Abstract: Systems and methods for visualization of a molecule, comprising a set of particles, are provided. A set of three-dimensional coordinates is obtained, each coordinate describing a position for a corresponding particle. A cost function containing an error in a set of two-dimensional coordinates, where each two-dimensional coordinate corresponds to a three-dimensional coordinate in the set of three-dimensional coordinates, is minimized until an exit condition is achieved. The minimization alters the two-dimensional coordinate values. A set of physical properties SM is obtained, each such property representing a property shared by a pair of particles in the molecule. The coordinates are plotted as nodes of a two-dimensional graph after minimization, connected by a plurality of edges. An edge connects a coordinate pair in the graph that corresponds to a pair of particles in the molecule. A characteristic of the edge is determined by a physical property for the pair of particles.

Abstract: Provided herein are peptidomimetic macrocycles and methods of using such macrocycles for the treatment of disease.

Abstract: A mount for a device such as a camera or similar equipment includes a rotational element that receives and secures the device within the rotational element. The rotational element has an outer circumference that provides an outer contact surface to the inner contact surface of a ring clamp. The ring clamp may clamp the rotational element and device in a wide array of selectable orientations. The ring clamp may include an attachment for attaching the ring clamp to a larger element.

Abstract: An improved hard point net wherein a fabric net has hexagonal net line cells with six nodes. Hard points are attached to the net lines, three per hexagonal cell at every other node thereof such that in each cell there is a node without a hard point between two nodes with hard points and interior cells sharing hard points with all the cells surrounding it. A frame for the net spaces the net and the hard points from a target such as a vehicle.

Abstract: A disc brake rotor includes a core including a hat-shaped section, an annular inboard mounting surface, and an annular outboard mounting surface axially spaced from the inboard mounting surface and connected to the inboard mounting surface. The hat-shaped section has a central mounting face and a cylindrical shoulder extending from a periphery of the mounting face. The outboard mounting surface has an interior peripheral edge radially spaced from the shoulder, and the inboard mounting surface has an interior peripheral edge engaged to the shoulder. An inboard friction ring includes radially extending first projections secured to the inboard mounting surface. The outboard friction ring includes radially extending second projections secured to the outboard mounting surface. The first projections are angularly aligned with the second projections. The first and second projections extend into the space between the inboard and outboard mounting surfaces and have a gap therebetween.

Abstract: Systems and methods for visualization of a molecule, comprising a set of particles, are provided. A set of three-dimensional coordinates is obtained, each coordinate describing a position for a corresponding particle. A cost function containing an error in a set of two-dimensional coordinates, where each two-dimensional coordinate corresponds to a three-dimensional coordinate in the set of three-dimensional coordinates, is minimized until an exit condition is achieved. The minimization alters the two-dimensional coordinate values. A set of physical properties SM is obtained, each such property representing a property shared by a pair of particles in the molecule. The coordinates are plotted as nodes of a two-dimensional graph after minimization, connected by a plurality of edges. An edge connects a coordinate pair in the graph that corresponds to a pair of particles in the molecule. A characteristic of the edge is determined by a physical property for the pair of particles.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods and systems for users and business owners to share content and/or links to visual elements of a place at a physical location, and, in response to a user device pointing at a tagged place, causing the content and/or links to the visual elements of the place to be presented on the user device. In some embodiments, content and links are tied to specific objects at a place based at least in part upon one of Global Positioning System (GPS) locations, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) orientations, compass data, or one or more visual matching algorithms. Once the content and links are attached to the specific objects of the place, they can be discovered by a user with a portable device pointing at the specific objects in the real world.

Abstract: Approaches enable images submitted by users, owner, and/or authorized person of a point of interest (e.g., a place, a scene, an object, etc.) to be used as a fiducial to assist recognition and tracking of the point of interest in an augmented reality environment. Multiple images (e.g., crowd-sourced images) of a point of interest taken from different points of view can be dynamically used. For example, as a user with a user device moves through a point of interest, a different image can be chosen from a set of stored candidate images of the point of interest based at least upon GPS locations, IMU orientations, or compass data of the user device. In this way, instead of relying on artificial fiducial images for various detection and tracking approaches, approaches enable images submitted by users and/or an owner or other authorized person of a point of interest to be used as fiducials to assist recognition and tracking of the point of interest.

Abstract: The invention pertains to an antifouling coating composition comprising a copper acrylate polymer, 2-(p-chlorophenyl)-3-cyano-4-bromo-5-trifluoromethyl pyrrole (tralopyril), and solvent, with the coating composition being substantially free of further biocidal compounds, wherein the copper acrylate polymer is present in an amount of 60-99 wt. % and the tralopyril is present in an amount of 0.1-30 wt. %, the weight percentages for copper acrylate polymer and tralopyril being calculated on the dry weight of the coating composition. In one embodiment, the coating composition comprises 30-70 wt % of solvent, the weight percentage of solvent being calculated on the wet weight of the coating composition. It has been found that the coating composition according to the invention combines a good antifouling performance against both weed and shell fouling, for at least 12 months, i.e. a yacht season, with a high gloss finish, and, when a suitable application method is used, a smooth and level surface.

