Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), a type of RNA molecule that can be found in various cells. In general, the structure of mRNA is often composed of a 5' cap, two untranslated regions (5' UTR and 3' UTR), a coding domain, a 3' poly(A) tail. mRNA can be produced during the process of transcription in the nucleus. Normally, primary transcript mRNA (pre-mRNA) will be created at the early stage of transcription. This pre-mRNA will be further processed into mature mRNA by RNA splicing and removing introns. Mature mRNA can be further transported into the cytoplasm to participate in protein synthesis. Moreover, two main types of RNA molecules, transfer RNA (tRNA) and ribosomal RNA (rRNA), have also been identified that play a critical role in translating codons into amino acids in the protein-manufacturing process.https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/applications-of-mrna-as-research-tools.htm
Antibodies are immunoglobulins produced by B lymphocytes during their differentiation into plasma cells that bind specifically to the corresponding antigen. Antibodies can be divided into five major classes (IgG, IgA, IgM, IgD, IgE), which have a protective effect on the organism. Antibody mRNAs don't require nuclear localisation to mediate protein translation, but can be translated directly into target proteins or immunogenic activation of the immune response in vivo by using genetic sequence of the virus.https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/category-antibody-mrna-479.htm
Cytokines are low molecular weight soluble proteins produced by cells stimulated by immunogens, mitogens or other factors, including interleukins, interferons (IFN), lymphokines, colony-stimulating factors (CSF), chemokines, monoclonal factors and other factors. https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/category-cytokine-mrna-455.htm
In vitro transcription (IVT) is an elegant way to obtain highly pure and uniform mRNA oligonucleotides of lengths ranging from about 15 to several thousand nucleotides. It is transcribed from a double-stranded DNA template by RNA polymerase (T7, T3 or SP6 RNA polymerase).https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/category-in-vitro-transcription-vector-452.htm
Modified mRNAs can readily be obtained from any DNA template using RNA polymerases in a short time. However, mRNA prepared with enzymatic synthesis may present transcriptional errors, which can only be produced at a laboratory scale, and products may not pure enough for the intended use. An efficient scalable non-enzymatic (chemical) method for mRNA production could solve these problems. https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/custom-chemical-synthesis-of-mrna.htm
Chemical synthesis of single-stranded mRNA molecules is a widely used laboratory procedure that is an alternative strategy of mRNA synthesis for RNA research as well as RNA biopharmaceuticals. This technique is versatile and allows the researcher to tailor the synthesis of short fragments of mRNA and introduce modifications to mRNA.https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/custom-chemical-synthesis-of-mrna.htm
Non-integrative mRNA reprogramming has proven to be the most efficient and clinically-relevant method for human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) reprogramming.
https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/custom-ips-cell-reprogramming-by-mrna.htm
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), a type of RNA molecule that can be found in various cells. In general, the structure of mRNA is often composed of a 5' cap, two untranslated regions (5' UTR and 3' UTR), a coding domain, a 3' poly(A) tail. mRNA can be produced during the process of transcription in the nucleus. Normally, primary transcript mRNA (pre-mRNA) will be created at the early stage of transcription. This pre-mRNA will be further processed into mature mRNA by RNA splicing and removing introns. Mature mRNA can be further transported into the cytoplasm to participate in protein synthesis. Moreover, two main types of RNA molecules, transfer RNA (tRNA) and ribosomal RNA (rRNA), have also been identified that play a critical role in translating codons into amino acids in the protein-manufacturing process.https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/applications-of-mrna-as-research-tools.htm
Antibodies are immunoglobulins produced by B lymphocytes during their differentiation into plasma cells that bind specifically to the corresponding antigen. Antibodies can be divided into five major classes (IgG, IgA, IgM, IgD, IgE), which have a protective effect on the organism. Antibody mRNAs don't require nuclear localisation to mediate protein translation, but can be translated directly into target proteins or immunogenic activation of the immune response in vivo by using genetic sequence of the virus.https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/category-antibody-mrna-479.htm
Cytokines are low molecular weight soluble proteins produced by cells stimulated by immunogens, mitogens or other factors, including interleukins, interferons (IFN), lymphokines, colony-stimulating factors (CSF), chemokines, monoclonal factors and other factors. https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/category-cytokine-mrna-455.htm
In vitro transcription (IVT) is an elegant way to obtain highly pure and uniform mRNA oligonucleotides of lengths ranging from about 15 to several thousand nucleotides. It is transcribed from a double-stranded DNA template by RNA polymerase (T7, T3 or SP6 RNA polymerase).https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/category-in-vitro-transcription-vector-452.htm
Modified mRNAs can readily be obtained from any DNA template using RNA polymerases in a short time. However, mRNA prepared with enzymatic synthesis may present transcriptional errors, which can only be produced at a laboratory scale, and products may not pure enough for the intended use. An efficient scalable non-enzymatic (chemical) method for mRNA production could solve these problems. https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/custom-chemical-synthesis-of-mrna.htm
Chemical synthesis of single-stranded mRNA molecules is a widely used laboratory procedure that is an alternative strategy of mRNA synthesis for RNA research as well as RNA biopharmaceuticals. This technique is versatile and allows the researcher to tailor the synthesis of short fragments of mRNA and introduce modifications to mRNA.https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/custom-chemical-synthesis-of-mrna.htm
Non-integrative mRNA reprogramming has proven to be the most efficient and clinically-relevant method for human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) reprogramming.
