Abstract: Techniques for more precise access control policy findings, use a conditional injection of policy constraints into a findings analysis. The injection of a policy constraint of a policy being analyzed into the findings analysis is conditioned on the policy itself. In particular, the injection is conditioned on whether the policy constraint is trusted in the context of the policy (e.g., unlikely to be spoofed or manipulated in the policy context). As a result, where a policy constraint can be trusted in the context of a given policy, a more precise (e.g., more specific) findings analysis of the policy based on the policy constraint can be conducted than if the policy constraint were not included in the policy finding analysis (e.g., because the policy constraint is not trusted in other policy contexts).

Abstract: A crank sleeve having a first open-sided hollow cylinder having an open slot extending along its length, and a second open-sided hollow cylinder having an open slot extending along its length and fixed at a right angle to a second end of the second hollow cylinder to provide a continuous open slot from an open first end of the first hollow cylinder to an open second end of the second hollow cylinder. The crank sleeve is attached to the curved crank of a landing gear assembly. A drive means is formed at the second end of the first hollow cylinder. An operator can operate a powered hand drill attached to a driving end of the drive means to rotate the crank sleeve and the crank captured therein, to extend or retract the landing legs of the landing gear assembly.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an action selection neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the systems includes (i) a plurality of actor computing units, in which each of the actor computing units is configured to maintain a respective replica of the action selection neural network and to perform a plurality of actor operations, and (ii) one or more learner computing units, in which each of the one or more learner computing units is configured to perform a plurality of learner operations.

Abstract: A process of preparing a shelf-stable liquid enteral nutritional composition, said process comprising the steps of providing an oil-in-water emulsion, sterilizing the emulsion by direct steam injection (DSI) to obtain a sterilized emulsion with a F0 value of at least 3 and subjecting the sterilized emulsion to high pressure homogenization.

Abstract: Conflicts may be detected between a generated access management policy and invoked identity and access management policies. An access management policy to be updated to provide expected results for example requests may be received. Another access management policy that would be invoked to evaluate the example access requests may be identified. A conflict between the expected results for the updates and the invoked access management policy may be determined. An indication of the conflict between the expected results of the example requests may be provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that construct and execute multi-step query plans in a database application. A database application accepts a query such as, for example, a graph query. The database application generates a physical query plan comprising a set of execution steps that perform the query. The set of execution steps comprises at least an initial step, an intermediate step and a final step. The database executes the query by passing control to the initial step that, when complete, passes execution control to some other step. The intermediate step executes and when complete, may pass execution control to any other step including itself. Steps may be configured to communicate arbitrary data between steps. The generated query plan may also comprise multiple multi-step sequences, and such sequences may be configured to execute in the alternative based on intermediate query results, or a parameter included in the query.

Abstract: A measuring station for measuring an object, the measuring station including measuring columns to define a measurement space between them, wherein each measuring column includes a range finding sensor, and a servo motor. Each servo motor is configured to rotate a respective range finding sensor about its rotation axis, the range finding sensor being rotated across a first scanning angle directed into the measurement space in a movement plane. Each range finding sensor is configured to transmit and receive ranging signals in a second scanning angle in a scanning plane, the scanning plane being non-parallel with respect to the movement plane. The measuring station further includes a controller configured to receive range data from the range finding sensors and use the range data in combination with position and angle data from the servo motors to generate a scale, three-dimensional map of the object.

Abstract: A vehicle imaging station for capturing images of scratches on a vehicle, the vehicle imaging station including a tunnel having an entrance and an exit, with one or more walls defining an enclosure between the entrance and exit to define a tunnel volume containing a vehicle pathway having a central axis. The station further includes a reflection source surface and a camera arranged with a field of view including an imaging volume of the tunnel volume in which an image defined by the reflection source surface will be reflected to be visible to the camera as a reflected image by a vehicle moving along the vehicle pathway. The station also includes a color modifier arranged to cause the reflection source surface to adopt a first color of a plurality of possible colors in response to a color control signal such that the reflected image has the first color.

