Abstract: A parking brake system for vehicles, in particular heavy-duty vehicles, is provided. The parking brake system has a parking brake actuator having an actuation pushrod slidably housed within an actuator cylinder and adapted to act on a release mechanism of a vehicle brake for unlocking the vehicle brake, and a hydraulic pump operated by an electric motor, adapted to deliver a flow of fluid into the actuator cylinder for moving the actuation pushrod.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a method of diagnosing cancer and, in particular, to a method of diagnosing early-stage non-small cell lung cancer by measuring metabolite biomarkers in serum and plasma. In some aspects, the methods comprise determining the concentration metabolites from the group comprising ?-hydroxybutyric acid, LysoPC 20:3, PC ae C40:6, citric acid, carnitine, Sand fumaric acid. In some aspects, the methods comprise determining the concentration metabolites from the group comprising ?-hydroxybutyric acid, LysoPC 20:3, spermidine, and fumaric acid.

Abstract: A method implemented by computer servers associated with a procurement services platform includes accessing data for a set of transactions associated with a potential procurement transaction between a purchaser entity and a plurality of supplier entities. The transactions include line-items. The method includes inputting the data for the set of transactions into a machine-learning model trained to generate a preferential ranking for each of the plurality of supplier entities based on the line-items. The preferential ranking includes an estimated preference of the purchaser entity for a supplier entity of the plurality of supplier entities to supply a product or service to the purchaser entity. The method further includes generating, by the machine-learning model, the preferential ranking for each of the plurality of supplier entities, and providing, based on the preferential rankings, a recommendation of preferential supplier entities for supplying the product or service to the purchaser entity.

Abstract: A biopsy device for percutaneous tissue removal includes an elongated housing having an operational axis, a stylet hub slidably mounted in the housing, where the stylet hub is movable relative to the housing between a proximal, armed position, and a distal, fired position, the stylet hub having a stylet strike, a cannula hub slidably mounted in the housing alongside the stylet hub, and a spring-biased arming member. The cannula hub is movable relative to the housing between a proximal, armed position, and a distal, fired position. The arming member is moveably mounted to the housing proximal of the respective stylet and cannula hubs, and configured for manually-actuated movement from a relaxed, extended position to a loaded, compressed position to define a compressive arming stroke. The biopsy device also includes an arming member biasing spring that restores the arming member from the compressed position to the extended position.

Abstract: A chalk reel includes a housing defining a chalk chamber and an opening from the chalk chamber; a spool positioned within the chalk chamber; and a line wound on the spool and extending through the opening, the line having a width of dimension X. The spool comprises an axial hub and a sidewall. The sidewall comprises a plurality of apertures extending through the sidewall from a first face distal from the axial hub to a second face proximal to the axial hub. Each of the plurality of apertures having a maximum width of dimension Y. The dimension Y is sized so that no loops of the line may fit through each of the plurality of apertures.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for sample testing, including biochemical testing for pathogens, biomarkers, or nucleic acids, are provided. These systems, methods, and apparatus may permit asynchronous testing of two or more samples. The apparatus may include a test reaction cap configured to permit sample testing, including instances in which the test reaction cap is coupled to a sample container. The systems, methods, and apparatus may permit testing of a fluid in a sample container using a heating unit with optical detection of sample test results.

Abstract: A shaped abrasive particle including a body having a first major surface, a second major surface, and a side surface joined to the first major surface and the second major surface, and the body has at least one partial cut extending from the side surface into the interior of the body.

Abstract: Methods of operating a haptic actuator to apply physical and/or thermal sensations to a user to provide subjective symptom relief to a user are described. In some embodiments, a haptic actuator may be automatically activated when one or more detected user states are compared to one or more predetermined activation parameters to determine the user is experiencing an episode related to a condition of the user. In another embodiment, one or more operating parameters of a haptic actuator may be updated if the haptic actuator did not provided a desired amount of subjective symptom relief to a user during use. In yet another embodiment, a haptic actuator may create an event log based on activation events when the haptic actuator is used to provide symptom relief for a condition of the user.

Abstract: A client device installed with a client application comprising a configurable rules engine may be configured to (i) receive configuration data for a given rule related to the client application's observability behavior that comprises (a) a trigger event and (b) a set of one or more actions, (ii) based on the received configuration data, configure the configurable rules engine of the client application to execute the given rule, and (iii) initiate a runtime session of the client application during which the configurable rules engine of the client application executes the given rule by (a) monitoring for the trigger event, (b) while monitoring for the trigger event, detecting an occurrence of the trigger event, and (c) based on detecting the occurrence of the trigger event, causing the set of one or more actions to be carried out.

