Abstract: Methods and systems for managing, storing, and serving data within a virtualized environment are described. In some embodiments, a data management system may manage the extraction and storage of virtual machine snapshots, provide near instantaneous restoration of a virtual machine or one or more files located on the virtual machine, and enable secondary workloads to directly use the data management system as a primary storage target to read or modify past versions of data. The data management system may allow a virtual machine snapshot of a virtual machine stored within the system to be directly mounted to enable substantially instantaneous virtual machine recovery of the virtual machine.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes: an active bridge; a first chiplet and a second chiplet mounted onto the active bridge; and a short-to-long converter circuit (SLCC) that has analog and digital portions. The active bridge includes at least the analog portion of the SLCC, which is electrically connected to at least the first chiplet; and a short-reach physical layer that electrically connects the first chiplet and the second chiplet. The first chiplet includes a first logic core; a first chiplet interface that is electrically connected between the first logic core and the SLCC; and a second chiplet interface that is electrically connected between the first logic core and the second chiplet. The second chiplet includes a second logic core; and a third chiplet interface that is electrically connected between the second logic core and the second chiplet interface. The active bridge also can include a built-in-self-test (BIST) circuit.

Abstract: A method including determining respective training data for each of query-type-specific answer retrieval modules. The method further can include training each of the query-type-specific answer retrieval modules. The method additionally can include determining a query type of a query from a user device for a user. The method also can include determining, in real-time and based at least in part on the query type, an answer retrieval module from the query-type-specific answer retrieval modules, as trained. Moreover, the method can include determining, in real-time by the answer retrieval module, one or more answers for the query. Then, the method can include ranking, in real-time, the one or more answers based on a user profile of the user. Finally, the method can include transmitting, via a computer network and to the user device, at least one of the one or more answers, as ranked. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that one or more threshold criteria are satisfied, wherein the one or more threshold criteria include at least one of a first value for an uplink grant rate, a second value for a buffer size, or a third value for a packet data convergence protocol discard rate, wherein the one or more threshold criteria relate to a network condition with less than a reference uplink throughput and greater than a reference downlink throughput. The UE may transmit information identifying one or more adjusted measurement values based at least in part on the determination of the one or more threshold criteria. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for operating a wireless device pursuant to radio frequency (RF) exposure compliance. A method that may be performed by a wireless device includes switching sensing circuitry to a first mode in response to one or more first criteria being satisfied; switching the sensing circuitry to a second mode in response to one or more second criteria being satisfied; and transmitting a signal at a transmit power determined based at least in part on a radio frequency (RF) exposure limit, and if the sensing circuitry is operating in the second mode, on one or more measurements associated with the sensing circuitry.

Abstract: A memory interface circuit has a first differential receiver having a first input coupled to a first reference voltage source, a second differential receiver configured to receive a differential data strobe signal in a pair of complementary signals, a third differential receiver having a first input coupled to a second reference voltage source and a second input configured to receive one of the pair of complementary signals, a clock generation circuit configured to generate a read clock signal based on an output of the second differential receiver and using a qualifying signal output by the third differential receiver to qualify one or more edges in the read clock signal and a data capture circuit clocked by the read clock signal and configured to capture data from the output of the first differential receiver using the one or more edges in the read clock signal.

Abstract: A sound level control system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is provided. The sound level control system comprises an outdoor unit with a compressor, an outdoor fan, and an outdoor controller and a communication device located at a predefined distance from the outdoor unit. The communication device measures sound levels in response to operating the outdoor unit. The outdoor controller is configured to receive a first noise level limit for a predefined time period, receive an instruction related to selective control of the outdoor unit, selectively control both of the compressor to rotate at a first compressor speed and the outdoor fan to rotate at a first fan speed based on the noise level limit for the predefined time period, and receive information related to whether a sound pressure level at a predefined location exceeds the first noise level limit for the predefined time period.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may make a joint decision of adaptive receive diversity (ARD) and adaptive transmit diversity (ATD) configurations, including transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) antennas selection and/or blanking based on downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) traffic conditions. The UE may disable at least one Tx chain for a transmission of a codebook-based sounding reference signal (SRS) (SRS-CB) based on one or more of at least one DL traffic condition or at least one UL traffic condition, and transmit, to a base station, upon disabling the at least one Tx chain, the SRS-CB via an antenna associated with at least one active Tx chain.

