Abstract: A power supply control apparatus includes: a first system configured to supply electric power of a first power supply to a first load; a second system configured to supply electric power of a second power supply to a second load; an inter-system switch provided in a connection path that connects the first system to the second system, and capable of connecting the first system to the second system and disconnecting the first system from the second system; a primary ground fault detection unit configured to cut off the inter-system switch when a ground fault of the first system or the second system is detected by the primary ground fault detection unit; a secondary ground fault detection unit as defined herein; and a mask processing unit as defined herein.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there are provided a screening culture medium that enables a convenient and quick examination for the presence of Candida auris, and a screening method. According to at least one embodiment, the screening culture medium contains an enzyme substrate, in which the screening culture medium is used for screening Candida auris based on an ability to degrade the enzyme substrate, the enzyme substrate including raffinose and xylose. According to another embodiment, the screening method uses the screening culture medium.

Abstract: An artificial eye assembly (100) comprising: ?an anterior layer (50) comprising an anterior cavity (52); ?a flow con-stricting (40) layer comprising a first aperture (42), and wherein the first aperture (42) is in fluid communication with the anterior cavity (52); ?a shaping layer (30) comprising a second aperture and a shaping structure (32), wherein the shaping structure (32) is located within, partially within, or outside of the second aperture, and wherein the shaping structure comprises (32) one or more webs (33), the webs (33) connecting the structure (32) to the rest of the shaping layer (30), and wherein the second aperture is in fluid communication with the first aperture (42); ?a flow resistive layer (20) comprising pores, and wherein pores of the layer are in fluid communication with the second aperture; ?a posterior layer (10) comprising a posterior cavity (12), and wherein the posterior cavity (12) is in fluid communication with pores of the flow resistive layer (20); ?a fluid inlet (13) located

Abstract: An example computer-implemented method of controlling access to a storage system includes using, in response to a request to access a resource of the storage system during a transitional state associated with a transition of the storage system to use a security protocol to control access to the storage system, a guest role to control access to the resource of the storage system when the request does not include a token identifier

Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical device including a porous separator substrate including a polymer material, and a porous coating layer coated on at least one surface of the porous separator substrate. The porous coating layer includes inorganic particles and a binder resin. The binder resin includes a mixture of polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) with an acrylic binder resin. The separator has improved wettability with an electrolyte by virtue of relatively high polarity of PVAc. In addition, it is possible to improve the peel force between the separator substrate and the porous coating layer by introducing PVAc and to reduce the thickness of the porous coating layer. Therefore, when introducing the separator to a battery, it is possible to improve the resistance characteristics, and to inhibit the porous coating layer from being spaced apart from the separator substrate or to inhibit the inorganic particles from being detached from the porous coating layer.

Abstract: Provided are a message processing method and apparatus, device, and a storage medium. The method includes that: a plurality of messages generated by a Data Analyzing System (DAS) are acquired through at least one message queue, the DAS being used for analyzing scene data; the plurality of messages are filtered based on a preset configuration file to obtain at least one filtered message, the configuration file being used for filtering out a message, which does not need to be forwarded to a management system, in the plurality of messages based on at least one attribute dimension of the message and an interception parameter corresponding to each attribute dimension; a target channel corresponding to each filtered message is determined in at least two connecting channels; and each filtered message is forwarded to the management system through the target channel corresponding to each message.

Abstract: The model generation system may generate texture maps for a texture based on a material image. A material image is an image of a physical material that describes the color (e.g., red-green-blue (RGB) color system model) of the physical material. The model generation system may identify a material class for the physical material depicted in the material image by applying a machine-learning model to the material image. The model generation system may then identify a texture map model that generates texture maps for the physical material based on the material image. The texture map model is a machine-learning model that is trained to generate texture maps for material images of a particular material class. The texture maps generated by the texture map model may include texture maps of standard texture values, such as metalness and roughness.