Abstract: A digital engineering ecosystem may comprise a plurality of digital engineering software tools, a plurality of connectors corresponding to the digital engineering software tools, and project data integration software that may execute on, and be hosted by, a computing system. Users may access the digital engineering software tools to generate design data for a project. The project data integration software may generate and store project data that may be used to track links between design data generated by the software tools.

Abstract: A logic circuit, or method using the same, may include a memory storing (i) a plurality of partition groups, each partition group including a plurality of partitions, and (ii) a partition map defining an address and access mode for each of said partitions, defining different access modes for at least some of the partitions. The plurality of partition groups may comprise (i) a general use partition group including a first consumable level counter; (ii) a second use partition group including a second incrementally updatable consumable level counter; and (iii) a guide partition group including a use indicator to indicate which of the first and second consumable level counters to use.

Abstract: An agenda dictating a sequence of actions to occur during a conference associated with a plurality of participants is accessed. The sequence of actions is associated with an electronic signature envelope. Content shared by a sharing participant of the conference is monitored for content corresponding to a given action of the sequence. Responsive to detecting the content corresponding to the given action, an acting participant for the given action is determined and data obtained from sensors of a client device of the acting participant is monitored. It is determined that the data indicates that the acting participant has performed the given action and an auditable data structure reflective of the data is generated. The content shared by the sharing participant of the conference is automatically modified to include content corresponding to a next action of the sequence of actions.

Abstract: A portable medical imaging system and method, of which the system includes a movable station having a movable C-arm, an imaging signal transmitter attached to the movable C-arm, and an imaging sensor positioned generally opposite to the imaging signal transmitter and attached to the movable c-arm. The imaging sensor is configured to rotate relative to a point approximately on a center axis of the movable C-arm independently of the imaging signal transmitter, so as to change an angle of incidence for a signal transmitted from the imaging signal transmitter to the imaging sensor, and provide a field-of-view that is larger than the field-of-view of the imaging sensor at a single position.

Abstract: A treatment system includes a first interface having a first side that includes an adhesive and a second side that includes a first magnet. The first interface is configured to attach to skin of a patient such that the first magnet does not contact the skin. The system also includes a second interface that includes a medical device and a second magnet mounted to the medical device. The second magnet is configured to attach to the first magnet such that the medical device is secured to the patient.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies receive first event data associated with a first party application, receive second event data representing a click, in the first party application, on a link to a third party application, receive third event data from the third party application, convert the third event data to a label, map a compressed format of the labeled third event data to the first event data and the second event data to create multi-party attribution data, group multiple instances of the multi-party attribution data into a batch, add noise to the compressed format of the labeled third event data in the batch, and send the noisy batch to a second computing device. A debiasing algorithm can be applied to the noisy batch. The debiased noisy batch can be used to train at least one machine learning model.

Abstract: The computer system applies machine learning techniques to train a computational model using data representing researched items and their known properties. The computer system applies the trained computational model to data representing the potential candidate items to predict whether such items have such properties. The trained computational model outputs one or more predictions about whether the potential candidate items are likely to have a property from among the plurality of types of properties that the computational model is trained to predict. The computer system allows multiple machine learning experiments to be defined, and then allows predictions from those multiple machine learning experiments to be queried, including accessing aggregate statistics for those predictions. In some implementations, a machine learning experiment can specify a computational model that is an ensemble of multiple models.

Abstract: In an aspect a computer-implemented method is described. The method may include: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address and the request including data; determining, based on data encoded in the machine-readable code and data included in the request, that the transaction may be processed using a value-added service; and in response to determining that the transaction may be processed using the value-added service, enabling completion of the transaction using the value-added service.

Abstract: An aerosol provision system is provided, the aerosol provision system including a chamber for receiving at least part of a consumable through an aperture of the chamber. A visual indicator for providing user feedback is arranged around the aperture.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides new and innovative systems and methods for optimizing networks for the scheduling and execution of applications. An example method includes identifying a plurality of clusters network devices associated with a network. For each cluster and for each network device, a respective set of hardware constraints are determined. Furthermore, applications associated with each cluster may be determined. For each application associated with each cluster, application interactions and a set of application constraints may be determined. The application interactions may occur between applications associated with different clusters and may include a first application interaction between a first application associated with a first cluster and a second application associated with a second cluster. The method further includes generating a modification to the first application interaction, wherein the modification optimizes the network based on an optimization criteria.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, and methods for radar object classification. A radar classification system may include a number of endpoint units and a base station. Each endpoint unit includes a camera and a radar. The camera may image a scene and the image may be used to establish spatial zones within the scene. The radar may collect point cloud data from one or more objects in the scene. A classifier may determine an identity of the object based on the point cloud data. The base station may collect information such as the identity and location of objects in the scene and relate this information to the spatial zones. For example, objects may be identified as a vehicle, pedestrian, or cycle, and related to zones such as roadway, sidewalk, and crosswalk for the purpose of traffic control.