DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (PRWEB)
July 25, 2020

Bottari & Doyle, P.A. officially names Cleo the Rescue Racing Greyhound its office mascot. After racing at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, Florida for 2 years, Cleo was adopted by Daniel Bottari, the law firm’s owner. Cleo raced about 60 races and was eager to start her new life as a couch potato at home. Greyhounds, although able to reach speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, are remarkably lazy and prefer to sleep rather than run. Cleo’s quiet demeanor and lazy disposition made Daniel realize that Cleo would be a great addition to the office.

Daniel said, “Legal work can be incredibly stressful, because lawyers and office staff often deal with clients who are in difficult situations. Add Covid, and the stress is amplified. Dogs help to alleviate this stress by providing a sense of comfort to humans. Dogs seem to have a way of taking the stress away from us and knowing our moods. Since bringing her to the office, I have seen an increase in work productivity and a better attitude from myself and office staff. Oh yeah, and the clients love her.”

Daniel brings Cleo to the office just about every day and encourages other attorneys and professionals to bring dogs to work. The law firm has even placed a video of a greyhound running down the beach with the title, “Striving. To Win Quickly and Deliver the Compensation our Client’s Deserve” on its homepage.

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“For the first time in the life sciences industry, we are able to directly and systematically harness processing equipment’s ‘eyes and ears’, its integrated sensors, and deploy AI/ML agents that continuously verify process performance and pre-empt deviations,” said Rajiv Anand, CEO of Quartic.ai.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB)
July 14, 2020

Quartic.ai, provider of the award-winning Quartic AI and IoT Platform™ for Smart Industry, announced a partnership with Sparta Systems, Inc., provider of industry-leading Quality Management System (QMS) platforms TrackWise® and TrackWise Digital®, to bring forward next-level AI capabilities for early risk detection during the manufacturing process to reduce product quality impact and enable near-real-time product release.

The assurance of quality output during drug and medical device manufacturing is a critical lynchpin in assuring the safety and efficacy of those products in market. Since quality cannot be “controlled into” a process, sole reliance on post-development/post-production identification of defective or unacceptable product is not an effective means of quality assurance and places supply chain continuity at risk of disruption. Furthermore, this model requires development and production of a product before the quality of that product can be measured; the result being consecutive, rather than concurrent, manufacturing and quality assurance. And finally, the growth in both batch scale and increase in continuous manufacturing processes inhibits the establishment and maintenance of demonstrative sampling plans that adequately represent the production process.

With Quartic’s award-winning Quartic AI and IoT Platform™ for Smart Industry, the Sparta TrackWise, and Trackwise Digital will acquire production equipment data during development to create and train algorithms that detect product and process anomalies. Once the product development is completed and the product is approved for commercial distribution, users are able to deploy trained algorithms on commercial-scale equipment data streams to identify performance “drift” before nonconforming product is manufactured. If performance drift is identified, the joint capability of the two platforms contemporaneously creates records in TrackWise Digital associated with the available data and connects operators with development insights and just-in-time process correction instructions to secure the production run. Since decision makers using TrackWise Digital connect with raw data both identifying and correcting apparent manufacturing issues, the potential for under-informed decisions is further reduced.

“Innovation in quality management is at the core of Sparta Systems,” said Dana Jones, CEO of Sparta Systems. “With this new combined capability, we’re putting meaningful quality insights and intelligence in the hands of our customers. The ability to not only capture but distribute the information to all levels and across all operating units empowers our customers to make faster and better decisions while assuring the quality of medical products and safety of patients and users.”

“For the first time in the life sciences industry, we are able to directly and systematically harness processing equipment’s ‘eyes and ears’, its integrated sensors, and deploy AI/ML agents that continuously verify process performance and pre-empt deviations. The ultimate goal is to be certain that all critical parameters are met, that we capture process and human knowledge, and that we are certain product coming off the line is not just okay, but perfect – the absolute highest quality,” explained Rajiv Anand, CEO of Quartic.ai.

