Abstract: A core-shell microparticle includes a shell containing at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of fluorine-containing polymers, fluorine-free vinyl polymers, and silicone polymers, and a core containing a fluorocarbon.

Abstract: An appliance includes a cabinet that has an inner surface. A frame is coupled to the inner surface of the cabinet. The frame includes a frame boss that extends from a bottom surface thereof. A panel is positioned within the frame. The frame extends along a perimeter of the panel. An inner trim member has a flange that extends therefrom. The flange defines an aperture configured to align with the frame boss. A fastener is configured to extend through the aperture and engage the frame boss to couple the inner trim member with the frame. An outer trim member is disposed over the inner trim member. The inner trim member is configured to slidably receive the outer trim member.

Abstract: A method of monitoring cargo loading by an aircraft field device may be used to detect damage to cargo and ULDs, reducing the need for manual inspection of the cargo and/or eliminate the need for constant human monitoring of cargo loading. The method may comprise scanning ULDs and receiving image data of the ULDs, and sending the data to an on ground infrastructure network. The on ground infrastructure network may classify ULD type and classify damage to the ULDs. The damage classification may be received by the field device. The field device may generate an alert and/or halt cargo loading in response to the damage classification.

Abstract: Some embodiments may be associated with a system to extend business logic for cloud application services. A custom logic user interface may receive, from a user via a flow-based editor, information creating a custom logic business expression (e.g., a determination or a validation) and information about the custom logic business expression may be stored in a custom logic metadata repository. A computer processor of an application service platform may access the custom logic business expression from the custom logic metadata repository and receive an Application Programming Interface (“API”) call from an API consumer. Responsive to the API call, the system may arrange for execution of the custom logic business expression in accordance with information in the custom logic metadata repository and invoke a pre-hook trigger event to call a custom logic service. Standard application logic may then be executed, and a post-hook trigger event may be invoked to call the custom logic service.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to repositioning a rooftop sensor of an autonomous vehicle when needed to reduce the overall height of the autonomous vehicle. For instance, while an autonomous vehicle is being controlled in an autonomous driving mode, a low clearance zone may be identified. An activation location may be determined based on the low clearance zone and a current speed of the autonomous vehicle. Once the activation location is reached by the autonomous vehicle, a motor may be caused to reposition the rooftop sensor. In addition, in some instances, after the autonomous vehicle has passed the low clearance zone, the motor may be caused to reposition the rooftop sensor again.

Abstract: Owing to their stochastic nature, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are more suited to participate in short-term or intraday electricity markets. However, it is very difficult for an asset owner to manage their operation when interacting with markets and create operation schedules. Present disclosure provides systems and methods that for the trades/bids placed earlier to be corrected based on the revised forecasts of demand and generation in the DER pool. The system models an optimal bidding problem of aggregators in an intraday market as a mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problem. The MINLP problem is converted to an NLP problem by an optimization model and integer variables are relaxed to solve the NLP problem and obtain (i) an optimal intraday operating schedule for one or more DERs, and (ii) an intraday bid associated with the DERs for a plurality of delivery slots to be traded in an intraday market.

Abstract: A method of determining instructions to be executed by a powder bed fusion apparatus, in which an object is built in a layer-by-layer manner by selectively irradiating regions of successively formed powder layers with an energy beam. The method includes determining an exposure parameter for each location within a layer to be irradiated with the energy beam from a primary exposure parameter, the exposure parameters varying with location. An amount each exposure parameter varies from the primary exposure parameter is determined, at least in part, from a geometric quantity of the object derived from the location of the irradiation.

Abstract: Proxy systems and methods for multiprocessing architectures are described. One method includes receiving an inference request and a statistics request from a client computing system. The method may access a load state of each processing device in a subset of processing devices preloaded with the neural network model, and select a target processing device from the subset based on the load states. One aspect includes transmitting the inference request to the target processing device, and monitoring an execution of the inference request by the target processing device based on the neural network model. The method may receive an inference result generated by the target processing device after executing the inference request, and compute an average inference time for the inference request execution based on the monitoring. The method may transmit the inference result and the average inference time to the client computing system.

Abstract: A controller for maintaining alignment of X-Ray imagery and ultrasound imagery includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the controller to execute a process that includes receiving data from an X-Ray system used to perform X-Ray imaging, and receiving data from an ultrasound imaging probe used to perform ultrasound imaging. The process executed by the controller also includes registering imagery based on X-Rays to imagery from the ultrasound imaging probe based on an X-Ray image of the ultrasound imaging probe among the imagery based on X-Rays, and detecting, from the data from the ultrasound imaging probe, movement of the ultrasound imaging probe.

