Abstract: The invention relates to deformable polymers comprising immobilised primers, particularly for use in nucleic acid sequencing, such as concurrent sequencing.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to compositions and methods for labeling of nucleotides, oligonucleotides, or polynucleotides with conjugated polymers or polymer dots. In particular, conjugated polymers or polymer dots can be used as detectable labels for nucleotides, oligonucleotides, or polynucleotides in sequencing by synthesis.

Abstract: The high-speed search matching method with a large-scale heterogeneous database includes the process of extracting and storing the user's registered image features, forming a database, and being a reference when matching and searching; The process of initializing the search engine, in which two objects in the search engine are initialized, including a matching object, calculating the distance, and a data table object to determine the target search object for each input image sample; The process of matching and searching for objects, including the process of calculating the distance between the features and determining the target array, and finally comparing and returning the final result. The proposed method has demonstrated the ability to calculate accurately as well as very high performance, especially in large-scale data processing cases.

Abstract: The session persistence method in the microservice system in the cloud environment provides a session persistence mechanism with a specific “instance” by session identifier. The method ensures the continuity of requests with the same identifier. In addition, the method brings the benefit of resource optimization when only one resource management “instance” is required for each session. The method includes the following steps: building a session management service model; allocating and storing session identifiers; monitoring, tracking, and updating session identifiers.

Abstract: The disclosure presents processes to automatically generate one or more set of fault segments from a fault plane pointset. The processes can identify a predominant direction and derive a set of fault segments from the fault plane pointset, where the fault segments are generated by using slices of data from the fault plane pointset that are perpendicular to the predominant direction. For each slice of data, the fault segments can be analyzed with neighboring fault segments to determine if they are overlapping. Fault segments that block or overlap other fault segments can be assigned to a different subset of fault segments from the underlying fault segments. Gaps in the fault plane pointset, and the resulting set of fault segments, can be filled in by merging neighboring fault segments above and below the gap if the neighboring fault segments satisfy a criteria for filling the gap.

Abstract: A system for oil and gas production includes a drilling, pipeline, or power quality equipment, a sensor, and a storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving first data from the sensor, determining whether the drilling, pipeline, or power quality equipment is experiencing an event condition based on the first data, generating one or more potential corrective actions, identifying a first corrective action of the one or more potential corrective actions, and controlling a fluid transfer device to implement the first corrective action. The first corrective action includes at least one of increasing a drive frequency of the fluid transfer device, adjusting a choke position of the fluid transfer device, or reversing a rotational direction of an impeller of the fluid transfer device.

Abstract: A system for oil and gas production includes a drilling, pipeline, or power quality device, a sensor, and a storage device. The storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving first data from the sensor. The operations include determining whether the device is experiencing an event condition based on the first data The operations include generating one or more potential corrective actions responsive to a determination that the device is experiencing the event condition. The operations include calculating a reward value for each of the one or more potential corrective actions. The operations include identifying a first corrective action of the one or more potential corrective actions with a largest or most positive reward value The operations include controlling the device according to the first corrective action.

Abstract: This application relates to functionalized magnetic particles and methods of using magnetic particles to generate amplicons. In some examples, a method of modifying a magnetic particle comprising a first functional group includes contacting the magnetic particle with a first molecule comprising a polymer coupled to second and third functional groups, wherein the first functional group reacts with the second functional group to form a bond via which the polymer is coupled to the magnetic particle. The method may include contacting the magnetic particle with a second molecule, the second molecule comprising an oligonucleotide coupled to a fourth functional group, wherein the third functional group reacts with the fourth functional group to form a bond via which the oligonucleotide is coupled to the magnetic particle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cable module (1) comprising a sheath (2) defining a cable module interior (3); N first optical fibers (4) extending longitudinally through the cable module interior (3), each of the N first optical fibers (4) having a unique color selected among C different colors, wherein N and C are both integers higher than 1; and M second optical fibers (5) extending longitudinally through the cable module interior (3), each of the M second optical fibers (5) having a unique color selected among said C different colors, wherein M is an integer higher than 1. The N first optical fibers (4) all have a first diameter S1 and the M second optical fibers (5) all have a second diameter S2 different from the first diameter S1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method implementing measurements obtained with a LiDAR sensor (2) mounted on a wind turbine (1), and measurements obtained with at least one motion sensor (CAM), as well as a LiDAR measurement model (MOD M) and a wind model (MOD V). The method then implements an informative adaptive Kalman filter (KAL) to determine the wind speed (v) at some estimation points. At least one wind speed characteristic (CAR) can then be possibly deduced therefrom, in the rotor plane for example.

