Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fibrous structures including active agents and having a graphic printed thereon. In some embodiments, a nonwoven web may include a fibrous structure comprising filaments. In turn, the filaments may include filament forming material, and an active agent releasable from the filaments when exposed to conditions of intended use. In addition, a graphic may be printed directly onto the fibrous structure.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a container includes forming a top portion of a preform by injecting a first material into a mold. A bottom portion of the preform is formed by injecting a second material into the mold to form inner and outer layers of the bottom portion and injecting a third material into the mold to form an intermediate layer of the bottom portion that is positioned between the inner layer and the outer layer. The third material includes virgin polyethylene terephthalate and an additive.

Abstract: Described herein are recombinant fermenting organisms having a heterologous polynucleotide encoding an alpha-amylase and/or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a trehalase. Also described are processes for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, from starch or cellulosic-containing material with the recombinant fermenting organisms.

Abstract: A packaging container is provided. The packaging container includes a body defining a volume. The body includes a neck extending from an opening of the body, and a base. A substrate is engageable with the neck to form a seal. The substrate defines at least one opening. A closure includes a projection engageable with the substrate. The projection defines at least one gap. In some embodiments, container systems and methods of manufacturing containers are disclosed.

Abstract: Antimicrobial metal ion coatings and implants including them. In particular, described herein are coatings including an anodic metal (e.g., silver and/or zinc and/or copper) that is co-deposited with a cathodic metal (e.g., palladium, platinum, gold, molybdenum, titanium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, manganese, niobium or rhenium) on a substrate so that the anodic metal is galvanically released as antimicrobial ions when the apparatus is exposed to a bodily fluid. The anodic metal may be at least about 25 percent by volume of the coating, resulting in a network of anodic metal with less than 20% of the anodic metal in the coating fully encapsulated by cathodic metal. The implant may be configured as an implant such as a bone-screw or intramedullary rod-like body configured to receive a treatment cartridge having a coating as described.

Abstract: A method of displaying fluorescence intensity in an image includes displaying a target reticle covering a region of the image; calculating a normalized fluorescence intensity within the target reticle; and displaying the normalized fluorescence intensity in a display region associated the target.

Abstract: A speaker can have a main body with a generally spheroidal shape, which can be supported standing on its end. The speaker can include a subwoofer that faces forward. A plurality of mid-range drivers can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and radially outward. A plurality of tweeters can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and generally outward. The outer housing portion of the speaker can be covered with a fabric material. A user interface ring 162 can be touch sensitive to receive input, and can have a plurality of lights that can be illuminated separately to convey information to the user.

Abstract: A device may include a first set of electrodes; a second set of electrodes transversely oriented from the first set of electrodes; and a processor and memory, where the memory has programmed instructions to cause the processor, when executed to: activate a first portion of electrodes in the first set, measure a first resulting capacitance from activating the first portion of electrodes with at least some electrodes of the second set, activate a second portion of electrodes in the second set, and measure a second resulting capacitance from activating the second portion of electrodes with at least some electrodes of the first set.

Abstract: A medical device include a polyurethane layer and a hydro-specific layer that is covalently bonded to the polyurethane layer. The polyurethane layer may include a plurality of monomer residues, at least some of which include pendent alkene groups. The hydro-specific layer may be a hydrophilic layer or a hydrophobic layer depending on the specific molecules used to form the hydro-specific layer. As an example, the hydro-specific layer may be covalently bonded to the polyurethane layer via a thiol-ene or alkene hydrothiolation reaction between the plurality of pendent alkene groups and a plurality of thiol-terminated hydro-specific molecules forming the hydro-specific layer.

Abstract: Described herein are recombinant fermenting organisms having a heterologous polynucleotide encoding an alpha-amylase and/or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a trehalase. Also described are processes for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, from starch or cellulosic-containing material with the recombinant fermenting organisms.

