Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to computer science, data science, software, and computer program and platform architectures, including processing data received at an adaptive distribution platform to identify a point of time, initiating automatic replenishment of the item by the adaptive distribution platform if the point of time is substantially within the date range, transmitting a message to a client, the message including a characteristic of the item and a control user input, receiving a response to the message, processing the response to determine whether to adjust the scheduled delivery to replenish the item, generating a confirmation message to the client, transmitting a control signal from the adaptive distribution platform to a system, and adapting a predicted distribution event associated with the item.

Abstract: Compressing files is disclosed. An input file to be compressed is first aligned. During or prior to aligning the input file, hyperparameters are set, determined, or configured. The hyperparameters may be set, determined, or configured to achieve a particular performance characteristic. Aligning the file includes splitting the file into sequences that can be aligned. The result is a compression matrix, where each row of the matrix corresponds to part of the file. A consensus sequence id determined from the compression matrix. Using the consensus sequence, pointer pairs are generated. Each pointer pair identifies a subsequence of the consensus matrix. The compressed file includes the pointer pairs and the consensus sequence.

Abstract: Systems and methods for registering one or more anatomical elements are provided. The system may comprise an imaging device and a navigation system configured to track a pose of a marker coupled to an object and configured to identify the marker. A first image may be received from a surgical plan. Pose information describing the pose of the marker and a marker identification of the marker may be obtained from the navigation system. An object identification based on the marker identification may be retrieved from a database. Image data of a second image depicting an anatomical element and the object may be obtained from the imaging device. The image data, the pose information, and the object identification may be input into a registration model. The registration model may be configured to register the anatomical element to the first image based on the pose information and the object identification.

Abstract: Enhancing documentation of data entities in a datastore. Queries from a query database are analyzed to generate insights into the data entities in the datastore and/or processes of an organization. The insights generated from the queries are added to the documentation of the data entities. The insights enhance the documentation and improve query formulation, data entity understanding, and query results.

Abstract: A system can divide a database into a group of shards that are distributed among a group of data centers. The system can train a machine learning model on a group of labeled input data, wherein the group of labeled input data comprises respective requests to operate on the database, and wherein the respective requests are labeled with respective shards of the group of shards used to process the respective requests, and to produce a trained machine learning model. The system can, after training the machine learning model, receive a request. The system can process the request with the trained machine learning model to predict that a data center of the group of data centers will have a largest number of leader shards of the group of shards to process the request. The system can send the request to the first data center to be processed.

Abstract: An antenna module and communication device containing the antenna module are disclosed. The antenna module is disposed in a metal cavity. The antenna module includes a switched beam mm-wave antenna array having radiating elements separated by less than a wavelength of the radiating elements. The array is fed by a single transceiver chain. The array is disposed at the focal length of a low-profile mm-wave lens configured to steer the beam. A sub-10 GHz antenna is disposed closer to the opening of the cavity than the lens. The lens is a Fresnel Zone Plate lens having a focal length of less than about the wavelength of the beam, or a Saucer lens having shells of different refractive indexes and having a profile that is more than 6 times smaller than a Luneburg lens with a same focal length.

Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods for generating banana embryos and plants carrying desired mutations in target sequences, comprising introducing at least one mutation in at least one endogenous acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene. The invention also provides banana plants and products generated by such methods.

Abstract: A method of extracting a thrombus from a thrombus site in a cerebral artery of a patient by advancing a first catheter into an internal carotid artery of the patient; advancing a funnel within the first catheter; moving the funnel and the first catheter with respect to each other to place the funnel outside of the first catheter; expanding the funnel into contact with an inner wall of the internal carotid artery at or proximal to a distal end of a carotid siphon, thereby reducing blood flow past the funnel; applying suction through the funnel; advancing a clot-mobilizer through the first catheter toward the thrombus; engaging thrombus material from the thrombus with the clot-mobilizer; moving the clot-mobilizer and thrombus material proximally at least partially into the funnel; and moving the funnel, the clot-mobilizer and the thrombus material proximally within the vasculature.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) round trip delay mitigation. In one embodiment a method includes receiving, by a node in a NTN network, a data payload; and providing, by the node, an acknowledgement of reception of the payload although payload processing is not complete.

Abstract: Aspects of this technical solution can include selecting a plurality of memory locations at a memory device, the memory locations corresponding to a first page including a first plurality of bits and a second page including a second plurality of bits, modifying, based on the first plurality of bits and the second plurality of bits, a first voltage threshold corresponding to an estimated read voltage for the first plurality of bits, allocating, to a voltage range bounded by the first voltage threshold, a log-likelihood ratio (LLR), and decoding, based on the LLR corresponding to the voltage range, the first plurality of bits.

