Abstract: In methods for the Crude Distillation Unit, a desalted crude oil and water mixture is processed through a heating exchangers, cooling exchangers, and vapor-liquid phases separating vessels, fired furnace, superheated vapor steam, the liquid stream having a wide distillation boiling range and partially vaporized crude oil streams. These streams are processed in an atmospheric distillation column to generate the distillate products and long residue stream. The long residue generated from the ADC striping section is processed with steam in the separate vessel with plural trays or the new separation section with plural trays added to the existing ADC design. The methods result in simultaneous reduction in thermal energy, reduction in vacuum system load, opportunity to increase the crude throughput for a given diameter of ADC and eliminating need for a fired furnace for superheating the vapor stream to be used at bottom section of ADC.

Abstract: A storage system and circuits therefor. A storage system includes a bitcell array comprising a plurality of storage cells arranged in one or more columns and one or more rows; a read bitline associated with a first column to access storage cells of the first column, wherein the read bitline has a first keeper circuit coupled thereto; and a tracker bitline associated with the read bitline, wherein the tracker bitline has a second keeper circuit coupled thereto, and wherein the tracker bitline is configured such that a behaviour thereof is to substantially match a behaviour of the read bitline.

Abstract: A storage system and circuits therefor. A storage system includes a bitcell array comprising a plurality of storage cells arranged in one or more columns and one or more rows; a latch circuit configured to output a latch signal responsive to a latch control signal and a data signal from a global data line during a read operation of a storage cell of the plurality of storage cells; a latch control circuit configured to provide the latch control signal to the latch circuit, where the latch control circuit comprises a first signal propagation path for a first mode of operation and a second signal propagation path for a second mode of operation, and wherein the first signal propagation path is to delay propagation of a pulse signal through the first signal propagation path by a time (?t) compared to a propagation of the pulse signal through the second propagation path.

Abstract: An example method of virtualizing a host virtual counter and timer in a central processing unit (CPU) of a virtualized host computer includes: creating, by a hypervisor of the host computer in response to power on of a virtual machine (VM), a guest virtual counter, the guest virtual counter comprising a data structure including scaling factors; mapping a shared memory page having the data structure into an address space of memory allocated to the VM; and notifying a guest operating system (OS) of the VM of a location in the address space for the shared memory page having the data structure, the guest OS being paravirtualized to scale the host virtual counter and timer based on the scaling factors of the guest virtual counter.

Abstract: Embodiments for creating transactional consistent snapshot copies of SQL server containers in a Kubernetes system for copy reuse on different clusters to facilitate processing local snapshots for secondary workloads without impacting production quality of service. A copy data management (CDM) tool acts as an orchestrator, while a backup toolkit is deployed in the namespace of the production cluster containers. A container storage interface (CSI) plugin supplies persistent storage to the containers. Before taking a copy, the process posts the toolkit in the container and a quiesce/unquiesce operation is then performed. The databases are first quiesced, the snapshot copy is taken, and then the databases are unquiesced. The toolkit is then removed, thus producing a transactional consistent backup in a different namespace.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, performed by a first node (111), for handling predictive models. The first node (111) updates (207), using machine learning, a first predictive model of an indicator of performance of the communications system (100). The updating (207) is based on respective explainability values respectively obtained from a first subset of a plurality of second nodes (112). The respective explainability values correspond to a first subset of respective second predictive models of the indicator of performance of the communications system (100), respectively determined by the first subset of the plurality of second nodes (112). The models in the first subset of respective second predictive models have a respective performance value above a threshold. The first node (111) then provides (208) an indication of the updated first predictive model to a third node (113) comprised in the plurality of second nodes (112) and excluded from the first subset, or to another node (114).

Abstract: A system can configure a first number of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) positions in radio resource control information as part of a connection setup with a user equipment that is configured to facilitate broadband cellular communications, wherein the broadband cellular communications are facilitated with carrier aggregation of a primary cell and a secondary cell. The system can, after attaching to the user equipment, send a first message to the user equipment indicative of modifying the first number of DMRS positions to a second number of demodulation reference signal positions for first communications via the primary cell. The system can send a second message to the user equipment indicative of modifying the DMRS positions for second communications via the secondary cell. The system can conduct the broadband cellular communications with the user equipment according to the second number of DMRS positions.

Abstract: Though several data augmentation techniques have been explored in the signal or feature space, very few studies have explored augmentation in the embedding space for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The outputs of the hidden layers of a neural network can be seen as different representations or projections of the features. The augmentations performed on the features may not necessarily translate into augmentation of the different projections of the features as obtained from the output of the hidden layers. To overcome the challenges of the conventional approaches, embodiments herein provide a method and system for augmented speech embeddings based automatic speech recognition. The present disclosure provides an augmentation scheme which works on the speech embeddings. The augmentation works by replacing a set of randomly selected embeddings by noise during training. It does not require additional data, works online during training, and adds very little to the overall computational cost.

