Abstract: A valving arrangement is provided herein for regulating fluidics of modules usable in a combinatorial drug delivery device. The valving includes a slidable piston valve, adjustable to selectively seal an outlet path from a drug vial and a sealing port, in parallel to a vent, for selectively sealing an inlet path to the drug vial. Advantageously, the subject invention allows for applied negative pressure to adjust the valving to allow flow between serially-connected modules forming a drug delivery device.

Abstract: A method is provided for reducing the electrical activity of defects in a silicon carbide epitaxial layer grown on a silicon wafer, the method comprising reducing oxidation of silicon during growth of the silicon carbide epitaxial layer. We also describe a semiconductor structure comprising: a silicon wafer; and a silicon carbide epitaxial layer grown on the silicon wafer; wherein the silicon carbide epitaxial layer is doped with a precursor, the precursor being configured to reduce oxidation of silicon during growth of the silicon carbide epitaxial layer. Reducing the oxidation of silicon may advantageously reduce or prevent the preferential uptake of nitrogen at defects by reducing the formation of the intermediate species (i.e. silicon dioxide) in the reaction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a closed loop, self-learning system that automatically optimizes what experiences should be presented to each customer. Instead of relying on rules and external targeting, it observes customer reactions to continuously improve performance and adapt to environment changes.

Abstract: Protection apparatus for a flexible elongate member. The apparatus comprises a plurality of protection members 10. Each protection member 10 defines an opening 22 through which a flexible elongate member can extend. Each protection member 10 is interconnectable end to end with other such protection members 10 to provide protection along the length of an elongate member. Each protection member 10 comprises two parts 12 which are mountable together to define the opening 22 through which an elongate member can extend. The two parts 12 together form a female formation 18 at one end, and a male formation 20 at the other end, such that the female formation 18 can receive a male formation 20 on an adjacent protection member 10 to interconnect the adjacent projection members 10. The female and male formations 18, 20 are configured to permit a predetermined amount of relative pivotal movement between adjacent protection members 10.

Abstract: A bicycle has a front fork, within which the front wheel is mounted, attached to the head tube. Extending downwardly from each end of a lateral member are downwardly projecting forks, each comprising a primary portion, the respective primary portions extending downwardly and substantially parallel to each other. The longitudinal axes of both the main portion and a rider's lower leg are aligned. By aligning the wakes created by the forks and the lower leg a reduction in overall system drag is provided. Additionally or alternatively, the rear wheel may be provided between downwardly projecting stays, each comprising a primary portion, the respective primary portions extending downwardly and substantially parallel to each other. By aligning the downwardly projecting stays with the lower leg beneficial drag reduction is achieved.

Abstract: Protection apparatus for a flexible elongate member. The apparatus comprises a plurality of protection members 10. Each protection member 10 defines an opening 22 through which a flexible elongate member can extend. Each protection member 10 is interconnectable end to end with other such protection members 10 to provide protection along the length of an elongate member. Each protection member 10 comprises two parts 12 which are mountable together to define the opening 22 through which an elongate member can extend. The two parts 12 together form a female formation 18 at one end, and a male formation 20 at the other end, such that the female formation 18 can receive a male formation 20 on an adjacent protection member 10 to interconnect the adjacent projection members 10. The female and male formations 18, 20 are configured to permit a predetermined amount of relative pivotal movement between adjacent protection members 10.

Abstract: Guide apparatus for an elongate member such as a pipeline or pipe. The apparatus comprising a plurality of first elements in the form of rings with central openings through which the elongate member extends. The first elements are interconnected by link members spaced around the outside of the first elements and locating in T-shaped cross section guide formations. The link members restrict the amount of pivotal movement between the first elements, and hence bending of the elongate member.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement for mounting one or more additional elongate members on a larger existing elongate member. The arrangement includes a base member mountable on the outside of the larger pipe and can be held thereon by a strap engaging with ratchet arrangements on the arrangement. A guide member with a generally n shaped configuration which may include an insert member, guides the smaller pipe or pipes.

Abstract: A clamping arrangement 10 of a buoyancy clamp assembly. The arrangement 10 includes three identical arcuate members 12 engageable together to define a ring. Each of the arcuate members 12 has three discrete resilient members 14 engageable on for instance a pipe 68. Engagement members 42 are provided extendable between adjacent pair of arcuate members 12 to prevent relative twisting of adjacent arcuate members 12.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement 10 for mounting one or more additional elongate members such as pipes 12 on a larger existing elongate member such as a larger pipe 14. The arrangement 10 includes a base member 16 mountable on the outside of the larger pipe 14, and can be held thereon by a strap 96 engaging with ratchet arrangements on the arrangement 10. A guide member 82 with a generally n shaped configuration which may include an insert member 88, guides the smaller pipe or pipes 12.

