Picturing the moon: Hevelius’s and Riccioli’s visual debate

This article investigates the maps of the moon produced in the mid-seventeenth century by Jesuit Giambattista Riccioli (1598-1671) and Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), whose cartographic projects competed for widespread acceptance. Although Hevelius’s Selenographia (1647) was applauded for its many detailed, self-engraved pictures of the moon, his cartography and proposed nomenclature were supplanted by Riccioli’s as offered in Almagestum novum (1651), in spite of the latter’s simplistic pictures and promotion of geocentric cosmology. Exploring this paradox through pictorial analysis, three types of images common to both Selenographia and Almagestum novum are compared, employing an analytical tool developed by Svetlana Alpers in The art of describing (1983). A focus on this debate exposes the tensions evoked by new technologies of vision and competing cultures of visual epistemology in seventeenth-century astronomy. As both selenographers grappled with questions about the role of representation and what kinds of knowledge could be generated visually, the successes and failures of their competing projects present implications for the course of visual astronomy, as well as for our understanding of the use of ‘visual technologies’ in a period of controversy.     

Common Molecular Mechanisms of Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer

During its lifetime, the mammary gland undergoes many phases of development and differentiation. Much of this occurs during puberty, when the ductal epithelium expands by branching morphogenesis, invading the surrounding fat pad to form an organised mammary tree. Throughout its existence, the epithelium will go through several cycles of proliferation and cell death during pregnancy, lactation and involution. Many of the signalling mechanisms which control the initial invasion of the fat pad by the epithelium, and regulate its continuing plasticity, can be harnessed or corrupted by tumour cells in order to support their aberrant growth and progression towards invasion. This is true not just for the epithelial cells themselves but also for cells in the surrounding microenvironment, including fibroblasts, macrophages and adipocytes. This review examines the complex web of signalling and adhesion interactions controlling branching morphogenesis, and how their alteration can promote malignancy. Current in vivo and in vitro mammary gland models are also discussed. (Part of a Multi-author Review)     

带随机振幅的正弦波过程在Haar小波下的性质

研究了一类随机过程：x(t)=Ucosλt Vsinλt，在Haar小波下的性质，得到平稳性、相关性和稠度．     

面向对象Petri网及其在告警服务代理软件中的应用

首先介绍面向对象Petri网(OOPN)的定义和图形表示法,接着以告警服务代理软件设计为例,对其OOPN进行了详细分析,最后给出该系统实现的主体代码结构。     

1997～2002年《河南大学学报》（自然版）载文及引文分析

运用文献计量学的研究方法，对1997～2002年《河南大学学报》(自然版)所载论文的数量、学科、基金项目及引文进行了统计分析，以期帮助编辑和读者通过数据客观认识《学报》的学术价值和编辑特点。     

核磁共振成像用磁体的计算机辅助设计

核磁共振成像用的磁体要求在一定的磁场强度下保持大范围的均匀度。本文给出球形空芯磁体和环形空芯磁体的计算机辅助设计方法。     

DEA-based anti-HIV immunotherapy model

Acquiredimmunitydeficiencysyndrome(AIDS)isoneofthemostfataldiseasesthathasspreadacrossthewholeworldsinceitfirstoccurred.Itiscausedbythehumanimmunodeficiencyvirus(HIV)[1].Mostofthechemotherapiesareaimedatkillingorhaltingthepathogen,butanewtreatmentistoreduceviralpopulationandimprovetheimmuneresponse.Thistreatmentcanboosttheimmunesystemandservetohelpthebodyfightinfectiononitsown,soitiscalledantiHIVimmunotherapy[2,3].TheaimofthisworkistofindefficientstrategiesforsuchtreatmentsusingtheDataEnv…     

一类随机过程的多尺度建模

基于多尺度随机模型具有有效性和高度并行算法这一优势，提出如何用三阶树多尺度模型来表示1-D Reciprocal过程；并如何获得多尺度模型的参数。这就为具有Markov统计特性的信号或过程建立起一般的三阶树多尺度随机模型，为更有效的解决实际问题提供了理沦基础，同时，给出了一类定义在单位区间上的随机过程三阶树多尺度表示的仿真示例。     

谈谈多媒体英语教学

文章介绍综合利用软件，创造良好的多媒体英语教学环境的方法和多媒体在英语课堂上的使用，以及多媒体英语教学需要注意的问题。     

数列{N(u,v)=2uv+u+v}的若干性质

本文得出了数列{N（u,v)=2uv u v}的一些性质，并提出了关于素数的一个猜想。