Abstract: A food utensil designed for use in eating noodles. The utensil may include a handle portion and a food holding portion with food gripping members extending therefrom. The user may hold the utensil by the handle portion and engage the food holding portion with noodles, e.g., with noodles within a bowl of soup. The food gripping members may include protrusions designed to grip the noodles so that the noodles may be transferred to the user's mouth without slipping off the utensil and causing a mess.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for extruding material to make a part using a flowable feedstock printing material. In one embodiment the apparatus makes use of a controller and a print nozzle system. The print nozzle system includes a nozzle housing for receiving the flowable feedstock material, and a nozzle element from which the flowable feedstock material is extruded. A valve system is included which communicates with the controller for controllably interrupting and restarting a flow of the flowable feed during a print operation.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a roofing system including flashing, for example, suitable for protecting a roof from water leakage. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a roofing system including first, second, and third courses of shingles, where the second course overlaps the first and the third course overlaps the second. A flashing plate is disposed over the first course of shingles and partially under the second course of shingles. The flashing plate and the third course of shingles are spaced apart by a gap in a direction of the slope of the roof between a top edge of the flashing plate and a lower edge of the third course of shingles.

Abstract: A Foundational Framework (“the Framework”) may refer to an apparatus that connects a multiplicity of potentially very complex components, each of which produce different types of information related to financial forecast, while maintaining a distributed and federated model to allow high autonomy to each component. The innovative Framework provides a unified operation of lifecycle of every component and allows the production of unlimited types of forecasts of different dimensions and for different purposes using a common tool that is responsible of coordinating and running the sequence of components for the user's needs.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a roofing system including flashing, for example, suitable for protecting a roof from water leakage. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a roofing system including first, second, and third courses of shingles, where the second course overlaps the first and the third course overlaps the second. A flashing plate is disposed over the first course of shingles and partially under the second course of shingles. The flashing plate and the third course of shingles are spaced apart by a gap in a direction of the slope of the roof between a top edge of the flashing plate and a lower edge of the third course of shingles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a roofing system including flashing, for example, suitable for protecting a roof from water leakage. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a roofing system including first, second, and third courses of shingles, where the second course overlaps the first and the third course overlaps the second. A flashing plate is disposed over the first course of shingles and partially under the second course of shingles. The flashing plate and the third course of shingles are spaced apart by a gap in a direction of the slope of the roof between a top edge of the flashing plate and a lower edge of the third course of shingles.

Abstract: A method for decision tree-based management of market risk stress scenarios may include: receiving, from a front office system, a shock request comprising a scenario and a risk factor; retrieving the scenario from a scenario definition store, the scenario definition store comprising a plurality of scenarios; normalizing the risk factor resulting in standardized risk exposure; retrieving, from the retrieved scenario, a decision tree matching a risk factor type for the standardized risk factor, the decision tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node having a shock instruction comprising an explicit shock instruction or no shock instruction; traversing the decision tree to identify a node that matches the standardized risk factor; and returning the shock instruction to the front office system, the returned shock instruction comprising the explicit shock instruction associated with the matching node or the last explicit shock instruction traversed before traversing to the matching node.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a roofing system including flashing, for example, suitable for protecting a roof from water leakage. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a roofing system including first, second, and third courses of shingles, where the second course overlaps the first and the third course overlaps the second. A flashing plate is disposed over the first course of shingles and partially under the second course of shingles. The flashing plate and the third course of shingles are spaced apart by a gap in a direction of the slope of the roof between a top edge of the flashing plate and a lower edge of the third course of shingles.

Abstract: A Foundational Framework (“the Framework”) may refer to an apparatus that connects a multiplicity of potentially very complex components, each of which produce different types of information related to financial forecast, while maintaining a distributed and federated model to allow high autonomy to each component. The innovative Framework provides a unified operation of lifecycle of every component and allows the production of unlimited types of forecasts of different dimensions and for different purposes using a common tool that is responsible of coordinating and running the sequence of components for the user's needs.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analyzing supply chain sensitivity based on a supply chain model is described. The method comprises defining a plurality of input parameters and an objective for the supply chain model Each of the input parameters includes a plurality of values within a respective range. The method further comprises obtaining a plurality of configurations of the supply chain for achieving the objective by applying the values of the input parameters to the supply chain model and generating a graphical representation for the objective based on the configurations of the supply chain. The graphical representation includes a plurality of data points, each of the data points representing a configuration of the supply chain.

Abstract: A hip, ridge or rake shingle comprised of a plurality of panels sandwiched on each panel portion side of a layer of shingle material, such that each panel portion can be folded along a fold line, and wherein tabs are provided for each panel portion, adapted to be bent backwardly upon themselves, sandwiching thickening panels therebetween. The shingles can be laid up on a hip, ridge or rake of a roof, to yield desirable thickened features.

Abstract: A shingle and a method of making it is provided in which the rear surface of the shingle is provided with an attached reinforcement layer through which fasteners may be applied when the shingle is applied to a roof.