50 research outputs found
A peroxotungstate-ionic liquid brush assembly: an efficient and reusable catalyst for selectively oxidizing sulfides with aqueous H2O2 solution in neat water
CodeFuse-13B: A Pretrained Multi-lingual Code Large Language Model
Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) have gained significant attention in
the industry due to their wide applications in the full lifecycle of software
engineering. However, the effectiveness of existing models in understanding
non-English inputs for multi-lingual code-related tasks is still far from well
studied. This paper introduces CodeFuse-13B, an open-sourced pre-trained code
LLM. It is specifically designed for code-related tasks with both English and
Chinese prompts and supports over 40 programming languages. CodeFuse achieves
its effectiveness by utilizing a high quality pre-training dataset that is
carefully filtered by program analyzers and optimized during the training
process. Extensive experiments are conducted using real-world usage scenarios,
the industry-standard benchmark HumanEval-x, and the specially designed
CodeFuseEval for Chinese prompts. To assess the effectiveness of CodeFuse, we
actively collected valuable human feedback from the AntGroup's software
development process where CodeFuse has been successfully deployed. The results
demonstrate that CodeFuse-13B achieves a HumanEval pass@1 score of 37.10%,
positioning it as one of the top multi-lingual code LLMs with similar parameter
sizes. In practical scenarios, such as code generation, code translation, code
comments, and testcase generation, CodeFuse performs better than other models
when confronted with Chinese prompts.Comment: 10 pages with 2 pages for reference
MoVam7, a Conserved SNARE Involved in Vacuole Assembly, Is Required for Growth, Endocytosis, ROS Accumulation, and Pathogenesis of Magnaporthe oryzae
Soluble NSF attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins play a central role in membrane fusion and vesicle transport of eukaryotic organisms including fungi. We previously identified MoSce22 as a homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae SNARE protein Sec22 to be involved in growth, stress resistance, and pathogenicity of Magnaporthe oryzae. Here, we provide evidences that MoVam7, an ortholog of S. cerevisiae SNARE protein Vam7, exerts conserved functions in vacuolar morphogenesis and functions in pathogenicity of M. oryzae. Staining with neutral red and FM4-64 revealed the presence of abnormal fragmented vacuoles and an absence of the Spitzenkörper body in the ΔMovam7 mutant. The ΔMovam7 mutant also exhibited reduced vegetative growth, poor conidiation, and failure to produce the infection structure appressorium. Additionally, treatments with cell wall perturbing agents indicated weakened cell walls and altered distributions of the cell wall component chitin. Furthermore, the ΔMovam7 mutant showed a reduced accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the hyphal apex and failed to cause diseases on the rice plant. In summary, our studies indicate that MoVam7, like MoSec22, is a component of the SNARE complex whose functions in vacuole assembly also underlies the growth, conidiation, appressorium formation, and pathogenicity of M. oryzae. Further studies of MoVam7, MoSec22, and additional members of the SNARE complex are likely to reveal critical mechanisms in vacuole formation and membrane trafficking that is linked to fungal pathogenicity
The role of vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE) from Nicotiana benthamiana in the elicitor-triggered hypersensitive response and stomatal closure
Elicitors/pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) trigger the plant immune system, leading to rapid programmed cell death (hypersensitive response, HR) and stomatal closure. Previous reports have shown that the vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE), a cysteine proteinase responsible for the maturation of vacuolar proteins, has caspase-1-like activity and mediates TMV- and mycotoxin-induced cell death. The role of VPE from Nicotiana benthamiana in the response to three elicitors: bacterial harpin, fungal Nep1, and oomycete boehmerin, is described here. Single-silenced (NbVPE1a or NbVPE1b) and dual-silenced (NbVPE1a/1b) N. benthamiana plants were produced by virus-induced gene silencing. Although NbVPE silencing does not affect H2O2 accumulation triggered by boehmerin, harpin, or Nep1, the HR is absent in NbVPE1a- and NbVPE1a/1b-silenced plants treated with harpin alone. However, NbVPE-silenced plants develop a normal HR after boehmerin and Nep1 treatment. These results suggest that harpin-triggered HR is VPE-dependent. Surprisingly, all gene-silenced plants show significantly impaired elicitor-induced stomatal closure and elicitor-promoted nitric oxide (NO) production in guard cells. Dual-silenced plants show increased elicitor-triggered AOS production in guard cells. The accumulation of transcripts associated with defence and cell redox is modified by VPE silencing in elicitor signalling. Overall, these results indicate that VPE from N. benthamiana functions not only in elicitor-induced HR, but also in elicitor-induced stomatal closure, suggesting that VPE may be involved in elicitor-triggered immunity
Complete Genomic Characterization of a Pathogenic A.II Strain of Francisella tularensis Subspecies tularensis
Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia, which is a highly lethal disease from nature and potentially from a biological weapon. This species contains four recognized subspecies including the North American endemic F. tularensis subsp. tularensis (type A), whose genetic diversity is correlated with its geographic distribution including a major population subdivision referred to as A.I and A.II. The biological significance of the A.I – A.II genetic differentiation is unknown, though there are suggestive ecological and epidemiological correlations. In order to understand the differentiation at the genomic level, we have determined the complete sequence of an A.II strain (WY96-3418) and compared it to the genome of Schu S4 from the A.I population. We find that this A.II genome is 1,898,476 bp in size with 1,820 genes, 1,303 of which code for proteins. While extensive genomic variation exists between “WY96” and Schu S4, there is only one whole gene difference. This one gene difference is a hypothetical protein of unknown function. In contrast, there are numerous SNPs (3,367), small indels (1,015), IS element differences (7) and large chromosomal rearrangements (31), including both inversions and translocations. The rearrangement borders are frequently associated with IS elements, which would facilitate intragenomic recombination events. The pathogenicity island duplicated regions (DR1 and DR2) are essentially identical in WY96 but vary relative to Schu S4 at 60 nucleotide positions. Other potential virulence-associated genes (231) varied at 559 nucleotide positions, including 357 non-synonymous changes. Molecular clock estimates for the divergence time between A.I and A.II genomes for different chromosomal regions ranged from 866 to 2131 years before present. This paper is the first complete genomic characterization of a member of the A.II clade of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis
Proteogenomic analysis of psoriasis reveals discordant and concordant changes in mRNA and protein abundance
A modified domestic microwave oven and its use in saponification of oils and fats under normal pressure
515-518A modified domestic microwave oven equipped with an electromagnetic stirrer and a condenser has been described and its use in the saponification of oils and fats, such as vegetable oil, cattle fat, and pig fat, has been investigated under normal pressure. The experimental results showed that using the improved domestic microwave, which enables two common experimental operations—stirring and refluxing, the saponification rate is rapid with high yield. Accordingly, on the basis of exciting outcome, it can be deduced preliminarily that the modified device is suitable to most of the chemosynthetic experiments
Analysis and evaluation of the experience applied to the evaluation of the theme hotel
The theme hotel takes a phenomenon as the theme, such as history, urban, cultural, geographic, ethnic, natural, etc., starting from the tangible aspects of the hotel hardware (construction, decoration, product, etc.) to the hotel software (to create the atmosphere, service and other intangible aspects)around the theme, which gives customers a valuable, meaningful, impressive, unique and memorable experience. With a little research, you may find theme hotel rooms are decked out in any number of motifs. From romantic fantasies to family friendly, theme hotel rooms are a popular way to create a very memorable trip. Theme hotel is a new form of hotel development, although it has a short history in our country, as a new trend of international hotel industry development, it provides a new idea for hotel industry development which is in a fierce competition situation. Recent years, the market competition of China's hotel became more and more fierce; the needs of customers became more personalized and diversified; and people pay more and more attention on experiential Consumption, thus theme hotel emerged in this context. Under the background of the domestic and foreign research, this paper studied the influence of travel experience in theme hotel on the tourism motivation with factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis. The study found that the customers have diverse motivations of staying in theme hotel, and different demographic attributes of customers and their motives are quite different, theme hotel manager should develop different theme based on different motives, and the motivation of staying also have a great impact on customer's satisfaction and behavioral intentions after staying
Crystal structures and properties of two Cu(I) complexes based on Keggin-type clusters and diethyl 4,4′-dicarboxy-2,2′-biquinoline acid
Structural features and photocatalytic performance of H<sub>3</sub>Nb<sub>6</sub>O<sub>19</sub><sup>5-</sup> intercalated Ni-Ti-LDHs
962-966Ni-Ti-layered double hydroxides (Ni-Ti-LDHs) have been synthesized by co-precipitation and modified by H3Nb6O195-polyanion. The as-prepared samples have been characterized by power X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared and UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The photocatalytic performance has been evaluated by oxidation of ethyl mercaptan as a probe molecule. The results show that there is an obvious interaction between H3Nb6O195- and laminates, and interlayer H3Nb6O195- polyanion enhances the adsorption and photocatalytic performance of Ni-Ti-LDHs for oxidation of ethyl mercaptan