Abstract: A system for electronically automating reduction component selection, conversion, disaggregation, and assignment is provided. The system generates graphical user interfaces that accept data relating to a reduction component to be analyzed and assigned to a qualified facility. The system identifies a segment associated with each reduction component and identifies all reduction components within a segment. A reduction concentration is determined in near real time for each segment by totaling the concentrations for each reduction component within a segment. The reduction concentration is compared to an Available Reduction Threshold to determine if facility capacity has been exceeded for new reduction components and for previously assigned reduction components.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods delignifying and depolymerizing lignocellulosic biomass into an aromatic species-rich fraction and a carbohydrate-rich fraction. The resultant fractions can be used as raw materials to produce value-added goods from biogenic carbon.

Abstract: A BWR fuel assembly is elongated along a fuel assembly axis and comprises a lower tie plate, an upper tie plate axially spaced from the lower tie plate, a bundle of fuel rods extending axially between the lower tie plate and the upper tie plate, and a tubular fuel channel extending from the lower tie plate to the upper tie plate with encasing the fuel rods. The fuel assembly comprises an interaction device mounted on the lower tie plate and configured to interact with the fuel channel. The interaction device has an inactive configuration and an active configuration.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for policy management is provided. The system, apparatus, and method provide a universal policy management solution to unify multiple bespoke systems to enable management of access and other policies in distributed and/or heterogeneous environments. The system, apparatus, and method uses or may be referred to as Identity Query Language or “IDQL.” Policies and user access are defined centrally, and these policies are distributed out to the various bespoke systems. This distribution is aided by a policy gateway, or orchestrator, which acts as a policy mapper and/or API wrapper which accepts IDQL policy configurations, maps them to an imperative identity system, and carries out the IDQL command in the identity systems' native API calls.

Abstract: A process for dehydrating methanol to dimethyl ether product in the presence of a catalyst and a promoter, wherein the catalyst is at least one aluminosilicate zeolite, and the promoter is selected from one or more compounds of Formula I: (I) wherein each of X and any or all of the Y's may independently be selected from hydrogen, halide, a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl substituent, or a compound of the formula —CHO, —CO2R, —COR, or —OR, where R is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl substituent, and wherein the molar ratio of promoter to methanol is maintained at less than 1.

Abstract: A process for dehydrating methanol to dimethyl ether product in the presence of a catalyst and a promoter, wherein the catalyst is at least one aluminosilicate zeolite, wherein: —the aluminosilicate zeolite is selected from: (i) a zeolite having a 2-dimensional framework structure comprising at least one channel having a 10-membered ring, and having a maximum free sphere diameter of at least 4.

Abstract: A notification center system receives a message from a message source, the message comprising a message body, the message body comprising parameter-value pairs. The notification center system processes the message body to obtain a contextual string from the parameter-value pairs, appends a source identifier to the message, the source identifier identifying the message source, and stores the message appended with the source identifier in a platform-neutral format in a message store. Utilizing the contextual string, the message is then grouped, with other message(s) or by itself, with a message thread. The message is provided to a delivery mechanism for presentation of the message under the message thread. Content-aware contextual visual indicators may be determined for the message thread and the message based on different orders of specificity. The message thread and the message can then be displayed with their corresponding content-aware contextual visual indicators to provide additional insights.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally comprises the steps of receiving resource distribution machine data from a population of resource distribution machines; continuously monitoring the resource distribution machine data and determining a statistical performance baseline for the population of resource distribution machines; isolating a subset of resource distribution machines of the population of resource distribution machines and deploy a pilot change to the subset of resource distribution machines; continuously monitoring resource distribution machine data of the subset of resource distribution machines post-deployment of the pilot change and compare the resource distribution machine data to the statistical performance baseline; identifying one or more deviations from the statistical performance baseline; generating one or more visual depictions of the one or more deviations; and automatically transmitting the one or more visual depictions to one or more user computing devices for display via a gr

Abstract: A notification center system receives a message from a message source, the message comprising a message body, the message body comprising parameter-value pairs. The notification center system processes the message body to obtain a contextual string from the parameter-value pairs, appends a source identifier to the message, the source identifier identifying the message source, and stores the message appended with the source identifier in a platform-neutral format in a message store. Utilizing the contextual string, the message is then grouped, with other message(s) or by itself, with a message thread. The message is provided to a delivery mechanism for presentation of the message under the message thread. Content-aware contextual visual indicators may be determined for the message thread and the message based on different orders of specificity. The message thread and the message can then be displayed with their corresponding content-aware contextual visual indicators to provide additional insights.

