Abstract: A midsole for an article of footwear including a three-dimensional mesh including interconnected unit cells and methods of making the same. The interconnected unit cells each include a plurality of struts defining a three-dimensional shape. The interconnected unit cells are connected at nodes having a valence number defined by the number of struts connected at that node. The valence number of the nodes may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The plurality of interconnected unit cells may be organized in a warped cubic lattice structure. The warped cubic lattice structure and the size/shape of interconnected unit cells may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The three-dimensional mesh may be customized based on a biometric data profile for an individual, or group of individuals. The midsole may be manufactured using an additive manufacturing process.

Abstract: An interface of a certificate management system acts as a target for management of digital authentication certificates from a group of candidate certificate authorities. Entities make certificate signing requests on behalf of subjects. The requests are received at an interface that appears to the requesting entities as a sole source of the signed certificates. But a certificate management component that processes the requests received by the interface applies a selection technique to select a particular certificate authority from a group of candidate certificate authorities available to sign the certificates. The certificate management component forwards the request to the particular certificate authority, receives back the signed certificate, and responds to the certificate signing request with the signed certificate. Although the certificate signing requests were all made via a same interface, the signed certificates can have different chains of trust. Various criteria may be used for the selection.

Abstract: An article of footwear may include a sole and an upper connected to the sole. The sole may include a first solid component and a second solid component. The sole may further include an additively manufactured mesh component that is arranged between the first solid component and the second solid component. The mesh component may be connected to each of the first solid component and the second solid component.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system including a support structure configured to provide support for various orbital welding components. The system also includes an orbital weld head body attached to the support structure. The orbital weld head body is made of a thermally conductive material and includes at least one cooling bar that spans at least a portion of the length of the orbital weld head body. The cooling bar includes various internal cooling channels to route coolant through the cooling bar of the orbital weld head body. The orbital weld head body also includes at least one pressurized fluid input line that attaches to the internal cooling channels of the cooling bar and conducts a fluid coolant to the internal cooling channels of the cooling bar. Other apparatuses and orbital welding machines are also described.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an electrodepositable coating composition comprising an electrodepositable binder comprising an ionic salt group-containing film-forming polymer and a curing agent; and at least one pigment: wherein the electrodepositable coating composition has a resin solids content of less than 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the electrodepositable coating composition, and a viscosity of at least 15 cP at a shear rate of 0.1/s, as measured by the BATH VISCOSITY TEST METHOD; and wherein the pigment optionally comprises a phyllosilicate pigment, and the pigment-to-binder ratio of the phyllosilicate pigment to the electrodepositable binder is less than 0.2:1 if the electrodepositable coating composition is a cationic electrodepositable coating composition and a pigment dispersing acid is present in the cationic electrodepositable coating composition. Also disclosed are coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.

Abstract: Techniques for improving a graphical user interface are described. In an example, a computer system receives an activity identifier of an activity in a video game and correlated locations. It builds a map of the locations from completion data indicating completion of the activity, and location data indicating where the activity was completed in the video game by other players. The identifier can be predefined in program code of the video game. Data is processed to determine where the likely location is for completing the activity in the video game. This likely location is shown as a graphical user interface element in a map.

Abstract: A system and process may be used to test water samples to measure ATP and/or estimate a microbial population, for example using an adenosine triphosphate (ATP) based assay. The system includes a device that is use in combination with single-use or disposable cartridges. The cartridge receives the water sample and is pre-loaded with one or more reagents. The device receives the cartridge and contains physical, electronic and/or mechatronic devices that interact with cartridge. One or more actions such as metering, mixing and conveying are performed automatically by elements of the device and/or cartridge. A sensor in the device measures light produced in the cartridge from a reaction with ATP in the water sample. Optionally, the cartridge also contains a pre-loaded amount of ATP, which is used to provide an internal reference or calibration measurement.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates, generally, to compositions and methods for producing, purifying, and using circular RNA.

Abstract: Antimicrobial peptides of general formula X0X1X2CX3X4X5CX6X7X8X9CYX10X11CX12X13 (SEQ ID NO: 12) are provided. Also provided are certain formulations containing these peptides and methods of using these peptides for treating skin infections in an animal in need thereof.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to A data processing apparatus, comprising: graph partitioning circuitry configured to receive a computation graph, the computation graph comprising a plurality of nodes representing operators and a plurality of edges representing relationships amongst the plurality of operators, and to divide the computation graph into a plurality of partitions, each partition comprising one or more nodes and/or edges; graph compilation circuitry configured to compile a computation graph to generate one or more compilation outputs; and storage to store the one or more compilation outputs; wherein the graph compilation circuitry is configured to: compile a first partition of the plurality of partitions to generate a first compilation output; and output the first compilation output to a first target portion of the storage assigned to the first partition.

