Abstract: Polymerizable dental compositions comprising a redox initiator system is disclosed. The redox initiator system comprises a photolabile transition metal complex that photolyzes and initiates the redox cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pressure monitoring system for a patient that may include a measurement site, a tube, and a pressure transducer, in which, the tube is coupled between the measurement site of the patient and the pressure transducer and the tube contains a fluid for pressure measurement by the pressure transducer from the measurement site. The tube may comprise: a first tubing portion that includes an outer diameter and a plurality of inner diameters and that has a first tensile modulus, in which, the plurality of inner diameters of the first tubing portion form a plurality of fluid paths to contain the fluid; and, a second tubing portion, in which, the first and second tubing portions are coupled together to form the tube and the second tubing portion extends longitudinally with the first tubing portion in a continuous or intermittent manner.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for memory repair for a memory device are described. An example apparatus includes: a data input/output circuit that provides data via a plurality of data signal lines; memory cell arrays; an ECC/Parity redundancy array; and a redundancy circuit coupled to the plurality of data signal lines. The redundancy circuit includes an error correction block that generates error correction information based on the data and provides the error correction information to the ECC/Parity redundancy array. If during test it is determined that a failure is not repairable by standard redundancy including error correction code, the error correction parity array is not needed and can be redirected by a block repair circuit. The error correction circuit can now have its functionality changed to allow the error correction array to become a block repair.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, via a processor, a three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) data associated with a 3D CAD model, receiving, via the processor, a product and manufacturing information (PMI) data associated with the 3D CAD data, and receiving, via the processor, user input. The method also includes deriving, via the processor, a view of the 3D CAD data based on the received PMI data and the received user input.

Abstract: An impact-driven apparatus and method to achieve triboluminescence of homochiral API crystals as a measurement tool for rapidly assessing the presence of trace crystallinity within nominally amorphous pharmaceutical powders. The apparatus may include a kinetic energy director and two plates which hold a sample for testing. The triboluminescence may also be achieve by an acoustic transducer.

Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit including an air inlet, a plurality of air outlets, a heater, and a plurality of blowers. The plurality of blowers are downstream of the heater with respect to a direction of airflow through the HVAC unit from the air inlet to the plurality of air outlets. The plurality of blowers are configured to control air distribution through the plurality of air outlets.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage platform includes data storage assemblies each comprising one or more storage drives that service data storage operations over associated storage interfaces. A control processor is coupled to ones of the data storage assemblies over at least two types of sideband communication interfaces different than the storage interfaces of the storage drives. During an initialization process for the one or more storage drives, the control processor configured to transfer initialization data to each of the data storage assemblies over a first type of sideband communication interface and transfer further initialization data to at least one of the data storage assemblies over a second type of sideband communication interface when the at least one of the data storage assemblies does not respond to the initialization data over the first type of sideband communication interface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a culture device for enumerating colonies of microorganisms. The device can comprise a base, a coversheet, and a nonporous spacer member disposed therebetween. The spacer member comprises an aperture that defines a growth compartment. Disposed in the growth compartment are a cold water-soluble gelling agent, a dry oxygen-scavenging reagent, a dry buffer system, and an effective amount of a dry carbon dioxide-generating reagent. The buffer system is selected such that, when the growth compartment is hydrated with a predetermined volume of deionized water, an aqueous mixture with a pH less than or equal to 6.35 is formed.

Abstract: A damped propshaft assembly with a hollow shaft and a tuned damper, which is received in the hollow shaft and includes a liner and a damping member. The liner's mass and stiffness are tuned to attenuate one or more of a bending mode vibration and a torsion mode vibration that occurs at a first predetermined frequency. The liner is not configured to substantially damp shell mode vibration that occurs at a frequency that is not equal to the first predetermined frequency. The damping member is coupled to the liner and is configured to primarily attenuate shell mode vibration in the hollow shaft at one or more desired frequencies. The tuned damper attenuates the at least one of the bending moment vibration and the torsion mode vibration at the first predetermined frequency and also attenuates shell mode vibration. A method for forming a damped propshaft assembly is also provided.

Abstract: The disclosed system continuously refines a model used by an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to enable fast and accurate transcriptions of detected speech activity. The ASR system analyzes speech activity to generate text transcriptions and associated metrics (such as minimum Bayes risk and/or perplexity) that correspond to the quality of or confidence in each generated transcription. The system employs a filtering process to select certain text transcriptions based in part on one or more associated quality metrics. In addition, the system corrects for known systemic errors within the ASR system and provides a mechanism for manual review and correction of transcriptions. The system selects a subset of transcriptions based on factors including confidence score, and uses the selected subset of transcriptions to re-train the ASR model. By continuously retraining the ASR model, the system is able to provide ever faster and more accurate text transcriptions of detected speech activity.

Abstract: Polymerizable compositions comprising a redox initiator system is disclosed. The redox initiator system comprises a photolabile transition metal complex that photolyzes and initiates the redox cycle. Dental compositions comprising dental resins and the photolabile redox initiator system are also described.

