Abstract: A removable inner frame assembly for use with a filter element and a main frame includes an inner frame, a bottom sealant layer, and a top sealant layer. The filter element has a lower edge extending from an outer perimeter of the filter element. The inner frame has a plurality of U-shaped sides. The first end of each side is connected to a second end of another side. The bottom sealant layer is affixed to a bottom surface of the bottom of each side of the inner frame. The bottom sealant layer is configured to allow the removable inner frame assembly to be releasably coupled to the main frame. The top sealant layer is located within the u-shaped channel formed by each side of the inner frame and is configured to receive the lower edge of the filter element.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for the early determination of the sex of a fetus. The disclosure also provides methods, compositions, and kits for detecting fetal nucleic acids in biological samples (e.g., cell-free fetal DNA).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for the preservation of nucleic acids. The disclosure also provides methods, compositions, and kits for preserving nucleic acids in biological samples (e.g., cell-free DNA in blood or saliva).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for the early determination of the sex of a fetus. The disclosure also provides methods, compositions, and kits for detecting fetal nucleic acids in biological samples (e.g., cell-free fetal DNA). An embodiment includes a method of improving the accuracy of fetal sex determination by reducing a level of contaminating DNA in a blood sample from a pregnant human subject, comprising obtaining a capillary blood sample collected from the upper arm using a push-button blood collection device, thereby reducing a level of contaminating DNA from a non-maternal and non-fetal source in the capillary blood sample as compared to a blood sample collected from a site on the finger or hand of the subject, and detecting the presence or absence of fetal Y-chromosome to determine the sex of the fetus.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, and devices for the rapid and direct detection of the sex of a fetus. The disclosure also provides methods, compositions, and devices for detecting fetal nucleic acids in biological samples (e.g., blood, cervical mucus, or urine).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for the early determination of the sex of a fetus. The disclosure also provides methods, compositions, and kits for detecting fetal nucleic acids in biological samples (e.g., cell-free fetal DNA).

Abstract: An ice processing system may include a plurality of electrodes configured to create a time-varying electromagnetic field in a cavity, and a controller configured to oscillate a density of the electromagnetic field at a frequency which depends on the temperature of an object in the cavity. The frequency is selected based on a temperature of the object to establish and maintain a resonance condition of dipoles in ice crystals present in the object, such that the electromagnetic field tends to selectively heat ice substantially without heating liquid-phase water.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.

Abstract: A report generated from analysis of a software sample is obtained and parsed. A root node of a causality tree is determined based on source-target relationships and a primary malware instance indicated in the report. Actions, behaviors, and additional malware instances are identified based on the report. Additional relationships among the data which are not explicitly represented are extracted from further parsing and processing of the report by tracing the relationships in the report data starting from the data of the entity represented by the root node, with child nodes added for processes and files discovered from the tracing. For each entity for which a node is added to the causality tree, counts of the related behaviors and actions are determined and associated with the node along with the corresponding details. A GUI depiction of the resulting causality tree is generated and displayed for visualizing and navigating the causality tree.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for the early determination of the sex of a fetus. The disclosure also provides methods, compositions, and kits for detecting fetal nucleic acids in biological samples (e.g., cell-free fetal DNA).

Abstract: A clean room supporting multiple air filter elements within a frame having multiple tracks to support extensions on individual edges of the air filter elements. Within the multiple tracks are a tape of elastic ultralow density polytetrafluoroethylene polymer having a specific density of always less than 1.0, preferably less than 0.8 and most preferred as greater than 0.25 and less than 0.6 positioned along the length of the tracks.

Abstract: A tugger cart includes a tugger frame having a first side member, a second side member, and a locking member disposed in between the first side member and the second side member. A first roller assembly is coupled to an inner surface of the first side member and a second roller assembly coupled to an inner surface of the second side member. Each of the first roller assembly and the second roller assembly include a roller assembly frame and a plurality of wheels rotatably coupled to the roller assembly frame. The roller assembly frame supports the plurality of wheels at a slant that declines from a rear of the tugger frame to a front of the tugger frame. An actuator is configured to raise and lower the first roller assembly and the second roller assembly relative to the first side member and the second side member respectively.

Abstract: A tugger cart includes a tugger frame having a first side member, a second side member, and a clasping member. A plurality of wheels are coupled to a bottom of the tugger frame. Each of the first side member and the second side member include a plurality of roller wheels rotatably coupled to an inner side and rotatable about a horizontal axis. The plurality of roller wheels align along an angled plane that declines from a rear of the tugger frame to a front of the tugger frame. The clasping member includes at least one fixed arm, at least one telescoping arm, an actuator, and a grab arm extendable and retractable from the at least one telescoping arm. The actuator converts the telescoping arm between an extended position and a retracted position.

Abstract: A clean room supporting multiple air filter elements within a frame having multiple tracks to support extensions on individual edges of the air filter elements. Within the multiple tracks are a tape of elastic ultralow density polytetrafluoroethylene polymer having a specific density of always less than 1.0, preferably less than 0.8 and most preferred as greater than 0.25 and less than 0.6 positioned along the length of the tracks.

Abstract: A tugger cart includes a tugger frame having a first side member, a second side member, and a locking member disposed in between the first side member and the second side member. A first roller assembly is coupled to an inner surface of the first side member and a second roller assembly coupled to an inner surface of the second side member. Each of the first roller assembly and the second roller assembly include a roller assembly frame and a plurality of wheels rotatably coupled to the roller assembly frame. The roller assembly frame supports the plurality of wheels at a slant that declines from a rear of the tugger frame to a front of the tugger frame. An actuator is configured to raise and lower the first roller assembly and the second roller assembly relative to the first side member and the second side member respectively.

Abstract: A tugger cart includes a tugger frame having a first side member, a second side member, and a clasping member. A plurality of wheels are coupled to a bottom of the tugger frame. Each of the first side member and the second side member include a plurality of roller wheels rotatably coupled to an inner side and rotatable about a horizontal axis. The plurality of roller wheels align along an angled plane that declines from a rear of the tugger frame to a front of the tugger frame. The clasping member includes at least one fixed arm, at least one telescoping arm, an actuator, and a grab arm extendable and retractable from the at least one telescoping arm. The actuator converts the telescoping arm between an extended position and a retracted position.

Abstract: A vacuum assisted lancing system can include a tubular body having a vacuum chamber, a lancing mechanism configured to removably couple with a lance, a vacuum mechanism including a piston slideably coupled within the body, a release mechanism for selectively holding the vacuum mechanism in an energized state and an opening for allowing fluid communication between the vacuum chamber and an atmosphere. A method of manipulating a surface for blood extraction can include coupling a lancing system to the surface, blocking an opening, creating a vacuum, moving a lance coupler from a first position distal from the surface to a second position proximal to the surface, maintaining the vacuum for a period of time and commencing dissipation of the vacuum by unblocking the opening.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.

Abstract: Techniques are described for efficient label insertion and collision handling. A bounding geometry for a label to be graphically displayed on a display screen as part of an electronic map is determined, wherein the bounding geometry comprises a circle. The bounding geometry is inserted into a grid index, wherein the grid index represents a viewport of the electronic map. Disjoint regions of the grid index intersected by the bounding geometry are identified, wherein each disjoint region represents a different portion of the viewport. For each intersected disjoint region, it is identified whether there is at least one collision between the bounding geometry and one or more existing bounding geometries in the disjoint region; and responsive to identifying whether there is at least one collision in the intersected disjoint region, a target opacity of the label is set.