Abstract: The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to methods and systems for impregnating wood with a polymer solution and products thereof. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of processing a wood piece to generate a wood product, the method comprising: (a) placing the wood piece into a reactor having a chamber pressure of a vacuum environment; (b) exposing the wood piece to a polymer solution; (c) performing an iterative process where each cycle of the iterative process comprises a pressurizing period during which the chamber pressure is increased to an increased chamber pressure and a stabilizing period during which the chamber pressure is monitored to measure a chamber pressure decrease, if any; (d) when the decrease of chamber pressure during the stabilizing period is less than or equal to the certain threshold change, normalizing the reactor chamber to a normalized pressure; and (e) setting the wood piece to generate the wood product.

Abstract: The e-vaping cartridge includes a housing body with a first tube extending longitudinally within the housing body and defining a central passage, the first tube further defining at least one first hole. One or more layers of absorbent material are positioned within an inner annulus reservoir around at least a portion of the first tube. A wick is in communication with the central passage where distal ends of the wick traverse the first hole and is in communication with an annulus reservoir. A heater is configured to vaporize a pre-vapor formulation communicated to the wick from the annulus reservoir. The e-vaping device includes the cartridge which is connectable to a power section.

Abstract: The e-vaping cartridge includes a housing body with a first tube extending longitudinally within the housing body and defining a central passage, the first tube further defining at least one first hole. One or more layers of absorbent material are positioned within an inner annulus reservoir around at least a portion of the first tube. A wick is in communication with the central passage where distal ends of the wick traverse the first hole and is in communication with an annulus reservoir. A heater is configured to vaporize a pre-vapor formulation communicated to the wick from the annulus reservoir. The e-vaping device includes the cartridge which is connectable to a power section.

Abstract: A method of forming a heater assembly of an e-vaping device includes bending a wire to form a first lobe and bending the wire to form a second lobe. The first lobe and the second lobe form a generally sinuously-shaped heater having a first set of lobes and a second set of lobe. A first apex of the first lobe is generally opposite a second apex of the second lobe. The method may also include curling the first set of lobes towards the second set of lobes to form a heater having a substantially tubular form. The heater defines an opening there through.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the system includes one or more electrical components associated with turbomachinery, and the one or more electrical components are disposed within two or more interior compartments of an electrical enclosure. The system also includes a cooling system coupled to the electrical enclosure. The cooling system includes one or more air ducts configured to direct a cooling air to each interior compartment of the two or more interior compartments. The cooling system also includes a controller configured to route cooling air to each interior compartment via the one or more air ducts. The controller is configured to independently regulate a thermal environment for each interior compartment of the two or more interior compartments.

Abstract: Methods are provided for modeling mobility based on one or more devices of the user. Methods may include: receiving at least a portion of a first mobility model from a first device, where the first mobility model may be established based on learning algorithms performed on the first device; updating a shared mobility model to become a first shared mobility model based on the at least a portion of the first mobility model; providing the first shared mobility model to the first device; receiving at least a portion of a second mobility model from a second device, where the second mobility model may be established based on learning algorithms performed on the second device; updating the first shared mobility model to become a second shared mobility model based on the at least a portion of the second mobility model; and providing the second shared mobility model to the second device.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method for determining a nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid segment present in a biological sample, comprising the steps of: a) generating a fluorescent image of the sample by a protocol comprising immunofluorescence detection of at least five different target proteins in the sample; b) selecting a region of interest of the sample by comparing the image to a predetermined criterion; c) removing a subsample from the region of interest, and; d) determining a nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid segment present in the subsample.

Abstract: Methods for analyses of kinase inhibitor specificity and promiscuity using small subsets of kinases including a method comprising providing a set of kinases, ranking the kinases based upon their ability to overcome biases, utilizing a correlation-based feature selection algorithm to select a kinase inferential bases, and screening a kinase inhibitor against the kinase inferential bases.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes estimating a time-variation of a channel through which the wireless communication system transmits. This also includes decreasing the estimated time-variation of the channel from a signal transmitted by the wireless communications system.

Abstract: Selectively rebooting components of a computer system. One or more tables which list respective costs to reboot the components and respective likelihoods that reboots of the respective components will correct respective problems with the computer system are generated. Each of the costs is based on a time to reboot or delays caused by the reboot of the respective component. In response to a subsequent problem with the computer system, an order to reboot components of the computer system is determined from the table based on the costs and likelihoods that the reboot will correct the problem, such that a component of the computer system characterized by a relatively low cost and high likelihood to correct the problem will be rebooted before another component characterized by a relatively high cost and low likelihood to correct the problem. The tables are updated through actual experience.

