Abstract: A hoop lock including a shackle and a crossbar, with the shackle having a pair of legs extending from a body portion, and each of the legs having a foot including a tip with a non-circular cross-section. The cross-bar includes a housing having a pair of foot-receiving openings and a pair of tip-receiving openings substantially aligned with foot-receiving openings. The tip-receiving openings are configured to matingly engage the tips such that the tips are rotationally coupled to the housing.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for maintaining a collection of ecosystem credit tokens based on modelled outcomes are provided. In various embodiments, an ecosystem attribute target profile for the collection of ecosystem credit tokens is accessed. The target profile comprises a set of ecosystem characteristics, quantities of one or more ecosystem characteristics, and permanence of one or more ecosystem characteristics. A set of ecosystem credit tokens is accessed, wherein each ecosystem credit token data record comprises one or more of: a validated and verified management event, a methodology, an ecosystem attribute, a boundary, an ecosystem impact, an ecosystem credit, and an ecosystem attribute quantification method. A current profile of the collection of ecosystem credit tokens is determined, wherein the profile comprises the set of ecosystem characteristics within the collection, quantities of ecosystem characteristics, and permanence of ecosystem characteristics.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a base station may recover a UE from a Msg3 failure during an RA procedure. During the RA procedure, the base station may transmit a RAR message to the UE and in response to the RAR message the UE may transmit an uplink message (e.g., Msg3) to the base station over a first resource indicated in the RAR message. If the base station fails to decode or receive the uplink message over the first resource, the base station may transmit a grant to the UE indicating a second resource for retransmitting the uplink message and the UE may retransmit uplink message to the base station according to the grant.

Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable detection of security vulnerabilities in software containers. More specifically, a software container comprising a build script and a base image is received. An instance of the software container is instantiated in an encapsulated environment using the build script and the base image. The instance of the software container is executed in the encapsulated environment, and the execution of the software container instance is monitored in the encapsulated environment to detect one or more security vulnerabilities.

Abstract: A tile contains aggregated data at a certain resolution for the actual data present in the duration of time covered in that tile. Tiles are generated at every possible resolution suitable for a computer display and provide aggregate measures such as averages and variances. Tiles provide a summary of data such that from the highest level view down to the specific data time points collected, a user's attention may be drawn to the times when there is the most interesting pattern behavior to review and analyze.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a circuit breaker having main contacts configured to be coupled within an electrical line. The circuit breaker also has trip contacts and auxiliary contacts. A protection relay is electrically coupled to the trip contacts of the circuit breaker and is configured to trip the circuit breaker. A trip circuit supervision relay has a first coil electrically coupled to the auxiliary contacts of the circuit breaker and a second coil electrically coupled to the trip contacts of the circuit breaker. The first coil and the second coil are magnetically coupled to each other. The trip circuit supervision relay is single circuit supervision relay that includes both first coil and the second coil and is configured to be magnetically operated by either of the first coil and the second coil.

Abstract: In an example, a method includes copying data between a source device and a destination device to form first copied data. The method also includes, responsive to completion of the copying, performing a verify-read operation. The verify-read operation includes determining a first checksum of the first copied data, copying the data between the source device and the destination device to form second copied data, determining a second checksum of the second copied data, comparing the first checksum to the second checksum to determine a comparison result, and determining a data integrity validation result based on the comparison result.

Abstract: A first user equipment (UE) can determine a slot, from a resource pool including a plurality of slots allocated for sidelink communications, for providing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback to a second UE via a sidelink channel. The determination may be based on a physical slot index or a logical slot index. The first UE may send the HARQ feedback on the sidelink channel in the slot, or refrain from sending the HARQ feedback, based on the determination. The first UE may determine the slot has a first slot index that is at least a preconfigured number of slots after a slot scheduled for sidelink data transmission having a second slot index.

Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for learned condition text-to-speech synthesis. In some examples, first data representing a selection of a type of prosodic expressivity may be received. In some further examples, a selection of content comprising text data may be received. First audio data may be determined that includes an audio representation of the text data. The first audio data may be generated based at least in part on sampling from a first latent distribution generated using a conditional primary variational autoencoder (VAE). The sampling from the first latent distribution may be conditioned on a first learned distribution associated with the type of prosodic expressivity. In various examples, the first audio data may be sent to a first computing device.

Abstract: According to at least some example embodiments of the inventive concepts, an RC oscillator includes an oscillator core including a timing-circuit that includes a plurality of matched current sources, a plurality of capacitors, and a resistor, a first continuous time comparator, and a Schmitt trigger; and an analog circuit connected to the oscillator core including a second continuous time comparator representing a replica of the first continuous time comparator, and an EX-OR gate, wherein the analog circuit is configured to pass a clock signal of the oscillator core through the second continuous time comparator and obtaining a delayed clock signal representing a comparator delay, extract the comparator delay of the first continuous time comparator based on feeding the clock signal and the obtained delayed clock signal to the EX-OR gate, and charge the plurality of capacitors connected to the first continuous time comparator.

