Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input comprising a natural-language utterance by an assistant xbot from a client system associated with a user, determining a semantic representation of the user input based on a structural ontology defining a labeling syntax for parsing the natural-language utterance to semantic units comprising actions, objects, and attributes, wherein the semantic representation embeds at least one object within at least one action and declares at least one attribute of the embedded object to be acted upon, sending a request based on the semantic representation to an agent for executing a task corresponding to the user input, receiving results of the executed task mapped to a structure determined by the structural ontology from the agent, and sending from the assistant xbot to the client system instructions for presenting a response based on the results of the executed task.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for recommending at least one imaging protocol for scanning a patient. The method includes receiving, by a processor, an imaging protocol, wherein the imaging protocol includes information pertaining to set of imaging parameters for imaging a patient, determining at least one imaging identifier for the received imaging protocol based on a clinical intent of the received imaging protocol, determining at least one harmonized imaging protocol out of the plurality of harmonized imaging protocols based on the determined at least one imaging identifier, and providing the determined at least one harmonized imaging protocol on a graphical user interface.

Abstract: The invention refers to a device for inhibiting the neural activity of a carotid sinus nerve (CSN) or carotid body of a subject, the device comprising: one or more transducers configured to apply a signal to the CSN or associated carotid body of the subject, optionally at least two such transducers; and a controller coupled to the one or more transducers, the controller controlling the signal to be applied by the one or more transducers, such that the signal inhibits the neural activity of the CSN or carotid body to produce a physiological response in the subject, wherein the physiological response is one or more of the group consisting of: an increase in insulin sensitivity in the subject, an increase in glucose tolerance in the subject, a decrease in (fasting) plasma glucose concentration in the subject, a reduction in subcutaneous fat content in the subject, and a reduction in obesity in the subject.

Abstract: A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) system includes a controller; a message broker connected to the controller; and a plurality of workers connected to the message broker and connected to one or more cloud providers having a plurality of files contained therein for one or more tenants, wherein the plurality of workers are configured to crawl through the plurality of files for the one or more tenants, based on policy and configuration for the one or more tenants provided via the controller, and based on assignments from the message broker. The plurality of workers can be further configured to cause an action in the one or more cloud providers based on the crawl and based on the policy and the configuration. The action can include any of allowing a file, deleting a file, quarantining a file, and providing a notification.

Abstract: A method for characterizing cancer organoid response to an immune cell based therapy, includes providing a panel of different combinations of cancer organoid cells and immune cells to culturing wells and culturing the different combination under conditions that support organoid growth. Brightfield and corresponding fluorescence images of the culturing wells are captured and provided to one or more trained machine learning algorithms that identify and distinguish cancer organoid cells from immune cells and characterize cancer organoid morphology changes caused by an immune cell based therapies, from which an analytical report including a characterization of cancer organoid cell death caused by the immune cell based therapy is provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the fields of biotechnology, molecular biology and genetic engineering. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a genetically modified alga comprising a recombinant cytochrome c6 gene, methods of producing the same and applications thereof. The present disclosure also relates to a codon optimised nucleic acid sequence encoding a cytochrome c6 polypeptide, expression cassette, vectors and host cell thereof. In an embodiment, the present disclosure also relates to a method of increasing biomass and photosynthetic efficiency of algae.

Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of: generating a feature vector for a user based, at least in part, on historical data pertaining to the user's previous transactions; generating, using a quantity prediction model of a machine learning architecture, a respective item quantity prediction for each of one or more items included in a predicted basket based, at least in part, on the feature vector for the user; and populating a respective quantity selection option for each of the one or more items included in the predicted basket based on the respective item quantity prediction generated for each of the one or more items. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.

Abstract: Embodiments present different password-less sign-in alternatives for selection by the user for a subsequent future login to the service provider account interface, and in response to determining that data inputs from a user satisfy associated data requests, enable the selected password-less sign-in alternative for a subsequent login of the user into the service provider account interface, wherein the subsequent login of the user into service provider account interface via the enabled selected password-less sign-in alternative does not require the user to enter the password.

Abstract: Operations may include obtaining a buggy code snippet of source code of a software program in which the buggy code snippet includes a particular error. The operations may also include determining a respective first similarity between the buggy code snippet and a plurality of bug patterns of previously identified bug scenarios. In addition, the operations may include selecting a particular bug pattern based on a determined particular first similarity between the particular bug pattern and the buggy code snippet. Moreover, the operations may include determining a respective second similarity between the particular bug pattern and example code snippets obtained from a plurality of posts. The operations may also include selecting a particular post as providing a potential solution to correct the particular error based on a determined particular second similarity between the particular bug pattern and a particular example code snippet of the particular post.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, a natural-language understanding (NLU) module, a dialog manager, one or more agents, an arbitrator, a delivery system, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to receive a user input, process the user input using the ASR module, the NLU module, the dialog manager, one or more of the agents, the arbitrator, and the delivery system, and provide a response to the user input.

