Abstract: An assembly for measuring metal powder material mass flow rate during direct metal deposition. A detection strip is placed in the gas-blown metal powder material flow path. The detection strip is fixed in one end and suspended at the other end. The flowing metal powder material particles induce displacement to the detection strip. A displacement measurement sensor measures the amount of displacement of the detection strip. The amount of displacement of the detection strip gives relationship to the amount of the metal powder material flowing in the metal powder material flow path. The detection strip and the sensor are connected to a housing with a metal powder material inlet port and metal powder material outlet port and includes internal features for smooth travel of metal powder material particles.

Abstract: An energy storage system for power time shifting is described herein. The energy storage system allows for the selection of which energy source to use. The energy storage system further allows for a determination as to whether or not excess energy should be stored, used, or sold. The energy storage system can use historical data to predict energy usage and costs in the future to further refine energy usage, storage, or sale determinations.

Abstract: Processes capable of producing bulk materials suitable for use by the horticulture industry, resulting bulk materials produced thereby, and applications for these processes and materials. Preferred bulk materials have physical properties similar to peat moss and comprise individual materials, each at least partially having a twisted, curled, clumped and rolled structure. The individual materials may further comprise small granular particles dispersed throughout the twisted, curled, clumped and rolled structure. The individual materials may be rolled fibers such that the bulk material has physical properties similar to sphagnum peat moss so as to be particularly suitable as, for example, a soil conditioner, an absorbent material, a chemical carrier, or a filtering material. Alternatively, the individual materials may be rolled particles such that the bulk material has physical properties similar to milled peat moss so as to be particularly suitable as propagation media.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to nanoparticles and nanoparticulate compositions; methods of preparing such nanoparticles and nanoparticulate compositions; and associated methods of medical treatment and uses of such nanoparticles and nanoparticulate compositions for medical treatment, including the use of such nanoparticles for the manufacture of medicaments for medical treatment.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to nanoparticulate vaccine adjuvants, and to vaccine compositions which contain nanoparticulate vaccine adjuvants; to methods of preparing such adjuvants and compositions; and to methods of using such compositions and adjuvants for vaccination. The vaccine adjuvants disclosed herein are effective for enhancing the immune response to vaccination.

Abstract: A variable flow area injector for a liquid rocket engine. The injector has a poppet with a variable outer width portion and a housing with a variable inner width portion. An annular flow path is defined between the variable width portions. Increased throttling of the engine passively increases the annular flow area of the injector by forcing the poppet in a distal direction. Decreased throttling allows a restoring spring to move the poppet in a proximal direction to decrease the annular flow area. A bellows can be included to dampen movement of the poppet. The bellows may be in a propellant-filled cavity separate from the main propellant flow path and have a series of openings through which the separate propellant flows.

Abstract: A stimulation system for a patient is provided. The system comprises: at least one implantable device comprising at least one implantable antenna; and an external device comprising at least one external antenna, wherein the at least one external antenna transfers power to the at least one implantable antenna. The at least one implantable device delivers therapy to the patient. A patient attachment device or body covering positions the at least one external antenna relative to the patient.

Abstract: An event graph associated with a root cause for a change in security state on an endpoint is used to facilitate malware detection on other endpoints.

Abstract: The present document relates to methods and apparatus for rendering input audio for playback in a playback environment. The input audio includes at least one audio object and associated metadata, and the associated metadata indicates at least a location of the audio object. A method for rendering input audio including divergence metadata for playback in a playback environment comprises creating two additional audio objects associated with the audio object such that respective locations of the two additional audio objects are evenly spaced from the location of the audio object, on opposite sides of the location of the audio object when seen from an intended listener's position in the playback environment, determining respective weight factors for application to the audio object and the two additional audio objects, and rendering the audio object and the two additional audio objects to one or more speaker feeds in accordance with the determined weight factors.