Abstract: A collection of multiple software applications may be tested when a patch is issued. However, an emergency patch for a time-sensitive incident may not allow for full regression or functional testing. Provided herein are techniques for performing a multiple application smoke test. Access information, login information, and a success indicator are obtained for each of a plurality of software applications. A test plan including two or more test packages is determined. Each test package indicates a subset of applications and includes access information, login information, and success indicators corresponding to the subset. The test packages are executed in parallel, including authenticating, loading, and validating. Logs are generated and a user interface is provided to present the logs and whether validation of the application interfaces passed or failed, and a failure reason for failed tests.

Abstract: Described is a system for automated creation of various data storage environments for application testing. The system may provide an efficient mechanism for creating various computing environments employed by clients of a data protection and recovery service. For example, different clients may utilize different data storage infrastructure (e.g. servers, storage arrays, databases, etc.) on which common backup-related components are overlaid. The system may build different combinations of computing environments and perform application testing across such environments simultaneously (or in parallel) within a virtual environment. Accordingly, the system may verify the operational consistency of backup-related applications across a large sample of client computing environments in an efficient manner.

Abstract: A method for preventing a task-signal deadlock arising due to contention for a mutex in a real-time operating system (RTOS) includes detecting, by a processing unit, a signal notification sent to a task for execution of a signal handler; identifying, by the processing unit, a mutex to be acquired by the signal handler, when the signal notification is detected; determining whether the identified mutex has been acquired by the task; and utilizing, by the processing unit, an alternative stack for execution of the signal handler, in response to determining that the mutex has been acquired by the task, for preventing a task-signal deadlock during the execution.

Abstract: Embodiments herein disclose a method for enhancing a performance of an electronic device. The method includes detecting a plurality of hardware features of the electronic device. Further, the method includes learning a usage pattern of each of the hardware features of the electronic device over a period of time using a machine learning model. Further, the method includes predicting at least one of a remaining usage time of a battery of the electronic device and at least one application to be launched by a user of the electronic device based on the usage pattern of each of the hardware features. Further, the method includes enhancing the performance of the electronic device based on at least one of the predicted remaining usage time of the battery and the at least one predicted application to be launched by the user.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for address manipulation using indices and tags. A first index is generated from bits of a processor program counter, where the first index is used to access a branch predictor bimodal table. A first branch prediction is provided from the bimodal table, based on the first index. The first branch prediction is matched against N tables, where the tables contain prior branch histories, and where: the branch history in table T(N) is of greater length than the branch history of table T(N-1), and the branch history in table T(N-1) is of greater length than the branch history of table T(N-2). A processor address is manipulated using a greatest length of hits of branch prediction matches from the N tables, based on one or more hits occurring. The branch predictor address is manipulated using the first branch prediction from the bimodal table, based on zero hits occurring.

Abstract: A technique improves storage efficiency of an object store configured to maintain numerous snapshots for long-term storage in an archival storage system by efficiently determining data that is exclusively owned by an expiring snapshot to allow deletion of the expiring snapshot from the object store. The technique involves managing index data structures to enable efficient garbage collection across a very large number of data objects. When a snapshot expires, the technique obviates the need to scan the numerous snapshot data objects to determine which index structures are no longer needed and can be reclaimed (garbage collected). The technique is directed to management of underlying storage based on different sets of policies. When certain snapshots expire and are ready for deletion, the technique is directed to finding those data blocks that are no longer referenced (used) by any valid snapshots.

Abstract: Presently provided are inhibitors of TD02 and IDO1 and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, useful for modulating an activity of tryptophan 2,3 dioxygenase and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1; treating immunosuppression; treating a medical conditions that benefit from the inhibition of tryptophan degradation; enhancing the effectiveness of an anti-cancer treatment comprising administering an anti-cancer agent; and treating tumor-specific immunosuppression associated with cancer.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a first component including a transmitter for a high-speed serial data interface, and a second component including a receiver for the high-speed serial data interface. The receiver includes an equalization stage and a decision feedback equalization (DFE) stage. The equalization stage has an input to configure the equalization stage in one of a first low equalization state and a first high equalization state. The DFE stage has a plurality of tap inputs. The first component provides a plurality of training runs on the high-speed serial data interface.

Abstract: Mechanisms for out-of-band (OOB) management of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) bitstreams and associated methods, apparatus, systems and firmware. Under a first OOB mechanism, a management component, such as a baseband management controller (BMC) is coupled to a processor including an agent in a compute node that includes an FGPA. An FPGA bitstream file is provided to the BMC, and the agent reads the file from the BMC and streams the FPGA bitstream contents in the file to the FPGA to program it. Under second and third OOB mechanisms, a pointer to an FPGA bitstream file that identifies the location of the file that is accessible via a network or fabric is provided to the BMC or other management entity. The BMC/management entity forwards the pointer to BIOS running on the compute node or an agent on the processor. The BIOS or agent then uses the pointer to retrieve the FPGA bitstream file via the network or fabric, as applicable, and streams the FPGA bitstream to the FPGA to program it.