Abstract: A method of capturing patient consents to a prescribed medical procedures. Patient accounts are created on a computerized patient consent management system. The system authenticates a login attempt by a patient and displays a visual representation of a prescribed medical procedure to the patient. The patient consent management system presents at least one consent request input field for accepting a consent input from the patient and stores the consent input as part of the patient account. The patient consent management system presents the consent input to at least one care giver in order to determine if the patient has given consent to the prescribed medical procedure.

Abstract: Selectively rebooting components of a computer system. One or more tables which list respective costs to reboot the components and respective likelihoods that reboots of the respective components will correct respective problems with the computer system are generated. Each of the costs is based on a time to reboot or delays caused by the reboot of the respective component. In response to a subsequent problem with the computer system, an order to reboot components of the computer system is determined from the table based on the costs and likelihoods that the reboot will correct the problem, such that a component of the computer system characterized by a relatively low cost and high likelihood to correct the problem will be rebooted before another component characterized by a relatively high cost and low likelihood to correct the problem. The tables are updated through actual experience.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes estimating a time-variation of a channel through which the wireless communication system transmits. This also includes decreasing the estimated time-variation of the channel from a signal transmitted by the wireless communications system.

Abstract: A bubbler chamber assembly comprising one chamber or two or more chambers connected in series, all chambers being in substantially vertical orientation. A solid or liquid source of the compound is contained in the chamber or chambers. The ratio between the length of the chamber or combined length of chambers connected in series with respect to the direction of flow of the carrier gas through the chamber or chambers and the average diameter equivalent of the cross section of the chamber or chambers with respect to the direction of flow of the carrier gas through the chamber or chambers is not less than about 6:1.

Abstract: A graphical user interface for use in an ocular surgical system, such as phacoemulsification and vitreo-retinal surgical systems. A display screen shows a display element that includes a representation of a parameter of pulses generated by the ocular surgical system relative to a position of the controller. A window is displayed on the display screen and generated in response to touching the display screen of the ocular surgical system. The window includes a display element having a value of a parameter of the system. A value of the parameter is changed by touching the display screen at the adjustment element. The window can also include a representation of the parameter of the pulses relative to the position of the controller and an adjustment element for changing a value of the parameter represented in the display element. The representation in the window can be linear or non-linear, indicating the function of the parameter relative to a position of a controller, such as a foot pedal.

Abstract: A process for depositing a substantially pure, conformal metal layer on one or more substrates through the decomposition of a metal-containing precursor. During this deposition process, the substrate(s) is maintained at a temperature greater than the decomposition temperature of the precursor while the surrounding atmosphere is maintained at a temperature lower than the decomposition temperature of the precursor. The precursor is dispersed within a transport medium, e.g., a vapor phase. The concentration of the metal-containing precursor(s) in the vapor phase, which also contains liquid therein, can be at a level to provide conditions at or near saturation for the metal precursor(s). In ensuring the aforementioned temperature control between the transport media and substrate, and in maintaining saturation conditions for the transport media, the quality of the deposited metal thin film is markedly improved and the production of by-product metal dust is greatly reduced or substantially eliminated.

Abstract: A switch assembly has a housing and a plurality of controllable switches. The housing has a plurality of input ports and an output port and the plurality of individually controllable switches is arranged within the housing. Each switch has an open position and a closed position and is coupled to one of a plurality of input ports of the housing and a common summing junction within the housing. Each input port receives a coherent radio frequency (RF) signal. The output port is coupled to the common summing junction and outputs a sum signal that includes at least one of the RF signals received at the common summing junction when a switch is in the closed position. The switch assembly may further include impedance matching lines that transform a reference impedance value to a higher value prior to switching and an impedance transformation line that provides for the reference impedance value at a distal end of the impedance transformation line.

Abstract: A data storage disk cartridge including a shutter assembly with a stress relief mechanism. The disk cartridge includes a housing assembly having an opening for accessing a disk. A molded shutter assembly is operably connected to the housing assembly. The molded shutter assembly is moveable between a closed position across the opening and an open position allowing access to the disk by a disk drive. The molded shutter assembly includes a first sidewall, a second sidewall, and an endwall extending between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. A first joint is defined by the junction of the first sidewall and the endwall. A stress relief mechanism is positioned at the first joint whereby the first sidewall is maintained substantially parallel to the second sidewall after removal from a molding process die assembly.

Abstract: A switch assembly has a housing and a plurality of controllable switches. The housing has a plurality of input ports and an output port and the plurality of individually controllable switches is arranged within the housing. Each switch has an open position and a closed position and is coupled to one of a plurality of input ports of the housing and a common summing junction within the housing. Each input port receives a coherent radio frequency (RF) signal. The output port is coupled to the common summing junction and outputs a sum signal that includes at least one of the RF signals received at the common summing junction when a switch is in the closed position. The switch assembly may further include impedance matching lines that transform a reference impedance value to a higher value prior to switching and an impedance transformation line that provides for the reference impedance value at a distal end of the impedance transformation line.