Abstract: A method for of playing an animation image, the method including: obtaining a plurality of images; displaying a first image of the plurality of images; detecting a first event as a trigger to play the animation image for a first object of the first image; and playing the animation image for the first object using the plurality of images.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides peptide compositions (e.g., of self-assembling peptides) with particular attributes (e.g., peptide identity, peptide concentration, pH, ionic strength [including salt identity and/or concentration), etc. that show particularly useful material properties. The present disclosure also provides technologies for selecting and/or formulating particular peptide compositions useful in specific contexts. In some embodiments, provided peptide compositions have an elevated pH within the range of about 2.5 to about 3.5 and/or an ionic strength that is above that of a corresponding composition of the same peptide, at the same concentration, in water, but is below a critical salt point for the peptide (e.g., so that the composition is not cloudy).

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing dynamically adjusted radiated signals are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of detecting one or more objects in a path of travel of a vehicle may include generating a laser with radiated power. The method may further include emitting the laser in a direction of travel of the vehicle and receiving one or more reflections of the emitted laser reflected from the one or more objects located in the direction of travel of the vehicle. The method may also further include generating a signal indicating that the one or more objects are in a path of the vehicle based on the received one or more reflections. The method may also include dynamically adjusting the radiated power of the laser based on an input corresponding to one or more of (i) a current speed of the vehicle or (ii) a current position of the vehicle.

Abstract: Each user of a telecommunications system may speak and record their own name, in their own voice, and a recording of their spoken name may subsequently be accessed by or delivered to other users of the system, thereby facilitating communication between users by enabling users to better know how to pronounce the names of other users. A user may listen to the recorded spoken name of another user before placing a call to another user. When a user joins a conference call, their spoken name may be announced to other users (attendees) already in the call. A user joining a conference call may listen to the recorded spoken names of attendees in the call. A button on users' phones may invoke these features.

Abstract: Described herein are features pertaining to displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) that depicts mappings between entities of a source database and entities of a destination database. A database migrator is able to interact with the GUI to approve preliminary mappings as well as to modify preliminary mappings. Once the database migrator approves the mappings, scripts can be generated, wherein the scripts are usable to migrate data from the source database to the destination database.

Abstract: A method and system for performing federated identity management are described. The method and system include receiving a communication for a data source at a wrapper. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and a service. The dispatcher receives the communication and is data agnostic. The communication corresponds to end user credentials for an end user. The method and system include providing the communication from the dispatcher to the data source and to the service. The method and system also use the service to authenticate the end user based on the end user credentials and utilizing federated identity management.

Abstract: A method and system for performing authentication are described. The method and system include receiving, from a client, a communication for a data source at a wrapper. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and a service. The dispatcher receives the communication and is data agnostic. The communication is provided from the dispatcher to the service. The service determines whether the client is authorized to access the data source utilizing multi-factor authentication.

Abstract: A method and system for performing at least one service are disclosed. The method and system include receiving a communication for a data source at a wrapper. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and at least one service. The dispatcher receives the communication and is data agnostic. The method and system also include providing the communication from the dispatcher to the data source and to the at least one service. The at least one service inspects the communication and may perform additional functions.

Abstract: A method and system for performing query analysis are described. The method and system include receiving a query for a data source at a wrapper. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and a service. The dispatcher receives the query and is data agnostic. The method and system also include providing the query from the dispatcher to the data source and to the service as well as analyzing the query using the service.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed. The method and system include receiving, at a wrapper, a communication and a context associated with the communication from a client. The communication is for a data source. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and a service. The dispatcher receives the communication and is data agnostic. The method and system also include providing the context from the dispatcher to the service. In some embodiments, the method and system use the service to compare the context to a behavioral baseline for the client. The behavioral baseline incorporates a plurality of contexts previously received from the client.

Abstract: A method and system for anonymizing data are disclosed. The method and system include receiving, at the wrapper, a request to store data in a data source. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and at least one service. The dispatcher receives the communication and is data agnostic. The method and system also include providing the request from the dispatcher to the at least one service and anonymizing, at the service(s), the data to provide anonymized data.

Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking and auditing changes in one or more cloud-based systems include, at a Web application, intercepting requests between one or more users and the Web application associated with the one or more cloud-based systems and creating log messages based on the intercepted requests; at a log forwarder in the logging system, forwarding the log messages to a log indexer; at the log indexer in the logging system, receiving the forwarded log messages and indexing the forwarded log messages in a centralized storage; and, at the logging system, responsive to a query, forwarding responsive indexed data from the centralized storage, based on the query.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing dynamically adjusted radiated signals are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of detecting one or more objects in a path of travel of a vehicle may include generating a laser with radiated power. The method may further include emitting the laser in a direction of travel of the vehicle and receiving one or more reflections of the emitted laser reflected from the one or more objects located in the direction of travel of the vehicle. The method may also further include generating a signal indicating that the one or more objects are in a path of the vehicle based on the received one or more reflections. The method may also include dynamically adjusting the radiated power of the laser based on an input corresponding to one or more of (i) a current speed of the vehicle or (ii) a current position of the vehicle.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing succinate ester from a succinic acid salt present in a fermentation broth. In the first stage of this invention, renewable carbon resources are utilized to produce succinic acid in the form of a succinic acid salt through biological fermentation. The succinic acid salt present in the fermentation broth is subjected to double displacement reaction with a strong acid leading to the release of succinic acid. Succinic acid is recovered by fractional crystallization integrated with an alcohol washing step and subjected to esterification reaction to produce succinate ester which is purified by fractional distillation. The succinate ester thus obtained is converted into 1,4-butanediol, gamma-butyrolactone and tetrahydrofuran through hydrogenation reactions. The succinate ester can also be hydrolyzed to yield highly pure succinic acid.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of summarization engines, each summarization engine to receive video content, via a processing system, and to provide a summary of the video content, thereby providing a plurality of summaries of the video content. The system includes a plurality of meta-algorithmic patterns, each meta-algorithmic pattern to be applied to at least two of the summaries to provide, via the processing system, a meta-summary of the video content using the at least two summaries, thereby providing a plurality of meta-summaries of the video content. The system includes an evaluator to evaluate the plurality of summaries and the plurality of meta-summaries and to determine similarity measures of the video content over each given class of a plurality of classes of video content, and to select a class of the plurality of classes based on the determined similarity measures.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic user profile generation and authentication. One system includes a database storing user profile data for a plurality of users and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the database. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from a computing device, a first usage indicator for a first user and a first user identifier for the first user, and to generate a probable user profile based on the first usage indicator and the first user identifier. The electronic processor is configured to retrieve, from the database, a plurality of previously-generated user profiles, and to determine, for each of the previously-generated user profiles, a confidence score based on the probable user profile. The electronic processor is configured to select an active user profile from the plurality of previously-generated user profiles when the confidence score exceeds a confidence threshold, and transmit, to the computing device, the active user profile.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using the compounds for treating breast cancer by administration to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of the compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The breast cancer may be an ER-positive breast cancer and/or the subject in need of treatment may express a mutant ER-? protein.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a program. The program receives a state change that occurred for an event created by an application. The event includes a creator of the event, a set of objects, and a set of sources. The program further identifies a schema definition in a plurality of schema definitions based on a type of the state change that occurred for the event. Each scheme definition in the plurality of schema definitions specifies a type of state change and a set of information associated with the event. The program also generates a message comprising the set of information associated with the event specified in the identified schema definition and a set of targets. The program further sends the message to a message management platform in order for the message management platform to send to an application for presentation to each target in the set of targets through a web portal provided by the application.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a program that receives from a client device a request for data feed items relevant to a user, determines a set of categories associated with the user, and queries a database for a first set of data feed items specify the user as a recipient of the data feed item. The program retrieves a second set of data feed items from an external content provider. The program modifies relevance scores of the first set of data feed items and the second set of data feed items based on the set of categories associated with the user and a set of factors, generates a result set of data feed items comprising the first and second sets of data feed items ordered based on the modified relevancy scores from highest relevancy score to lowest relevancy score, and provides the result set of data feed items to the client device.

Abstract: A solar concentrator module (80) employs a luminescent concentrator material (82) between photovoltaic cells (86) having their charge-carrier separation junctions (90) parallel to front surfaces (88) of photovoltaic material 84 of the photovoltaic cells (86). Intercell areas (78) covered by the luminescent concentrator material (82) occupy from 2 to 50% of the total surface area of the solar concentrator modules (80). The luminescent concentrator material (82) preferably employs quantum dot heterostructures, and the photovoltaic cells (86) preferably employ low-cost high-efficiency photovoltaic materials (84), such as silicon-based photovoltaic materials.