Abstract: Nanomaterials are an important class of materials for sunscreens. Conventional metal oxide nanoparticles are toxic in nature and leave white patches on skin after application. This disclosure provides a sunscreen composition containing biodegradable antimicrobial polymer nanoparticles as UV filter. The sunscreen composition comprising chitosan nanoparticles, at least one flavoring agent, at least one coloring agent, at least one stabilizer, and at least one preservative, in a defined form, wherein size of the chitosan nanoparticles is ranging from 200 to 900 nm. The size of the chitosan nanoparticles ranging from 200 to 400 nm for air medium, 500 to 700 nm for water medium and 700 to 900 nm for ethanol medium. The chitosan polymer is derived from chitin, a glucosamine polymer. The sunscreen composition is available in the defined form selected from a group consisting of a skin cream, a skin lotion, a powder, a gel, and a sprayable liquid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a delivery system which enables selective entrapment. The delivery system comprises a solvent system which is a hydro-alcoholic solvent system; 1.5-10% of at least one polymer; and 0.00025-0.75% of at least one enabler. It may optionally comprise one or more benefit agent.

Abstract: A self-cleaning conduit for a hydrocarbon fluid. The conduit includes a tube and a mesh. The tube has an interior surface defining a flow passage for the hydrocarbon fluid. The mesh is positioned within the flow passage to abut the interior surface and movable along the interior surface to break-up deposits on the interior surface. The mesh is characterized by a mesh activation parameter (MAP) from one ten thousandths to six tenths.

Abstract: Computer vision systems and methods for noisy contour alignment are provided. The system generates a loss function and trains a convolutional neural network with the loss function and a plurality of images of a dataset to learn to align contours with progressively increasing complex forward and backward transforms over increasing scales. The system can align an attribute of an image of the dataset by the trained neural network.

Abstract: Aspects if the disclosure are directed towards multi-step forecasting via temporal aggregation. An example embodiment includes a method the includes receiving a time series including a first time step value and a second time step value. The method can further include generating a temporally aggregated time series by summing the first time step value and the second time step value to create a third time step value. The method can further include calculating a first set of input values and a second set of input values from the temporally aggregated time series. The method can further include forecasting a fourth time step value using the first set of input values and the second set of input values, and a fifth time step using the second set of input values from the temporally aggregated time series.

Abstract: The present invention provides a robust and effective solution to an entity or an organization by enabling them to implement a system (110) and method (300) for facilitating monitoring of power usage at each rack level in a data centre (108) through a plurality of loT based wireless sensor devices. (116) By measuring power at each rack level and collating those for a data centre infrastructure will give a true picture of data centre power efficiency.

Abstract: Techniques for providing an optimized quantum computing model are described. In operation, a gate teleportation circuit for a predetermined number of qubits is obtained. The gate teleportation circuit is then segmented into multiple sub-circuits. A gate teleportation operation is then performed on each of the multiple sub-circuits wherein the gate teleportation operation on each of the multiple sub-circuits is performed based on the at least one qubit of a given sub-circuit and an output of a gate teleportation operation performed on a sub-circuit which is previous to the given sub-circuit. An output of the gate teleportation operation performed on the last sub-circuit from the multiple sub-circuits is then measured.

Abstract: A method of generating a unified graph is described. First graph data is received from a first data source, nodes within the first graph data including first, second, and third fields. Second graph data is received from a second data source, nodes within the second graph data including first, second, and fourth fields. The unified graph is generated from the first and second graph data using aggregated fields of the first field and the third field as a unique identifier of a unified schema for nodes within the unified graph having a first type and aggregated fields of the first field and the fourth field as a unique identifier of the unified schema for nodes within the unified graph having a second type, wherein nodes of the unified graph represent entities and edges of the unified graph represent relationships among the entities.

Abstract: The disclosure describes one or more embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate a transferred hairstyle image that depicts a person from a source image having a hairstyle from a target image. For example, the disclosed systems utilize a face-generative neural network to project the source and target images into latent vectors. In addition, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems quantify (or identify) activation values that control hair features for the projected latent vectors of the target and source image. Furthermore, in some instances, the disclosed systems selectively combine (e.g., via splicing) the projected latent vectors of the target and source image to generate a hairstyle-transfer latent vector by using the quantified activation values.

Abstract: A system for utilizing media content reference point information to perform media content encoding, and supplemental content stitching and/or insertion. Media content can be encoded and packaged based on boundaries of the media content. The boundaries can be received from a third-party and/or generated via an automated process. Target boundaries can be selected based on accuracy levels associated with the received and/or generated boundaries. Supplemental content can be stitched and/or inserted into packaged media content based on audio and video content of the packaged media content being aligned.

