Abstract: The present invention provides a moisture reduction roller conveyor system (100, 200, 301) and method comprising a continuous carry belt (105, 205, 308) to carry a bulk material and an oscillatory motion assembly (110, 210, 320) operatively connected and configured to induce oscillatory motion of the belt that is transmitted to the bulk material. The oscillatory motion assembly (110) is operatively connected to the frame to induce the oscillatory motion. Alternatively, the oscillatory motion assembly has idler rollers (210a, 210b, 210c) that are offset or eccentric to one another to induce the oscillatory motion. A different oscillatory motion assembly comprises a carriage body (325) for supporting the belt (308) and wheels (340, 345) for engaging a rail track (302). The wheels (340, 345) are configured to induce the oscillatory motion, preferably by periodically lifting one end (360) of the carriage body from the rail track as the carriage moves.

Abstract: A method and model for sustainable leadership development, premised on the sustainable-unsustainable leadership theory (SULT) is set forth herein to intervene in the phenomenon of leadership failure and associated crises. Empirical evidence of leadership failure longitudinally, demonstrated a need for a paradigm shift for leadership. Unnecessary war-related deaths and expenditures, scandals, and other harms to people are unsustainable. The method and model supported by leadership's grand theory, is underpinned by a 3-year exploratory sequential mixed methods study. A theory emerged during theoretical sampling and constant comparative analysis of interviews from six continents, giving rise to the aphorism “leadership in the absence of moral action is unsustainable.” Random sampling from 2,523 global cases, analyzing 2,191 in a quantitative phase, showed statistically significant association between unethical leadership action (ULA) and unsustainable leadership outcomes (ULO), ?2 (1, N=2,191)=119.643, p<0.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for testing reuse across protolane families. For example, the method includes comparing a first protolane level flowchart to a second protolane level flowchart to determine a common graph corresponding to a portion of the first protolane level flowchart and a portion of the second protolane level flowchart. A first protolane corresponding to the first protolane level flowchart and a second protolane corresponding to the second protolane level flowchart within a protolane family are grouped based on the common graph, wherein a test directed to conditions of the common graph is applicable to the portion of the first protolane level flowchart and the portion of the second protolane level flowchart.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for testing autonomous vehicle intent using protolanes. For example, the method includes selecting a first lane segment of a roadway within a geonet, wherein the geonet comprises a plurality of lane segments. It is determined that the first lane segment corresponds to a protolane of a set of protolanes, wherein the protolane is associated with one or more additional lane segments of the plurality of lane segments. The protolane is associated with the first lane segment based on the determination that the first lane segment corresponds to the protolane.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for validating protolanes. For example, the method includes determining a protolane level flowchart from one or more flowcharts corresponding to one or more gates of a protolane selected from a set of protolanes of a geonet, wherein the one or more flowcharts correspond to conditions that can be encountered by an actor approaching the corresponding one or more gates, and wherein the geonet comprises a plurality of lane segments associated with the set of protolanes. A graph through the protolane level flowchart is generated that corresponds to actions of an actor. Reasoning of the actor is validated by testing the actions of the actor against the graph through the protolane level flowchart.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for clustering lane segments of a roadway in order to improve and simplify autonomous vehicle behavior testing. The approaches disclosed herein provide a hybrid methodology of dividing lane segments into hard features and soft features, and using a metric learning model trained in a supervised process on the entirety of lane segment features to cluster the lane segments based on the soft features. These clustered lane segments can then be assigned to what is termed as protolanes, where a single set of tests applied to a given protolane is considered valid across all of the lane segments assigned to the protolane.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for measuring velocity of an object detected by a light detection and ranging (lidar) system. According to some aspects a method may include receiving a lidar dataset generated by the lidar system, transforming the lidar dataset into a first layer dataset and a second layer dataset, and converting the first layer dataset into a first image and the second layer dataset into a second image. The method may also include performing a feature detection operation that identifies at least one feature in the first image and the same feature in the second image, locating a first location of the feature in the first image and a second location of the feature in the second image, and generating a velocity estimate of the feature based on a difference between the first location and the second location and a difference between the different time intervals.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, comprising: training, using deep imitation learning, a neural network associated with a predetermined ghosting model to predict player movements for at least one player during at least one sequence in a game; receiving, at an information handling device, tracking data associated with a player movement path for at least one player during the at least one sequence; analyzing, using a processor, the tracking data to determine at least one feature associated with the at least one player at a plurality of predetermined time points during the at least one sequence; and determining, using the predetermined ghosting model and the at least one feature, a ghosted movement path for the at least one player beginning from one of the plurality of predetermined time points. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a hanger, system and method.

