Abstract: Various embodiments related to three dimensional printers, and reinforced filaments, and their methods of use are described. In one embodiment, a void free reinforced filament is fed into an conduit nozzle. The reinforced filament includes a core, which may be continuous or semi-continuous, and a matrix material surrounding the core. The reinforced filament is heated to a temperature greater than a melting temperature of the matrix material and less than a melting temperature of the core prior to drag the filament from the conduit nozzle.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to alter the driving profile of a vehicle. An example method disclosed herein determines, based on a user selection, a desired driving profile to apply to a vehicle. The example method includes identifying a set of alterations to operating parameters of vehicle systems associated with the desired driving profile. The example method includes determining a subset of the set of alterations that the vehicle can execute, and in response to determining the subset that the vehicle can execute, applying the subset to the vehicle to produce the desired driving profile.

Abstract: A saw blade includes a main body having a first surface, a second surface on an opposite side of the main body from the first surface, a proximal edge portion, a distal edge portion, and first and second side portions extending between the proximal and distal edge portions. The proximal edge portion is configured to be coupled to a rotatable hub such that the saw blade is held in a curved shape with the first surface defining an outer radius when the saw blade is coupled to the rotatable hub. The distal edge portion includes a plurality of cutting teeth, and the second surface includes a cutting structure configured such that a radius of an arc swept by the cutting structure when the saw blade is rotated is substantially equal to the outer radius of the first surface.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel peptide inhibitors of the interleukin-23 receptor, and related compositions and methods of using these peptide inhibitors to treat or prevent a variety of diseases and disorders, including inflammatory bowel diseases.

Abstract: A method comprising receiving a first 3D toolpath defining a fill material curved shell, receiving first 2D toolpaths defining support material flat shells, receiving a second 3D toolpath defining a long fiber composite material curved shell, the long fiber composite material including a filament having a matrix embedding fibers having a length longer than two times a diameter of the filament, actuating a fill material deposition head to trace the first 3D toolpath to deposit the fill material curved shell non-parallel to a printing substrate, actuating a support material deposition head to trace the first 2D toolpaths to deposit support material in a succession of substantially flat shells, and actuating a long fiber deposition head to trace the second 3D toolpath non-parallel to the printing substrate to deposit the long fiber composite material curved shell to enclose at least a portion of the fill material curved shell.

Abstract: A method for estimating portal blood flow and hepatic function in a subject is provided. In one example, the STAT test is an in vitro simplified, convenient test intended for screening purposes that can reasonably estimate the portal blood flow from a single blood sample taken 60 minutes after orally administered deuterated-cholate. The test can be administered to a patient having, or suspected of having, Chronic Hepatitis C, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), or any chronic liver disease.

Abstract: A reinforced molding is formed having an internal continuous fiber reinforcement preform embedded therein. Continuous reinforcing fiber is deposited in a reinforcement volume to form a continuous fiber reinforcement preform, and the reinforcement preform is then located within a mold of a molding apparatus. The mold is loaded with flowable and substantially isotropic molding material, e.g., by injection with heated and/or pressurized resin. The molding material is hardened (by curing or cooling or the like) to overmold the continuous fiber reinforcement preform. The resulting reinforced molding surrounds the internal continuous fiber reinforcement preform with a hardened substantially isotropic molding material.

Abstract: A credit report system is provided that may generate various user interfaces for a consumer. Credit accounts may be accessed and analyzed by receiving data from one or more of the national credit bureaus. The credit report system may present account information to a consumer in the form of credit account tiles, wherein the tiles each represent an account of the consumer. The consumer may also be able to search credit accounts, sort credit accounts, view the impact of credit accounts on one or more of the consumer's credit scores, interact with the credit accounts, make payments to credit accounts, and otherwise monitor changes to consumer's credit accounts.

Abstract: A method for printing three-dimensional parts includes building a three-dimensional part by printing counter-wound slices. By winding adjacent slices in alternating directions, offsetting stored torques can be produced for each printed slice. The stored torques then neutralize one another during the debinding and sintering process, reducing part twists and deformations.

Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure provides for a turbine airfoil. The turbine airfoil may include a trailing edge having: a set of cooling channels having a first cooling channel fluidly connected to a second cooling channel; a first section having a first pin bank cooling arrangement, the first section fluidly connected to the first cooling channel; a second section having a second pin bank cooling arrangement, the second section fluidly connected to the second cooling channel and being radially inward of the first section; and a pressure side panel having a third pin bank cooling arrangement, the pressure side panel fluidly connected to the first cooling channel.

