Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus that allows for improving the self-healing capability of a network, wherein the apparatus is adapted to be part of a network (100), like a ZigBee network. The operation apparatus (110) is adapted to operate a network device (101) and comprises a network information providing unit (111), wherein the network information refers to information with respect to maintenance messages (105, 106, 107) sent and/or received by a network device (101) and/or a neighboring network device (103, 104) to maintain the network, a determination unit (112) for determining self-related connection information from the network information, wherein the self-related connection information refers to information on the connection of the network device itself with the network, and a control unit (113) for controlling the network device based on the self-related connection information.

Abstract: In some examples, a system receives input information of characteristics relating to a storage volume to be provisioned in a collection of storage systems, determines, based on the input information of the characteristics relating to the storage volume, a workload profile, and simulates execution of a workload according to the workload profile in each storage system of the collection of storage systems. Based on the simulation, the system determines a respective amount of headroom used by the workload in each storage system of the collection of storage systems, and selects, based on the determined respective amounts of headroom used by the workload in respective storage systems of the collection of storage systems, a storage system from the collection of storage systems on which the storage volume is to be provisioned.

Abstract: The invention refers to providing a control module allowing to reduce computational efforts for providing a luminaire with a tunable color temperature. The luminaire (100) comprises two light sources (112, 111), for instance, LEDs, wherein each light source generates white light at a different CCT. The control module comprises a color temperature providing unit (121) providing a desired color temperature, and an assignment providing unit (122) providing an assignment list comprising assignments, wherein each assignment comprises a predefined CCT to which brightness values for each light source are assigned. A brightness value determination unit (123) determines brightness values for the light sources based on the desired color temperature and the assignment list, and a control unit (124) controls the luminaire based on the determined brightness values. The control module allows to reduce the constructional and computational efforts for providing a color temperature tunable luminaire.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a plurality of hardware security modules, at least a first hardware security module in the plurality of hardware security modules comprising processing circuitry to generate a first plurality of pairs of cryptographic key pairs comprising a first plurality of private keys and a first plurality of public keys, forward the first plurality of public keys to a remote computing device, receive, from the remote computing device, a first plurality of ciphertexts, wherein each ciphertext in the plurality of ciphertexts represents an encryption of a cryptographic seed with a public key selected from the plurality of public keys, receive, from a subset of hardware security modules in the plurality of hardware security modules, a subset of private keys.

Abstract: An interferometer system including: an optical system arranged to split a radiation beam from a laser source into a first beam along a first optical path and a second beam along a second optical path, and recombine the first beam and the second beam to a recombined beam, a detector to receive the recombined beam and to provide a detector signal based on the received recombined beam, and a processing unit, wherein a first optical path length of the first optical path and a second optical path length of the second optical path have an optical path length difference, and wherein the processing unit is arranged to determine a mode hop of the laser source on the basis of a phase shift in the detector signal.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods to identify an electronic control unit transmitting a message on a communication bus, such as an in-vehicle network bus, are provided. ECUs transmit messages by manipulating voltage on conductive lines of the bus. Observation circuitry can observe voltage signals associated with the transmission at a point on the in-vehicle network bus. A distribution can be generated from densities of the voltage signals. ECUs can be identified and/or fingerprinted based on the distributions.

Abstract: A fuel system, comprising at least one fuel component formed of a steel alloy comprising 0.01-0.31 wt.% carbon, 0.0-0.20 wt.% silicon, 0.15-0.50 wt.% manganese, 0.0 - 0.015 wt.% phosphorous, 0.0-0.001 wt.% sulfur, 4.80-5.20 wt.% chromium, 4.80-6.20 wt.% nickel, 0.60-0.80 wt.% molybdenum, 0.0 - 0.550 wt.% vanadium, and 2.000-2.400 wt.% aluminum, wherein the at least one fuel component is configured to come in contact with fuel when fuel is ran through the fuel system.

Abstract: Conformable sheet article made from paper and useful, for example, in packaging, tapes, and craft article, and methods of making and using such sheet articles are disclosed.

Abstract: A system may include a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium having encoded thereon a set of instructions executable by the processor to establish a first multilink connection associated with a first basic service set and a second multilink connection associated with a second basic service set, set the second basic service set as a priority basic service set, switch an enabled link of the first basic service set on which communications are carried, and in response to determining that the enabled link of the first basic service set has been switched, switch an enabled link of the second basic service set based, wherein switching the enabled link of the second basic service set includes enabling the first link while the second link is concurrently enabled for a first duration, and disabling the second link after the first duration.

Abstract: A method includes first determining among a plurality of cells a first set of cells that are anomalous, second determining among remaining cells a second set of cells that are anomalous, and identifying a resulting set of anomalous cells being a combination of the first set and the second set of anomalous cells. The first determining is based on input data of a plurality of first features of each cell among the plurality of cells, and a first machine learning operation. The second determining is based on the input data of the plurality of first features of each cell among the remaining cells, and a second machine learning operation different from the first machine learning operation.

