Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing privacy of data are provided. The method includes providing at least one processor in communication with the at least one database, a memory device including readable instructions, and at least one of an agent device and a user device in communication with the at least one processor via a network connection; receiving at least one communication request related to user data; collecting usage data of the user data; and transmitting the communication containing the usage data to a user.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing privacy of data are provided. The method includes providing at least one database containing user data, at least one processor in communication with the at least one database, a memory device including readable instructions, and at least one user device in communication with the at least one processor via a network connection; receiving at least one preference related to the user data; storing the at least one preference in the at least one database; and using the at least one preference to selectively control at least one non-verbal interaction with the at least one user device.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing privacy of data are provided. The method includes providing at least one database containing user data, at least one processor in communication with the at least one database, a memory device including readable instructions, and at least one user device in communication with the at least one processor via a network connection; receiving at least one preference related to the user data; storing the at least one preference in the at least one database; and using the at least one preference to selectively control at least one verbal interaction with the at least one user device.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing privacy of data are provided. The method includes providing at least one database containing user data, at least one processor in communication with the at least one database, a memory device including readable instructions, and at least one user device in communication with the at least one processor via a network connection; receiving at least one preference related to the user data; storing the at least one preference in the at least one database; and using the at least one preference to prevent at least one interaction with the at least one user device.

Abstract: A method includes collecting data for a borehole, designing an integrated wellbore isolation plan, the integrated wellbore isolation plan including a drilling plan and a cementing plan for the borehole, and setting zonal isolation parameters for the borehole based on the integrated wellbore isolation plan.

Abstract: Features are described for a pellet dispenser. The pellet dispenser be implemented as a complex molded unit to fit within the home cage of laboratory animals (e.g., hanging from a wall of the cage or inside a food hopper of the cage). The pellet dispenser may be contained within the cage or otherwise attached to the cage so as not to take up additional floor space in the cage which should be allocated for the small laboratory animal. The pellets may be gravity or screw drive fed towards an ejector port. At prescribed times during the day, a prescribed number of pellets may be ejected into the animal cage. Additional components of the pellet dispenser include an ejector (e.g., a linear actuator) and pellet hopper.

Abstract: An adhesive ostomy wafer has a liner removed to expose adhesive and thus ready the adhesive ostomy wafer for adhesion to a user. The adhesive ostomy wafer includes a backing layer providing a distal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer that is oriented to face away from skin of the user during use, an adhesive layer deposited onto the backing layer, with the adhesive layer providing a proximal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer, an opening formed through the backing layer and the adhesive layer, with the opening adapted to fit around a stoma of the user, and a reinforcement structure located between the distal surface and the proximal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer.

Abstract: An attachment device that includes an attachment body having a proximal end and a distal end configured to receive an applicator to mark a target. The attachment body further includes an engagement tab disposed between the proximal end and distal end. The engagement tab is configured to engage a tip of a borescope.

Abstract: A convex shell for use in a base plate of an ostomy appliance includes an annular ring with a through-going hole and a plurality of grooves extending transversely across the annular ring. The grooves alter the flexibility of the annular ring as a first portion of the annular ring is folded around a folding axis toward a second portion of the annular ring.

Abstract: An attachment device that includes an attachment body having a proximal end and a distal end configured to receive an applicator to mark a target. The attachment body further includes an engagement tab disposed between the proximal end and distal end. The engagement tab is configured to engage a tip of a borescope.

Abstract: Features are described for a pellet dispenser. The pellet dispenser be implemented as a complex molded unit to fit within the home cage of laboratory animals (e.g., hanging from a wall of the cage or inside a food hopper of the cage). The pellet dispenser may be contained within the cage or otherwise attached to the cage so as not to take up additional floor space in the cage which should be allocated for the small laboratory animal The pellets may be gravity or screw drive fed towards an ejector port. At prescribed times during the day, a prescribed number of pellets may be ejected into the animal cage. Additional components of the pellet dispenser include an ejector (e.g., a linear actuator) and pellet hopper.

Abstract: The invention provides a two phase heat transfer device comprising an inlet for receiving a heat transfer fluid, and; an array of heat transfer fins in spaced relation; primary spaces between said heat transfer fins defining primary channels parallel to a path from the inlet to outlet, and; oblique spaces between said heat transfer fins defining oblique channels arranged at an angle to said primary channels. It is preferable that walls defining the primary and oblique spaces provide nucleate boiling regions and the interruption of fully developed convective boiling regions when a heat transfer fluid is passed through the inlet to the outlet.

Abstract: A convex shell for use in a base plate of an ostomy appliance includes an annular ring with a through-going hole and a plurality of grooves extending transversely across the annular ring. The grooves alter the flexibility of the annular ring as a first portion of the annular ring is folded around a folding axis toward a second portion of the annular ring.

Abstract: An adhesive ostomy wafer has a liner removed to expose adhesive and thus ready the adhesive ostomy wafer for adhesion to a user. The adhesive ostomy wafer includes a backing layer providing a distal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer that is oriented to face away from skin of the user during use, an adhesive layer deposited onto the backing layer, with the adhesive layer providing a proximal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer, an opening formed through the backing layer and the adhesive layer, with the opening adapted to fit around a stoma of the user, and a reinforcement structure located between the distal surface and the proximal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer.

Abstract: A base plate comprising an adhesive wafer and a convex supporting device. An ostomy appliance comprising a base plate with an adhesive wafer and a convex supporting device.

Abstract: An ostomy wafer (1) comprising a proximal surface in an axial direction facing the user during use provided with an adhesive layer (7), a distal surface (5) in the axial direction facing away from the user during use provided with a backing layer, coupling means for attaching a collection bag, an opening having an inner radial boundary defining a stoma receiving opening, and an outer radial boundary defining the peripheral edge of the ostomy wafer. Furthermore, the wafer is provided with a reinforcement structure (6).

Abstract: A method includes collecting data for a borehole, designing an integrated wellbore isolation plan, the integrated wellbore isolation plan including a drilling plan and a cementing plan for the borehole, and setting zonal isolation parameters for the borehole based on the integrated wellbore isolation plan.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the fabrication and manufacture of efficient, low-cost p-n heterojunction pyrite solar cells. The p-n heterojunction pyrite solar cells can include a pyrite thin cell component, a window layer component, and a top surface contact component. The pyrite thin cell component can be fabricated from nanocrystal paint deposited onto metal foils or microcrystalline pyrite deposited onto foil by chemical vapor deposition. A method of synthesizing colloidal pyrite nanocrystals is provided. Methods of manufacturing the efficient, low-cost p-n heterojunction pyrite solar cells are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating pyrite thin films from molecular inks. A process is provided that comprises dissolving simple iron-bearing and sulfur-bearing molecules in an appropriate solvent and then depositing the solution onto an appropriate substrate using one of several methods (roll-to-roll coating, spraying, spin coating, etc.), resulting in a solid film consisting of the molecules. These molecular precursor films are then heated to 200-600° C. in the presence of sulfur-bearing gases (e.g., S2, H2S) to convert the molecular films into films of crystalline iron pyrite (FeS2).

Abstract: The invention provides a two phase heat transfer device comprising an inlet for receiving a heat transfer fluid, and; an array of heat transfer fins in spaced relation; primary spaces between said heat transfer fins defining primary channels parallel to a path from the inlet to outlet, and; oblique spaces between said heat transfer fins defining oblique channels arranged at an angle to said primary channels. It is preferable that walls defining the primary and oblique spaces provide nucleate boiling regions and the interruption of fully developed convective boiling regions.