Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Versus Outsourcing—Critical Perspectives

This article presents a case example involving the renaming of an organizational change process from BPR to outsourcing. The paper discusses the important ramifications of such a name change in that the recognition of outsourcing allowed an organizational commitment to counseling and termination advice. The paper discusses two ways of looking at the name change, one from a critical theory perspective and one from a realist perspective. It demonstrates how theory can provide useful yet markedly different interpretations of such organizational events. Critical theory operates from within what can be termed the transitive epistemological dimension, whereas critical realism tends to emphasize the importance of ontological issues. Each has important things to say about the situation and improves our understanding overall.     

Specific binding of antigenic peptides to cell-associated MHC class I molecules

T lymphocytes recognize antigen in the form of peptides that associate with specific alleles of class I or class II major histocompatibility (MHC) molecules. By contrast with the clear MHC allele-specific binding of peptides to purified class II molecules purified solubilized class I molecules either bind relatively poorly or show degenerate specificity. Using photo-affinity labelling, we demonstrate here the specific interaction of peptides with cell-associated MHC class I molecules and show that this involves metabolically active processes.     

Structure of the detoxification catalyst mercuric ion reductase from Bacillus sp. strain RC607

Several hundred million tons of toxic mercurials are dispersed in the biosphere. Microbes can detoxify organo-mercurials and mercury salts through sequential action of two enzymes, organomercury lyase and mercuric ion reductase (MerA). The latter, a homodimer with homology to the FAD-dependent disulphide oxidoreductases, catalyses the reaction NADPH + Hg(II)----NADP+ + H+ + Hg(0), one of the very rare enzymic reactions with metal substrates. Human glutathione reductase serves as a reference molecule for FAD-dependent disulphide reductases and between its primary structure and that of MerA from Tn501 (Pseudomonas), Tn21 (Shigella), p1258 (Staphylococcus) and Bacillus, 25-30% of the residues have been conserved. All MerAs have a C-terminal extension about 15 residues long but have very varied N termini. Although the enzyme from Streptomyces lividans has no addition, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Tn501 and Bacillus sp. strain RC607 it has one and two copies respectively of a domain of 80-85 residues, highly homologous to MerP, the periplasmic component of proteins encoded by the mer operon. These domains can be proteolytically cleaved off without changing the catalytic efficiency. We report here the crystal structure of MerA from the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus sp. strain RC607. Analysis of its complexes with nicotinamide dinucleotide substrates and the inhibitor Cd(II) reveals how limited structural changes enable an enzyme to accept as substrate what used to be a dangerous inhibitor. Knowledge of the mode of mercury ligation is a prerequisite for understanding this unique detoxification mechanism.     

Characterization of the rough endoplasmic reticulum ribosome-binding activity.

The rough endoplasmic reticulum membranes of mammalian cells contain specific ribosome-binding sites. A purification to apparent homogeneity of a negatively charged protein (ERp180) of relative molecular mass 180,000 (180 K) was reported which was proposed to function as a rough endoplasmic reticulum ribosome receptor. We report here that ribosome-binding site activity quantitatively solubilized from rough endoplasmic reticulum membranes does not cofractionate with ERp180. By contrast, ribosome-binding site activity fractionates as a much smaller, positively charged protein.     

钨酸铜的生成及其氢还原过程的研究

本文提出一种生产微细钨铜复合粉的方法。将WO_3(或蓝钨)和CuO均匀混合,在空气中焙烧生成CuWO_4,再在氢气中还原,就能制得微细钨铜复合粉,其钨、铜两相分布均匀,钨颗粒细小且分布狭窄。本文详细地研究了钨酸铜的生成及其氢还原过程,与WO_3相比,发现两者的还原相变过程及动力学过程有某些差异。     

采用自举技术的不完全绝热电路

为了大规模集成电路的低能耗应用,提出了一种不完全绝热电路——自举能量回收逻辑电路(bootstrapenergyrecoverylogic,BERL)。该电路采用二相无交叠功率时钟。由于采用自举技术,使负载的冲放电过程不会产生非绝热损失,并且输出开关的导通电阻变小,使绝热损失降低。为了比较BERL电路与静态CMOS电路及PAL-2n绝热电路的能耗,设计了反相器链电路。Hspice软件仿真结果表明,BERL电路的工作频率可以超过400MHz。在10～100MHz下,BERL能耗只有静态CMOS电路的25%～33%。相对于PAL-2n电路,BERL也有较低的能耗。在200MHz下,BERL能耗只有PAL-2n的50%。负载越重,BERL电路的低能耗优势越明显。     

AFM对壳聚糖富集银离子的分形学研究

利用原子力显微镜(AFM)对壳聚糖吸附银离子进行研究，从形貌学的角度探测壳聚糖络合银离子的机理特性．主要方法是将溶液滴加在新解离的云母片上，应用原子力显微镜对自然风干后的样品在非接触模式下成像．AFM图像显示：壳聚糖分子和加过金属银离子的壳聚糖分子在聚集生长过程呈现为传统的具有分形特征的正态分布和奇异分布；由单一的壳聚糖分子形成的分形结构为“星”形结构，而加过银离子的壳聚糖分子形成的结构为“圆”形．产生这些图形差别的根本原因是由于生长界面的表面张力及其各向异性起了重要作用．这两种结构都具有典型的自相似性，且实验结果与计算机模拟的分形模式拟合得很好．     

浅析商务英语中的某些翻译误区及其原因

随着我国加入世界贸易组织，商务英语作为对外经济交流的工具，其作用日见重要。本文就商务英语翻译中由于语法理解错误，英语一词多义，专业知识模糊等原因所造成的翻译误区进行归纳分析。