Abstract: A method of encoding a mesh comprises: determining a first plane based on a first input vertex located on a first side of the mesh, a direction vector, and a first vector selected along an axis having a largest angle from the direction vector; determining a second plane based on a second input vertex on a symmetry plane, the direction vector, and a second vector that is perpendicular to the first vector and the direction vector; determining a vertex to be mapped to the first input vertex on the first side of the mesh based on (i) a line that passes through the first input vertex and the second input vertex and (ii) the first and second planes.

Abstract: An implantable blood pump system is disclosed herein. The implantable blood pump system includes an implantable blood pump, a controller coupled to the blood pump, a connector receptacle, and a connector insert. The connector receptacle can include a plurality of contacts, and a following surface. The connector insert can be received within the connector receptacle to couple a plurality of insert contacts with the plurality of contacts of the connector receptacle. The connector insert can include walls defining a follower receptacle that can receive a portion of the following surface when the connector insert is in a desired alignment with respect to the connector receptacle, and a cam surface that can engage with the following surface to bias the connector insert to the desired alignment with respect to the connector receptacle when the connector insert is inserted into the connector receptacle.

Abstract: There is provided a device for controlling an automatic checkout system. The device comprises a storage medium configured to store a product detection model trained based on training images in which parameters of a plurality of sample images are manipulated and one or more commands; and a processor configured to execute the one or more commands stored in the storage medium, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: sequentially load a plurality of frame images, input the plurality of loaded frame images into the product detection model, detect at least one product from each of the plurality of frame images, track at least one product detected in each frame image, and count at least one product detected based on a tracking result.

Abstract: An articulation joint for a medical device includes a proximal longitudinal section, a distal longitudinal section, and a locking wire. The proximal longitudinal section defines a lumen and includes proximal articulation links. Each proximal articulation link has a contact surface abutting a contact surface of an adjacent proximal articulation link when the articulation joint is in a straight configuration. The distal longitudinal section is distal to the proximal longitudinal section and includes distal articulation links configured to bend in the first direction. The locking wire extends through the lumen adjacent the contact surfaces of the proximal articulation links. A distal end of the locking wire is fixed to a distal articulation link, and tensioning of the locking wire prevents bending of the proximal longitudinal section in the first direction and allows bending of the distal longitudinal section in the first direction.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating alternative networks. One of the methods includes receiving supply chain data representing a first supply chain network having nodes and links, receiving map data, providing the map data and the supply chain data as input to a generative process that is configured to generate one or more second supply chain networks, receiving, as output from the generative process, a second supply chain network, performing a supply chain simulation on the second supply chain network generated by the generative model, and computing a performance metric for the second supply chain network based on performing the simulation.

Abstract: A method for simulating conveyors includes receiving conveyor content for each cycle, the conveyor content including over-cycle distributions each specific to a vehicle group at a footprint of each conveyor for a footprint cycle time, determining a cumulative probability, for each footprint cycle time, across all of the footprints of the conveyor, of one or more of the footprints of the conveyor having that cycle time or less, and determining an individual probability, for each footprint cycle time, across all of the footprints of the conveyor, of the conveyor having that cycle time. The method further includes receiving a vehicle dispatch strategy and generating an alert indicating an over-cycle risk for the strategy based on the individual probabilities, and/or performing a discrete event simulation of the conveyors using one of the individual probabilities for each cycle and for each conveyor. Other examples systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for rotationally aligning a commissure of a prosthetic heart valve with a commissure of a native valve are disclosed. In some examples, a method can include advancing a distal end portion of an assembly toward a native heart valve, the assembly comprising a delivery apparatus and a prosthetic heart valve, and including one or more radiopaque markers, where one radiopaque marker is suspended within a cell of a frame of the prosthetic heart valve and aligned with a commissure of the prosthetic heart valve. The method further includes receiving a fluoroscopic image in a selected imaging view of the prosthetic heart valve on the delivery apparatus, determining, based on the fluoroscopic image and the one or more radiopaque markers, whether the prosthetic heart valve is in a desired rotational orientation, and rotating the assembly until the prosthetic heart valve is in the desired rotational orientation.

Abstract: The description involves a brush copolymer composition comprising a copolymeric backbone including monomeric repeat units of at least two different acrylate monomers and copolymeric brush arms including monomeric repeat units of at least two different acylated poly(alkylene amine)s, in which the brush arms, the brush copolymer, or both may advantageously exhibit UCST behavior, e.g, in hydrocarbon diluent. Methods of making such copolymers using RAFT and CROP (pseudo-)living reaction processes are also described herein.

Abstract: A vehicle, system and method of charging the vehicle. The vehicle includes a battery, a first electric motor coupled to the battery, a second electric motor coupled to the battery, and a switch for forming a circuit between a charging station and the battery through the first electric motor and the second electric motor. A processor controls a configuration of the switch and commences charging of the battery from the charging station through the first electric motor and the second electric motor.

Abstract: Medical devices and related methods are described. The medical device may include a shaft, a handle housing a proximal portion of the shaft, and a lock having a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration of the lock, the shaft may be rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the shaft relative to the handle, and, in the second configuration of the lock, the shaft may be stationary relative to the handle.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a model obtaining unit configured to obtain a learned model generated by machine learning that includes: determining a weight of a morpheme in a model, in accordance with a feature determined using a result of morphological analysis; and deleting, from input data of the model, the feature corresponding to the morpheme having the weight determined to be smaller than, or equal to, a threshold value; an obtaining unit configured to obtain document data ; a feature determining unit configured to determine the feature to be input to the learned model, in accordance with the result of the morphological analysis; an inference processing unit configured to input the feature to the learned model, to calculate a score indicating a degree of relevance between the document data and an event; and a display control unit configured to perform display control using the score.

