Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for determining water level and assessing water consumption at a borewell. The device includes: a tapping mechanism coupled to a top metal cover of the borewell, configured to generate a first sound wave; a sound detector coupled to the top metal cover of the borewell, configured to detect a second sound wave associated with reflection of the first sound wave with a water level and generate a first data packet thereof; and a computing device configured to: enable, from received the first data packet, determination of water level at the borewell. The device also includes: a flow sensor coupled with an outlet pipe of the borewell, the flow sensor configured to generate a second data packet pertaining to flow of water in the outlet pipe. The computing device is configured to, upon receipt of the second data packet, enable determination of water consumption at the borewell.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for extracting text from a document. Different optical character recognition (OCR) tools are used to extract different versions of the text in the document. Metrics evaluating the quality of the extracted text are compared to identify and select higher quality extracted text. A selected portion of text is compared to a threshold to ensure minimal quality. The selected portion of text is then saved. Error correction can be applied to the selected portion of text based on errors specific to the OCR tools or the document contents.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for signaling and scheduling to enable network configured small gaps in intra-band inter-frequency measurement. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a serving cell operating on a first frequency, an indication that synchronization signal block (SSB) indexes of a target cell operating on a second frequency can be derived from timing of the serving cell; and deriving an SSB index of the target cell, based on the timing of the serving cell.

Abstract: Dysfunctional or exhausted T cells arise in chronic diseases including chronic viral infections and cancer, and express high levels of co-inhibitory receptors. Therapeutic blockade of these receptors has clinical efficacy in the treatment of cancer. While co-inhibitory receptors are co-expressed, the triggers that induce them and the transcriptional regulators that drive their co-expression have not been identified. The immunoregulatory cytokine IL-27 induces a gene module in T cells that includes several known co-inhibitory receptors (Tim-3, Lag-3, and TIGIT). The present invention provides a novel immunoregulatory network as well as novel cell surface molecules that have an inhibitory function in the tumor microenvironment. The present invention further provides the novel discovery that the transcription factors Prdm1 and c-Maf cooperatively regulate the expression of the co-inhibitory receptor module.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for confidence mapping of shear wave measurements are disclosed. Confidence maps of shear wave image measurements may be generated from one or more confidence factors. Masking of graphical overlays of tissue stiffness values, based at least in part on the confidence map is disclosed. The confidence map and/or masked graphical overlays of tissue stiffness values may be superimposed on ultrasound images and provided on a display.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for security content delivery based on tagged personas are described herein. User data may be obtained for a user of a network file system. Attributes may be extracted from the user data to establish a user persona. Event data may be obtained for a security event experienced by the network file system. The security event may be associated with the user. A set of available remediation content items may be identified using the event data. A content item may be selected from the set of remediation content items using the user persona. A transmission medium may be determined for transmission of the content item to the user using the user persona. The content item may be transmitted to the user via the transmission medium.

Abstract: A mechanical polyolefin recycling process. comprising a particular combination of processing steps in a given order, providing access to highly pure recycled polyolefin grades.

Abstract: A susceptor includes a plurality of substrate support subsections. The susceptor further includes a vertical-movement component associated with a first substrate support subsection of the plurality of substrate support subsections. The vertical-movement component is configured to vertically move at least a portion of the first substrate support subsection.

Abstract: A present disclosure provides an exemplary system that includes at least: a distributed blockchain environment, including: a plurality of externally owned presence (EOP) member nodes associated with a plurality of distinct entities, a cryptographically-secured distributed ledger; a plurality of electronic wallets (e-Wallets), configured to hold records of distributed leger collateral (DLC) tokens; a plurality of self-contained self-executing software containers (SESCs), including: first-type SESCs, second-type SESCs, and third-type SESCs; where the DLC tokens are used by the distributed blockchain environment; where the first-type SESCs, the second-type SESCs, and the third-type SESCs are distinct SESCs; where each DLC token include at least one unique entity-identifying cryptographic hash; where, for each respective transaction associated with a respective EOP member node, a respective computer invokes the first-type SESCs and the third-type SESCs to cryptographically administer each respective transaction w

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for enabling distributed path computation and centralized path enforcement in a computer network used to implement a software application. In some cases, the disclosed techniques include using a central controller that initializes and coordinates monitoring agents deployed to network regions. The monitoring agents may collect monitoring data associated with application segments in their respective regions and share this data with each other. Using the aggregated data, the agents can compute optimal paths between application segment pairs spanning multiple regions. The optimal inter-region paths may be sent to the controller, which can program the paths into the routing application programming interfaces (APIs) of the various network environments like public cloud and on-premises networks.

