Abstract: A method of using a truffle-derived biomass for producing 1,3-diolein includes obtaining a mycelial biomass from truffles, preparing an extract from the mycelial biomass, and isolating the 1,3-diolein from the extract. In an embodiment, isolating the 1,3-diolein from the extract can include using column chromatography for eluting a portion of a first extract with a mixture including chloroform and methanol into a plurality of fractions, and using column chromatography for eluting at least one of the fractions with methanol to provide 1,3-diolein.

Abstract: Systems to produce a pond water, pond water compositions, and methods for using pond water compositions are provided. The system may include a rainwater collection system, a water purification system, a condensate collection system, and a mixing tank configured to receive and mix the various water sources to form a pond water. A system for forming a fracturing fluid is provided, wherein the system may include the system for producing a pond water, an additive feed system, and a mixer configured to receive and mix pond water from the mixing tank with one or more additives from the additive feed system to produce a frac fluid. A method of fracturing a well is also provided, which may include producing a pond water, mixing the pond water with one or more additives to form a frac fluid, and pumping the frac fluid downhole to fracture the well.

Abstract: Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method for deriving textural properties of a reservoir formation. The method includes acquiring multi-frequency dielectric data (?meas). The method further includes applying a dielectric mixing model between different fluid phases to generate an effective fluid permittivity (?fluid) by mixing the permittivity of water and hydrocarbon fluids. The method further includes applying the dielectric mixing model between the effective fluid permittivity (?fluid) and a matrix permittivity (?m). The method further includes minimizing a difference between a measured dielectric response and the dielectric mixing model by optimizing model parameters. The method further includes computing a cementation exponent (m) and a saturation exponent (n) from the multi-frequency dielectric data (?meas). The method further includes estimating a formation property based at least in part on the cementation exponent (m) and the saturation exponent (n).

Abstract: The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.

Abstract: The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.

Abstract: Systems and methods establish and maintain end-to-end priority of wireless multimedia priority service (MPS) sessions terminating to subscribers without high priority access. A network device a wireless core network receives a request to establish a bearer for an elevated priority call. The elevated priority call originates from a first user equipment (UE) device in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected mode having an elevated priority status and terminates at a second UE device in a RRC connected mode having a non-elevated priority status. The network device determines modification of a terminating bearer for the second UE device is necessary to preclude preemption during periods of network congestion and identifies a high priority parameter of an originating bearer for the first UE device. The network device initiates establishment of the terminating bearer to match the high priority parameter of the originating bearer.

Abstract: The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.

Abstract: A drug delivery system comprising the synthesis of resorcinarene based novel amphiphilic supramolecular macrocycle that is capable of self-assembling in nano-scale vesicles upon its contact with aqueous medium and its use as nano-drug loading vehicle when mixed with cholesterol (2:1 ratio w/w).

Abstract: The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.

Abstract: A complex video event classification, search and retrieval system can generate a semantic representation of a video or of segments within the video, based on one or more complex events that are depicted in the video, without the need for manual tagging. The system can use the semantic representations to, among other things, provide enhanced video search and retrieval capabilities.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed facilitate distributed orchestration and deployment of a cloud based distributed computing application. In some embodiments, a first deployment context associated with a cloud based application may be determined. The first deployment context may comprise a plurality of rules, where each rule may specify conditions for applying configurations to resources associated with the cloud based application. The conditions specified by the plurality of rules may be evaluated and configurations of the resources associated with the cloud based application may be determined. In some embodiments, the deployment of the cloud based application on a first cloud may then be orchestrated based, in part, on the first deployment context, by configuring the resources associated with the cloud based application based on the previously determined configurations of the resources.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed facilitate obtaining a cloud agnostic representation of a multi-tier application. Cloud specific implementations of the cloud agnostic representation may be deployed on a plurality of clouds. In some embodiments, dependency information for each component service in a multi-tier application is obtained, wherein the dependency information for a component service indicates prerequisites for starting the component service; and a cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application is derived, wherein the cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application comprises metadata for obtaining each of the component services for a plurality of clouds, and a sequence for starting each of the component services, the sequence based, in part, on the dependency information.

Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing video-game videos in connection with facilitating video editing and creation and performing automated extraction of information of interest to facilitate labeling of and/or highlight generation for such videos is provided. According to one embodiment, a video, containing content pertaining to a video game, is received by a video-game video analysis system. Information regarding the status of the video game over time is received by retrieving game metadata through an API of the video game or by analyzing audio or visual features within the content. Multiple clips are automatically identified within the video for proposed inclusion within an edited version of the video based on the status of the video game over time. The edited version of the video is then generated by (i) joining the automatically identified clips or (ii) joining multiple user-selected clips, including at least one clip selected from the automatically identified clips.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed facilitate distributed orchestration and deployment of a cloud based distributed computing application. In some embodiments, a first deployment context associated with a cloud based application may be determined. The first deployment context may comprise a plurality of rules, where each rule may specify conditions for applying configurations to resources associated with the cloud based application. The conditions specified by the plurality of rules may be evaluated and configurations of the resources associated with the cloud based application may be determined. In some embodiments, the deployment of the cloud based application on a first cloud may then be orchestrated based, in part, on the first deployment context, by configuring the resources associated with the cloud based application based on the previously determined configurations of the resources.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed facilitate distributed orchestration and deployment of a cloud based distributed computing application. In some embodiments, the distributed orchestration may be based on a cloud agnostic representation of the application. In some embodiments, an ordered set of events may be obtained based on a starting sequence for the plurality of components, where each event in the ordered set is associated with a corresponding set of prerequisites for initiating execution of the event. Event identifiers corresponding to the ordered set of events may be placed on an event message bus with persistence that is shared between a plurality of distributed nodes associated with a cloud. Upon receiving an indication of completion of prerequisites for one or more events, a plurality of nodes of a distributed orchestration engine may select the one or more events corresponding to the one or more selected event identifiers for execution on the cloud.

Abstract: Fixation devices for tissue repair, for example sutures, surgical arrows, staples, darts, bolts, screws, buttons, anchors, nails, rivets, or barbed devices comprise at least one of angiogenic material; angiogenic precursor material which is capable of breaking down in vivo to form angiogenic material; or tissue-engineered material, which tissue-engineered material is capable of producing angiogenic material. In a preferred form, the material is incorporated into a polymer matrix having predetermined hydrophobicity to allow controlled release of angiogenic materials such as butyric or hydroxybutyric acid or salts thereof. Polymer matrix compositions comprising angiogenic materials and methods for tissue repair are also provided.

Abstract: A computer vision service includes technologies to, among other things, analyze computer vision or learning tasks requested by computer applications, select computer vision or learning algorithms to execute the requested tasks based on one or more performance capabilities of the computer vision or learning algorithms, perform the computer vision or learning tasks for the computer applications using the selected algorithms, and expose the results of performing the computer vision or learning tasks for use by the computer applications.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed facilitate distributed orchestration and deployment of a cloud based distributed computing application. In some embodiments, the distributed orchestration may be based on a cloud agnostic representation of the application. In some embodiments, an ordered set of events may be obtained based on a starting sequence for the plurality of components, where each event in the ordered set is associated with a corresponding set of prerequisites for initiating execution of the event. Event identifiers corresponding to the ordered set of events may be placed on an event message bus with persistence that is shared between a plurality of distributed nodes associated with a cloud. Upon receiving an indication of completion of prerequisites for one or more events, a plurality of nodes of a distributed orchestration engine may select the one or more events corresponding to the one or more selected event identifiers for execution on the cloud.

Abstract: A computer vision service includes technologies to, among other things, analyze computer vision or learning tasks requested by computer applications, select computer vision or learning algorithms to execute the requested tasks based on one or more performance capabilities of the computer vision or learning algorithms, perform the computer vision or learning tasks for the computer applications using the selected algorithms, and expose the results of performing the computer vision or learning tasks for use by the computer applications.

Abstract: Methods and systems for generation of an index and Table-of-Contents (ToC) for videos based on user given labels or a combination of user input and automated indexing techniques are provided. According to one embodiment, an annotation tool and a video player are presented to individual subscribers/users of a video discovery and consumption service. Tags proposed by the subscribers to be associated with various portions of the video content are received, processed and integrated within a global ToC for the video. The service can assist subscribers that intend to tag a certain portion of video by automatically proposing suitable tags and portion boundaries. Subscribers can vote on the suitability of tags constituting the ToC. Responsive to a request to view video content, a customized ToC is presented to a subscriber which include labels selected from the global ToC in accordance with default tag selection/filtering criteria or filtering criteria specified by subscriber.