Abstract: A turbine airfoil includes a turbine component that includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side wall extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, a suction side wall extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, a near wall source cavity disposed within the turbine component, and the near wall source cavity receives cooling air, and a second near wall cooling cavity disposed within the turbine component. The turbine airfoil further includes a first circuit completion plate disposed on a first end of the turbine component, and the first circuit completion plate fluidly couples the near wall source cavity to the second near wall cooling cavity.

Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a 3-D printer comprising a composite filament supply, a build platen, a print head comprising a composite filament ironing tip and a heater, a plurality of actuators that move the print head and the build platen relative to one another in three degrees of freedom at a printing rate, at least one linear feed mechanism that advances the composite filament at a feed rate and drives the composite filament into the print head to deposit the composite filament, and a controller configured to operate the heater to heat the composite filament ironing tip to flow matrix material among axial fiber strands within the composite filament and operate the plurality of actuators to press the composite filament ironing tip against the composite filament and reshape the composite filament against one of the build platen and a composite filament previously deposited upon the build platen.

Abstract: A blade includes an airfoil defined by a pressure side outer wall and a suction side outer wall connecting along leading and trailing edges and form a radially extending chamber for receiving a coolant flow. A rib configuration may include: a leading edge transverse rib connecting the pressure side outer wall and the suction side outer wall and partitioning the radially extending chamber into a leading edge passage within the leading edge of the airfoil and a central passage adjacent to the leading edge passage. One or both camber line ribs connect to a corresponding pressure side outer wall and suction side outer wall at a point aft of the leading edge transverse rib causing the central passage to extend towards one or both of the pressure side outer wall and the suction side outer wall, resulting in a flared center cavity aft of the leading edge.

Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein for presenting notifications on a user interface presentation of a recipient computing device. The technique is considered tiered because it distinguishes between first-type (people-centric) notifications and second-type notifications, and because it processes and presents first-type notifications in a privileged manner compared to the second-type notifications. For instance, the technique presents content associated with each first-type notification in an allocated window that appears in positional association with a person indicator, where that person indicator identifies the person who sent the first-type notification; the technique presents each second-type notification in a different manner. In some implementations, an application developer who designs a custom first-type notification is given authority to draw within the allocated window that is used to present the custom first-type notification in a manner specified by the application developer.

Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil defined by a pressure side outer wall and a suction side outer wall connecting along leading and trailing edges and form a radially extending chamber for receiving a coolant flow. A rib configuration may include: a leading edge transverse rib connecting to the pressure side outer wall and the suction side outer wall and partitioning a leading edge passage from the radially extending chamber. The rib configuration may also include a first center transverse rib connecting to the pressure side outer wall and the suction side outer wall and partitioning an intermediate passage from the radially extending chamber directly aft of the leading edge passage. The intermediate passage is defined by the pressure side outer wall, the suction side outer wall, the leading edge transverse rib and the first center transverse rib, and thus spans airfoil between its outer walls.

Abstract: According to at least one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a 3D printer comprising an anisotropic head that solidifies, along anisotropic toolpaths, fiber swaths having an anisotropic characteristic oriented relative to a trajectory of the anisotropic tool paths, an isotropic head that solidifies, along isotropic toolpaths, a substantially isotropic material, a motorized drive for moving the anisotropic head and a build plate supporting a printed part in at least three degrees of freedom, and a controller configured to control the 3D printer to build the printed part by solidifying the isotropic material along the isotropic tool paths, solidifying the anisotropic material in fiber swaths tracking a non-concentric set of anisotropic tool paths for at least a first sequence of parallel shells, solidifying the anisotropic material in fiber swaths tracking an outer concentric set of anisotropic tool paths for at least a second sequence of parallel shells.

Abstract: An edge coupon for an airfoil is provided. The coupon includes: a coupon body including: a coolant feed; an outward leg extending toward an edge of the coupon and fluidly coupled to the coolant feed; a return leg extending away from the edge of the coupon and radially offset from the outward leg along a radial axis of the coupon; a turn for fluidly coupling the outward leg and the return leg; a collection passage fluidly coupled to the return leg; and a coupling region configured to mate with an airfoil body of the airfoil.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for using an audible signal to monitor conditions at a downhole location in a well through use of a well cable containing a fiber optic, which may be either a slickline or a wireline fiber-optic cable, and providing an audible signal which varies in response to the monitored condition. The condition monitored can be strain in the fiber optic well cable, which can be sensed in one or more locations in the fiber optic well cable, in many examples through use of a sensor such as a Bragg grating associated with or formed in an optical fiber within the well cable. In some examples, a temperature measurement may be used to compensate for temperature effects impacting the strain measurement.

Abstract: In molten metal jetting, where droplets of metal are jetted to 3D print a part, each layer may be traversed each successive layer with a normalizing grinding wheel or other leveling device such as a layer to level each successive layer, and/or the melt reservoir or printing chamber may be filled with an anoxic gas mix to prevent oxidation.