About Sparta Systems

Sparta Systems is the provider of industry-leading Quality Management System (QMS) platforms TrackWise® and TrackWise Digital®. Our expert solutions enable manufacturers to speed quality and compliance, lower risk, increase efficiency, and protect consumers while seamlessly collaborating with suppliers and distributors. Sparta is privately owned and headquartered in Hamilton, NJ, with offices across Europe and Asia. We support close to 1 million users across 700+ implementations in more than 30 countries. For over 25 years, companies in life sciences, consumer products, and discrete manufacturing have relied on Sparta solutions to assist in assuring the quality of medical products and safety of patients and users.

For more information about Sparta Systems’ QMS solutions visit http://www.spartasystems.com or schedule a demo.

About Quartic.ai

Quartic.ai is a technology company based in Toronto, Ontario, and San Jose, California with a development center in Bengaluru, India. Quartic.ai provides AI enabled solutions specific for life sciences industry to enable pipeline acceleration, tech transfer, Qbd (Quality by Design), CPV (Continued Process Verification), RTR (Real-time-release) and continuous manufacturing. Its flagship product, the Quartic Platform, accelerates the adoption of Industry 4.0 for process manufacturing practitioners to develop and deploy their own AI and IIoT-based solutions. The Quartic Platform was recognized with the 2019 Pharma Innovation Award for Pharma 4.0.

For more information, contact Quartic.ai at 1-866-QUARTIC or visit http://www.Quartic.ai.

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ATLANTA (PRWEB)
July 06, 2020

Ernest LaMont Greer, co-president of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, was named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2020 Power 100 list. This is the seventh time Greer has been named to the annual list that profiles the 100 most influential Atlantans.

The Atlanta Business Chronicle’s editors compile the list that includes business leaders who have had significant impact on the community. The publication noted that “as metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, experience social unrest over the killings of African-Americans, and prepare for bitterly fought political elections this coming November, leadership has never been more important.” The individuals highlighted on the list (just 100 in a metro area of six million) “will play a major role guiding the city and state through these events and into the future.”

“Ernest is not only a highly-accomplished business attorney, but an outstanding leader and champion of our Atlanta community,” said Atlanta Managing Shareholder Theodore I. Blum. “He plays a key role in the strategic direction of the firm and is the driving force behind many of our efforts that benefit clients, attorneys, and business professionals. Through professional affiliates and personal commitments, Ernest prioritizes serving the Atlanta community. He is dedicated to helping others and using his global role and voice to not simply create awareness but, most importantly, to drive change.”

Greer plays a key role in the strategic direction of the firm and firmwide day-to-day operations. Prior to his role as co-president, he served as vice president of the firm, co-chair of the U.S. Strategic Committee, and the Atlanta office’s managing shareholder. Greer currently serves on the boards for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Atlanta History Center, Achieve Atlanta, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and the Atlanta Police Foundation. Greer also currently serves as the Director of Buckhead Coalition and is a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta and the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Guardsman, Inc.

His leadership, accomplishments, and legal practice have been recognized by many industry publications and organizations, including the National Law Journal, Atlanta magazine, The Atlantan, Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Daily Report, National Bar Association, Best Lawyers in America, Chambers & Partners USA, Georgia Super Lawyers, and Georgia Trend’s “Legal Elite.” In 2018, Greer was inducted into the Gate City Foundation’s Hall of Fame.

About Greenberg Traurig, LLP: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT) has approximately 2200 attorneys in 41 locations in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. GT has been recognized for its philanthropic giving, diversity, and innovation, and is consistently among the largest firms in the U.S. on the Law360 400 and among the Top 20 on the Am Law Global 100. Web: http://www.gtlaw.com Twitter: @GT_Law.

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WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
July 01, 2020

Arizona Superior Court for Pima County has denied the defendant’s motion to preclude DNA evidence in the trial for the murder of Robert Belman.

Defense counsel in Arizona v. Martinez (Case No. CR-20181689-001) had challenged the relevancy, admissibility, and reliability of DNA results obtained by the State largely through the use of STRmix™ – sophisticated probabilistic genotyping software used to resolve mixed DNA profiles previously thought to be too complex to interpret.

