Abstract: The present invention relates to replacing conductors in a high-voltage power transfer system. The method provides, for example, a method for maintaining sections of electrically conductive phases in a direct current (DC) two phase power conductor line, wherein the two phases are parallel and spaced apart. The phases are strung between support structures and supported above the ground. Maintenance work, which include replacement or repair, is performed on sections of the two phases without interrupting a power load in any one of the three phases and without transposing the relative positions of the phases.

Abstract: A grounding clamp uses a spring driving a piston mounted movable jaw as a safety lockout. The movable jaw and a fixed jaw, which may include teeth, form a conductor clamp. The ground clamp mounts on the end of a hot stick to provide for electrically insulated remote operation of the ground clamp by a lineman holding the hot stick and pulling on, or releasing, a lever arm on the hot stick. The system provides increased safety for the lineman as the spring providing the spring loading of the clamp has a high spring force to overcome, thus providing the lockout. The lever arm on the hot stick tool provides mechanical advantage to overcome the spring force and thus release the lockout. The lineman cannot usefully operate the ground clamp manually without the hot stick due to spring force lockout.

Abstract: A system is provided for use with an insulated boom section of a bucket truck. The system includes a source of high volume and pressure, dry air; one or more interior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air to direct the air into an interior of the insulated boom section. One or more exterior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air direct the air to along an exterior surface of the insulated boom section. A method is also provided for cleaning or drying both the interior and exterior surfaces simultaneously of an insulated boom section of the boom of a bucket truck. The boom of a bucket truck is further provided in another aspect that includes at least one insulated boom section, a source of high volume and pressure, dry air, one or more interior air diffusers and one or more exterior air diffusers. A pre-heating air heater may be removably mounted into the boom.

Abstract: A set of components for assembling a temporary wire suspender includes in the set a yoke plate, a plurality of J-hook assemblies, a plurality of linkage members, and a plurality of removable couplers configurable to handle an expandable number of energized or de-energized conductors or sub-conductors. Positive control of the suspended and/or supported energized or de-energized conductors or sub-conductors is achieved by using releasable latches on the J-hook assemblies.

Abstract: A proximal loader may be used to facilitate loading a prosthetic valve into a catheter. A proximal load may include an elongate body releasably securable about a catheter, the elongate body including a first body half hingedly coupled with a second body half. Each of the first body half and the second body half includes an outer shell, a distal member segment disposed within the outer shell and defining half of a valve crimping region, and a proximal member segment slidingly disposed within the outer shell and defining half of a catheter accepting region.

Abstract: A horizontal conductor lifter includes a main beam to which an elongate wire holder adapter is connected through a horizontal, stacked bank of insulators and an inclined electrically insulating load transfer element collectively forming an electrically insulating truss to temporarily support the weight of a conductor or sub-conductors in a conductor bundle. The wire holder adapter supports vertically oriented wire holders thereon. A rotation actuator acts between the main beam and a distal end of a boom adapter on a crane or truck boom. In use, the rotation actuator, the stacked bank of insulators and the load transfer element prevent rotation of the wire holders to an off-vertical orientation so that the wire holders are maintained in their operative vertical orientation throughout a maintenance operation.

Abstract: A grounding clamp uses a spring driving a piston mounted movable jaw as a safety lockout. The movable jaw and a fixed jaw, which may include teeth, form a conductor clamp. The ground clamp mounts on the end of a hot stick to provide for electrically insulated remote operation of the ground clamp by a lineman holding the hot stick and pulling on, or releasing, a lever arm on the hot stick. The system provides increased safety for the lineman as the spring providing the spring loading of the clamp has a high spring force to overcome, thus providing the lockout. The lever arm on the hot stick tool provides mechanical advantage to overcome the spring force and thus release the lockout. The lineman cannot usefully operate the ground clamp manually without the hot stick due to spring force lockout.

Abstract: A static arm platform for mounting onto a static arm includes a rigid saddle adapted for releasable mounting down onto the static arm, at a desired location along the static arm dictated by a pre-chosen static arm cross section profile formed as lower cut-outs in a pair of gusset plates mounted at each end of the saddle between a pair of rigid flanks extending down the sides of the saddle. The lower cut-outs snuggly fit onto and over the static arm at the desired locations on the static arm to resist a rotation of the saddle relative to the static arm when a lineman is standing on one of a pair of foot decks mounted at the lower ends of the rigid flanks, wherein the rigid flanks define a static arm receiving cavity to envelope the static arm when the static arm platform is mounted on the static arm.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a compound of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, wherein: R1 is selected from a group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl and alkynyl; R2 is selected from a group consisting of H, halo, OR11, NHR11, alkyl, alkenyl and alkynyl; R3 is selected from a group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, halo, aryloxy, NHCO2R4, NHCONR5R6, NHCOR7, NH-alkyl, NH-alkenyl, NH(CH2)n-aryl, (CH2)p-heteroaryl, (CH2)qCO2R8, (CH2)qCOR9 and NHSO2R10, wherein each alkyl, alkenyl, aryl or heteroaryl moiety in the aforementioned list is optionally further substituted by one or more groups selected from alkyl, halo, OH, NH2, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylamino, arylamino, carboxyl and carboxamide; R4 to R11 are each independently selected from a group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl and aryl; and n is selected from a group consisting of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, p is selected from a group consisting of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, q is selected from a group consisting of 0

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of using mocetinostat in combination with vinorelbine to treating a patient with rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS). The patient can be a child, an adolescent, or an adult having a locally advanced RMS, an unresectable RMS, a metastatic RMS, or a recurrent RMS.

