Abstract: A computing device can be reconfigurable to include one or more electrical devices in various configurations. The computing device can include a base forming an input surface configured to receive user input. The base can receive one or more input devices, such as, displays or keyboards. The base can include a hinge rotatably attached to the base and configured to removably retain an electronic device, such as, a display. The computing device can include a coupling mechanism having a first retaining portion and a second retaining portion rotatably coupled to an intermediate portion. The first and second retaining portions can be configured to removably retain electrical devices to the coupling mechanism.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a structure with a substrate, a damping structure, and a capacitor structure. The damping structure is disposed over the substrate and includes a rigid material layer and a damping material layer disposed on the rigid material layer. The damping material layer includes a damping material with a tensile strength of about 20 MPa, a Young's modulus of about 0.5 GPa, and an elongation of about 10%. The capacitor structure is disposed over the damping structure, in which the damping structure mitigates (or eliminates) a transfer of piezoelectric and electrostrictive vibrations generated by the capacitor structure to the substrate.

Abstract: Systems and methods take into account the criticality of workloads, the warranty needs of workloads, the warranty available time, and the lifetime of a workload to provide an optimal solution that ensures servers are used to highest extent. The warranty health of servers is computed and categorized as critical, warning, or healthy based on the number of days remaining in warranty. Workloads are tagged as short-term or long-term workloads. Workloads are also classified based on criticality. The quarantine mode for proactive high availability of servers is divided into multiple modes, including a long-time, critical-workload quarantine mode, a critical-workload quarantine mode, and a standard quarantine mode. Servers that are in quarantine mode are assigned new workloads based upon the warranty health, workload term, and workload criticality.

Abstract: Methods for identifying compounds that positively regulate connexin 43 hemichannels.

Abstract: A method for assessing lesion formation based on monitored electrograms by receiving intracardiac electrograms from one or more electrodes located at a distal end of a catheter positioned within a patient and detecting an activation timepoint and selecting a roving activation interval (RAI) based on the detected activation timepoint. A continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is applied to one or more of the received intracardiac electrograms within each RAI to generate a power spectrum response, a phase spectrum response, or both a power spectrum and a phase spectrum response. Per-RAI metrics are calculated based on the power spectrum response, phase spectrum response, or both the power spectrum response and the phase spectrum response. A per-lesion metric is calculated based on the one or more per-RAI metrics and a lesion assessment marker is displayed based on the calculated per-lesion metric, wherein the lesion assessment marker provides an indication of lesion formation.

Abstract: Methods and systems providing laser outputs are disclosed. A first laser input from a first pump laser source has a first average power, and a second laser input from a second pump laser source has a second average power. A first laser output is generated based on conversion of the first laser input and the second laser input at the first state. After generating the first laser output, the second laser input is provided at a second state with the second average power remaining unchanged. After generating the first laser output, a second laser output is generated based on conversion of the first laser input and the second laser input at the second state. Combined powers of the first laser input and the second laser input remain the same when generating the first and second laser outputs, but powers of the first and second laser outputs are different.

Abstract: A system may include an electronic device and one or more finger devices. The electronic device may have a display and the user may provide finger input to the finger device to control the display. The finger input may include pinching, tapping, rotating, swiping, pressing, and/or other finger gestures that are detected using sensors in the finger device. The sensor data related to finger movement may be combined with user gaze information to control items on the display. The user may turn any surface or region of space into an input region by first defining boundaries of the input region using the finger device. Other finger gestures such as pinching and pulling, pinching and rotating, swiping, and tapping may be used to navigate a menu on a display, to scroll through a document, to manipulate computer-aided designs, and to provide other input to a display.

Abstract: Gas sensors having laser-induced graphene (LIG) and/or LIG composites, and methods of making and using gas sensors having LIG and/or LIG composites.

Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing a terrain are disclosed. Two vehicles, each with a mast consisting of a shaft and an auger are provided. The auger attaches to the surface to stabilize the mast. The shaft is attached to a set of cables that run between the two vehicles. Support poles traverse the cables and stabilize the cables. A utilization device travels the cables and utilizes the terrain.

Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a head-mounted display (HMD) and a retention band connected to the HMD. The retention band can include a display assembly positioned within the retention band for displaying visual information on an exterior of the retention band.

