Abstract: A head-end node in a Segment Routing network includes circuitry configured to detect a failure of a Segment Routing policy, set an eligibility flag for the candidate path associated with the Segment Routing policy to false, and, if one or more other candidate paths exist for the Segment Routing policy, switch to another candidate path of the one or more other candidate paths considering corresponding eligibility flags for the one or more other candidate paths. The eligibility flag and the corresponding eligibility flags are maintained by the head-end node for the candidate path and the one or more other candidate paths such that the head-end node selects a path based thereon.

Abstract: A stream of data changes to content of an object associated with a source system is received. A hot standby version of at least a portion of the object maintained at a recovery system is updated by streaming the received stream of data changes to the recovery system. It is determined that a gap exists in the stream of data changes. In response to determining that the gap exists in the stream of data changes, a reference snapshot is requested from the source system. A current state of the hot standby version of at least the portion of the object maintained at the recovery system is caused to be updated to a state of the portion of the object associated with the reference snapshot.

Abstract: A building system including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to ingest information comprising at least one of occupancy information or energy usage information associated with a building. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to generate a space usage recommendation based on the information. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to cause a graphical model of the building to include a representation of the information and the space usage recommendation. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to cause a display device of a user device to display the graphical model within a user interface.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of identifying, by an archiving server node, a unique archival policy for each of a plurality of blockchain nodes, executing, by the archiving server node, a consensus mechanism to determine at least one block from a plurality of blocks of the plurality of the blockchain nodes to be archived, and running the unique archival policy to archive the at least one block from the plurality of the blocks.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the multifaceted analysis of a written work, such as an educational program admission essay, using machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing. Language, relevance, structure, and flows are evaluated for an overall impactful essay. Essay content is checked to evaluate whether the author has covered an essay's essential aspects. The essay is also analyzed for an effective structure for presenting details as per the essay type. The disclosure includes data preparation for the task, process of data tagging, feature engineering from the essay text, method for transfer learning and fine-tuning language model to adapt to the context of an essay. Finally, a process for building machine learning and deep learning models and technique for ensembling to use both models in combination is disclosed. The system may provide user-adapted feedback based on a persona created from the user profile.

Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view or perspective of an ensemble scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to a received request for a prescribed perspective of an ensemble scene comprising a plurality of assets, an output image of the ensemble scene for the requested prescribed perspective is generated based at least in part on combining at least a portion of an existing image of each of at least a subset of the plurality of assets.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for causing a self-testing fire sensing device to initiate a fire response are described herein. One device includes a user interface, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive, via the user interface, a selection to initiate a fire response, receive, via the user interface, a selection of a self-testing fire sensing device to initiate the fire response, transmit a command to the self-testing fire sensing device to initiate the fire response, and receive a notification of a number of output events triggered by the initiation of the fire response by the self-testing fire sensing device.

Abstract: A telematics device and a method by the telematics device are provided. The method includes detecting a vehicle starting event and sending a first plurality of parameter requests while refraining from sending a second plurality of parameter requests for a requests-off duration after the vehicle starting event. After the expiry of the requests-off duration, sending the second plurality of parameter requests. In response to detecting a vehicle turning off event, sending a third plurality of parameter requests before the expiry of a post vehicle turning off duration.

Abstract: A building system including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to ingest information associated with a physical asset of a building, the physical asset being an indoor air quality device. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to cause a graphical model of the building to include a heat map of one of infection risk or particulate concentration overlaid onto a floor of the graphical model based on the information. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to generate a building layout recommendation based on the heat map of the one of the infection risk or the particulate concentration. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to cause a display device of a user device to display the graphical model including the heat map and the building layout recommendation within a user interface.

Abstract: A method and a network for routing data packet in a unified wide area network (WAN) is provided. The method includes encapsulating a data packet by an ingress aggregation router and forwarding the encapsulated data packet to an ingress backbone router. The encapsulated data packet includes a first label. The ingress backbone router selects an optimized traffic engineered tunnel and replaces the first label with the optimized traffic engineered tunnel and forwards the encapsulated data packet along the optimized traffic engineered tunnel.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a computer-implemented system and method of providing wellness detect and response (WDR) security services for an enterprise, including computing, for the enterprise, a quantitative user-centric security posture, wherein computing the quantitative user-centric security posture comprises calculating, for a user, a quantitative user risk profile according to a combination of user role, user privileges, user behavior, and digital assets assigned to a user and owned by the enterprise.