Abstract: A hanger system may include a hanger bracket arm and a hanger bracket leg in fixed relationship. The hanger bracket arm and hanger bracket leg each include a front surface and a rear surface. The hanger bracket arm and the hanger bracket leg may be formed as a single unit. At least a portion of the rear surface of the hanger bracket arm may be coextensive with at least a portion of the rear surface of the hanger bracket leg. The hanger bracket arm upper edge may comprise a first stop at a distal end and a second stop at a proximal end. At least a portion of the front surface of the hanger bracket arm may be coextensive with at least a portion of the front surface of the hanger bracket leg.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and devices for monitoring e.g., fatigue levels by measuring a subject's body core temperature. In one embodiment, microwave radiometry is used to measure such core temperature.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and devices for monitoring e.g., fatigue levels by measuring a subject's body core temperature. In one embodiment, microwave radiometry is used to measure such core temperature.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlled tissue ablation includes an elongated relatively flexible antenna with a first, strip-like, conductor having opposite faces and proximal and distal ends, a dielectric spacer covering one face of the first conductor, and a second, serpentine, conductor composed of a series of similar segments positioned flush against the spacer and being coextensive lengthwise with the first conductor. The second conductor has a distal end connected to the distal end of the first conductor and a proximal end. An electrically insulating enclosure surrounds the conductors. The proximal ends of the first and second conductors may be connected via a coaxial cable to a remote microwave transmitter/receiver unit.

Abstract: Apparatus for detecting vulnerable plaques embedded in the wall of a patient's blood vessel includes an intravascular catheter containing a microwave antenna, an extracorporeal radiometer having a signal input, a reference input and an output, a cable for electrically connecting the antenna to the signal input, and a device for applying an indication of the patient's normal tissue temperature to the reference input so that when the catheter is moved along the vessel, the locations of the vulnerable plaques are reflected in a signal from the output as thermal anomalies due to the higher emissivity of the vulnerable plaques as compared to the normal tissue. A second embodiment of the apparatus has two coaxial antennas in the catheter serving two radiometers. One measures the temperature at locations in the vessel wall, the other measures the temperature at the surface. By subtracting the two signals, the locations of vulnerable plaque may be visualized.

Abstract: The present technique utilizes microwave radiometry to detect the presence of vulnerable plaques engrained in the wall of a blood vessel. In accordance with the technique, an intravascular catheter containing at least one microwave antenna is moved along the suspect vessel. The antenna, in combination with an external microwave detection and display unit, is able to detect and display thermal anomalies due to the difference in the thermal emissivity (brightness) of vulnerable plaques as compared to normal tissue even though the two may have a common temperature.

Abstract: A Crank Bait Fishing Lure that has a predictable wobble or action. A fishing lure made from a blank of rigid material and formed to provide a predictable wobble or action in an arch or approximately 180°, having a front end and a tail end. The front end has an eylet to which a line is attached, and the tail end has an eyelet to which a hook is attached. A lure, with appendages, which is shaped to have a center of gravity that causes a wobble from left to right and from right to left, while maintaining a horizontal attitude when drawn or dropped through water, thus allowing a lure to maintain an upright attitude. The transverse bend which characterizes this shape is placed nearer the front of the lure and it's depth is approximately one third of the overall length of the lure. The degree of bend to the front end of a lure will effect the depth at which a lure will travel as it is drawn through water. Change in the elevation or plane at the tail end will alter the wobble or action slightly.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cancerous tumor detection employing a plurality of microwave antennae supported in an array conforming substantially in size to the breast that is being screened. In one embodiment of the invention a single array is used and another embodiment for larger breasts a pair of arrays are used. A microwave radiometer is used for detecting temperature readings corresponding respectively to the breast temperature at sites underlying the receiving antennae. Also, in accordance with the invention compression is employed so as to reduce tissue thickness enabling far more rapid reading of antenna sites.

Abstract: A coaxial connector having a pair of members, each of substantially the same construction, and each including means at an outer side thereof for receiving a first coax cable and means at an inner side thereof defining a section of waveguide. In each member there is a transition means that intercouples the coax cable and the section of waveguide. The pair of members are supported together by a support means and there is further provided alignment means for holding the sections of waveguide in alignment.