Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides, and recombinant DNA constructs are useful for conferring improved nitrogen stress tolerance or NUE and yield. Compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprise these recombinant DNA constructs; and methods utilize these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA constructs comprise a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotides encode nitrogen stress tolerance polypeptides.

Abstract: A method for tokenizing assets via a blockchain-to-blockchain bridge may include: receiving a first instruction from a client to mint first tokens for a client asset; encumbering the client asset on a custody ledger; creating a balance of the first tokens on a first distributed ledger; receiving a second instruction to lock and mint the first tokens to a second distributed ledger as second tokens; receiving verification from a custodian that the first tokens are locked on a lock ledger for the custodian; instructing a blockchain bridge computer program to mint second tokens to a client address on the second distributed ledger; receiving a third instruction to return the second tokens to the first distributed ledger; executing a public burn of the second tokens on the second distributed ledger; and instructing the custodian to unlock the first tokens and move the first tokens to the first distributed ledger.

Abstract: A method of forming an erosion shield for a turbine blade includes depositing a layer of filler material defining an upper surface. The method also includes depositing a layer of erosion-resistant material across the upper surface of the layer of filler material. An interface is defined between the layer of filler material and the layer of erosion-resistant material and has a shape of the upper surface. The method also includes machining the layer of filler material to produce the erosion shield. The erosion shield has the layer of erosion-resistant material, the machined layer of filler material, and the interface defined therebetween. An inner surface of the erosion shield is defined by the machined layer of filler material that is sized and shaped for attaching to a leading edge of the turbine blade. Each of the interface and the inner surface extend a length of the erosion shield.

Abstract: A method for forming dendritic mesoporous nanoparticles comprising preparing a mixture containing one or more polymer precursors, a silica precursor, and a compound that reacts with silica and reacts with the polymer or oligomer formed from the one or more polymer precursors, and stirring the mixture whereby nanoparticles are formed, and subsequently treating the nanoparticles to form dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles or dendritic mesoporous carbon nanoparticles. The silica precursor may comprise tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), the one or more polymer precursors may comprise 3-aminophenol and formaldehyde and the compound may be ethylene diamine (EDA). There is a window of amount of EDA present that will result in asymmetric particles being formed. If a greater amount of EDA is present, symmetrical particles will be formed.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for budget-based management of a cloud infrastructure are disclosed. A system monitors a cloud infrastructure for one or more trigger-action conditions associated with the cloud infrastructure. When a trigger-action condition is detected, the system determines a cloud infrastructure modification action that corresponds to the detected trigger condition. The system may apply the cloud infrastructure modification action to the cloud infrastructure. A cloud infrastructure modification action may modify one or more the workstation resources such that a rate of budget consumption is changed, for example, by pausing a resource, deleting a resource, resuming a paused resource, or changing from one resource to a different resource.

Abstract: Techniques for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring a cloud service workstation are disclosed. The system presents a GUI that presents a plurality of possible workstation configurations and the costs associated with each respective workstation configuration, prior to creation of a workstation. The GUI updates the cost associated with a workstation configuration responsive to receiving a selection to modify the workstation configuration from a user. The user may request a different configuration based on a single user input, without specifying which resources to modify. The GUI may recommend a workstation configuration based on one or more user inputs such as a budget, an application service domain, a duration, or a processing power requirement.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present a hyper-square interconnect topology and advanced ring-based AllReduce operations. In some embodiments, a topology is provided that is an improvement over conventional interconnect topologies by eliminating delays associated with long wirings. In some embodiments, computing nodes are divided into sub-sections to better allocate computing tasks, and the system can be optimized to divide up the computing nodes by maximizing the number of square sub-sections in the topology. In some embodiments, the system can be optimized to select square sub-sections first for each computing task. Each sub-section can comprise some computing nodes or all computing nodes in the hyper-square interconnect topology. This flexibility allows the hyper-square interconnect topology to utilize the computing nodes more efficiently by assigning appropriate numbers of computing nodes to each computing task based on the computing need of the computing task.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of energy harvesting, and in particular relates to an ocean wave energy collector based on magnetic force and triboelectric effect. The ocean wave energy collector includes a plurality of protective shells connected by flexible metal spring modules; a magnetic oscillation system is installed in each protective shell in a matched mode and includes an electric energy output module and a plurality of magnetic oscillators, and each magnetic oscillator includes a first supporting body, a dielectric capsule, first magnet units, second magnet units, a supporting shell, and an electrode unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning method for drug-target interaction data, which comprises the following steps: provide an original collection of drug-target interaction data; screen and filter the original drug-target interaction data set according to a predetermined cleaning rule to obtain a drug-target interaction data set to be studied; wherein, the predetermined cleaning rule is based on the data structure of the adjacency matrix of the graph. The present invention further provides a cleaning system for drug-target interaction data. The present invention provides a method and system for properly describing and comparing the structure, function, etc. of drug target proteins, so as to the differences in target proteins can be quantified.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data preprocessing method for cleaning a small molecule compound, the data preprocessing method comprising: an S1 text preprocessing step including: preprocessing an original SMILES text of a small molecule compound into a standardized SMILES text of the small molecule compound; and an S2 chemical graph formatting step including: splitting in a format each text element of the standardized SMILES text of the small molecule compound of S1 to obtain chemical graph information of the small molecule compound. The present invention also provides a data preprocessing system for cleaning a small molecule compound. The present invention enables the cleaning, deduplication, and standardization of global datasets, providing an efficient, fast, accurate integration method for the cleaning of end-to-end small molecule compounds.

