Abstract: A system for blockchain-based authentication comprises an interface and a processor configured to (i) receive, by a first device, a command from a second device, where the first device is associated with a first trust certificate, (ii) receive a second trust certificate from the second device, (iii) communicate a cryptographic challenge using a public key of the second device to the second device, (iv) receive a response to the cryptographic challenge from the second device, (v) check whether the response matches with a predetermined correct response or not, and (vi) authenticate the second device and execute the commend received from the second device only if the response matches with the predetermined correct response.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel preparation. The present invention has an advantage of enabling bitterness of the raw material medicine to be masked by only the physical shape thereof. The present invention breaks away from general knowledge, and is a concept having never been conceived of thus far and is a novel preparation, which can be widely used in the pharmaceutical industry in the future.

Abstract: Systems, methods and media are provided for training a snippet extractor to create snippets based on information extracted from published descriptions. In one example, a computer-implemented method includes creating, based on a non-RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) extraction technique performed on the published descriptions, a plurality of base models, each base model including one or more sample description summaries; evaluating the base models using an evaluation technique; selecting an optimum base model; developing a classification model using RNN extraction, the classification model based on description summaries contained in the optimum base model; and using the classification model to train the snippet extractor by machine learning.

Abstract: A non-destructive examination (NDE) system for use on a structural element comprises nano-energetic actuators configured for creating a controlled combustion in response to thermal energy, thereby inducing vibrations in a surface of the structural element. The NDE system further comprises sensors configured for measuring the vibrations induced in the surface of the structural element and generating vibration data. An applique comprises a planar substrate, nano-energetic actuators affixed to the planar substrate, each configured for creating controlled combustions in response to thermal energy, and an adhesive affixed to the planar substrate, such that the applique can be adhered to a structural element.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of labeling a plurality of products includes coating a pressure sensitive adhesive to a roll of face stock, the roll of face stock configured to be converted to a plurality of individual labels aligned in a single lane; singulating an individual label from the roll of face stock; and applying the individual label to a product of the plurality of products, wherein the coating, singulating and applying are conducted sequentially in a single continuous operation with a single continuous web of material.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for flow stitching network traffic flow segments across middleboxes. A method can include collecting flow records of traffic flow segments at a first middlebox and a second middlebox in a network environment including one or more transaction identifiers assigned to the traffic flow segments. Sources and destinations of the traffic flow segments can be identified with respect to the first middlebox and the second middlebox. Corresponding subsets of the traffic flow segments can be stitched together to from a first stitched traffic flow at the first middlebox and a second stitched traffic flow at the second middlebox. The first and second stitched traffic flows can be stitched together to form a cross-middlebox stitched traffic flow across the first middlebox and the second middlebox. The cross-middlebox stitched traffic flow can be incorporated as part of network traffic data for the network environment.

Abstract: A motor for driving a fan in a heating and/or cooling system includes a motor body, a motor cover, and an isolator. The isolator damps vibrations passed from the motor body to the motor cover. The isolator includes two isolating elements connected by a bridge. At least one of the two isolating elements includes at least two corners in a cross-sectional view.

Abstract: The presenting invention relates to techniques for implementing a secure operating environment for the execution of applications on a computing devices (e.g., a mobile phone). In The secure operating environment may provide a trusted environment with dedicated computing resources to manage security and integrity of processing and data for the applications. The applications may be provided with a variety of security services and/or functions to meet different levels of security demanded by an application. The secure operating environment may include a security engine that enumerates and/or determines the security capabilities of the secure operating environment and the computing device, e.g., the hardware, the software, and/or the firmware of the computing device. The security engine may provide security services desired by applications by choosing from the security capabilities that are supported by the secure operating environment and the computing device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for bufferbloat recovery and avoidance are provided herein. A portion of the buffer can be compressed based on one or more thresholds without changing an order of packet transmission and without dropping packets. The method includes storing, by a device, a plurality of packets received by the device to a buffer. The buffer can be configured with a minimum threshold and a maximum threshold. The method includes detecting that a size of the buffer has reached at least the maximum threshold and compressing one or more packets of the plurality of packets stored between the minimum threshold and the maximum threshold while transmitting, during compression, at least a portion of one or more packets of the plurality of packets stored in the buffer below the minimum threshold.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for the formation of gate stacks having two or more titanium-aluminum (TiAl) layers with different Al concentrations (e.g., different Al/Ti ratios). For example, a gate structure can include a first TiAl layer with a first Al/Ti ratio and a second TiAl layer with a second Al/Ti ratio greater than the first Al/Ti ratio of the first TiAl layer.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of labeling a plurality of products includes coating a pressure sensitive adhesive to a roll of face stock, the roll of face stock configured to be converted to a plurality of individual labels aligned in a single lane; singulating an individual label from the roll of face stock; and applying the individual label to a product of the plurality of products, wherein the coating, singulating and applying are conducted sequentially in a single continuous operation with a single continuous web of material.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a configuration for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmissions for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein the configuration, which is specific to the UE, identifies allocated resources of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for the HARQ retransmissions; and use the allocated resources identified in the configuration for the HARQ retransmissions. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: The present embodiments provide methods, compounds, and compositions for treating, preventing, or ameliorating a disease associated with excess growth hormone using antisense compounds or oligonucleotides targeted to growth hormone receptor (GHR).

