Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for entropy balanced population measurement. Entropy balancing is a statistical technique for preprocessing data to achieve covariate balance. Weighting coefficients may be dynamically adjusted to satisfy balance conditions or constraints to adjust for inequalities in representation, thereby improving covariate moments. Using entropy balancing and linear regression analysis with panel content exposure and results data provides a mechanism to estimate the effects of multiple exposure vectors simultaneously, including instances where panelists are exposed to a vector multiple times. Data may be obfuscated or anonymized for preprocessing via a double-encrypted intersection-based extraction mechanism, allowing both measurement systems and panel providers to retain confidential information.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a brewed beverage includes a device for heating and delivering water, a brewing chamber, into which the heated water is introduced, a positioning device for positioning a capsule, with contents for brewing the beverage, at a lateral opening of the brewing chamber, and an outlet with a switchable valve on an underside of the brewing chamber, wherein an inlet for introducing the hot water is provided on an upper side of the brewing chamber. A method is also described for preparing a brewed beverage.

Abstract: To dry a hand with fingertips and a carpus, the palmar aspect and the dorsal aspect of the hand are blown dry, starting from the fingertips, by a pair of planar gas jets, wherein the gas jets of the pair run towards each other in the direction from the carpus to the fingertips at an angle of less than 180°. By applying high-voltage AC pulses with respect to ground to dielectrically shielded electrodes arranged next to both planar gas jets, direct discharges are obtained across the hand on the palmar aspect thereof and on the dorsal aspect thereof.

Abstract: A shower caddy includes a 4-way diverter for attachment to a shower arm and to divert water received from the shower arm to a circuit of pipes within the shower caddy. The shower caddy further includes a heating circuit within a basin. The basin holds bathing fluids, and the heating circuit transfers heat from water traveling via the circuit of pipes to the bathing fluids within the basin. The shower caddy further includes an additive infuser attached to the circuit of pipes that infuses an additive into the water flowing through the circuit of pipes when the additive infuser is activated by a user. The circuit of pipes is further connected to a showerhead that outputs the water received from the shower arm following it being used for the heating circuit and/or having an additive infused therein.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparing a brewed beverage includes positioning a capsule with a brewing ingredient at a lateral opening of a brewing chamber. Heated water is conveyed to into the brewing chamber to brew the beverage by filling the capsule with the heated water. An outlet valve on of the brewing chamber is opened for filling a vessel with the brewed beverage through a feed nozzle. The brewing chamber is moved together with the feed nozzle from a brewing and filling position, where the capsule is positioned at the brewing chamber and the feed nozzle is above a passage for filling the vessel, to a rinsing position where the capsule is removed from the brewing chamber and the nozzle is above a guide element for directing water for disposal. In the rinsing position, the brewing chamber is rinsed with rinse water which is disposed via the nozzle and the guide element.

Abstract: Methods and systems of reducing computer resource utilization to update rankings based on dynamically generated content are described. The method includes identifying a ranking of content experience types of a list of content experience types. Each content experience type including parameters to generate content experience documents. The method also includes updating the ranking of content experience types. The updating includes iteratively selecting content experience types from the ranking of content experience types to generate an update subset of the ranking of content experience types, generating, for a client device, a feedback request document including a plurality of content experience documents, and receiving feedback information related to the plurality of content experience documents included in the feedback request document to update the ranking of the content experience types included in the update subset.

Abstract: To dry a hand with fingertips and a carpus, the palmar aspect and the dorsal aspect of the hand are blown dry, starting from the fingertips, by a pair of planar gas jets, wherein the gas jets of the pair run towards each other in the direction from the carpus to the fingertips at an angle of less than 180°. By applying high-voltage AC pulses with respect to ground to dielectrically shielded electrodes arranged next to both planar gas jets, direct discharges are obtained across the hand on the palmar aspect thereof and on the dorsal aspect thereof.

Abstract: Methods and composition for potentiating germinal centers are disclosed herein. The methods include potentiating germinal centers to enhance antibody production in response to a vaccine, to increase antibody titer in response to a vaccine, and to enhance B cell class switching.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a brewed beverage includes a device for heating and delivering water, a brewing chamber, into which the heated water is introduced, a positioning device for positioning a capsule, with contents for brewing the beverage, at a lateral opening of the brewing chamber, and an outlet with a switchable valve on an underside of the brewing chamber, wherein an inlet for introducing the hot water is provided on an upper side of the brewing chamber. A method is also described for preparing a brewed beverage.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a brewed beverage includes a device for heating and conveying water. A brewing chamber is coupled to the device to introduce heated water into the brewing chamber. The brewing chamber has a lateral opening and a bottom side having an outlet. A positioning device positions at the lateral opening of the brewing chamber a capsule containing an ingredient for brewing the beverage. A drive device is arranged to move the brewing chamber relative to the capsule. A method of using the apparatus includes the step of ejecting the capsule from the lateral opening of the brewing chamber after each brewing process and carrying out an automatic rinsing of the brewing chamber.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparing a brewed beverage includes positioning a capsule with a brewing ingredient at a lateral opening of a brewing chamber. Heated water is conveyed to into the brewing chamber to brew the beverage by filling the capsule with the heated water. An outlet valve on of the brewing chamber is opened for filling a vessel with the brewed beverage through a feed nozzle. The brewing chamber is moved together with the feed nozzle from a brewing and filling position, where the capsule is positioned at the brewing chamber and the feed nozzle is above a passage for filling the vessel, to a rinsing position where the capsule is removed from the brewing chamber and the nozzle is above a guide element for directing water for disposal. In the rinsing position, the brewing chamber is rinsed with rinse water which is disposed via the nozzle and the guide element.