Abstract: A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld input device for controlling the electronic device. A lanyard may be removably attached to the handheld input device or a non-electronic object. The lanyard may include visual markers, such as infrared light-emitting diodes and/or fiducials, that can be detected by an external camera and used to track a location of the lanyard. For example, the lanyard may be fabric, and the visual markers may be incorporated into the fabric or attached to the fabric. The lanyard may also include motion sensors, visual-inertial odometry cameras, or other sensors to determine the location of the lanyard. The lanyard may be electrically coupled to the handheld input device, such as to transfer power and/or data. Alternatively, the lanyard may be coupled to a non-electronic object and may include a battery and/or a haptic output component.

Abstract: One example includes a superconducting circuit system. The system includes at least one bias input configured to provide a bias current to a superconducting device via at least one superconducting device bias line coupled to the superconducting device during operation of the superconducting device. The system further includes a thermal transition filter system interconnecting the superconducting device bias line and the bias input. The thermal transition filter system provides a current path to divert noise current provided from the bias input away from the superconducting device during a temperature transition from a first temperature to a second temperature. The first temperature is greater than a highest superconducting critical temperature associated with the superconducting circuit system and the second temperature is less than a lowest superconducting critical temperature for the superconducting circuit system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, useful in the treatment of treating viral infections, for example, coronaviridae infections.

Abstract: A solid-state cooler device is disclosed that includes a first portion having a normal metal heat sink layer and a plurality of first parallel ridges disposed over the normal metal heat sink layer, and a second portion having a normal metal layer, insulator layer, superconductor layer (NIS) junction and a plurality of second parallel ridges disposed over the superconductor layer of the NIS junction. The plurality of first parallel ridges are in contact and orthogonal to the plurality of second parallel ridges to provide a plurality of grid point contacts.

Abstract: A cartridge including a housing, a processor positioned within the housing to provide video output to a display unit of a head-mounted display (HMD), and an attachment interface configured to removably attach the cartridge to the display unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods to determine a homeostatic steady-state of a biological entity. Also disclosed are methods to quantify an exchange rate between at least two compartments in a biological system, to use Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to characterize physiological water transport, and methods for non-invasively measuring transmembrane exchange rates of endogenous water in a biological system under steady-state or non-steady-state conditions in near-real time.

Abstract: Characterization of drug-drug interaction properties and pharmacological properties of maribavir is useful to inform potential drug-drug interactions and dosing strategies when administering with co-medications.

Abstract: A physical lung model (PLM) for training and teaching comprising a lung compartment which is delimited by an enlargeable and reducible piston for enlarging and reducing the volume of the lung compartment, a lid sealing a first end of the piston, a support body carrying the piston in that a second end of the piston is sealingly attached to the support body; and an airway leading from the lung compartment to an airway opening. A mechanical stop is attached to the piston and partitions the piston into a first enlargeable and reducible section and a second enlargeable and reducible section, the mechanical stop describing a path of movement during the enlargement of the lung compartment. A lever, is installed for blocking the movement of the stop at a predefined point on the path of movement during enlargement of the lung compartment and restricting the enlargement of the lung compartment.

Abstract: A system for eradicating pathogens is disclosed. A lamp is provided that emits a far-ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light generates an irradiation zone. A biometric sensor determines whether an individual is present in the irradiation zone. The biometric sensor signals a processor to determine whether the individual has been exposed to a threshold limit of far-UVC light. The processor determines whether the time an individual has been in the irradiation zone exceeds a threshold limit. If the individual has been in the irradiation zone a period of time exceeds the threshold, the lamp is deactivated. A pathogen detection sensor provides user feedback of the existence pathogens and signals the processor to terminate irradiation or provide user feedback to terminate irradiation. The system and method are included in a passenger compartment of a vehicle to eradicate pathogens on surfaces and aerosol. Threshold limits allow eradication while the vehicle is occupied.

Abstract: An example of an apparatus for percutaneously delivering neurostimulation energy to a patient and sensing from the patient using a test device placed externally to the patient is provided. The apparatus may include a stimulation lead, a sensing reference electrode, a sensing wire, and a connection system. The stimulation lead may be configured to be percutaneously introduced into the patient to place the one or more electrodes in the patient. The sensing reference electrode may be configured to be placed in the patient. The sensing wire may be connected to the sensing reference electrode and configured to be percutaneously introduced into the patient to place the sensing reference electrode in the patient. The connection system may be configured to mate the lead connector and the wire connector and to provide electrical connections between the lead connector and the test device and between the wire connector and the test device.