Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices allow intravascular or percutaneous mapping, orientation and/or ablation, in bodily cavities or lumens. A device includes elongate members, moveable between an unexpanded configuration and an expanded or fanned configuration. The elongate members form a stack in the unexpanded configuration to fit through a catheter sheath. The elongate members follow respective arcuate or curvilinear paths as advanced from the sheath into the bent or coiled stack configuration, adopting volute, scroll or rho shapes, and may be nested. The elongated members are fanned or radially spaced circumferentially with respect to one another into the expanded or fanned configuration. Transducer elements carried by elongate members sense various physiological characteristics of or proximate tissue, and/or may apply energy to or proximate tissue. The elongate members are rotatable in groups or as a group in the expanded configuration. The device is retractable.

Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a raw wastewater feed stream using a low energy ejector, which works as a heat pump to increase the pressure and temperature of a two-phase distillate stream used, in part, to heat the raw wastewater feed stream. The systems and methods utilize heat from a liquid distillate stream and a concentrated liquid wastewater stream to pre-heat the raw wastewater feed stream and produce a liquid distillate product stream.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may communicate with at least one user equipment (UE), wherein a blocking object is disposed between the network node and the at least one UE, the blocking object comprising at least one transmissive surface configured to refract incident beams. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor having processing resources with configurable thread and register configurations. Program code can configure a number of registers and accumulators that will be used by hardware threads during execution of the program code by the graphics processor. Processing resources within the graphics processor can be configured to assign different numbers of registers and accumulators to hardware threads based on the configuration requested by program code to be executed by the processing resource.

Abstract: A welding device includes a thin film and an ultrasonic welding machine including an ultrasonic welding head welding a first component and a second component of a product together. The thin film is pressed against the product by the ultrasonic welding head and covers a welding area and a non-welding area of the product. The thin film absorbs a vibration energy located in the non-welding area to prevent the vibration energy from being concentrated in the welding area of the product.

Abstract: A method is described for performing a wipe-out and verification of a plurality of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells. The method includes performing an operation to set all the plurality of NVM cells to a single state. The single state may be one of a conducing or non-conducting state depending on the NVM architecture. After the operation to set the cells to the single state is complete, the verification is performed. In the verification operation, all cells of the plurality of NVM cells are set to the single state by performing a single read operation on the plurality of NVM cells. Detection of one of a conducting or non-conducting path through the plurality of NVM cells is used to verify if all cells of the NVM array had their contents wiped out. A notification is provided in response to all cells not being set to the single known state.

Abstract: The present application provides a liquid fuel flushing circuit for a turbine engine with a flow of liquid fuel. The liquid fuel flushing circuit includes a liquid fuel boost skid in communication with the turbine engine and a liquid fuel flushing skid in communication with the turbine engine. The liquid fuel boost skid and the liquid fuel flushing skid include a recirculation loop for the flow of liquid fuel.

Abstract: Aptamers, biosensors and aptamer-based biosensors for monitoring cortisol and other hormones are provided. Methods of optimizing aptamers for biosensing applications are also provided. Aptamers have been optimized to undergo a conformational change when binding, or unbinding, cortisol at physiologically relevant concentrations. These aptamers can be incorporated into aptamer-based sensors for real-time, continuous monitoring of cortisol.

Abstract: A process for obtaining chemical building blocks from fabric material containing cellulose fibres such as cotton, as well as polyester fibre material, polyethylene or polypropylene fibre material, polyamide fibre material, or elastane fibre material. Said process comprises hydrolysing cellulose by a process that does not affect polyester, the polyolefins, polyamide fibre material, or elastane fibre material, and converting the hydrolysed cellulose into a useful chemical building block.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for detection and remediation of an identified attempt of impersonation of a digital entity. The methods may include authenticating a call received by a user device. The methods may include instantiating an entity-operated application on the user device. The methods may include detecting one or more keywords indicating that the call is associated with a predefined entity. The methods may include generating and transmitting a one-time token to the predefined entity. The methods may include identifying, during the call, a first voice and a second voice, the second voice being different from the first voice. The methods may include processing words identified as being uttered by the second voice into groups of text utterances using a natural language processing (“NLP”) model. The methods may include detecting, during a predetermined time period, if any text utterances from the groups of text utterances correspond to the one-time token.

