Abstract: The techniques and circuits, described herein, include solutions for auto-zeroing in auto-zero amplifiers in the presence of high frequency alternating current (AC) noise. In some aspects, first and second inputs of an auto-zero amplifier are coupled to a differential voltage with high AC noise. During an auto-zero phase, a first switching network decouples the inputs of a first amplifier, comprised within the auto-zero amplifier, from the differential voltage with high AC noise. In some examples, the inputs of the first amplifier may be connected to a regulated direct current (DC) voltage. The regulated DC voltage provides a more accurate auto-zero for the auto-zero amplifier, such that higher overall accuracy is achieved during an operation phase.

Abstract: The disclosure provides systems, devices, and associated methods for mitigating traumatic brain injury, injury to an ocular structure, or injury to the inner ear of a subject by applying pressure to one or more neck veins before and during an injurious event.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants and other organisms that exhibit increased production of mogroside compounds, in particular mogroside V, and the mogroside compounds, plants and plant parts so produced.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a vehicle pedal assembly and an inductive sensor assembly thereof. The inductive sensor assembly includes a rotary inductive sensor target and a printed circuit board (PCB) positioned opposite the rotary inductive sensor target. The inductive sensor assembly includes a first inductive sensor circuit defined on the PCB. The first inductive sensor circuit includes a first coil circuit including a first coil having a first electrical current in a first flow direction and a second electrical coil having a second current in a second flow direction opposite to the first flow direction. The first inductive sensor circuit is configured such that a rotation of the rotary inductive sensor target induces a change in the first electrical current and the second electrical current within the first coil and the second coil.

Abstract: Direct Image Lookup (DIL) metadata is used to perform differential operation for snapshots and linked targets. Each snapshot contains metadata to store “images” to perform direct lookup of user data for any part of any snapshot in the system. Metadata pages of DIL image data represent sets of tracks of data. Metadata pages of subsequent snapshots for the same sets of tracks are compared, and where there are no changes to a given metadata page for a given set of tracks between subsequent snapshot copies, the differential process is not run on the tracks associated with the metadata page. If a given metadata page associated with a set of tracks has changed between subsequent snapshots, the differential process is used to identify which tracks in the subsequent snapshot contain different data than the corresponding tracks of the previous snapshot. Similar differential processing also is implemented for relinked target devices.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an blocking delivery service is provided. The service may use an identifier of a source end device, destination address information associated with a destination end device, and configurable criteria as a basis to block delivery of application service layer data. The service may be configured to apply to end devices based on an addressing scheme of the service. The service may be configured on a network device that provides an application service. The service may block delivery without the use of class of service or subscriber provisioning.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I: or a co-crystal, solvate, salt or combination thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a reflective optical element arranged in the vacuum chamber and configured to reflect an extreme ultra-violet (EUV) light, and a cleaning module positioned in the vacuum chamber. the cleaning module is operable to provide a mitigation gas flowing towards the reflective optical element and provide a hydrogen-containing gas flowing towards the reflective optical element. The mitigation gas mitigates, by chemical reaction, contamination of the reflective optical element.

Abstract: A sole board for an article of footwear includes a plate that has a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region. The sole board includes a channel disposed in a top surface of the plate in the forefoot region. The channel extends from a lateral edge of the plate to a medial edge of the plate. A characteristic of the channel at the lateral and medial edges of the plate is different than the characteristic of the channel at a middle of the channel.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first superconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a second superconductor layer, wherein the second superconductor layer is a spin triplet superconductor (STS) layer. In some embodiments, the first superconductor layer is also a STS layer. In some embodiments, the second superconductor layer includes UCoGe. In some embodiments, the insulating layer includes uranium oxide. In some embodiments, the uranium oxide is created by exposing the second superconductor layer to an oxidizing gas, with or without heating. In some embodiments, the first superconductor layer, the insulating layer and the second superconductor layer form a Josephson junction.

Abstract: A lithography system includes a first load lock chamber configured to receive a mask, a cleaning module configured to clean the mask, a second load lock chamber configured to receive a wafer, an exposure module configured to expose the wafer to a light source through use of the cleaned mask. A direct path is provided between the first load lock chamber and the exposure module allowing the first load lock chamber to directly couple to the exposure module without through the cleaning module.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a reflective optical element arranged in the vacuum chamber and configured to reflect an extreme ultra-violet (EUV) light, and a cleaning module positioned in the vacuum chamber. the cleaning module is operable to provide a mitigation gas flowing towards the reflective optical element and provide a hydrogen-containing gas flowing towards the reflective optical element. The mitigation gas mitigates, by chemical reaction, contamination of the reflective optical element.

