Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and modifying digital animations based on user interactions with a unique user interface portraying a one-dimensional layer motion element and/or elements for generating and utilizing animation path for digital design objects and animation layers. The disclosed system can provide a dynamic one-dimensional layer motion element that adapts to a selected animation layer and portrays selectable animation frames from the animation layer. The disclosed systems can provide options for generating and modifying various frames of the digital animation based on user interactions with the one-dimensional layer motion element, an animation timeline, and/or a corresponding animation canvas.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and modifying digital animations based on user interactions with a unique user interface portraying a one-dimensional layer motion element and/or elements for generating and utilizing animation path for digital design objects and animation layers. The disclosed system can provide a dynamic one-dimensional layer motion element that adapts to a selected animation layer and portrays selectable animation frames from the animation layer. The disclosed systems can provide options for generating and modifying various frames of the digital animation based on user interactions with the one-dimensional layer motion element, an animation timeline, and/or a corresponding animation canvas.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and modifying digital animations based on user interactions with a unique user interface portraying a one-dimensional layer motion element and/or elements for generating and utilizing animation path for digital design objects and animation layers. The disclosed system can provide a dynamic one-dimensional layer motion element that adapts to a selected animation layer and portrays selectable animation frames from the animation layer. The disclosed systems can provide options for generating and modifying various frames of the digital animation based on user interactions with the one-dimensional layer motion element, an animation timeline, and/or a corresponding animation canvas.

Abstract: Randomized testing can be used to explore a set of possible transactions, schemas, and system states, including partionings, which can exist in a distributed database. The tests can be complementary to other system failure, performance, and version compatibility tests. Randomly generated transactions can be computed or evaluated at a transactor and compared to results derived from a transactor emulator.

Abstract: A face covering with an included straw hole opening that allows people to drink in public without removing the face covering.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing phosphate fertilizer that comprises dicalcium phosphate, the method comprising providing milled phosphorus-containing rock having a total phosphorus content of at least about 15% P by weight, mixing the milled phosphate-containing rock with a mineral acid in a reaction vessel to produce a superphosphate product, and mixing the superphosphate product with a calcium-source reverting agent and a magnesium-source reverting agent to produce a reverted product, the calcium-source reverting agent comprising at least about 20% by weight of the total reverting agent of calcium oxide with a calcium carbonate equivalence of at least about 134%, and the magnesium-source reverting agent providing a magnesium source and comprising at least about 20% by weight of the total reverting agent of magnesium source with a calcium carbonate equivalence of at least about 80%, to produce a granulated cured reverted product having a product yield of at least about 1.90 or of at least about 1.

Abstract: Systems and methods that provide electronic content that requires that the playing computing device download a shared library. Created electronic content can be combined into a package that includes logic to download the shared library, a piece of loading content, and the created electronic content. When the package is used on a computing device, the preloader downloads the shared library, the loading content plays while the shared library downloads, and the created electronic content plays after the shared library has finished downloading.

Abstract: Provided is a tooling system for use in an associated press comprising a lower tool shoe, an upper tool shoe, a first set of tooling plates, and a second set of tooling plates. The lower tool shoe comprises an upwardly facing surface, part of a shoe locator set defining an axis of elongation, a first locator element defining an axis of elongation, and an offset second locator element defining an axis of elongation. The upper tool shoe comprises a downwardly facing surface, part of a shoe locator set defining an axis of elongation, a first locator element defining an axis of elongation, and an offset second locator element defining an axis of elongation. The first set of tooling plates comprises a first lower tooling plate and a first upper tooling plate. The second set of tooling plates comprises a second lower tooling plate and a second upper tooling plate.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for accelerated playback of rich internet applications are disclosed. For example, one embodiment of the present invention includes a method having the steps of determining a frame rate associated with a rich internet application, the rich internet application comprising a plurality of frames; determining at least one timing signal to be generated by the rich internet application; and determining at least one frame at which the timing signal would be output at the frame rate. The method further includes generating each of the plurality of frames of the rich internet application at a rate greater than the frame rate; and outputting the at least one timing signal when the at least one frame associated with the timing signal is generated. In another embodiment, a computer-readable media includes code for a carrying out such a method.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for accelerated playback of rich internet applications are disclosed. For example, one embodiment of the present invention includes a method having the steps of determining a frame rate associated with a rich internet application, the rich internet application comprising a plurality of frames; determining at least one timing signal to be generated by the rich internet application; and determining at least one frame at which the timing signal would be output at the frame rate. The method further includes generating each of the plurality of frames of the rich internet application at a rate greater than the frame rate; and outputting the at least one timing signal when the at least one frame associated with the timing signal is generated. In another embodiment, a computer-readable media includes code for a carrying out such a method.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved method for dispensing beverages from a collapsible liner fitted with a disposable valve. It comprises an external tap actuator with hand operated lever and integrated external dispense nozzle. The collapsible liner valve is located inside the housing of the external tap actuator. The external tap actuator's hand operated lever is configured in several ways to be compatible with three commercially available collapsible liner taps. When the hand operated lever opens the valve, the beverage flows into the said dispense nozzle which delivers the liquid to a beverage container such as a glass or carafe.

