Abstract: Systems and methods for treatment of tissue including an expandable member designed to be positioned at a site of interest against tissue to be treated and to accommodate fluid set at a temperature range to affect the tissue at the site of interest; an assembly for directing the fluid set at the temperature range into the expandable member, the assembly having an input to introduce the fluid into the expandable member to circulate substantially along an entire length of the expandable member and an output spatially situated from the input to permit fluid flow to be removed from within the expandable member; and a mechanism designed to direct fluid along the assembly and through the input into the expandable member while simultaneously removing fluid from the expandable member through the output, so as to maintain substantially constant fluid pressure within the expandable member.

Abstract: Spatial regions potentially occupied by a robot (or other machinery) or portion thereof and a human operator during performance of all or a defined portion of a task or an application are computationally estimated. These “potential occupancy envelopes” (POEs) may be based on the states (e.g., the current and expected positions, velocities, accelerations, geometry and/or kinematics) of the robot and the human operator. Once the POEs of human operators in the workspace are established, they can be used to guide or revise motion planning for task execution.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a polymer film with a low glass transition temperature. In one embodiment, when in contact with a metal substrate, the polymer film adheres to the metal substrate under heating and/or mechanical pressure. In one embodiment, the polymer film comprises a butadiene copolymer and a butylene polymer. In another aspect, the present disclosure further provides a method of masking a metal substrate using the polymer film. In yet another aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of chemically or electrochemically processing a metal substrate that is masked with the polymer film.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a method that includes receiving profile data associated with a user, the profile data comprising a first phone number, receiving browsing data from a user device associated with the user, storing the browsing data with a store time, receiving a phone call from the first phone number at a call time, identifying the user from the first phone number, retrieving the browsing data, determining whether the store time is within a time threshold of the call time and whether the browsing data comprises trigger data. When the browsing data comprises the trigger data and the store time is within the time threshold of the call time, generate a customized audio IVR menu based on the browsing data and present the customized audio IVR menu to the user over the phone call.

Abstract: There is provided a contrast agent for diagnosis of vascular disease containing a gadolinium-based compound as an active ingredient. It has been found that the gadolinium-based compound Gd-DOTA-click-SF of the present disclosure, has a higher molar longitudinal relaxivity (r1) than Dotarem, is stable, and does not affect in vitro cell viability. In addition, it has been found through MRI images that the specific binding of Gd-DOTA-click-SF in an animal model of abdominal aortic aneurysm established using elastase, a serine protease, is remarkable. Also, it has been confirmed that the content of the gadolinium-based compound of the present disclosure that binds to serine protease in the aorta, that is, the content of gadolinium in the aorta, is remarkable. Thus, the Gd-DOTA-click-SF compound according to the present disclosure may be usefully used in MRI and CT imaging diagnosis for vascular disease.

Abstract: A rinse-off cleansing composition with improved viscosity. The rinse-off cleansing composition contains a surfactant system with an anionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, and a non-ionic surfactant.

Abstract: An example network analysis system includes a memory storing telemetry data received from a plurality of network devices, the plurality of network devices includes extract entity information and connectivity information from the received telemetry data, wherein the entity information represents one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices and the connectivity information represents network connections between one or more devices of the plurality of network devices; and store the connectivity information and entity information as a network topology graph in a graph database, wherein the entity information is stored as nodes of the network topology graph and the connectivity information is stored as edges of network topology graph, and wherein the network topology graph represents an organization level topology of the organization network.

Abstract: In various embodiments, systems and methods for safely operating machinery such as industrial robots signal intrusions into and/or above computationally defined safeguarded volumes in a workspace during sensor monitoring of the workspace. Various related actions may be taken in response thereto, including restricting operation of the machinery and/or issuing safety or occlusion signals.

Abstract: A surgical device for cutting or shaving bone or tissue includes an outer housing having a collet secured to an inner peripheral surface thereof including one or more apertures defined therein. A housing includes an elongated tube extending therefrom configured to support a surgical tool at a distal end thereof. A gear assembly is disposed within the housing and is configured to drive the surgical tool, the gear assembly includes a drive gear housing selectively moveable within the housing to switch the gear assembly between an oscillation mode and a rotation mode for driving the surgical tool. A motor is operably coupled to the gear assembly, such that, upon activation thereof, the motor oscillates or rotates the surgical tool depending upon the position of the drive gear housing within the housing.