Abstract: A refrigeration system to provide cooling during refrigerant leak is disclosed. The system detects a refrigerant leak by detecting that a refrigerant concentration is more than a threshold concentration on at least two occasions. The system executes a mitigation plan until the concentration of refrigerant is less than the threshold concentration. The system determines if it is operated in a safe mode, where in the safe mode, a blower of the system is set to operate continuously. When the system is in the safe mode, the system determines a number of times where the concentration of refrigerant exceeded the threshold concentration. In response to determining that the number of times where the concentration of refrigerant exceeded the threshold concentration is more than the threshold value, the system operate the HVAC system in the safe mode and communicate a first alert message.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to selection of miners/validators in a decentralized cryptographic network. In some embodiments, a request to add a transaction to a blockchain includes a cryptographic signature associated with provision of a second transfer fee, in addition to a first transfer fee, to miners/validators who meet a set of one or more criteria. Disclosed techniques may advantageously allow steering of blockchain requests to a desired subset of miners/validators.

Abstract: An ophthalmic knife for treatment of various conditions including eye diseases, such as glaucoma, using minimally invasive surgical techniques is provided. The ophthalmic knife includes a shaft, a first platform connected to an end of the shaft and extending at an angle from a longitudinal axis of the shaft and a second platform connected to the shaft adjacent to the first platform. The first platform includes a first top surface extending from a first tip and a first bottom surface opposing the first top surface, and the second platform includes a second top surface extending from a second tip, and a second bottom surface opposing the second top surface. The first platform severs trabecular meshwork in a human eye as the trabecular meshwork advances over the first top surface of the first platform and the second bottom surface of the second platform engages but does not sever the trabecular meshwork.

Abstract: A smart load control system includes: a neutral forming auto-transformer (NFT) structured to form a neutral line; a plurality of smart circuit breakers (SCBs) including an islanding and grid-connecting device (IGD) coupled to the electric grid and an EV SCB coupled to the bidirectional EV charger, the IGD structured to sense grid voltage and switch ON and OFF the electric grid, the EV smart circuit breaker structured to sense EV voltage and switch ON and OFF the bidirectional EV charger; and a building energy system manager communicatively coupled to the plurality of SCBs and structured to collect data from each SCB, the data including at least the grid voltage and the EV voltage, select one of grid-connected mode or islanded mode based on the grid voltage and the EV voltage, perform a safe transition to the selected mode, and monitor the grid voltage and the EV voltage.

Abstract: A refrigeration system to leverage subcool, superheat, and saturation suction temperature values to detect loss of charge due to refrigerant leak is disclosed. The system detects a refrigerant leak by detecting that a refrigerant concentration is more than a threshold concentration. In response, the system accesses subcool, superheat, and saturation suction temperature values associated with the compressor circuits. The system determines that the subcool value is less than a subcool threshold and whether the superheat value is more than a superheat threshold. In response, the system may determine that the compressor circuit associated with the subcool and superheat values is associated with the loss of charge. In response, the system isolates the compressor circuit from other components of the system and operates a blower. The system may continue cooling operation using non-leaking compressors.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for generating a plurality of training embeddings based on a pre-training dataset, wherein the plurality of training embeddings comprises one or more of descriptive embeddings, sequential ordering embeddings, age/time embeddings, locale embeddings, or encounter number embeddings; generating one or more initialized weights associated with respective one or more layers of a machine learning model based on the plurality of training embeddings; generating one or more fine-tuned weights for the machine learning model by updating at least a portion of the one or more initialized weights using a fine-tuning dataset associated with a target classification; and generating, using the machine learning model, one or more prediction scores for one or more prediction encounter data elements associated with the target classification, based on one or more input temporal sequence of encount

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to authentication. A computing platform may send, to a wearable device, an internet of things (IoT) vector key. The computing platform may receive an application access request from the wearable device, which may include authentication credentials. The computing platform may send, to the wearable device, a reference key comprising a sequence of row-column combinations corresponding to the IoT vector key, and the wearable device may be configured to identify a hash salt value using the reference key and the IoT. The computing platform may receive, from the wearable device, the hash salt value. The computing platform may generate, based on the hash salt value and the authentication credentials, a password. The computing platform may hash the password to produce a password hash, and may send the password hash to an application server for validation.

Abstract: A method includes executing an initial instance of a change log process for a distributed system, each instance of the change log process configured to store a transaction history of transactions executed on the distributed system. The method also includes receiving transaction requests for executing corresponding transactions on the distributed system and determining a change log load based on the received transaction requests. The method includes executing at least one subsequent instance of the change log process when the change log load satisfied a threshold load. When multiple instances of the change log process are executing, the method includes ceasing execution of the at least one subsequent instance of the change log process and merging the transaction history of the initial instance of the change log process and the transaction history of the at least one subsequent instance of the change log process.

Abstract: A multiphase fluid is flowed from a flow pipe to a U-bend. Several differential pressures of the multiphase fluid flowing through the flow pipe and U-bend are measured. A mixture density of the multiphase fluid is determined at least based on the measured differential pressures.

Abstract: A system and method for tasks assistance using a learning module comprising a knowledge graph and associated graph neural network is disclosed. The system can represent data using a knowledge graph, and generate embeddings of the knowledge graph for detecting latent patterns in the data that may be obscured in a high dimensional representation of the data. The system can more readily detect fraud patterns and take appropriate fraud limiting actions.