Abstract: Systems and methods herein provide for predicting a player's performance in a particular sport. For example, in fantasy football, users may form teams by selecting players based on player statistics. The embodiments herein may employ machine learning by training and machine learning module with various statistics of individual players (e.g., according to position) so as to predict the performance of individual players.

Abstract: A cell-culture bioreactor operative to provide real-time reactor management in the fields of stir control, sparge control, and heat management responsively to wireless sensor feedback to optimize operating conditions to maximize cell-culture yield; and a bioreactor comprising: a vessel, having an open top; a headplate, configured to seal the vessel's open top; and a stirring device, comprising at least two independent stirring elements; wherein each of the stirring elements is configured to independently stir media accommodated within the vessel.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device including forming a first electrode layer on a front surface of a wafer, implanting, into an outer peripheral region of the front surface of the wafer, a heavy ion of an element in third and subsequent rows of a periodic table, forming an oxide film in the outer peripheral region into which the heavy ion has been implanted, and forming a second electrode layer on the first electrode layer by plating. A dose of the heavy ion may be 1E15 cm?2 or more. A depth of an implantation range of the heavy ion into the wafer may be 0.02 ?m or more. The heavy ion may be an As ion, a P ion, or an Ar ion.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video picture coding method, a video picture decoding method, a coding device, and a decoding device. The method includes: determining a distance between control points for an affine picture block; determining a motion vector difference for the affine picture block, motion vectors of the control points being used to determine the motion vector difference; and performing coding processing on the affine picture block over a size that includes a horizontal length and a vertical length, wherein the horizontal length and the vertical length vary based on the distance between the control points, the motion vector difference, and a motion vector precision.

Abstract: A system and method for identifying unauthorized uploaded content that has been uploaded before a validated live reference stream has been ingested is disclosed herein. The live reference stream is compared against the indexed uploaded content repeatedly as the live reference stream is received. The matching process is done once per a time period until a match meeting a minimum match duration threshold is identified. The match is then determined to be unauthorized, and a claim is issued against the unauthorized uploaded content. The time period can be based on a utility based analysis that factors the computational costs of repeated matching versus the diminishing value of the live reference stream as time progresses.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an electrode plate for a plasma processing apparatus for forming a plurality of gas holes having a straight portion exceeding 12 mm in length in a thickness direction of an electrode plate main body in a penetrating state and in parallel to each other, the method including: a prepared hole forming step of forming a prepared hole with a diameter of 50% or more and 80% or less of a diameter of a hole forming the straight portion with a first drill from one surface of the electrode plate main body; and a straight portion forming step of forming the straight portion to overlap the prepared hole with a second drill.

Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating with a server of a cloud services system used to interface with vehicles are provided. One method includes receiving, by the server, a request from electronics of a vehicle to access a profile for a user account. The request identifies user information for a user to use the vehicle. The method includes processing, by the server, at least part of the user information to verify the user against data associated with the user account. The profile has a plurality of settings of the user for the vehicle, and at least part of the plurality of settings for the profile being stored on storage accessible to the cloud services system. The method includes transferring, by the server, upon verification of the user information, one or more settings of the plurality of settings to the vehicle.

Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a ventilation and lighting system including a main housing having an inlet opening and a discharge opening, a blower and motor assembly disposed within a housing and operable to move air through the inlet and outlet, a grille configured to be located at the inlet opening, the grille having a cavity and a plate defining a plurality of apertures through which air may move, and one or more lighting elements arranged within the cavity and an optical component covering the cavity. The system is arranged such that light developed by the one or more lighting elements mixes within the cavity and transmits through the optical component covering the cavity, and the system further includes a controller that coordinates operation of the blower and motor assembly and the one or more lighting elements from a remote location.

Abstract: A method of detecting spins in a sample, includes exciting the spins of the sample by means of a radio-frequency or microwave electromagnetic pulse for flipping the spins, and detecting a noise signal produced by the return of the spins to equilibrium by means of a device for counting radio-frequency or microwave photons.

