Abstract: Training a Gaussian process state space model, which describes a correlation between selected control parameters of a plurality of control parameters for controlling a robotic device and output variables of the robotic device assigned in each case.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for at least one disease by delivering an effective amount of energy and/or formulation to tissue on or near to a body lumen wall. The formulation can include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, a suspension of one or more ingredients, or a combination thereof. The amounts of the formulation and/or energy delivered can be effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and/or nerve endings to relieve disease symptoms.

Abstract: A method and system for packet tracing is described. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a packet for tracing through a cluster of a plurality of nodes. The method includes preparing the packet for tracing by generating a cluster-wide unique ID, associating the unique ID with the packet, generating a running counter, and associating the counter with the packet. The method includes generating a first record buffer on a first node of the plurality of nodes and recording the unique ID and an initial value of the counter. The method includes recording a description of an operation performed on the packet in the first record buffer along with a value of the counter. The method also includes transferring the packet to a second node, along with the unique ID, the value of the running counter, and an attribute that indicates that the packet is to be traced.

Abstract: A drink container and three position plug lid for use therewith. The lid includes a tubular seal with a flexible perimeter seal wall attached between upper and lower seal carriers, a lifter member attached to the lower seal carrier and a cam member to control movement of the lower seal carrier relative to the upper seal carrier and thereby laterally flex and axially move the perimeter seal wall and move the lid between closed and opened positions where the lid is retained within the drink container against removal, and a removal position permitting removal of the lid for washing the lid and drink container.

Abstract: Aspects of series resonator DC-to-DC converters are described. A series resonator DC-to-DC converter can include a first half-bridge circuit comprising a first high-side switch and a first low-side switch, a second half-bridge circuit comprising a second high-side switch and a second low-side switch, and a resonator in series between the first high-side switch and the first low-side switch. The circuit design and switching controller can be relied upon to impart soft-switching.

Abstract: An electromagnetic machine includes a housing, an axle coupled to the housing in a rotatable fashion, a stator assembly disposed generally within the housing, the stator assembly including a stator plate and a stator bearing coupled to the axle such that the stator assembly is rotatable about the axle, a rotor assembly fixed to the axle and disposed generally within the housing and including a rotor housing that defines a circumferentially extending channel that is sized to receive a portion of the stator assembly therein; and a locking mechanism configured to selectively prevent and permit rotation of the stator assembly about the axle via the stator bearing. The housing can include an access window defined therein such that the stator assembly is accessible through the access window.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that performs user authentication by using iris recognition, the electronic device including a camera capturing an eye image of a user, a display, a memory storing one or more instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, in which the at least one processor is configured to display a guide image on the display, change an attribute of the guide image from a first state to a second state and display the guide image, obtain first iris data from a first eye image of the user corresponding to a guide image having an attribute of the first state, obtain second iris data from a second eye image of the user corresponding to a guide image having an attribute of the second state, and perform user authentication based on the first iris data and the second iris data.

Abstract: A power distribution board (PDB) may be mounted in a server and used to convert a main power signal to useable power by the server components. The PDB can be mounted on an interior sidewall of the server to maximize available component space of the server. The PDB can include a power transformation section and a power distribution section. The power transformation section can convert the incoming power to the useable power and the power distribution section can output the useable power to the server components. Additional PDBs can be added to the server to accommodate additional server components.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a compound having the structure R1O—(CH2O)n—R2 and a cetane number between about 65 and about 100, where n is between 1 and 10, inclusively, R1 includes a first alkyl group, and R2 includes a second alkyl group.

Abstract: As an example, a server hosting a search engine may receive a search query and determine a searched time interval, a searched object, and a searched event. The server may select, based on the searched time interval, a portion of an object-event bipartite graph that was created using information gathered from social media sites. The server may compare attributes of individual events in the portion with attributes of the searched event to identify a set of relevant events. The server may determine objects associated with the relevant events and compare attributes of individual objects with the attributes of the searched object to identify a set of relevant objects. The search engine may provide search results that include the set of relevant objects ordered according to their similarity to the searched object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method which uses non-core-shell polymer particles to form polymer film on a pre-formed solid substrate surface, said non-core-shell polymer particles comprising two covalently coupled polymer regions of different molecular composition, wherein (a) one of the two polymer regions is a crosslinked RAFT polymer region and the other polymer region is a film forming polymer region, (b) the crosslinked RAFT polymer region comprising particle aggregation prevention means selected from one or more of charged and steric stabilising functionality, and (c) the film forming polymer region comprising 0-3 wt. % of charged polymerised monomer residues relative to the total amount of polymerised monomer residues present in that region.

