Abstract: A method for verifying entities and provide an electronic transfer between entities comprising: retrieving a first reference number and a first transmit number associated with a first entity repository; generating a first internal profile associated with the first entity; generating a first access token; generating a first external profile associated with the first entity; storing the profiles in a directory; retrieving a second identification of a second access token; identifying a second entity associated with the second external profile using the second identification; identifying a second internal profile from the plurality of internal profiles associated with the second entity; using a second reference number and a second transmit number associated with the second internal profile, identifying a current status and a history of a second entity repository associated with the second internal profile; and initiating the electronic transfer from the first entity repository to the second entity repository.

Abstract: Techniques for generating a retail forecasting model from product-cluster-based estimated elasticity values to forecast the effects of price changes on the demand for a set of products are disclosed. A system generates cluster-based price-elasticity values for a set of products by applying a set of regressive elasticity-estimation algorithms to a set of product data and clustering products based on product descriptions and estimated price-elasticity values. The system uses the cluster-based price-elasticity values for the products to generate the retail forecasting model.

Abstract: A head covering air filtering device comprising a rigid component comprising a transparent face shield, a fabric component, wherein the rigid component and the fabric component combine to cover an entire head of a user and form a seal around the user's neck. The device further comprises an intake filter to filter all intake air entering the device, an exhaust filter to filter all exhaust air exiting the device, and an air mover causing intake air to enter the device and exhaust air to exit the device.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for dynamically prioritizing work activity. In an embodiment, an appropriate progression threshold period is stored for work item lifecycle statuses in work item management software. Each time a work item status is set or changed, the period is used by a computer to schedule further work activity by generating a progression threshold timestamp. When progression threshold timestamps are presented sequentially to users, work activity is closely guided across the entire lifecycle of all work items. The present invention is also an alerting system whereby work items can enter a progression alert state.

Abstract: Methods and systems for remote multiplayer gameplay are disclosed. An example method can include joining a multiplayer interactive physical game including first and second players competing in an activity; capturing a first game video of a first player in a first play of the multiplayer interactive physical game, using a first camera on a first mobile computing device in a first gaming area; determining a first object flow associated with the first player from the first game video, by performing an algorithm on one or more frames of the first game video to detect one or more key points of the first player; generating a first analytic based on the first object flow; receiving a second analytic associated with the second player in a second gaming area; and generating a feedback to the first player based on the first analytic or the second analytic.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus, includes a pad of a printed circuit board (PCB) configured to couple to an electrical component separate from the PCB and a via formed through the pad. The via is offset from a center of the pad such that a distance between the via and a most adjacent trace electrically separate from the via is above a threshold distance.

Abstract: An exemplary shingle includes at least one coated shingle sheet defining a headlap portion and a tab portion each having opposed upper and lower surfaces. A first line of adhesive is adhered to one of the upper surface of the headlap portion and the lower surface of the tab portion, and includes a first thermally activated adhesive material. A second line of adhesive is adhered to one of the upper surface of the headlap portion and the lower surface of the tab portion, and includes a second thermally activated adhesive material having a minimum activation temperature less than a minimum activation temperature of the first thermally activated adhesive material.

Abstract: A drug product includes a multidose dry powder inhalation device. The device has a medicament chamber and a desiccant chamber adjacent to the medicament chamber, and a pharmaceutical composition therein. The pharmaceutical composition includes a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of tanimilast. The desiccant chamber is filled with molecular sieves.

Abstract: A dog locating device to be worn by a hunting dog is provided. The device includes a back pad having a front end portion and a rear end portion thereof. The device includes an abdomen pad having a front end portion and a rear end portion thereof. The device includes first and second adjustable straps coupled between the front end portion of the back pad and the front end portion of the abdomen pad. The device further includes third and fourth adjustable straps coupled between the rear end portion of the back pad and the rear end portion of the abdomen pad. The device includes a plate that is coupled to the back pad. The device includes a spring member that is coupled to the plate, and a flag mounting bracket that is coupled to the spring member.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for the management and control of electrolyte within confined electrochemical cells or groups (e.g. stacks) of connected electrochemical cells, for example, in an electrolyzer. Various embodiments of systems and methods provide for the elimination of parasitic conductive paths between cells, and/or precise passive control of fluid pressures within cells. In some embodiments, a fixed volume of electrolyte is substantially retained within each cell while efficiently collecting and removing produced gases or other products from the cell.

