Abstract: The present disclosure discloses the polypeptide fragment having an amino acid sequence with at least 95% identity to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, and SEQ ID NO: 6. The present disclosure also discloses nucleic acid fragment encoding the polypeptide fragment as described herein. Moreover, the present disclosure also discloses recombinant construct, recombinant vector and recombinant host cells. Also disclosed herein is an immunogenic composition comprising the polypeptide fragment as described herein, and a method for preparing the said immunogenic composition. The immunogenic composition is in form of vaccine. The polypeptide fragment and/or immunogenic composition is capable of eliciting protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. A kit comprising the polypeptide, or the immunogenic composition as described herein is also disclosed.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for performing secure frame encryption as a service. For instance, a network edge device can determine at least a first path and a second path for routing a data packet. The network edge device can obtain a first plurality of values for at least one network metric, wherein the first plurality of values corresponds to the first path and at least a first backup path associated with the first path. The network edge device can obtain a second plurality of values for the at least one network metric, wherein the second plurality of values corresponds to the second path and at least a second backup path associated with the second path. The network edge device can select a path for routing the data packet based on a comparison of the first plurality of values and the second plurality of values.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing scalable and concurrent file systems. A backend storage system comprising an interface and a processing unit may be configured to perform the techniques. The interface may present the file system storing objects representative of data. The processing unit may receive, from a frontend host system coupled to the backend storage system, a plurality of client operations to perform with respect to the objects identified by the client operations, and identify an object type associated with each of the identified objects. The processing unit may select, based on the object types, one or more backend operators that implement the plurality of client operations, and apply the backend operators to the identified objects.

Abstract: Disclosed systems and techniques are directed to correcting an out-of-plane (OPD) deformation of a substrate by causing a stress-compensation layer (SCL) to be deposited on the substrate, obtaining, using optical inspection data, a profile of the OPD of the substrate. The techniques further include obtaining a dataset with a representation of an influence function for the substrate, the influence function characterizing a deformation response of the substrate caused by a point-like mechanical influence. The techniques further include performing a regression computation to determine, based at least on the profile of the OPD of the substrate and the influence function, a distribution of a stress-mitigation irradiation of the SCL that mitigate the OPD of the substrate. The techniques further include performing, using the determined distribution of the stress-mitigation irradiation, a stress-mitigation irradiation of the SCL.

Abstract: The invention provides a fermented onion composition having a dry matter content of at least 8 wt. %, said composition comprising, per gram of dry matter: 75-800 mg acid equivalent of organic acid selected from propionic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid and combinations thereof; 2-200 mg acid equivalent of onion acid selected from selected from citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid, pyruvic acid, succinic acid and combinations thereof; 0-150 mg of saccharides selected from fructose, glucose, sucrose and combinations thereof; 0-40 mg of onion protein; wherein the combination of components a) to d) constitutes 50-95 wt. % of the dry matter that is contained in the composition. The fermented onion composition of the present invention may suitably be applied as a food ingredient in edible products as it has useful functional properties.

Abstract: An air delivery system comprises an air handler enclosure having an inlet for enabling air to flow into the air handler enclosure and an outlet exhaust air out of the air handler enclosure. A blower is located in the air handler enclosure for drawing air through the inlet and exhausting air from the outlet. The system includes at least one sensor A2L refrigerant sensor for sensing the concentration of A2L refrigerant in the air delivery system, at least one auxiliary fan, and a controller is provided for receiving data from the A2L sensor, and powering the at least one auxiliary fan to reduce the concentration of A2L refrigerant below a predetermined threshold level.

Abstract: Disclosed systems and techniques are directed to correct an out-of-plane deformation (OPD) of a substrate (e.g., wafer) by identifying, using optical inspection data, a profile of the OPD of the substrate and performing a polynomial decomposition of the profile to determine polynomial coefficients characterizing elemental deformation shapes of the substrate. The techniques further include identifying, based on the polynomial coefficients, characteristics of a stress-compensation layer (SCL) for the substrate and causing the SCL to be deposited on the substrate. The techniques further include performing statistical simulations to identify settings for a non-uniform stress-mitigation irradiation of the SCL, by sampling from one or more statistical distributions associated with previously performed stress-mitigation irradiations, and performing the non-uniform stress-mitigation irradiation of the SCL using the identified settings.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein combine randomization functionalities with the machine-learning prioritization of workflows for performance testing. In aspects, a primary workflow having a sequence of user interface steps is input. Testing workflows are generated that represent each variable position of unlocked steps in the sequence of the primary workflow while maintaining the sequential position of any locked steps. These testing workflows are then ingested to a machine learning model that identifies as subset of the testing workflows to prioritize over other. Specifically, testing workflows are prioritized that at least partially match sequence patterns in historical workflow data that is associated with vulnerable computer code. The subset is output and tested by testing engine to generate a report of any vulnerable computer code.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for interconnecting components of an electronic device through a bus interface that supports dynamic link configuration for changing bandwidth requirements on a bus. In a first aspect, a method of communicating through a bus by a bus interface includes determining a transmit data rate and a receive data rate for a workload of the first device; transmitting a link configuration change request to a second device through the bus to reconfigure the link from a first link configuration to a second link configuration; and communicating over the bus based on the link configuration change. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A system and method for seamless resource sharing among web applications bundled into a software suite are disclosed. The present disclosure addresses the problem of manually downloading and uploading a resource from one web application to another web application inside a unified system, using Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste using a clipboard. One or more resources can be shared by a user from a source web application. The meta information of the resource is shared with a Resource Sharing Server, and the network resource of the user machine is not used in the download and upload process. The clipboard used in the Copy & Paste functionality facilitates pasting the content copied by users across multiple web applications, different sessions, and different devices. While sharing the resources, the permissions of the sender and receiver on the shared resource are used to filter the original resource using a permission filter and share only that which is permitted.

