Sufficient Reason and Reason Enough

I offer an analysis of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and its relevancy for the scientific endeavour. I submit that the world is not, and cannot be, rational—only some brained beings are. The Principle of Sufficient Reason is not a necessary truth nor a physical law. It is just a guiding metanomological hypothesis justified a posteriori by its success in helping us to unveil the mechanisms that operate in Nature.     

城市化进程中上海植被的多样性、空间格局和动态响应（Ⅶ）： 上海浦东近自然森林十年间的动态变化及模式优化

以2000年在上海浦东新区营建的近自然森林为研究对象,通过对群落种类组成、植株密度、植株高度、胸径和土壤养分的跟踪调查,研究了近自然森林十年间的动态变化.结果表明：经过10 年生长,林分长势良好,植物种类组成基本上仍以初期种植的物种为主,伴有少量自然侵入种;由于建设前期缺乏荫蔽,苦槠（Castanopsis sclerophylla）、红楠（Machilus thunbergii）等常绿阔叶树种枯死较多,枫香（Liquidambar formosana）和女贞（Ligustrum lucidum）死亡率低、生长迅速,逐渐占据群落上层后,常绿阔叶树种逐渐适应群落环境,趋于稳定生长;随着群落的发展近自然森林土壤养分较种植初期稳定上升.针对存在的问题,结合近自然森林优化模式建设的尝试,提出了“异龄复层落叶—常绿混交林”的种植模式,为城市地标性的植物群落构建提供指导与参考.     

多单相逆变器线与工作的Multisim仿真

线与的概念来源于数字逻辑电路系统,本文将其应用在逆变驱动系统中,即不借助于任何接口控制电路,将多个单相逆变器的输出端直接并联在一起,共同驱动同一个负载.该技术的关键在于:系统中每一个单相逆变器根据其自身的承载力按比例分担负载的相应分量,本文利用频率、基波电压以及谐波电压的衰减校正算法来完成的,最后用Multisim的仿...     

基于变差系数法的水污染物总量分配模型

在考虑排污权公平准则的基础上,将数学领域的变差系数概念引入环境领域,选取与水污染物排放量紧密相关的各项指标,并利用各项指标的变差系数来度量各个区域的社会、经济和环境等客观因素发展的不平衡,同时应用相关系数法确定各项指标权重,建立了一种新的基于变差系数加权和的水污染物总量优化分配模型,并将该模型应用于汉江水源地汉中市的水污染物COD总量分配中。实验结果表明:该优化模型能够考虑各区域之间的差异,缩小各区域间总量分配的不均衡,是一种更具公平性和可行性的分配方法。     

Molecular basis of parathyroid hormone receptor signaling and trafficking: a family B GPCR paradigm

The parathyroid hormone (PTH) receptor type 1 (PTHR), a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), transmits signals to two hormone systems—PTH, endocrine and homeostatic, and PTH-related peptide (PTHrP), paracrine—to regulate different biological processes. PTHR responds to these hormonal stimuli by activating heterotrimeric G proteins, such as G_S that stimulates cAMP production. It was thought that the PTHR, as for all other GPCRs, is only active and signals through G proteins on the cell membrane, and internalizes into a cell to be desensitized and eventually degraded or recycled. Recent studies with cultured cell and animal models reveal a new pathway that involves sustained cAMP signaling from intracellular domains. Not only do these studies challenge the paradigm that cAMP production triggered by activated GPCRs originates exclusively at the cell membrane but they also advance a comprehensive model to account for the functional differences between PTH and PTHrP acting through the same receptor.     

孙村煤矿五级安全隐患排查治理运作实践

详细介绍了山东新汶矿区孙村煤矿生产过程中如何引用五级安全隐患排查治理方法,使煤矿安全隐患治理从简单的经验管理转变为可操作的制度管理,从而保证了煤矿安全生产的做法。     

FeCl3与30% H2O2对醇的催化氧化

以FeCl3为催化剂,环境友好的30%H2O2为氧化剂,研究了对甲氧基苯甲醇的催化氧化,考察了影响反应的各种因素,实现了最优条件下其他醇的催化氧化.结果表明,用30%H2O2氧化醇时,FeCl3是较好的催化剂,在温和条件下,一系列醇都可被氧化成相应的羰基化合物.     

变质产品供应链中多品种的订购策略研究

针对核心企业为订货商的变质产品供应链,建立了多品种的库存模型,分析了基于三种不同订购策略的总成本函数的性质,提出了多种变质产品的近似最优订购策略.最后,通过算例对理论结果加以说明.     

虚拟企业伙伴选择的多目标方法新探

虚拟企业成功的关键是能否选择出理想的合作伙伴。在分析虚拟企业理想伙伴基本特征的基础上 ,抽象归纳出选择理想合作伙伴应考虑的主要因素 ,对多目标决策方法加以适度改进 ,给出了选择理想合作伙伴的一种新方法。对多目标中的效益型指标、成本型指标、区间型指标及固定型指标分别进行标准化 ,根据标准化后的最优点和最劣点 ,求出各方案的密切值 ,由密切值的大小来选择最终合作伙伴。     

Steady-state kinetic studies with the polysulfonate U-9843, an HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitor

The tetramer of ethylenesulfonic acid (U-9843) is a potent inhibitor of HIV-1 RT^* and possesses excellent antiviral activity at nontoxic doses in HIV-1 infected lymphocytes grown in tissue culture. Kinetic studies of the HIV-1 RT-catalyzed RNA-directed DNA polymerase activity were carried out in order to determine if the inhibitor interacts with the template: primer or the deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) binding sites of the polymerase. Michaelis-Menten kinetics, which are based on the establishment of a rapid equilibrium between the enzyme and its substrates, proved inadequate for the analysis of the experimental data. The data were thus analyzed using steady-state Briggs-Haldane kinetics assuming that the template:primer binds to the enzyme first, followed by the binding of the dNTP and that the polymerase is a processive enzyme. Based on these assumptions, a velocity equation was derived which allows the calculation of all the specific forward and backward rate constants for the reactions occurring between the enzyme, its substrates and the inhibitor. The calculated rate constants are in agreement with this model and the results indicated that U-9843 acts as a noncompetitive inhibitor with respect to both the template:primer and dNTP binding sites. Hence, U-9843 exhibits the same binding affinity for the free enzyme as for the enzyme-substrate complexes and must inhibit the RT polymerase by interacting with a site distinct from the substrate binding sites. Thus, U-9843 appears to impair an event occurring after the formation of the enzyme-substrate complexes, which involves either an event leading up to the formation of the phosphoester bond, the formation of the ester bond itself or translocation of the enzyme relative to its template:primer following the formation of the ester bond.