Abstract: Systemic administration of intact, bacterially derived minicells results in rapid accumulation of the minicells in the microenvironment of a brain tumor, in therapeutically significant concentrations, without requiring endothelial endocytosis/transcytosis across the blood brain barrier or any other mechanism by which, pursuant to conventional approaches, nanoparticles have entered into that microenvironment. Accordingly, a wide variety of brain tumors, both primary and metastatic, can be treated by administering systemically a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprised of a plurality of such minicells, each minicell being a vehicle for an active agent against the tumor, such as a radionuclide, a functional nucleic acid or a plasmid encoding one, or a chemotherapeutic agent.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes repeatedly selecting, by a control system for the environment, control settings for the environment based on internal parameters of the control system, wherein: at least some of the control settings for the environment are selected based on a causal model, and the internal parameters include a first set of internal parameters that define a number of previously received performance metric values that are used to generate the causal model for a particular controllable element; obtaining, for each selected control setting, a performance metric value; determining that generating the causal model for the particular controllable element would result in higher system performance; and adjusting, based on the determining, the first set of internal parameters.

Abstract: A substrate processing system includes an upper chamber and a gas delivery system to supply a gas mixture to the upper chamber. An RF generator generates plasma in the upper chamber. A lower chamber includes a substrate support. A dual ion filter is arranged between the upper chamber and the lower chamber. The dual ion filter includes an upper filter including a first plurality of through holes configured to filter ions. A lower filter includes a second plurality of through holes configured to control plasma uniformity.

Abstract: A method of monitoring building compliance with healthy building guidelines includes obtaining current parameter values for a plurality of different parameters from a plurality of sensors disposed within a plurality of different zones of a building. For each of the parameters, the current parameter value received from each of the plurality of different zones is compared with a corresponding healthy building range for that parameter as specified by the healthy building guidelines. A healthy building dashboard is displayed that includes a summary that shows, for each of the plurality of different parameters, how many zones of the plurality of different zones of the building are within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter and/or how many zones of the plurality of different zones are not within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter.

Abstract: An atherectomy catheter device includes an elongate body, a drive shaft extending proximally to distally within the elongate body, and a cutter attached to the drive shaft. The cutter includes a serrated annular cutting edge formed on a distal edge of the cutter and a recessed bowl extending radially inwards from the annular cutting edge to a center of the cutter. The recessed bowl has a first curvature. The cutter further includes a plurality of grinding segments extending inwardly from the distal edge within the bowl. Each of the plurality of segments has a second curvature that is different from the first curvature.

Abstract: In described examples, an analog to digital converter (ADC), having an input operable to receive an analog signal and an output operable to output a digital representation of the analog signal, includes a voltage to delay (VD) block. The VD block is coupled to the input of the ADC and generates a delay signal responsive to a calibration signal. A backend ADC is coupled to the VD block, and receives the delay signal. The backend ADC having multiple stages including a first stage. A calibration engine is coupled to the multiple stages and the VD block. The calibration engine measures an error count of the first stage and stores a delay value of the first stage for which the error count is minimum.

Abstract: Electric vehicle battery monitoring systems and methods are disclosed herein. An example method includes displaying a state of charge for a battery of an electric vehicle on a display screen of the electric vehicle, determining a frequency of how often a user views the state of charge, inferring that the user has anxiety over a range for the electric vehicle based on the frequency, and presenting the user with options to extend the state of charge.

Abstract: Systems and methods for text simplification are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure identify a simplified text that includes original information from a complex text and additional information that is not in the complex text. Embodiments then compute an entailment score for each sentence of the simplified text using a neural network, wherein the entailment score indicates whether the sentence of the simplified text includes information from a sentence of the complex text corresponding to the sentence of the simplified text. Then, embodiments generate a modified text based on the entailment score, the simplified text, and the complex text, wherein the modified text includes the original information and excludes the additional information. Embodiments may then present the modified text to a user via a user interface.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus of an automated and self-service kiosk that allows customers to select inventory items available from the kiosk and walk or move away with selected inventory item(s) without having to process payment, identify the inventory item(s), or provide any other form of checkout. After a customer has picked one or more items and departed the kiosk, the picked items are determined and the customer charged for the items. For example, one or more of detected weight changes measured at the kiosk and/or images generated at the kiosk may be used to identify items picked by the customer from the kiosk.