Abstract: Methods and systems for training one or more neural networks for transcription and for transcribing a media file using the trained one or more neural networks are provided. One of the methods includes: segmenting the media file into a plurality of segments; inputting each segment, one segment at a time, of the plurality of segments into a first neural network trained to perform speech recognition; extracting outputs, one segment at a time, from one or more layers of the first neural network; and training a second neural network to generate a predicted-WER (word error rate) of a plurality of transcription engines for each segment based at least on outputs from the one or more layers of the first neural network.

Abstract: A first BEOL layer, including a first and a second signal line, a conformal dielectric surrounding an upper portion of a vertical sidewall of each of the first signal line and the second signal line, an air gap between the first and the second signal line, a vertical side boundary of the air gap is a vertical side surface of the first signal line. Forming a first and a second metal line in a sacrificial material in a first BEOL layer, removing the sacrificial material, forming a conformal dielectric surrounding vertical side surfaces of the first and the second metal line, an air gap between the first and the second metal line exposes an upper horizontal surface of a dielectric layer below the first BEOL layer, growing a dielectric selectively from an upper portion of the conformal dielectric, the air gap remains between the first and the second metal line.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may estimate one or more channel availability parameter values. The UE may then select, based on a co-channel configuration indicating a relationship between channel availability parameter values and patterns of sidelink resources, a pattern of sidelink resources (e.g., LTE resources) on which to transmit NR packets. In some examples, a special UE may receive individual or aggregated reports of channel availability parameter values. The special UE may select a pattern of sidelink resources (e.g., LTE resources) on which one of the reporting UEs is permitted to transmit NR packets, and may transmit a message activating the pattern of sidelink resources to the reporting UE. The reporting UE may then use the activated sidelink LTE resources for transmitting NR packets according to the indicated pattern.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medicine composition for treatment of bone and joint diseases that has its ingredients (% by weight) as the dried extract of medicinal herbs: 40-75; tortoiseshell extract: 0.1-20; mixed bone extract: 0.1-20; deer antler extract: 0.1-20; salix alba extract: 5-25; nattokinase: 0.1-10; and Na-benzoate: 0-0.5, wherein the herbal medicine mixture comprises the ingredients of: Huang Bai (bark), Liquorice (root/rhizome), Hardy rubber tree (bark), Ox Knee (root), Fang Feng (root), Poria cocos wolf (fruit body), Chinese foxglove (rhizome), Sang Ji Sheng (whole tree), Gentian Root (root), Rhizoma Anemarrhena (rhizome), Peach blossom (blossom), Dried tangerine peel (peel), Chinese peony (root), Dangshen (root), Ginseng (root) Du Huo (root), Dongquai (root), Cinnamon (bough), Xi Xin (root, rhizome), Szechuan lovage (rhizome) and Dwarf umbrella tree (root).

Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a method of encoding a mesh includes: determining a global symmetry plane of the mesh that divides the mesh into a first side and a second side; based on the determination that the mesh is partially symmetric: determining each vertex from the plurality of vertices having a symmetry error larger than a first error threshold; performing a clustering process on the plurality of vertices based on the determined symmetry error for each vertex such that each vertex having a symmetry error larger than the first symmetry error threshold is clustered together in one or more clusters; dividing the mesh into a plurality of sub-meshes based on the clustering process; determining whether each sub-mesh is one of fully symmetric, partially symmetric, and asymmetric; and performing symmetry coding on each sub-mesh from the plurality of sub-meshes that is determined to be fully symmetric.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to cartridges suitable for performing electrophoretic separation of analytes. Cartridges described herein are particularly well suited for reuse. Cartridges described herein can include a reservoir disposed between a capillary and a container containing a run buffer. The reservoir can inhibit run buffer from intruding into the capillary, thereby allowing repeated electrophoretic separations to be more consistent, more accurate, and/or more reliable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that inhibit KRas G12D. In particular, the present invention relates to compounds that inhibit the activity of KRas G12D, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of use therefor.

Abstract: The harvester comprises a pendular unit comprising a beam that is elastically deformable in bending, a mount clamping a proximal end of the beam, and an inertial mass mounted at a free, distal end of the beam. The beam converts into an oscillating electric signal a mechanical energy produced by oscillations of the pendular unit. The piezoelectric beam comprises a flexible structure including: a central core; a piezoelectric layer on at least one face of the central core; and at least one surface electrode on an external face of the piezoelectric layer. The central core of the flexible structure is a semiconductor material adapted to form an integrated circuit substrate, and the flexible structure includes at least part of components of an electric or electronic unit, said components being monolithically integrated within the semiconductor material substrate.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for depolymerizing a polymer product. The method comprises forming a reaction mixture by combining polymer feedstock with an activating agent and producing an oxidized polymer comprising one or more functional groups comprising an oxygen atom. Also described are systems comprising a vessel having one or more inert or chemically reactive grinding bodies, polymer feedstock, and an activating agent, wherein the system is configured to mix the one or more grinding bodies, the polymer feedstock, and activating agent under approximately ambient pressure.