Abstract: In one aspect, coatings are described herein employing composite architectures providing high aluminum content and high hardness for various cutting applications. For example, a coated cutting tool comprises a substrate and a coating comprising a refractory layer deposited by physical vapor deposition adhered to the substrate, the refractory layer comprising a plurality of sublayer groups, a sublayer group comprising a titanium aluminum nitride sublayer and an adjacent composite sublayer comprising alternating nanolayers of titanium silicon nitride and titanium aluminum nitride.

Abstract: The present technology improves synchronization of a slave node with a master node in a network using PTP packets in which the slave node is coupled to the working master node through at least one boundary node. The technology establishes a synchronization communication session between the boundary node and the slave node in which the synchronization communication session is configured to measure a first timing delay from the boundary node to the slave node, and establishes a transparent communication session between the master node and the slave node through the boundary timing node in which the transparent communication session configured to measure a second timing delay from the master node to the slave node. Using the sessions, the technology adjusts a timing delay correction factor according to the first timing delay and the second timing delay, and synchronizes the slave node with the master node according to the correction factor.

Abstract: Photoactive compounds are disclosed. The disclosed compounds can include a structural motif of A-D-A, A-pi-D-A, or A-pi-D-pi-A, with A being an electron acceptor moiety, pi being a ?-bridging moiety, and D being an electron donor moiety comprising a fused heteroaromatic group. The disclosed photoactive compounds can be used in organic photovoltaic devices, such as visibly transparent or opaque photovoltaic devices.

Abstract: Photoactive compounds are disclosed. The disclosed photoactive compounds include metal complexes with dipyrromethene-based ligands, which can be substituted with a variety of different side chains or groups or can include various fused ring configurations, such as including aromatic or heteroaromatic groups. The metal complexes may include two dipyrromethene-based ligands, which can be the same or different. The photoactive compounds can be used as photoactive materials in organic photovoltaic devices, such as visibly transparent or opaque photovoltaic devices.

Abstract: A composite for use in a flexible pipe body, said composite comprising: a first polymer layer, a second polymer layer that is bonded to the first polymer layer, and filler particles that extend from the first polymer layer into the second polymer layer, whereby the particles are partially embedded in both the first and second polymer layers.

Abstract: Photoactive compounds are disclosed. The disclosed compounds can exhibit molecular structural elements tending to increase the evaporability of the compounds, such as by including geometric core disruption by use of conformationally restricted side groups instead of freely rotatable side groups or use of indandione moieties instead of dicyanomethyleneindanone moieties. The disclosed photoactive compounds include those with an imine-bridging linking moiety, which can shift the optical properties to a more red-shifted absorbance as compared to compounds with an alkene-bridging linking moiety. The disclosed photoactive compounds can be used in organic photovoltaic devices, such as visibly transparent or opaque photovoltaic devices.

Abstract: Photoactive compounds are disclosed. The disclosed compounds can exhibit molecular structural elements tending to increase the evaporability of the compounds, such as by including geometric core disruption by use of conformationally restricted side groups instead of freely rotatable side groups or use of indandione moieties instead of dicyanomethyleneindanone moieties. The disclosed photoactive compounds include those with an imine-bridging linking moiety, which can shift the optical properties to a more red-shifted absorbance as compared to compounds with an alkene-bridging linking moiety. The disclosed photoactive compounds can be used in organic photovoltaic devices, such as visibly transparent or opaque photovoltaic devices.

Abstract: Photoactive compounds are disclosed. The disclosed compounds can exhibit molecular structural elements tending to increase the evaporability of the compounds, such as by including geometric core disruption by use of conformationally restricted side groups instead of freely rotatable side groups or use of indandione moieties instead of dicyanomethyleneindanone moieties. The disclosed photoactive compounds include those with an imine-bridging linking moiety, which can shift the optical properties to a more red-shifted absorbance as compared to compounds with an alkene-bridging linking moiety. The disclosed photoactive compounds can be used in organic photovoltaic devices, such as visibly transparent or opaque photovoltaic devices.

Abstract: An intelligent data ingestion and governance method and system is disclosed. A set of data requirements is received from a user. The set of data requirements includes multiple different formats and corresponding location information indicating a plurality of corresponding different data sources. One or more data policies are also received from the user as part of the set of data requirements. A configuration file is automatically generated using the set of data requirements. A new dataset is retrieved from the plurality of corresponding different sources of data, using the generated configuration file. The retrieved dataset is classified, and metadata for the retrieved dataset is provided. Actionable policies are automatically generated using the metadata and the user defined data policies, and a compliance engine is generated. Security of access to the retrieved input data is controlled using the generated compliance engine.