Abstract: A robotic process automation system includes a server processor that performs an automation task to process a work item, by initiating a java virtual machine on a second device. A first user session that employs credentials of a first user for managing execution of the automation task is also initiated on the second device. The server processor loads into the java virtual machine, with a platform class loader, one or more modules, such as logging and security, that perform functions common to the sets of task processing instructions. A first class loader a first set of task processing instructions is also loaded. Then each instruction in the first set of task processing instructions is loaded with a separate class loader. The server processor causes execution, under control of the first user session, on the second device, the task processing instructions that correspond to the work item.

Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches a method for customers of an organization to perform configuration at runtime for authentication journeys used by the customer's users, to simplify authentication trees, and to delegate configuration to the customer's administrators, wherein an authentication tree implements an authentication journey, the authentication tree including authentication nodes and edges connecting the authentication nodes. The method includes configuring an editable script and an authentication node used in the authentication tree in response to a user invocation of the authentication journey by executing a factory method that applies configuration parameters to the editable script and to parameters used to access an API.

Abstract: Computerized RPA methods and systems that increase the flexibility and lower the cost with which RPA systems may be deployed are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an RPA system and method avoids the need for preinstalled RPA software on a device employed by a user to create and/or execute software robots to perform RPA. In another embodiment, an RPA system and method provides a capability to execute software robots that may have been encoded in one or more programming languages to execute on an operating system different than that employed by a server of the RPA system.

Abstract: A notification center system receives a message from a message source, the message comprising a message body, the message body comprising parameter-value pairs. The notification center system processes the message body to obtain a contextual string from the parameter-value pairs, appends a source identifier to the message, the source identifier identifying the message source, and stores the message appended with the source identifier in a platform-neutral format in a message store. Utilizing the contextual string, the message is then grouped, with other message(s) or by itself, with a message thread. The message is provided to a delivery mechanism for presentation of the message under the message thread. Content-aware contextual visual indicators may be determined for the message thread and the message based on different orders of specificity. The message thread and the message can then be displayed with their corresponding content-aware contextual visual indicators to provide additional insights.

Abstract: Computerized robotic process automation (RPA) methods and systems that increase the flexibility and lower the cost with which RPA systems may be deployed are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an RPA system and method avoids the need for preinstalled RPA software on a device employed by a user to create and/or execute software robots to perform RPA. In another embodiment, an RPA system and method provides a capability to execute software robots that may have been encoded in one or more programming languages to execute on an operating system different than that employed by a server of the RPA system.

Abstract: A robotic process automation system employs centralized compilation to generate a platform independent executable version of a bot, which is encoded to perform user level operations. The system employs an extensible set of commands which can be user generated. The bots execute on devices that are separate and independent from a server processor that controls the system. The devices execute bots in an execution environment that is provided by the server processor. Change in a command in a bot requires recompilation of the bot which is then delivered upon request to a device. The execution environment does not require recompilation upon a change in a command.

Abstract: Computerized RPA methods and systems that increase the flexibility and lower the cost with which RPA systems may be deployed are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an RPA system and method avoids the need for preinstalled RPA software on a device employed by a user to create and/or execute software robots to perform RPA. In another embodiment, an RPA system and method provides a capability to execute software robots that may have been encoded in one or more programming languages to execute on an operating system different than that employed by a server of the RPA system.

Abstract: A plain bearing includes a metal outer ring having an inner surface and a metal inner ring having an outer surface configured to cooperate with the inner surface of the outer ring to permit relative movement of the inner and outer rings. At least the outer surface of the inner ring is provided with a plasma electrolytic oxidation coating and/or at least the inner surface of the outer ring is provided with a plasma electrolytic oxidation coating.

Abstract: A plain bearing includes an outer ring having an inner surface and an inner ring having an outer surface in contact with the inner surface of the outer ring. The inner ring is configured to cooperate with the outer ring to permit relative movement, and the inner ring or the outer ring or the inner ring and the outer ring is made of a metal matrix composite material.

Abstract: A process the dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether in the presence of a solid Brønsted acid catalyst selected from aluminosilicate zeolites which have a maximum free sphere diameter of greater than 3.67 Angstroms and heteropolyacids and a promoter selected from methyl formate, dimethyl oxalate and dimethyl malonate and the molar ratio of promoter to methanol is maintained at less than 1.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of ethylene by the dehydration of ethanol in the presence of a zeolite catalyst having the MOR framework code, wherein the process is operated at a temperature in the range of from 100° C. to 300° C., for example from 140° C. to 270° C., such as from 150° C. to 250° C., and wherein the zeolite catalyst having the MOR framework code has been modified by the adsorption of an optionally substituted pyridine compound.