Abstract: Vascular access devices and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a vascular access device includes a catheter and at least one deployable wire. The catheter includes a primary lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the catheter. The at least one deployable wire is secured to the catheter and configured to move relative to the catheter between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration.

Abstract: A method for administering a dosage of Cagrisema to a patient for the treatment of obesity, the method comprising: administering a dosage of Cagrisema to the patient, wherein the dosage of Cagrisema is determined by: receiving patient data relating to a patient, wherein the patient data includes patient weight data; and processing the patient data including the patient weight data with a dosage calculator to determine the dosage of Cagrisema for administering to the patient wherein the dosage calculator is derived from a pharmacokinetic, PK, model.

Abstract: One general aspect includes a tethered temperature sensor for use within a vehicle track. The tethered temperature sensor includes one or more sensors for measuring temperature located in a high strain and high temperature region of the vehicle track. The sensor also includes circuitry configured to control and/or monitor the one or more sensors and located in a low strain and low temperature region of the vehicle track. The sensor also includes a housing to contain the circuitry. The sensor also includes an encapsulating material that fills an interior of the housing.

Abstract: A charging health monitoring device for monitoring a health of a charging component for an electric vehicle includes a testing sensor held by a charging terminal and including a testing probe interfacing with a mating charging terminal. The charging health monitoring device includes a control circuit for controlling a charging operation and a testing operation. The control circuit measures a terminal voltage of the charging terminal and a sensor voltage of the testing sensor to determine resistance of the charging terminal and provide a test signal. The control circuit includes an electrically isolated switch receiving the test signal and generating a control signal based on the test signal for controlling a charging operation of the charging component. The control circuit performs the testing operation simultaneously with the charging operation.

Abstract: A method, including receiving a signal which includes speech data, processing the received signal to identify and/or predict one or more words in the speech data, and evoking a hearing percept based on the received signal, wherein the evoked hearing percept includes one or more modified words based on the identification and/or prediction of the one or more words.

Abstract: A cloud computing system may be configured to test a cloud-native application to improve cloud-native application suitability. The system may include a processor and a computer readable medium operably coupled thereto, the computer readable medium including a plurality of instructions stored in association therewith that are accessible to, and executable by, the processor, to perform cloud-based testing operations which may include adjusting one or more of: a network path of an interaction among the plurality of interconnected subcomponents, the automated testing routine, or an infrastructure component affecting the cloud-native application.

Abstract: An engineered bacterial strain expressing dehydrogenases capable of oxidizing D- sorbitol to 2-keto-gulonic acid is provided by the present invention. Methods of using same in a one-pot synthesis of L-ascorbic acid (vitamin C) are also described.

Abstract: A respiratory gas analyzer device (10), such as a capnograph device, is disclosed. A gas measurement component (28), such as a carbon dioxide measurement component in the case of a capnograph, is configured to measure at least one respired gas component (e.g. carbon dioxide). A pump (20) is connected to draw respired gas through the gas measurement component. A pressure gauge (30) is connected to measure pressure in an airflow pathway including the gas measurement component and the pump. An electronic pump controller (40) is programmed to start the pump in response to pressure measured by the pressure gauge satisfying a pump turn on criterion.

Abstract: An apparatus for ensuring proper location for a cutout in a sheet of construction material, to provide for access to an electrical box, includes an electrical box locator device with a body and at least one spike. The body mounts to the front opening of the electrical box and the spike projects perpendicularly relative to the plane of the electrical box opening such that it pierces the sheet of construction material and is visible on the side of the sheet of construction material opposite the side facing the electrical box once the sheet of construction material is positioned over the opening of the electrical box so as to help in locating a cutout in the sheet of construction material for the electrical box.

Abstract: A portable positron emission tomography (PET) scanner includes a rotatable scan detector ring which can be rotated 90 degrees for imaging a patient in a vertical or horizontal orientation. In the vertical orientation, a patient can be standing or seating such that the aperture of the scan detector ring is raised to allow the patient to be within the scanning region and lower to perform the image scanning on the patient. In the horizontal orientation, a patient must be lying down on a platform whereby the platform is moved within the aperture of the scan detector ring to perform the image scanning on the patient. In this horizontal orientation, the scan detector ring is also stowed and secured to be moved to other scanning locations.

Abstract: A patient monitoring device includes a capnograph device (10) and a pulse oximeter (70). An electronic processor (84) is programmed to generate a capnography index (50) indicative of patient well-being from a capnogram measured by the capnograph device, and to generate an arterial blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) index (90) indicative of patient well-being from SpO2 (72) measured by the pulse oximeter. A patient safety index (92) is computed from the capnography index and the SpO2 index. One or more clinical warnings are determined based at least in part on the patient safety index. A display component (82) is configured to display at least one of the computed one or more clinical warnings.

