Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for high throughput analysis of analytes such as polypeptides in a cyclic manner (e.g., using NGPA or NGPS described herein) that allow adjustment of the dynamic range and sensitivity of analyte detection, for instance, based on the abundances of different polypeptides present in a sample to be analyzed. The approaches proposed herein can be used to adjust the dynamic range of abundant analytes (e.g., polypeptides present in high concentrations) in biological samples, such as plasma samples, and to increase proteome coverage achieved by high throughput protein analysis methods, for instance, by improving the sensitivity of detecting less abundant analytes.

Abstract: Orthopedic implants, systems, instruments, and methods. A bi-portal lumbar interbody fusion system may include an expandable interbody implant and minimally invasive pedicle-based intradiscal fixation implants. The interbody and intradiscal implants may be installed with intelligent instrumentation capable of repeatably providing precision placement of the implants. The bi-portal system may be robotically-enabled to guide the instruments and implants along desired access trajectories to the surgical area.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to identify, utilizing virtualization software running on a storage system, a snapshot lineage comprising snapshots of a storage volume, the snapshot lineage comprising (i) a local snapshot lineage on storage devices of the storage system and (ii) a cloud snapshot lineage on cloud storage external to the storage system. The processing device is also configured to utilize the virtualization software to select a given snapshot in the local snapshot lineage to copy to the cloud snapshot lineage, to create a cloud storage volume on the cloud storage, and to map the cloud storage volume to the given snapshot in the local snapshot lineage. The processing device is further configured to copy the given snapshot to the cloud snapshot lineage by utilizing a data mover of the storage system to write data of the given snapshot to the cloud storage volume.

Abstract: A TV wall mounting device includes a wall mount box with vertical supports, a display mount receiving a TV, and an extending/contracting portion between the box and the display mount. The extending/contracting portion has lower and upper arms rotatably attached to the wall mount with rear axles, a pair of linear actuators rotatably attached to the wall mount, a front portion that rises and lowers with action of the actuators, and a horizontally-swiveling portion that is raised and lowered with the front portion and is capable of rotating right-left with respect to the front portion. The display mount is attached to the horizontally-swiveling portion. Parallel operation of the linear actuators, wherein each actuator extends and retracts while keeping the same length as the other actuator, causes the display mount to go up and down. Differential operation of the actuators causes the display mount to rotate right and left.

Abstract: A method includes forming a communication channel between a user device and an access device. The communication channel is then secured using a user device key pair in the user device and an access device ephemeral key pair in the access device. The access device then generates a session key using at least a private cryptographic key in the access device ephemeral key pair, and a public key in the user device key pair. The access device then uses the session key to secure an ultra-wideband communication channel between the user device and the access device.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a device comprises one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: obtain first data about a component disposed on a board, determine whether or not a model for a first class corresponding to the first data is stored in one or more memories, upon a determination that the model for the first class is stored in the one or more memories, determine whether or not the first data corresponds to the first class using the model, upon a determination that the model for the first class is not stored in the one or more memories, determine whether or not the first data corresponds to the first class using second data corresponding to the first class, and transmit information indicating whether or not the first data corresponds to the first class to an external device.

Abstract: A method of assembling a scent warmer includes positioning an elastomeric sleeve on a stem extending upwardly from a base of the scent warmer such that the elastomeric sleeve surrounds at least a portion of the stem and positioning a removable decorative body around the elastomeric sleeve on the stem and deforming the ribs of the elastomeric sleeve. The elastomeric sleeve applies a retention force between the removable decorative body and the stem. A scent warmer includes a base member, a stem extending upwardly from the base member and configured to carry a heating element thereon, and an elastomeric sleeve surrounding at least a portion of the stem. The elastomeric sleeve is configured to apply a retention force between a removable decorative body and the stem. A method is used to form a scent warmer.

Abstract: A TV wall mounting device includes a wall mount box with vertical supports, a display mount receiving a TV, and an extending/contracting portion between the box and the display mount. The extending/contracting portion has lower and upper arms rotatably attached to the wall mount with rear axles, a pair of linear actuators rotatably attached to the wall mount, a front portion that rises and lowers with action of the actuators, and a horizontally-swiveling portion that is raised and lowered with the front portion and is capable of rotating right-left with respect to the front portion. The display mount is attached to the horizontally-swiveling portion. Parallel operation of the linear actuators, wherein each actuator extends and retracts while keeping the same length as the other actuator, causes the display mount to go up and down. Differential operation of the actuators causes the display mount to rotate right and left.

Abstract: The system that enables the classification and description of goods is described. The system is based on a combination of a user device with a graphical user interface that captures images, video, and/or audio of an object, such as farm equipment or construction equipment. The user device provides the information to a computing device running a classification model trained through machine learning. Training data may include sensor data (e.g., multimedia data such as images, video, and audio) depicting existing equipment in various configurations and corresponding data sets characterizing the equipment in those configurations.

Abstract: Catalytic compositions and sequential catalytic methods are generally described. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a first catalyst comprising a Cu-modified zeolite, and a second catalyst capable of a coupling reaction between (a) an intermediate resulting from a reaction of a reactant at the first catalyst, and (b) a co-reagent, wherein a rate of diffusion of the co-reagent within one or more cages and/or pores of the first catalyst is lower than a rate of diffusion of the intermediate within the one or more cages and/or pores of the first catalyst.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure may include a base for a scent warmer. The base may include a base member and a stem extending upwardly from the base member. The stem may be configured to carry a heating element thereon. The base may also include an elastomeric sleeve surrounding at least a portion of the stem. The elastomeric sleeve may be configured to apply a retention force between a removable decorative body and the stem. The elastomeric sleeve may include a wall member sized and configured to abut against the stem and a plurality of ribs extending radially outward from the wall member.

