Abstract: Socio-technical system (STS) service design is an approach to design that consider human, social and organizational factors, as well as technical factors. Due to the nature of STS, any human effort will have challenges in terms of time and resource constraints in such a scenario. A method and system for designing the STS service at scale has been provided. The present disclosure is configured to bring efficiency in terms of time taken and efficacy in terms of dimensions covered. The system uses machine learning methods and natural language processing to aid the rapid process transformation of design thinking for STS. The system is using machine intervention for dimensionality reduction, helps in giving a weighted approach towards goal achievement irrespective of human biases. The prototype is expressed in a commonly understandable human language helping in prototype evaluation—visualizing the prototype even before it is built.

Abstract: Representative implementations of techniques and devices are used to reduce or prevent conductive material diffusion into insulating or dielectric material of bonded substrates. Misaligned conductive structures can come into direct contact with a dielectric portion of the substrates due to overlap, especially while employing direct bonding techniques. A barrier interface that can inhibit the diffusion is disposed generally between the conductive material and the dielectric at the overlap.

Abstract: Techniques for generating an identifier index table (IIT) and for executing queries are disclosed. The IIT maps different labels used among different data sources to a commonly defined data type. The IIT is used to generate a set of queries that are executable based on selection of the commonly defined data type and that are executable against the different data sources to search for an indicator of compromise (IOC) within the different data sources. The results from the queries are analyzed in an attempt to identify the IOC.

Abstract: A control body is coupled or coupleable with a cartridge to form an aerosol delivery device, with the cartridge being equipped with a heating element. The control body includes a power source and a microprocessor. The power source is connected to an electrical load that includes the heater when the control body is coupled with the cartridge, and includes a supercapacitor configured to provide power to the electrical load. The microprocessor is configured to operate in an active mode in which the control body is coupled with the cartridge. In the active mode, the microprocessor is configured to direct power from the supercapacitor to the heating element to activate and vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for lock reservations for shared storage. A reserve command to reserve a storage structure is received by a driver from a node. The reserve command is formatted according to a storage protocol. The driver translates the reserve command into a lease acquire command formatted according to an object store protocol and targeting an object stored within an object store and corresponding to the storage structure. A lease identifier derived from a node identifier of the node is inserted into the lease acquire command. The lease acquire command is routed to the object store for obtaining a lease on the object for granting the node exclusive write access to the object.

Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein provide a method for efficiently propagating address resolution reply messages. A first router in a first network receives an address resolution request message from a second router in a second network. The first router generates an entry for the address resolution request message and stores the entry in a pending address resolution requests table. When the first router receives a route advertisement, it extracts a network layer address from the route advertisement and determines whether the pending address resolution requests table includes an entry for the network layer address. If so, the router extracts a link layer address from the route advertisement and generates an address resolution reply message comprising the network layer address and the link layer address. The router then transmits the address resolution reply message to the second router.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to an intelligent customer service and query management and routing system. The innovative system comprises a communications server that receives a query from a client; a predictive analytics engine that applies predictive analytics to the query including parsing keywords and phrases; classifying the keywords and phrases; and applying a tag to the query; a management platform dashboard that provides an interface to a customer service representative to provide feedback to the predictive analytics engine and further applies automatic routing and categorization into a plurality of communication inboxes; and a periodic model build processing component that builds, monitors, optimizes and deploys one or more predictive models executed by the predictive analytics engine.

Abstract: A load control device may be configured to turn on lighting loads to obtain a fast turn-on time that may be substantially consistent across lighting loads that have different load voltages. The load control device may comprise a power converter circuit configured to produce a voltage across a capacitor, and a control circuit configured to control the power converter circuit to generate the voltage across the capacitor. The control circuit may determine a learned voltage from the magnitude of the voltage across the capacitor. For example, the control circuit may measure the magnitude of the voltage and store the measured voltage as the learned voltage. The control circuit may determine an operating parameter for the power converter circuit as a function of the learned voltage, and control the power converter circuit according to the operating parameter to charge the capacitor until the magnitude of the voltage exceeds a threshold.

