Abstract: One variation of a food production system includes a module housing: including a food preparation surface located at work surface height; configured to transiently house a food-dispensing module configured to dispense an ingredient toward an autonomous assembly zone located below the food preparation surface; including a positioner module arranged within the autonomous assembly zone and configured to transiently locate a food container below the food-dispensing module for dispensation of the ingredient into the food container; including a window arranged on a front side of the module housing and configured to enable user access to the autonomous assembly zone.

Abstract: One variation of a food preparation unit 120 includes: a manual preparation surface; an autonomous assembly zone beneath the manual preparation surface; a receptacle above the autonomous assembly zone and adjacent the manual preparation surface; a conveyor unit within the autonomous assembly zone, configured to traverse a food container through the autonomous assembly zone; and a set of actuators adjacent the receptacle and configured to, in one configuration with the dispenser receptacle occupied by a food dispensing assembly loaded with an ingredient type, selectively actuate to rotate a set of agitators in the food dispensing assembly to drive the ingredient type toward an outlet of the food dispensing assembly and to open the outlet to dispense a serving of the ingredient type toward the autonomous assembly zone.

Abstract: One variation of a food production system includes a controller and a module housing: configured to transiently house a food-dispensing module configured to store and dispense units of an ingredient toward an autonomous assembly zone; and including a positioner module, arranged within the autonomous assembly zone, including a platform configured to receive and support a food container, a set of positioner arms configured to maneuver the platform across an assembly plane to position the food container below food-dispensing modules, and a set of actuators configured to transiently engage the set of positioner arms. The controller is configured to: receive a food order specifying the ingredient; trigger the set of actuators to rotate the set of positioner arms to move the platform across the assembly plane and locate the food container below the food-dispensing module; and trigger the food-dispensing module to dispense the ingredient into the food container.

Abstract: One variation of a food production system includes a module housing: supporting a food preparation surface located at work surface height; configured to transiently house a food-dispensing module configured to dispense an ingredient toward the first autonomous assembly zone; including a positioner module arranged within the autonomous assembly zone and configured to transiently locate a food container below the food-dispensing module for dispensation of the ingredient into the food container; including a window arranged on a front side of the module housing and configured to enable user access to the autonomous assembly zone. The food production system further includes a controller configured to: receive a food order; coordinate motion of the positioner module to locate the food container below the food-dispensing module; and selectively trigger the food-dispensing module to dispense the ingredient into the food container to assemble a unit of a food product according to the food order.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems directed to cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or elevated risk of a pregnancy-related state of a pregnant subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from said pregnant subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or elevated risk of the pregnancy-related state.

Abstract: A method for selection of a marker in an augmented reality (AR) environment is provided. The method includes capturing a scene in the augmented reality environment; extracting a set of region of interest from the scene captured; identifying a text in the region of interest or from a document associated to the region of interest; determining a set of phrase-action pairs from the text; generating a representation of a set of region of interest and a representation of a set of phrase-action pairs; calculating inter model similarity using the set of region of interest and the set of phrase-action pairs in common embedding space; computing intra model similarity by comparing the extracted ROI with a generated ROI and the extracted phrase-action with generated phrase actions; and selecting a phrase-action-ROI tuple having the highest intra modal similarity as the marker.

Abstract: One variation of a food production system includes a module housing: supporting a food preparation surface located at work surface height; configured to transiently house a food-dispensing module configured to dispense an ingredient toward the first autonomous assembly zone; including a positioner module arranged within the autonomous assembly zone and configured to transiently locate a food container below the food-dispensing module for dispensation of the ingredient into the food container; including a window arranged on a front side of the module housing and configured to enable user access to the autonomous assembly zone. The food production system further includes a controller configured to: receive a food order; coordinate motion of the positioner module to locate the food container below the food-dispensing module; and selectively trigger the food-dispensing module to dispense the ingredient into the food container to assemble a unit of a food product according to the food order.