Abstract: The present application relates to antibodies specifically binding to the V-domain immunoglobulin-containing suppressor of T-cell activation (VISTA) at acidic pH and their use in cancer treatment. In some embodiments, the antibodies bind specifically to human VISTA at acidic pH, but do not significantly bind to human VISTA at neutral or physiological pH.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify an indication of an occurrence of a handover. The UE may adjust a delay used by a buffer based at least in part on the indication of the occurrence of the handover. The UE may process one or more packets of the buffer based at least in part on the adjustment of the delay used by the buffer. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Aspects of data management are described. Information for updating a cluster of storage nodes to a second version may be obtained. Based on obtaining the information, a cluster-level precheck procedure may be performed prior to initiating an update procedure for the cluster of storage nodes. Also, during the update procedure, a node-level precheck procedure may be performed prior to initiating an update of a storage node to determine whether the storage node is in a state for successful update. Based on a result of the node-level precheck, a determination of whether to delay the update of the storage node may be made.

Abstract: A method for inspecting authenticity of a hologram is provided. A computer device that stores a color image of the hologram transforms the color image into a hyperspectral image, converts the hyperspectral image into a grayscale image, and determines authenticity of the hologram based on multiple grayscale values in a region of interest in the grayscale image and multiple grayscale thresholds that respectively correspond to different wavelengths.

Abstract: Aspects of data management are described. Information for updating software for a data management cluster from a first version associated with a first configuration for operating multiple storage nodes of the data management cluster and a second version associated with a second configuration for operating multiple storage nodes of the data management cluster may be obtained. Based on the information, an update procedure for the data management cluster may be performed, where after a first portion of the update procedure, the first version may be installed on a first set of the storage nodes and the second version may be installed on a second set of the storage nodes. Based on storage nodes in the data management cluster having different software versions, the data management cluster may be operated using the first configuration, the second configuration, or both, during the update procedure.

Abstract: Provided is a system and method that can safely generate and execute an outage plan for a power grid based on severe weather-driven events. In one example, the method may include receiving predicted or current operational power system state data from a power grid and weather conditions associated with the power grid, identifying one or more nodes on the power grid to de-energize based on the operational state data and the current weather conditions, determining a sequence of instructions to perform to de-energize the one or more identified nodes based on the operational state data and the current weather conditions associated with the power grid, and generating an outage plan including mitigation steps for ensuring the stability and security of the power grid which includes the determined sequence of instructions to be executed and store the outage plan in the memory.

Abstract: Facility layouts and configurations for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture. In particular implementations, the core of the facility comprises a controlled growth environment and a central processing system. The controlled growth environment includes systems for exposing crops housed in modules, such as grow towers, to controlled environmental conditions. The central processing system may include various stations and functionality both for preparing crop-bearing modules to be inserted in the controlled growth environment, for harvesting crops from the crop-bearing modules after they have been extracted from the controlled growth environment, and for cleaning or washing crop-bearing modules for re-use. The controlled growth environment may include vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers along one or more grow lines.

Abstract: A point cloud data is connected with a related data. Multiple sets of point cloud data are prepared. Each point cloud data includes information of a point cloud connected to three-dimensional position information, and each point cloud data is connected to acquisition time. At least one group is generated by classifying the point cloud, and the group is assigned to a position label and a moving body label. A moving route of the group with a moving body on-flag is predicted based on the position label of the group. The group is replaced with a position at acquisition time of the related data according to the moving route, and the acquisition time of the related data is connected to the group.

Abstract: Foams and methods of fabricating and using the same are provided. The foams can be three-dimensional (3D), free-standing, and/or rigid and can be used as, for example, nanofiller networks. The shape and size of the foam pore interconnected network can be tailorable/tailored. The foams can be, for example, hybrid one-dimensional (1D)/two-dimensional (2D) foams of 1D and 2D materials (e.g., hybrid boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)/boron nitride nanoplatelet (BNNP) foams). A freeze-drying-based method can be used to fabricate bulk porous foam, which can be used for, e.g., nanofiller for polymer nanocomposites.

Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure relates to an integrated circuit (IC). The IC includes a first set of test clock controllers (TCCs) including a first set of clock outputs, respectively; and a first set of functional cores including a first set of clock inputs coupled to the first set of clock outputs of the first set of TCCs, respectively.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing system to receive a processing graph of an application. A compile time logic is configured to modify the processing graph and generate a modified processing graph. The modified processing graph is configured to apply a post-padding tiling after applying a cumulative input padding that confines padding to an input. The cumulative input padding pads the input into a padded input. The post-padding tiling tiles the padded input into a set of pre-padded input tiles with a same tile size, tiles intermediate representation of the input into a set of intermediate tiles with a same tile size, and tiles output representation of the input into a set of non-overlapping output tiles with a same tile size. Runtime logic is configured with the compile time logic to execute the modified processing graph to execute the application.

Abstract: System and methods are described for generating training data for a natural language search system, the training data including synthetic user queries and associated structured query language (SQL) statements. A method includes generating an abstract query representation from a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG), selecting a sample record from a database using the abstract query representation, generating a tagged user query from the abstract query representation and the sample record, and generating the one or more SQL statements from the tagged user query and one or more SQL templates.