The court, however, concluded, “…the use of probabilistic genotyping, and specifically the software utilized in this case – STRmix™ – has been generally accepted in the relevant scientific community of forensic DNA.”

The court’s ruling continued, “… even the defense’s motion concedes that most state and federal courts have found that STRmix™ is scientifically valid because of it having been subjected to several peer reviewed studies that produces favorable results.”

John Buckleton, DSc, FRSNZ, one of the developers of STRmix™, notes that forensic labs worldwide increasingly are using STRmix™ “because it greatly improves the usability of DNA to produce evidence in a wide range of criminal cases.”

Buckleton notes that organizations using STRmix™ are reporting a significantly higher rate of interpretable results in sexual assault cases, as well as “an increase of interpretable DNA in gun cases from about 40% to more than 70%.”

Since its introduction in 2012, STRmix™ has been used successfully in numerous U.S. court cases, including 37 successful admissibility hearings. Currently, 56 U.S. forensic labs, including multiple state and local organizations and such federal agencies as the FBI and ATF, use STRmix™ to interpret DNA profiles. The software is also in various stages of installation, validation, and training in more than 60 other U.S. organizations.

Internationally, STRmix™ has also gained widespread acceptance. All nine state and territory forensic labs in Australia and New Zealand, as well as 14 labs in other countries including England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, and Canada, now use STRmix™. To date, it has been used to interpret DNA evidence in more than 120,000 cases worldwide.

A new version of STRmix™, STRmix™ v2.7, was introduced in late 2019. STRmix™ v2.7 includes several new features in response to improvements recommended by forensic labs to better address the on-the-job needs they regularly encounter.

The team that created STRmix™ recently launched two other products. DBLR™, an application used with STRmix™, allows users to undertake superfast database searches, visualize the value of their DNA mixture evidence, and carry out mixture to mixture matches. FaSTR™ DNA, meanwhile, is expert forensic software that rapidly analyzes DNA profiles and assigns a Number of Contributors (NoC) estimate.

Designed by scientists for scientists, FaSTR™ DNA combines an intuitive, user-friendly graphical interface with easily understandable and laboratory-customizable rules to expedite the analysis of raw data generated by genetic analyzers and standard profiling kits. FaSTR™ DNA also implements the use of artificial neural networks for peak classification independent of and in parallel to the forensic analyst.

Alongside STRmix™, FaSTR™ DNA and DBLR™ complete the full workflow from analysis to interpretation and database matching.

For more information about STRmix™ visit http://www.strmix.com.

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“With this new offering, we’re providing financial institutions with the opportunity to see how AI can dramatically reduce their jurisdiction risk while increasing investigation efficiency,” said David McLaughlin, CEO and Founder of QuantaVerse.

WAYNE, Pa. (PRWEB)
July 01, 2020

QuantaVerse, which uses AI and machine learning to automate financial crime investigation processes, is now offering the country code derivation capability of its QuantaVerse Pre-TMS Entity Resolution & Risk Scoring solution for trial. The AI-powered, cloud-based function helps financial institutions struggling to identify potentially risky jurisdictions, or country codes, of transacting parties. With this offering, financial institutions can easily trial AI-enabled automation against a particularly intractable part of the entity resolution process.

Most financial institutions report that jurisdiction/country code information is typically missing or malformed in SWIFT messages and international ACH payment transactions. Determining the jurisdiction of a transaction is challenging for financial institutions because each country’s addressing system has its own set of unique conventions, making it difficult to map to geography fields. When jurisdiction fields in a SWIFT message are blank or contain misspellings, a human analyst is brought in to scour Google and other resources in an attempt to identify the location of the transacting parties based on the address information that is available.

If no jurisdiction or country code is discernible or there is no human resource available to do this work in a given amount of time, the transaction goes into a bank’s TMS with the jurisdiction/country code field blank. Transactions missing these vital details automatically default to the highest risk jurisdiction resulting in TMS alerts, triggering time-consuming and costly AML alert investigations on transactions that are often legitimate. According to industry estimates, approximately 95 percent of all TMS alerts are false positives.

