Abstract: A system that utilizes an AI image generator, a search engine, and an item design system is disclosed. A text description of an item is provided to an AI image generator, which creates an image based on the text description. In some embodiments, the image is updated based on a further text description of the item. The image may be provided to the search engine and the item design system. The search engine selects, from an item catalog, an item to recommend to a user based on a similarity of the image to items in the item catalog. For example, the search engine may apply a machine learning model to compare embeddings of the item image to embeddings of images of items in an item catalog. The item design system may recommend an item design based in part on the image generated by the AI image generator.

Abstract: A system and method for workforce scheduling using dynamic capacity ranges are provided. A capacity model associates distances of locations within a service area from a depot with a series of appointment time windows such that appointment time windows having a relatively greater amount of available worker capacity are associated with a greater range of distances than appointment time windows having a relatively smaller amount of available worker capacity. After a distance from the depot to a location of an appointment to be scheduled is determined, appointment time window suggestions are automatically produced based on which appointment time windows as defined in the capacity model are associated with the location of the appointment to be scheduled. As capacity changes due to bookings, the capacity model is dynamically updated. A system and method for workforce routing, based at least in part on using dynamic capacity ranges, are also provided.

Abstract: A system and method for workforce scheduling using dynamic capacity ranges are provided. A capacity model associates distances of locations within a service area from a depot with a series of appointment time windows such that appointment time windows having a relatively greater amount of available worker capacity are associated with a greater range of distances than appointment time windows having a relatively smaller amount of available worker capacity. After a distance from the depot to a location of an appointment to be scheduled is determined, appointment time window suggestions are automatically produced based on which appointment time windows as defined in the capacity model are associated with the location of the appointment to be scheduled. As capacity changes due to bookings, the capacity model is dynamically updated. A system and method for workforce routing, based at least in part on using dynamic capacity ranges, are also provided.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for quantifying augmented reality interaction. An exemplary system can be configured to capture, via a camera of a mobile computing device, a video feed, and extract, via a processor of the mobile computing device, an image from the video feed. The system can then determine, via the processor, that the image corresponds to a stored image in a plurality of stored images stored in an image database, resulting in a determination, and retrieve, via the processor and based on the determination, interactive content associated with the stored image. The system can then display, via a display of the mobile computing device, the interactive content as an augmented reality overlay.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for quantifying augmented reality interaction. An exemplary system can be configured to capture, via a camera of a mobile computing device, a video feed, and extract, via a processor of the mobile computing device, an image from the video feed. The system can then determine, via the processor, that the image corresponds to a stored image in a plurality of stored images stored in an image database, resulting in a determination, and retrieve, via the processor and based on the determination, interactive content associated with the stored image. The system can then display, via a display of the mobile computing device, the interactive content as an augmented reality overlay.

Abstract: A system and method for street level routing includes dividing a mapping of a geospatial region into cells, each cell having one or more pathways located within the cell. A traversability weighting is determined for each of the cells, based at least on a traversability measure associated with the one or more pathways located within the respective cell. Total weights associated with one or more routes for traversing every cell to every other cell are pre-calculated, and the pre-calculated total weights are used to determine one or more routes between a first point and a second point in the geospatial region, with one or more preferred routes determined in accordance with a ranking of the one or more routes between the first cell and the second cell, the ranking based on one or more efficiency criteria.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for mechanically loading a biological sample. The apparatus comprises: a container for housing the biological sample; a ferromagnetic element, for attachment to the biological sample within the container; and a solenoid for generating a magnetic field within the container, so as to apply a force to the ferromagnetic element. The solenoid is configured, when energised by a constant current, to produce a force on the ferromagnetic element that varies by less than a predetermined amount over a predetermined range of movement of the magnet within the container. A method of mechanically loading a biological sample is also disclosed.

Abstract: A system and method for workforce scheduling using dynamic capacity ranges are provided. A capacity model associates distances of locations within a service area from a depot with a series of appointment time windows such that appointment time windows having a relatively greater amount of available worker capacity are associated with a greater range of distances than appointment time windows having a relatively smaller amount of available worker capacity. After a distance from the depot to a location of an appointment to be scheduled is determined, appointment time window suggestions are automatically produced based on which appointment time windows as defined in the capacity model are associated with the location of the appointment to be scheduled. As capacity changes due to bookings, the capacity model is dynamically updated. A system and method for workforce routing, based at least in part on using dynamic capacity ranges, are also provided.

Abstract: A method for generating workforce street level routing is provided. The method includes ranking each job within a set of jobs available for assignment at times of day to a worker and producing a street level routing assignment schedule including a sequence of jobs assigned to the worker in which each of the sequence of jobs corresponds to a highest ranked job within the set of jobs available for assignment to the worker at each particular time of day during a work-shift. The ranking step includes creating a coefficient representing an appeal for venturing or homing of the worker at each particular time of day during the work-shift, developing a score from a plurality of factors for each job within the set of jobs at each particular time of day, and using the coefficient representing the appeal for venturing or homing to produce at least one of the factors.

