Abstract: A portable game lifting device includes a receiver element for engagement with a vehicle. The receiver element includes a first end and a second end. A lift arm is pivotably attached to the first end of the receiver element via a pivot. A basket is mounted on a distal end of the lift arm from the pivot. The basket is configured to receive a load and a pulley assembly is arranged and disposed to actuate the lift arm to lift the load with the basket. A method for lifting a load with the portable game lifting device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A modular accessory for orienting a light path at different angles to an optical axis of a spectrometer is described. The modular accessory includes an attachment module configured to couple to a Raman spectrometer. The attachment module attaches to a base module which includes a visible light imager. An objective module couples to the base module and includes an objective configured to provide an optical path for the sample light beam travelling from a sample along a light path to an objective lens of the objective, through the objective, and to the input for the sample light beam of the base module. The modules can provide tilt and swivel angles to orient the light path at different angles. Portable Raman systems including the modular accessory and a Raman spectrometer are also described as well as methods for using the systems.

Abstract: A card edge connector system includes a socket body 12 forming a socket 14 having opposing sides 16 and a bottom 19. A plurality of spring elements 20 are positioned along at least one of the opposing sides of the socket and form a plurality of spring fingers 22 flexing inwardly in the socket. A ground contact 40 is positioned on the bottom of the socket 14 and includes a spring finger 42 configured for flexing upwardly in the socket. A printed circuit board 26 having opposing sides 36, 38 and an edge 46 includes data signal patterns 32, 34 plated on a side of the board for handling a data signal. A ground pattern 62 is plated on each of the opposing sides of the board and a ground pattern 64 is plated on an edge of the board.

Abstract: A package sort cell includes a robot with an end of arm tool for transporting packages from an in-feed conveyor to a selected one of a plurality of out-feed conveyors or bins, the robot receiving instruction from the package reader as to which of the plurality of conveyors or bins to hand-off the package. An end of arm tool may be in the configuration of a conveyor which may be aligned with the out-feed conveyor on a bottom up movement. The end of arm tool may also be in the configuration of a hanging carriage frame suspending a conveyor in a top down movement. A worker platform may be provided which may be movable between in-use and out-of-use positions whereby upon robot downtime, the platform may move into the in-use position for a worker to temporarily takeover the transfer functions of the robot. A plurality of sort cells may be arranged in side by side relation adjacent a like plurality of package delivery points (e.g.

Abstract: An elution generator including an elution column having a container defining an interior volume and a septum, a radiation shield having an upper shield portion defining a central recess and a coaxial flow needle extending downwardly into the central recess, and a lower shield portion having body portion defining a central recess, wherein the elution column is disposed in the central recess of the lower shield portion, the body portion of the lower shield portion is disposed in the central recess of the upper shield portion, and the coaxial flow needle extends downwardly through the septum into the internal volume of the elution column.

Abstract: An adjustable bladeset for a hair clipper with a clipper housing includes a stationary blade having a stationary toothed end with a plurality of stationary teeth, an opposite stationary base end and an upper surface, and a moving blade having a moving toothed end with a plurality of moving teeth, the moving blade configured for reciprocal transverse movement relative to the stationary blade on the upper surface. The stationary blade is linearly displaceable relative to the moving blade by action of an adjustment lever on the clipper housing. A blade guide is on the upper surface at the stationary base end, and has at least one toothed strip. The adjustment lever is connected to a blade actuator shaft having at least one toothed cog configured to engage the toothed strip so that rotation of the actuator shaft causes the linear displacement of the stationary blade relative to the moving blade.

Abstract: An aeroponic farming appliance for plant growth is disclosed. The appliance includes a rotatable root chamber having an access door to the interior chamber volume, and at least a portion of the root chamber sidewall is transparent. The appliance also includes at least one standing plant riser, and at least one of a grow light and a grow light power connector.

Abstract: A server system is communicatively connected to a plurality of computing devices and one or more databases. The server system receives one or more queries from a computing device. The one or more queries specify a data source. The server system determines a level of security applicable to a user of the computing device. The server system translates the one or more queries into one or more logical queries according to semantics of the data source, and transmits the logical queries to a query pipeline of the server system. The server system executes the one or more queries against a first database of the one or more databases to retrieve query results from the data source. The server system applies the determined level of security to the query results to obtain one or more data sets, and returns the one or more data sets to the computing device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for cutting down a user's larger input video into an edited video comprising the most important video segments and applying corresponding video effects. Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to adding captioning video effects to the trimmed video (e.g., applying face-aware and non-face-aware captioning to emphasize extracted video segment headings, important sentences, quotes, words of interest, extracted lists, etc.). For example, a prompt is provided to a generative language model to identify portions of a transcript (e.g., extracted scene summaries, important sentences, lists of items discussed in the video, etc.) to apply to corresponding video segments as captions depending on the type of caption (e.g., an extracted heading may be captioned at the start of a corresponding video segment, important sentences and/or extracted list items may be captioned when they are spoken).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for cutting down a user's larger input video into an edited video comprising the most important video segments and applying corresponding video effects. Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to adding face-aware scale magnification to the trimmed video (e.g., applying scale magnification to simulate a camera zoom effect that hides shot cuts with respect to the subject's face). For example, as the trimmed video transitions from one video segment to the next video segment, a scale magnification may be applied that zooms in on a detected face at a boundary between the video segments to smooth the transition between video segments.

