Abstract: This disclosure concerns electrically conducting poly(pyrazoles). The concept of oligomerizing and polymerizing substituted aminopyrazole derivatives combined with a monomer activation procedure involving base-mediated conversion of the protonated pyrazole ring nitrogen to amine salt was developed. This disclosure concerns the specific chemistries needed for the synthesis of a pyrazole monomer used in the polymer synthesis. The procedure used for blending the novel polypyrazoles with other compounds needed for construction of solar cells for testing was developed. This disclosure concerns the concept of using these types of heteroatom-rich, electron-deficient oligomers or polymers as n-dopable or p-dopable electron acceptors in photovoltaic cells. This disclosure concerns synthesizing the starting monomer compounds and polypyrazoles.

Abstract: A garment (1) comprising a sheet of fabric material (2) and a wearer attachment device (4) is illustrated and described. The wearer attachment device is configured to allow the garment to be attached to the neck or head of the wearer. The garment comprises one or more releasable fastening devices (6a, 6b, 6c). The sheet of fabric is configurable between a first unfolded position and a second folded position. In the second folded position the sheet of fabric is folded into the shape of a face mask that, in use, allows the garment to cover at least a portion of the wearer's mouth and nose. The sheet of fabric is held in the second folded position by the one or more releasable fastening devices.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method of generating CGR content to accompany an audio file including audio data and lyric data based on semantic analysis of the audio data and the lyric data is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, a speaker, and a display. The method includes obtaining an audio file including audio data and lyric data associated with the audio data. The method includes performing natural language analysis of at least a portion of the lyric data to determine a plurality of candidate meanings of the portion of the lyric data. The method includes performing semantic analysis of the portion of the lyric data to determine a meaning of the portion of the lyric data by selecting, based on a corresponding portion of the audio data, one of the plurality of candidate meanings as the meaning of the portion of the lyric data. The method includes generating CGR content associated with the portion of the lyric data based on the meaning of the portion of the lyric data.

Abstract: In various implementations, a method comprises: identifying a plurality of data items, each of the plurality of data items having at least a first metadata field or a second metadata field; displaying a volumetric environment including a first plurality of SR objects corresponding to a first plurality of data items among the plurality of data items, wherein the first plurality of data items includes the first metadata field with first metadata field values; detecting a first user input indicative of the second metadata field; and in response to detecting the first user input, replacing the first plurality of SR objects within the volumetric environment with a second plurality of SR objects corresponding to a second plurality of data items among the plurality of data items, wherein each of the second plurality of data items includes the second metadata field with second metadata field values.

Abstract: Register banks are used to allow for fast beam switching in a phased array system. Each beam forming channel is associated with a register bank containing M register sets for configuring such things as gain/amplitude and phase parameters of the beam forming channel. The register banks for all beam forming channels can be pre-programmed and then fast beam switching circuitry allows all beam forming channels across the array to be switched to use the same register set from its corresponding register bank at substantially the same time, thereby allowing the phased array system to be quickly switched between various beam patterns and orientations. Active power control circuitry may be used to control the amount of electrical power provided to or consumed by one or more individual beam forming channels such as to reduce DC power consumption of the array and/or to selectively change the effective directivity of the array.

Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a computer vision environment. The method includes identifying, by a computer vision (CV) node of a plurality of CV nodes, a CV alert; in response to identifying the CV alert: identifying candidate CV nodes of the plurality of CV nodes; generating a dynamic CV zone using the candidate CV nodes; initiating performance of a CV workload by the dynamic CV zone to generate CV data associated with the CV alert; generating a CV alert case associated with the CV alert; obtaining CV data from the dynamic CV zone; updating the CV alert case using the CV data generated during the performance of the CV workload; and providing the updated CV alert case to a VMS.

Abstract: A system for automatic categorization and assessment of billing narratives has a semantic engine that classifies billing entries with descriptions expressed in natural language into standardized categories of activity and task objective. The classification is by machine learning methods via training data that is maintained, updated and extended as needed. A rules engine applies rules to the categorized invoice data to analyze the data, report violations to a user/consumer of billed services and to perform related calculations.

Abstract: A production plant and a method for production of a synthetized gasoline product from a synthetic hydrocarbon mixture produced from a mixture of reactive oxygenates, the method including a. separating the synthetic hydrocarbon mixture in at least a light hydrocarbon fraction, and a higher boiling hydrocarbon fraction, wherein the higher boiling fraction comprises at least 70% of the molecules including 10 or more carbon atoms and less than 20% of the molecules comprising exactly 9 carbon atoms, b. directing at least an amount of said higher boiling hydrocarbon fraction as a hydrocracking feedstock to contact a material catalytically active in hydrocracking under effective hydrocracking conditions providing a hydrocracked hydrocarbon stream, wherein at least an amount of said hydrocracked hydrocarbon stream is combined with at least an amount of said light hydrocarbon fraction, to provide said synthetized gasoline product having a T90 being below T90 of said synthetic hydrocarbon mixture.

Abstract: Disclosed is an RF window. The RF window comprises a first and a second cavity and a plate of dielectric material positioned there between. At least one of the first and second cavities comprises a taper, beginning at the plate, such that the at least one of the first and second cavities reduces in diameter in a direction away from the plate.

