Abstract: The instant invention friction reducer formulation comprising friction reducer polymers such as PAM within the dispersed phase of an inverse emulsion containing a composition C which comprises a mixture of: —at least an alkanolamide emulsifier; and —a block copolymer comprising: —a hydrophilic block A comprising units deriving from a mono-alpha-ethylenically-unsaturated monomers; and —a hydrophobic block B.

Abstract: Compositions suitable for enhanced oil recovery comprising a) a mixture of ?-sulfocarbonyl compounds of formulae (1) and (2) in a mixture ratio (1) to (2) of from 1:99 to 99:1 wherein R1, R3 and R5, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, are hydrogen or a linear or branched alkyl chain having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 and R4, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, may be a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 24 carbon atoms and in which the alkyl chain may comprise one or more cycloaliphatic groups, and X is H or a metal forming a salt with the sulfonate group, and b) a salt containing aqueous solution.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for automatically detecting characteristic points of a herringbone fabric with a view to automatically cutting pieces. The herringbone patterns are formed by V-shaped features with vertices that are aligned along a plurality of parallel axes. The method proceeds with a step of acquiring an image of a segment of the fabric, a detection initialization step including, on the basis of predefined parameters or on the basis of the image, acquiring geometric parameters of the herringbone patterns and defining lines of operation perpendicular to the axes of the herringbone patterns, and a step of determining, in the image, coordinates of points of passage of axes of the herringbone patterns along lines of operation via the optimization of a criterion of symmetry of two mirror sub-images acquired along lines of operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and relates to plants having a modified lipid metabolism and to methods for making such modified plants. In particular, the invention provides modified plants and parts thereof, including seeds, having an increased level of triacylglycerol (TAG), by means of a seed-specific expression in seed tissues during seed filling of a nucleic acid encoding a translocator protein (TSPO) in said modified plants or parts thereof. The invention further relates to methods for modulating lipid metabolism in plants and for producing plants with a modified lipid metabolism. The invention also provides constructs, vectors and host cells useful in the methods of the invention, and further relates to products obtained from the modified plants.

Abstract: A skill acquisition platform may receive input identifying a target role for a user, may identify users from the plurality of users that have worked in the target role, may identify, based on a similarity metric, a subset of the users that have worked in the target role and have similar career trajectories to the user, may cluster vectors of the user and vectors of the subset of the users that have worked in the target role to generate a plurality of skill groups, may generate a directed network graph that represents links between the plurality of skill groups, may identify one or more paths between a first skill group associated with the user and a second skill group associated with the target role, and may automatically generate a descriptive analysis of the one or more paths.

Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive a set of role skills data that identifies one or more role skills associated with a role, a set of worker skills data that identifies one or more worker skills associated with a worker, and a set of skill proximity data that identifies one or more proximity values. The device may generate a weighted directed graph comprising a network of a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges. The device may determine a fitness of a worker for a role based at least in part on performing a comparison of a maximum network flow with a threshold. The device may perform an action based at least in part on determining the fitness of the worker for the role.

Abstract: A method for placing pieces intended to be cut automatically from a fabric having a pattern that repeats at a predetermined pitch, called pattern pitch, involves the steps of determining a list of pieces to be placed on the fabric, for at least one piece of the placement, calculating a contour to be placed around the piece, the contour having a variable margin in order to avoid an overlap between adjacent pieces, the margin being a function of a predefined rate of variation of the fabric and of at least one predetermined constraint of placement of the piece on the fabric, and developing a theoretical placement of the pieces on the fabric taking into account the contour to be placed of each piece.

Abstract: The instant invention friction reducer formulation comprising friction reducer polymers such as PAM within the dispersed phase of an inverse emulsion containing a composition C which comprises a mixture of: —at least an alkanolamide emulsifier; and —a block copolymer comprising: —a hydrophilic block A comprising units deriving from a mono-alpha-ethylenically-unsaturated monomers; and —a hydrophobic block B.

Abstract: The instant invention concerns compositions suitable for stabilizing emulsions, which comprise a mixture of:—at least an alkanolamide emulsifier; and—a block copolymer comprising:—a hydrophilic block comprising units deriving from a mono-alpha-ethylenically-unsaturated monomers; and—a block B preferably deriving from a mono-alpha-ethylenically-unsaturated monomers

Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a device for examining a capillary area of the skin of a finger, said device comprising: an optical microscope); —a light source for illuminating the capillary area; —a support comprising a recess for receiving the finger, said recess comprising an opening positioned opposite the microscope; —the microscope being mounted to rotate on the support about a main axis of the finger so as to scan the capillary area from one edge of the finger to the other; —immobilisation means being configured to adjust the dimension of the recess relative to the shape of the finger in order to immobilise the finger in the recess without exerting pressure on the finger. The examination device of the present disclosure is particularly suitable for examining a capillary area of the skin of a finger in order to detect vascular anomalies.

