运用Actigraph GT3X三轴加速度传感器测量成年及老年男性人群步行的信效度研究

评价Actigraph GT3X三轴加速度传感器测量中国男性人群典型体力互动信效度,开发基于中国人群步行活动模式的GT3X三轴加速度传感器能耗推算方程。方法受试对象包括青年组(21.92±1.14岁),老年组(55.5±4.52岁)。受试者佩戴GT3X三轴加速度传感器,在跑台上分别完成3km/h(慢走)、4.5km/h(正常步行)、4.5km/h10%(上坡步行)、6km/h(快走)以及7.5km/h(慢跑)速度的走跑运动各5min。受试者佩戴COSMED K4b2便携式代谢测试仪,并将GT3X三轴加速度传感器佩戴于髋部,同步采集心肺功能仪及加速度传感器数据。结果根据受试对象4种无坡度走跑运动推导出线性方程MET=0.000653*counts(Axis1)+2.345521以及线性方程MET=0.000689*counts(VM)+1.640721,但其相关系数不高;GT3X+三轴加速度传感器记录上坡步行(4.5km/h10%)运动与无坡度运动(4.5km/h)相比,三轴counts及VM均显示有差异性(P<0.05),但counts增加率远低于MET增加率;GT3X+三轴加速度传感器两次重复测试,pearson值高,即离散程度低。结论本研究推导垂直轴(Axis1)、三轴矢量和(VM)的线性方程,为中度相关,误差值较大,且上坡运动时的GT3X+三轴加速度传感器记录counts值与MET值呈非线性相关,提示Actigraph GT3X三轴加速度传感器能耗推算方程可根据不同运动方式、运动强度推算相对应方程;Actigraph GT3X三轴加速度传感器测量我国成年及老年男性人群步行活动其信度较高。     

兰州黄河岸边卵石层大吨位桩基自平衡法试验研究

对兰州深安黄河大桥进行桩基自平衡法试验。在对黄河岸边的岩土层进行桩基试验时,对桩基的极限侧阻力和端阻力标准值的取值提出建议,并在兰州地区进行自平衡法桩基试验时,对桩基侧摩阻力的取值提出建议。     

Junctional adhesion molecule-A: functional diversity through molecular promiscuity

Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) of the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) regulate important processes such as cell proliferation, differentiation and morphogenesis. This activity is primarily due to their ability to initiate intracellular signaling cascades at cell–cell contact sites. Junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A) is an IgSF-CAM with a short cytoplasmic tail that has no catalytic activity. Nevertheless, JAM-A is involved in a variety of biological processes. The functional diversity of JAM-A resides to a large part in a C-terminal PDZ domain binding motif which directly interacts with nine different PDZ domain-containing proteins. The molecular promiscuity of its PDZ domain motif allows JAM-A to recruit protein scaffolds to specific sites of cell–cell adhesion and to assemble signaling complexes at those sites. Here, we review the molecular characteristics of JAM-A, including its dimerization, its interaction with scaffolding proteins, and the phosphorylation of its cytoplasmic domain, and we describe how these characteristics translate into diverse biological activities.     

Current knowledge on exosome biogenesis and release

Exosomes are nanosized membrane vesicles released by fusion of an organelle of the endocytic pathway, the multivesicular body, with the plasma membrane. This process was discovered more than 30 years ago, and during these years, exosomes have gone from being considered as cellular waste disposal to mediate a novel mechanism of cell-to-cell communication. The exponential interest in exosomes experienced during recent years is due to their important roles in health and disease and to their potential clinical application in therapy and diagnosis. However, important aspects of the biology of exosomes remain unknown. To explore the use of exosomes in the clinic, it is essential that the basic molecular mechanisms behind the transport and function of these vesicles are better understood. We have here summarized what is presently known about how exosomes are formed and released by cells. Moreover, other cellular processes related to exosome biogenesis and release, such as autophagy and lysosomal exocytosis are presented. Finally, methodological aspects related to exosome release studies are discussed.     

Defining G protein-coupled receptor peptide ligand expressomes and signalomes in human and mouse islets

Introduction

Islets synthesise and secrete numerous peptides, some of which are known to be important regulators of islet function and glucose homeostasis. In this study, we quantified mRNAs encoding all peptide ligands of islet G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in isolated human and mouse islets and carried out in vitro islet hormone secretion studies to provide functional confirmation for the species-specific role of peptide YY (PYY) in mouse islets.

Materials and methods

GPCR peptide ligand mRNAs in human and mouse islets were quantified by quantitative real-time PCR relative to the reference genes ACTB, GAPDH, PPIA, TBP and TFRC. The pathways connecting GPCR peptide ligands with their receptors were identified by manual searches in the PubMed, IUPHAR and Ingenuity databases. Distribution of PYY protein in mouse and human islets was determined by immunohistochemistry. Insulin, glucagon and somatostatin secretion from islets was measured by radioimmunoassay.

