Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that represent various advancements in neuroscience. For instance, systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing the processing of sensory information, refining diagnostic approaches for neurological disorders, and introducing novel methods for controlling brain network activity.

Abstract: A peripheral nerve stimulator can be used to stimulate a peripheral nerve to treat essential tremor, Parkinsonian tremor, and other forms of tremor. The stimulator can have electrodes that are placed circumferentially around the patient's wrist or arm. Specific nerves in the wrist or arm can be targeted by appropriate spacing of the electrodes. Positioning the electrodes on generally opposing sides of the target nerve can result in improved stimulation of the nerve. The stimulation pattern may alternate between the nerves. Improved stimulation algorithms can incorporate tremor feedback, external data, predictive adaptation, and long-term monitoring data.

Abstract: A process for 3D printing articles made of carbon or graphite includes producing a flowable polymeric mixture from a UV permeable and polymerizable polymer or cellulose and a UV crosslinkable resin, admixing the polymeric mixture with sugar and/or cellulose until the mixture has a consistency such that it can be filled into a 3D printer and processed thereby, homogenizing the mixture at room temperature or elevated temperature, filling a 3D printer with the mixture, layerwise printing a shaped article with simultaneous exposure to UV radiation for layerwise crosslinking of the UV crosslinkable resin, cleaning the shaped article, introducing the UV precured shaped article into a furnace and stabilizing the UV precured shaped article in air at a predetermined stabilizing temperature until all volatile constituents have outgassed from the prefabricated shaped article and subsequently high temperature treating the shaped article for carbonization or graphitization in a furnace under protective gas.

Abstract: A method for producing carbonized or graphitized molding parts is particularly simple to implement and also allows producing complex molding parts without mechanical post-processing. This is achieved by the production of a pourable liquid polymer mixture which is as homogenized as possible, consisting of a carbon granulate, pitch, soot or graphite powder and polyacrylnitrile dissolved in a solvent, filling the liquid polymer mixture into a casting mold and immersing the filled casting mold in water over a predetermined period of time until the polymer mixture is sufficiently cured and dimensionally stable, and subsequent breaking of the casting mold and stabilizing the prefabricated cured molding part by uniform heating up in a furnace in air at a predefined temperature for stabilizing and degassing volatile constituents, and performing a high-temperature treatment for carbonizing or graphitizing the molding part in a furnace under protective gas.

Abstract: A method for producing graphite for use as a high-temperature insulation material or as a filter in the form of cubes, sheets or other components includes: producing a base material in the form of a mixture of carbon-based materials containing a raw material selected from foliage, moss or similar materials, such as grass, corn leaves or even sawdust, waste paper or natural fibres; soaking the mixture in a solvent over an extended period of time and comminuting it; adding a binder to the mixture until a largely homogeneous paste-like mixture is obtained; largely removing the solvent by pressing the mixture until a sufficiently stable and low-solvent pressed article is obtained; drying the pressed article until the remaining solvent has evaporated; and graphitising the pressed article to produce a block in a high-temperature furnace in an oxygen-free atmosphere, under inert gas, or in a vacuum at a temperature of >2,000° C.

Abstract: A method for producing graphite from paper for use as a filter or construction material provides a cost-effective, simple and sustainable method for producing graphite. Paper/wastepaper, paper shreds or paper strips are soaked in water in a suitable container for several hours. The soaked paper is mixed and comminuted using a suitable device until a paste or a mixture having a paste-like consistency forms. Sugar or starch is added to the paste as a binder. The paste is inserted into a suitable mold, and the water is subsequently pressed out of the paste by pressing or the paste is isostatically pressed, so that a pressed product is formed. The dewatered pressed product is removed from the mold and carbonized in a furnace at >1000° C. and then graphitized at >2000° C. (at most up to 3000° C.).

Abstract: A peripheral nerve stimulator can be used to stimulate a peripheral nerve to treat essential tremor, Parkinsonian tremor, and other forms of tremor. The stimulator may be inductively charged in certain aspects. The stimulation device can be configured to be worn on the wrist of a user.

Abstract: A peripheral nerve stimulator can be used to stimulate a peripheral nerve to treat essential tremor, Parkinsonian tremor, and other forms of tremor. The stimulation pattern may alternate between the nerves. Improved stimulation algorithms can incorporate at least one of tremor feedback, external data, predictive adaptation, or long-term monitoring data. The device may be configured as a wrist worn device to stimulate three nerves to provide tremor reduction.

Abstract: The present invention provides energy curable thixotropic compositions comprising low amounts of 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol isobutyrate (Texanol); 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol diisobutyrate (TXIB); or dipropylene glycol butyl ether (DPGBE mixes isomers), or combinations thereof. The addition of the selected solvents in amounts of about 0.5 wt % to 3 wt % reduced the low shear rate viscosity of the energy curable thixotropic compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing carbonised or graphitised 3D objects which aims to realise such 3D objects particularly simply, and by means of which more complex 3D objects can also be produced without faults in the structure. This is achieved by mixing a carbonisable or graphitisable material with a free-flowing organic adhesive or a free-flowing thermoplastic organic substance to produce a kneadable, largely dimensionally stable compound and shaping the compound into a 3D blank, and by a subsequent drying and degassing process at an increased temperature over a predetermined period of time and subsequent carbonising or graphitising of the 3D blank in a furnace in a protective gas atmosphere to produce a 3D object, the temperature necessary for carbonising or graphitising being approached with a low heating gradient.

