Abstract: Various implementations include a system for detecting a gunshot. The system includes a device for capturing acoustic data that is potentially sound emanating from an actual gunshot and a processor. The processor includes non-transitory, computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions. The computer-executable instructions cause the processor to determine whether an acoustic sample contains an ultrasonic burst that corresponds to an ultrasonic signature of an actual gunshot having ultrasonic component sound frequency content in excess of 30 kHz. The acoustic sample is a portion of the captured acoustic data starting at or prior to an initial acoustic impulse within the captured acoustic data and ending at a predetermined sample length. The determination is used to identify an actual gunshot and distinguish it from that of a sound burst that is not an actual gunshot.

Abstract: Methods for applying hybrid heat transfer labels to an article are provided. The methods includes non-digitally printing a protective layer onto a carrier layer, digitally printing a graphics layer, non-digitally printing a backer layer, and printing an adhesive. The adhesive and the protective layer can be printed to overlap such that the adhesive and the protective layer bond with each other via chemical-physical interactions upon application of heat and pressure to the protective layer. Additionally, a hybrid heat transfer label assembly is provided that includes a plastic carrier layer, a non-digitally printed protective layer, a digitally printed layer disposed with the non-digitally printed protective layer between the digitally printed layer and the plastic carrier layer, and a non-digitally printed second layer disposed with the digitally printed layer between the non-digitally printed protective layer and the non-digitally printed second layer.

Abstract: A method and a system for dynamic request for quotation (RFQ) pricing using reinforcement learning and symbolic regression in order to obtain a pseudo-optimal nonlinear state-feedback controller for tracking a metric with increased interpretability are provided. The method includes: receiving bid price information and ask price information that relates to a financial instrument; selecting a metric to be used in conjunction with a determination of an RFQ price with respect to the financial instrument; formulating a Markov Decision Process (MDP) that relates to the determination of the RFQ price; using the MDP to define an RFQ pricing controller with respect to the metric; applying a reinforcement learning algorithm in order to tune a behavior of the RFQ pricing controller with respect to the metric; and using the RFQ pricing controller, the first information, and the second information to determine the RFQ price.

Abstract: A bullet for ammunition, in particular with a caliber of at most 20 mm or at most 13 mm, may include a metallic bullet body and a surface coating with a thickness of more than 100 ?m forming at least sectionally an outer skin of the bullet.

Abstract: A small arms cartridge load that fires bird shot and a full wadcutter bullet. The cartridge is loaded with both a wadcutter and shot. A cup crimped to the casing is used to secure the contents inside the casing. No plastic capsule is needed to secure the shot in place. Removing the plastic capsule prevents the shot from taking the rifling and thus keeping the pattern tighter to extend the effective distance of the shot. The wadcutter can be hard cast to provide greater penetrating force. The load can be effective in deterring varmints or for defensive purposes.

Abstract: A system includes a slot-mountable rack mount module. The slot-mountable rack mount module is shaped and sized to be mountable into a given rack mount slot of an electronics rack mount. The electronics rack mount has multiple rack mount slots including the given rack mount slot. The slot-mountable rack mount module includes: a vessel containing at least one material. The at least one material is configured to absorb heat from within the electronics rack mount based at least on at least one of (a) at least one phase change of at least one of the at least one material or (b) at least one endothermic reaction of one or more of the at least one material.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device has a transparent carrier. The carrier has a two-dimensional arrangement of optoelectronic semiconductor chips. The optoelectronic semiconductor chips are electrically contacted by conductor tracks arranged on the carrier. At least some of the optoelectronic semiconductor chips are operable as light emitters in order to shine light at an eye. At least some of the optoelectronic semiconductor chips are operable as light receivers in order to detect light reflected at the eye.

Abstract: An imaging system (IS), comprising an image acquisition unit (AQ) for acquisition of image data (I1) of an object (OB). The image acquisition is based on an imaging signal imitable by the unit (AQ) to interact with the object. The image acquisition unit (AQ) is adjustable to operate at different acquisition parameters that determine a property of the imaging signal. A predictor component (PC) predicts, based at least on the acquired image data (I1), one or more properties of the object. An acquisition parameter adjuster (PA) adjusts, based on the predicted object properties, the acquisition parameter at which the image acquisition unit (AQ) is to acquire follow-up image data (I2).

Abstract: An orthopaedic knee prosthesis includes a tibial insert and a femoral component configured to articulate on the tibial insert. The tibial insert includes a lateral articular surface and medial articular surface that is asymmetrically shaped relative to the lateral articular surface. The medial articular surface is shaped to reduce anterior translation of a medial condyle of the femoral component, while the lateral articular surface is shaped to allow a lateral condyle of the femoral component to pivot, relative to the medial articular surface, along an arcuate articular path. Additionally, one or both condyles of the femoral component may include a femoral articular surface having a curved femoral surface section defined by a continuously decreasing radius of curvature.

