Abstract: Provided are a voltage control circuit including an assist circuit and a memory device including the voltage control circuit. The memory device includes: a volatile memory cell array, which is connected to a plurality of word lines and includes a memory cell including at least one transistor; and an assist circuit, which is connected to at least one of the plurality of word lines and adjusts a driving voltage level of each of the plurality of word lines, wherein the assist circuit includes a diode N-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor having a gate and a drain connected to each other.

Abstract: A higher-order-mode (HOM) fiber of a fiber laser has step index and guidance diameter (GD) defining wavelength-dependent dispersion characteristics and effective areas for corresponding HOMS of optical signal propagation. One HOM has anomalous dispersion and effective area defining a first wavelength and first power of a pulse optical signal for conversion to a second wavelength and second power by soliton self-frequency shifting (SSFS). By controlling step index and GD, the dispersion and effective area of a HOM are adjusted to bring the second wavelength into a desired range, enabling applications requiring non-conventional fiber laser wavelengths. HOMS may share a predetermined group index and group velocity at wavelengths established by a Raman gain peak to effect wavelength conversion by interpulse and intermodal Raman scattering, which may occur in a cascaded fashion to yield multicolor lasers with desired wavelengths, pulse energies and pulse widths.

Abstract: A node of an application instance in a distributed computing environment can be selectively hibernated and the execution of the node selectively restarted by first detecting a condition of the node that satisfies a criterion for hibernating the node. The node may then be hibernated by suspending execution of the node on a server and initiating execution of a listener. The listener can use a network port that the node used before the execution of the node was suspended. At a later time, a request from a client to the application instance can be received by the listener. The request can be a request to restart execution of the node. Responsive to the request and a determination that the server has a predefined amount of resources for permitting execution of the node, the execution of the node on the server can be restarted.

Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for providing data experience(s) via disparate semantic annotations based on a respective user scenario. Semantic information for respective data types of data set(s) may be received. The data types may be annotated based on the semantic information to obtain respective data annotations. In response to receipt of a search query from a client, a search result that includes at least a portion of one or more data annotations is generated to be sent to the client. The search query may request performance of a search against the semantic information to obtain first semantic information associated with first data type(s) of the data types. The portion of the one or more data annotations may include the first semantic information. The first semantic information may describe operation(s) to be performed on data of at least one of the first data type(s).

Abstract: Techniques and a system are provided for protecting content (or media item) streamed over a network from unauthorized access. As an example, the streaming protection system generates statistics when a client requests a media item. The statistic may be generated based on various factors. The media item is divided into different portions, each portion requiring a different key to decrypt the portion so that it may be viewed by a user. Based on the generated statistic, the streaming protection system determines whether or not to allow the client access to the decryption key for a portion of the media item.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle service system having a display device, a receiver, and a controller. The receiver is configured to receive transmitted data from an autonomous vehicle related to status of the autonomous vehicle and information from a third party related to road conditions. The controller is programmed to monitor the transmitted data related to the status of the autonomous vehicle and the road conditions, determine when the autonomous vehicle requires assistance based on the transmitted data, and, when the autonomous vehicle requires assistance, cause information related to the autonomous vehicle to be displayed on the display device.

Abstract: Methods for producing a swellable packer in a downhole environment are provided. A method includes introducing a treatment fluid containing a polymeric composition into a wellbore within the downhole environment and exposing the polymeric composition to an acid to produce a swollen polymeric material within the downhole environment. The polymeric composition contains a reaction product of at least one or more monomers, one or more comonomers, and one or more crosslinkers. The acid can be in situ formed from an acid precursor introduced into the downhole environment.

Abstract: In order to enable a user to produce a program by means of visible operations, a pairing unit pairs a user terminal and a basic core. A program production unit produces a program on the basis of touch operations by the user. An H parts supply unit and an S parts supply unit respectively supply H parts and S parts to the program production unit. A parts connection unit connects the various H parts and S parts in accordance with touch operations by the user. A program execution unit extracts from a program storage unit a program to be executed, and executes that program. A communication control unit transmits the execution result for the program executed by the program execution unit to the basic core via a second close-range communication unit.

Abstract: The unauthorized access of database nodes by application nodes within an electronic computing and communications system can be prevented using an access table that stores access table records indicating that at least some of the application nodes are authorized to access at least some of the database nodes. The access table records can be generated by identifying connections between application nodes and database nodes within a configuration management database. Responsive to receiving a request to access a database node sent from a first application node, the access table can be queried to determine whether an access table record indicating that the first application node is authorized to access the database node is stored in the access table. If that access table record is not stored in the access table, the request is denied. Otherwise, the request is allowed.

Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive sensor data including floating-point numbers. The memory stores instructions to convert the floating-point numbers to integer numbers based on a parameter set. The memory stores instructions to actuate a vehicle component based on the integer numbers.

