HIV-1 superinfection despite broad CD8+ T-cell responses containing replication of the primary virus

Early treatment of acute HIV-1 infection followed by treatment interruptions has shown promise for enhancing immune control of infection. A subsequent loss of control, however, allows the correlates of protective immunity to be assessed. Here we show that sudden breakthrough of plasma viraemia occurred after prolonged immune containment in an individual infected with HIV-1 at a time when 25 distinct CD8+ T-cell epitopes in the viral proteins Gag, RT, Integrase, Env, Nef, Vpr, Vif and Rev were being targeted. Sequencing of the virus in plasma and cells showed that superinfection with a second clade-B virus was coincident with the loss of immune control. This sudden increase in viraemia was associated with a decline in half of the CD8+ T-cell responses. The declining CD8+ T-cell responses were coupled with sequence changes relative to the initial virus that resulted in impaired recognition. Our data show that HIV-1 superinfection can occur in the setting of a strong and broadly directed virus-specific CD8+ T-cell response. The lack of cross-protective immunity for closely related HIV-1 strains, despite persistent recognition of multiple CD8 epitopes, has important implications for public health and vaccine development.     

Multiple ionization of atom clusters by intense soft X-rays from a free-electron laser

Intense radiation from lasers has opened up many new areas of research in physics and chemistry, and has revolutionized optical technology. So far, most work in the field of nonlinear processes has been restricted to infrared, visible and ultraviolet light, although progress in the development of X-ray lasers has been made recently. With the advent of a free-electron laser in the soft-X-ray regime below 100 nm wavelength, a new light source is now available for experiments with intense, short-wavelength radiation that could be used to obtain deeper insights into the structure of matter. Other free-electron sources with even shorter wavelengths are planned for the future. Here we present initial results from a study of the interaction of soft X-ray radiation, generated by a free-electron laser, with Xe atoms and clusters. We find that, whereas Xe atoms become only singly ionized by the absorption of single photons, absorption in clusters is strongly enhanced. On average, each atom in large clusters absorbs up to 400 eV, corresponding to 30 photons. We suggest that the clusters are heated up and electrons are emitted after acquiring sufficient energy. The clusters finally disintegrate completely by Coulomb explosion.     

Autoregressive gamma processes

We introduce a class of autoregressive gamma processes with conditional distributions from the family of noncentred gamma (up to a scale factor). The paper provides the stationarity and ergodicity conditions for ARG processes of any autoregressive order p, including long memory, and closed‐form expressions of conditional moments. The nonlinear state space representation of an ARG process is used to derive the filtering, smoothing and forecasting algorithms. The paper also presents estimation and inference methods, illustrated by an application to interquote durations data on an infrequently traded stock listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

新疆西天山西段金铜成矿带——中亚成矿域东延

新疆西天山西段位于哈萨克斯坦 -伊犁板块的东南部边缘 ,包括伊犁石炭纪裂谷、那拉提地块、哈尔克早古生代被动陆缘褶皱带。主要已知矿床 (点 )按其容矿围岩可分为镁铁 -超镁铁岩型、斑岩型、花岗岩型、矽卡岩型、陆相火山岩型、陆相沉积岩型、浅变质含碳碎屑岩型。根据区内成矿地质条件、矿化特征 ,区内以找金矿主 ,兼顾铜镍矿等。金矿以穆龙套型和火山岩型金矿为主 ,同时注意卡林型和中 -酸性侵入岩内外接触带型 ;铜矿以镁铁 -超镁铁岩型和火山岩型为主。地质与成矿条件与中亚成矿域具有可比性 ,因此 ,新疆西天山西段金铜成矿带应为中亚成矿域东延部分     

新疆昭苏水磨沟铜金矿特征

新疆西天山下石炭统大哈拉军山组地层中产有众多的金矿体。通过对昭苏水磨沟铜金矿床矿化特征的研究 ,总结出这类矿床的成矿规律是 :下石炭统大哈拉军山组中酸性火山岩是矿源层 ;区域性大断裂是矿质运移通道 ,其中的低级别、低序次构造为容矿空间 ;华力西期钾长花岗岩是形成铜金矿的能量来源 ;绿片岩相以下的动力变质作用是矿化富集的条件。矿床成因应属构造破碎蚀变岩型铜金矿床     

中国南方海相震旦系-中三叠统层序划分与对比

在对中国南方不同地区海相震旦系-中三叠统基干剖面和辅助剖面详细观测研究的基础上,对震旦系-中三叠统进行了系统的层序划分对比,共识别出13个超层序和99个三级层序,讨论了13个超层序的特征,建立了中国南方海相震旦系-中三叠统的层序格架.总体上看各超层序在整个中国南方不同盆地、不同相带的剖面上可以完全对比,但同一个超层序内所包含的三级层序个数及完整性有所不同.对于三级沉积层序来说,半数以上可以得到化石带较为准确的年代控制并在同一个构造分区甚至整个中国南方进行对比,部分层序甚至还可以在三级层序的体系域层次进行对比.表明从整个中国南方来看二级相对海平面升降变化更具有一致性,而三级相对海平面的变化规律在不同盆地、不同相带有所差异.     

Distance Models for Three-Way Tables and Three-Way Association

p similarity function, the L _p -transform and the Minkowski-p distance. For triadic distance models defined by the L _p -transform we will prove that they do not model three-way association. Moreover, triadic distance models defined by the L _p -transform are restricted multiple dyadic distances, where each dyadic distance is defined for a two-way margin of the three-way table. Distance models for three-way two-mode data, called three-way distance models, do succeed in modeling three-way association.     

最优状态编码研究

探讨了状态机电路最优状态编码的问题。研究了状态编码的成本及寄存器最优、组合逻辑最优之间的关系，介绍了3种常用的编码方法。通过实验分析差异。     

一类连续不可微函数的构造及其Bouligand维数

 利用Buch的方法构造出了一类处处连续,但处处不可微函数,该函数是Buch所构造出的函数的推广,并对该函数图像的盒(Bouligand)维数进行了估计,得出了Buch函数的盒维数只是其中的一种特殊情况.     

微量Mg对纯Ag的性能影响

 在99.995%Ag中添加8×10^-5Mg制成99.99%纯Ag,进行机械性能测试试验.当ε=98%时,在25℃下保存200d,其强度和硬度稳定不变.即在99.995%的高纯Ag中存在有微量镁,使Ag在结晶过程中出现少量Ag溶Mg的固溶体颗粒,细化Ag的晶粒,晶界增多,变形抗力增大.起到强化和稳定机械性能的作用.