Abstract: A method includes: accessing a toolpath and processing parameters—including a target force and feed rate—assigned to a region of a workpiece; and accessing a wear model representing abrasive degradation of a sanding pad arranged on a sanding head. The method also includes, during a processing cycle: accessing force values output by a force sensor coupled to the sanding head; navigating the sanding head across the workpiece region according to the toolpath and, based on the force values deviating the sanding head from the toolpath to maintain forces of the sanding head on the workpiece region proximal the target force; accessing contact characteristics representing contact between the sanding pad and the workpiece; estimating abrasive degradation of the sanding pad based on the wear model and the sequence of contact characteristics; and modifying the set of processing parameters based on the abrasive degradation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a rewards payment form linked directly to a rewards account are described. The system can determine, based on a comparison of a location of a mobile device with a merchant location of a merchant, that the mobile device is at the merchant location. The system can determine that the merchant participates in a rewards promotion and can receive a transaction request associated with a rewards account and a cryptogram. The system can authenticate the transaction request by decrypting the cryptogram and can activate the rewards promotion based on the determination that the mobile device is at the merchant location and the determination that the merchant participates in the rewards promotion.

Abstract: An electrowetting coalescing device for coalescing droplets of a dispersed phase within a continuous phase includes an inlet in fluid communication with a first porous layer and a second porous layer. The first porous layer is employed as a first electrode and the second porous layer is employed as a second electrode, and a voltage difference exists between the first porous layer and the second porous layer to thereby create an electric field between the first porous layer and the second porous layer. The electrowetting coalescing device includes an outlet for receiving a fluid having passed through the first porous layer and the second porous layer.

Abstract: A mobile wallet computer system coupled to a merchant computer system and a mobile device associated with a user includes one or more processors coupled to one or more non-transitory memory devices. The one or more non-transitory memory devices include instructions stored therein that are executable by the one or more processors to cause operations including receiving, from the mobile device, a request to perform a transaction between the user and a merchant associated with the merchant computer system. The operations also include generating and providing to the mobile device a code comprising mobile wallet account information associated with the user. The operations also include receiving, from the merchant computer system, the code, bank account information associated with the merchant, and a purchase amount associated with the transaction. The operations also include authenticating the transaction between the user and the merchant by decoding the code.

Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a provider institution computing system via a network, a cash level indicator from each of a plurality of customer payment systems, the customer payment systems receiving cash from customers of a plurality of stores. The method further comprises receiving, by the provider institution computing system via the network, a cash request from a user device of a user. The provider institution computing system selects one of the plurality of customer payment systems based on the cash level indicator and location data of a plurality of delivery agent devices of delivery agents. The method further comprises sending, by the provider institution computing system to a selected delivery agent device, a message comprising location data of the selected customer payment system, the selected delivery agent device being one of the plurality of delivery agent devices.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for automatic enhancement of paragraph justification. A method includes receiving a selection of at least one paragraph, determining a plurality of penalty values for at least one typographic feature by varying a typographic feature value, the penalty values indicating a deviation from an optimal layout of the at least one paragraph, determining at least one optimal penalty value for the at least one typographic feature, the at least one optimal penalty value corresponding to at least one optimal typographic feature value of the at least one typographic feature, determining a priority for each of the at least one typographic feature based on a plurality of justification rules and the at least one optimal penalty value, and updating the at least one typographic feature of the at least one paragraph based on the priority and the at least one optimal typographic feature value.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes compositions of matter comprising a ribonucleoprotein complex comprising a nucleic acid-guided nuclease and a guide RNA, and further comprising and a blocking nucleic acid molecule represented by Formula I, wherein Formula I in the 5?-to-3? direction comprises: A-(B-L)J-C-M-T-D; wherein A is 0-15 nucleotides in length; B is 4-12 nucleotides in length; L is 3-25 nucleotides in length; J is an integer between 1 and 10; C is 4-15 nucleotides in length; M is 1-25 nucleotides in length or is absent, wherein if M is absent then A-(B-L)J-C and T-D are separate nucleic acid strands; T is 17-135 nucleotides in length and comprises at least 50% sequence complementarity to B and C; D is 0-10 nucleotides in length and comprises at least 50% sequence complementarity to A; and wherein the blocking nucleic acid molecule comprises a sequence complementary to a gRNA.

Abstract: Systems and methods for applying reward points from a rewards account to a transaction are disclosed. A method can include receiving a payment request from a merchant computer system for a transaction. The method can include authenticating the payment request by acquiring and using an encryption key transmitted by a financial institution computing system from a database that is associated with a payment account. The method may include determining the number of rewards points in the rewards account is not enough to cover the transaction. The method may include transmitting a partial authorization message to the merchant computer system including an approval amount. The method may include receiving a second payment request comprising a remaining balance of the transaction. The method may include identifying a secondary payment source to cover the remaining balance of the transaction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to software used in planning the correction of bone deformities preoperatively or postoperatively, and in particular relates to virtually manipulating rings and struts of an external fixation frame in order to plan the steps for making a desired correction to two or more bone portions of a patient. The software can be used prior to surgery, allowing a user to virtually define a bone deformity, and virtually add and manipulate fixation rings and struts to the bone deformity. Based on the virtual manipulations, a correction plan can be generated that describes length adjustments that should be made to the plurality of model struts over a period of time to correct the bone deformity. The software can also be used after surgical fixation of the fixation frame and struts to the deformed bone.