Abstract: A wireless power transmitting device transmits wireless power signals to a wireless power receiving device. To detect foreign objects, the wireless power transmitting device has an array of temperature sensors. The array of temperature sensors may include temperature sensor components such as temperature sensitive thin-film resistors or other temperature sensitive components. A temperature sensor may have thin-film resistors formed on opposing sides of a substrate. The thin-film resistors may be formed from meandered metal traces to reduce eddy current formation during operation of the wireless power transmitting device. Signal paths coupling control circuitry on the wireless power transmitting device to the array of temperature sensors may be configured to extend along columns of the temperature sensors without running along each row of the temperature sensors, thereby reducing eddy currents from loops of signal routing lines.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing directional assistance to guide a user to position a camera for centering a person's face within the camera's field of view. A neural network system is trained to determine the position of the user's face relative to the center of the field of view as captured by an input image. The neural network system is trained using training input images that are generated by cropping different regions of initial training images. Each initial image is used to create a plurality of different training input images, and directional assistance labels used to train the network may be assigned to each training input image based on how the image is cropped. Once trained, the neural network system determines a position of the user's face, and automatically provides a non-visual prompt indicating how to center the face within the field of view.

Abstract: Digital low-dropout micro voltage regulator configured to accept an external voltage and produce a regulated voltage. All active devices of the voltage regulator are digital devices. All signals of the voltage regulator, except the first voltage and the regulated voltage, may be characterized as digital signals. Some active devices of the voltage regulator may be physically separated from other active devices of the voltage regulator by active devices of non-voltage regulator circuitry.

Abstract: A system that creates an environment (e.g., ecosystem) for using, transmitting, and storing data from a CEW and other equipment. The information from a CEW includes a log maintained by the CEW. The log may include information related to the operation, maintenance, software, and deployment units used by the CEW. The information may be used alone or in combination with other information received and stored by an evidence management system for managing inventory, generating use-of-force reports, incident reports, and/or providing information related to equipment, such as a CEW, to the supplier of the equipment. Sources of information provided to an evidence management system includes equipment suppliers, CEWs, other cooperating equipment, records management systems of an agency, a dispatch system of an agency, and third parties. A CEW or other equipment may also receive information for storing in the log.

Abstract: A network system uses Wi-Fi signals or other types of short-range transmissions to determine navigation to pickup locations for users receiving services provided via the network system. In an embodiment, the network system builds a database of reference signatures of short-range transmissions previously detected by client devices of users at a geographical region, where the reference signatures are mapped to corresponding locations of the geographical region. By comparing a signature detected by a particular user's client device to the reference signatures, the network system may check for similarities between the short-range transmissions. Responsive to finding a match, the network system determines a current location of the particular user at the geographical region. Accordingly, by leveraging the database, the network system may determine a route for travel by the particular user from the current location to a pickup location without having to use GPS signals.

Abstract: A system for providing high availability to persistent data is provided that persists data on a node in discrete partitions that are each backed up on separate backup systems. When the system detects that the data saved on the node is compromised, the system could restore the data from multiple backup systems. Since the backup systems hold discrete sets of data that do not overlap one another, the backup systems are able to simultaneously and locklessly restore data to the compromised node.

Abstract: A system that creates an environment (e.g., ecosystem) for using, transmitting, and storing data from a CEW and other equipment. The information from a CEW includes a log maintained by the CEW. The log may include information related to the operation, maintenance, software, and deployment units used by the CEW. The information may be used alone or in combination with other information received and stored by an evidence management system for managing inventory, generating use-of-force reports, incident reports, and/or providing information related to equipment, such as a CEW, to the supplier of the equipment. Sources of information provided to an evidence management system includes equipment suppliers, CEWs, other cooperating equipment, records management systems of an agency, a dispatch system of an agency, and third parties. A CEW or other equipment may also receive information for storing in the log.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for dynamically adjusting memory channel interleave granularity. An embodiment of a system comprises a plurality of memory clients, a memory management unit (MMU), and an address translator. The plurality of memory clients are electrically coupled to each of a plurality of memory channels via an interconnect. The MMU is configured to receive a request for a memory allocation request for one or more memory pages from one of the plurality of memory client and, in response, select one of a plurality of interleave granularities for the one or more memory pages. The address translator is configured to translate a physical address to interleave memory data associated with the one or more memory pages at the selected interleave granularity.

Abstract: A method for cash forecasting creates a plurality of event streams associated with a user of an online accounting service, identifies a first pattern in a first event stream that is a commitment and a second pattern in a second event stream that is a repeated pattern, generates a characterization for each of the plurality of event streams based on each identified pattern for the event stream, predicts one or more expected cash payments and one or more corresponding expected dates for each of the event streams using the characterization for the event stream and a forecasting model, receives a query related to cash flow through an application program interface (API), and responds to the query based on the one or more of the expected cash payments, the corresponding expected dates, and the one or more measures of uncertainty, to the query.

Abstract: A method and system for interoperability between mark-up language applications executable within a browser container, including accessing exchange scripts in each application and executing a microservices module in communication with the first application and the second application, the microservices module disposed between the applications and the browser container. The method and system, based on an interaction between the first application and the microservices module, emits a strand including both a data field and a command field. The method and system accessing a rules engine to determine at least one rule associated with the strand, generates modified strand based on the at least one rule and broadcasting the modified strand to the second application via the second exchange script, and converts the modified strand to an action command and performing a processing operation in the second application based on the action command.