Abstract: This invention relates to a continuous flow centrifugation device and method of using the device for separation of solids, particles, liquids, or gases from a mixture containing them. The device contains rotating separation chamber in which incoming material in continuously enters the chamber via an inlet and the separated materials continuously flow out via two outlets. Solids or heavier materials exit from an outlet tubing, whose opening is placed in a space that is farthest from the center of rotation and has the highest centrifugal force. The liquid/supernatant outlet is placed in the space that is closer to the center of rotation with the lowest centrifugal force. The reference of placement of inlet to solids outlet is in the same direction as the direction of rotation so that the flow of incoming material, directed from inlet to solids outlet, is in the same direction as the direction of rotation.

Abstract: Device-side validation of screen recordings is disclosed, including: accessing a screen recording of a user's activities on a client device with respect to a task; performing, at the client device, video validation on the screen recording, including by identifying a characteristic marker associated with the task within the screen recording; and in response to the characteristic marker being identified, sending at least a portion of the screen recording to a compressed version of the screen recording to a server for further processing.

Abstract: Generating structured data from screen recordings is disclosed, including: obtaining, from a client device, a screen recording of a user's activities on the client device with respect to a task; performing, at a server, video validation on the screen recording, including by determining whether the screen recording matches a set of validation parameters associated with the task; and generating a set of structured data based at least in part on the video validation.

Abstract: Generating structured data from screen recordings is disclosed, including: obtaining, from a client device, a screen recording of a user's activities on the client device with respect to a task; performing, at a server, video validation on the screen recording, including by determining whether the screen recording matches a set of validation parameters associated with the task; and generating a set of structured data based at least in part on the video validation.

Abstract: Device-side validation of screen recordings is disclosed, including: accessing a screen recording of a user's activities on a client device with respect to a task; performing, at the client device, video validation on the screen recording, including by identifying a characteristic marker associated with the task within the screen recording; and in response to the characteristic marker being identified, sending at least a portion of the screen recording to a compressed version of the screen recording to a server for further processing.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device and method of using the device for purification that separates material of interest from contaminating materials using non-porous magnetic particles and single-use or disposable materials that come in contact with the material of interest. The process encompasses multiple cycles in a single batch to reduce the cost of magnetic particles. This method can be executed in a fully automated manner by a controller that manages different inputs and outputs of system hardware.

Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating particles includes: a rotor rotatable at a speed about an axis, the rotor having an outer periphery and front and rear opposite sides; at least one chamber mounted on the rotor, each chamber having an inlet and an outlet; an umbilical assembly rotatable about the axis; and a drive mechanism configured to rotate the umbilical assembly at about one-half the speed of the rotor. The umbilical assembly includes: a curvilinear guide tube connecting to a drum at the rear side of the rotor; a flexible conduit residing in the guide tube; and first and second elongate passageways for each chamber extending through the conduit, wherein the first passageway is in fluid communication with the inlet of a respective chamber and the second passageway is in fluid communication with the outlet of the respective chamber. The passageways are held in a spaced-apart relationship relative to one another.

Abstract: Metadata is stored, wherein the metadata is associated with a pre-publication draft of the item of authored content, the metadata including a draft title and a pre-publication set of one or more authors. It is determined that no result in a first set of search results received from a repository of publication information in response to a first query based on the draft title satisfies one or more match criteria to be considered a match to the pre-publication draft of the item of authored content. In response to said determination, a second query based on the draft title and the pre-publication set of one or more authors is formulated and submitted to the repository. A second set of search results is received in response to the second query, each search result being associated with an associated published item of authored content, each published item of authored content having associated therewith a title as published and a list of authors as published.

Abstract: The present invention comprises methods and systems for manipulation of media and particles, whether inert materials or biomaterials, such as cells in suspension cell culture. The methods and systems comprise use of an apparatus comprising a rotating chamber wherein the actions of the combined forces of gravity, fluid flow force and centrifugal force form a fluidized bed within the rotating chamber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing data insights with artificial intelligence. The method and system of the present invention comprises the steps and a component for processing the incoming data from one or more sources, the incoming data can be of any type, and any volume and can come at any velocity, the steps and a component for converting the data into a squeezed matrix, the steps and a component for finding insights from this data matrix using artificial intelligence, the artificial intelligence could use approaches of rule based expert systems, evolutionary computing, neural networks, Bayesian Network, and the like, and the steps and a component for scoring these insights based on usefulness to human beings. One or more visualizations including the data insights are displayed to an end user.

Abstract: Metadata is stored, wherein the metadata is associated with a pre-publication draft of the item of authored content, the metadata including a draft title and a pre-publication set of one or more authors. It is determined that no result in a first set of search results received from a repository of publication information in response to a first query based on the draft title satisfies one or more match criteria to be considered a match to the pre-publication draft of the item of authored content. In response to said determination, a second query based on the draft title and the pre-publication set of one or more authors is formulated and submitted to the repository. A second set of search results is received in response to the second query, each search result being associated with an associated published item of authored content, each published item of authored content having associated therewith a title as published and a list of authors as published.

Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating particles includes: a rotor rotatable at a speed about an axis, the rotor having an outer periphery and front and rear opposite sides; at least one chamber mounted on the rotor, each chamber having an inlet and an outlet; an umbilical assembly rotatable about the axis; and a drive mechanism configured to rotate the umbilical assembly at about one-half the speed of the rotor. The umbilical assembly includes: a curvilinear guide tube connecting to a drum at the rear side of the rotor; a flexible conduit residing in the guide tube; and first and second elongate passageways for each chamber extending through the conduit, wherein the first passageway is in fluid communication with the inlet of a respective chamber and the second passageway is in fluid communication with the outlet of the respective chamber. The passageways are held in a spaced-apart relationship relative to one another.

Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating particles includes: a rotor rotatable at a speed about an axis, the rotor having an outer periphery and front and rear opposite sides; at least one chamber (50) mounted on the rotor, each chamber having an inlet and an outlet; an umbilical assembly rotatable about the axis; and a drive mechanism configured to rotate the umbilical assembly at about one-half the speed of the rotor. The umbilical assembly includes: a curvilinear guide tube (125) connecting to a drum at the rear side of the rotor; a flexible conduit (130) residing in the guide tube; and first and second elongate passageways (135) for each chamber extending through the conduit, wherein the first passageway is in fluid communication with the inlet of a respective chamber and the second passageway is in fluid communication with the outlet of the respective chamber. The passageways are held in a spaced-apart relationship relative to one another.

Abstract: The present invention comprises methods and systems for manipulation of media and particles, whether inert materials or biomaterials, such as cells in suspension cell culture. The methods and systems comprise use of an apparatus comprising a rotating chamber wherein the actions of the combined forces of gravity, fluid flow force and centrifugal force form a fluidized bed within the rotating chamber.

Abstract: A social-mobile-local (SML) system and environment includes user mobile devices, a distributed communications network over which the devices communicate, a means of sensing proximity between pairs of mobile devices, and one or more SML databases and programs resident on the user mobile devices, on remote computers, or both. Challenges addressed include prevention of “alert flooding,” privacy protection, credential verification, entering detailed data on mobile devices, power-saving, and improved quality in both the choice and the content of notifications.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a methodology for designing an integrated circuit that attempts to improve power efficiency is provided. The methodology includes simulating the design under one or more power stimuli, where the power stimuli are known to cause high power consumption (e.g. in previous designs of the integrated circuit, the power stimuli may have caused power consumption). A set of nets within the integrated circuit may be identified that have the highest activity in the simulation (e.g. the highest amount of switching). The methodology may include providing data to the routing tool that is to route the nets in the integrated circuit. The data may indicate constraints for the set of nets, to help reduce dynamic power on these nets. Power efficiency of the integrated circuit may be improved if the routing tool is able to honor the constraints.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a methodology for designing an integrated circuit that attempts to improve power efficiency is provided. The methodology includes simulating the design under one or more power stimuli, where the power stimuli are known to cause high power consumption (e.g. in previous designs of the integrated circuit, the power stimuli may have caused power consumption). A set of nets within the integrated circuit may be identified that have the highest activity in the simulation (e.g. the highest amount of switching). The methodology may include providing data to the routing tool that is to route the nets in the integrated circuit. The data may indicate constraints for the set of nets, to help reduce dynamic power on these nets. Power efficiency of the integrated circuit may be improved if the routing tool is able to honor the constraints.

Abstract: The present invention comprises methods and systems for manipulation of media and particles, whether inert materials or biomaterials, such as cells in suspension cell culture. The methods and systems comprise use of an apparatus comprising a rotating chamber wherein the actions of the combined forces of gravity, fluid flow force and centrifugal force form a fluidized bed within the rotating chamber.

Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods of biological and chemical treatment of wastewater comprising organic nitrogen compounds. Systems may include: an aerobic reactor, a first separation module for separating liquid and solid components of the wastewater; an oxidation module for removing organic materials from the wastewater; and a post-anoxic reactor for denitrifying at least a portion of the wastewater. Systems may include a second separation module and various feedback recycle lines between the components. Methods may include: degrading by the aerobic reactor more than 95% of organic compounds to ammonia, oxidizing by the oxidation module at least a portion of the ammonia to nitrates, and degrading by the post-anoxic reactor at least a portion of the nitrates to nitrogen gas and water. Systems and methods may reduce total organic carbon of the wastewater by more than 90%, and total nitrogen of the wastewater by more than 90%.

Abstract: The most common automated search methods produce less-than-ideal results when searching online resumes, profiles, and the like (“biographies”) for the identities of people with a searcher-selected qualification (“candidates”). Keywords, their proximities, and their repetitions are less informative in biographies than in other informational documents. Similarly, chains of social connection (“referral paths”) do not always reveal the likelihood or ease of a searcher's introduction to a candidate. In both cases, the display order of results may be unrelated to any estimate of merit. To answer the question “Whom do I need and how do I reach them?” a classifier system uses heuristics or algorithms adapted to match the reactions of human experts on the selected qualifications. Terms in biographies, regardless of structure, are standardized and disambiguated for accurate comparisons, meaningful context is preserved, and biographies and referral paths are scored based on expected usefulness to the searcher.