Results

We have quantified GPCR peptide ligand mRNA expression in human and mouse islets and created specific signalomes mapping the pathways by which islet peptide ligands regulate human and mouse GPCR signalling. We also identified species-specific islet expression of several GPCR ligands. In particular, PYY mRNA levels were ~ 40,000-fold higher in mouse than human islets, suggesting a more important role of locally secreted Pyy in mouse islets. This was confirmed by IHC and functional experiments measuring insulin, glucagon and somatostatin secretion.

Discussion

The detailed human and mouse islet GPCR peptide ligand atlases will allow accurate translation of mouse islet functional studies for the identification of GPCR/peptide signalling pathways relevant for human physiology, which may lead to novel treatment modalities of diabetes and metabolic disease.

     

基于GAN的通信干扰波形生成技术

现有通信干扰方法, 通常基于通信侦察中获取的目标信号特征进行干扰决策, 选取合适的干扰波形实施干扰, 难以应对目标信号特征未知或参数动态变化的情况。为此, 提出一种基于生成对抗网络(generative adversarial networks, GAN)的通信干扰波形生成技术, 运用GAN直接提取目标信号的潜在特征, 并生成与目标信号特征相似的干扰波形。在介绍GAN原理的基础上, 首先设计网络模型, 并对学习率进行优化, 使GAN更适用于时间序列通信干扰波形的生成。然后通过对不同类型和参数的通信信号进行干扰波形生成实验, 验证了该技术的泛化性。最后进行干扰效果对比试验, 结果表明, GAN生成的干扰波形干扰效果能够逼近最佳干扰效果。     

An Economic Model-Based Matching Approach Between Buyers and Sellers Through a Broker in an Open E-Marketplace

A broker in an open e-marketplace enables buyers and sellers to do business with each other. Although a broker plays an important role in e-marketplaces, theory and guidelines for matching between buyers and sellers in multi-attribute exchanges are limited. Therefore, a challenge for a broker’s responsibility is how to maximize a buyer’s total satisfaction degree as its goals under the consideration of trade-off between a buyer’s buying quantity and price paid to a seller, and other attributes. To solve this challenge, this paper proposes an economic model-based matching approach between a buyer’s requirements and a seller’s offers. The major contributions of this paper are that (i) a broker can model a seller’s price policy as per a buyer’s buying quantity through communication between a broker and a seller; (ii) due to each buyer’s different quantity demand, a broker models a buyer’s satisfaction degree as per a buyer’s buying quantity based on communication between a broker and a buyer; and (iii) to carry out a broker’s matching processes, an objective function and a set of constraints are generated to help a broker to maximize a buyer’s total satisfaction degree. Experimental results demonstrate the good performance of the proposed approach.     

Synthesis and Largely Enhanced Nonlinear Refraction of Au@Cu_2O Core-Shell Nanorods

Au@Cu_2O core-shell nanorods with tunable thickness of Cu_2O shell were synthesized and their linear and nonlinear optical responses were investigated. Two transverse plasmon resonance peaks were observed when the Au nanorods were coated with Cu_2O shells, which were adjusted by the Cu_2O shell thickness. The nonlinear absorption of the Au@Cu_2O nanorods is enhanced by 5 times at the longitudinal plasmon resonance wavelength compared with that of bare Au nanorods. More intriguingly, largely enhanced nonlinear refraction and suppressed nonlinear absorption at the transverse plasmon resonance wavelength were observed in the Au@Cu_2O nanorods. Our findings indicate the existence of strong local field enhancement at the interface between the Au core and the Cu_2O shell, which would provide a promising strategy in designing plasmonic nonlinear nanodevices with good nonlinear figures of merit.     

Study on the Centralization Strategy of the Blood Allocation Among Different Departments within a Hospital

By far, the researches on how to distribute blood products among different departments in hospital have not been further studied, though the problem of blood shortage and wastage that caused by improper blood allocation is severe, which may endanger patient’s lives and impose considerable costs on hospitals. In order to solve this problem, this paper mainly studies on how to distribute the blood items among different departments within a hospital and investigates the allocation approach with the novel management method by centralizing the inventory of several different departments. By integrating the blood inventory requirements of some departments, the hospital could reduce the rate of blood shortage and wastage effectively, release the pressure of the occupancy of resources and reduce the bullwhip effect of blood products. This paper illustrates the centralization principle in hospital and formulates the mixed integer programming model to work out the optimal allocation network scheme and the optimal inventory setting for every department. And the results of the numerical example demonstrate that this centralization method could considerably reduce blood shortage and wastage in hospital by about 72% and 90% respectively. Furthermore, it could decrease the total cost by about 108,540 RMB a month on blood supply chain management in the hospital and improve the effect of some certain surgeries by transfusing the fresh blood to patients.