Abstract: A device for use in handling paper products. A finger moisturizer container can be worn on the wrist of a user via an adjustable wristband. Alternatively, the container can be located on a clip that can be attached to an article of clothing, cover or pages of a book. The device can be used to assist in the turning of pages of a book or magazine, sorting or separating stacks of money or other paper or like products.

Abstract: The present invention provides energy curable thixotropic compositions comprising low amounts of 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol isobutyrate (Texanol); 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol diisobutyrate (TXIB); or dipropylene glycol butyl ether (DPGBE mixes isomers), or combinations thereof. The addition of the selected solvents in amounts of about 0.5 wt % to 3 wt % reduced the low shear rate viscosity of the energy curable thixotropic compositions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for providing a mobile interface powered by artificial intelligence. A user remains on a single user-interface page, conducting interactions with a customer relationship management tool using natural language. The technique leverages a large language model as an intermediary middle-layer, allowing a user to engage core functions. The technique builds an appropriate prompt including the natural language and uses the large language model to build an execution plan that references tools and tasks performable in the customer relationship management tool. By chaining prompts, the technique incorporates prior interactions into subsequent prompts. Mobile-specific information such as location, images, and scanned barcodes may be included in a prompts. Running the large language model on the client device allows the user to perform CRM functions while operating in an offline mode, a mode that secures user data and enhances privacy.

Abstract: The present invention provides water-based energy curable compositions that are useful as primers on metallized substrates. The compositions comprise energy-curable monomers and oligomers, inert polyurethane dispersions, and phosphoric acid. The compositions exhibit improved adhesion to metallized substrates, compared to compositions that do not contain phosphoric acid. In addition, the compositions provide improved adhesion to overprinted energy-curable inks when the compositions of the invention are used as primers on metallized substrates.

Abstract: A peripheral nerve stimulator can be used to stimulate a peripheral nerve to treat essential tremor, Parkinsonian tremor, and other forms of tremor. The stimulator can have electrodes that are placed circumferentially around the patient's wrist or arm. Specific nerves in the wrist or arm can be targeted by appropriate spacing of the electrodes. Positioning the electrodes on generally opposing sides of the target nerve can result in improved stimulation of the nerve. The stimulation pattern may alternate between the nerves. Improved stimulation algorithms can incorporate tremor feedback, external data, predictive adaptation, and long-term monitoring data.

Abstract: A method for producing carbon foam boards from starch for use as an insulation material or a filter is disclosed. The method is suitable for producing fine-pored carbon foam boards having a mainly homogeneous structure. This is achieved by sprinkling at least one very thin layer of foamable starch powder onto a temperature-resistant boardlike substrate, introducing the starch-powder-coated substrate into a furnace, introducing air, argon or nitrogen into the furnace until an internal pressure of ?720 mbar to ?1000 mbar has been established, heating the furnace to a foaming temperature of 180° C.-450° C. to foam the starch powder, maintaining the temperature over a prolonged duration of up to 10 hours to stabilize the foamed starch into a foam board.

Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods of secure transmissions of data packets to remote devices in networked environments. A server can establish a data connection over a network with an application executing on a client device associated with a user. The server can identify, for the user of the client device, (i) a plurality of messages to transmit to the client device for presentation via the application and (ii) a plurality of times at which to transmit the messages. The server can transmit, via the data connection to the client device, a first message at a first time. The server can receive, via the data connection from the client device, response data packets identifying an event detected responsive to the presentation of the first message via the application. The server can modify, using the one or more response data packets, a second time for transmission of a second message.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing spatiotemporal sensory inputs to participants to produce a stimulus map of the brain. A code generation model is sampled with a first encoding vector to produce a first video sequence, which is output to provide a first spatiotemporal sensory input to the participants. Neural response measurements are performed while the first spatiotemporal sensory input is being presented to each of the participants. An outcome function is determined based on the neural response measurements. A second encoding vector is produced based on the first encoding vector and the outcome function. The method is iteratively repeated with the second encoding vector, and any successive encoding vectors, until a defined set of stopping criteria for the outcome function is satisfied. Upon satisfying the defined set of stopping criteria, a resulting spatiotemporal sensory code is stored to form part of a stimulus map of the brain.

Abstract: A method for producing high-purity silicon carbide powder includes filling starch-based packing chips or expanded starch as organic raw material into a container open at the top; introducing the container filled with the raw material into a furnace and heating the packing chips, or the expanded starch, gradually to a temperature of 2,000° C. whilst feeding inert gas or under vacuum to graphitize the packing chips or the expanded starch into porous graphite pieces; feeding halogen gas, such as chlorine or fluorine, into the furnace to purify the porous graphite pieces at a temperature of >1,800° C. to remove foreign metals from the porous graphite pieces by forming metal chloride, and converting the porous graphite pieces into powdered silicon carbide by feeding SiO with argon as carrier gas at a temperature of >1,200° C. at a pressure of 30 mbar or higher.

Abstract: A method for producing carbon foam boards from starch for use as an insulation material or a filter is disclosed. The method is suitable for producing fine-pored carbon foam boards having a mainly homogeneous structure. This is achieved by sprinkling at least one very thin layer of foamable starch powder onto a temperature-resistant boardlike substrate, introducing the starch-powder-coated substrate into a furnace, introducing air, argon or nitrogen into the furnace until an internal pressure of ?720 mbar to ?1000 mbar has been established, heating the furnace to a foaming temperature of 180° C.-450° C. to foam the starch powder, maintaining the temperature over a prolonged duration of up to 10 hours to stabilize the foamed starch into a foam board.