Abstract: This disclosure describes multilayer polymer films that are configured so that successive constituent layer packets may be delaminated in continuous sheet forms from the remaining film. This disclosure further describes compositions, materials, and methods for minimizing the likelihood of removing multiple layer packets together including by increasing the peel force between layer packets. In some embodiments, that the peel force becomes successively greater from the interface between the first layer packet and the second layer packet to the interface between the next to last ((n?1)th layer packet) and the last (nth layer packet).

Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a plurality of write signal lines to which a control signal for selecting a pixel row in which a data voltage is to be written is supplied; a WS signal gate driver that supplies the control signal; a plurality of data voltage lines for writing a data voltage; a data driver that supplies the data voltage; a selector circuit that switches a data voltage line to which the data voltage is supplied; a selector control line to which a control signal for controlling the selector circuit is supplied; and a controller that supplies the control signal. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel belonging to a same pixel row. The WS signal gate driver supplies the control signal in a first direction. The controller supplies the control signal in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a polycyclic compound of Formula 100: where Cy3 and Cy4 are the same as or different from each other, and are each independently one selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon ring, and a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hetero ring, or a ring in which two or more rings selected from the group are fused, and an organic light-emitting element comprising the same.

Abstract: An overlay network system includes multiple point-of-presence (POP) devices each including a path finding component and corresponding telemetry component, agent component, and routing daemon. The telemetry component generates latency measurements for the POP on which it is disposed. A centralized billboard service provides border gateway protocol (BGP) announcements and point-of-presence (POP) peering decisions to each of the agent components. On each of the POPs, the path finding component and corresponding telemetry component, agent component, and routing daemon cooperate to transform the BGP announcements, peering decisions, and latency measurements into routing tables and link selections for packet streams routed through the POPs.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device includes a first container and a second container, which includes a plurality of chambers, which are divided from each other, and is rotatably connected to the first container. The first container includes a cylinder having a space configured to store therein a liquid material, and a rotation limiter formed at the outer circumferential surface of the cylinder.

Abstract: Methods for modifying a catalyst system component are disclosed in which a feed mixture containing a fluid and from 1 to 15 wt. % of a catalyst system component is introduced into an inlet of a hydrocyclone, an overflow stream containing from 0.1 to 5 wt. % solids and an underflow stream containing from 10 to 40 wt. % solids are discharged from the hydrocyclone, and the underflow stream is spray dried to form a modified catalyst component. Often, from 4 to 20 wt. % of the catalyst system component in the feed mixture has a particle size of less than or equal to 20 ?m, or less than or equal to 10 ?m.

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for coding the picture order count in video bitstream processing. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream conforms to a format rule, wherein the format rule specifies that a derivation of a picture associated with a first flag and in a decoding process for a picture order count is based on a second flag, wherein the picture associated with the first flag is a previous picture in a decoding order that has (i) a first identifier that is the same as a slice or picture header referring to a reference picture list syntax structure, (ii) a second identifier and the second flag being equal to zero, and (iii) a picture type different from a random access skipped leading picture and a random access decodable leading picture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adjustment assembly for the adjustment of adjustable blades or vanes of a turbomachine, having an adjustment ring for coupling to the adjustable blades or vanes of a blade or vane ring and having an adjusting mechanism, which has a coupling rod for coupling to a further blade or vane ring as well as a lever and a push rod, wherein the lever is rotatably mounted at a pivot and has a load arm as well as a force arm, wherein the load arm of the lever is coupled to the push rod and its force arm is coupled to the coupling rod, on different sides of the lever, so that an offset of the coupling rod via the lever and the push rod is converted to a rotation of the adjustment ring around the ring axis thereof.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable automated sharing of confidential information according to tiers of security by receiving an electronic information request from an automated form production application of a computing device associated with a third-party entity. A request security tier associated with the electronic information request is determined according to a security tier of the user-related secure data. At least one authentication requirement associated with the request is determined according to authentication settings of the security tier. An authentication request is generated enabling the user to provide an authentication response to approve the computing device for access to the user-related secure data.