Abstract: A surgical device for cutting or shaving bone or tissue includes a housing having an elongated tube extending therefrom, the elongated tube configured to support a surgical tool at a distal end thereof. A gear assembly is disposed within the housing and is configured to control oscillation of the surgical tool. A motor is operably coupled to the housing and is configured to drive the gear assembly upon activation thereof. The motor is moveable relative to the housing to adjust one or more gears of the gear assembly which, in turn, adjusts an oscillation angle of the surgical tool to control the aggressiveness of the surgical tool when cutting tissue or bone.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose mitigating internal and external vibrational disturbances in opto-fluidic instrument. In various embodiments, the resonance frequency ranges and/or the vibrational frequency ranges of various modules and components of the opto-fluidic instrument may be selected to avoid resonances from occurring in the opto-fluidic instrument, thereby mitigating vibrations from internal and external sources that may distort the imaging of samples in the opto-fluidic instrument.

Abstract: The present disclosure is in the field of metal matrix polymer derived ceramic composites, processes of production and uses thereof. In particular, the disclosure concerns metal matrix polymer derived ceramic composites comprising ceramic nanoparticles, processes of production comprising a step of severe plastic deformation, and uses thereof.

Abstract: Implementations are described herein for improving unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) by using improved adaptive teacher for object detection with cross-domain mix-up. In various implementations, cross-domain training of an object detection machine learning model may include: performing weak augmentation on images from a target domain DT to generate a first set of weakly augmented target domain images; perform strong augmentation on images from the source domain DS and images from the target domain DT to generate a second set of strongly augmented images; processing the second set of strongly augmented images to generate a third set of inter-domain mixes of the images from DS and DT; and jointly train the object detection machine learning model, as a student machine learning model, with a teacher machine learning model using the first and third sets.

Abstract: The present invent in discloses Hemipteran insect inhibitory proteins, methods of using such proteins, nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins, methods of detecting and isolating such proteins, and their use in agricultural systems.

Abstract: A therapeutic device comprises a sensor positioned proximate to a user and configured to receive a plurality of signals, and a processor coupled to the sensor and configured to determine a biomarker describing a biological characteristic of the user based on the plurality of signals, and determine whether the user is likely to experience an impending sleep disorder episode within a predetermined period of time based on the biomarker.

Abstract: Systems and methods for autonomous waste and/or recycling collection by a waste services provider during performance of a waste service activity are provided. In a waste services environment, a waste service vehicle is configured to provide services to customers. The system and method can include, without limitation: a collection station or “hub” at a centralized location in a residential neighborhood; a plurality of autonomous collection vehicles capable of traveling between the collection station and the residences in the neighborhood to collect waste/items and/or containers at the residences and deliver the waste/items and/or containers to the collection station; and a waste service vehicle capable of collecting waste/items from the collection station and transporting the waste/items away from the neighborhood to a landfill or other collection, disposal or processing site.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining safe and unsafe zones in a workspace—where safe actions are calculated in real time based on all relevant objects (e.g., some observed by sensors and others computationally generated based on analysis of the sensed workspace) and on the current state of the machinery (e.g., a robot) in the workspace—may utilize a variety of workspace-monitoring approaches as well as dynamic modeling of the robot geometry. The future trajectory of the robot(s) and/or the human(s) may be forecast using, e.g., a model of human movement and other forms of control. Modeling and forecasting of the robot may, in some embodiments, make use of data provided by the robot controller that may or may not include safety guarantees.

Abstract: A test fixture, for a heatsink, may include a probe assembly with a thermocouple probe configured to removably contact a bottom surface of a pedestal of the heatsink, and measure a surface temperature of the heatsink. The test fixture may include an insulator housing configured to house the probe assembly and a heater block, and to insulate the probe assembly from the heater block. The heater block may be provided within the insulator housing and may be configured to provide heat to the heatsink via the bottom surface of the pedestal of the heatsink. The test fixture may include a mounting block connected to the insulator housing and configured to connect to the heatsink.

Abstract: A lithium and zinc ion bi-polar battery includes, in one example, a plurality of carbon or titanium bi-polar current collectors arranged with cells to form a stack of bi-polar configuration such that each of the bi-polar current collectors is between and in direct contact with a zinc electrode and lithium-ion intercalation electrode of an adjacent pair of the cells.