Abstract: A crimping device includes a housing and a crimping band. The housing has a lumen and one or more band openings, wherein the lumen is configured to receive a prosthetic heart valve therein. The crimping band is adjustably coupled to the housing and comprises a first end portion, a second end portion, and a loop. The first end portion is coupled to the housing, and the second end portion extends through the one or more band openings. The loop of the crimping band is disposed within the lumen of the housing and can be moved between a first configuration and a second configuration. When in the first configuration, the loop of the crimping band has a first diameter and is configured such that the prosthetic heart valve in a radially expanded configuration can be positioned radially within the loop.

Abstract: This application discloses configurations for arranging transducer arrays on a person's head to impose tumor treating fields (TTFields) in the brain at field strengths that are as uniform as possible throughout the entire brain. In some embodiments, L-shaped sets of electrodes are positioned near the right and left ears, each with a horizontal arm above the ear and a vertical arm behind the ear. Optionally, these embodiments may be combined with a second pair of electrodes positioned on top of the head and behind the neck. In other embodiments, one pair of electrodes is positioned above the right ear and on the left/rear portion of the neck; and a second pair of electrodes is positioned above the left ear and on the right/rear portion of the neck. These configurations improve the uniformity of the electric fields imposed throughout the brain, and are particularly useful for preventing and/or treating metastases.

Abstract: Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for decoding data stored in a non-volatile storage device, including determining error candidates and determining whether at least one first error candidate from the error candidates is found based on two of the component codes agreeing on a same error candidate. In addition, whether at least one second error candidate is found based on two of the component codes agreeing on a same error candidate is determined in response to implementing a suggested correction at one of the error candidates. Errors in the data are corrected based on at least one of whether the at least one first error candidate is found or whether the at least one second error candidate is found.

Abstract: Techniques for data classification using clustering. A method includes replacing a plurality of portions of metadata for a plurality of data objects with a plurality of replacement characters in order to generate a plurality of replaced strings; clustering the plurality of data objects into a plurality of clusters based on commonalities between the plurality of replaced strings of data objects of the plurality of data objects; classifying a subset of the data objects in each cluster into at least one class; and aggregating classes within at least one cluster of the plurality of clusters, wherein aggregating classes within each of the at least one cluster includes applying the at least one class for the subset of the data objects in each cluster to each other data object within the cluster.

Abstract: Reinstating access to a system of an admin whose certificate is invalid or expired is disclosed. When the admin's certificate is expired, the admin may send a request for reinstatement to tenant admins. The voting operation is based on shares of a secret that have been distributed to validators. When the shares are successfully reconstructed to obtain the secret, the voting operation is affirmed or allowed to proceed. If the vote is successful, access for the admin is restored or reinstated.

Abstract: Techniques for autocontrastive decoding of a machine learning model are provided. In one aspect, a system for machine learning includes: a multi-layer machine learning model; and an autocontrastive decoding module configured to obtain prediction probabilities from multiple, different layers of the multi-layer machine learning model as data propagates through the multi-layer machine learning model, and aggregate in a contrastive manner the prediction probabilities from the multiple, different layers of the multi-layer machine learning model to provide a final output from the multi-layer machine learning model. The multi-layer machine learning model can be a transformer-based machine learning model. The autocontrastive decoding module can be configured to redistribute a prediction probability distribution of the transformer-based machine learning model by maximizing a difference between log-probabilities of a final layer and one or more intermediate layers of the transformer-based machine learning model.

Abstract: For example, an apparatus may include an encoder configured to encode data into a plurality of codewords according to a parity function for a transmission modulated according to a Differential Modulation (DM) scheme, and/or a decoder to decode received codewords of the transmission.

Abstract: A method for merging data includes: obtaining an existing dataset and a new dataset; grouping the new dataset and the existing dataset based on data types to obtain a plurality of data type groups; performing data type specific processing to generate similarity features; generating a plurality of similarity matrices using the similarity features; performing a comparison between the existing dataset and the new dataset using optimization and the plurality of similarity matrices to identify mappings between the existing dataset and the new dataset; performing data type specific validation to obtain an updated existing dataset, an updated new dataset, matches, partial matches, and new items; obtaining user preferences associated with the mappings, the matches, the partial matches, and the new items; and generating merged data using the updated existing dataset, the updated new dataset, the mappings, the matches, the partial matches, the new items, and the user preferences.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that implements specialized logic to facilitate distribution of items in accordance with an automatically adaptive schedule, for example, via an interface. In some examples, a method may include predicting data representing, for example, a zone of time in which depletion of an item is predicted. The method may monitor whether to replenish the item, and transmit via a network an electronic message including one or more item characteristics associated with the item to be replenished. The method may also include receiving another electronic message, and transmitting a control message to a merchant computing system to initiate adaptive distribution to replenish the item, among other things.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for fronthaul. In one embodiment a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) having a centralized unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU); and interconnecting the CU and DU over an Input/Output (I/O) bus using Peripheral Component Interconnect-Express (PCIe); wherein the CU and the DU include a PCI to optical converter and an optical to PCI converter.