Abstract: A tabletop steam sterilizer system is housed within a tabletop cabinet housing having a water inlet that is adapted for connection to a municipal water supply, thus allowing its use anywhere that there is a standard water supply and without need of a distilled water supply. The tabletop steam sterilizer system includes at least one sterilizing chamber, although more than one independently operable sterilizing chamber may be provided. The tabletop steam sterilizer system also includes a water distiller system that receives water from the municipal or other non-distilled water supply, converts that municipal or other non-distilled water to distilled water, and supplies that distilled water to the sterilization chamber to carry out a sterilization cycle. Exhaust from the sterilization chamber may be recycled back to the distiller system for processing by the distiller system back into distilled water for subsequent sterilization cycles.

Abstract: A tabletop steam sterilizer system is housed within a tabletop cabinet housing having a water inlet that is adapted for connection to a municipal water supply, thus allowing its use anywhere that there is a standard water supply and without need of a distilled water supply. The tabletop steam sterilizer system includes a plurality of independently operable sterilizing chambers, each of which receives steam from a single steam generator. A single system controller provides for the on-demand sharing of system resources among the two sterilizing chambers. The tabletop steam sterilizer system also includes a water distiller system that receives water from the municipal or other non-distilled water supply, converts that municipal or other non-distilled water to distilled water, and supplies that distilled water to the sterilization chambers to carry out a sterilization cycle.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a container includes injecting a first material into a first mold to form a top portion of a preform. The first material and a second material are injected into the first mold to form a bottom portion of the preform. The preform is disposed in a second mold. The preform is blow molded into a finished container.

Abstract: A plastic, hot-fillable container is provided. The container comprises a blow molded body including a neck and a base having a center portion and a plurality of spaced apart radial segments. At least a portion of each segment is tapered from an outer side to an inner side thereof. Container systems and methods of manufacturing containers are disclosed.

Abstract: Example implementations may relate to methods and systems for detecting an event in a physical region within a physical space. Accordingly, a computing system may receive from a subscriber device an indication of a virtual region within a virtual representation of the physical space such that the virtual region corresponds to the physical region. The system may also receive from the subscriber a trigger condition associated with the virtual region, where the trigger condition corresponds to a particular physical change in the physical region. The system may also receive sensor data from sensors in the physical space and a portion of the sensor data may be associated with the physical region. Based on the sensor data, the system may detect an event in the physical region that satisfies the trigger condition and may responsively provide to the subscriber a notification that indicates that the trigger condition has been satisfied.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a mechanism that encodes a text document into a geometric graph, where the nodes of the graph represent bits of text from the document and the edges of the graph represent relationships among the bits of text as laid out on a page of the document. Each node of the graph is encoded into a vector representation that contains information of the node and the local sub-graph (including the node and all edges branching out from the node). In this way, the vector representations of the document contain information of the inner-relationship between words, sentences and paragraphs of the document, instead of just mapping the text in the document as a string of input tokens to a vector representation.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a subscriber device, a request including virtual region characteristics and an occupancy threshold, and determining, using image data captured by a camera and the virtual region characteristics, a virtual region corresponding to a portion of a physical region within a field of view of the camera. The virtual region is smaller than the physical region. The method also includes determining, using the image data, an occupancy of the virtual region and determining that the occupancy of the virtual region satisfies the occupancy threshold. In response to determining that the occupancy of the virtual region satisfies the occupancy threshold, the method also includes generating a notification to the subscriber device.

Abstract: A system and method for securing a pump are disclosed. The system includes a pump that contains a medicament delivery system, a processor operably coupled to the pump, a user interface in operable communication with the processor, a plurality of sensors in operable communication with the processor, and a housing. The housing includes a frame, a door, and a locking mechanism that can be selectively unlocked to allow the door to partially detach from the frame. The security system includes a swivel door assembly, which includes physical redundancies to selectively prevent access to the internal space of the swivel door assembly and a plurality of alarms. For example, in response to receiving an input from the plurality of sensors, the processor initiates at least one of the plurality of alarms to provide an indication to a user that an event has occurred.