Abstract: A powder inhaler includes a casing having a mouthpiece, an inhalation channel, a container for a powdered medicament, and a metering device with a shuttle having a dosing recess. The shuttle is movable between a filling position, in which the dosing recess is in alignment with an opening of the container to be filled with a dose of the powdered medicament, and an inhalation position, in which the dosing recess is in alignment with the inhalation channel, for enabling inhalation of the dose of the powdered medicament contained in the dosing recess through the mouthpiece. A sealing device is operationally active at a coupling zone of the shuttle with the container when the shuttle is in the filling position, the coupling zone circumscribing the dosing recess and the opening.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating disease, syndromes, conditions and disorders that are affected by the modulation of MALT-1. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) and Formula (II), wherein the variables are defined herein.

Abstract: A portable web widget for distribution of multimedia content over a computer communications network, the web widget adapted for viral distribution and execution in a web browser on a client device wherein the widget includes a content retrieval component communicatively coupled to an application server over the computer communications network, the content retrieval component configured to retrieve one or more multimedia display files and metadata into an embedded electronic commerce store in the web widget after it enters an active operational mode, the widget also including a content preview component configured to enable a streamed execution of a portion of the multimedia content files associated with each of the multimedia display files from a multimedia content distribution system executing on the application server, and a transaction processing component operative to execute and complete a commercial transaction in the embedded electronic commerce store pertaining to the multimedia content files.

Abstract: A door frame and threshold assembly including a substantially closed reservoir tube having a first plurality of spaced apart weep holes therein and a second plurality of spaced apart weep holes, an interior sill portion arranged on a ceiling of the reservoir tube, the interior sill portion having a first sloped surface having a descending slope arranged in a direction towards the plurality of spaced apart weep holes, and an exterior sill portion at least abutting one of a pair of sidewalls of the closed reservoir tube, the exterior sill portion having a second sloped surface having a descending slope arranged in a direction away from the closed reservoir tube, wherein a channel is formed by the ceiling of the closed reservoir tube, an edge of the interior sill portion, and an edge of the exterior sill portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides recombinant Staphylococcus bacterium (e.g. S. epidermidis) that are dependent on D-alanine for growth. In one aspect, the disclosure features a recombinant Staphylococcus bacterium comprising two inactivated alanine racemase genes (?alr1?alr2); and an inactivated D-alanine aminotransferase (dat) gene. In another aspect, the disclosure features a method of making the recombinant Staphylococcus bacterium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photochemical process for the manufacturing of a C-terminal ?-amide, which are a class of compounds that represent up to half of all biologically relevant peptide hormones. The invention provides mild, broad in scope, economically efficient process, which is suitable for large scale manufacturing.

Abstract: Systems and methods for high power uplink transmission are disclosed. In one aspect, a mobile device includes an antenna configured to transmit radio frequency signals to a base station via an uplink and receive radio frequency signals from the base station via a downlink and a front end system coupled to the antenna. The front end system is configured to transmit and receive the radio frequency signals from the antenna, and duplex the radio frequency signals via frequency division duplexing. The front end system is further configured to transmit data on the uplink at a first power level that is higher than a predetermined level and at a finite duty cycle.

Abstract: A method of repairing a chain assembly involves aligning bores of inner and outer chain links and inserting a thread end of a pin through the bores. Then, a nut is threadingly engaged with the threads of the pin, the nut is tightened nut on the threads to create an interference fit between the pin and a plate of the outer chain link at the bore of the outer chain link, and the nut is further tightened on the threads until an axial stop blocks further advancement of the nut along the thread end of the pin. Additionally, a kit for repair of a chain assembly system includes a chain link defining a bore, a pin that can form an interference fit with the bore, a nut, and an axial stop that blocks further advancement of the nut along a thread end of the pin when the pin contacts the axial stop.

Abstract: A particulate filter having a honeycomb structure of a matrix of interconnected porous walls including inlet cells and outlet cells defining a plurality of inlet channels and outlet channels, respectively, wherein at least a portion of the outlet cells are larger than any of the inlet cells, and a cross-sectional shape of at least some of the outlet channels is rectangular. Honeycomb extrusion dies, honeycomb bodies, honeycomb structures, and methods of manufacture are described, as are other aspects.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that include receiving an instruction to associate a unique identifier with a digital presentation, where the unique identifier is associated with a tangible object, receiving a first digital asset from a first remote device, determining a first media component to prepend to the first digital asset, determining a second media component to append to the first digital asset (which influences the determination of the first media component or the second media component), incorporating the prepended content, digital asset, and appended content into the digital presentation, and associating the unique identifier with the digital presentation in a data store.