Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system that includes an outdoor heat exchanger (HX) and outdoor fans. The outdoor fans are arranged in either an in-line configuration or a staggered configuration to satisfy one or more requirements to optimize the airflow across the outdoor HXs.

Abstract: Pickup belt headers may include a ramp disposed in a gap formed between a first endless belt of a pickup belt assembly and a second endless belt of a transfer belt assembly. Fingers may be provided on the first endless belt, and the fingers may be deflected, such as by pivoting or bending, in response to engagement between the fingers and the ramp to avoid contact between the fingers and the second endless belt.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions comprising polyesters containing a chain of residue of: diols and diesters along the chain, wherein at least a portion of the diesters are 1, 1-diester-1-alkenes, and the chains have alkene groups incorporated into the chains; the composition comprising one or more of the following: i ether groups derived from alcohols, diols, polyols, or a combination thereof obtained via Michael addition to the alkene groups and a residue of the alkene groups remaining after Michael addition; ii the formed polyesters contain one percent or less of residual 1, 1-diester-1-alkene which are unreacted; iii one or more free radical inhibitors; and iv a stabilizer comprising one or more of: oxo acids phosphorous or esters thereof, aluminum sulfate, stannous pyrophosphate, stannous sulfate, aluminum dihydrogenphosphate or decomposition products thereof. The stabilizer is present in an amount sufficient to enhance stability of the polyester without lowering reactivity of the polyester.

Abstract: A method and system for performing seamless analysis of geometric components in multi-domain collaborative simulation environments. A method includes generating a simulation interface object corresponding to a geometric component in a first simulation environment. The simulation interface object includes load and boundary conditions associated with the geometric component. The method includes dynamically accessing the load and boundary conditions associated with the geometric component in a second simulation environment via the simulation interface object. The first simulation environment and the second simulation environment correspond to different domains. The method includes performing analysis of the geometric component in the second simulation environment based on the load and boundary conditions. Moreover, the method includes generating results of the analysis of the geometric component on a graphical user interface associated with the second simulation environment.

Abstract: An example apparatus includes clock divider circuitry configured to divide a system clock by a pre-scaler input to generate a divided clock; counter circuitry configured to increment a system count based on the divided clock; comparison circuitry configured to determine a count difference between the system count and a real-time clock count; and controller circuitry configured to modify the pre-scaler input based on a comparison of the count difference to a threshold value.

Abstract: A device and method for radioembolization in the treatment of cancer cells in the body. In preferred embodiments, a radiomicrosphere is formed from a resin where an alpha emitting isotope is used for tumoricidal purposes. As the alpha emitter decays, daughters of the alpha decay are captured by the resin. In accordance with the preferred embodiments, the resin is polyfunctional where the resin has at least three different types of functional groups for cation binding. In preferred embodiments, the three functional groups bonded to the resin include a carboxylic acid group, a diphosphonic acid group, and a sulfonic acid group. In further embodiments, the device comprises at least two isotopes; wherein a first isotope is for therapeutic purposes and a second isotope is for dosimetric purposes. The second isotope is a positron emitter for PET based dosimetry.

Abstract: Methods of providing actionable input via behavioral indexing of agents includes receiving values for a plurality of behavioral key performance indicators (KPIs) for each agent; determining a normalized behavioral score (NBS) for each behavioral KPI; receiving an assigned weight value for each behavioral KPI; transforming the assigned weight value of each behavioral KPI to a base of 4, 8, or 12; calculating a behavioral index value based on the transformed assigned weight value and NBS for each behavioral KPI; receiving a performance index value; generating a decision matrix, wherein each cell of the decision matrix holds an actionable input; placing each agent into one cell of the decision matrix; and displaying the decision matrix and the agents in each cell. A coaching need can be identified based on the decision matrix, and coaching precedence scores calculated to determine the order in which coaching should be given.

Abstract: In an example, a device includes a controller and a direct current (DC)-to-DC converter coupled to the controller and configured to provide a load current to a load. The device also includes a low-dropout (LDO) regulator coupled to the DC-to-DC converter. The controller includes digital logic, and the digital logic is configured to determine the load current. The digital logic is configured to turn on the LDO regulator if the load current is above a predetermined threshold. The digital logic is also configured to turn off the LDO regulator if the load current is below the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Certain aspects and features of this disclosure relate to semantically-aware image extrapolation. In one example, an input image is segmented to produce an input segmentation map of object instances in the input image. An object generation network is used to generate an extrapolated semantic label map for an extrapolated image. The extrapolated semantic label map includes instances in the original image and instances that will appear in an outpainted region of the extrapolated image. A panoptic label map is derived from coordinates of output instances in the extrapolated image and used to identify partial instances and boundaries. Instance-aware context normalization is used to apply one or more characteristics from the input image to the outpainted region to maintain semantic continuity. The extrapolated image includes the original image and the outpainted region and can be rendered or stored for future use.

Abstract: Described in this document, among other things, is an overload protection system that can protect data sinks from overload by controlling the volume of data sent to those data sinks in a fine-grained manner. The protection system preferably sits in between edge servers, or other producers of data, and data sinks that will receive some or all of the data. Preferably, each data sink owner defines a policy to control how and when overload protection will be applied. Each policy can include definitions of how to monitor the stream of data for overload and specify one or more conditions upon which throttling actions are necessary. In embodiments, a policy can contain a multi-part specification to identify the class(es) of traffic to monitor to see if the conditions have been triggered.