Abstract: A kit for forming and installing an electrical box for housing at least one electrical device. The kit comprises a front segment having a rear and a rear segment having a front. The kit may also comprise at least one cover that is capable of being attached to the front segment. The cover has at least one opening through which an electrical device is accessible. The kit may further comprise a plurality of intermediate segments each having a front and a rear having attachment means that allow the segments to be securely attached in series.

Abstract: A respiratory gas analyzer device (10), such as a capnograph device, is disclosed. A gas measurement component (28), such as a carbon dioxide measurement component in the case of a capnograph, is configured to measure at least one respired gas component (e.g. carbon dioxide). A pump (20) is connected to draw respired gas through the gas measurement component. A pressure gauge (30) is connected to measure pressure in an airflow pathway including the gas measurement component and the pump. An electronic pump controller (40) is programmed to start the pump in response to pressure measured by the pressure gauge satisfying a pump turn on criterion.

Abstract: A capnograph device (10) includes a carbon dioxide measurement component (20) and an electronic processor (30) programmed to generate a capnogram (40) comprising carbon dioxide level sample values measured as a function of time. End-tidal carbon dioxide (etC02) is determined from the capnogram, and an etC02 parameter quality index (etC02 PQI) (44) is computed using one or more quantitative capnogram waveform metrics computed from the capnogram. A respiration rate (RR) value is also determined from the capnogram, and a RR PQI (46) computed using the RR value and the etC02 PQI. A respiratory well-being index (RWI) (50) may be computed from the etC02 and RR values and the etC02 and RR PQI values. In some embodiments the one or more capnogram waveform metrics are computed from a capnogram histogram generated from the capnogram.

Abstract: An apparatus for ensuring proper location for a cutout in a sheet of construction material, to provide for access to an electrical box, includes an electrical box locator device with a body and at least one spike. The body mounts to the front opening of the electrical box and the spike projects perpendicularly relative to the plane of the electrical box opening such that it pierces the sheet of construction material and is visible on the side of the sheet of construction material opposite the side facing the electrical box once the sheet of construction material is positioned over the opening of the electrical box so as to help in locating a cutout in the sheet of construction material for the electrical box.

Abstract: A gas flow monitoring system (100, 200A, 200B, 400, 600, 700) for monitoring a patient gas flow and having pressure sensors (114), a pneumatic system (110), valves (120), and a pump (116), the system including a controller (112, 710) configured to: determine whether a test mode is selected; configure the pump and the valves to pressurize at least a portion of the pneumatic system when in a test mode; obtain sensor information indicating pressure within at least a portion of the pneumatic system, when in the test mode; and determine whether a leak test fails based upon at least the sensor information.

Abstract: An encapsulated zonal dual air and foam spring bed system with noise suppression wherein air zones are created for individual or multiple sleepers that permit costs saving by providing manifold controls to enable a single pump to serve multiple circuits simultaneously (both pressure level increase and pressure level decrease) that is contained within a complete noise deadening structure whose body is easily formed to reduce cost and provide sanitation. Through the reduction of stress by cycling air support between two areas that in unison and each at half pressure support subject fully.

Abstract: Double-edged knives for use in centrifugal-type cutting apparatuses, for example, the Urschel Model CC®, and transverse cutting wheel-type cutting apparatuses, for example, the Urschel TranSlicer 2000®, to produce uniform cuts in bulk quantities of food products. Such a knife has a longitudinal length defining oppositely-disposed first and second ends and defining oppositely-disposed edges between the first and second ends. Each of the edges has a cutting edge defined thereon adapted for slicing food products. As a result, the knife has two operational life spans and can be removed and reinstalled to utilize either of its cutting edges.

Abstract: An equipment management system includes a display and a processor. The processor may be configured to provide a first interface associated with an equipment planning and scheduling module, a second interface associated with a backlog management module, a third interface associated with a parts management module, and a fourth interface associated with a continuous improvement module.

Abstract: An optical transmission system has a directly modulated laser for modulating data directly on an optical signal, and a narrow band optical filter having a band center frequency offset from a central optical frequency of the optical signal, to reduce the phase difference between FM and AM of the modulated optical signal, the filter having a bandwidth sufficiently narrow to substantially remove frequencies outside a spectrum of adiabatic frequency chirp resulting from the modulation, combined with Fourier broadening caused by the data modulation. This is a cost effective way of improving the dispersion tolerance to give greatly improved system reach and to make it practical to use directly modulated lasers with existing NDSF. The narrow band filter can be located at the transmitter or the receiver, and can have a center frequency locked to a feature in the frequency spectrum of the laser.