Abstract: A method is provided for generating a mipmap. A processor comprises a neural processing engine comprising a plurality of hardware units suitable for performing integer operations on machine learning models. The method comprises receiving initial image data and one or more commands to perform an operation for generating a further layer of image data from the initial image data that has a different resolution to the initial image data. The method processes the commands to generate the further layer using the neural processing engine of the processor.

Abstract: Techniques for improving a graphical user interface are described. In an example, a computer system receives an activity identifier of an activity in a video game and correlated locations. It builds a map of the locations from completion data indicating completion of the activity, and location data indicating where the activity was completed in the video game by other players. The identifier can be predefined in program code of the video game. Data is processed to determine where the likely location is for completing the activity in the video game. This likely location is shown as a graphical user interface element in a map.

Abstract: A multiplier circuit is provided to multiply a first operand and a second operand. The multiplier circuit includes a carry-save adder network comprising a plurality of carry-save adders to perform partial product additions to reduce a plurality of partial products to a redundant result value that represents a product of the first operand and the second operand. A number of the carry-save adders that is used to generate the redundant result value is controllable and is dependent on a width of at least one of the first operand and the second operand.

Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods for providing contextual game guidance are described herein. An example method includes determining based on contextual information regarding an application an objective of the user; automatically deriving based on the contextual information and the objective contextual guidance to assist the user; generating a user interface having the contextual guidance; and transmitting the user interface to a client device.

Abstract: Techniques for improving a graphical user interface are described. In an example, a computer system receives an activity identifier of an activity in a video game and correlated locations. It builds a map of the locations from completion data indicating completion of the activity, and location data indicating where the activity was completed in the video game by other players. The identifier can be predefined in program code of the video game. Data is processed to determine where the likely location is for completing the activity in the video game. This likely location is shown as a graphical user interface element in a map.

Abstract: Computer implemented systems and methods for cross-platform consumption of in-game objects are provided herein. An exemplary method includes receiving by a data platform from at least one first device game object data discovered by a user while playing a video game associated with the data platform; attributing by the data platform a cross-platform identifier to the game object data; storing by the data platform metadata associated with the game object data to a database associated with the data platform, and receiving by the data platform from a second device associated with the data platform a request for access to the game object data and the metadata. The request may include the cross-platform identifier. The exemplary method further includes authenticating by the data platform the request based on the cross-platform identifier; and based on the authentication selectively providing by the data platform access to game object data and the metadata.

Abstract: Techniques for improving a graphical user interface are described. In an example, a computer system receives event data from a plurality of user devices. Each event data includes an identifier of an activity in a video game, completion data indicating completion of the activity, and location data indicating where the activity was completed in the video game. The identifier can be predefined in program code of the video game. The event data can be received based on an execution of the program code. The event data is processed to determine where the likely location for completing the activity in the video game. This likely location is shown as a graphical user interface element in a map.

Abstract: A midsole for an article of footwear including a three dimensional mesh including interconnected unit cells and methods of making the same. The interconnected unit cells each include a plurality of struts defining a three dimensional shape. The interconnected unit cells are connected at nodes having a valence number defined by the number of struts connected at that node. The valence number of the nodes may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The plurality of interconnected unit cells may be organized in a warped cubic lattice structure. The warped cubic lattice structure and the size/shape of interconnected unit cells may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The three dimensional mesh may be customized based on a biometric data profile for an individual, or group of individuals. The midsole may be manufactured using an additive manufacturing process.

Abstract: Techniques for improving a user video game experience are described. In an example, a computer system accesses videos showing separate completions of an activity by a plurality of video game players. From a definition of the activity, it is determined that the activity is a parent of sub-activities. Links to video portions of the videos are generated, wherein each video portion corresponds to a sub-activity. A score is generated for each video portion based on a relevance of each video portion to a user. The links are presented in a user interface to the user based on the score for each video portion, wherein upon selection of a first link, the user interface displays a first video to the user starting at a first video portion showing a completion of a sub-activity by a video game player.

Abstract: Memory access control circuitry controls handling of a memory access request based on at least one memory access control attribute associated with a region of address space including the target address. The memory access control circuitry comprises: lookup circuitry comprising a plurality of sets of comparison circuitry, each set of comparison circuitry to detect, based on at least one address-region-indicating parameter associated with a corresponding region of address space, whether the target address is within the corresponding region of address space; region mismatch prediction circuitry to provide a region mismatch prediction indicative of which of the sets of comparison circuitry is predicted to detect a region mismatch condition; and comparison disabling circuitry to disable at least one of the sets of comparison circuitry that is predicted by the region mismatch prediction circuitry to detect the region mismatch condition for the target address.