Abstract: A method is provided for producing a biochar solution. The method comprises the steps of collecting biochar particles, dispersing the biochar particles in a liquid solution and adding a stabilizing agent to keep the biochar in flowable suspension. The stabilizing agent may be added to the liquid solution or to the biochar prior to placing the biochar in solution.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to use of an acid for developing or treating a radiation-sensitive film including two or more elements having a high patterning radiation-absorption cross-section. The acid can be employed to form a pattern by a negative tone development process or to treat a developed pattern by further removing residual resist components.

Abstract: A building-construction panel (e.g., a structural wood subflooring panel) includes a tongue on one edge and a groove on an opposite edge that receives the tongue of an adjacent panel. A shoulder on the tongue-side edge defines an abutted surface that is contacted by an abutting surface on the groove-side edge to limit panel travel during installation and maintain a gap between upper edge portions of the adjacent panels. A bottom transition is formed on the groove-side edge so that the groove-side abutting surface is smaller than the tongue-side shoulder abutted surface. In this way, the relatively smaller groove-side abutting surface structurally maintains the gap but also minimizes frictional interpanel contact area to minimize squeaking. And the relatively larger tongue-side shoulder abutted surface helps keep the shoulder from being collapsed into the groove from overdriving the panels together during installation. Also disclosed are methods of manufacturing the panels.

Abstract: A method for inferring energy content of a flow fluid in a gaseous state is disclosed. The method is carried out by a computer system (200) having a processor (210) and memory (220), the memory (220) having an inference module (204), the method comprising inferring, by the inference module (204), the inferred energy content of the flow fluid in the gaseous state from an inferential relationship between the inferred energy content of the flow fluid in the gaseous state with at least one measurement taken of the flow fluid in the liquid state.

Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing defining an interior cavity and extending from a mounting end to an engagement end, and at least one signal component disposed within the interior cavity of the housing. The housing is formed from a conductive composite material and engages the at least one signal component to shield the interior cavity.

Abstract: A handheld powered pocket hole drilling system is provided. The system includes a base assembly having a plate. The plate has a drill bit opening extending through the plate. The system includes a drilling assembly and a drill bit connected to the drilling assembly. A drill guide assembly is operably connected to the base assembly and the drilling assembly. The drilling assembly is movable along the drill guide assembly to extend and retract the drill bit through the drill bit opening at an angle. An actuating assembly is operably connected to the drilling assembly. The actuating assembly is configured to move the drilling assembly and drill bit between a retracted position and an extended position. In some arrangements, the actuating assembly moves a drilling assembly and drill bit rearward and downward to the extended position and a handle of the actuating assembly is moved forward and downward.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to use of aqueous acid for developing or treating a radiation-sensitive film. The aqueous acid can be employed to form a pattern by a positive tone wet development process or to treat a developed pattern by further removing residual resist components.

Abstract: An air filter element and air filter system are provided. The filter element has an annular gasket that has multiple portions. A first portion provides axial sealing while a second portion provides only radially sealing. The filter element includes a frame with a radial abutment for engagement with a tooth on a filter housing for providing lateral biasing to the portion of the gasket that provides radial scaling.

Abstract: A system for compressed data storage using a neural network. The system comprises a memory comprising a plurality of memory locations configured to store data; a query neural network configured to process a representation of an input data item to generate a query; an immutable key data store comprising key data for indexing the plurality of memory locations; an addressing system configured to process the key data and the query to generate a weighting associated with the plurality of memory locations; a memory read system configured to generate output memory data from the memory based upon the generated weighting associated with the plurality of memory locations and the data stored at the plurality of memory locations; and a memory write system configured to write received write data to the memory based upon the generated weighting associated with the plurality of memory locations.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a film formed with an organometallic precursor and an organic co-reactant, as well as methods for forming and employing such films. In particular embodiments, the films can be incubated after exposure to radiation, which can provide enhanced material differences between the exposed and unexposed regions. In non-limiting embodiments, the radiation can include extreme ultraviolet (EUV) or deep ultraviolet (DUV) radiation.

Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a furrow opener and a furrow closing system and a controller that performs closed loop control of the furrow closing system.

