Abstract: A method for treating an aqueous fluid containing a biodegradable organic substance in an installation that includes an upflow bioreactor containing a sludge bed, wherein the sludge bed includes biomass, an external separator, and a conditioning tank. The method includes treating the fluid in the conditioning tank; feeding the treated fluid into a lower part of the bioreactor and forming biogas; withdrawing the fluid from an upper part of the bioreactor, which withdrawn fluid includes biomass; feeding the aqueous fluid withdrawn from the upper part of the bioreactor into the external separator, wherein the aqueous fluid that includes the biomass is separated into a liquid phase and a fluid phase enriched in biomass; returning the fluid phase enriched in biomass from the external separator to the bioreactor; and returning a part of the liquid phase to the conditioning tank.

Abstract: A device for assembling a turbine engine is configured for centering a shaft of a second module relative to a longitudinal axis of a hollow hub placed in front of a first module, the first module including a longitudinal cavity opening at the front into the hollow hub and passing through the first module until a rear end, the shaft configured to be inserted into the longitudinal cavity. The device includes a centering element and a guiding tube. The centering element is configured to be placed in the hollow hub. The guiding tube is configured to enter into at least one portion of the longitudinal cavity of the first module. The device is arranged so that the guiding tube slides inside the centering element. The invention also relates to the assembly formed by the device and a calibration jig, as well as an assembly method using same.

Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating processing units as part of a data warehouse. The processing units access data within one or more databases in cloud storage resources. The method also includes providing one or more queries to each processing unit within the data warehouse. In response to the queries, each processing unit performs database operations on a particular portion of a database table. The method also includes monitoring a workload of the processing units to determine that a processing capacity of the processing units has reached a threshold processing capacity. The method also includes dynamically adding additional processing units to and removing processing units from the data warehouse as needed based on a workload of the processing units.

Abstract: A method for automated web resource deployment is provided. The method comprises creating web resource publication requests, wherein each web resource publication request comprises a number of configuration changes necessary to publish a web resource, on a network, at a particular uniform resource location. A standard format, validation workflow, and an approval workflow are provided for automation of the web resource publication requests. Once validated and approved, web resource publication requests are automatically converted to API calls which are executed on backend servers to implement the configuration changes required in the environment without further human intervention.

Abstract: Joining data using a disjunctive operator is described. An example computer-implemented method can include generating a query plan for a query, wherein there is a join operator expression for each of a plurality of disjunctive predicates and each join operator expression includes at least a conjunctive predicate and a disjunctive operator. The method may also include generating a bloom filter for each of the plurality of disjunctive operators. The method may further include evaluating each of the plurality of join operator expressions using a corresponding one of the plurality of disjunctive operators and bloom filter for each of the plurality of disjunctive predicates to generate a result set.

Abstract: A switch system includes a mechanical switch for switching electrical currents, the mechanical switch operating in one of a closed state and an open state; the system further including an actuator configured to change the state of the mechanical switch, wherein the actuator comprises a Thomson-coil system including a Thomson coil, and wherein the mechanical switch and the Thomson coil are electrically connected in series.

Abstract: Photovoltaic panels may be aggregated in various ways and may be aggregated with the use of a backplane where the backplane comprises electrical connectors positioned to electrically connect the PV panels. The PV panels may have various sizes and shapes and may overlap one or more other PV panels or PV panels being aggregated.

Abstract: Nucleic acid regulatory elements that are able to enhance muscle-specific expression of genes, methods employing these regulatory elements and uses of these elements. Expression cassettes and vectors containing these nucleic acid regulatory elements are also disclosed. The present invention is particularly useful for applications using gene therapy, more particularly muscle-directed gene therapy.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a shapable core (10) from a rigid panel (12), the plane of the panel being defined by the axes X and Y and the height H being oriented in the direction Z of an orthonormal reference frame, for producing composite material products, consisting in cutting the panel (12) to form core elements (16). According to the invention, the method consists in making the cuts (14, 34) along the axis Z, producing hooking means (17) on each of the core elements (16) cut in this way, so as to allow the core elements (16) to be connected to each other and to produce a hinge connection (22) with retention between the core elements (16) in the plane XY.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic polymer composition, in particular to a polyamide composition, having improved flame-retardant properties by maintaining its good physical properties. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of preparing said thermoplastic polymer composition and to shaped articles, in particular fibers, made of the thermoplastic polymer composition of the invention and that have excellent properties in order to ensure adequate fire protection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating a polyamide-based composition which is intended to be recycled. More particularly, the present invention relates to a process for treating a composition, typically a powder based on untransformed polyamides during the manufacture of an object in 3D printing. The invention also relates to the use of the recycled composition.