Abstract: A method for processing one or more histological images captured by a medical imaging device is disclosed. In this method, the histological image is received, and target regions each of which corresponds to a candidate type of tissue are identified based on a predictive model associating one more sample histological images with one or more sample target histological images. One or more display characteristics associated with the identified at least one target histological image is applied to the histological image.

Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing system diagnostics focused in areas of disruption to improve inventory and workforce management in a revenue cycle management system. Inventory input is received from a revenue cycle management system. The inventory input includes inventory in the revenue cycle management system, types of claims in the inventory, pair agreements of the claims, and a length of time the claims have been in the inventory. Workforce input is also received from the revenue cycle management system. The workforce input includes experience, type of education or technical training, specialty, and outcomes corresponding to a workforce of the client. A portion of the inventory is automatically assigned to an associate of the workforce. The portion of the inventory tailored to the associate based on the inventory input and the workforce input.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for when utility power is restored after a period of running on a backup generator, inhibiting a transfer switch if the two sources are out of phase, monitoring the phase difference between utility power and the generator output, and changing from the generator to the utility feed when the two phases are sufficiently aligned.

Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing system diagnostics focused in areas of disruption to improve inventory and workforce management in a revenue cycle management system. Inventory input is received from a revenue cycle management system. The inventory input includes inventory in the revenue cycle management system, types of claims in the inventory, pair agreements of the claims, and a length of time the claims have been in the inventory. Workforce input is also received from the revenue cycle management system. The workforce input includes experience, type of education or technical training, specialty, and outcomes corresponding to a workforce of the client. A portion of the inventory is automatically assigned to an associate of the workforce. The portion of the inventory tailored to the associate based on the inventory input and the workforce input.

Abstract: A TV wall mounting device includes a wall mount box with vertical supports, a display mount receiving a TV, and an extending/contracting portion between the box and the display mount. The extending/contracting portion has lower and upper arms rotatably attached to the wall mount with rear axles, a pair of linear actuators rotatably attached to the wall mount, a front portion that rises and lowers with action of the actuators, and a horizontally-swiveling portion that is raised and lowered with the front portion and is capable of rotating right-left with respect to the front portion. The display mount is attached to the horizontally-swiveling portion. Parallel operation of the linear actuators, wherein each actuator extends and retracts while keeping the same length as the other actuator, causes the display mount to go up and down. Differential operation of the actuators causes the display mount to rotate right and left.

Abstract: A method, performed by a computer, for volumetrically determining a mid-sagittal plane (MSP) from a plurality of magnetic resonance (MR) images of a brain is disclosed. The plurality of MR images is received and converted into a 3D volume image defined in a 3D coordinate space. Semantic segmentation of an anterior commissure (AC) region, a posterior commissure (PC) region, and a third ventricle region in the 3D volume image is performed based on a pre-trained segmentation model to generate a 3D mask image labeled with the AC region, the PC region, and the third ventricle region. Based on the labeled 3D mask image, a 3D volumetric image of the segmented third ventricle region is constructed. The MSP is determined based on the 3D volumetric image of the third ventricle region.

Abstract: A method, performed by a computer, for volumetrically determining a mid-sagittal plane (MSP) from a plurality of magnetic resonance (MR) images of a brain is disclosed. The plurality of MR images is received and converted into a 3D volume image defined in a 3D coordinate space. Semantic segmentation of an anterior commissure (AC) region, a posterior commissure (PC) region, and a third ventricle region in the 3D volume image is performed based on a pre-trained segmentation model to generate a 3D mask image labeled with the AC region, the PC region, and the third ventricle region. Based on the labeled 3D mask image, a 3D volumetric image of the segmented third ventricle region is constructed. The MSP is determined based on the 3D volumetric image of the third ventricle region.

Abstract: A process for preparing a multi-thickness welded steel vehicle rail, the process comprises the steps of: (a) forming a first tube having a first outer diameter, an inner diameter and a first wall thickness; (b) forming a second tube having the first outer diameter, a second inner diameter and a second wall thickness different than the first wall thickness; (c) swaging a first end of the first tube to a second outer diameter less than the second inner diameter of the second tube; (d) inserting the swaged first end of the first tube into an end of the second tube to form a joint; (e) welding the first tube and the second tube together to form a weld at the joint to form a tube blank with a heat affected zone of lower metal strength in the area of the weld; (f) preheating the tube blank to create a common crystalline microstructure along a length of the tube blank; (g) introducing the tube blank into a blow molding tool having inner molding walls; (h) molding the tube blank at an elevated temperature by expandin

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure may include a base for a scent warmer. The base may include a base member and a stem extending upwardly from the base member. The stem may be configured to carry a heating element thereon. The base may also include an elastomeric sleeve surrounding at least a portion of the stem. The elastomeric sleeve may be configured to apply a retention force between a removable decorative body and the stem. The elastomeric sleeve may include a wall member sized and configured to abut against the stem and a plurality of ribs extending radially outward from the wall member.