Abstract: An animal harness may allow a user to support a disabled animal in an upright position during walking, physical therapy, or other activities. The animal harness may comprise a saddle which further includes two ratcheting devices, a handle attached to the top of saddle, two retraction mechanisms each coupled to a corresponding ratcheting device, and two straps, wherein one end of each strap may be attached to the saddle and the opposing end of each strap may be coupled to a corresponding ratcheting device such that each strap forms an adjustable loop configured to fit around the limb of an animal. Each strap may be removable from the harness. The handle and each ratcheting device may be removable from the saddle. The user may remove the handle from the saddle by engaging a release mechanism coupled to the handle. The handle may be rotatable. The saddle may include a cushion.

Abstract: Described herein are methods for continuous production of an exfoliated two-dimensional (2D) material comprising passing a 2D material mixture through a convergent-divergent nozzle, the 2D material mixture comprising a 2D layered material and a compressible fluid. The method of the present disclosure employs physical compression and expansion of a flow of high-pressure gases, leaving the 2D layered material largely defect free to produce an exfoliated 2D layered in a simple, continuous, and environmentally friendly manner.

Abstract: A composition comprising the following components: A) a metal stearate; B) a secondary alcohol ethoxylate of the formula C12-14H25-29O [CH2CH2O]xH, wherein x=7; C) a secondary alcohol ethoxylate of the formula C12-14H25-29O [CH2CH2O]xH, C wherein x=20; D) octanoic acid; E) sodium lauryl sulfate; F) a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); and G) water.

Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a wall portion having a wall inner surface and a wall outer surface, a base portion having a base inner surface and a base outer surface, at least a portion of the wall portion and the base portion forming a vessel to retain fluid therein, at least part of the base portion configured to receive heat, and a plurality of shaped portions with at least three sides extending above, each shaped portion of the base inner surface including at least three sides and polygonal shaped tops, each of the plurality of shaped portions capable of supplying heat from the sides to fluid adjacent to the sides, the plurality of shaped portions including the polygonal shaped tops to induce creation of a plurality of hexagonal convection cells in contact with a surface of the fluid which increases heat transfer from a heating source to the fluid.

Abstract: A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation costs for energy usage, oxygenation, water usage and waste stream production.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a persistent memory file system within recoverable application memory within volatile memory. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes designating, by a processor, a portion of the system memory as recoverable application memory and establishing, by the processor, a portion of the recoverable application memory as a heap-backed memory file system. The computer-implemented method remounts, by the processor, the heap-backed memory file system following an initial program load. This heap-backed memory file system is available for general application use and for use as an internal caching mechanism for other cluster consistent file systems.

Abstract: Topology information including a plurality of snapshots of a network topology associated with respective points in time for a network can be received by an apparatus. Each snapshot is represented as a graph of nodes each corresponding to a network resource and having a node identifier. The graph for each snapshot is modified by replacing nodes representing network resources having the same role in the network with a single aggregated node. Feature learning is performed based on the modified graphs representing the plurality of snapshots, and determines a feature representation for each node in the modified graphs. An identifier for each node in the plurality of snapshots is associated with the corresponding feature representation for use in the correlation of network resources. Node identifiers for nodes in the same aggregated node in a modified graph are associated with the same feature representation.

Abstract: Systems and methods which leverage the wireless communication capability present in wireless-enabled luminaires where the lamps include a short-range wireless transceiver and can be controlled by a smart appliance. The wireless capability of a luminaire may be paired with a compatible wireless interface system (e.g., adapter system) that allows for control of the luminaire via plug-in or hard-wired photocontrols and wireless network lamp control nodes. An adapter system may be provided that replaces a standard wired receptacle of a luminaire. The adapter system may include a wired interface to the luminaire which provides power to the wireless adapter system. The wireless adapter system may include a receptacle interface that receives a plug of a control node, such as photocontrol or a networked control node. The wireless adapter system may also include a wireless interface circuit that communicates control, status or other data between the connected control device and the luminaire.

Abstract: This specification generally relates to aqueous compositions for preparing UV stable fire-resistant interlayers. It also relates to UV stable fire-resistant glazing laminates comprising such interlayers, the use of such glazing laminates in construction, and constructions comprising such glazings. An example aqueous composition comprises a mixed alkali metal silicate of general formula SiO2.M2O, where M is K or Na, and other organic and inorganic additives. Glazings with interlayers made with such aqueous compositions are simple to prepare and demonstrate good UV stability and fire-protection properties.