Abstract: Data protection management techniques in information processing systems are disclosed. For example, a method is provided to manage generation of a copy of data of an application instance executed by a virtual processing device of a host device operatively coupled to a virtual volume-based storage system. Generation of the copy of the data of the application instance is caused to be performed on the virtual volume-based storage system independent of a virtualization layer associated with the host device.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds that are quinoline foldamers. Such foldamers stabilize and bind to islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP). In certain embodiments, the quinoline foldamers of the invention are soluble and cross biological membranes without cellular assistance. The present invention further provides novel methods of preventing or treating diabetes in a subject in need thereof by administering to the subject an effective amount of at least one quinoline foldamer of the invention. The present invention further provides novel methods of preventing or treating a neurodegenerative disease caused by a misfolded and/or unstructured protein in a subject in need thereof by administering to the subject an effective amount of at least one quinoline foldamer of the invention.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically detecting cloud computing platform-related anomalies are provided herein.

Abstract: Provided are multilayer metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors and methods for forming such capacitors. A MIM capacitor includes a first metal layer of a first metal type on a first substrate layer, a semiconductor layer on the first metal layer, a second metal layer of the first metal type on the semiconductor layer, and a first photoresist and a second photoresist applied to the second metal layer, where the first metal layer, the semiconductor layer, and the second metal layer are formed via thin-film deposition, and rows of the first metal layer, the semiconductor layer, and the second metal layer are formed based on etching exposed portions of the first metal layer, the semiconductor layer, and the second metal layer between the first photoresist and the second photoresist.

Abstract: An example method includes detecting, using sensors, packets throughout a datacenter. The sensors can then send packet logs to various collectors which can then identify and summarize data flows in the datacenter. The collectors can then send flow logs to an analytics module which can identify the status of the datacenter and detect an attack.

Abstract: A method including receiving first data including a feature corresponding to an application, receiving second data including a specification of a component included in a device, analyzing a performance of the device based on the first data and the second data using a model, and modifying the specification based on the performance of the device.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for secure cluster membership for a multi-cloud security platform. A method includes: in response to receiving a start message to start a first instance of a gateway service, transmitting a boot message to a cloud service provider to cause the cloud service provider to boot an image corresponding to the gateway service, the boot message including boot script information; receiving a join message from the first instance to join a gateway service cluster; and configuring the first instance with the gateway service cluster based on credentials included in the join message.

Abstract: A multi-modal articulation system translates human gestures into control commands for digital and automation devices. The system integrates a camera module, which captures facial and hand movements, with an image processing unit that extracts facial features, such as eyebrow movement, lip curvature, eyelid motion, and eye trajectory. These extracted features are analyzed in real time by an articulation recognition module that compares them against a database to recognize specific gestures. The system tracks and processes air-drawn hand gestures using a gesture trajectory tracking unit, which converts the motions into digital representations and classifies them using deep learning algorithms. The recognized gestures are converted into machine-readable control signals and executed on various connected devices via a relay control unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for machine learning of data path rules for gateway services.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for asynchronous execution of data path service using network fibers. A method includes: based on receiving a first packet within a service for transmitting the first packet to a destination location, processing a first portion of the first packet in a processor based on execution of a first fiber until a first hardware call is reached; sending the first packet to a first circuit for processing the first packet based on the first hardware call; and processing a portion of a second packet associated with a second fiber while the first packet is processing in the first circuit. The systems and apparatuses prevent heavy processing of content from blocking other content.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a microfluidic analytical device comprising providing a top lamination layer and a bottom lamination layer, wherein each of the top lamination layer and bottom lamination layer comprises an outer layer and an inner layer, cutting out one or more channel spaces from the at least one of the top lamination layer and the bottom lamination layer, wherein the one or more channel spaces form a microfluidic path, positioning at least one middle layer between the top lamination layer and the bottom lamination layer, such that each of the two inner layers face the at least one middle layer, and subjecting the top lamination layer and the bottom lamination layer to a process, wherein the process allows both the inner layers to permeate substantially through the at least one middle layer.

Abstract: Cis-acting regulatory elements were identified and engineered as a modulating element within a regulatory element (for example, a promoter, 5?UTR, intron or 3?UTR). Next, the chimeric cis-acting regulatory element and promoter were assayed to determine if the cis-acting regulatory elements could enhance the expression of a downstream coding sequence operably linked to the chimeric cis-acting regulatory element and promoter. Disclosed are novel cis-acting regulatory elements that were identified to enhance the expression of a downstream coding sequence.