尺度变化对形状的比例不变特征的影响

分析了在实际应用中，摄像机拍摄距离或焦距发生变化时，同一对象形状在不同图像中出现细节差别的原因；结合常用的如圆形度、矩不变量和傅里叶描述子等形状特征，通过试验分析，说明了在不同尺度下。这些细节上的变化在一定程度上会影响同一对象的同类形状特征之间的比较，也说明了对形状特征的比例不变性的应用应当是有一定范围限制的．     

表面激子极化激元的定域化

在存在着随机粗糙和空间色散时，利用了一个数字模型研究表面激子极化激元的定域化．发现定域化出现在表面激子极化激元的最大频率附近，在广延态上的衰减长度大于定域态上的衰减长度，表面激子极化激元的定域化是受到粗糙表面散射波的毁灭性干涉所引起的．     

钢筋表面微区电位分布的原位测量

应用自行研制的扫描微参比电极联机测量系统,原位测量了钢筋在模拟混凝土孔隙液中表面微区电位分布.结果表明,钢筋在纯饱和Ca(OH)2溶液中处于钝态.当溶液的pH降低和外加Cl-时,钢筋表面微区电位分布即发生变化,电位差变大,钢筋表面随之发生点腐蚀.     

RNAi-mediated gene silencing in non-human primates

The opportunity to harness the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway to silence disease-causing genes holds great promise for the development of therapeutics directed against targets that are otherwise not addressable with current medicines. Although there are numerous examples of in vivo silencing of target genes after local delivery of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), there remain only a few reports of RNAi-mediated silencing in response to systemic delivery of siRNA, and there are no reports of systemic efficacy in non-rodent species. Here we show that siRNAs, when delivered systemically in a liposomal formulation, can silence the disease target apolipoprotein B (ApoB) in non-human primates. APOB-specific siRNAs were encapsulated in stable nucleic acid lipid particles (SNALP) and administered by intravenous injection to cynomolgus monkeys at doses of 1 or 2.5 mg kg(-1). A single siRNA injection resulted in dose-dependent silencing of APOB messenger RNA expression in the liver 48 h after administration, with maximal silencing of >90%. This silencing effect occurred as a result of APOB mRNA cleavage at precisely the site predicted for the RNAi mechanism. Significant reductions in ApoB protein, serum cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein levels were observed as early as 24 h after treatment and lasted for 11 days at the highest siRNA dose, thus demonstrating an immediate, potent and lasting biological effect of siRNA treatment. Our findings show clinically relevant RNAi-mediated gene silencing in non-human primates, supporting RNAi therapeutics as a potential new class of drugs.     

Kinetic evaluation of the size-dependent decomposition performance of solvent-free microcellular polylactic acid foams

A thermal gravimetric method is described for evaluating the kinetics of cell size-dependent decomposition and lifetime estima- tion for microcellular tissue engineering scaffolds made of biodegradable polylactic acid(PLA)foams.PLA foam cell sizes from 550 to 20?m were fabricated experimentally using a solvent-free solid-state foaming technique under saturation pressures from 1 to 5 MPa.The thermal properties of the PLA foams with respect to the cell sizes were measured using thermal gravimetric analy- sis in a nitrogen atmosphere and the activation energy and pre-exponential factor were derived to evaluate the decomposition ki- netics and estimate lifetime.It was found that small cell sizes can be achieved under high saturation pressures and that the thermal stability of PLA decreases after the fabrication process.The cell size-dependent thermal stability and degradation rate indicate that a PLA foam of larger cell sizes has a shorter degradation time,a few tenths that of the PLA raw material,at a temperature of 37°C. The results suggest that it is feasible to optimize fabrication parameters to obtain appropriate cell sizes and lifetimes that satisfy the application requirements for various organs.This study provides the basis for precise scaffold design and quantitative analysis of PLA foams in tissue engineering applications.     

Observation of robust edge superconductivity in Fe(Se,Te) under strong magnetic perturbation

The iron-chalcogenide high temperature superconductor Fe(Se,Te) (FST) has been reported to exhibit complex magnetic ordering and nontrivial band topology which ...     

高容量温盘驱动器伺服码同步时钟录写技术

提出了可变频时钟写入方法和锁相环倍频时钟写入方法，给出了这两种写入法的读／写电路，并分析了其性能。结果证明，可变频时钟写入方法电路简单，刻写时钟周期短；锁相环倍频时钟写入过程较前者长，但其频率范围容易调整。两者均适合高密度小型温盘的时钟录写。     

单一颗粒流分形模型及有效热导率计算

首次提出了颗粒流中粒子的分形模型，得到粒子在不同分维下的分形分布，并和麦克斯韦分布进行比较，分析了两种分布产生差异的物理机制．在此基础上研究了单一颗粒流的有效热导率，得到其解析表达式，并分析了有效热导率随粒子温度、粒子分维的变化规律．     

Inactivation of the apoptosis effector Apaf-1 in malignant melanoma

Metastatic melanoma is a deadly cancer that fails to respond to conventional chemotherapy and is poorly understood at the molecular level. p53 mutations often occur in aggressive and chemoresistant cancers but are rarely observed in melanoma. Here we show that metastatic melanomas often lose Apaf-1, a cell-death effector that acts with cytochrome c and caspase-9 to mediate p53-dependent apoptosis. Loss of Apaf-1 expression is accompanied by allelic loss in metastatic melanomas, but can be recovered in melanoma cell lines by treatment with the methylation inhibitor 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5aza2dC). Apaf-1-negative melanomas are invariably chemoresistant and are unable to execute a typical apoptotic programme in response to p53 activation. Restoring physiological levels of Apaf-1 through gene transfer or 5aza2dC treatment markedly enhances chemosensitivity and rescues the apoptotic defects associated with Apaf-1 loss. We conclude that Apaf-1 is inactivated in metastatic melanomas, which leads to defects in the execution of apoptotic cell death. Apaf-1 loss may contribute to the low frequency of p53 mutations observed in this highly chemoresistant tumour type.     

带哨嘴喷嘴射流流场的离散涡模拟

采用离散涡方法模拟了两种不同形状哨嘴的喷嘴出口流场旋涡结构和压力分布。模拟结果表明 ,射流在喷嘴出口和哨嘴出口形成的旋涡结构在流场及其他涡元的作用下 ,向下游运动 ,在流场中某个地方形成低压区 ,这有助于诱发空化现象。对两种不同喷嘴的出口流场进行比较发现 ,哨嘴形状对形成的射流流场的旋涡结构有很大影响。因此 ,研究和应用空化射流必须考虑喷嘴出口哨嘴形状的影响