Abstract: A method and device for reducing the damaging effects of a blast or concussive event includes applying pressure to at least one jugular vein to reduce the egress of blood from the cranial cavity during the incidence of the concussive event. Reducing blood out flow from the cranial cavity increases intracranial pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid to reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury and injuries to the spinal column. Reducing blood out flow further increases the intracranial pressure, and thereby increases the pressure of the cochlear fluid, the vitreous humor and the cerebrospinal fluid to thereby reduce the risk of injury to the inner ear, internal structure of the eye and of the spinal column. In addition, increasing intracranial pressure reduces the likelihood of brain injury and any associated loss of olfactory function.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media comprising a virtual exercise board, which is represented by images on the screen of a pad device; wearable devices configured to attach to each shoe of a user and to collect and transmit touch data to the pad device; cameras for tracking movement and calibrating with the data collected by the wearable devices; and computer programs for collecting user data, processing user data, and generating outputs. In embodiments, features include augmented reality; ratings of performance; automated workouts/protocols; real-time progress bar; multi-location database capabilities; and reports.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling the air temperature of a building using a control plan based on a target time. The system includes a controller which may be connected to a number of indoor and outdoor heating ventilation and air-conditioning units. The system may include a thermostat. The system may also operate without a thermostat. The method includes determining a control plan to reach a desired temperature in a target time. The method also includes updating the plan by comparing the actual time to reach the desired temperature with the target time.

Abstract: A method for selective renewable diesel production by hydrodeoxygenation of a lipid to form a product that is further processed with stripping, hydroisomerization and fractionation to produce a renewable diesel.

Abstract: Systems and methods for Bayesian PROCOVA operations are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for updating predictive models. The method trains a set of one or more generative models based on RCT data. The method defines a mixture prior distribution that includes: an informative component that follows an informative prior distribution defined, at least in part, on the RCT data; and a flat component that follows a flat prior distribution defined independently of the RCT data. The method generates, using the set of one or more generative models, predicted panel data for a plurality of digital subjects. The method derives a mixture posterior distribution corresponding to the unknown parameters of the set of one or more generative models, based on the predicted panel data. The method determines, based on at least one of the predicted panel data or the mixture posterior distribution, a set of one or more decision rules.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses include determining, by a memory subsystem, use model statistics for a memory portion of the memory subsystem, where the use model statistics include a count of commands received by the memory subsystem from a host system targeting the memory portion and details about the memory subsystem. It is determined that the memory subsystem is powering down. The use model statistics are stored in a use model statistics storage of the memory subsystem by the memory subsystem in response to determining that the memory subsystem is powering down.

Abstract: An optic for a light-emitting diode (LED) array comprises an arrangement of optical structures for providing down lighting distribution from the LED array and a waveguide edge for providing up-lighting distribution from the LED array. Luminaires are described comprising an LED array and the optic. An overhead light fixture includes a driver assembly and a light-emitting assembly. The light-emitting assembly is operably connected to the driver and configured for downward emission of light from a light source of the light-emitting assembly. The light fixture is configured to be mounted to a canopy sheet of an overhead canopy, with the driver assembly disposed above the canopy sheet and the light-emitting assembly disposed below the canopy sheet. A bezel is optionally disposed around a lens of the light-emitting assembly, for aesthetic reasons and/or for controlling a degree of lateral emission of light from the light fixture.

Abstract: Additive manufacturing compositions include low-absorbing particles or non-absorbing particles that have an absorbance for wavelengths of 300 nm to 700 nm that is equal to or greater than 0 Au and is less 1.0 Au, such as 0.001 Au absorbance?0.7 Au. Slurries including such particles and an uranium-containing particle and that are used in additive manufacturing processes have an increased penetration depth for curative radiation. Removal of low-absorbing particles or non-absorbing particles during post-processing of as-manufactured products results in pores that create porosity in the as-manufactured product that provide a volume accommodating fission gases and/or can enhance wicking of certain heat pipe coolant liquids.