Abstract: A system and method for street level routing.

Abstract: A hardware and software platform for collaboratively reviewing prior group to group interactions while planning, producing and archiving new group to group interactions. The platform may be used to collaboratively create group to group interactions. The system may be used to link two or more stadia, movie theatres or homes so as to provide interaction between the groups at each location simultaneously as a game or other event takes place.

Abstract: The present invention provides diagnostic and prognostic methods for predicting the effectiveness of treatment of a cancer patient with inhibitors of EGFR kinase, PDGFR kinase, or FGFR kinase. Based on the surprising discovery that tumors cells after having undergone an EMT, while being mesenchymal-like, still express characteristics of both epithelial and mesenchymal cells, and that such cells have altered sensitivity to inhibition by receptor protein-tyrosine kinase inhibitors, in that they have become relatively insensitive to EGFR kinase inhibitors, but have frequently acquired sensitivity to inhibitors of other receptor protein-tyrosine kinases such as PDGFR or FGFR, methods have been devised for determining levels of specific epithelial and mesenchymal biomarkers that identify such “hybrid” tumor cells (e.g. determination of co-expression of vimentin and epithelial keratins), and thus predict the tumor's likely sensitivity to inhibitors of EGFR kinase, PDGFR kinase, or FGFR kinase.

Abstract: Known underwater turbine units suffer from problems, e.g. an ability to operate in ebb and/or flow tides. Accordingly, the invention provides aerofoil (5), wherein the aerofoil (5) is symmetrical about a mid-chord line (A) thereof. The aerofoil (5) may be symmetrical about a chord (B) thereof. The underwater turbine unit (3) comprises at least one turbine (25) which comprises at least one blade (20) which comprises the aerofoil (5).

Abstract: A surveillance device has a support secured to a structure, a first image collection device secured to the support, a second image collection device and a servo motor, the second image collection device being moveable with respect to the support by the servo motor, the second image collection device having an optical axis whereby the servo motor is constructed and arranged to regulate the direction of the optical axis of the second image collection device. Inherent intelligence in the device or in a remote computer is used to direct the servo motor in accordance with algorithms recognizing and analyzing motion in the area being monitored by first image collection device.

Abstract: An automated intelligent surveillance system comprises one or more fixed reference cameras to spatially map and observe a panoramic field of view, together with a movable narrow-field high resolution camera which is controlled in pan tilt & zoom, and a computing device. The computing device is capable of analysing the reference images received from anywhere within the panoramic field of view, and identifying the presence of specific types of object or specific behaviours of objects. The computing device uses the outcome of this analysis to direct the movable camera to the appropriate area of the spatial map to cause it to zoom in to gather close-up images of one or more of the selected objects or events of interest. These images are recorded synchronously with the related wide angle reference images, in a high speed random access store within the computing device. The parameters defining an object or event as being of interest may be pre-set, user selected, or adaptively learned by the computing device.

Abstract: Known underwater turbine units suffer from problems, e.g. an ability to operate in ebb and/or flow tides. Accordingly, the invention provides aerofoil (5), wherein the aerofoil (5) is symmetrical about a mid-chord line (A) thereof. The aerofoil (5) may be symmetrical about a chord (B) thereof. The underwater turbine unit (3) comprises at least one turbine (25) which comprises at least one blade (20) which comprises the aerofoil (5).

Abstract: The field of this invention is the development of therapeutic agents having immunogenic efficacy against Campylobacter. The present invention is directed to a method of producing monoclonal antibodies that are highly specific for epitopes of Campylobacter jejuni outer membrane proteins; to specific monoclonal antibodies made by using the epitopes; and to uses thereof. The invention is drawn further to immunogens comprising certain outer membrane proteins or portions thereof from C. jejuni.

Abstract: A surveillance device has a support secured to a structure, a first image collection device secured to the support, a second image collection device and a servo motor, the second image collection device being moveable with respect to the support by the servo motor, the second image collection device having an optical axis whereby the servo motor is constructed and arranged to regulate the direction of the optical axis of the second image collection device. Inherent intelligence in the device or in a remote computer is used to direct the servo motor in accordance with algorithms recognising and analysing motion in the area being monitored by first image collection device.

Abstract: The field of this invention is the development of therapeutic agents having immunogenic efficacy against Campylobacter. The present invention is directed to a method of producing monoclonal antibodies that are highly specific for epitopes of Campylobacter jejuni outer membrane proteins; to specific monoclonal antibodies made by using the epitopes; and to uses thereof. The invention is drawn further to immunogens comprising certain outer membrane proteins or portions thereof from C. jejuni.

Abstract: An isolated, antigenic polypeptide comprises a segment having at least fifty amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence of the segment is present in N. meningitidis, and is different from, but substantially homologous with, the amino acid sequence of a segment of a member of the hemolysin family of toxins.