Abstract: A system includes a vacuum chamber, a vacuum source, and a mixture flow path adapted to be connected to receive the output of a direct steam injector. The vacuum source is operatively connected to a vacuum port of the vacuum chamber, while a product outlet port from the vacuum chamber is adapted to be connected to an arrangement for removing treated product from the vacuum chamber. The mixture flow path includes a flow path segment outside of the vacuum chamber volume and a flow path segment within the vacuum chamber volume. At least some of a surface defining the flow path segment within the vacuum chamber is in substantial thermal communication with one or more cooling structures.

Abstract: An administration device for intravitreal administration of a fluid wherein a second actuation part of the administration device is configured to axially block a plunger rod and/or a first actuation part of the administration device, where in the second actuation part is to be actuated in order to axially release the plunger rod and/or the first actuation part such that the first actuation part can be actuated. The administration device has a securing member that is configured to block a back-movement of the plunger rod and/or the first actuation part at least in an initial position and/or in an administration position of the plunger rod and wherein the securing member is configured to block actuation of the second actuation part before reaching the administration position of the plunger rod.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a stream of input material made up of pieces of meat and separating a first material and a second material from the input material. The first material includes liquified meat fat and the second material includes raw lean meat. Fat granules are formed from a portion of the first material. A quantity of the meat fat granules at a meat fat blending temperature are then combined with a quantity of the second material at a lean meat blending temperature to produce a target comminuted meat product having a target lean point.

Abstract: An article includes a mixture release component defining a mixture release volume and also includes a heated mixture located within the mixture release volume. The heated mixture includes undenatured meat protein and water condensed from steam. A mixture release opening is included at an outlet end of the mixture release volume and this mixture release opening defines a passage from the mixture release volume to a vacuum chamber volume defined by a vacuum chamber. A vacuum is applied to the vacuum chamber volume. The steam from which the water has condensed comprises steam that has been placed in direct contact with a stream of undenatured meat protein in a direct steam injector having a mixture outlet operatively connected to the mixture release component.

Abstract: A system includes a vacuum chamber, a vacuum source, and a mixture flow path adapted to be connected to receive the output of a direct steam injector. The vacuum source is operatively connected to a vacuum port of the vacuum chamber, while a product outlet port from the vacuum chamber is adapted to be connected to an arrangement for removing treated product from the vacuum chamber. The mixture flow path includes a flow path segment outside of the vacuum chamber volume and a flow path segment within the vacuum chamber volume. At least some of a surface defining the flow path segment within the vacuum chamber is in substantial thermal communication with one or more cooling structures.

Abstract: An article includes a mixture release component defining a mixture release volume and also includes a heated mixture located within the mixture release volume. The heated mixture includes undenatured meat protein and water condensed from steam. A mixture release opening is included at an outlet end of the mixture release volume and this mixture release opening defines a passage from the mixture release volume to a vacuum chamber volume defined by a vacuum chamber. A vacuum is applied to the vacuum chamber volume. The steam from which the water has condensed comprises steam that has been placed in direct contact with a stream of undenatured meat protein in a direct steam injector having a mixture outlet operatively connected to the mixture release component.

Abstract: A system and controller where the pressure of the air is continuously monitored or read at a designated exhaust point and adjustments made to the flow of the air and gas to keep the efficiency of the appliance at a maximum to control the appliance (or the burner for an appliance) within specifications as dictated by the customer or consumer rather than training the user.

Abstract: A raw meat protein product is prepared by a process comprising directing a raw meat protein along a mixture conduit, placing steam in contact with the raw meat protein to raise the temperature of the raw meat protein to a pathogen neutralizing temperature, and maintaining that temperature in the raw meat protein for a treatment period of time. The process then includes applying a vacuum to the heated raw meat protein to vaporize water that has condensed from the steam and then separating the raw meat protein from the vaporized water and any remaining steam.

Abstract: A heating medium injector includes an injector structure defining a heating medium flow path and a product flow path. The heating medium flow path extends to a contact location, while the product flow path also extends to the contact location. The contact location comprises a location at which the heating medium flow path and product flow path merge within the injector. In a region along the product flow path, the product flow path is defined between a first flow surface and a second flow surface. The first flow surface comprises a surface of a boundary wall separating the heating medium flow path from the product flow path and the second flow surface comprises a surface of an opposing second boundary wall. The second flow surface is in substantial thermal communication with a second flow surface cooling structure.

Abstract: A separator includes a drum ejection passage control element and an intermediate ejection control element both mounted on a drum assembly. The drum ejection passage control element is moveable between a first position and a second position. In the second position a drum ejection passage is open for ejection of material from a maximum diameter of a separator volume, while in the first position the drum ejection passage control element blocks the drum ejection passage to prevent the ejection of material from the maximum diameter of the separator volume. An intermediate ejection path is formed in the separator, each extending from an intermediate ejection path inlet at an intermediate region of the separator volume to an intermediate ejection path outlet. The intermediate ejection control element is moveable to alternately open or close the intermediate ejection path for fluid communication to the separator volume.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for dynamically self-balancing communication and computation. In an embodiment, each partition of application data is stored on a respective computer of a cluster. The application is divided into distributed jobs, each of which corresponds to a partition. Each distributed job is hosted on the computer that hosts the corresponding data partition. Each computer divides its distributed job into computation tasks. Each computer has a pool of threads that execute the computation tasks. During execution, one computer receives a data access request from another computer. The data access request is executed by a thread of the pool. Threads of the pool are bimodal and may be repurposed between communication and computation, depending on workload. Each computer individually detects completion of its computation tasks. Each computer informs a central computer that its distributed job has finished. The central computer detects when all distributed jobs of the application have terminated.

