Abstract: A respiratory disease analytics system provides respiratory disease risk reports to a patient, provider, or third-party entity describing a patient's risk of experiencing a medication usage event given data in a geographic region. Regional data, including air pollutant conditions, weather conditions, demographic information, built environment factors, and regional health conditions for a geographic region are accessed from other sources and assigned based on event data recorded during a medicament usage event, as collected by sensors associated with the patient's medicament device/s. The regional data is assigned to medicament usage events occurring within a period of time. The assigned regional data is analyzed to determine an expected number of medication usage events for the geographic region occurring over the period of time.

Abstract: Systems and methods for isolating applications associated with multiple tenants within a computing platform receive a request from a client associated with a tenant for running an application on a computing platform. Hosts connected to the platform are associated with a network address and configured to run applications associated with multiple tenants. A host is identified based at least in part on the request. One or more broadcast domain(s) including the identified hosts are generated. The broadcast domains are isolated in the network at a data link layer. A unique tenant identification number corresponding to the tenant is assigned to the broadcast domains. In response to launching the application on the host: the unique tenant identification number is assigned to the launched application and is added to the network address of the host; and the network address of the host is sent to the client associated with the tenant.

Abstract: There are disclosed systems and methods for generating electrical power from oxy-fuel combustion in a turbine system. The turbine system makes use of recycled steam as a components of the turbine working fluid. Also disclosed is an integrated recuperator and separator, which may be used with the turbine system, configured to separate water and carbon dioxide from exhaust fluids from the turbine system, heat from the exhaust fluids being used to generate steam from the separated water for recycling to the turbine system. Carbon dioxide separated from the exhaust fluids is condensed to a liquid or supercritical phase and sequestered in a subsurface natural gas reservoir from which natural gas fuel for the turbine system is extracted.

Abstract: A respiratory disease analytics system provides respiratory disease risk reports to a patient, provider, or third-party entity describing a patient's risk of experiencing a medication usage event given data in a geographic region. Regional data, including air pollutant conditions, weather conditions, demographic information, built environment factors, and regional health conditions for a geographic region are accessed from other sources and assigned based on event data recorded during a medicament usage event, as collected by sensors associated with the patient's medicament device/s. The regional data is assigned to medicament usage events occurring within a period of time. The assigned regional data is analyzed to determine an expected number of medication usage events for the geographic region occurring over the period of time.

Abstract: This description provides risk notifications for a geographic region to inform patients and effect behavior changes to prevent rescue events and exacerbations from occurring. A risk analysis for a geographic region is based on data gathered from a population of patients who may experience respiratory events within the geographic region. Rescue medication events, environmental conditions relevant to the rescue medication events, and other contextually relevant information are detected by sensors associated with a population of patients' medicament device/s and are collected from other sources, respectively, to provide a basis to determine a risk score. This data is analyzed to determine the severity of the risk of a respiratory event occurring within a geographical region and accordingly sending a notification to patients within that geographical region.

Abstract: A 3-D printing system comprising a plurality of printers. The printers are motorized to allow movement in X and Y directions or to rotate freely. Each printer may have one or more printheads. Also provided is a surface independent from said printers adapted to receive a printed object.

Abstract: Techniques involve an air flow assembly to provide pressurized air, e.g., for use by an air-cushion vehicle (ACV) or other craft. The air flow assembly includes a volute having a central chamber, a lift duct, and a thruster duct. The air flow assembly further includes a set of guide members disposed between the central chamber and the thruster duct, and linkage coupled to the set of guide members. The linkage is constructed and arranged to transition the set of guide members between a closed configuration in which the set of guide members closes an opening between the central chamber and the thruster duct, and an opened configuration in which the set of guide members opens the opening between the central chamber and the thruster duct.

Abstract: This description provides trigger identification notifications to patients suffering from respiratory diseases based on large amounts of patient data in order to help effect behavior changes in a patient to prevent inhaler rescue usage events from occurring. Rescue medication events, environmental conditions, and other contextually relevant patient information are detected by sensors associated with the patient's medicament devices and are collected from other sources, respectively to provide a basis to determine identify various triggers of recue inhaler usage events for a patient. Each trigger is analyzed to determine the severity of the patient's reaction to the trigger and is used to send notifications accordingly.

Abstract: A system and method include one or more processors configured to determine a risk index associated with a risk of exposure to a health threat for each node within a chain of nodes during a stage of a journey. The risk index for each node is based on occupancy characteristics of the node, a set of one or more control measures in effect to reduce the risk of exposure in the node, and a health threat prevalence in a jurisdiction associated with the node. The one or more processors are further configured to aggregate the risk indices for the nodes to determine a risk value associated with the stage of the journey, and to generate a control signal to notify a user of the risk value associated with the stage of the journey.