Abstract: A wearable radon detector is an apparatus that measures radon exposure around a user. The apparatus includes a housing, an elongated plate, and a radon-detecting foil strip. The housing contains the elongated plate and the radon-detecting foil strip. The elongated plate positions and maneuvers the radon-detecting foil strip. The housing includes a receptacle portion, a storage portion, a first breakaway line, a plate-receiving slot, and a plurality of air passages. The elongated plate includes a grasping member, a setting member, and a second breakaway line. Radon collects within the receptacle portion through the plurality of air passages. The storage portion shields the radon-detecting foil strip once setting member has been slid from the receptacle portion and into the storage portion, the receptacle portion has been separated from storage portion along the first breakaway line, and the grasping member has been separated from the setting member along the second breakaway line.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of handling large transforms in a computer-aided design (CAD) solid model utilizing double precision to describe a physical assembly of parts is described. If the unit size of a transform of interest exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the double precision of the transform is converted to quadruple precision whilst maintaining the double precision of the assembly. The results of any operation are output in double precision. A computer program and method of adapting an existing CAD model are also described.

Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving an identity of fraudulent user equipment (UE); identifying a plurality of candidate UEs based on locations associated with the fraudulent UE and a duration of a session of the fraudulent UE; computing vectors representing the plurality of candidate UEs based on activity data associated with the plurality of candidate UEs recorded during the duration; comparing the plurality of vectors to a vector associated with activity data associated with the fraudulent UE to compute distances between the plurality of candidate UEs and the fraudulent UE; sorting the plurality of candidate UEs based on the distances; storing a top subset of the plurality of candidate UEs as co-located UEs; and performing an action using the top subset of the plurality of candidate UEs.

Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to systems, methods, and media for media session concurrency management with recurring license renewals. More particularly, the disclosed subject matter relates to using recurring license renewals for concurrent playback detection and concurrency limit enforcement for video delivery services and managing server resources for handling such recurring license renewals.

Abstract: An equipment cooling rack device, with a cooling cabinet, having a cooled area, adapted for holding multiple different heat creating structures to be cooled; a cooling structure, coupled to the cooling cabinet, and providing a first cooling coil for a left side of the rack and a second cooling coil for a right side of the rack, and orthogonal fans. The fans and coolant are controlled according to thermographic color of the cooling cabinet.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a streamlined garbage collection process during which data integrity checking is also performed for a distributed key-value (KV) store utilized by a distributed storage management system. According to one embodiment, by making use of full or truncated block IDs (rather than an intermediate probabilistic data structure, such as a Bloom filter) for garbage collection, data integrity checking can be performed concurrently almost for free. During garbage collection, a block ID compare list is compared to block IDs within the distributed KV store. If a particular block ID is present in the distributed KV store but is missing from the block ID compare list, the corresponding data block represents garbage to be collected. If the particular block ID is present in the block ID compare list but missing from the distributed KV store, a data integrity error has been identified.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide compliance management tools such as for respiratory pressure therapy. In some versions, a respiratory pressure therapy system may include one or more processors, such as of a data server, configured to communicate with a computing device and/or a respiratory pressure therapy device. The respiratory pressure therapy device may be configured to deliver respiratory pressure therapy to a patient for a session. The computing device may be associated with the patient. The processor(s) may be further configured to compute a therapy quality indicator of the session from usage data relating to the session. The therapy quality indicator may be a number derived from contributions of a plurality of usage variables for the session in the usage data. The processor(s) may be further configured to present, such as by transmitting, the therapy quality indicator to the computing device. The therapy quality indicator may promote patient compliance.

Abstract: A super home node of a first chip of a multi-chip data processing system manages coherence for both local and remote cache lines accessed by local caching agents and local cache lines accessed by caching agents of one or more second chips. Both local and remote cache lines are stored in a shared cache, and requests are stored in shared point-of-coherency queue. An entry in a snoop filter table of the super home node includes a presence vector that indicates the presence of a remote cache line at specific caching agents of the first chip or the presence of a local cache line at specific caching agents of the first chip and any caching agent of the second chip. All caching agents of the second chip are represented as a single caching agent in the presence vector.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes one or more cache configuration data stores, a coherence manager, and a shared cache. The coherence manager is configured to track and maintain coherency of cache lines accessed by local caching agents and one or more remote caching agents. The cache lines include local cache lines accessed from a local memory region and remote cache lines accessed from a remote memory region. The shared cache is configured to store local cache lines in a first partition and to store remote cache lines in a second partition. The sizes of the first and second partitions are determined based on values in the one or more cache configuration data stores and may or not overlap. The cache configuration data stores may be programmable by a user or dynamically programmed in response to local memory and remote memory access patterns.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cellobiohydrolase variants, polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.