Abstract: An article of footwear may include an elastic membrane suspended within an interior of an upper of the article of footwear and spaced above the sole, such that a wearer's foot contacts the membrane and is cradled by the membrane as the membrane is stretched toward an underlying midsole. In some examples, the membrane may contact the midsole for a discrete length of a contact area, e.g., selected by the manufacturer. In some examples, a void between the membrane and the sole is filled, at least in part, with a selected filler material. In some examples, the membrane comprises a material having tailored stretch characteristics.

Abstract: One aspect of the present application relates to a storage stable pharmaceutical composition comprising a sulfated glycosaminoglycan having an average molecular weight ranging from 3,000 to 15,000 Daltons, and a pharmaceutical carrier, where the pharmaceutical carrier is mixed with the sulfated glycosaminoglycan, as well as this composition's use in a method of treating a subject for a medically observable improvement. Another aspect of the present application relates to a process for producing a storage stable purified sulfated glycosaminoglycan.

Abstract: A system for determining a secondary axle torque of a hybrid vehicle is disclosed. The hybrid vehicle includes a primary axle driven by an engine and a secondary axle driven by an electric motor. The system includes one or more sensors configured to detect a driver torque request, and a control module in communication with the one or more sensors. The control module is configured to receive data from the one or more sensors indicative of the driver torque request, calculate a primary torque target for the primary axle based on an optimal engine torque, calculate a secondary torque target for the secondary axle based on the calculated primary torque target and the driver torque request, and generate a secondary torque command to drive the secondary axle based on the calculated secondary torque target and the driver torque request. Other example systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods for amplifying a dynamic range of nucleic acid molecules.

Abstract: The disclosed and claimed subject matter relates to atomic layer deposition (ALD) of 2D MoX2 (X=S, Se or Te) utilizing one or more of MoO2Cl2 and MoO2Br2 as the Mo-precursor with alkyl-chalcogenide, alkyl-dichalcogenide, and/or dihydro-chalcogenide precursors while maintaining the process in a self-limiting-layer-synthesis growth mode or a self-limiting-layer-synthesis-like growth mode.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automated data destruction system to remove data effectively and reliably from a mobile communication device. The system comprises a housing, a platform, a securement mechanism, a positioning mechanism, a power drill, a vision recognition system, and a controlling system. The vision recognition system and the processor identify the mobile communication device, and the controlling system controls the securement mechanism, the positioning mechanism, and the power drill to a corresponding location based on the identified mobile communication device and activates the power drill to penetrate the mobile communication device at an exact depth to restrict the damage to the flash memory chip.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a plastic compound having improved properties from a formulation containing at least two thermoplastic components in a multi-shaft screw machine having screw shafts rotating in the same direction, in parallel and at the same speed, wherein the plastic compound (i) does not comprise an additive which is flowable at 23° C. or (ii) comprises precisely one additive which is flowable at 23° C., or (iii) comprises at least two additives which are flowable at 23° C. The present invention relates in particular to the production of a plastic compound from a formulation containing at least two thermoplastic components, at least one of which is a polycarbonate. More particularly, the screw machine is a twin-screw extruder having screw shafts rotating in the same direction, in parallel and at the same speed.

Abstract: Thin multilayer films fabricated from molten blends of stock plastic resin and post-consumer recycled plastic materials are described. The thin multilayer films maintain robust physical and mechanical properties as compared to thin films fabricated from stock plastic resins and as compared to prior art multilayer films that incorporate PCR plastic materials. Generally, the thin multilayer films with post-consumer recycled plastic maintain at least 70% of the value of a mechanical property when compared to film without the post-consumer recycled plastic material. The multilayer film may contain about 60% post-consumer recycled plastic materials yet maintain structural integrity. The multilayer film may include white or unpigmented post-consumer recycled plastic materials or a blend of white and unpigmented post-consumer recycled plastic material.

Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD) may include a first transceiver configured to operate in a first advertising mode, whereby the first transceiver transmits a first advertising signal at a first rate; one or more sensors configured to sense first data; a memory storing instructions; and a microcontroller circuit operatively coupled to the first transceiver, the microcontroller circuit being configured, in response to executing the instructions stored in the memory, to selectively cause the first transceiver to begin operating in the first advertising mode based on the first data.

Abstract: Methods and systems for coking coal blends to produce foundry coke products are disclosed herein. Methods for producing coke products can include charging a coal blend into a coke oven; and heating the charged coal blend such that a crown temperature of the coke oven is greater than a lower bound coking temperature. The pyrolysis duration begins when the crown temperature of the oven is greater than the lower bound coking temperature, and ends when the crown temperature of the oven is less than the lower bound coking temperature.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to certain pyridopyrimidine and pyrimido[4,5-d]pyrimidine inhibitors of Kirsten rat sarcoma virus (KRAS) oncoproteins, and more particularly to compounds of Formula I as well as compositions comprising Formula I and methods of using the compound of Formula I for the treatment or prevention of a disease, disorder, or medical condition mediated through KRAS, especially the KRAS G12D oncoprotein.