Abstract: This application is directed to controlling data timing in a memory system. The memory system includes a controller, a memory module, and an input data bus coupled between the memory controller and the memory module. The memory system transmits a data signal and a strobe signal via the input data bus from the memory controller to the memory module, and the data signal includes a train of serial input data. The memory system determines a skew time of the data signal with respect to the strobe signal, and generates a skew signal including a train of serial skew data based on the skew time of the data signal. The skew signal is transmitted from the memory module to the memory controller via a dedicated sideband bus that is distinct from the input data bus.

Abstract: A low profile design air tunnel system and method for providing uniform air flow in a refractance window dryer are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a conditioned air supply manifold that provides air into a drying chamber. The system has a drying belt directed through the drying chamber. A feed application tray at a first end of the drying belt applies a liquid to the drying belt. The system has an exhaust manifold located at the first end of the drying belt.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices allow intravascular or percutaneous mapping, orientation and/or ablation, in bodily cavities or lumens. A device includes elongate members, moveable between an unexpanded configuration and an expanded or fanned configuration. The elongate members form a stack in the unexpanded configuration to fit through a catheter sheath. The elongate members follow respective arcuate or curvilinear paths as advanced from the sheath into the bent or coiled stack configuration, adopting volute, scroll or rho shapes, and may be nested. The elongated members are fanned or radially spaced circumferentially with respect to one another into the expanded or fanned configuration. Transducer elements carried by elongate members sense various physiological characteristics of or proximate tissue, and/or may apply energy to or proximate tissue. The elongate members are rotatable in groups or as a group in the expanded configuration. The device is retractable.

Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating a customer during payment transactions based on biometric identification parameters of the customer that includes receiving image data associated with an image template for identification of a customer, receiving image data associated with an image of a biometric identification parameter of the customer during a payment transaction between the customer and a merchant, establishing a short-range communication connection with a user device associated with the customer during the payment transaction between the customer and the merchant, authenticating an identity of the customer for the payment transaction via the short-range communication connection, determining an account identifier of an account of the customer based on authenticating the identity of the customer for the payment transaction, and processing the payment transaction using the account identifier of the account of the customer. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for building a fuselage assembly for an aircraft. A number of fixtures may be drive across a floor to an assembly area to form an assembly fixture. The fuselage assembly may be built on the assembly fixture.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for detection of anomalous behavior on online platforms using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example method includes obtaining a set of machine learning models configured to detect anomalous behavior associated with users interacting with an online platform and performing an incremental machine learning process on one or more of the machine learning models in the set. The incremental machine learning process may include obtaining data related to interactions of users with the online platform, updating at least one of the machine learning models in the set based on the obtained data, comparing the machine learning models, and selecting one of the machine learning models from the set to be used by the online platform based on the comparison. The method may further include determining, utilizing the selected machine learning model, that a given user is exhibiting anomalous behavior on the online platform.

Abstract: A distributed data collection architecture for a PET system includes a plurality of data collection boards, wherein each data collection board is coupled to a respective gantry segment of the PET system. The PET system includes a modular gantry having a plurality of gantry segments that are physically separate from each other, and each gantry segment includes a plurality of detector modules coupled to a respective data collection board. Each respective data collection board is configured to acquire all detector event data from a respective plurality of detector modules of the respective gantry segment the respective data collection board is coupled to. Only one data collection board of the plurality of data collection boards is configured to act as a master data collection board that collects all of the detector event data from each data collection board and to generate coincidence pairs from all of the detector event data.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate graphics rendering is disclosed. The apparatus comprises sequencer hardware to operate in a tile mode to render objects, including performing batch formation to generate one or more batches of received objects, performing tile sequencing for each of the objects to compute tile fill intersects for each of the objects and performing a play sequencing of each of the objects.

Abstract: The present invention falls within the scope of thermo-laminated and compact high-pressure composites, namely it relates to a method for the manufacture of a post-deformable high-pressure composite, which can be used in the automotive, aircraft, railway and naval industries, as well as in the architecture and design sector, both in indoor and outdoor environments, comprising the steps of formation of a composite (1) by the arrangement of at least two layers of material, including a layer of Kraft paper sheets (3) coated with thermoplastic resin and a layer of decorative coating; the composite formed in a flat shape, when subjected to a certain temperature and pressure in a mould (4), changes in its geometry according to the shape of that mould (4). It is also an object of this invention the product obtained with the aforementioned manufacturing method.