Abstract: Processes and plants are disclosed for separating carbon dioxide from a flue gas stream, for providing a source of atomic carbon by disassociating carbon dioxide and for generating electrical power from by-products of producing atomic carbon. In relation to separating carbon dioxide from a flue gas stream, the disclosed process includes energising a gas stream containing carbon dioxide to produce a disassociated stream by disassociating the carbon dioxide into atomic carbon and atomic oxygen using an energising apparatus. The process further includes separating the atomic carbon and the atomic oxygen into a carbon stream containing an atomic carbon phase and an oxygen stream containing an atomic oxygen phase using a high temperature cyclone apparatus.

Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: trace, for a plurality of actions having different direct parent actors, a common responsible parent actor, wherein the instructions determine that the common responsible parent actor caused or directed the plurality of actions; compile a report of the plurality of actions, wherein the actions are grouped by the common responsible parent actor; send the report to a machine or human analysis agent; responsive to the report, receive from the analysis agent a remedial action; and execute the remedial action.

Abstract: A media content steering solution is provided to identify a user query to steer playback of media content that is currently playing or has been played. The user steering query can include a voice request for playing media content that is relatively different from the media content being currently played or having been played. The media content steering solution analyzes the utterance of the user query and uses it to identify such different content that satisfies the user intent contained in the user query.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating annotations for electronic records is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive unstructured data for a plurality of electronic records and generate a plurality of machine learning models (MLMs), wherein each MLM of the plurality of MLMs is trained using a machine learning algorithm. The processor is further configured to generate at least one annotation for the unstructured data using each MLM of the plurality of MLM and structure the unstructured data as structured data as a function of the generated annotations.

Abstract: In certain aspects, the disclosure provides soluble heteromeric polypeptide complexes comprising an extracellular domain of an ALK4 receptor and an extracellular domain of ActRIIB. In certain aspects, such soluble ALK4:ActRIIB complexes may be used to regulate (promote or inhibit) growth of tissues or cells including, for example, muscle, bone, cartilage, fat, neural tissue, tumors, and/or cancerous cells. In certain aspects, such ALK4:ActRIIB complexes are can be used to improve muscle formation, bone formation, metabolic parameters, and disorders associated with these tissues, cellular networks, kidney, and endocrine systems.

Abstract: A method of managing positioning reference signal transmission includes: instructing a transmission point to apply a muting pattern regarding transmission of a reference signal including first and second reference signal resources, where a first instance of the first reference signal resource includes one or more first resource elements across one or more first OFDM symbols within a slot, and a second instance of the second reference signal resource includes one or more second resource elements across one or more second OFDM symbols within the slot; and instructing the transmission point to transmit, unmuted, at least one of the one or more second resource elements, of at least one of the one or more second OFDM symbols, despite the muting pattern indicating to mute transmission of the at least one of the one or more second resource elements of the at least one of the one or more second OFDM symbols.

Abstract: A method includes initiating a voltage calibration scan with respect to a block of a memory device, wherein the block is assigned to a first bin associated with a first set of read voltage offsets, and wherein the first bin is designated as a current bin, measuring a value of a data state metric for the block based on a second set of read voltage offsets associated with a second bin having an index value higher than the first bin, determining whether the value is less than a current value of the data state metric measured based on the first set of read voltage offsets, and in response to determining that the value is less than the current value, designating the second bin as the current bin.

Abstract: System connections map interface connections between the memory device and the memory controller. The memory controller is configured with information about these ‘mapped’ connections. The memory controller uses the mapping information to: correctly present commands and addresses to the memory device, perform CA training on mapped connections, generate read training data that accounts for mapped connections, correctly address mapped memory device pins for write training per pin adjustments, correctly calculate error detection coding, and correctly read vendor identification information.

Abstract: In various examples, systems and methods of the present disclosure combine open and closed dialog systems into an intelligent dialog management system. A text query may be processed by a natural language understanding model trained to associate the text query with a domain tag, intent classification, and/or input slots. Using the domain tag, the natural language understanding model may identify information in the text query corresponding to input slots needed for answering the text query. The text query and related information may then be passed to a dialog manager to direct the text query to the proper domain dialog system. Responses retrieved from the domain dialog system may be provided to the user via text output and/or via a text to speech component of the dialog management system.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and apparatuses are provided to facilitate a positioning of an item of virtual content in an extended reality environment. For example, a placement position for an item of virtual content can be transmitted to one or more of a first device and a second device. The placement position can be based on correlated map data generated based on first map data obtained from the first device and second map data obtained from the second device. In some examples, the first device can transmit the placement position to the second device.