Abstract: An arrangement is for releasable interconnection. In an embodiment, the arrangement includes an outer ring having an inner diameter; and an inner ring having an outer diameter not greater than the inner diameter of the outer ring. One of the outer ring and the inner ring includes at least a first magnet ring and a second magnet ring, spaced apart in an axial direction leaving an axial space there between. The other of the outer ring and the inner ring includes at least one third magnet ring. The first and the second magnet rings are oriented such that same magnetic poles face each other.

Abstract: Techniques regarding an iterative energy-scaled variational quantum eigensolver process are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a read-out component that determines a ground state energy value of a quantum Hamiltonian by employing a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm, wherein VQE algorithm utilizes a symmetry that emerges at an energy scale of the quantum Hamiltonian.

Abstract: A damper seal for a turbomachine includes an annular body having an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface separated by a thickness. As such, the inner circumferential surface may define a plurality of cavities arranged into a plurality of circumferential rows and at least one partition positioned between at least two of the plurality of cavities. In addition, the inner circumferential surface may further define at least one plenum arranged between two of the plurality of circumferential rows.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods of generating a complete and accurate geometrically optimized environment. Stereo pair images depicting an environment are selected from a plurality of images to generate a Digital Surface Model (DSM). Characteristics of objects in the environment are determined and identified. The geometry of the objects may be determined and fit with polygons and textured façades. By determining the objects, the geometry, and the material from original satellite imagery and from a DSM created from the matching stereo pair point clouds, a complete and accurate geometrically optimized environment is created.

Abstract: A patient transport apparatus transports a patient over a floor surface and includes a support structure and a plurality of support wheels coupled to the support structure. The patient transport apparatus also includes a user interface including at least two handles coupled to the support structure, with each of the handles movable between a stowed position and non-stowed position. The patient transport apparatus also includes a user input device coupled to the user interface, and a controller coupled to the user interface. The controller is configured to electronically coordinate the movement of the handles to the stowed position upon actuation of the user input device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs, for counterfeit document detection. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining first data representing a first image, providing the obtained first data as an input to a machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, obtaining second data that represents output data generated, by the machine learning model, based on the machine learning model processing the obtained first data as an input, determining, based on the obtained second data, whether the first image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, and storing third data indicating that a document, from which the first image was obtained, is a counterfeit document.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to impute media consumption behavior are disclosed. An example system includes one or more media meters to obtain tuning data, one or more people meters to obtain viewing data, and one or more servers to, in response to a determination that a difference satisfies a first threshold, determine that a first subset of the tuning data associated with first panelist households having tuned to first media in a first area exhibits local bias, determine that a second subset of the viewing data associated with second panelist households having viewed the first media in the second area represents heavy viewing, and impute the second subset of the viewing data for the first subset of the tuning data in response to the second subset of the viewing data representing heavy viewing.

Abstract: A measurement module receives crosstalk compensation factors that include distance factors based on respective distances of a current sensor of the module from respective current sensors of other measurement modules and phase difference factors based on respective differences between the phase of a source current measured by the module and respective phases of source currents measured by the other modules. The module monitors messages reporting current measurements transmitted from the other modules connected to a broadcast bus, of current measurements made by respective current sensors of the other modules measuring other respective source currents. The module determines a reported current that is computed as a function of current measurement by the module's current sensor, reported current measurements monitored from the other modules, and the received crosstalk compensation factors. The module transmits the determined reported current over the broadcast bus to the other modules and a central controller.

Abstract: A dental article such as a dental tray aligner or a dental crown that includes a substrate including a polymeric material having a modulus of elasticity that reduces upon exposure to water and a water-resistant coating on the substrate, where the water-resistant coating comprises parylene. In some examples, the water-resistant coating may include one or more layers that include parylene.

Abstract: A skylight for a building includes a solar panel arranged within the skylight, the solar panel comprising one or more photovoltaic cells to collect direct radiation from rays of sunlight for conversion to electrical power, and an optical element to receive the direct radiation and refract it to the solar panel, and to receive the direct radiation and diffuse radiation scattered from the rays of sunlight and refract the direct radiation and the diffuse radiation through the skylight, bypassing the solar panel, to provide daylighting in the building.

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. One or more first signals received from one or more first devices may be monitored. One or more first threat indicators within a first signal of the one or more first signals may be detected. One or more second signals may be analyzed to determine a probability of a threat event. One or more second devices of a plurality of devices may be selected, based upon the probability, for transmission of one or more messages associated with the threat event.