Abstract: A cloud computing architecture for managing data privacy includes multiple cloud cores for the segregation of data sets. The data sets may be segregated by, for example, client or line of business. Identified and de-identified data is segregated and provided different access authorizations through a corresponding compute cluster. Each core may be managed through a separate cloud account. Cores corresponding to data collected in different regions are physically hosted in the corresponding regions, such that the architecture cloud cores are at known physical locations rather than anonymously hosted. Likewise, applications specific to a region and used for processing of data in that region are physically hosted in that region in conjunction with the corresponding data.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for transmitting a light such that is incident on a semiconductor device, detecting a first reflected light from a first layer of the semiconductor device and a second reflected light from a second layer of the semiconductor device, identifying a defect in the first layer based on the first reflected light and the second reflected light, wherein the defect provides a shunt path between a top electrode to be deposited on the first layer and the second layer, and performing a defect reduction procedure on the semiconductor device to compensate for the defect in response to identifying the defect.

Abstract: A bone preparation system kit includes a hand piece, tubing coupled to an input of the hand piece, and a nozzle with a nozzle tip coupled to an output port of the hand piece. The hand piece includes an internal passageway extending there through from the inlet port to the outlet port for forming a flow path and further includes a valve stem supported therein for movement across the internal passageway for opening and closing the internal passageway wherein flow along the flow path is blocked by the valve stem. The hand piece also includes a trigger configured to move the valve stem to thereby control the flow of fluid through the hand piece. The hand piece, nozzle, and tubing are sterilized and enclosed in a package, such as plastic or metal foil package, including a plastic or metal foil pouch, which is configured to maintain the sterilization of said bone preparation system.

Abstract: This invention is in the field of medicinal chemistry. In particular, provided herein are compositions and methods for preventing or reversing T cell exhaustion. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to methods of preventing or reversing T cell exhaustion by exposing T cells experiencing T cell exhaustion to a new class of small-molecules having a thiazole, imidazolepyridiazine or piperazinyl-methyl-aniline structure, or by expanding genetically engineered T cells in the presence of such small molecules.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for transmitting a light such that it is incident on a multi-layer stack, wherein the multi-layer stack includes the feature and a region without the feature, detecting a narrow-band light from the feature and the region without the feature, wherein the feature has a first optical response in response to a wavelength of the narrow-band light and the region without the feature has a second optical response in response to the wavelength of the narrow-band light, and generating, based on the narrow-band light, an image indicative of where the first optical response and the second optical response occur on the multi-layer stack.

Abstract: Methoxychalone derivatives with anti-cancer activity are provided.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining a plurality of conversational logs; generating a human agent emulator and a user emulator; providing a workspace for a conversational agent, so that an agent designer generates a conversational specification for the conversational agent, wherein the generating a conversational specification comprises: receiving a selection, by the agent designer, of at least one intent for the conversational agent, wherein the receiving a selection is responsive to the conversational agent workspace providing suggestions for intents; providing at least one suggestion for a dialog node that corresponds to the selected at least one intent; and generating a dialog flow for the conversational agent, wherein the generating comprises iteratively receiving, from the agent designer, selection of at least one aspect and receiving at least one selection of the at least one suggestion for dialog nodes; and providing the conversational agent.

Abstract: In one aspect neural networks are described herein. A neural network, in some embodiments, comprises a plurality of neurons, wherein the neurons are positioned according to at least one of learning functionality and weight. Moreover, the learning functionality can include rating of feature importance for a problem analyzed by the network.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an integrated circuit includes identifying an edge device of a plurality of devices, the plurality of devices being part of a first layout including gate structures and diffusion regions, modifying the first layout resulting in a second layout, and fabricating the integrated circuit based on the second layout. Modifying the first layout resulting in the second layout includes adding a dummy device next to the edge device, the dummy device and the edge device having a shared diffusion region, adding a dummy gate structure next to the dummy device, extending the shared diffusion region to at least the dummy device, and performing a design rule check on the second layout. The performing the design rule check considers a gate structure of the dummy device as one of two dummy gate structures next to the edge device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes: a base; an alignment inducing layer on the base and including a first compound represented by formula A1 or a polymer of the first compound; and a liquid crystal layer on the alignment inducing layer that includes liquid crystals: where R1 may be hydrogen or a polymerizable group, R2 may be a hydrophilic group, SP1 and SP2 may each independently be a single bond, a C1-C12 alkylene group, or a C1-C12 alkoxylene group, Z may be a single bond, an ester group, or an ether group, and X1, X2 and X3 may each independently be hydrogen, a methyl group, fluorine, or chlorine.

Abstract: A sternotomy closure technique is suitably carried out with a cerclage mechanism, which is capable of maintaining proper bony compression (within a desired range) across the sternum cut, in spite of a range of external forces and significant lateral distraction due to these external forces. The sternum fragments are aligned in apposition disposed around a longitudinal seam and secured with a resilient element. The resilient element is tensioned to a desired tension to compress the sternum to a desired compression range. The resilient element is then elongated and contracted while accepting multiple cycles of physiological distracting forces across the sternum while maintaining contact pressure across the longitudinal seam within a desired range for a length of time sufficient for bony healing. The resilient element is preferably a polymer cable comprising an elongated elastic polymeric core coaxially surrounded by a sheath woven from ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene strands.