Abstract: A tape package comprises a coreless body formed from a plurality of spirally wound layers of tape that define the package body with an outer diameter and a traverse length. The spirally wound layers of tape extend axially along the traverse length of the package body and include a number of spiral windings of tape in each layer. The package body permits lengths of tape to unwind from along its interior and to pay-off laterally through an egress area or opening in a sidewall of the package body with little residual twist. In one configuration, the package body has the same given number of spiral windings of tape along each side of the egress area or opening. Any twisting occurring along a length of tape unwinding from along the package body interior in a first direction on one side of the egress area or opening is accommodated or substantially reduced by any twisting occurring along the length of tape unwinding in a reverse direction on the other or opposite side of the egress area or opening.

Abstract: A collapsible transport frame 10 for transporting sheet material includes a first support frame 11, a second support frame 12, a bracing arrangement 16, 17. The bracing arrangement 16, 17 is connected to and extends between the first and second support frames 11, 12 which permits movement of the first support frame 11 relative to the second support frame 12, between an expanded sheet support condition and a collapsed condition; such that, in the expanded sheet support condition, the first and second support frames 11, 12 are braced in a spaced apart relationship and in the collapsed condition, the first and second support frames 11, 12 are substantially adjacent.

Abstract: An automated computer-implemented method for reorienting ECT myocardial perfusion images of a heart LV. The method includes receiving variously oriented tomographic images; receiving LV long-axis, LV center and LV axial limits based on the images; receiving the endocardial surface of the LV based on the images; determining a reorientation slice range based on the center and axial limits of the LV; receiving slices (N) within the reorientation slice range; for each slice, determining a center coordinate x[i], y[i] based on the endocardial surface and the area of the slice within a reorientation slice range coordinate system; determining translation ?xi, ?yi and rotation ?x, ?y values based on center coordinates x[i=1 to N], y[i=1 to N] to reorient the LV long axis to the z-axis and its origin of a reference Cartesian coordinate system; and automatically reorienting and realigning the tomographic images based on the translation and rotation values.

Abstract: Providing encapsulated electronic components on a circuit board by providing dams on a circuit board around areas on which respective electronic components will be mounted, mounting the respective electronic components within the dams on the circuit board, and printing encapsulating material through a stencil in order to provide deposits of encapsulating material over the electronic components and within the dams.

Abstract: A ceramic spinneret used for producing manufactured fibers and formed from a fine grained, essentially pure structural ceramic such as aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, composites of aluminum oxide and zirconium oxide known as toughed ceramics, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, or any fine grained essentially pure structural ceramic. Such spinnerets are formed as a single piece and contain non-circular capillaries suitable for forming shaped or void containing fibers.

Abstract: The fluid from a breeder nuclear reactor, which may be the sodium cooling fluid or the helium reactor-cover-gas, or the helium coolant of a gas-cooled reactor passes over the portion of the enclosure of a gaseous discharge device which is permeable to hydrogen and its isotopes. The tritium diffused into the discharge device is radioactive producing beta rays which ionize the gas (argon) in the discharge device. The tritium is monitored by measuring the ionization current produced when the sodium phase and the gas phase of the hydrogen isotopes within the enclosure are in equilibrium.