Abstract: An improved hard point net wherein a fabric net has hexagonal net line cells with six nodes. Hard points are attached to the net lines, three per hexagonal cell at every other node thereof such that in each cell there is a node without a hard point between two nodes with hard points and interior cells sharing hard points with all the cells surrounding it. A frame for the net spaces the net and the hard points from a target such as a vehicle.

Abstract: A finger follower for use in an internal combustion engine valvetrain having a valve, a lash adjuster, and a camshaft having a lobe. The finger follower includes a shaft, a bearing rotatably supported by the shaft for engaging the lobe. A body is provided with a pad for engaging the valve, a socket spaced from the pad for engaging the lash adjuster, and walls disposed between the pad and the socket. A slot is formed in each wall for supporting the shaft, and each has a respective pair of eccentric arc-shaped bearing surfaces arranged to allow the shaft to rotate within the slots and to move along the slots to facilitate alignment of the bearing with respect to engagement with the lobe independent of alignment of the pad with respect to engagement with the valve and of alignment of the socket with respect to engagement with the lash adjuster.

Abstract: Systems and methods for two-dimensional visualization of a molecule, comprising the set of particles {p1, . . . , pN}, are provided. A set of N three-dimensional coordinates {x1, . . . , xN} is obtained, each xi in {x1, . . . , xN} describing a three-dimensional position for a corresponding particle pi in {p1, . . . , pN}. A cost function containing the error in a set of two-dimensional coordinates (c1, . . . , cN), where each ci in (c1, . . . , cN) corresponds to a three-dimensional coordinate xi in {x1, . . . , xN}, is minimized until an exit condition is achieved. The minimization alters the values of (c1, . . . , cN). A set of physical properties SM is obtained, each si,j in SM representing a physical property shared by a pair of particles (pi, pj) in {p1, . . . , pN}. Coordinates (c1, . . . , cN) are plotted as nodes of a two-dimensional graph after minimization. A plurality of edges for the graph is plotted.

Abstract: An RPG defeat system and method wherein a foam body is placed at a proximate a target. The foam body has a sufficiently low density to be pierceable by an RPG sensor without the RPG sensor being strained sufficiently to create a voltage. The foam body has a compressive strength sufficient to deform the RPG short circuiting a voltage pathway from the sensor to the RPG detonator. The foam body has a sufficient thickness and/or is spaced from the target to deform the RPG short circuiting the voltage pathway from the sensor to the RPG detonator before the sensor strikes the target and is strained creating a voltage.

Abstract: The present invention is an automated liquid dispenser comprising novel mechanisms for removing a single container from a nested stack of containers, closing the bottom of the container, decapping the container, filling the container, capping the container, and dispensing the filled container to a user.

Abstract: A mount for a device such as a camera or similar equipment includes a rotational element that receives and secures the device within the rotational element. The rotational element has an outer circumference that provides an outer contact surface to the inner contact surface of a ring clamp. The ring clamp may clamp the rotational element and device in a wide array of selectable orientations. The ring clamp may include an attachment for attaching the ring clamp to a larger element.

Abstract: A cooking assembly, and a cooking station employing the cooking assembly, is disclosed. The cooking assembly comprises a flexible ring which is conformable to any one of a plurality of different predeterminedly structured templates, any one of which can be interchangeably utilized upon a food station, in order to provide cooked foods with predeterminedly different shapes or configurations as may be desired.

Abstract: A portable electronic device includes an input device, an input device housing, a display, and a display housing coupled to the input device housing. The display housing is moveable relative to the i housing by sliding between an extended position in which the input device is exposed and a contracted position in which the input device is covered by the display housing. The portable electronic device also includes a digital camera housed by the display housing. The input device housing includes an auxiliary camera lens fixed to a body such that the auxiliary camera lens is aligned with the digital camera for obtaining digital images utilizing the auxiliary camera lens when the display housing is in the contracted position, and the auxiliary camera lens is out of alignment with the digital camera for obtaining digital images without the auxiliary camera lens when the display housing is in the extended position.

Abstract: Various embodiments may obtain an image representation of an object for use in image matching and content retrieval. For example, an image matching system processes video content items to determine one or more scenes for one or more video content items. The image matching system can extract, from at least one video frame for a scene, feature descriptors relating to one or more objects represented in the at least one video frame. The image matching system indexes the feature descriptors into a feature index storing information for each of the feature descriptors and respective corresponding video frame. The image matching system correlates the feature descriptors of the feature index to determine one or more groups having similar feature descriptors. The image matching system indexes the one or more groups into a correlation index storing information for each of the one or more groups and respective corresponding feature descriptors.