金属丰度和对流超射对恒星演化影响的初步探讨

文章采用了pd90程序模拟了5 M⊙的恒星,在主序和主序后的演化情况。并且根据其程序给出的计算结果,绘出了5 M⊙恒星的赫罗图。选择金属丰度和对流超射的不问参数,形成六条赫罗图线。在赫罗图中,对5 M⊙的恒星其金属丰度和对流超射对恒星演化的影响进行讨论。从赫罗图中的lgL/L⊙和lgTeff,与演化时间序列图,可以直观的得出金属丰度和对流超射变化对恒星演化的影响。     

Polymorphic Indian ricegrass populations result from overlapping waves of migration

Indian ricegrass ( Achnatherum hymenoides [Roem. & Schult.] Barkworth) is a rangeland species native to western North America with populations that may exhibit distinct seed-size morphs borne on separate plants. These morphs are often associated with very different levels of seed dormancy. We compared RAPD profiles of the relatively infrequent and highly dormant jumbo seed morph to its more germinable small or large (non-jumbo) companion seed morphs collected from 9 sites where they were sympatric. Jumbo seed accessions from 9 additional sites that did not exhibit seed polymorphism were included to better sample this seed morph across the species' range. Sympatric seed morphs were consistently distinguishable by their RAPD profiles, and sympatric seed morphs were no more likely to cluster together than nonsympatric seed morphs. The ability of sympatric seed morphs to maintain their genetic identity is compatible with the hypothesis of a predominately autogamous breeding system. Furthermore, these data support the hypothesis that local polymorphic populations result from overlapping waves of migration with distinct geographical origins. The jumbo seed morphs exhibited moderate correlation between genetic distance and geographic distance, but the non-jumbo seed morphs exhibited no such correlation. Jumbo seed morphs that were collected at or east of the Continental Divide in New Mexico and Colorado are more genetically homogeneous than those west of the Continental Divide, and non-jumbo seed morphs from the east are more genetically variable than jumbo seed morphs from the same locations. This suggests that gene flow eastward across the Rocky Mountains has been more frequent for the non-jumbo seed morphs than for the jumbo seed morphs.     

Primate spinal interneurons show pre-movement instructed delay activity.

Preparatory changes in neural activity before the execution of a movement have been documented in tasks that involve an instructed delay period (an interval between a transient instruction cue and a subsequently triggered movement). Such preparatory activity occurs in many motor centres in the brain, including the primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, supplementary motor area and basal ganglia. Activity during the instructed delay period reflects movement planning, as it correlates with parameters of the cue and the subsequent movement (such as direction and extent), although it occurs well before muscle activity. How such delay-period activity shapes the ensuing motor action remains unknown. Here we show that spinal interneurons also exhibit early pre-movement delay activity that often differs from their responses during the subsequent muscle activity. This delay activity resembles the set-related activity found in various supraspinal areas, indicating that movement preparation may occur simultaneously over widely distributed regions, including spinal levels. Our results also suggest that two processes occur in the spinal circuitry during this delay period: the motor network is primed with rate changes in the same direction as subsequent movement-related activity; and a superimposed global inhibition suppresses the expression of this activity in muscles.     

利用相比率影像方法研究月球月谷Schroteri区域

我们利用月球侦察轨道器（LRO）的窄角相机（NAC）数据,使用一种新的光学遥感方法—相比率影像法,来评估月表亚分辨率尺度的粗糙度.我们用该方法对月面谷Vallis Schrteri地区的三维相比率影像进行分析后发现,在月面谷侧面上风化物的复杂运动模式与撞击坑并无关联,而是由风化物和岩屑形成的,而非冲击熔融.     

Multiplicity of monoamine oxidase in chick brain.

The substrate- and inhibitor-related characteristics of monoamine oxidase (MAO) were studied on chick brain mitochondria. It was found that neither 5-hydroxytryptamine nor beta-phenylethylamine is the specific substrate for type A and type B MAO in chick brain.     

Alteration of early T lymphocyte count in patients with herpes genitalis.

Peripheral blood samples from 52 women, including 16 with herpes genitalis and 36 healthy persons, were studied to enumerate subpopulations of lymphocytes. It was found that the mean percentage of 'active' T lymphocytes was significantly less in the patients with herpes genitalis than in the controls.     

Evidence against the involvement of cyclic GMP in the insulin-stimulation of lipoprotein lipase activity in fat cells

Under in vitro experimental conditions in which insulin increases adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase, cyclic GMP or dibutyryl cyclic GMP has no effect on this enzyme in rat adipose tissue fragments, or on either the intra- or extracellular forms of this enzyme in isolated fat cells. These results do not support the involvement of cyclic GMP in the insulin-stimulation of lipoprotein lipase in adipose tissue.