Abstract: Methods and composition for potentiating germinal centers are disclosed herein. The methods include potentiating germinal centers to enhance antibody production in response to a vaccine, to increase antibody titer in response to a vaccine, and to enhance B cell class switching.

Abstract: A method, executed by a processor, for estimating media metrics from large population data includes formatting and storing panel data, the panel data comprising observed viewing data of a plurality of individual panelists and demographic data for the plurality of panelists, the panel being drawn from a large population; accessing the large population data, the large population data comprising household-level viewing data and household level demographics; training a model to estimate viewing audience size based on the observed panel data; estimating, using the trained model, audience size for each household in the large population data; estimating a viewing score for each individual viewer in a plurality of households in the large population data; and combining the estimates of audience size and viewing score to produce probabilities that each of the viewers in the household viewed a specific media event.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for optimizing personalized recommendations with longitudinal data and a future objective. An identifier may be received for content items. A user content item history including a list identifying a previously acquired content item may be received. Content item metadata may be received including a correlation between the previously acquired content item and a content item for which an identifier was received, and a correlation between a content item for which an identifier was received and fulfillment of a future objective. A joint probability may be determined for each content item based on the user content item history and the content item metadata, including the probability that the content item will be acquired by the user after being recommended to the user and that a future objective will be fulfilled after the content item is acquired by the user.

Abstract: A carrying axle (1) for trailers and a method for the production thereof are provided. The axle (1) includes an axle body (4) having an outer supporting axle tube (10) in which a rocker arm assembly (6), which is bent once or several times, is introduced. The rocker arm assembly (6) is produced as a metal, tubular stamped and bent single piece. The rocker arm assembly is stamped from a platine (21) or a sheet metal strip (23) and is bent in order to form an angled tube (22).

Abstract: A carrying axle (1) for trailers and a method for the production thereof are provided. The axle (1) includes an axle body (4) having an outer supporting axle tube (10) in which a rocker arm assembly (6), which is bent once or several times, is introduced. The rocker arm assembly (6) is produced as a metal, tubular stamped and bent single piece. The rocker arm assembly is stamped from a platine (21) or a sheet metal strip (23) and is bent in order to form an angled tube (22).

Abstract: An Adventure Learning venue for a plurality of human participants having a range of binocular has a data communication network. A display is connected to the data communication network, the display being configurable to display a plurality of images around the participants in the participants' range of binocular vision. There is also at least one sound transducer connected to the data communication network, configured to provide sound that appears to be from more than a single direction to each of the participants. The venue has a plurality of participant seats, each participant seat comprising at least one interface control, one seat-based display, and one seat-based interface device, connectable to the data communication network. The venue also has a workstation for a facilitator connectable to the data communication network; the facilitator workstation being configured to exert control over the content provided the display and the sound transducer to the participants.

Abstract: A method for electric braking of a vehicle trailer and a device for vehicle trailers is provided. The vehicle trailer has a rigid hitch or drawbar arrangement (7) and is braked by the overrun forces generated as a result of braking of the tractor vehicle (2). The brake device (1) has a force measuring arrangement which can be mounted at the rigid hitch arrangement (7) and statically records the compression and tension forces acting axially on the hitch arrangement (7) using tensometer strips (24, 25) to determine the wheel brake force needed for braking via a controller that correspondingly actuates the electrical wheel brakes.

Abstract: An ignition system for an internal combustion engine, having a combustion chamber and a fuel injection device which injects a fuel directly into the combustion chamber in stream-guided fashion, is configured so that the ignition system has a positive polarity.

Abstract: A fuel-injection system including a fuel injector, having a plurality of spray-discharge orifices, which meters fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, has an ignition device, which projects into the combustion chamber, this ignition device having at least one first pole and one second pole. The fuel jets emerging from the spray-discharge orifices spread an essentially cone-shaped fuel fan below the region of the ignition device. The end of the at least one first pole is arranged to the side adjacent to the end of the second pole projecting into the combustion chamber, and both ends are located on approximately the same level of the longitudinal axis of the ignition device.