Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to isolated cell populations comprising stable regulatory T cells and methods of producing the same.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for efficiently accessing hardware resources in a virtualized environment. In various implementations, a computing system includes a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit that is a parallel data processing circuit. The second processing circuit includes multiple subdivisions, each with compute circuits, a memory subsystem, and a command processing circuit. The hypervisor running on the first processing circuit divides the second processing circuit into multiple partitions, each with a guest operating system and one or more subdivisions. A single mapping of multiple mappings includes a virtual function identifier that specifies a guest operating system, a virtual hardware resource identifier, and a corresponding physical hardware resource identifier. The hypervisor sends the mappings to at least the second processing circuit that uses the mappings to perform translations during execution of tasks. The first processing circuit does not perform translations.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to isolated cell populations comprising stable regulatory T cells and methods of producing the same.

Abstract: Systems and methods for efficient context switching in multithread processors are disclosed. A processing system comprises a direct memory access module configured to detect a preemption request generated by the scheduling circuit. Responsive to the preemption request, the direct memory access module determines whether execution of a first task from a plurality of tasks needs to be replaced by execution of a second task. When the replacement is necessitated, the module saves a first plurality of registers associated with the first task at a memory location transmitted by the scheduling circuit and queues the second task for execution. The memory location is transmitted by the scheduling circuit as part of the preemption request.

Abstract: A PLC control method includes: transmit a first signal through a neutral wire and a path between the neutral wire and a differential signal processing circuit; transmit a second signal through a live wire and a path between the live wire and the differential signal processing circuit; and disconnecting the path between the differential signal processing circuit and the neutral wire or the live wire, conducting the differential signal processing circuit to a ground wire, and when a transmission rate of the ground wire is greater than or equal to a preset transmission rate threshold, transmitting the first signal or the second signal through the ground wire and a path between the ground wire and the differential signal processing circuit.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to identify a similarity in public sentiments for each pair from a plurality of entities from a second computing device, where the request includes names of the plurality of entities, accessing a table of word vector relationships, where the table of word vector relationships includes a plurality of unique n-grams and their corresponding word vectors, and where each of the word vectors represents a semantic context of a corresponding n-gram as a point in a d-dimensional embedding space, looking up word vectors corresponding to each of the names using the table, calculating, for each of the word vectors, a similarity metric to each of the word vectors, and sending a response message to the second computing device, where the response message includes calculated similarity metrics corresponding to all the pairs of the word vectors.

Abstract: A PLC control method includes: transmit a first signal through a neutral wire and a path between the neutral wire and a differential signal processing circuit; transmit a second signal through a live wire and a path between the live wire and the differential signal processing circuit; and disconnecting the path between the differential signal processing circuit and the neutral wire or the live wire, conducting the differential signal processing circuit to a ground wire, and when a transmission rate of the ground wire is greater than or equal to a preset transmission rate threshold, transmitting the first signal or the second signal through the ground wire and a path between the ground wire and the differential signal processing circuit.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to identify public sentiments for one or more entities from a second computing device, where each of the attribute n-grams represents an attribute among a plurality of pre-determined attributes, accessing a table of word vector relationships, looking up entity word vectors corresponding to each of the names for the one or more entities and attribute word vectors corresponding to each of the plurality of attribute n-grams using the table, calculating, for each of the entity word vectors, a similarity metric to each of the attribute word vectors, and sending a response message to the second computing device, where the response message includes calculated similarity metrics corresponding to all the pairs of an entity word vector and an attribute word vector.

Abstract: An antenna includes a director-reflector unit, which includes two radiation elements, and a switch, and a main element configured to transmit and receive a signal. Total electrical length of the two radiation elements is greater than one half of a wavelength corresponding to an operating frequency band of the antenna, and electrical length of either of the two radiation elements is less than one half of the wavelength corresponding to the operating frequency band of the antenna. The two radiation elements are coupled using the switch and the director-reflector unit is used as a reflector and configured to reflect the signal transmitted and received by the main element when the switch is switched on, and the two radiation elements are decoupled and the director-reflector unit is used as a director and configured to direct the signal transmitted and received by the main element when the switch is switched off.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for immunotherapy of a subject afflicted with diseases such as cancer, an infectious disease, or a neurodegenerative disease, which methods comprise administering to the subject a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-PD-L1 antibody or portion thereof that potentiates an endogenous immune response, either stimulating the activation of the endogenous response or inhibiting the suppression of the endogenous response.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for immunotherapy of a subject afflicted with diseases such as cancer, an infectious disease, or a neurodegenerative disease, which methods comprise administering to the subject a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-PD-L1 antibody or portion thereof that potentiates an endogenous immune response, either stimulating the activation of the endogenous response or inhibiting the suppression of the endogenous response.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for immunotherapy of a subject afflicted with diseases such as cancer, an infectious disease, or a neurodegenerative disease, which methods comprise administering to the subject a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-PD-L1 antibody or portion thereof that potentiates an endogenous immune response, either stimulating the activation of the endogenous response or inhibiting the suppression of the endogenous response.

Abstract: A method for extracting at least one target compound from a sample includes injecting an overloaded amount of the sample into a chromatographic conduit (110), and flowing a solvent having a time-varying composition through the conduit (110). An apparatus for extracting at least one target compound from a sample includes a chromatography module, a mass-spectrometry module in fluid communication with the chromatography module to receive a portion of an eluent from the chromatography module, and a control unit in communication with the chromatography module and the mass-spectrometry module.

Abstract: A method for extracting at least one target compound from a sample includes injecting an overloaded amount of the sample into a chromatographic conduit (110), and flowing a solvent having a time-varying composition through the conduit (110). An apparatus for extracting at least one target compound from a sample includes a chromatography module, a mass-spectrometry module in fluid communication with the chromatography module to receive a portion of an eluent from the chromatography module, and a control unit in communication with the chromatography module and the mass-spectrometry module.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for graphics processing. The graphics processing system comprises the primitive assembly, a vertex/geometry shader, the second primitive assembly, a cache memory, and a texture engine. The vertex/geometry shader can receive primitive data to execute can output vertex data.