Abstract: A method for direct communication between a source endpoint executing in a first datacenter and a destination endpoint executing in a second datacenter. The method receives, at a gateway of the second datacenter, a packet sent by the source endpoint, the packet having a header that includes a source IP address corresponding to a public IP address of the first datacenter, a destination IP address corresponding to a public IP address of the second datacenter, and source and destination port numbers. The method performs a DNAT process on the packet to replace at least the destination IP address in the header with a private IP address of the destination endpoint. The DNAT process identifies the private IP address by mapping the source and destination port numbers to the private IP address of the destination endpoint. The method then transmits the packet to the destination endpoint in the second datacenter.

Abstract: Techniques for intelligent application source code testing prioritization are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising obtaining execution history information associated with a number of test cases and source code change history information, generating a plurality of encodings for a number of test cases, each test case encoding comprising a merger of a test case description and source code change history information corresponding to a test case, determining a failure propensity score for each test case using a trained failure prediction model and the test case's encoding, determining a prioritization of the test cases in accordance with the failure propensity scores, such that a test case having a greater failure propensity score indicating a greater propensity to fail having a higher priority than another test case with a lower propensity to fail, and generating a testing schedule for the plurality of test cases in accordance with the test case prioritization.

Abstract: The present invention relates to clinically proven subcutaneous pharmaceutical compositions comprising anti-CD38 antibodies and their uses.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented.

Abstract: A method of document image processing comprises, based on at least a document page image, generating a plurality of semantic tokens that includes a plurality of word tokens and a plurality of special tokens. Each special token among the plurality of special tokens represents a non-textual semantic element of the document image, and generating the plurality of semantic tokens includes predicting, for each special token among the plurality of special tokens, a token type of the special token. The method also comprises generating, for each semantic token among the plurality of semantic tokens, a corresponding semantic token embedding among a plurality of semantic token embeddings; and applying a trained model to process an input that is based on the plurality of semantic token embeddings and a plurality of visual token embeddings based on at least the document page image to generate a semantic processing result.

Abstract: Provided herein are devices and systems for measuring a dosage of a medication used by a subject. Further provided herein are methods, systems, and media for dosing regulation and prescription compliance.

Abstract: A wind turbine blade for a wind turbine is provided, the wind turbine blade having a tip portion and a root portion, and the wind turbine blade including a shell and a spar, the spar including two spar caps connected to one another by at least one spar web of the spar and extending in a longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade, whereby at least one of the two spar caps is configured as a main down conductor of a lightning protection system of the wind turbine blade, the at least one main down conductor including an electrically conductive fiber-reinforced plastic being electroconductively connected to at least one electrical interface of the lightning protection system. Also provided is a wind turbine including such a wind turbine blade.

Abstract: The invention relates to immunogenic polysaccharide-protein conjugates comprising a capsular polysaccharide (CP) from Streptococcus agalactiae, commonly referred to as group B streptococcus (GBS), and a carrier protein, wherein the CP is selected from the group consisting of serotypes Ia, Ib, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX, and wherein the CP has a sialic acid level of greater than about 60%. The invention also relates to methods of making the conjugates and immunogenic compositions comprising the conjugates. The invention also relates to immunogenic compositions comprising polysaccharide-protein conjugates, wherein the conjugates comprise a CP from GBS serotype IV and at least one additional serotype. The invention further relates to methods for inducing an immune response in subjects against GBS and/or for reducing or preventing invasive GBS disease in subjects using the compositions disclosed herein. The resulting antibodies can be used to treat or prevent GBS infection via passive immunotherapy.

Abstract: A method and system to dynamically configure a display controller based on configuration of a display panel with which the display controller is connected. An example method includes the display controller detecting that the display panel is connected with the display controller. And the example method further includes, responsive to detecting that the display panel is connected with the display controller, (i) the display controller determining a configuration of the display panel, and (ii) based on the determined configuration of the display panel, the display controller dynamically configuring itself to interwork with the connected display panel having the determined configuration. This method could enable selective connection of a display controller with a display panel and automatic configuration of the display controller based on the configuration of the display panel.

Abstract: Provided herein are efficient and scalable methods for the synthesis of nicotinamide riboside from riboside triacetate. Also provided are compositions comprising nicotinamide riboside, and therapeutic methods employing nicotinamide riboside.

Abstract: An apparatus is proposed, the apparatus comprising interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and processing circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to receive a request to execute a task on a computing system, receive a service-level agreement, SLA, indicating at least one of a desired computing performance and a desired computing power for an execution of the task by the computing system, determine an interdependency between at least two resources of the computing system required for the execution of the task based on the SLA and schedule the execution of the task based on the interdependency between the at least two resources.