859 research outputs found
METHOD FOR A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO AID AN ADMINISTRATOR IN CREATING PROGRAMS THAT INTERACT WITH A DEVICE VIA AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
An Application Programming Interface (API) Workflow Recorder is described herein which enhances the human Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a device to directly expose the programmatic methods that can be used to make changes to the device. An administrator may enable the API Workflow Recorder, make changes to the device using familiar point-and-click workflow in the GUI, and then generate a programmatic script for a machine that uses API calls to accomplish the same tasks that were just performed in the GUI, but using the API for the device. This system greatly improves the speed and accuracy for creating offline programs that interact with a device via the device’s API
MONITORING AND REPORTING THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT MODELS AND VERSIONS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Presented herein are techniques that enable an administrative authority (e.g., city, municipality, etc.) to determine when a vehicle is under autonomous control, as well as to specifically determine the vendor and software version of the autonomous control system controlling the vehicle. If the vehicle has problems navigating the environment, the details of that problem are reported directly to the administrative authority. Any trending problems detected after a software update to the control systems can be proactively detected and reported to the vehicle vendor and upstream aggregation systems
TECHNIQUES FOR VISUALIZATION OF DEVICE INTERNAL PACKET PROCESSING AND NETWORK EVENTS
The techniques presented herein provide an easy to understand animation representing how traffic is entering, being processed, and exiting a device. In certain examples, events are represented by flying icons that enter an interface of a device. As they are processed by different features their tails get longer and gain segments that represent what feature acted on them. Any packet drops may be shown, for example, by the icons falling down from the device onto a floor that represents the drop reason and piling up to show the scale of the drops
ENSURING TRUSTWORTHINESS OF INCIDENT EVIDENCE DATA GENERATED BY THINGS
Techniques are provided that leverage blockchain technology to ensure that evidence that is recorded by things of an incident is saved and shared with interested parties in a method that ensures the trustworthiness of the evidence data. A thing, a local fog router, or a central integrity service might save evidence trustworthiness data to a blockchain. Complementary methods are also provided that bolster the solution’s applicability to connected cities and other implementation opportunities
WIRELESS EMERGENCY PROBE MESSAGE
The techniques described herein leverage The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ax probe request messages to encode an Emergency Beacon (Request for Help) within the initial non-Access-Point (AP) station’s (client’s) probe request packets which would notify the AP that a client is in distress and to notify Emergency Services (via text-to-911 and provide e911 location information). This new capability allows any 802.11ax AP to receive emergency beacons, regardless of how “closed” the networks are on that AP, thereby allowing any wireless client the ability to reach out for help and allowing the AP to relay that information onward towards emergency services
Conformational States of Melittin at a Bilayer Interface
AbstractThe distribution of peptide conformations in the membrane interface is central to partitioning energetics. Molecular-dynamics simulations enable characterization of in-membrane structural dynamics. Here, we describe melittin partitioning into dioleoylphosphatidylcholine lipids using CHARMM and OPLS force fields. Although the OPLS simulation failed to reproduce experimental results, the CHARMM simulation reported was consistent with experiments. The CHARMM simulation showed melittin to be represented by a narrow distribution of folding states in the membrane interface
Density Matrix Renormalization Group of Gapless Systems
We investigate convergence of the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG)
in the thermodynamic limit for gapless systems. Although the DMRG correlations
always decay exponentially in the thermodynamic limit, the correlation length
at the DMRG fixed-point scales as , where is the number
of kept states, indicating the existence of algebraic order for the exact
system. The single-particle excitation spectrum is calculated, using a
Bloch-wave ansatz, and we prove that the Bloch-wave ansatz leads to the
symmetry for translationally invariant half-integer
spin-systems with local interactions. Finally, we provide a method to compute
overlaps between ground states obtained from different DMRG calculations.Comment: 11 pages, RevTex, 5 figure
Responses of hyperthermophilic crenarchaea to UV irradiation
The transcriptional response to UV irradiation was analyzed in two related crenarchaea, Sulfolobus solfataricus and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, showing a clear response to DNA damage but no increase in the expression of DNA repair genes
Proton-coupled dynamics in lactose permease
Lactose permease of Escherichia coli (LacY) catalyzes symport of a
galactopyranoside and an H+ via an alternating access mechanism. The
transition from an inward- to an outward-facing conformation of LacY involves
sugar-release followed by deprotonation. Because the transition depends
intimately upon the dynamics of LacY in a bilayer environment, molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations may be the only means of following the accompanying
structural changes in atomic detail. Here, we describe MD simulations of wild-
type apo LacY in phosphatidylethanolamine (POPE) lipids that features two
protonation states of the critical Glu325. While the protonated system
displays configurational stability, deprotonation of Glu325 causes significant
structural rearrangements that bring into proximity side chains important for
H+ translocation and sugar binding and closes the internal cavity. Moreover,
protonated LacY in phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) lipids shows that the observed
dynamics are lipid-dependent. Together, the simulations describe early
dynamics of the inward-to-outward transition of LacY that agree well with
experimental data
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