https://mrna.creative-biolabs.com/custom-ips-cell-reprogramming-by-mrna.htm
Hepatitis D (hepatitis delta) is a disease caused by the Hepatitis D Virus (HDV), a small spherical enveloped virusoid.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/hepatitis-d-virus-vaccines.htm
Hepatitis is a general term for liver inflammation, caused by infectious or non-infectious factors. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the main cause of morbidity and mortality.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/hbv-vaccines.htm
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disease of the nervous system, which is accompanied by symmetric flaccid paralysis of the extremities, sensory abnormalities, and cranial nerve palsy.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/vaccines-for-guillain-barre-syndrome.htm
The FIV genome is comprised of three main structural genes, gag, pol, and env, which encode internal structural proteins, viral enzymes and envelope glycoproteins, respectively. https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/feline-immunodeficiency-virus-vaccine.htm
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is retroviral in the family Oncovirinae and is one of the most feared causes of a highly contagious and potentially fatal retroviral infection that weakens a cat's immune system.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/feline-leukemia-virus-vaccine.htm
Bovine coronaviruses (BCoVs) belong to the Coronaviridae family in the Nidovirales order which cause respiratory and enteric infections in cattle and wild ruminants. https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/bovine-coronavirus-vaccines.htm
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is from the family of Herpesviridae. Humans and monkeys serve as natural hosts.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/cytomegalovirus-vaccines.htm
Due to their surfactants or gelation properties, glycolipids can be used to encapsulate some drugs. Studies have shown that the sucrose esters ability to form various formulation systems for the loading of different active molecules. These results revealed that micro-particles can be obtained with sucrose esters and they exhibit efficient encapsulation properties for pharmaceuticals applications. Several other studies describe the preparation of hydrogels or solution stabilized by sucrose esters for drug dermal absorptions. Therefore, the glycolipid potential is huge in the pharmaceutical and biomedical field.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/custom-glycolipid-synthesis.htm
D-Galactosamine pentaacetate
Dried by centrifugal evaporation from an aqueous solution.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/d-galactosamine-pentaacetate-20.htm
Membrane carbohydrates, found on the extracellular surface, are complex and can display considerable variability in composition and structure. They are attached with embedded lipids forming glycolipids. Glycolipids constitute a complex family of amphipathic molecules structurally characterized by a hydrophilic mono- or oligo-saccharide moiety linked to a hydrophobic ceramide moiety.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/custom-glycolipid-synthesis.htm
Glycosylation site mapping helps the identification of a glycosylation site, which can provide an indication of the function of that glycan. In addition, site-specific glycosylation analysis and assignment of a certain structure to a specific site can illuminate the protein’s glycosylation profile, microheterogeneity, and its activity. Glycosylation has great importance in the development of biological drugs because their glycan chains markedly affect product stability, activity, antigenicity, and pharmacodynamics. Glycosylation site mapping mainly contributes to glycan microheterogeneity.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycosylation-site-mapping.htm
Anticancer immunotherapy has emerged as a new exciting area for controlling tumors. Particularly, vaccination using synthetic tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACAs)-based vaccine hold promise for generating a specific antitumor response by targeting cancer cells.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycopeptide-based-cancer-vaccine-development.htm
Glycosylation is a fundamental modification of proteins, which plays an important role in many physiological and pathological processes, including protein folding and trafficking, cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction, cellular differentiation, fertilization, immune response, the initiation and metastasis of tumors. Thus, the analysis of glycoproteins structure allows characterization of important biological molecules, including antibodies, vaccines, enzymes, etc. What's more, glycoprotein structure analysis would be of great diagnostic and clinical importance.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-structure-analysis.htm
Glycoprotein Detection by Staining Procedures.pdfBetteElla
There are a number of staining methods that can be used to detect highly glycosylated proteins on SDS gels, among which, periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining is the simplest and low-cost way to estimate whether a protein is glycosylated.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-detection-by-staining-procedures.htm
Glycoprotein detection by PAS staining method.pdfBetteElla
Glycoproteins are extremely important to a variety of biological processes, including protein folding and trafficking, cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction, cellular differentiation, fertilization, immune response, the initiation and metastasis of tumors. However, the analysis of glycoproteins is a big challenge because of the low abundance, the complexity of the glycan structures, the multiple substitutions (microheterogeneity) at glycosylation sites, and the structural diversity associated with the protein backbone itself. We can provide a series of technologies for glycoprotein detection and analysis.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-detection-by-staining-procedures.htm
Glycoproteins are a group of proteins with oligosaccharide chains or glycans covalently attached to amino acid side-chains. These proteins are ubiquitously distributed and play an important role in various biological processes, such as cell signaling, cell-cell interaction, immune recognition, cell proliferation, and differentiation. Therefore, the alterations of glycoproteins possess a close relationship with the progression of diseases, such as autoimmune disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-biomarkers-research.htm