Abstract: A method of generating video frames for a cloud-based video game includes obtaining, via a communications network, a plurality of frames of a video game rendered at a cloud device; obtaining a player input received at an input device, the input device being used to play the video game, the player input being received in response to the display of at least one of the obtained video frames; inputting at least one of the obtained video frames and the player input to a prediction model; and synthesizing, based on the output of the prediction model, a subsequent frame for output at a display, and outputting the synthesized video frame at the display.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for managing personal data on a client computer, in which personal data associated with the client computer is identified by a policy management module. An analysis may be performed for the client computer by a server using fake personal data. To identify applications which may attempt to access the personal data, the fake personal data is tracked for access on the client computer. A policy is then created that disallows access of the personal data by any applications identified by the analysis of the client computer as accessing the fake personal data. The policy is then assigned to the client computer.

Abstract: A speed control system for sorters (e.g. sliding shoe sorters) comprises a sensor for measuring a sorter current speed of a sorter and a speed controller for setting peripheral conveyor commanded speeds for peripheral conveyors in communication with the sorter. During acceleration or deceleration of the sorter (e.g., in response to start or stop events of the sorter, or from one operating speed to another operating speed), the speed controller sets the peripheral conveyor commanded speeds to match or track the sorter current speed in order to ramp up or ramp down speeds of the peripheral conveyors with that of the sorter, which accelerates or decelerates more slowly than the peripheral conveyors. The speed controller may control the speed of different types of peripheral conveyors (e.g., upstream, intermediate, downstream) in various ways based on the type of the peripheral conveyors and/or based on user-configurable exception settings.

Abstract: Devices and methods for handles of delivery apparatuses for prosthetic medical devices are disclosed. As one example, a handle for a delivery apparatus can include a housing having an outer wall and at least one window coupled to the outer wall of the housing. The at least one window can define at least one viewing region through the outer wall. The handle can further include at least one indicator positioned within the housing adjacent to the window. The at least one indicator can include a background member and a slider, wherein the slider is configured to slide relative to the background member.

Abstract: Dry development of resists can be useful, for example, to form a patterning mask in the context of high-resolution patterning. Dry development may be advantageously accomplished by a method of processing a semiconductor substrate including providing in a process chamber a photopatterned resist on a substrate layer on a semiconductor substrate, and dry developing the photopatterned resist by removing either an exposed portion or an unexposed portion of the resist by a dry development process comprising exposure to a chemical compound to form a resist mask. The resist may be an EUV-sensitive organo-metal oxide or organo-metal-containing thin film EUV resist.

Abstract: A system for implementing a trial a field is provided. In an embodiment, the system is configured to generate a trial recommendation for a field and, based on field data for the field, compute a yield probabilities for the field. The system is also configured to generate a plurality of outcome-based values for the field based on the yield probabilities, compute crop values for each of the outcome-based values and a bushel per acre value, and cause display of an interface that dynamically displays each of the plurality of outcome-based values for the field based on a selected bushel per acre value. The system is further configured to receive user input changing a position of an interactive sliding widget in the interface, to change the bushel per acre value, and in response, compute a crop value for each of the outcome-based values based on the changed bushel per acre value.

Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a voltage regulator are described. An apparatus may receive a feedback signal from a power stage. The feedback signal may be one of a sensed signal measured from an output of the power stage and a calibration signal representing a fixed voltage. The apparatus may convert the feedback signal into a correction signal. The apparatus may further adjust a synthetic current using the correction signal, the synthetic current being associated with the power stage.

Abstract: A hydrogen system for generating power may include a fuel cell stack selectively coupled to a hydrogen fuel source. A control may be configured to cause the fuel cell stack to operate in a first mode in response to a first predetermined temperature threshold being met such that the fuel cell stack may generate electricity when below a target operating temperature. The control may be configured to cause the fuel cell stack to operate in a second mode in response to a second predetermined temperature threshold being met subsequent to the first predetermined temperature threshold being met. A method of operating a fuel cell stack is also disclosed.

Abstract: A building-construction panel includes a tongue on one edge and a groove on an opposite edge that receives the tongue of an adjacent panel. A shoulder on the tongue-side edge defines an abutted surface that is contacted by an abutting surface on the groove-side edge to limit panel travel during installation and maintain a gap between upper edge portions of the adjacent panels. A bottom transition is formed on the groove-side edge so that the groove-side abutting surface is smaller than the tongue-side shoulder abutted surface. In this way, the relatively smaller groove-side abutting surface structurally maintains the gap but also minimizes frictional interpanel contact area to minimize squeaking. And the relatively larger tongue-side shoulder abutted surface helps keep the shoulder from being collapsed into the groove from overdriving the panels together during installation. In typical embodiments, the panel is a high-performance structural wood subflooring panel.