Abstract: There is provided a process for stabilizing additive concentrates comprising or consisting of one or more additives in dialkylsilanol terminated polydiorganosiloxane polymers for use in condensation curable organosiloxane compositions. Processes for making condensation curable organosiloxane compositions incorporating the additive concentrates as well as the use of the stabilized additive concentrates in condensation cure organosiloxane compositions are also described. The stabilizer used is a polydialkylsiloxane having the general formula: R33—Si—O—((R2)2SiO)d—Si—R33 where R2 is an alkyl or phenyl group, each R3 group may be the same or different and are selected from R2 alkenyl or alkynyl groups and the average value of d is between 7 and 20, in an amount of from 0.5 to 5 wt. % of the composition.

Abstract: Control logic in a memory device executes a programming operation to program the set of memory blocks of the set of memory planes to a set of a programming levels. In response to determining at least a portion of a first memory block passed a program verify operation associated with a last programming level of the set of programming levels, the control logic executes a first program sub-operation to terminate the programming operation with respect to a first subset of one or more memory planes of the set of memory planes that passed the program verify operation associated with the last programming level and identify a second subset of one or more memory planes that failed the program verify operation associated with the last programming level. The control logic executes a second program sub-operation to apply a trim set to the second subset of one or more memory planes that failed the program verify operation of the last programming level.

Abstract: Systems and processes for application integration with a digital assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a natural-language user input; identifying, with the one or more processors, an intent object of a set of intent objects and a parameter associated with the intent, where the intent object and the parameter are derived from the natural-language user input. The method further includes identifying a software application associated with the intent object of the set of intent objects; and providing the intent object and the parameter to the software application.

Abstract: Lubricity additives for hydrocarbon fuels are presented according to formula I: R1[(—O—R2)n-Q]p??(I) wherein p is 3 or greater; each n is independently selected from integers equal to 2 or greater; R1 is a C3-C20 aliphatic hydrocarbon group of valence p which is branched or linear and which is substituted or unsubstituted; each R2 is independently selected from C2-C20 divalent aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon groups which are branched or linear and which are substituted or unsubstituted; and each Q is independently selected from —NH2 or a moiety according to formula II: wherein each R3 is independently selected from C8-C60 alkenyl groups which are substituted or unsubstituted, providing that at least one Q is the moiety according to formula II.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a test process herein may: execute an application under test; monitor execution of the application under test for system calls specific to a particular operating system in which the application under test is being executed; capture a count of system calls specific to the particular operating system during the execution of the application under test; and compute a portability metric based on the count of system calls specific to the particular operating system, the portability metric indicative of how dependent the application under test is on the particular operating system.

Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems and methods for generating and providing interactive sessions and interactive session captures. For example, upon completion of an interactive session, systems and methods described herein can generate an interactive session playback interface associated with an interactive session capture that includes various interactive features. During playback of the interactive session capture, the systems and methods described herein can update features of the interactive session playback interface to mirror interactions that occurred in the original interactive session, as well as provide additional interactive features associated with the interactive session capture. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein may comprise: sending, from a server instrumentation agent configured on a transaction server, instrumented server performance data regarding the transaction server and an associated correlation token to an application programming interface (API) monitoring agent; receiving, at the server instrumentation agent, a returned acknowledgment of the instrumented server performance data regarding the transaction server and the associated correlation token from the API monitoring agent, the acknowledgement also having corresponding API monitored performance data regarding an API of the transaction server; returning, from the server instrumentation agent, a synchronization acknowledgment to the API monitoring agent in response to the returned acknowledgment to indicate complete synchronization; and correlating, by the server instrumentation agent, the instrumented server performance data regarding the transaction server and the API monitored performance data regarding t

Abstract: A method of power management in a datacenter includes obtaining at least one workload status of at least one server rack, obtaining at least one infrastructure parameter, obtaining at least one utility telemetry, and comparing the at least one workload status to the at least one utility telemetry. The method further includes determining a workload demand based at least partially on a difference between the at least one workload status and the at least one utility telemetry and changing the at least one infrastructure parameter based on the workload demand and the at least one infrastructure parameter.

Abstract: A method and a system for providing seamless access to industrial data in a data lake in a cloud computing environment are provided. The method includes receiving a request to provide access to industrial data in a data lake from a user device. The request includes a semantic query for the industrial data. The semantic query is based on a semantic model. The method includes dynamically generating a representation of the industrial data based on data sets of the industrial data in the industrial data lake using the semantic model associated with the semantic query. The method includes generating results of the semantic query based on the representation of the industrial data. The results include the requested industrial data from the data lake. The method also includes providing the generated results of the semantic query to the user device.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a system for improved transactional mainframes, the system comprising a processor, a database, an application programming interface (API) module, and a transaction import module. The API module can be configured to: receive transaction data comprising a transaction type, a user identifier, one or more transaction card identifiers, and one or more fields associated with the transaction card identifiers; validate the transaction data using one or more of the stored validation rules associated with the one or more transaction card identifiers; generate one or more transaction cards; and store the transaction data and transaction cards to the database. The transaction import module can be configured to submit the transaction cards to the mainframe, view the status of submitted records, and enable retrying of transaction cards that failed to process.

Abstract: A method and system. Target clusterability is calculated as an average of a respective clusterability of at least one target data item comprised by a target domain. Target-side matchability is calculated as an average of a respective matchability of each target centroid of the target domain to source centroids of a source domain, wherein the source domain comprises at least one source data item. Source-side matchability is calculated as an average of a respective matchability of each source centroid of said source centroids to the target centroids. Source-target pair matchability is calculated as an average of the target-side matchability and the source-side matchability. Cross-domain clusterability between the target domain and the source domain is calculated as a linear combination of the calculated target clusterability and the calculated source-target pair matchability. The cross-domain clusterability is transferred to a device.