Abstract: A camera module according to one embodiment comprises: a housing including a through hole and a lens assembly disposed in the through hole toward a first surface on which light is incident; an infrared filter attached to a second surface of the housing, positioned on the opposite side of the first surface to shield inflow of infrared rays from the incident light; and an image sensor for recognizing the light passing through the infrared filter, wherein the infrared filter comprises: an effective filtering region for transmitting visible light; an attachment region attached by an adhesive applied to the second surface of the housing, for forming the exterior of the infrared filter; and a masking region formed between the attachment region and the effective filtering region, wherein the effective filtering region is formed to protrude from a vertex region and overlaps with a region in which the image sensor is positioned and the attachment region is formed as an area capable of securing adhesion with the second

Abstract: A drink container and plug lid for use therewith. The lid has an upper member and a lower member with a ring seal positioned therebetween and radially outwardly stretchable from an initial diameter to a larger sealing diameter in response to an actuator moving the upper and lower members together to place the ring seal in fluid-tight sealing engagement with the container body. Moving the upper and lower members apart allows the radially outward stretched ring seal to move from the sealing diameter to the initial diameter whereat it is out of fluid-tight sealing engagement with the container body.

Abstract: A hinge structure of a foldable electronic apparatus is provided. The hinge structure includes a hinge member fixed to each of a first housing member and a second housing member, a rotation support portion rotatably supporting the hinge member and including a rotation guide that guides a rotation of the hinge member, and an angle maintaining structure configured to maintain a position of the hinge member. The first housing member and the second housing members are maintained at a predetermined angle with respect to each other. The angle maintaining structure includes an elastic pressing portion arranged between the rotation guide and the hinge member, the angle maintaining structure extending along a rotation direction of the hinge member, and being elastically deformable, and at least one position maintaining groove into which a portion of the elastic pressing portion is insertable and which is formed in a surface of the hinge member opposite to the rotation guide.

Abstract: An electromagnetic machine includes a housing, an axle coupled to the housing in a rotatable fashion, a stator assembly disposed generally within the housing, the stator assembly including a stator plate and a stator bearing coupled to the axle such that the stator assembly is rotatable about the axle, a rotor assembly fixed to the axle and disposed generally within the housing and including a rotor housing that defines a circumferentially extending channel that is sized to receive a portion of the stator assembly therein; and a locking mechanism configured to selectively prevent and permit rotation of the stator assembly about the axle via the stator bearing. The housing can include an access window defined therein such that the stator assembly is accessible through the access window.

Abstract: A method of queue design for data storage and management applies RAM data synchronization technology on many distributed nodes, both ensures storage performance and solves the problem of data loss in the system operation process; performs business separation and parallelize actions to optimize processing performance; uses simply extracted information instead of accessing the original information helps to speed up the processing ability and promptly detect events that exceed the threshold; allocates a fixed memory for the queue to ensure the safety of the whole system; in addition, provides monitoring and early warning of possible incidents. The method includes: step 1: build a deployment model; step 2: initialize the values when the application first launches; step 3: process write data to the queue; step 4: detect the threshold and process the data in the queue; step 5: remove processed data from the queue; step 6: monitor queue and early warn.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition having a mixture containing curcuminoids as at least one of the active therapeutic agents. Generally, the mixture comprises 4-8% by weight of purified curcuminoids; 20-35% by weight of an oil phase; 25-35% by weight of a co-solvent; and 40-50% by weight of a surfactant. Preferably, the purified curcuminoids in the mixture has an average size of about 19 nm or at least half of the curcuminoids carried in the mixture has particle size not exceeding 19 nm.

Abstract: A drink container and three position plug lid for use therewith. The lid includes a tubular seal with a flexible perimeter seal wall attached between upper and lower seal carriers, a lifter member attached to the lower seal carrier and a cam member to control movement of the lower seal carrier relative to the upper seal carrier and thereby laterally flex and axially move the perimeter seal wall and move the lid between closed and opened positions where the lid is retained within the drink container against removal, and a removal position permitting removal of the lid for washing the lid and drink container.

Abstract: A predictive maintenance server receives data from sensors of equipment. The server uses one or more machine learning models to assign an anomaly score. Responsive to the anomaly score exceeding a threshold value, the server may issue an alert. The machine learning model may be supervised or unsupervised. In one embodiment, the machine learning model use several sensor channels to predict the values of one or more vitals of the equipment and compare the predicted values to the actual measured values of the vitals. The server may assign an anomaly score based on the differences between the predicted values and the measured values. In one embodiment, the machine learning model may be an autoencoder that generates a distribution of the measurement values to determine the likelihood of observing the actual measured values in a normal operation. In one embodiment, the server may use a histogram approach to predict anomaly.

Abstract: A method of determining blood pressure measurements includes inflating a cuff, receiving an indication of pressure inside the cuff during inflation, determining a blood pressure based at least in part on the received indication, assigning a confidence level to the blood pressure, and determining whether the confidence level satisfies a threshold confidence level. Based at least on a determination that the confidence level satisfies a threshold confidence level, the method can include causing a display to display the blood pressure. Based at least on a determination that the confidence level does not satisfy a threshold confidence level, the method can include deflating the cuff, receiving an indication of pressure inside the cuff during deflation, determining another blood pressure, and causing a display to display a blood pressure.