Abstract: System, method, and computer program product to implement four factor authentication rule-based intelligent bank cards, by receiving valid authentication information for a card associated with an account, capturing an image of a person presenting the card, applying an algorithm to the image to determine that the image capture was successful, and the image can be used by a facial recognition algorithm, verifying that the image matches an image of an authorized user of the account, analyzing image data of the image with a facial emotion recognition algorithm to detect an emotion expressed by the person in the image, identifying an emotion rule associated with the account and the emotion, providing, by the processor, an alert to a person associated with the account, wherein the alert is specified as part of the emotion rule, and restricting access to the account.

Abstract: An illumination assembly includes a light pipe and a light engine. The light pipe has a first edge portion including a light inlet, a first surface including a first light outlet, and a second edge portion including a second light outlet. The light engine is attached to the first edge portion and includes a light source adapted to direct light into the light inlet, whereby light subsequently exits the light pipe through the first light outlet and the second light outlet. The illumination assembly can be used as part of an illuminated sign assembly to provide backlighting and downlighting.

Abstract: A technique includes receiving issue data, which represents an issue identified by a security scan of an application and attributes of the issue. The technique includes applying a machine classifier to the issue data to prioritize the issue; based at least in part on a human audit of the classified data, generating additional issue data representing a priority correction for the issue; and retraining the classifier based on the additional issue data.

Abstract: A stand-alone apparatus for cutting a web of media or tag stock into individual units for use downstream of a printer. The apparatus may cut vinyl, plastic, or RFID stock material in both back and forth directions. The apparatus comprises a housing, a carriage assembly and a movable cutter assembly. The cutter assembly is easily interchangeable and comprises a cutting element such as a wheel blade, and a pressure adjusting element for adjusting the amount of pressure applied by the cutting element to the stock material. Alternatively, the cutter assembly may be manufactured with a predetermined pressure load, but still permit an operator to adjust the depth of cut. The apparatus may be powered by and or in hardline or wireless communication with a printer, or may further comprise a computer microprocessor, memory and user interface to function wholly independent from a printer.

Abstract: Optical measurement of physiological parameters with wearable devices often includes measuring signals in the presence of significant noise sources. These noise sources include, but are not limited to, noise associated with: variable optical coupling to skin or tissue, variations in tissue optical properties with time due to changes in humidity, temperature, hydration, variations in tissue optical properties between individuals, variable coupling of ambient light sources into detectors, and instrument and detector noise, including electrical noise, radio frequency or magnetic interference, or noise caused by mechanical movement of the detector or its components. The present disclosure includes devices and methods configured to produce representations of the raw data in which noise, broadly defined, is separated from the data of interest. The disclosed devices and methods may include subtracting or calibrating out these noise sources and other spurious fluctuations in wearable devices with optical sensors.

Abstract: A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium comprising instructions configured to cause a processor to access data related to one or more views of a computer-aided design (CAD) model. The instructions are also configured to cause the processor to derive a graph based on the accessed data. The graph includes one or more graph elements. Additionally, the instructions are also configured to cause the processor to receive user input indicative of a request to manipulate a graph element of the one or more graph elements and derive a new view of the CAD model based on the user input.

Abstract: A method for separating particles in a biofluid includes pretreating the biofluid by introducing an additive, flowing the pretreated biofluid through a microfluidic separation channel, and applying acoustic energy to the microfluidic separation channel. A system for microfluidic separation, capable of separating target particles from non-target particles in a biofluid includes at least one microfluidic separation channel, a source of biofluid, a source of additive, and at least one acoustic transducer coupled to the microfluidic separation channel. A kit for microfluidic particle separation includes a microfluidic separation channel connected to an acoustic transducer, a source of an additive, and instructions for use.

Abstract: A method for distributed monitoring of storage units of a dispersed storage network (DSN) including a plurality of sets of storage units. A managing unit of the DSN obtains configuration information relating to the DSN storage resources and selects a target storage unit to be monitored. The managing unit also determines a number of other storage units to be used in monitoring the target storage unit. Selection of the monitoring storage units includes determining, for each of a plurality of storage units of the DSN, an estimated failure correlation level with the target storage unit. Based at least in part on this information, the determined number of storage units are selected and assigned to monitor the target storage unit. The managing unit subsequently receives status information, relating to the target storage unit, from the monitoring storage units.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for sending notifications includes accessing a data set, with each data being associated with a first user and including (1) a first action, first state, and first reward that are associated with a first time period, and (2) a second action and second state that are associated with a second time period. The data set may be used to train a recurrent machine-learning model configured to take as inputs a state and action associated with a user and a time period, and predict a cumulative reward over multiple time periods. The cumulative reward may be recurrently defined based on an application of the recurrent machine-learning model to the user's subsequent state and action. The trained model may be used to predict whether sending a notification to a target user is justified based on a predicted cumulative reward.