Abstract: A non-invasive imaging approach using CEST and MRS may be used to monitor the cleavage of the poly-L-glutamate (PLG) backbone. The cleavage of PLG by cathespsin B can expose exchangeable —NH2 protons in the PLG that are then monitored non-invasively through CEST. The technique can provide direct information on malignant tissue and tumor aggressiveness, and can also be used to monitor treatment.

Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge. The leg gasketing system may also include a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.

Abstract: In one example, a Network Functions Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO) obtains a radio service descriptor defining communication parameters for a radio in a virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN). Based on the radio service descriptor, the NFVO determines whether a virtual Distributed Unit (vDU) that is configured in accordance with the communication parameters and a virtual Centralized Unit (vCU) that is configured in accordance with the communication parameters are already instantiated in the vRAN. If it is determined that the vDU or the vCU is not already instantiated, the NFVO automatically instantiates the vDU or the vCU in the vRAN.

Abstract: According to an aspect of one or more exemplary embodiments, there is provided a constant on-time controller for a buck converter with calibrated ripple injection in continuous conduction mode. The constant on-time controller may include a pulse width modulator (PWM) comparator that generates an on-time request, an error amplifier that regulates an average feedback voltage to an internal reference voltage, and passes a feedback node ripple signal to an input of the PWM comparator, an on-time generator that outputs an on-time signal that controls an on-time of the buck converter based on the on-time request, a MOSFET driver that drives the buck converter based on the output of the on-time generator, and an injection signal generator coupled to the on-time generator, wherein the injection signal generator may include a first switch and a second switch, a fixed signal generator, and a bias current source.

Abstract: A mounting system for fuel injection systems connects a fuel injection valve to a fluid-conveying component and includes a connector piece of the metering valve being inserted at least partly into a receiving space of a connector body of the component; a support part disposed on the connector piece; a decoupling element; a dished disk inserted into a receiving space of the connector body and immobilized along a longitudinal axis of the receiving space relative to the connector body. The support part has a spherical support surface that faces toward a dished surface of the dished disk. The decoupling element is disposed between the spherical support surface of the support part and the dished disk. The connector piece is mounted on the connector body via the support part, decoupling element, and dished disk.

Abstract: The embodiments herein push notifications to network devices used by a shared service to which a roaming host in a network fabric is subscribed. For example, a network fabric controller can access a VN policy table which stores the relationships between the virtual networks in the network fabric. Using this table, the controller can identify what shared service VNs (i.e., extranets) can communicate with the host's VN. The controller can push out notifications to the network devices used by the shared service VNs to store the new location of the host. That is, the network devices that locally store a location of the host can update their routing caches to point to the new location of the host. In this manner, the network fabric can reduce the time needed to reconverge on the new location of the host by updating the network devices used by the shared service VNs.

Abstract: The identification and loading of an appropriate service operating system can be facilitated when a main operating system fails. To facilitate the identification of which main operating system failed, an agent can create a UEFI variable that is specific to each main operating system on a client. These OS-specific UEFI variables can be employed to identify which main operating system has failed to boot. When a main operating system fails to boot, a UEFI preboot application can be configured to access the UEFI variables to identify which main operating system has failed. The UEFI preboot application can also obtain characteristics of the failed operating system from the UEFI variable and include such characteristics in a vendor extension of an SLP request. A server can employ the characteristics defined in the vendor extension to identify and send an appropriate service operating system to the client.