Abstract: An approach is disclosed that is performed by a pair of smart glasses worn by a user that includes an information handling system that includes a processor and a memory. The approach receives input cues at input components of the smart glasses. Input components include a digital camera that is included in the smart glasses and accessible by the processor, a microphone that is included in the smart glasses and accessible by the processor. The received cues are analyzed resulting in one or more output cues focused on assisting the user. These output cues are transmitted through one or more output components of the smart glasses. One of the output components is a display on the inside of a lens included in the smart glasses.

Abstract: A test system includes a test and measurement instrument having one or more inputs for receiving one or more signals to be measured or tested, a display for outputting measurement results or test results, one or more processors for operating the instrument, a chassis housing the instrument, a power connection to receive power for powering the one or more processors from a wall connection. The test system further includes an external battery pack separate from the test and measurement instrument and structured to mechanically and electrically couple to and decouple from the test and measurement instrument, the external battery pack including a DC power source for powering the one or more processors. The test and measurement instrument includes no batteries or other power storage device for powering the one or more processors within the chassis of the instrument.

Abstract: A female terminal is provided with a pair of connecting portions arranged to face each other across a male terminal insertion gap, a spring member held on the pair of connecting portions while sandwiching the pair of connecting portions and configured to bias the pair of connecting portions in mutually approaching directions along a facing direction, and a stopper protrusion projecting on at least one of the pair of connecting portions and configured to come into contact with the other of the pair of connecting portions to hold the male terminal insertion gap by restricting displacements of the pair of connecting portions in the approaching directions. Displacements in separating directions of the pair of connecting portions are allowed against a biasing force of the spring member, whereby a male terminal is press-fit into the male terminal insertion gap and disposed between the pair of connecting portions.

Abstract: A battery-centric virtual grid system may include battery modules, each including: one or more battery cells, one or more processors that obtain performance information from the one or more battery cells, the one or more processors configured to identify a respective device being powered by the respective modules from the plurality based on the respective performance information and to determine characteristics of the respective device being powered by the respective module from the plurality based on the performance information or configured to receive data from the respective device powered by the module from the plurality, the one or more transceivers configured to remotely receive and transmit data, thus the respective device becoming part of an IOT network via the respective module, and an enclosure at least partially enclosing the one or more battery cells, the one or more module processors, and the one or more transceivers.

Abstract: Described herein are an ultrasonic dental scaler and laser systems. The dental scaler system includes a handpiece and a control unit. The handpiece has a tip, and a water irrigator for providing water to the tip, the handpiece being constructed and arranged to vibrate the tip. In one embodiment the base unit has a dial to control the water flow from the water irrigator to the tip. Also disclosed is a dental laser system which can operate both in a wired and wireless configuration and a root beer concentrate infused dental floss.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method upgrades an edge network based on analysis by a learning model. The method includes identifying, in a network, a plurality of devices, where each device in the network is configured to provide data on at least one other device in the network. The method also includes determining capabilities of each device of the plurality of devices. The method further includes monitoring, for each device, capacity information and tasks performed during operation of the network. The method includes analyzing, based on the monitoring, each use of each device. The method also includes recommending, in response to the analyzing and by a learning model, a first upgrade to the network. The method further includes implementing the first upgrade.

Abstract: An example computer-implemented method for analyzing skin of a user comprises requesting, via a graphical user interface (GUI), visual media including a face of the user, processing the visual media to generate information for each of a plurality of skin conditions of the face of the user and the information comprises a score per each of a plurality of zones of the face of the user per each of the plurality of skin conditions of the face of the user, mapping the score to a severity level associated with the plurality of skin conditions, and for each of the plurality of skin conditions, the GUI overlaying computer graphics at locations onto the visual media corresponding to the plurality of zones of the face of the user. The computer graphics are depicted with a color associated with the severity level for the skin condition at each of the locations.