Abstract: A machine learning system to determine an identity of a user is trained using triplets of ad hoc synthetic data and actual data. The data may comprise multimodal images of a hand. Each triplet comprises an anchor, a positive, and a negative image. Synthetic triplets for different synthesized identities are generated on an ad hoc basis and provided as input during training of the machine learning system. The machine learning system uses a pairwise label-based loss function, such as a triplet loss function during training. Synthetic triplets may be generated to provide more challenging training data, to provide training data for categories that are underrepresented in the actual data, and so forth. The system uses substantially less memory during training, and the synthetic triplets need not be retained further reducing memory use. Ongoing training is supported as new actual triplets become available, and may be supplemented by additional synthetic triplets.

Abstract: Methods for selecting a filter for a filtration process are described. Input data is received, and based on the input data, one or more filter characteristics for each of a plurality of filter candidates for a filtration process are identified. Process parameters of the filtration process are identified. A computer-implemented simulation process of the filtration process for each of the plurality of filter candidates is performed, based on the identified process parameters and identified filter characteristics. One or more output characteristics of the filtration process are determined based on the simulation. A filter candidate of the plurality of filter candidates is selected based on the one or more output characteristics.

Abstract: High level synthesis (HLS) begins with high-level specification of a problem, where behavior is generally decoupled from e.g., clock-level timing. Programming code can be run and debugged during functional simulation using debugging techniques. However, it is not possible to understand execution flow of register transfer level instructions (RTL) generated during RTL debug. Conventionally, it is challenging and not possible due to nature of debugging techniques which ignore printf statements in code for invocation. Systems and methods of present disclosure synthesize printf and/or scanf statements for generating debug messages in HLS code, wherein printf and/or scanf statements is/are included before/after function(s) in sections comprising instructions in code and synthesized as a block during run-time which communicate with host system and debug messages are generated for display on screen.

Abstract: An electricity distribution system includes a peer-to-peer decentralized ledger network and a plurality of distributed ledger nodes in communication within the peer-to-peer decentralized ledger network. At least one distributed ledger node of the plurality of distributed ledger nodes includes a processor that aids in executing peer-to-peer energy and financial transactions between energy suppliers and energy buyers. The processor is programmed to schedule at least one of supply of electricity from one of a plurality of available energy sources to an on-site load based on predetermined demand parameters set by an energy buyer and delivery of electricity generated by a distributed energy resource to an external load based on predetermined supply parameters set by an energy supplier.

Abstract: Examples of systems described herein include a virtualized file server including a first file server virtual machine and a second file server virtual machine configured to manage a distributed file share of storage items. The second file server virtual machine is configured to manage a particular storage item of the distributed file share of storage items. The first file server virtual machine is configured to, in response to receipt of a referral request for a file share path for the particular storage item from a client, look up a file share path for the particular storage item in a map of at least a portion of the distributed file share of storage items, and provide a referral with the file share path that identifies the second file server virtual machine.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are cyclic thiol prodrugs, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The prodrugs and pharmaceutical compositions thereof may be used to treat or prevent medical disorders such as, for example, cystinuria, cystinosis, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, malaria, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, radiation poisoning, arsenic poisoning, radioprotection, Wilson’s disease or rheumatoid arthritis.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for medical image classification of images from varying sources. A set of microscopic medical images are acquired, and a first neural network module configured to reduce each of the set of microscopic medical images to a feature representation is generated. The first neural network module, a second neural network module, and a third neural network module are trained on at least a subset of the set of microscopic medical images. The second neural network module is trained to receive feature representation associated with an image of the microscopic images and classify the image into one of a first plurality of output classes. The third neural network module is trained to receive the feature representation, classify the image into one of a second plurality of output classes based on the feature representation, and provide feedback to the first neural network module.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for estimating a state-of-health (SOH) in an energy storage system, where the estimate accounts for both power fade and capacity fade. The SOH estimation system comprises a SOH estimation module configured to receive, and to determine the estimate of the SOH based on: a nominal capacity input; a voltage input; a current input; a nominal open circuit voltage curve; an operational resistance model; a nominal resistance model; an operational dynamic model; and a rated discharge current. The SOH estimation module may further comprise a SOH aggregation module configured to receive a power rating estimate, PRn, and a normalized capacity estimate, NCn, and may be configured to determine the estimate of the SOH based on the power rating estimate, PRn, and the normalized capacity estimate, NCn.

Abstract: A distributed voice applications system includes a voice applications rendering agent and at least one voice applications agent that is configured to provide voice applications to an individual user. A management system may control and direct the voice applications rendering agent to create voice applications that are personalized for individual users based on user characteristics, information about the environment in which the voice applications will be performed, prior user interactions and other information. The voice applications agent and components of customized voice applications may be resident on a local user device which includes a voice browser and speech recognition capabilities. The local device, voice applications rendering agent and management system may be interconnected via a communications network.

Abstract: An information management system implements a method for determining whether to initiate a failover of a storage manager in the system. Nodes in the system may be assigned as monitoring nodes configured to communicate with a storage manager. Furthermore, each monitoring node may be configured to transmit a status inquiry message to each other monitoring node, and each monitoring node may receive a status inquiry message from each other monitoring node. Each monitoring node may also generate a session message comprising status information, and a plurality of failover nodes may receive the generated session messages. A failover node may then determine whether a failover condition has occurred by applying a plurality of failover rules to the status information of the transmitted session message. Where the failover node determines that a failover condition has occurred, the failover node may activate another storage manager to take place of the presently assigned storage manager.