淀山湖水质及与环湖稻田农业面源污染的关系

对淀山湖主要进水和出水口水质进行年度定点监测; 同时, 布置田间试验, 研究不同施肥稻田田面水养分含量动态. 结果表明:淀山湖进出水口水体氨氮和总磷年平均质量浓度分别为 0.47 和 0.13 mg/L, 基本处于 Ⅴ 类水质标准; 进水口水质略劣于出水口, 不同进水口的水质也有很大差异. 进一步研究发现, 淀山湖水质的年度变化与稻田田面水养分的动态变化有密切的相关性, 表明农业面源污染对淀山湖水环境具有显著影响. 在环湖地区, 减少和控制农业面源, 是进一步改善淀山湖水环境质量的关键.     

Blockage of the NLRP3 inflammasome by MCC950 improves anti-tumor immune responses in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

The NLRP3 inflammasome is a critical innate immune pathway responsible for producing active interleukin (IL)-1β, which is associated with tumor development and immunity. However, the mechanisms regulating the inflammatory microenvironment, tumorigenesis and tumor immunity are unclear. Herein, we show that the NLRP3 inflammasome was over-expressed in human HNSCC tissues and that the IL-1β concentration was increased in the peripheral blood of HNSCC patients. Additionally, elevated NLRP3 inflammasome levels were detected in tumor tissues of Tgfbr1/Pten 2cKO HNSCC mice, and elevated IL-1β levels were detected in the peripheral blood serum, spleen, draining lymph nodes and tumor tissues. Blocking NLRP3 inflammasome activation using MCC950 remarkably reduced IL-1β production in an HNSCC mouse model and reduced the numbers of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), regulatory T cells (Tregs) and tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). Moreover, inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation increased the numbers of CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cells in HNSCC mice. Notably, the numbers of exhausted PD-1⁺ and Tim3⁺ T cells were significantly reduced. A human HNSCC tissue microarray showed that NLRP3 inflammasome expression was correlated with the expression of CD8 and CD4, the Treg marker Foxp3, the MDSC markers CD11b and CD33, and the TAM markers CD68 and CD163, PD-1 and Tim3. Overall, our results demonstrate that the NLRP3 inflammasome/IL-1β pathway promotes tumorigenesis in HNSCC and inactivation of this pathway delays tumor growth, accompanied by decreased immunosuppressive cell accumulation and an increased number of effector T cells. Thus, inhibition of the tumor microenvironment through the NLRP3 inflammasome/IL-1β pathway may provide a novel approach for HNSCC therapy.     

Microsatellite instability in gastric cancer: molecular bases,clinical perspectives,and new treatment approaches

Gastric cancer is one of the most aggressive malignancies, with limited treatment options in both locally advanced and metastatic setting, resulting in poor prognosis. Based on genomic characterization, stomach tumour has recently been described as a heterogeneous disease composed by different subtypes, each of them with peculiar molecular aspects and specific clinical behaviour. With an incidence of 22% among all western gastric tumour cases, stomach cancer with microsatellite instability was identified as one of these subgroups. Retrospective studies and limited prospective trials reported differences between gastric cancers with microsatellite stability and those with instability, mainly concerning clinical and pathological features, but also in regard to immunological microenvironment, correlation with prognostic value, and responses to treatment. In particular, gastric cancer with microsatellite instability constitutes a small but relevant subgroup associated with older age, female sex, distal stomach location, and lower number of lymph-node metastases. Emerging data attribute to microsatellite instability status a favourable prognostic meaning, whereas the poor outcomes reported after perioperative chemotherapy administration suggest a detrimental role of cytotoxic drugs in this gastric cancer subgroup. The strong immunogenicity and the widespread expression of immune-checkpoint ligands make microsatellite instability subtype more vulnerable to immunotherapeutic approach, e.g., with anti-PD-L1 and anti-CTLA4 antibodies. Since gastric cancer with microsatellite instability shows specific features and clinical behaviour not overlapping with microsatellite stable disease, microsatellite instability test might be suitable for inclusion in a diagnostic setting for all tumour stages to guarantee the most targeted and effective treatment to every patient.     

锂电池异常状态监测的FEKF方法研究

为了保障锂离子电池的使用安全，提出了基于带渐消因子的扩展卡尔曼滤波 （Fading Extended Kalman Filter，FEKF）的电池状态在线监测方法. 建立锂电池一阶等效电路模型，利用递推最小二乘法进行锂电池状态参数在线辨识，建立状态方程；引入最优渐消因子，构造FEKF，得到端电压残差；使用端电压残差序列构造χ2分布的诊断函数，计算误检率与状态参数异常阈值. 实验结果显示利用FEKF生成的残差能更早对异常状态进行告警，证明FEKF能够显著提高χ2检验对锂电池内部缓变型异常状态判断的准确率.     

多策略融合的俄语文本词语提取方法研究

俄语是联合国工作语言之一,是俄罗斯等多个国家的官方语言。随着“一带一路”倡议的推进和全球化进程的加快,俄语文本数据成为有关组织管理决策的重要信息来源,俄语文本挖掘也因而成为重要的管理决策支持方法。然而,俄语文本挖掘方法研究目前还远未成熟,尤其是其关键基础——俄语文本词语提取的性能较低,阻碍着俄语文本建模的准确性。因此,文章提出一种多策略融合的俄语文本词语提取方法,结合俄语词性分析、语法规则和串频统计等多种方法,自动提取包含单词和短语在内的俄语词语。在联合国平行语料库和Taiga Corpus语料库上的实验结果表明,文章提出的方法在保证高召回率的同时,达到了85%以上的高准确率,显著优于常用的n-gram方法,能够为俄语文本主题发现和文本分/聚类等文本挖掘应用提供有效的词库。     

General mechanisms of drought response and their application in drought resistance improvement in plants

Plants often encounter unfavorable environmental conditions because of their sessile lifestyle. These adverse factors greatly affect the geographic distribution of plants, as well as their growth and productivity. Drought stress is one of the premier limitations to global agricultural production due to the complexity of the water-limiting environment and changing climate. Plants have evolved a series of mechanisms at the morphological, physiological, biochemical, cellular, and molecular levels to overcome water deficit or drought stress conditions. The drought resistance of plants can be divided into four basic types-drought avoidance, drought tolerance, drought escape, and drought recovery. Various drought-related traits, including root traits, leaf traits, osmotic adjustment capabilities, water potential, ABA content, and stability of the cell membrane, have been used as indicators to evaluate the drought resistance of plants. In the last decade, scientists have investigated the genetic and molecular mechanisms of drought resistance to enhance the drought resistance of various crops, and significant progress has been made with regard to drought avoidance and drought tolerance. With increasing knowledge to comprehensively decipher the complicated mechanisms of drought resistance in model plants, it still remains an enormous challenge to develop water-saving and drought-resistant crops to cope with the water shortage and increasing demand for food production in the future.     

Geochemistry of Clayey Aquitard Pore Water as Archive of Paleo-Environment,Western Bohai Bay

The record of paleo-environment in clayey aquitard pore water is much more effective relative to aquifer groundwater owing to the low permeability of clayey aquitard. Oxygen-18 (18O), deuterium (D), an...     

对fullerene和fullerite译名的建议

fullerene最初被命名富勒烯。但随着科学发展,fullerene的含义不断扩大,已经不是一种化学物质而是指一大类化学物质,品种非常多,"富勒烯"这个译名已经很不恰当。文章提议使用"富勒体"这个译名取代原有译名,并将相关的fullerite译作"固态富勒体"。