Abstract: An implosion shield of ballistic fabric adapted to mount so as to surround an implosion sleeve or dead-end on a power line. The implosion shield may be wrapped or formed as an envelope or tent including one piece and folded around the implosion sleeve or dead-end and secured with fasteners. A method of installing the implosion cover may include installing an implosion sleeve or dead-end on a power line, and then installing the implosion shield around the implosion sleeve or dead-end, by wrapping the implosion shield around the implosion sleeve or dead-end, or by securing an envelope implosion shield over the implosion sleeve or dead-end, or by draping the shield over the implosion sleeve or dead-end, or by mounting the shield on a frame over the implosion sleeve or dead-end, then detonating the implosion sleeve or dead-end. The implosion shield attenuates shock, pressure and sound waves from the detonation.

Abstract: An anti-rotation device is provided for stringing a cable or wire while reducing a twisting moment of the cable or wire as it is strung. The device includes a tow component, having multiple tow sections pivotally connectable end-to-end. A plurality of insulated weighted tails are suspended so as to hang from the tow component. Each of the tails include weighted tail sections releasably connectable end-to-end to one another. At least one electrically insulated tail section is provided in each tail between the tow component and at least some of the weighted tail sections. The tails are constrained to only articulate relative to the tow component in the single plane of bending of the tow component.

Abstract: According to examples, a system for providing generation and delivery of a composite content item associated with a primary content item is described. The system may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor, when executing the instructions, may cause the system to access a primary content item, provide a supplemental content item associated with the primary content item, and generate a composite item based on the primary content item and the supplemental content item. The processor, when executing the instructions, may then enable sponsorship of the composite content item and enable publication of the composite content item.

Abstract: Methods, financial management systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for managing gifting strategies are disclosed. In some examples, a gifting strategy interface is provided to a user device following authentication of login credentials. The gifting strategy interface is generated based on demographic and cumulative gift data for an individual and comprises a graphical illustration of a monetary value of gifts made by the individual to family members. Gift data is communicated via communication networks and a provided API to a financial institution or investment management server to execute a current gift and facilitate a transfer of electronic funds in response to a gift request from the user device via the gifting strategy interface. The gift request comprises a current gift amount and an identity of one of the family members. The graphical illustration is adjusted to reflect, and the cumulative gift data is updated based on, the executed gift.

Abstract: A system is provided for use with an insulated boom section of a bucket truck. The system includes a source of high volume and pressure, dry air; one or more interior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air to direct the air into an interior of the insulated boom section. One or more exterior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air direct the air to along an exterior surface of the insulated boom section. A method is also provided for cleaning or drying both the interior and exterior surfaces simultaneously of an insulated boom section of the boom of a bucket truck. The boom of a bucket truck is further provided in another aspect that includes at least one insulated boom section, a source of high volume and pressure, dry air, one or more interior air diffusers and one or more exterior air diffusers. A pre-heating air heater may be removably mounted into the boom.

Abstract: A trailer for staging a pipe lining for in-place installation and curing of the pipe lining has an expandable cover including a roof and side walls. Pipe lining staging apparatus located within the cover can be converted between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The floor can expand outward from the chassis for holding the staging apparatus in an expanded condition.

Abstract: An anti-rotation device is provided for stringing a cable or wire while reducing a twisting moment of the cable or wire as it is strung. The device includes a tow component, having multiple tow sections pivotally connectable end-to-end. A plurality of insulated weighted tail components are suspended so as to hang from the tow component. Each of the insulated tail components include weighted tail sections releasably connectable end-to-end to one another. At least one electrically insulated tail section is provided in each insulated tail component between the tow component and the weighted tail sections. The tail components are constrained to only articulate relative to the tow component in the single plane of bending of the tow component.

Abstract: A system is provided for use with an insulated boom section of a bucket truck. The system includes a source of high volume and pressure, dry air; one or more interior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air to direct the air into an interior of the insulated boom section. One or more exterior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air direct the air to along an exterior surface of the insulated boom section. A method is also provided for cleaning or drying both the interior and exterior surfaces simultaneously of an insulated boom section of the boom of a bucket truck. The boom of a bucket truck is further provided in another aspect that includes at least one insulated boom section, a source of high volume and pressure, dry air, one or more interior air diffusers and one or more exterior air diffusers. A pre-heating air heater may be removably mounted into the boom.

Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, at a processor, an uncrawled URL corresponding to a webpage; applying, by the processor, a webpage classification model to the uncrawled URL to determine a probability for a plurality of webpage classifications; assigning, by the processor, one or more labels to the uncrawled URL corresponding to one or more classifications of the plurality of webpage classifications that meet a threshold; and providing, by the processor, a content item to be displayed on the webpage based on the one or more labels.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides, among other things, a method of managing a wrap-up time in a contact center, the method including: receiving, by an agent of the contact center, a communication having a variable associated with the communication; receiving an input from a source external to the contact center; determining that the variable is related to the input; based on the relation of the variable to the input, determining an updated wrap-up time; storing the updated wrap-up time and the input in a database including timing variables; enabling a machine learning process to analyze the database; providing the updated wrap-up time to the agent as an amount of time rendered on a display to the agent; and updating a data model used to automatically determine wrap-up times based on the analysis of the machine learning process.