Abstract: A computing device executes a “night mode” for optimizing the device display's light emission for night-time use. The device stores a dimming filter and/or a color filter to achieve a desired brightness and color temperature of the display. The dimming filter is used to set a display backlight level and to “dim” the display data itself via alpha blending of the screen image with a grey mask. The computing device can blend the image with the grey mask in order to dim the display below system minimums. The color filter is alpha blended with each pixel in the image to reduce the luminance of blue light until the luminance is lower than that of another color of the emitted light. The proper dimming and color filters may be selected according to a desired screen brightness obtained from user input and/or from ambient light sensor data.

Abstract: A clamping arrangement 10 of a buoyancy clamp assembly. The arrangement 10 includes three identical arcuate members 12 engageable together to define a ring. Each of the arcuate members 12 has three discrete resilient members 14 engageable on for instance a pipe 68. Engagement members 42 are provided extendable between adjacent pair of arcuate members 12 to prevent relative twisting of adjacent arcuate members 12.

Abstract: For continuous-time multi-stage noise shaping analog-to-digital converters (CT MASH ADCs), quantization noise cancellation often requires accurate estimation of transfer functions, e.g., a noise transfer function of the front end modulator and a signal transfer function of the back end modulator. To provide quantization noise cancellation, digital quantization noise cancellation filters adaptively tracks transfer function variations due to integrator gain errors, flash-to-DAC timing errors, as well as the inter-stage gain and timing errors. Tracking the transfer functions is performed through the direct cross-correlation between the injected maximum length linear feedback shift registers (LFSR) sequence and modulator outputs and then corrects these non-ideal effects by accurately modeling the transfer functions with programmable finite impulse response (PFIR) filters.

Abstract: For small cells, transceivers demand high performance while maintaining system efficiency. The present disclosure describes a highly integrated cellular transceiver that offers such features by providing one or more digital functions on-chip, onto the same die in the cellular transceiver. Effectively, the scope and boundary of the cellular transceiver is expanded to move beyond the data converters of the transceiver to include a variety of digital functions, thus integrating more of the signal chain in the cellular transceiver. Integration can greatly reduce complexity for the baseband processing, lower the cost of the overall transceiver system, reduce power consumption, and at the same time, benefit from improvements on the digital functions through integration.

Abstract: For continuous-time multi-stage noise shaping analog-to-digital converters (CT MASH ADCs), quantization noise cancellation often requires accurate estimation of transfer functions, e.g., a noise transfer function of the front end modulator and a signal transfer function of the back end modulator. To provide quantization noise cancellation, digital quantization noise cancellation filters adaptively tracks transfer function variations due to integrator gain errors, flash-to-DAC timing errors, as well as the inter-stage gain and timing errors. Tracking the transfer functions is performed through the direct cross-correlation between the injected maximum length linear feedback shift registers (LFSR) sequence and modulator outputs and then corrects these non-ideal effects by accurately modeling the transfer functions with programmable finite impulse response (PFIR) filters.

Abstract: For small cells, transceivers demand high performance while maintaining system efficiency. The present disclosure describes a highly integrated cellular transceiver that offers such features by providing one or more digital functions on-chip, onto the same die in the cellular transceiver. Effectively, the scope and boundary of the cellular transceiver is expanded to move beyond the data converters of the transceiver to include a variety of digital functions, thus integrating more of the signal chain in the cellular transceiver. Integration can greatly reduce complexity for the baseband processing, lower the cost of the overall transceiver system, reduce power consumption, and at the same time, benefit from improvements on the digital functions through integration.

Abstract: An approach to linearization relaxes the requirements on the digitization of the analog output signal while maintaining the benefits of a high sampling rate of the output signal. The digitization approach extracts sufficient information to characterize the output signal over a wide bandwidth without necessarily determining sufficient information to fully represent the output signal, for example, without sampling the output signal at the Nyquist sampling rate with a sufficient precision to accurately represent the signal.

Abstract: For small cells, transceivers demand high performance while maintaining system efficiency. The present disclosure describes a highly integrated cellular transceiver that offers such features by providing one or more digital functions on-chip, onto the same die in the cellular transceiver. Effectively, the scope and boundary of the cellular transceiver is expanded to move beyond the data converters of the transceiver to include a variety of digital functions, thus integrating more of the signal chain in the cellular transceiver. Integration can greatly reduce complexity for the baseband processing, lower the cost of the overall transceiver system, reduce power consumption, and at the same time, benefit from improvements on the digital functions through integration.

Abstract: An approach to linearization relaxes the requirements on the digitization of the analog output signal while maintaining the benefits of a high sampling rate of the output signal. The digitization approach extracts sufficient information to characterize the output signal over a wide bandwidth without necessarily determining sufficient information to fully represent the output signal, for example, without sampling the output signal at the Nyquist sampling rate with a sufficient precision to accurately represent the signal.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus for assessing treatment adherence by patients, the method comprising: receiving a model providing statistical significance of patients' response to treatment, the model based on treatment assigned to the patients, wherein the patients are diagnosed with a disease; computing by the computerized device a p-value for a result received for a patient diagnosed with the disease and being treated by the treatment, by applying the model to at least one patient; and issuing an alert responsive to the p-value being indicative of the result being unexpected beyond a threshold.