Abstract: The invention provides a neural electrode, including a current generation device, a first and a second electrode. The current generation device is connected to the first and second electrodes through a conductive metal wire respectively. At least one of the first and second electrodes is a graphene electrode. The graphene electrode has soft texture and desirable stability to tolerate the repeated pressing and folding treatment, very high charge injection efficiency, and desirable in vivo stability, and is configured to electrically stimulate tissues and organs such as hearts and nerves to promote electrical stimulation and repair of neurons, to further promote regeneration of neural functions. The invention further provides use of a mineralized three-dimensional porous graphene foam material to prepare a bone defect filler. The bone defect filler has desirable biological compatibility, promotes cell proliferation, and accelerates and induces osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for decentralized notification services are disclosed. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to: providing a distributed notification service configured to execute on each node of a plurality of nodes of a decentralized peer-to-peer platform; determining, by the distributed notification service of a first node, a notification definition, where the notification definition is from a catalog of notification definitions and included in a distributed application executing on the first node; sending, by the distributed notification service of a second node, a notification message, where the notification message is associated with the notification definition; receiving, by the distributed notification service of the first node, the notification message; and delivering, by the distributed notification service of the first node, the notification message in the distributed application executing on the first node.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating an image are provided. The method includes: acquiring a screenshot of a webpage preloaded by a terminal as a source image; recognizing connection areas in the source image, and generating first circumscribed rectangular frames outside outlines of the connection areas; combining, in response to determining that a distance between the connection areas is smaller than a preset distance threshold, the connection areas, and generating a second circumscribed rectangular frame outside outlines of the combined connection areas; and generating, based on a nested relationship between the first circumscribed rectangular frames and the second circumscribed rectangular frames and pictures in the first circumscribed rectangular frames, a target image. The first circumscribed rectangular frames and the second circumscribed rectangular frame are respectively generated by recognizing and combining the connection areas in the source image.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for decentralized notification services are disclosed. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to: providing a distributed notification service configured to execute on each node of a plurality of nodes of a decentralized peer-to-peer platform; determining, by the distributed notification service of a first node, a notification definition, where the notification definition is from a catalog of notification definitions and included in a distributed application executing on the first node; sending, by the distributed notification service of a second node, a notification message, where the notification message is associated with the notification definition; receiving, by the distributed notification service of the first node, the notification message; and delivering, by the distributed notification service of the first node, the notification message in the distributed application executing on the first node.

Abstract: A processing method includes controlling a first camera and a second camera of a camera assembly to collect image data based on a target strategy. The image data includes first image data collected by the first camera and second image data collected by the second camera. The method further includes processing the first image data and the second image data to obtain target image data. A configuration parameter of the first camera and a configuration parameter of the second camera are different from each other.

Abstract: A method for privacy preserving machine learning model sharing may include a computer program for a first institution of a plurality of institutions in a distributed ledger network: receiving transaction data for a transaction; training a local machine learning model using the transaction data; submitting parameters for the local machine learning model to the distributed ledger network as a private transaction with a trusted entity, wherein the trusted entity receives parameters for a plurality of local machine learning models from the distributed ledger network for the plurality of institutions in the distributed ledger network and aggregates the parameters into an aggregated machine learning model and submits the aggregated parameters to the distributed ledger network as one or more transactions; receiving, from the distributed ledger network, the aggregated parameters for the aggregated machine learning model; and updating the local machine learning model with the aggregated parameters.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include an electronic package. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), where the PCB comprises a glass weave, a resin, and metal organic frameworks (MOFs) disposed within the resin. In an embodiment, a package substrate is coupled to the PCB, and a die is coupled to the package substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include an electronic package. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a package substrate, and a die coupled to the package substrate. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises a stiffener on the package substrate surrounding the die. In an embodiment, the stiffener is a ring with one or more corner regions and one or more beams. In an embodiment, each beam is between a pair of corner regions, and the one or more corner regions have a first thickness and the one or more beams have a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for execution of a neural network. An exemplary method can be implemented by a processing unit. The processing unit can include a command parser configured to dispatch commands and computing tasks and at least one core communicatively coupled with the command parser and configured to process the dispatched computing task. Each core can include a convolution unit, a pooling unit, at least one operation unit and a sequencer communicatively coupled with the convolution unit, the pooling unit, and the at least one operation unit and configured to distribute instructions of the dispatched computing task to the convolution unit, the pooling unit, and the at least one operation unit for execution.