Abstract: This description provides trigger identification notifications to patients suffering from respiratory diseases based on large amounts of patient data in order to help effect behavior changes in a patient to prevent inhaler rescue usage events from occurring. Rescue medication events, environmental conditions, and other contextually relevant patient information are detected by sensors associated with the patient's medicament devices and are collected from other sources, respectively to provide a basis to determine identify various triggers of rescue inhaler usage events for a patient. Each trigger is analyzed to determine the severity of the patient's reaction to the trigger and is used to send notifications accordingly.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide solutions for modeling an efficacy of disease screening and testing strategies for an infectious disease. Examples include: identifying events for a disease timeline for the infectious disease, creating a model of test sensitivity as a function of the events, adaptively mapping the events to characteristics of the infectious disease unique to a simulated infected person, based at least on adaptively mapping, creating a unique disease timeline for the simulated infected person, and creating a numerical function specific to the unique disease timeline to model sensitivity as a function of the unique disease timeline.

Abstract: The invention is a method for determining a speed profile for minimizing emissions of at least one pollutant generated by a vehicle during a journey. The method requires a model of the vehicle dynamics, an analytical model of the emissions of the pollutant, and at least one speed profile model divided into at least two phases, each of the phases corresponding to a traction acceleration mode of the vehicle with a number of acceleration modes preferably being five. Then, a speed profile minimizing the emissions of at least one pollutant is determined by seeking, from speed profiles with respect to the distance, duration, and initial and final speeds of the journey and distinguished by distinct phase durations with the speed profile for which the emissions of the pollutant are modelled is by use of an analytical model for which the pollutants are the lowest.

Abstract: A portable truss cable roofing safety apparatus and method to assist users while working on the roof of a building structure. The portable apparatus provides a pair of similar opposing vertical trusses mounted adjacent opposite sides of the building structure. At least one brace is adaptable for securing each of the pair of vertical trusses to the building structure. A cable is connected to and extends between the pair of vertical trusses. An automatic belay device slidably is connected to the cable and has a safety line connected thereto, wherein the automatic belay device adjusts a length of the safety line to assist the user when the user is connected to the safety line.

Abstract: A 3-D printing system comprising a plurality of printers. The printers are motorized to allow movement in X and Y directions or to rotate freely. Each printer may have one or more printheads. Also provided is a surface independent from said printers adapted to receive a printed object.

Abstract: Techniques involve an air flow assembly to provide pressurized air, e.g., for use by an air-cushion vehicle (ACV) or other craft. The air flow assembly includes a volute having a central chamber, a lift duct, and a thruster duct. The air flow assembly further includes a set of guide members disposed between the central chamber and the thruster duct, and linkage coupled to the set of guide members. The linkage is constructed and arranged to transition the set of guide members between a closed configuration in which the set of guide members closes an opening between the central chamber and the thruster duct, and an opened configuration in which the set of guide members opens the opening between the central chamber and the thruster duct.

Abstract: This description provides risk notifications for a geographic region to inform patients and effect behavior changes to prevent rescue events and exacerbations from occurring. A risk analysis for a geographic region is based on data gathered from a population of patients who may experience respiratory events within the geographic region. Rescue medication events, environmental conditions relevant to the rescue medication events, and other contextually relevant information are detected by sensors associated with a population of patients' medicament device/s and are collected from other sources, respectively, to provide a basis to determine a risk score. This data is analyzed to determine the severity of the risk of a respiratory event occurring within a geographical region and accordingly sending a notification to patients within that geographical region.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring flow in a conduit includes a sensor head configured for insertion transversely through a conduit sidewall to position the sensor head in an electrically conductive fluid flowing through the conduit. The sensor head includes a core and a coil that at least partially surrounds the core, the coil being excitable to generate an electromagnetic field. The sensor head also includes first and second electrodes spaced apart from each other, and a body that supports the coil, core, and electrodes. The body includes at least one channel through which the electrically conductive fluid flows. The electrodes are positioned in the at least one channel. Each channel is defined by opposing sidewalls that have a converging configuration.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring flow in a conduit includes a sensor head configured for insertion transversely through a conduit sidewall to position the sensor head in an electrically conductive fluid flowing through the conduit. The sensor head includes a core and a coil that at least partially surrounds the core, the coil being excitable to generate an electromagnetic field. The sensor head also includes first and second electrodes spaced apart from each other, and a body that supports the coil, core, and electrodes. The body includes at least one channel through which the electrically conductive fluid flows. The electrodes are positioned in the at least one channel. Each channel is defined by opposing sidewalls that have a converging configuration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for balancing terminals of an HVAC system uses an air flow measuring device by inputting into a computer processing portion of the air flow measuring device predetermined target flows for each terminal; acquiring via the air flow measuring device initially measured air flows through each of the terminals, the initially measured air flows being provided to the computer processing portion; and adjusting the terminals in the HVAC system to flow set points according to instructions from the computer processing portion, the computer processing portion being programmed to calculate the flow set point for each terminal given current HVAC system load conditions, that will result in all terminals being set to target flow after all terminals have been adjusted as instructed.