Abstract: Systems and methods that enable automated processing of specimens carried on microscope slides are described herein. Aspects of the technology are directed, for example, to an automated staining system including a dispensing instrument that receives a processing module to deliver reagent to a reaction chamber of the slide processing module. The processing module can carry fresh reagents, waste material, and the side.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.

Abstract: Systems and methods that enable automated processing of specimens carried on microscope slides are described herein. Aspects of the technology are directed, for example, to an automated staining system including a dispensing instrument that receives a processing module to deliver reagent to a reaction chamber of the slide processing module. The processing module can carry fresh reagents, waste material, and the side.

Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a distributed transaction are provided. A distributed execution statement including a plurality of tasks for executing a query and a table to be modified by the executed query is received. A first task is transmitted to a first backend node and a second task is transmitted to a second backend node. A first confirmation that the first task is executed and a second confirmation that the second task is executed are received. Executing the first task includes making a first modification to the table and a first identification of the first modification, and executing the second task includes making a second modification to the table and a second identification of the second modification. Based at least on each of the first task and the second task being completed, committing the first modification and the second modification to the table.

Abstract: A device that assists with putting elastic or rubber dog boots on a dog's paws. The has two arms and a compression spring therebetween that assist in stretching the opening or aperture of an elastic boot and holding the boot opening in this expanded shape such that the boot can be easily put on the pet paw. The device can then easily be removed, leaving the elastic shoe on the dog.

Abstract: An elongate connector for subsea connection of cables and the like to wind turbine generators has a plurality of locking elements arranged on ramp surfaces and held in a plurality of cages on the connector. The cages are moveable to move the locking elements along the ramp surfaces between an engaged position and a disengaged position and the plurality of cages are moveable independently of each other. A release collar is provided, which can move all the cages simultaneously to the disengaged position, in order to allow removal of the connector.

Abstract: A method for facilitating transactions by tenants in a multi-tenant architecture system is discussed. The method includes generating, with a multi-tenant computer system, a first representation of an entity in a first hierarchical data structure associated with an entity interface tenant of the multi-tenant computer system. The method includes receiving, with the multi-tenant computer system, a set of entity-specific policies useable to generate requests to individual ones of a plurality of transaction processing computer systems. The method includes generating, with the multi-tenant computer system, a second representation of the entity in a second hierarchical data structure associated with a particular transaction processing service tenant of a plurality of transaction processing service tenants of the multi-tenant computer system.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.

Abstract: A device that assists with putting elastic or rubber dog boots on a dog's paws. The has two arms and a compression spring therebetween that assist in stretching the opening or aperture of an elastic boot and holding the boot opening in this expanded shape such that the boot can be easily put on the pet paw. The device can then easily be removed, leaving the elastic shoe on the dog.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to identifying existence of oral diseases. In an embodiment, a light source operable to provide light in one of multiple of wavelength bands is provided. The light with the corresponding wavelength band of the multiple wavelength bands accentuates a corresponding feature indicative of a respective set of diseases. The light source may be further operated to generate a first light with a desired wavelength band to illuminate a target area in a mouth of a subject, and an image formed by the reflected light from the target area may be examined for the existence of an oral disease corresponding to the desired wavelength band.

Abstract: Systems and methods that enable automated processing of specimens carried on microscope slides are described herein. Aspects of the technology are directed, for example, to an automated staining system including a dispensing instrument that receives a processing module to deliver reagent to a reaction chamber of the slide processing module. The processing module can carry fresh reagents, waste material, and the side.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.

Abstract: Described herein are methods for fluence map generation or fluence map optimization (FMO) for radiation therapy. One variation of a method for generating a fluence map comprises smoothing out nondifferentiable penalty functions and using an accelerated proximal gradient method (e.g., FISTA) to compute a fluence map that may be used by a radiotherapy system to apply a selected dose of radiation to one or more regions of interest (ROI) or volumes of interest (VOI).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for quantifying volume of a deposited skin-print A method of determining a volume of skin-print residue deposited on a substrate is disclosed. The method comprises: performing interferometry on the substrate with skin-print residue deposited thereon to determine raw topography data of the substrate including the skin-print residue. The method also comprises: processing the raw topography data including subtracting topography of the substrate without the skin-print residue from the raw topography data in order to determine skin-print residue topography data. The method further comprises: determining volume of skin-print residue deposited on the substrate from the skin-print residue topography data.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.

Abstract: A method for facilitating transactions by tenants in a multi-tenant architecture system is discussed. The method includes generating, with a multi-tenant computer system, a first representation of an entity in a first hierarchical data structure associated with an entity interface tenant of the multi-tenant computer system. The method includes receiving, with the multi-tenant computer system, a set of entity-specific policies useable to generate requests to individual ones of a plurality of transaction processing computer systems. The method includes generating, with the multi-tenant computer system, a second representation of the entity in a second hierarchical data structure associated with a particular transaction processing service tenant of a plurality of transaction processing service tenants of the multi-tenant computer system.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.

Abstract: Automated system configured to perform and methods for performing one or more slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. The system and methods enable high sample throughput while also minimizing or limiting the potential for cross-contamination of slides. The automated systems can include features that facilitate consistency, controllability of processing time, and/or processing temperature.