Abstract: Disclosed is an earphone system. The earphone system includes a charging box and an earphone, which is detachably assembled in the charging box. The charging box includes a processing module provided with a first identification time period, a power outputting module and a first switch module. During the first identification time period when the earphone is connected to the charging box, the earphone system is in a test mode, and the first switch module is switched for the charging box to transmit power to the earphone through the power outputting module and the first switch module. After the earphone is connected to the charging box for more than the first identification time period, the earphone system is in a communication mode, and the first switch module is switched for the charging box to transmit a data signal to the earphone through the processing module and the first switch module.

Abstract: Dynamic data-dependent neural network processing systems and methods increase computational efficiency in neural network processing by uniquely processing data based on the data itself and/or configuration parameters for processing the data. In embodiments, this is accomplished by receiving, at a controller, input data that is to be processed by a first device in a first layer of a sequence of processing layers of a neural network using a first set of parameters. The input data is analyzed to determine whether to modify it, whether processing the (modified) data in a second layer would conserve at least one computational resource, or whether to apply a different set of parameters. Depending on the determination, the sequence of processing layers is modified, and the (modified) data are processed according to the modified sequence to reduce data movements and transitions, thereby, conserving computational resources.

Abstract: Provided are a matrix calculation method and device. According to some embodiments of the present invention, a matrix calculation framework intervenes in the compilation or execution of program code including a matrix expression, thereby optimizing matrix calculation. Accordingly, the program code creator's burden of optimizing the matrix calculation can be reduced.

Abstract: An ambulatory aid, such as one or more crutches, including a height adjustable shaft, a handle portion extending from a middle portion of the shaft, a foot portion, and an extension portion termination with a closed loop cuff for securing to the upper arm of a subject. The height adjustable shaft of the crutch can be adjustable at a top end, middle, a bottom end, or any combination thereof. The top of the cane shaft is aligned at a more posterior angle then the bottom of the shaft. The handle of the crutch is elongated and extends horizontally and lateral to the height adjustable shaft. In a particular embodiment, a posterior portion of the handle is longer, and optionally larger in surface area than an anterior portion of the handle such that the handle is configured so that when the person's hand is gripping the handle, the handle will be offset over the shaft.

Abstract: A delivery system extends from a laser radiation source for connecting to a medical device that utilizes the laser radiation for medical treatment. The delivery system comprises an optical fiber connecting to a male launch connecter. The male launch connector having a body portion with the optical fiber fixed or constrained therein and the optical fiber terminating at a male ferrule with a forward directed fiber facet, the male ferrule may be cantilevered within the body portion by the optical fiber line providing freedom of movement of the male ferrule. The launch connector engages a receiving connector on the medical device first with mechanical connection portions and then more finely aligning optical connection portions by the male ferrule self aligning in a female ferrule with cooperating tapered surfaces. The male portion may fully seat in the female portion with cooperating cylindrical surfaces.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuit, a driving IC, and a driving system, relating to the technical field of electronic circuits. The driving circuit comprises a control module and a driving signal output module, the control module is electrically connected to the driving signal output module, and the driving signal output module is configured to be electrically connected to a to-be-driven device, wherein the driving signal output module comprises at least two transistors, and the at least two transistors are epitaxially grown on the same substrate; and the control module is configured to control a closed state of the at least two transistors, so as to control an operation state of the to-be-driven device.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a first fluid pathway enclosed in a heat exchanger body to convey a first fluid through the heat exchanger body and a second fluid pathway enclosed in the heat exchanger body to convey a second fluid through the heat exchanger body and facilitate thermal energy exchange between the first fluid and the second fluid. The first fluid pathway and the second fluid pathway together are arranged in a spiral arrangement extending along a central axis of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An autonomous system for washing and drying household laundry includes a plurality of autonomous combination washer and dryers each including a perforated drum disposed within a tub mated thereto at a drive end opposite an opening. A first air orifice is disposed through the tub. A detachable door includes a second air orifice configured to receive an air conduit such that air flows through the first and second air orifices during a drying cycle while the door seals the opening. A controller is configured to instruct a drive motor to spin the drum about a spin axis extending between the drive end and the opening. A driven carrier in operable communication with the controller slides along a raised rail disposed adjacent the plurality autonomous combination washer and dryers and retrieves, holds, and reseats a door in an opening of one of the plurality of autonomous combination washer and dryers.