Abstract: A cloud-based personalization service utilizes a personalization model providing service users with tools to create, personalize, and manage their own user profiles, which are abstracted in the form of “personas,” that can learn from, and be shared across, different ecosystems of online services and applications. One or more personas may be locally instantiated on the user's various computing devices by a personalization system. The personalization service and system interoperate to enable users to set operating parameters, preferences, and content-filtering criteria for their personas. Users can strictly control the information and parameters that their personas expose to the services and applications to protect user privacy and enhance the quality of online interactions. The personalization model facilitates personalization of the user's personas to individual online services and applications based on context-awareness to further improve the relevance of delivered content and user experiences.

Abstract: A system and method for using a distributed simulation system includes simulating a first portion of the circuit design within a first simulation environment by a first client device to generate first simulation data. Further, a second portion of the circuit design is simulated within a second simulation environment by a second client device to generate second simulation data. The first simulation data and the second simulation data are generated asynchronously with each other. Further, the first simulation data and the second simulation data are received at a primary client device synchronously with each other.

Abstract: A flow divider comprises a lumen having perpendicular, symmetry planes intersecting in an axis of inertia connecting the ends.

Abstract: Techniques are described for maintaining data consistency when failure events occur during file storage replications between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, two generation numbers (or different identifications) are assigned to two groups of processed B-tree key-value pairs, one before and one after a failure event, within a key range. In some embodiments, the two generation numbers are assigned to a group of B-tree key-value pairs processed by a failed thread and another group of B-tree key-value pairs processed by a substitute thread taking over the failed thread to avoid potential data corruption.

Abstract: Techniques are described for efficient replication and maintaining snapshot data consistency during file storage replication between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, snapshot creation and deletion requests that occur during cross-region replications may be temporarily withheld until appropriate times to execute such requests safely, depending on the timing relationship between such requests and cross-region replication cycles.

Abstract: Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests based on contextual data regarding prior user requests. Users may engage in conversations with a computing device in order to initiate some function or obtain some information. A dialog manager may manage the conversations and store contextual data regarding one or more of the conversations. Processing and responding to subsequent conversations may benefit from the previously stored contextual data by, e.g., reducing the amount of information that a user must provide if the user has already provided the information in the context of a prior conversation. Additional information associated with performing functions responsive to user requests may be shared among applications, further improving efficiency and enhancing the user experience.

Abstract: A speech-capture device can capture audio data during wakeword monitoring and use the audio data to determine if a user is present nearby the device, even if no wakeword is spoken. Audio such as speech, human originating sounds (e.g., coughing, sneezing), or other human related noises (e.g., footsteps, doors closing) can be used to detect audio. Audio frames are individually scored as to whether a human presence is detected in the particular audio frames. The scores are then smoothed relative to nearby frames to create a decision for a particular frame. Presence information can then be sent according to a periodic schedule to a remote device to create a presence “heartbeat” that regularly identifies whether a user is detected proximate to a speech-capture device.

Abstract: A device may receive network data identifying at least one of a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), a bit error rate (BER), a packet loss, or a frame loss associated with a radio access network (RAN), and may receive model data associated with a plurality of machine learning models. The device may receive inference confidence scores associated with the plurality of machine learning models, and may process the network data, the model data, and the inference confidence scores, with a model, to select a machine learning model from the plurality of machine learning models. The device may cause the selected machine learning model to be implemented in connection with processing images.

Abstract: Thermal management and shielding techniques for a radar device of a vehicle, the radar device having a radar transceiver circuit and a radar-transmissive radome, include a housing formed of a thermally-conductive plastic material and configured to receive and provide shield grounding to the radar transceiver circuit, and a metal layer applied to an inner surface of the housing to provide for thermal spreading of heat energy generated by the radar transceiver circuit.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for automatically provisioning and managing secure database resources in a cloud computing environment. A server provisions virtual computing resources in the cloud computing environment using resource templates and creates a database instance in each of the virtual computing resources. The server integrates the database instances and the virtual computing resources in the cloud computing environment with an identity authentication service. The server configures the database instances in two or more of the virtual computing resources to synchronize data. The server monitors each of the plurality of virtual computing resources using a monitoring service.

Abstract: Techniques are described for ensuring end-to-end fair-share resource utilization during cross-region replication. In certain embodiments, a fair-share architecture is used for communication among pipeline stages performing a cross-region replication between different cloud infrastructure regions. Cross-region replication-related jobs are distributed evenly from a pipeline stage into a temporary buffer in the fair-share architecture, and then further distributed evenly form the fair-share architecture to parallel running threads of next pipeline stage for execute. Techniques for static and dynamic resource allocations are also disclosed.