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for providing video data in a motor vehicle, having an input interface configured to obtain an initial video data stream in a first file format, and a converter module, configured to convert the initial video data stream from the first file format into a second file format. The device includes a decoder module, which is coupled to the converter module and is configured to decode the converted video data stream and display the converted video data stream on a canvas element for decoding purposes. The video may include an output interface for outputting the decoded video data stream to a display device.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for manufacturing compostable, biodegradable drink straws from polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) material are disclosed herein. Such apparatus may include a hopper that contains raw PHA material, an extruder that receives the raw PHA material from the hopper and produces extruded PHA material, one or more waters baths that cool the extruded PHA material, a puller that pulls a tubular stream of PHA material through the system, and a cutter that is configured to cut the stream of PHA material into finished straws. The finished straws may be soil- and marine-biodegradable, as well as home- and industrial-compostable.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the treatment of cancer. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides splice-switching oligonucleotides that downregulate AR or EGFR expression and methods of using these splice-switching oligonucleotides to treat cancer.

Abstract: A mandrel system for use with a mould to mould a receptacle is described. The mandrel system comprises a component, a mandrel, and an expandable member. The mandrel is at least partially located, or at least partially locatable, inside the expandable member and comprises one or more holes through which a fluid is flowable in use from an interior of the mandrel to an exterior of the mandrel to expand the expandable member. The expandable member is attached, or is attachable, to the component. When the expandable member is attached to the component and the mandrel is at least partially located inside the expandable member, an end of the mandrel is moveable relative to the component to vary a length of the expandable member and thereby to vary a width of the expandable member.

Abstract: A method of moulding a receptacle is described. The method comprises providing a mould, providing a partially formed receptacle within the mould, providing an expandable member (in a first configuration) within the partially formed receptacle, moving the expandable member (in the first configuration) into contact with a base of the partially formed receptacle such that the expandable member deforms toward a periphery of the base of the partially formed receptacle, and inserting fluid into the expandable member to expand the expandable member from the first configuration to a second configuration more expanded than the first configuration so as to urge the partially formed receptacle against an inner surface of the mould during a process to form the receptacle from the partially formed receptacle.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an action selection neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the systems includes (i) a plurality of actor computing units, in which each of the actor computing units is configured to maintain a respective replica of the action selection neural network and to perform a plurality of actor operations, and (ii) one or more learner computing units, in which each of the one or more learner computing units is configured to perform a plurality of learner operations.

Abstract: A rotor assembly for a rotary wing aircraft includes a rotor hub including a hub arm and a central opening. The rotor assembly further includes a hydraulic actuation cylinder positioned in the central opening, a pitch change shaft assembly including a pitch change shaft positioned partially within the hydraulic actuation cylinder, a pitch beam coupled to a distal end of the pitch change shaft and configured to be coupled to a rotor blade rotatably mounted to the hub arm. The rotor assembly additionally includes at least one guide rod coupled to the rotor hub and slidably coupled to an opening in the pitch change shaft.

Abstract: A mould system for moulding a receptacle is described. The mould system comprises a mould comprising a mould cavity and an opening, and a mandrel system comprising a reference point, a mandrel and an expandable member. The mandrel is at least partially located, or at least partially locatable, inside the expandable member and comprises one or more holes through which a fluid is flowable in use from an interior of the mandrel to an exterior of the mandrel to expand the expandable member. When the mandrel is at least partially located inside the expandable member, the mandrel system is positionable relative to the mould such that the reference point is at a fixed position relative to the mould and the mandrel, and the expandable member extend into the mould cavity through the opening such that there is a clearance between the expandable member and a base of the mould cavity opposite the opening.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for manufacturing compostable, biodegradable drink straws from polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) material are disclosed herein. Such apparatus may include a hopper that contains raw PHA material, an extruder that receives the raw PHA material from the hopper and produces extruded PHA material, one or more waters baths that cool the extruded PHA material, a puller that pulls a tubular stream of PHA material through the system, and a cutter that is configured to cut the stream of PHA material into finished straws. The finished straws may be soil- and marine-biodegradable, as well as home- and industrial-compostable.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for mapping damage on a vehicle, the method comprising: displaying a graphical user interface on a display device of a computing device which shows a first image representing a first view of a vehicle; defining a first coordinate system relative to the first image; detecting a first user input command provided via a user input device associated with the computing device, the first user input command being representative of an instance of damage observed on the vehicle; storing one or more sets of image coordinates representing the first user input command to map damage to the vehicle.

Abstract: There is disclosed a receptacle mould defining a cavity in which a receptacle is mouldable. The receptacle mould comprises a guide channel for guiding, into the cavity, an expandable member that is usable to help mould the receptacle in the cavity. The guide channel has a first end and a second end, the second end opening into the cavity, and the expandable member is guidable through the guide channel from the first end to the second end and into the cavity. The guide channel has a first cross-sectional width at the first end and a second cross-sectional width at the second end, the second cross-sectional width being less than the first cross-sectional width.