By letting banks try the country code derivation component of the QuantaVerse Pre-TMS Entity Resolution & Risk Scoring solution, they can quickly and easily experience AI at work in their AML/BSA operations. The need to automate these functions has been made more obvious by the recent pandemic which has led to emergency shortages of financial crime investigators at financial institutions.

QuantaVerse recently performed country code analysis for a large U.S.-based bank and found that 80% of its dedicated jurisdiction fields were blank. “Prior to working with QuantaVerse, we conducted country code derivation manually, representing thousands of transactions,” the Chief Compliance Officer explained. “Analysis and quality control usually take three full days to complete in the traditional manner and, due to time constraints, covers only 75% of the wires that are missing the country code. QuantaVerse’s multi-layered approach to country code analysis helped us derive correct country codes for nearly all entities, saving us an incredible amount of time while cutting false positives.”

Availability

This new adaptation of the QuantaVerse Pre-TMS Entity Resolution & Risk Scoring solution is available now. Financial institutions can take full advantage of the offering with limited effort and minimal cost.

“Financial institutions are recognizing that automating with AI is the best way to ferret financial crime out of our banking systems,” said David McLaughlin, CEO and Founder of QuantaVerse. “We want to make it as easy as possible to let them wade in and try AI out to address their entity resolution challenges. With this new offering, we’re providing financial institutions with the opportunity to see how AI can dramatically reduce their jurisdiction risk while increasing investigation efficiency.”

About QuantaVerse

QuantaVerse is the leader of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning solutions purpose-built for identifying financial crimes. QuantaVerse utilizes its AI Financial Crime Platform to reduce financial crime risk by identifying patterns and discerning anomalies that current approaches and systems regularly miss.  The QuantaVerse solutions have helped customers more efficiently comply with AML (Anti-Money Laundering), KYC (Know Your Customer) and FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) regulations. Most importantly, QuantaVerse is helping to rid organizations of money laundering and other financial crimes that support our greatest global ills – the drug trade, human trafficking, terrorism and political corruption. For more information, contact QuantaVerse at (610) 465-7320 or visit http://www.QuantaVerse.net.

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WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
June 04, 2020

STRmix™, sophisticated forensic software used to resolve mixed DNA profiles previously thought to be too complex to interpret, is now being used by the Johnson County (Kansas) Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory.

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory aids in criminal investigations through timely, unbiased, high-quality forensic services performed by highly trained experts using state-of the art instrumentation and scientific techniques.

Fifty-six forensic labs nationally are now using STRmix™ to interpret DNA profiles in criminal investigations. That list includes federal agencies such as the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), as well as numerous state and local organizations.

Four other labs – the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratories, the Jefferson Parish (LA) Sheriff’s Office Regional DNA Laboratory, the Contra Costa County (CA) Office of the Sheriff, and New York’s Suffolk County Crime Laboratory – began using STRmix™ earlier this year.

STRmix™ is also in various stages of installation, validation, and training in more than 60 other U.S. organizations.

Since its introduction eight years ago, STRmix™ has been used to interpret DNA evidence in more than 120,000 cases worldwide. It has also been used successfully in numerous U.S. court cases, including at least 37 successful admissibility hearings.

“STRmix™ has produced a significant increase in usable, interpretable, and admissible DNA results in a wide range of criminal cases,” says John Buckleton DSc, FRSNZ, Forensic Scientist at the New Zealand Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) and one of the developers of STRmix™.

According to Buckleton, those results include “evidence from guns, other touch evidence, and sexual assault evidence. STRmix™ has also proved to be effective in helping to solve cold cases in which evidence originally dismissed as inconclusive has been reprocessed.

The latest version of STRmix™, STRmix™ v2.7, was introduced in late 2019. STRmix™ v2.7 includes several new features in response to improvements recommended by forensic labs to better address the on-the-job needs they regularly encounter.

In addition, DBLR™, an application used with STRmix™, was introduced last year. DBLR™ allows users to undertake superfast database searches, visualize the value of their DNA mixture evidence, and carry out mixture to mixture matches.

For more information about STRmix™ visit https://www.strmix.com/

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