Abstract: A device, system and method for changing a topology of a geographically distributed system is provided. One or more computing devices determine resource usage of an initial topology of a geographically distributed system that includes data stored at one or more initial locations and applications, that consume the data, being implemented at the one or more of initial locations. The computing device(s) determine projected resource usage of additional topologies of the geographically distributed system, the additional topologies defining respective locations, different from the one or more initial locations, where respective portions of the data and/or the applications are located. In response to an additional topology having a respective projected resource usage that is less than the resource usage of the initial topology, the computing device(s) control a respective portion of the data and/or the applications to move to the respective locations defined by the additional topology.

Abstract: A system including tubing and a filter configured to be fluidly coupled to a vacuum source and to a heater/cooler unit by the tubing. The filter includes a filter container having negative air pressure in the filter container provided by the vacuum source to pull aerosol from the heater/cooler unit into the filter container and eliminate and/or reduce the aerosol emitted from the heater/cooler unit.

Abstract: A method includes pressing a preform with a mold including a mold body and a plurality of mold protrusions extending from the mold body at a pressing temperature and a pressing pressure sufficient to transform the preform into a shaped article including a plurality of cavities corresponding to the plurality of mold protrusions. The preform is formed from a glass material, a glass-ceramic material, or a combination thereof. The mold body is formed from a porous material. The plurality of mold protrusions is formed from a non-porous material.

Abstract: This specification describes automated reel processes for producing solar modules and solar module reels. In some examples, a method includes receiving a continuous feed of photovoltaic devices on a photovoltaic device sheet. The method includes locating and bypassing one or more defective photovoltaic devices on the photovoltaic device sheet. The method includes installing bussing for the photovoltaic devices on the photovoltaic device sheet. The method includes feeding the photovoltaic device sheet to an encapsulation system to output a photovoltaic module sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a unique identifier of a subject from a genotyped DNA sample from said subject, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a number N?2 of genomic positions of interest, said obtained genomic positions being such that, in a population of M subjects, these genomic positions exhibit a polymorphism of at least one nucleotide having an allelic frequency of between 25% and 35%, for the minority allele; combining in pairs the obtained genomic positions by means of logical functions so as to obtain a binary code bc.

Abstract: Methods for non-invasive or minimally invasive assessment of epithelial tissue structure are disclosed. Digital imaging and processing are used to identify cell locations. More specifically, an automated algorithm that may be used to identify epithelial tissue structure, and/or to specify the coordinates/locations of cells in the epithelial tissue structure, through non-invasive or minimally invasive imaging, and use of this information to extract values of epithelial structure related parameters are disclosed.

Abstract: A gear assembly is disclosed for driving a ram arranged in a pressing channel of a square baler so as to be movable between end positions. The gear assembly comprises at least one side gear, which may be driven indirectly by a power take-off shaft of an agricultural production machine, and at least one reduction gear which is connected downstream from the at least one side gear and may be connected on the output side to a crankshaft on which the ram is mounted. The gear assembly further includes at least one flywheel that is connected between the at least one side gear and the at least one reduction gear, and at least one shiftable clutch device that is connected between the at least one flywheel and the at least one reduction gear.

Abstract: The logging techniques described herein can enable using logging tools without having to use different methods for sandbox implementations and push out the log data to storage without problems. The log data is treated as sensitive data and is protected according to the defined security policies. Further, the results may be compressed and encrypted.

Abstract: An augmented reality surgical system includes a head mounted display (HMD) with a see-through display screen, a motion sensor, a camera, and computer equipment. The motion sensor outputs a head motion signal indicating measured movement of the HMD. The computer equipment computes the relative location and orientation of reference markers connected to the HMD and to the patient based on processing a video signal from the camera. The computer equipment generates a three dimensional anatomical model using patient data created by medical imaging equipment, and rotates and scales at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the relative location and orientation of the reference markers, and further rotate at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the head motion signal to track measured movement of the HMD. The rotated and scaled three dimensional anatomical model is displayed on the display screen.