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Hepatitis D (hepatitis delta) is a disease caused by the Hepatitis D Virus (HDV), a small spherical enveloped virusoid.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/hepatitis-d-virus-vaccines.htm
Hepatitis is a general term for liver inflammation, caused by infectious or non-infectious factors. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the main cause of morbidity and mortality.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/hbv-vaccines.htm
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disease of the nervous system, which is accompanied by symmetric flaccid paralysis of the extremities, sensory abnormalities, and cranial nerve palsy.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/vaccines-for-guillain-barre-syndrome.htm
The FIV genome is comprised of three main structural genes, gag, pol, and env, which encode internal structural proteins, viral enzymes and envelope glycoproteins, respectively. https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/feline-immunodeficiency-virus-vaccine.htm
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is retroviral in the family Oncovirinae and is one of the most feared causes of a highly contagious and potentially fatal retroviral infection that weakens a cat's immune system.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/feline-leukemia-virus-vaccine.htm
Bovine coronaviruses (BCoVs) belong to the Coronaviridae family in the Nidovirales order which cause respiratory and enteric infections in cattle and wild ruminants. https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/bovine-coronavirus-vaccines.htm
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is from the family of Herpesviridae. Humans and monkeys serve as natural hosts.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/vaccine/cytomegalovirus-vaccines.htm
Due to their surfactants or gelation properties, glycolipids can be used to encapsulate some drugs. Studies have shown that the sucrose esters ability to form various formulation systems for the loading of different active molecules. These results revealed that micro-particles can be obtained with sucrose esters and they exhibit efficient encapsulation properties for pharmaceuticals applications. Several other studies describe the preparation of hydrogels or solution stabilized by sucrose esters for drug dermal absorptions. Therefore, the glycolipid potential is huge in the pharmaceutical and biomedical field.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/custom-glycolipid-synthesis.htm
D-Galactosamine pentaacetate
Dried by centrifugal evaporation from an aqueous solution.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/d-galactosamine-pentaacetate-20.htm
Membrane carbohydrates, found on the extracellular surface, are complex and can display considerable variability in composition and structure. They are attached with embedded lipids forming glycolipids. Glycolipids constitute a complex family of amphipathic molecules structurally characterized by a hydrophilic mono- or oligo-saccharide moiety linked to a hydrophobic ceramide moiety.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/custom-glycolipid-synthesis.htm
Glycosylation site mapping helps the identification of a glycosylation site, which can provide an indication of the function of that glycan. In addition, site-specific glycosylation analysis and assignment of a certain structure to a specific site can illuminate the protein’s glycosylation profile, microheterogeneity, and its activity. Glycosylation has great importance in the development of biological drugs because their glycan chains markedly affect product stability, activity, antigenicity, and pharmacodynamics. Glycosylation site mapping mainly contributes to glycan microheterogeneity.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycosylation-site-mapping.htm
Anticancer immunotherapy has emerged as a new exciting area for controlling tumors. Particularly, vaccination using synthetic tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACAs)-based vaccine hold promise for generating a specific antitumor response by targeting cancer cells.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycopeptide-based-cancer-vaccine-development.htm
Glycosylation is a fundamental modification of proteins, which plays an important role in many physiological and pathological processes, including protein folding and trafficking, cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction, cellular differentiation, fertilization, immune response, the initiation and metastasis of tumors. Thus, the analysis of glycoproteins structure allows characterization of important biological molecules, including antibodies, vaccines, enzymes, etc. What's more, glycoprotein structure analysis would be of great diagnostic and clinical importance.https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-structure-analysis.htm
Glycoprotein Detection by Staining Procedures.pdfBetteElla
There are a number of staining methods that can be used to detect highly glycosylated proteins on SDS gels, among which, periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining is the simplest and low-cost way to estimate whether a protein is glycosylated.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-detection-by-staining-procedures.htm
Glycoprotein detection by PAS staining method.pdfBetteElla
Glycoproteins are extremely important to a variety of biological processes, including protein folding and trafficking, cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction, cellular differentiation, fertilization, immune response, the initiation and metastasis of tumors. However, the analysis of glycoproteins is a big challenge because of the low abundance, the complexity of the glycan structures, the multiple substitutions (microheterogeneity) at glycosylation sites, and the structural diversity associated with the protein backbone itself. We can provide a series of technologies for glycoprotein detection and analysis.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-detection-by-staining-procedures.htm
Glycoproteins are a group of proteins with oligosaccharide chains or glycans covalently attached to amino acid side-chains. These proteins are ubiquitously distributed and play an important role in various biological processes, such as cell signaling, cell-cell interaction, immune recognition, cell proliferation, and differentiation. Therefore, the alterations of glycoproteins possess a close relationship with the progression of diseases, such as autoimmune disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer.
https://www.creative-biolabs.com/glycoprotein/glycoprotein-biomarkers-research.htm
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.