Abstract: Senescent cells are implicated in aspects of age-related decline in health and may contribute to certain diseases. Senescent cells also limit the viability of cells in cell culture. The invention includes methods of using a stressor (e.g., shock waves, pneumatics, hydraulics, magnetic elements, etc.) to reverse senescence. In embodiments, cells are exposed to ultrasound to reverse senescence. Ultrasound can be used to administered in short duration pressure waves to cells to create mechanical stresses. These conditions are safe for normal tissue and do not adversely influence their function. The stressor can rejuvenate senescent cells so that they are phenotypically normal. Additional embodiments include methods of treating senescence-associated diseases and disorders by administering a stressor such as low frequency ultrasound (LFU). The methods described herein can also be used for slowing the aging process and/or reducing signs of aging.

Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes. The plurality of operating modes include one or more of a health mode, an energy savings mode and a balanced mode. In some cases, the operating modes include two or more energy saving modes. The currently operating mode is selected based on the current operating conditions of the building and the desired goals of the building operator. The goals can include, for example, reducing energy usage, reducing pathogen risks, increasing air quality and/or a combination of these goals. In some cases, the operating modes are autonomously controlled. In some cases, the operating modes are manually controlled.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor, a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor for out-of-band management of the information handling system, and configured to determine if the information handling system is docked to a docking station, boot the information handling system from a personal image local to the information handling system if the information handling system is undocked from the docking station, and boot the information handling system from an enterprise image stored on the docking station if the information handling system is docked to the docking station.

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes analyzing queries and dynamically modifying those queries based on the analysis. An indication that a query is to be executed by a first process is detected. It is determined that an analysis results data store does not include an active analysis result for the query using a query identifier of the query and, as a result, a modified instance of the query is generated using a modification pattern. The query and the modified instance of the query are analyzed based on a performance metric using a second process that is independent of the first process. An active analysis result of the query is recorded based on the analysis, wherein the analysis result indicates whether future executions of the query should be modified using the modification pattern. Further, in some examples, analysis results expire, such that associated queries are reanalyzed to generate active analysis results periodically.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to compositions comprising rice bran extract, method of making rice bran extract and method of using same.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for monitoring release pipelines. The methods and systems calculate health metrics of release pipelines using telemetry data from the release pipelines. The methods and systems determine whether the release pipelines are healthy based on the health metrics. The methods and systems automatically trigger one or more actions in response to determining that the release pipelines are unhealthy and continue to monitor the release pipelines in response to determining that the release pipelines are healthy.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may communicate, based at least in part on a physical data channel configuration corresponding to a physical data channel, a first extended reality (XR) data communication corresponding to a first physical data channel occasion associated with the physical data channel configuration, wherein a first priority level is associated with the first XR data communication. The network node may communicate a second XR data communication corresponding to a second physical data channel occasion, wherein a second priority level is associated with the second XR data communication, and wherein the second priority level is higher than the first priority level based at least in part on a packet delay budget associated with the physical data channel configuration being within a specified threshold of packet delay. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively reducing water production in a well. The interior of the well casing is in fluid communication with a subterranean formation with a hydrocarbon-producing zone and a water-producing zone. The subterranean formation has a switchable polymer in contact with at least one of the hydrocarbon-producing zone and the water-producing zone. The switchable nature of the polymer enables a hydrophobic state and a hydrophilic state and fluid communication between the water-producing zone and the interior of the well casing is greater when the polymer is in its hydrophilic state than when the polymer is in its hydrophobic state. In its hydrophilic state, more of the polymer will invade the water-producing zone but the plugging action will not take place until it is switched to the hydrophobic state.

Abstract: A method for facilitating payment transactions includes receiving, by a server, a flash code request indicative of a transaction amount. A flash code associated with the transaction amount is communicated by the server to the payer device. The flash code is encoded into a flash pattern at the payer device and communicated to a payee device of a payee for executing a payment transaction between the payer and the payee. A first request for the payment transaction is received by the server from the payee device. The first request includes the flash code obtained by decoding the flash pattern at the payee device. The flash code included in the first request is validated by the server. Based on successful validation of the flash code, the transaction amount is deducted from a payer account of the payer and credited to a payee account of the payee.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Disclosed is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) in a wireless communication system, including receiving, in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message configuring the UE to perform a multicast MBS reception in an RRC inactive state, receiving, from the base station, an RRC release message including at least one configuration information on a multicast MBS radio bearer (MRB), storing, in the RRC inactive state, the at least one configuration information on the multicast MRB; and receiving a multicast MBS session in the RRC inactive state based on the at least one stored configuration information.