Abstract: System and method for relation extraction using adaptive thresholding and localized context pooling (ATLOP). The system includes a computing device, the computing device has a processer and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code is configured to provide a document; embed entities in the document into embedding vectors; and predict relations between a pair of entities in the document using their embedding vectors. The relation prediction is performed based on an improved language model. Each relation has an adaptive threshold, and the relation between the pair of entities is determined to exist when a logit of the relation between the pair of entities is greater than a logit function of the corresponding adaptive threshold.

Abstract: Described herein are new solid oxide fuel cell interconnects and methods for making same that may comprise a novel bilayer construct on an anode substrate to provide a dense microstructure, low area specific resistance, and negligible oxygen permeability to form a bilayer ceramic interconnect that is a strong candidate for next-generation, durable, and low-cost tubular solid oxide fuel cells.

Abstract: System and method multitask prediction. The system include a computing device. The computing device has a processer and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code is configured to: provide a head entity and a document containing the head entity; process the head entity and the document by a language model to obtain head extraction corresponding to the head entity, tail extractions corresponding to tail entities in the document, and sentence extraction corresponding to sentences in the document; predict a head-tail relation between the head extraction and the tail extractions using a first bilinear layer; combine the sentence extraction and a relation vector corresponding to the predicted head-tail relation using a second bilinear layer to obtain a sentence-relation combination; and predict an evidence sentence supporting the head-tail relation using a third bilinear layer based on the sentence-relation combination and attention extracted from the language model.

Abstract: In general, the present disclosure is directed to methods for synthesizing vanadium oxide nanobelts, as well as the corresponding chemical composition of the vanadium oxide nanobelts. Also described are materials which can incorporate the vanadium oxide nanobelts, such as including the vanadium oxide nanobelts as a cathode material for use in energy storage applications (e.g., batteries). The vanadium oxide nanobelts described herein display structural characteristics that may provide improved diffusion and/or charge transfer between ions. Thus, batteries incorporating implementations of the current disclosure may demonstrate improved properties such as higher capacity retention over charge discharge cycling.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are neuronal cell activity reporter systems including a Secreted Neuronal Activity Reporter (SNAR) construct and a control construct. The SNAR construct includes four tandem repeats of a core domain of the Synaptic Activity Response Element (SARE) of Arc/Arg3.1, a polynucleotide comprising the Arc minimal promoter, and a polynucleotide encoding a first secreted reporter protein. The control construct includes a constitutive promoter and a polynucleotide encoding a second secreted reporter protein. Further provided are methods of monitoring neuronal activity in a cell. The methods may include administering to a cell the neuronal cell activity reporter system, contacting with a substrate, and measuring a signal.

Abstract: A lithography system includes a first load lock chamber configured to receive a mask, a cleaning module configured to clean the mask, a second load lock chamber configured to receive a wafer, an exposure module configured to expose the wafer to a light source through use of the cleaned mask. A direct path is provided between the first load lock chamber and the exposure module allowing the first load lock chamber to directly couple to the exposure module without through the cleaning module.

Abstract: System and method for relation extraction using adaptive thresholding and localized context pooling (ATLOP). The system includes a computing device, the computing device has a processer and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code is configured to provide a document; embed entities in the document into embedding vectors; and predict relations between a pair of entities in the document using their embedding vectors. The relation prediction is performed based on an improved language model. Each relation has an adaptive threshold, and the relation between the pair of entities is determined to exist when a logit of the relation between the pair of entities is greater than a logit function of the corresponding adaptive threshold.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: creating a virtualized copy of a mesh network including devices; measuring an unpatched performance metric value for the virtualized copy of each of the devices; applying a first software patch to the virtualized copy of each of the devices; measuring a patched first performance metric value for the virtualized copy of each of the devices; comparing, for each of the devices, the patched performance metric value to the unpatched performance metric value; and preventing the application of the first software patch to a first device of the devices as a result of the comparing.