Pr2Fe17-xSix合金的磁热效应

用电弧熔炼法制备了Pr2Fe17-xSix(x=0,0.1,0.15,0.3)系列合金,用粉末X线衍射和磁性测量研究样品的结构、磁性、磁熵变及绝热温变.结果表明:Pr2Fe17-xSix系列合金的晶体结构为Th2Zn17型菱方结构;随着Si含量的增加,居里温度由x=0时的290K提高到x=0.3时的328K;外加磁场为1.5T时,磁熵变由x=0时的2.39J/(kg.K)降低到x=0.3时的1.67J/(kg.K),但绝热温变没有显著变化.     

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

Our knowledge of species and functional composition of the human gut microbiome is rapidly increasing, but it is still based on very few cohorts and little is known about variation across the world. By combining 22 newly sequenced faecal metagenomes of individuals from four countries with previously published data sets, here we identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific. We also confirmed the enterotypes in two published, larger cohorts, indicating that intestinal microbiota variation is generally stratified, not continuous. This indicates further the existence of a limited number of well-balanced host-microbial symbiotic states that might respond differently to diet and drug intake. The enterotypes are mostly driven by species composition, but abundant molecular functions are not necessarily provided by abundant species, highlighting the importance of a functional analysis to understand microbial communities. Although individual host properties such as body mass index, age, or gender cannot explain the observed enterotypes, data-driven marker genes or functional modules can be identified for each of these host properties. For example, twelve genes significantly correlate with age and three functional modules with the body mass index, hinting at a diagnostic potential of microbial markers.     

Continuous magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause

The most important process that allows solar-wind plasma to cross the magnetopause and enter Earth's magnetosphere is the merging between solar-wind and terrestrial magnetic fields of opposite sense-magnetic reconnection. It is at present not known whether reconnection can happen in a continuous fashion or whether it is always intermittent. Solar flares and magnetospheric substorms--two phenomena believed to be initiated by reconnection--are highly burst-like occurrences, raising the possibility that the reconnection process is intrinsically intermittent, storing and releasing magnetic energy in an explosive and uncontrolled manner. Here we show that reconnection at Earth's high-latitude magnetopause is driven directly by the solar wind, and can be continuous and even quasi-steady over an extended period of time. The dayside proton auroral spot in the ionosphere--the remote signature of high-latitude magnetopause reconnection--is present continuously for many hours. We infer that reconnection is not intrinsically intermittent; its steadiness depends on the way that the process is driven.     

A technique of integumental grafting for aging studies

Zusammenfassung Eine Methode zur Ausführung ausgedehnter Hauttransplantationen bei Ratten, die einer vorübergehenden Parabiose unterworfen wurden, wird beschrieben. Die Methode soll zur Untersuchung von Altersveränderungen der Haut benutzt werden.