Abstract: A skill acquisition platform may receive input identifying a target role for a user, may identify users from the plurality of users that have worked in the target role, may identify, based on a similarity metric, a subset of the users that have worked in the target role and have similar career trajectories to the user, may cluster vectors of the user and vectors of the subset of the users that have worked in the target role to generate a plurality of skill groups, may generate a directed network graph that represents links between the plurality of skill groups, may identify one or more paths between a first skill group associated with the user and a second skill group associated with the target role, and may automatically generate a descriptive analysis of the one or more paths.

Abstract: Systems and methods enable the discovery of new relationships between diseases and genes by prioritizing the selection of gene targets for a disease using an embedding space generated from a knowledge graph by mapping datasets collected from various data sources using a graph schema, modeling disease and gene associations with link weightings, analyzing the data with several machine learning models, and scoring predictions.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and relates to plants having a modified lipid metabolism and to methods for making such modified plants. In particular, the invention provides modified plants and parts thereof, including seeds, having an increased level of triacylglycerol (TAG), by means of a seed-specific expression in seed tissues during seed filling of a nucleic acid encoding a translocator protein (TSPO) in said modified plants or parts thereof. The invention further relates to methods for modulating lipid metabolism in plants and for producing plants with a modified lipid metabolism. The invention also provides constructs, vectors and host cells useful in the methods of the invention, and further relates to products obtained from the modified plants.

Abstract: Compositions suitable for enhanced oil recovery comprising a) a mixture of ?-sulfocarbonyl compounds of formulae (1) and (2) in a mixture ratio (1) to (2) of from 1:99 to 99:1 wherein R1, R3 and R5, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, are hydrogen or a linear or branched alkyl chain having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 and R4, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, may be a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 24 carbon atoms and in which the alkyl chain may comprise one or more cycloaliphatic groups, and X is H or a metal forming a salt with the sulfonate group, and b) a salt containing aqueous solution.

Abstract: The disclosure enables latent space exploration of a dataset based on drug molecular-structure data and drug biological-treatment data for a set of drug compounds in order to determine optimal drug compounds for treating diseases. Regional interpolation, including a linear interpolation (LERP) operation and a non-linear interpolation operation such as a spherical linear interpolation (SLERP), along with quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models may be utilized to navigate through a latent space generated from a variational auto-encoder (VAE), in accordance with certain embodiments.

Abstract: Compositions suitable for enhanced oil recovery comprising a) a mixture of a-sulfocarbonyl compounds of formula (1) and (2) in a mixture ratio (1) to (2) of from 1:99 to 99:1 wherein R1, R3 and R5, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, are hydrogen or a linear or branched alkyl chain having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 and R4, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, may be a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 24 carbon atoms and in which the alkyl chain may comprise one or more cycloaliphatic groups, and X is H or a metal forming a salt with the sulfonate group, and b) a salt containing aqueous solution.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one compound corresponding to the formula below: R—O—(—CH2—CH(—CH3)—O—)m—(—CH2—CH2—O—)n—H in which: R is a hydrocarbon-based group comprising from 6 to 40 carbon atoms; m is a number ranging from 0 to 20; n is a number greater than 20; for inhibiting the anionic-surfactant retention phenomena in an oil reservoir, especially in a carbonate-based or argillaceous reservoir.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one compound corresponding to the formula below: R—O—(—CH2—CH(—CH3)—O—)m—(—CH2—CH2—O—)n—H in which: R is a hydrocarbon-based group comprising from 6 to 40 carbon atoms; m is a number ranging from 0 to 20; n is a number greater than 20; for inhibiting the anionic-surfactant retention phenomena in an oil reservoir, especially in a carbonate-based or argillaceous reservoir.

Abstract: Compositions suitable for enhanced oil recovery comprising a) a mixture of a-sulfocarbonyl compounds of from 1:99 to 99:1 wherein R1, R3 and R5, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, are hydrogen or a linear or branched alkyl chain having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 and R4, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, may be a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 24 carbon atoms and in which the alkyl chain may comprise one or more cycloaliphatic groups, and X is H or a metal forming a salt with the sulfonate group, and b) a salt containing aqueous solution.

Abstract: The inhibition of anionic surfactant retention phenomena in an oil reservoir, especially in a carbonate-based or argillaceous reservoir, by the use of at least one compound corresponding to the formula R—O-(A)m-H, in which R is a hydrocarbon-based group comprising from 6 to 40 carbon atoms, A is a hexose or pentose unit, and m is a non-zero number ranging from 1 to 10, is described herein.