Abstract: A computing device has an energy storage device system with multiple energy storage devices. Various different criteria are used to determine which one or more of the multiple energy storage devices to charge or discharge at any given time to provide power to the computing device. The criteria can include characteristics of the energy storage devices as well as hardware and/or physical characteristics of the computing device, characteristics of the energy storage devices and/or the computing device that change while the computing device operates, and predicted behavior or usage of the computing device. These criteria are evaluated during operation of the computing device, and the appropriate energy storage device(s) from which to draw power or to charge at any given time based on these criteria are determined.

Abstract: Submerged arc welding torches and systems to resistively preheat electrode wire are disclosed. A disclosed example submerged arc welding torch includes: a first contact tip configured to transfer weld current and preheating current to the wire; a second contact tip configured to conduct the preheating current to the wire; an air-cooled first conductive body portion configured to receive the weld current and to conduct the weld current and the preheating current to the first contact tip; an air-cooled second conductive body portion configured to receive the preheating current and to conduct the preheating current to the second contact tip; and an insulator coupled between the first and second conductive body portions.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for pre-training entity extraction models to facilitate domain adaptation in resource-constrained domains. In an example embodiment, a first machine learning model is used to encode sentences of a source domain corpus and a target domain corpus into sentence embeddings. The sentence embeddings of the target domain corpus are combined into a target corpus embedding. Training sentences from the source domain corpus within a threshold of similarity to the target corpus embedding are selected. A second machine learning model is trained on the training sentences selected from the source domain corpus.

Abstract: A header for an agricultural work vehicle including a feeder house is provided, with the header operable to move crop material in a forward feed direction during a crop processing operation and in a reverse feed direction during a declogging operation. The header includes a frame configured to be coupled to the feeder house, a pickup belt assembly coupled to the frame and including a movable pickup belt configured to convey crop material, a transfer belt assembly coupled to the frame and including a movable transfer belt arranged to convey crop material from the pickup belt assembly to the feeder house in the forward feed direction, an actuator coupled to the frame that pivots the pickup belt assembly relative to the frame, and a discharge zone through which crop material is conveyed in the reverse feed direction during the declogging operation.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system that includes a centralized trim controller and a non-volatile memory that includes a trim sector configured for hosting trim data for one or more peripherals. The trim controller is configured to receive, for each of the one or more peripherals, trim values of the one or more peripherals from the trim sector of the nonvolatile memory, and provide the trim values to the one or more peripherals. Some trim values are updateable by receiving a password at the trim controller. If the password is valid, a timeout counter is initiated, during which time the trim value is updateable.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described that enable user terminals to eliminate or reduce the number of dummy bursts (or bursts with no data) they send. The systems and methods use two burst detectors, a first burst detector that analyzes the physical structure of the signal, and a second burst detector that analyzes the informational structure of the signal. Output from the first burst detector can be used to control operation of a signal decoder that decodes received signals. The second burst detector analyzes output from the signal decoder to determine the second burst indicator. In other words, the first burst detector can be implemented prior to decoding the received signal to provide a first estimate related to the presence or absence of a burst. This can then be used to limit the amount of processing performed by the signal decoder.

Abstract: Techniques for establishing a network connection via a physical medium after exiting a low-power state. The technique includes receiving circuit configuration information for configuring a circuit for establishing a network connection via a physical medium. The technique also includes determining first redundancy information based on the circuit configuration information. The technique also includes storing the determined first redundancy information and the circuit configuration information. The technique also includes entering, by the circuit, a low-power state, and exiting the low-power state. The technique also includes determining second redundancy information based on the stored circuit configuration information after the circuit has exited the low-power state. The technique also includes comparing the second redundancy information to the first redundancy information. The technique also includes detecting an error based on the comparing.

Abstract: A circuit with an interface, a transmit data register coupled to the interface, a storage device coupled to the transmit data register and including a plurality of storage locations, each storage location adapted to store a data unit, and a serial register coupled between the storage device and an output. The circuit also includes a CRC generation circuit having an input coupled between an output of the transmit data register and the storage device. The CRC generation circuit includes a first CRC generation block for providing a CRC in response to an X-bit data unit and an X-bit polynomial and a second CRC generation block with a collective X-bit input for providing a CRC in response to an X-bit data unit and a 2X-bit polynomial in a single clock cycle and a 2X-bit data unit and a 2X-bit polynomial in two clock cycles.

Abstract: A power amplifier system comprises an envelope tracker configured to generate a supply voltage that changes in relation to an envelope of a radio frequency signal, a power amplifier configured to amplify the radio frequency signal, and an adaptation circuit configured to adapt the supply voltage to provide operating power to the power amplifier. The adaptation circuit includes at least one Gallium Nitride field-effect-transistor configured to generate the operating power in response to an increased swing of the supply voltage and at least one linearizing circuit configured to linearize an operation of the Gallium Nitride field-effect-transistor.

Abstract: Online 3-dimensional bin packing problem (O3D-BPP) is getting renewed prominence due to the industrial automation brought by Industry 4.0. However, due to limited attention in the past and its challenging nature, a good approximate technique is in scarcity as compared to 1D or 2D problems. Present disclosure provides system and method that considers real-time O3D-BPP of cuboidal boxes with partial information (look-ahead) in an automated robotic sorting center. System presents two rolling-horizon mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) cum-heuristic based algorithms wherein a framework is provided that adapts and improves performance of BP heuristics by utilizing information in an online setting with look-ahead.