Abstract: Monitoring of food temperature during cooking for taste as well as to check if it is safe for consumption is well known, especially when grilling or bbqing or in professional kitchens. With smartphones and tablets, use of wireless thermometers that use bluetooth or WiFi are now available commercially. These thermometers use the internet cloud when needed and have apps that provide a lot of information to make cooking easier and fun. The present invention relates to an unique temperature monitoring system.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with a host apparatus and an external apparatus, and a processor configured to receive a request including an ID of the external apparatus from the external apparatus, the request for having an access to the host apparatus, determine whether the external apparatus is authenticated based on the ID of the external apparatus, and process the external apparatus to access the host apparatus based on secure access information by transmitting the secure access information to the external apparatus when it is determined that the external apparatus is authenticated.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyrazolopyrimidine compounds which may be useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 9 (PDE9). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as hypertension, chronic kidney disease and heart failure, and neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.

Abstract: A method of producing a locator pin with wear-resistant, corrosion resistant, and electrically insulating coating on selected areas of the surface off a metallic core include depositing a coating on the selected areas. The locator pin may have a single layer of a ceramic coating deposited using plasma electrolytic oxidation or may have a composite coating that includes a layer of vanadium carbide on selected areas of a surface of a locator pin and a layer diamond-like carbon on top of and in contact with the vanadium carbide layer. The vanadium carbide coating may be deposited using a thermal diffusion process and the diamond-like carbon coating may be deposited using a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition process. The coating prevents weld splatter from adhering to the coated areas, and prevents the locator pin from acting as a shorting path during welding of parts located by the locator pin.

Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.

Abstract: Provided is a novel class of solid water-dispersible powders, including a plurality of water-insoluble photoinitiators in nanoparticle forms for use in water-based ink formulations.

Abstract: A novel razor cartridge includes at least one non-cutting element disposed anywhere within a blade array between a guard and a cap and/or in a blade position of a frame providing skin/hair management. This non-cutting element allows the fine-tuning of parameters such as blade-skin contact, hair orientation, blade spans and rinse-through gaps in manners that improve shaving comfort, closeness, efficiency, and/or rinse-ability. The non-cutting element may include projections, fin-like elements, comb-like features having teeth, exfoliation or lubricating capabilities. By having a fixed non-cutting element disposed midway in a blade array, a multi-stage cartridge is provided with a middle control point with potentially different functionality before and after the non-cutting element. The non-cutting element is not attached to another blade in the blade array though it may be manufactured as a modified blade support, attached to a blade support, or as part of the frame or the clips.

Abstract: Defects from a hot scan can be saved, such as on persistent storage, random access memory, or a split database. The persistent storage can be patch-based virtual inspector virtual analyzer (VIVA) or local storage. Repeater defect detection jobs can determined and the wafer can be inspected based on the repeater defect detection jobs. Repeater defects can be analyzed and corresponding defect records to the repeater defects can be read from the persistent storage. These results may be returned to the high level defect detection controller.

Abstract: Methods, nodes and control modules are disclosed. In the method, circuitry of a first node in a mesh network converts an optical layer in a working path between the first node and a second node, to a data stream in a digital layer. The working path carries data traffic from the first node to the second node in the optical layer of the mesh network when there is no failure in the working path. Circuitry of the first node in the mesh network detects a failure in the working path due to detection of an error in the data stream in the digital layer. The circuitry of the first node establishes, through transmission of at least one signal from the first node to the second node, a restoration path in the optical layer based on, at least in part, detection of the error in the data stream in the digital layer.

Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies that bind Fagales allergens, Fagales related allergens, birch pollen, or Bet v 1, compositions comprising the antibodies, nucleic acids encoding the antibodies, and methods of using the antibodies. According to certain embodiments, the antibodies are fully human monoclonal antibodies that bind to Bet v 1. The antibodies are useful for binding Bet v 1 in vivo, thus preventing binding of the allergen to pre-formed IgE on the surface of mast cells or basophils. In doing so, the antibodies act to prevent the release of histamine and other inflammatory mediators from mast cells and/or basophils, thus ameliorating the untoward response to the Fagales allergens in sensitized individuals.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems that build and deploy inferential models for generating predictions of a plant process. The systems select input variables and an output variable for the plant process. The systems load continuous measurements for the selected input variables. For the selected output variable, the systems load measurements of type: continuous from the subject plant process, intermittent from an online analyzer, or intermittent from lab data. If continuous or analyzer measurements are loaded, the systems build a FIR model with a subspace ID technique using continuous output measurements. From intermittent analyzer measurements, the systems generate continuous output measurements using interpolation. If lab data is loaded, the systems build a hybrid FIR model with subspace ID and PLS techniques, using continuous measurements of a reference variable correlated to the selected output variable.

Abstract: A heat recovery steam generator (“HRSG”) includes a first casing having an interior enclosing at least one duct for gas to flow therein along a gas flow axis. Each duct is defined by duct defining members that are spaced apart from each other and extend into the interior of the first casing. A plurality of stiffening members are elongated along the gas flow axis. Each of the stiffening members are positioned between two of the duct defining members. The stiffening members and duct defining members have a substantially similar coefficient of thermal expansion.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a software-defined network (SDN) controller including a processor and logic executable by the processor. The logic is executable by the processor to receive a port addition indication that a logical port is configured on a switching device, the switching device being coupled to the SDN controller and a second device, with the logical port representing a link aggregation group (LAG) that includes at least two links between the switching device and the second device. The logic is also executable by the processor to derive and maintain a logical index for all logical ports in software-defined switching devices connected to the SDN controller based on logical port identifiers thereof. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in accordance with more embodiments.

Abstract: A new document is processed for ingestion into a corpus of a cognitive computing system by associating with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the new document and those already in the corpus. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for enhancing user experience while performing an event using a plurality of devices connected to each other is provided. The method includes analyzing an event extracted from an input received by the device, identifying the at least one task to be performed based on the analyzing of the event, generating a workflow corresponding to the identified at least one task, selecting at least one node of the workflow corresponding to the generated workflow, and performing an action, by an application installed in or connected to the device, in response to a the selection of at least one node of the workflow.

Abstract: A method, system or computer usable program product for utilizing a dialectical model for providing an answer to a user query including applying NLP to the query to generate a first set of NLP structures; generating a contrary set of NLP structures contrary to the user query; evaluating the first set of NLP structures to identify a first set of evidence; evaluating the contrary set of NLP structures to identify a second set of evidence; evaluating a first set of hypotheses from the first set of NLP structures and a contrary set of hypotheses from the contrary set of NLP structures to determine a set of answers to the user query; summarizing the set of answers including indicating derivation thereof; and providing the summarized set of answers to the user.

Abstract: A system includes a memory and a semiconductor-based processor coupled to form logic circuits. The logic circuits generate a voice-enabled user interface (UI) framework for a computer application. The voice-enabled UI framework includes a base controller coupled to a model of the computer application and one or more views that form respective voice-enabled UIs of the computer application. Each view includes a respective speech listener configured to receive speech input. The base controller includes a speech engine, a natural language processor, and a command executor. The voice-enabled UI framework further includes one or more view-specific controller extensions extending the base controller to control the one or more respective views that form the respective voice-enabled UIs of the computer application.

Abstract: A method and system to develop the age and history of a crack by exposing a specimen or component to varying predetermined temperature range that covers the designated service temperatures and measuring the thickness of the oxide across the specimen along the thickness direction.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, servers, apparatus, computer-/processor-readable media, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving by an emergency call server an indication of an emergency condition at a device, determining whether the device is to be tracked based, at least in part, on the indication of the emergency condition, and transmitting a triggering message from the emergency call server, in response to a determination that the device is to be tracked, to trigger at the device a tracking session to cause the device to periodically collect and send tracking session data to one or more servers. The tracking session, established between the device and the one or more servers, is separate from an emergency call session established between the device and the emergency call server.