Abstract: A flexible implantable electrode array is disclosed, comprising: a shank formed from a flexible polymer material. In an example embodiment, the shank comprises: a waveguide; and a number of chipsets disposed in the shank along the length of the shank, wherein each chipset is configured to measure neural activity in tissue surrounding the shank near the respective chipset, and to communicate signals representative of the measured neural activity via the waveguide. A method for powering and receiving neuronal information from a flexible implantable electrode array comprises: wirelessly communicating power and commands from a backplane to a plurality of chipsets disposed along the length of a shank via a waveguide disposed within the shank; monitoring neural activity proximate each chipset and sending a signal representative of said neural activity from the corresponding chipset transceiver to the backplane via the waveguide.

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for a new and improved coiling system that provides sensors to a computer control on the traverse while winding wherein the sensors mounted on the traversing mechanism to detect flanges of different width or reel and spools as the flanges are approached during winding that provides an automatically turnaround point without human intervention and is computer controlled with communication from the sensor.

Abstract: A controller for an implantable blood pump includes processing circuitry configured to initiate a suction response algorithm if a combination of a number of detected suction events multiplied by a suction event variable and a number of non-suction events multiplied by a non-suction event variable exceed a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a light sensor configured to sense environmental light, a timer that provides time indicators, a motion sensing unit that senses motion and outputs motion data according thereto, and a data storage that receives and stores the motion data or other data derived therefrom in association with the time indicators. After sensing environmental light with the light sensor, the timer begins providing the time indicators and the motion sensing unit begins sensing the motion.

Abstract: A method of treating diarrhea in a patient includes administering a dose of 2.0-7.0 mg of cetirizine and 3.0-15.0 mg of famotidine.

Abstract: The invention relates to particles of a calcium salt of a fatty acid having 12 to 22 carbon atoms, wherein the median size is 4.0 ?m to 15.0 ?m, the particle size digest A expressed by the following equation (1) satisfies the relation A?2.0, and the average thickness is 350 to 800 nm. Particle size digest A=(D90?D10)/D50??equation (1) (Here, 4.0?D50?15.0.

Abstract: An electronic device in this application includes a display, a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory. When the computer program is executed by the processor, the electronic device is caused to perform the following steps: displaying a current screen of a home screen, where the current screen of the home screen displays several icons and a background; detecting a user input on a first icon of the several icons; and displaying a first card on the current screen, where the first card does not fill up the current screen. The first icon corresponds to a first application.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a memory circuit and a memory. The memory circuit at least includes a plurality of memory blocks. Each of the memory blocks includes a first memory sub-block, a second memory sub-block, and a third memory sub-block arranged in sequence; the second memory sub-block includes a first memory unit and a second memory unit; the first memory sub-block and the first memory unit are configured to store high-order bytes; the second memory unit and the third memory sub-block are configured to store low-order bytes; and in an arrangement direction of memory sub-blocks, different memory units that are arranged side by side have different block selection addresses.

Abstract: A multi-pin wafer level chip scale package is achieved. One or more solder pillars and one or more solder blocks are formed on a silicon wafer wherein the one or more solder pillars and the one or more solder blocks all have a top surface in a same horizontal plane. A pillar metal layer underlies the one or more solder pillars and electrically contacts the one or more solder pillars with the silicon wafer through an opening in a polymer layer over a passivation layer. A block metal layer underlies the one or more solder blocks and electrically contacts the one or more solder pillars with the silicon wafer through a plurality of via openings through the polymer layer over the passivation layer wherein the block metal layer is thicker than the pillar metal layer.

Abstract: Techniques provided herein are directed toward virtually extending an updated set of output positions of a mobile device determined by a VIO by combining a current set of VIO output positions with one or more previous sets of VIO output positions in such a way that ensure all outputs positions among the various combined sets of output positions are consistent. The combined sets can be used for accurate position determination of the mobile device. Moreover, the position determination further may be based on GNSS measurements.