Abstract: A separator includes a first piston and a second piston both mounted on a drum assembly. The first piston is moveable between a first piston open position and a first piston closed position. In the first piston open position drum ejection passages are open for ejection of material from a maximum diameter of a separator volume, while in the first piston closed position the first piston blocks the drum ejection passages to prevent the ejection of material from the maximum diameter of the separator volume. A number of intermediate ejection paths are formed in the separator, each extending from an intermediate ejection path inlet at an intermediate region of the separator volume to an intermediate ejection path outlet. The second piston is moveable to alternately open or close the intermediate ejection paths for fluid communication to the separator volume.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for asynchronous execution of queries on statically replicated graph data. In an embodiment, a graph is partitioned among a plurality of computers executing the graph querying engine. One or more high-degree vertices of the graph are each replicated in each graph partition. The partitions, including the replicated high-degree vertices, are loaded in memory of the plurality of computers. To execute a query, a query plan is generated based on the query. The query plan specifies a plurality of operators and an order for the plurality of operators. The order is such that if an operator requires data generated by another operator, then the other operator is ordered before the operator in the query plan. Replicated copies of a vertex is visited if matches made by subsequent operator(s) are limited by data unique to the replicated vertices.

Abstract: A separator includes a first piston and a second piston both mounted on a drum assembly. The first piston is moveable between a first piston open position and a first piston closed position. In the first piston open position drum ejection passages are open for ejection of material from a maximum diameter of a separator volume, while in the first piston closed position the first piston blocks the drum ejection passages to prevent the ejection of material from the maximum diameter of the separator volume. A number of intermediate ejection paths are formed in the separator, each extending from an intermediate ejection path inlet at an intermediate region of the separator volume to an intermediate ejection path outlet. The second piston is moveable to alternately open or close the intermediate ejection paths for fluid communication to the separator volume.

Abstract: A heating medium injector includes an injector structure defining a heating medium flow path and a product flow path. The heating medium flow path extends to a contact location, while the product flow path also extends to the contact location. The contact location comprises a location at which the heating medium flow path and product flow path merge within the injector. In a region along the product flow path, the product flow path is defined between a first flow surface and a second flow surface. The first flow surface comprises a surface of a boundary wall separating the heating medium flow path from the product flow path and the second flow surface comprises a surface of an opposing second boundary wall. The second flow surface is in substantial thermal communication with a second flow surface cooling structure.

Abstract: A system includes a vacuum chamber, a vacuum source, and a mixture flow path adapted to be connected to receive the output of a direct steam injector. The vacuum source is operatively connected to a vacuum port of the vacuum chamber, while a product outlet port from the vacuum chamber is adapted to be connected to an arrangement for removing treated product from the vacuum chamber. The mixture flow path includes a flow path segment outside of the vacuum chamber volume and a flow path segment within the vacuum chamber volume. At least some of a surface defining the flow path segment within the vacuum chamber is in substantial thermal communication with one or more cooling structures.

Abstract: Techniques herein provide job control and synchronization of distributed graph-processing jobs. In an embodiment, a computer system maintains an input queue of graph processing jobs. In response to de-queuing a graph processing job, a master thread partitions the graph processing job into distributed jobs. Each distributed job has a sequence of processing phases. The master thread sends each distributed job to a distributed processor. Each distributed job executes a first processing phase of its sequence of processing phases. To the master thread, the distributed job announces completion of its first processing phase. The master thread detects that all distributed jobs have announced finishing their first processing phase. The master thread broadcasts a notification to the distributed jobs that indicates that all distributed jobs have finished their first processing phase. Receiving that notification causes the distributed jobs to execute their second processing phase.

Abstract: A heating medium injector includes an injector structure defining a heating medium flow path and a product flow path. The heating medium flow path extends to a contact location along an axis of the injector, while the product flow path also extends to the contact location along the injector axis. The contact location comprises a location at which the heating medium flow path and product flow path merge within the injector. In a region along the injector axis, the product flow path is defined between a first flow surface and a second flow surface. The first flow surface comprises a surface of a boundary wall separating the heating medium flow path from the product flow path and the second flow surface comprises a surface of an opposing second boundary wall. The second flow surface is in substantial thermal communication with a second flow surface cooling structure.

Abstract: A separator includes a first piston and a second piston both mounted within a drum assembly volume. The first piston is moveable between a first piston open position and a first piston closed position. In the first piston open position drum ejection passages of the drum assembly are open to the drum assembly volume, while in the first piston closed position the first piston blocks the drum ejection passages so that they are closed to the drum assembly volume. A number of intermediate ejection paths are formed in the separator, each extending from an intermediate ejection path inlet at an intermediate region of the drum assembly volume to an intermediate ejection path outlet. The second piston is moveable to alternately open or close the intermediate ejection paths to the drum assembly volume.

Abstract: Techniques minimize communication while loading a graph. In a distributed embodiment, each computer loads some edges of the graph. Each edge connects a source vertex (SV) to a destination vertex. For each SV of the edges, the computer hashes the SV to detect a tracking computer (TrC) that tracks on which computer does the SV reside. Each computer informs the TrC that the SV originates an edge that resides on that computer. For each SV, the TrC detects that the SV originates edges that reside on multiple providing computers (PCs). The TrC selects a target computer (TaC) from the multiple PCs to host the SV. The TrC instructs each PC, excluding the TaC, to transfer the SV and related edges that are connected to the SV to the TaC. A vertex's internal identifier indicates which computer hosts the vertex. The TrC maintains a mapping between external and internal identifiers.