金具零部件表面防腐蚀试验研究

随着经济的持续高速增长，各行业用电需求增大。在加快特高压骨干电网建设的同时，提高现有电网的输电能力、输电质量成为重中之重。金具是海上换流站的重要组成部分，海洋环境的特殊性，对金具提出了更高的耐腐蚀性能要求。为了探究海洋环境对金具的腐蚀性，选用ZL101A和ZL102两种典型的铝合金金具，采用5种辅助防腐蚀工艺获得5种耐腐蚀样本，并模拟海上工况对其分别进行盐雾腐蚀试验，得出最优防腐蚀工艺。研究表明：ZL101A和ZL102两种铝合金具有一定的耐腐蚀性能，ZL101A铝合金的耐腐蚀性能强于ZL102铝合金的；抛丸处理的防腐措施在ZL101A铝合金样本中的防腐蚀表现要强于ZL102铝合金样本的；阳极氧化在两种材质中防腐蚀表现均为优异，是最优异的防腐蚀工艺。     

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.

     

The modernity of Dedekind’s anticipations contained in What are numbers and what are they good for?

Archive for History of Exact Sciences - We show that Dedekind, in his proof of the principle of definition by mathematical recursion, used implicitly both the concept of an inductive cone from an...     

基于小波分析对地面电场信号的去噪及闪电信息提取

基于小波分析方法,通过对7种小波函数在误差控制和阈值方法选取上的对比,参考信噪比及均方误差等计算结果,选取了较为合理的Rigrsure阈值分析方法和sym5小波函数作为地面大气电场信号的去噪处理方法.该方法不仅能够较好地对电场信号波形平滑处理,降低电场波形中噪声信号的叠加度,还可保留闪电引起的电场的快速变化.在此基础上,利用差分计算方法实现了对闪电信号的自动识别,引入了总闪电频数误差及分时段闪电频数与人工分析结果的相关系数等2个参考量来选取差分计算方法中电场差分阈值,通过该方法可以实现闪电频数和极性等有关信息的提取.     

The expansion of GPCR transactivation-dependent signalling to include serine/threonine kinase receptors represents a new cell signalling frontier

G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling is mediated through transactivation-independent signalling pathways or the transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors and the recently reported activation of the serine/threonine kinase receptors, most notably the transforming growth factor-β receptor family. Since the original observation of GPCR transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors, there has been considerable work on the mechanism of transactivation and several pathways are prominent. These pathways include the “triple membrane bypass” pathway and the generation of reactive oxygen species. The recent recognition of GPCR transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors enormously broadens the GPCR signalling paradigm. It may be predicted that the transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors would have mechanistic similarities with transactivation of tyrosine kinase pathways; however, initial studies suggest that these two transactivation pathways are mechanistically distinct. Important questions are the relative importance of tyrosine and serine/threonine transactivation pathways, the contribution of transactivation to overall GPCR signalling, mechanisms of transactivation and the range of cell types in which this phenomenon occurs. The ultimate significance of transactivation-dependent signalling remains to be defined but it appears to be prominent and if so will represent a new cell signalling frontier.     

工艺规划系统中动态模式分类的研究

提出了工艺规划系统中动态模式分类（pattern classification）的概念，介绍了模式分类判定树和动态模式分类的基本原理，并对动态模式分类的聚类质量标准进行了研究。动态模式分类是基于实例归纳（case based reasoning,CBR)的自动分类过程，具有自学习和自完善的功能。