范德华力：生物学家、化学家、工程师和物理学家手册

分子间的范德华力是十分微弱的，但可以说普遍的存在着，在很多体系中起着巨大的作用，在物理学、化学、生物学等学科中得到了广泛的研究。但怎样计算范德华力？如何考虑各种条件对范德华力的影响？     

极紫外天文学

极紫外天文学是一个较为新颖的研究领域，其可行性直到上世纪70年代初还被普遍怀疑，理由是星系介质对极紫外光子（100到1000埃）的强吸收。尽管此后的极紫外空间项目特别是ROSAT卫星和EUVE卫星取得了大量成果，确立了极紫外天文学的地位，这方面的专著仍是凤毛麟角。     

英国人看柏林问题——一个对话

留驻在柏林,我們的政府每天就要花掉我們很多的钱。留駐在柏林,我們的政府就要準備把该城的行政机构变成一个吵嚷的场所。据某些报纸和某些政客所说,留驻在柏林,我們的政府就要準備對俄国每一個农人饗以原子彈。我走到各處,都听见有人问起关于這种奇異局勢的問題,英国人民对于他們的官吏和士兵留驻在别人的城市里,並且佔为已有,而他们又不是在戰爭中由於战鬥的結果而進入該城的,都认为是极其激动的。     

Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

We have genotyped 14,436 nonsynonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) and 897 major histocompatibility complex (MHC) tag SNPs from 1,000 independent cases of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and breast cancer (BC). Comparing these data against a common control dataset derived from 1,500 randomly selected healthy British individuals, we report initial association and independent replication in a North American sample of two new loci related to ankylosing spondylitis, ARTS1 and IL23R, and confirmation of the previously reported association of AITD with TSHR and FCRL3. These findings, enabled in part by increased statistical power resulting from the expansion of the control reference group to include individuals from the other disease groups, highlight notable new possibilities for autoimmune regulation and suggest that IL23R may be a common susceptibility factor for the major 'seronegative' diseases.     

Prof. Zhu Zuoyan Met with the INRA Delegation

Prof. Zhu Zuoyan, Vice President of NSFC, met with the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) delegation led by its Deputy Director General, Prof. Guy Riba on Jan. 18, 2007.     

Novel Fluorene-thiophene Copolymers and Polymer Blends for Photonic Devices

1 Results In this contribution we deal with photophysical and photoelectrical study of novel fluorene-thiophene copolymers, and thiophene-based oligomers and polymers, the syntheses of which are reported in our other contributions. Information about electronic structure of the polymers was obtained from cyclic voltammetry and absorption spectroscopy. The absorption of the polymers under study covers the whole visible region; the low band-gap polymer (Eg=1.35 eV) exhibited the long-wavelength absorption ...     

工业界和大学的合作研究

由工业界资助者和大学双方合作进行科学研究的作法日益引起人们的注意。这不仅是因为双方都因此而得益,而且因为可望有利于促进全国范围内的技术转让。然而,正如近来大量报刊文章所指出的,此类合作有一些固有的风险。这些文章反映出一种忧虑,即资助者为了独占技术秘密及获得其他的竞争优势可能会损害学术界科技公开交流的传统。笔者将根据在美国麻省理工学院(MIT)进行这类合作的经验来探讨一下这些问题。我并不是把MIT作为在这方面获得成功的典范,然而,我们在这类合作中可能已经取得了比任何其他大学更多的经验,同时,这些项目