Abstract: An integrated sensor-lens assembly (ISLA) for an image capture apparatus that defines an optical axis and includes: a lens holder; a cover glass holder that is connected to the lens holder, a printed circuit board (PCB) that is (directly or indirectly) connected to the cover glass holder within an optical tolerance loop of the ISLA; and an image sensor that is supported by the PCB. The ISLA is configured such that expansion of the PCB along the optical axis is constrained so as to maintain focus alignment of the ISLA.

Abstract: Provided herein are techniques to facilitate providing consumer-defined workloads for a network slice of a slice provider network. In at least one example, a method may include transmitting a query to a slice provider function for topology information of an instantiated network slice in which the instantiated network slice includes slice resources provided at a plurality of network locations. The method may further include obtaining the topology information that identifies, at least in part, the plurality of network locations at which the slice resources and identifying, based at least in part on the topology information, at least one network location of the instantiated network slice at which to instantiate a consumer-defined workload, and transmitting a request to instantiate the consumer-defined workload that includes at least one location identifier of the at least one network location and a workload identifier of the consumer-defined workload to be instantiated.

Abstract: In some implementations, a testing system may obtain, from a wireless communication device, one or more output parameters associated with an embedded artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI/ML) model indicating information associated with one or more functions performed by the embedded AI/ML model, wherein the one or more functions are associated with an air interface. The testing system may perform, via a test model of the testing system, one or more test operations using the one or more output parameters, wherein the test model is a reference model for the one or more test operations. The testing system may determine, using the one or more test operations, one or more performance parameters indicating a performance level of the embedded AI/ML model. The testing system may perform, based on the one or more performance parameters, one or more actions.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for automated form generation are disclosed. One method includes receiving a request from a user to improve a user-provided form, selecting one or more automatically generated variations of the user-provided form, wherein the variations include at least a different content or a different behavior, testing the forms, comprising generating estimates of success rates of each of the forms, comprising adaptively selecting which of the forms to communicate to each of a plurality of sub-users during the testing based on previous interactions of the sub-users during past communication of the forms, identifying most successful of the forms based on sensed sub-user actions, focusing the testing on the most successful of the user-provided form and the generated variations of the user-provided form, and completing the testing based on a criteria.

Abstract: Systems and methods for silicon dominant lithium-ion cells with controlled lithiation of silicon may include a cathode, an electrolyte, and an anode. The anode may include silicon lithiated at a level after discharge that is configured to be above a minimum threshold level, where the minimum threshold lithiation is 3% silicon lithiation. The lithiation level of the silicon after charging the battery may range between 30% and 95% silicon lithiation, between 30% and 75% silicon lithiation, between 30% and 65% silicon lithiation, or between 30% and 50% silicon lithiation. The lithiation level of the silicon after discharging the battery may range between 3% and 50% silicon lithiation, between 3% and 30% silicon lithiation, or between 3% and 10% silicon lithiation. The minimum threshold level may be a lithiation level below which a cycle life of the battery degrades. The electrolyte may include a liquid, solid, or gel.

Abstract: A sound damping composition comprises an acrylic vibrational damping polymer disposed on a surface of a filler. The acrylic vibrational damping polymer has a glass transition temperature, Tg, ranging from ?60° C. to less than 10° C., as calculated by the Fox equation, and has a non-crosslinked component having a Tg less than ?10° C. The weight ratio of the acrylic vibrational damping polymer to the filler is less than 1:1. A thermoplastic resin composition comprises the sound damping composition and a thermoplastic resin, where the sound damping composition is present in an amount of at least 10 wt % relative to the total weight of the thermoplastic resin composition. Articles produced from the resin composition are also disclosed.

Abstract: A service cart for an electric vehicle (EV) battery, comprising a lift assembly supporting a platform. The platform is configured to support the EV battery. The service cart comprises an electrically-driven hydraulic pump that is configured to extend and retract the lift assembly in order to raise and lower the platform. The service cart may comprise one or more electric wheels which may be driven by rotational force from a first electric motor, or controlled with respect to an adjustable directionality by a second electric motor.

Abstract: A touch-enabled electro-optic display device has a stack of layers including, in order: a first electrode layer at a viewing surface of the touchscreen electro-optic display device; a dielectric layer; a second electrode layer; a semi-conductive layer; an electro-optic medium layer; and a third electrode layer. The second electrode layer, the semi-conductive layer, the electro-optic medium layer, and the third electrode layer form an electro-optic device in which the electro-optic medium layer is addressed by applying a driving voltage to the third electrode layer while holding the voltage on the second electrode layer constant. The first electrode layer, the dielectric layer, and the second electrode layer form a capacitive touch sensor that detects a touch input by sensing a change in capacitance at a touched point on the first electrode layer.

Abstract: An electric work vehicle includes a battery housing including a first battery housing portion, and an air cooling system. The first battery housing portion includes a plurality of battery housing module compartments to house a plurality of battery modules, the plurality of battery housing module compartments are arranged in a plurality of rows that extend in a front-rear direction of the electric work vehicle, the plurality of rows including a first row and a second row located below the first row in an up-down direction of the electric work vehicle, and a first opening connected to one of the plurality of battery housing module compartments included in the first row is smaller than a second opening connected to one of the plurality of battery housing module compartments included in the second row.