loopback devices may include a far-end multi-fiber loopback device connected to the far end of the multi-fiber cable to connect together at least two far-end fibers of the multi-fiber cable.

Abstract: Wireless power receivers include a first inductive element featuring a planar coil occupying a first plane and having first and second terminals, a first capacitive element connected to the first terminal, a second capacitive element connected to the first capacitive element at a third terminal and to the second terminal, a rectifier connected to the second terminal and third terminal such that an oscillating magnetic field will induce a current in the first inductive element, resulting in a voltage across the input of the rectifier, a communications modulation circuit, and a layer of magnetic material centered over the planar coil in a second plane parallel to the first plane.

Abstract: A thermometer includes one or more temperature sensors mounted on a housing. The one or more temperature sensors determine a temperature of at least one measurement site without contact. The non-contact thermometer displays an indicator to assist alignment of the one or more temperature sensors with the at least one measurement site, receives at least one measurement reading from the at least one measurement site, determines a temperature based on the at least one measurement reading, and displays the temperature on a display unit.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously identify and deliver for application a treatment to an object among other objects, data science and data analysis, including machine learning, deep learning, and other disciplines of computer-based artificial intelligence to facilitate identification and treatment of objects, and robotics and mobility technologies to navigate a delivery system, more specifically, to an agricultural delivery system configured to identify and apply, for example, an agricultural treatment to an identified agricultural object.