Abstract: Methods and systems may perform cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or susceptibility of a pregnancy-related state of a subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from the subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or susceptibility of the pregnancy-related state.

Abstract: Methods and systems may perform cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or susceptibility of a pregnancy-related state of a subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from the subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or susceptibility of the pregnancy-related state.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for directing pregnancy-related clinical trials. A method for directing a clinical trial may comprise evaluating a subject for participation in a clinical trial for assessing pregnancy-related states of subjects or fetuses thereof, selecting the subject for the clinical trial, based at least in part on the evaluating, and directing collection of a biological sample of the subject at a location remote with respect to a health care facility.

Abstract: Methods and systems may perform cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or susceptibility of a pregnancy-related state of a subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from the subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or susceptibility of the pregnancy-related state.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems directed to cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or susceptibility of a pregnancy-related state of a subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from said subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or susceptibility of the pregnancy-related state.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods for enriching a biological sample for a target nucleic acid, and analyzing the nucleic acid. In some cases, a biological sample is enriched for target nucleic acids associated with a cancer or tumor. In some cases, a biological sample is enriched for target nucleic acids, and the target nucleic acids vary in length. In some cases, one or more probes are used to enrich the biological sample for the target nucleic acid. In some cases, one or more probes hybridize to one or more ends of a target nucleic acid.

Abstract: A system for retrieving information from an instructional document, includes a processor configured to: receive a query from a user; compare the query with one or more text sections in the instructional document; obtain, from the one or more text sections, top x text sections relevant to the query using a pre-trained encoder; compare the query with one or more images in the instructional document; obtain, from the images, top y images relevant to the query; generate top y image-text sections based on the top y images; obtain top k sections from the top x text sections and the top y image-text sections; obtain one or more most relevant sections from the top k sections using a domain-specific pre-trained encoder and a sequential classification model; and generate an answer based on the one or more most relevant sections and device context information using the domain-specific pre-trained encoder.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory configured to store at least one pre-registered voiceprint and a first voiceprint cluster including the at least one pre-registered voiceprint, and a processor configured to, based on a user recognition command being received, obtain information of time at which the user recognition command is received, change the at least one pre-registered voiceprint included in the first voiceprint cluster based on the obtained information of time, generate a second voiceprint cluster based on the at least one changed voiceprint, and based on a user's utterance being received, perform user recognition with respect to the received user's utterance based on the first voiceprint cluster and the second voiceprint cluster.

Abstract: A method for selection of a marker in an augmented reality (AR) environment is provided. The method includes capturing a scene in the augmented reality environment; extracting a set of region of interest from the scene captured; identifying a text in the region of interest or from a document associated to the region of interest; determining a set of phrase-action pairs from the text; generating a representation of a set of region of interest and a representation of a set of phrase-action pairs; calculating inter model similarity using the set of region of interest and the set of phrase-action pairs in common embedding space; computing intra model similarity by comparing the extracted ROI with a generated ROI and the extracted phrase-action with generated phrase actions; and selecting a phrase-action-ROI tuple having the highest intra modal similarity as the marker.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods for enriching a biological sample for a target nucleic acid, and analyzing the nucleic acid. In some cases, a biological sample is enriched for target nucleic acids associated with a cancer or tumor. In some cases, a biological sample is enriched for target nucleic acids, and the target nucleic acids vary in length. In some cases, one or more probes are used to enrich the biological sample for the target nucleic acid. In some cases, one or more probes hybridize to one or more ends of a target nucleic acid.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device comprising: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: detect at least one event of the electronic device operating in a first mechanism; in response to the detected at least one event, operate in a second mechanism; and transmitting screen information of the electronic device to another electronic device for displaying a virtual reality screen at the other electronic device based on the screen information.

Abstract: Methods and systems may perform cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or susceptibility of a pregnancy-related state of a subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from the subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or susceptibility of the pregnancy-related state.

Abstract: Methods and systems may perform cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or susceptibility of a pregnancy-related state of a subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from the subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or susceptibility of the pregnancy-related state.