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for inserting at least a portion of an in vivo analyte sensor for sensing an analyte level in a bodily fluid of a subject. In particular, disclosed herein are various embodiments of sensor control devices, and components thereof, designed to reduce the size and the number of internal components of the sensor control device. Further, the embodiments of the sensor control device and related sensor features disclosed herein are designed to increase comfort and convenience for the subject.

Abstract: A portable electronic device is provided and includes: a housing; a display including a window and a display panel, and one end of the display has a curved portion; a buffer area formed along an edge of the housing such as to correspond to the curved portion, the buffer area having a concave cross-section; a first sealing member between the display panel and the housing; a second sealing member between the window and the housing and spaced apart from the first sealing member, a connection hole, in the housing, that is between the first sealing member and the second sealing member and adjacent to the buffer area; a filling member that fills the connection hole and connects the first sealing member and the second sealing member; and a blocking member, between the connection hole and the buffer area, that blocks the filling member from flowing into the buffer area.

Abstract: Techniques for synthesizing multi-accent speech using adaptive weights are provided. A computing system may receive a text input along with first information about a first accent. The computing system may access a first trained machine learning model, the first trained machine learning model trained to synthesize, from inputted text, waveforms representing speech. The computing device may apply one or more adaptive weights to the first trained machine learning model, the one or more adaptive weights characterizing the first accent. The computing device may then synthesize, using the first trained machine learning model with the applied one or more adaptive weights, a first waveform representing the text input, wherein the first waveform is characterized by the first accent.

Abstract: In the embodiments, a novel prefetch service implemented on a prefetch server is provided to execute content (either targeted or selected) fetch requests in parallel with other requests thereby reducing the overall latency of a content delivery system. In some aspects, a method is provided to receive a prefetch request to prefetch a targeted content item to be presented prior to presenting a primary content item on a user device, the prefetch request including prefetch request parameters; generate, a callback URL associated with the prefetch request; transmit, to a primary content server, the callback URL; obtain a targeted content configuration corresponding to the prefetch request parameters; obtain the targeted content item based on the targeted content configuration; receive, a request to provide the targeted content item, the request including the callback URL; and transmit the targeted content item.

Abstract: A method at a first device for enabling a device-to-device wireless link, the method detecting whether a presence signal of a second device is received over a first time period, the presence signal of the second device having a time-slot boundary; and if the presence signal of the second device is not detected, initiating a time-slot boundary by the first device including: transmitting a first presence signal of the first device in a selected time-slot; and checking for an acknowledgment to the first presence signal.

Abstract: A method for detecting events includes receiving measurements from a plurality of sensors, and executing a machine learning model trained to identify events based on the measurements. The machine learning model identifies the events based on the measurements. The method also includes determining based on the measurements and the identified events that training applied to the machine learning model is to be modified. A modified training data set is generated based on the measurements and an initial training data set used to train the machine learning model to identify the events. The modified training data set is applied to retrain the machine learning model.

Abstract: An example of a flow cell includes a substrate; a plurality of reactive regions spatially separated from one another across the substrate; and a plurality of independently removable coatings respectively positioned over each of the plurality of reactive regions. Each of the plurality of reactive regions includes a polymeric hydrogel layer; and a reactive entity attached to the polymeric hydrogel layer. At least one of the independently removable coatings is a gas-dissolvable coating.

Abstract: In one example, a notification may be generated to prompt a user to clean a personal computing device. The notification may be based upon usage data of the personal computing device. Multiple types of usage data may be determined and combined to create a composite usage value. The composite usage value may be compared to a threshold usage value. A notification may be generated if the composite usage value exceeds the threshold usage value.