Abstract: The disclosure relates, in part, to computer-based visualization of stent position within a blood vessel. A stent can be visualized using intravascular data and subsequently displayed as stent struts or portions of a stent as a part of a one or more graphic user interface(s) (GUI). In one embodiment, the method includes steps to distinguish stented region(s) from background noise using an amalgamation of angular stent strut information for a given neighborhood of frames. The GUI can include views of a blood vessel generated using distance measurements and demarcating the actual stented region(s), which provides visualization of the stented region. The disclosure also relates to display of intravascular diagnostic information such as indicators. An indicator can be generated and displayed with images generated using an intravascular data collection system. The indicators can include one or more viewable graphical elements suitable for indicating diagnostic information such as stent information.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for visual object detection in a sequence of images. A method is performed by a visual object detector (200). The method comprises obtaining (S102) a sequence of images of a scene. The sequence of images at least comprises a current image of the scene and a previous image of the scene. The method comprises extracting (S104) a set of objects from the sequence of images by performing visual object detection in the sequence of images. Performing the visual object detection in at least part of the current image is conditioned on a set of conditions being fulfilled. The set of conditions at least pertains to an image-wise descriptor classification score computed for at least one of the previous image and the current image and pertaining to which type of content the scene comprises, and an image overlapping score pertaining to how much overlap in image area there is between the previous image and the current image.

Abstract: Aspects of the application relate to methods and compositions for delivering therapeutic nucleic acids to neural cells or tissue in a subject. Additional aspects of the application relate to therapeutic nucleic acids, for example therapeutic ribozymes, that are useful for inhibiting viral reactivation in a subject.

Abstract: Compositions and methods disclosed herein can help provide improved delivery of non-natural therapeutic nucleotides for the treatment of diseases such as cancer. An example composition includes an assembly of amphiphilic polynucleotides, where each amphiphilic polynucleotide includes an aptamer portion, a first nucleotide portion, and a second nucleotide portion.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting bots. The method includes receiving a request to access a server, the request is being received from a client device, and responsive to the request, causing the client device to download a script code file to the client device. The script code file, when executed, collects a profile, and the profile includes a plurality of parameters. The method also includes receiving the created profile, generating a score based on the plurality of parameters to identify a bot, and initiating a mitigation action based on the identified bot.

Abstract: A method performed by an image registration entity includes obtaining a matching between a first set of objects in a first image of a scene and a second set of objects in a second image of the scene, and obtaining a first set of key-points from the first image and a second set of key-points from the second image. Image registration is performed by matching the first set of key-points to the second set of key-points. Those of the first set of key-points that are mapped to objects in the first set of objects and that have matching objects in the second set of objects are restricted to only be matched to those of the second set of key-points that are mapped to any of the matching objects in the second set of objects. The matching between key-points resulting from the image registration is applied when constructing an image representation of the scene.

Abstract: Operations may include obtaining a plurality of posts from one or more web sites, each post including a respective buggy snippet of source code that includes a corresponding error. The operations may also include generating a plurality of bug patterns from the plurality of posts in which each respective bug pattern corresponds to a respective buggy snippet and indicates a corresponding bug scenario that leads to the corresponding error of the respective buggy snippet that corresponds to the respective bug pattern. The operations may also include determining similarities with respect to the respective bug patterns and selecting, based on the similarity determinations, a first bug pattern of the plurality of bug patterns for revision. In addition, the operations may include obtaining a revised bug pattern that is a revised version of the first bug pattern.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining, using service component authenticity detection contained in a sensor module, whether an authorized or genuine service component element is installed in an automotive system are described. The authorized service component determination may be based on close-range communication technology such as radio frequency identification (“RFID”) technology. An antenna in the sensor module may read the tag information from installed service component elements in a nearby service component and send any detected information into a filtration monitoring system. The filtration monitoring system or a remote diagnostic system analyzes the returned data (or absence thereof) to determine if a genuine (i.e., authorized, OEM approved, etc.) service component element is installed or not.

Abstract: Described are apparatus, systems, and methods that are operable to conserve battery power of a wearable device by monitoring a state of the user wearing the wearable device and adjusting power state of one or more components of the device based on the determined user state and/or altering a wireless transmission of sensor data collected by the wearable device from the wearable device to a portable device associated with the user. For example, if it is determined that the user is in a sleep state, the wireless connection between the wearable device and the portable device may be terminated, the wireless transmitter and the processor transitioned to a low power state, and sensor data stored in a buffer memory of the wearable device until a defined period of time before the user exits the sleep state and/or upon satisfaction of a buffer usage threshold.

Abstract: An example computing system includes: a processing system, a hardware accelerator coupled to the processing system, and a software platform executing on the processing system. The hardware accelerator includes: a programmable integrated circuit (IC) configured with an acceleration circuit having a static region and a programmable region; a memory in the programmable IC configured to store metadata describing interface circuitry in at least one of the static region and the programmable region of the acceleration circuit. The software platform includes program code executable by the processing system to read the metadata from the memory of the hardware accelerator.