基于多级频谱分析和能熵比的应答器系统设计

为解决传统应答器系统在模拟不同距离水下目标时易受强噪声干扰及转发时延精度不高的问题,提出一种粗-细两级波达时刻估计方法并开发一套高精度时延的可靠应答器系统.该系统主要由以信号采集、信号处理为主的上位机和以功率放大器、换能器为主的下位机组成.其中上位机利用多级频谱分析及其峰均比大于设定门限进行粗估计,初步获取信号的波头;再利用基于能熵比的双门限检测算法进行细估计,获得更精准的波达时刻,进而解决了时延不准的问题;最后,系统下位机通过 TCP 接收上位机传输的应答信号并在预定时刻应答回波信号.湖试结果显示,该系统的时延误差小于 40 ms,具有高精度的转发时延优势,并且在强噪声干扰下具有良好的鲁棒性.     

Sylvester矩阵方程的改进IO迭代算法

通过对Sylvester矩阵方程的理论分析,可知IO迭代算法中迭代矩阵的谱半径随内迭代次数的增大而减小,更新了IO迭代算法中内迭代次数的选择方法,并证明了该算法收敛性与初始矩阵无关。Sylvester矩阵在满足一些特定条件下,为了进一步提高收敛速度,可通过选择适当的相关参数,使得IO迭代算法有较好的收敛速度且比Smith算法的迭代次数明显减少。     

Disruption of mitochondrial function as the basis of the trypanocidal effect of trifluoperazine onTrypanosoma cruzi

Summary The tricyclic anti-calmodulin drug trifluoperazine (TFP) inhibited growth and motility of epimastigotes ofTrypanosoma cruzi, at concentrations lower than 100 M, and motility and infectivity of the bloodstream trypomastigote form at 200 M. Electron microscopy of TFP-treated epimastigotes showed that the major effect was at the mitochondrial level, with gross swelling and disorganization. The oligomycin-sensitive, mitochondrial ATPase was completely inhibited by 20 M TFP, and the same drug concentration caused a 60% decrease in intracellular ATP content. The results suggest that the trypanocidal effect of TFP may be related more to mitochondrial damage than to the well-known anticalmodulin effect of the drug.     

改进的SIFT特征匹配算法

针对SIFT特征匹配算法在特征空间中进行历遍搜索,匹配速度慢的问题,提出一种金字塔层间匹配算法。首先,根据特征点所处金字塔层不同将特征点划分为不同的集合,其次,选择待配准图像金字塔中某一层集合,在基准图像金字塔中寻找相似层,并确定待配准图像金字塔与基准图像金字塔层之间的相似关系,最后,在相似层之间寻找匹配点。待配准图像中的选择层集合由金字塔底层到顶层,寻找相似层所用时间依次缩短。与原算法相比,该算法具有相同的旋转稳定性。将该算法与原算法分别应用实际图像配准中,结果表明:可见光图像配准中,匹配速度提高了3.2倍,正确匹配率提高了10.3％,红外图像配准中,匹配速度提高1.4倍,正确匹配率达到100％。     

A 6,000-year sedimentary molecular record of chemocline excursions in the Black Sea

The Black Sea is the world's largest anoxic basin; it is also a contemporary analogue of the environment in which carbonaceous shales and petroleum source beds formed. Recently, Repeta et al. reported that anoxygenic photosynthesis may be an important component of carbon cycling in the present Black Sea, owing to a shoaling of the chemocline and consequent penetration of the photic zone by anaerobic waters in the past few decades. It has been suggested that this was due to an anthropogenic decrease in freshwater input to the Black Sea, although natural causes were not ruled out. Here we report the distributions of sequestered photosynthetic pigments in eight core samples of sediments from the Black Sea ranging in age from zero to 6,200 years before the present. Our results show that photosynthetic green sulphur bacteria (Chlorobiaceae [correction of Clorobiaceae]) have been active in the Black Sea for substantial periods of time in the past. This finding indicates that the penetration of the photic zone by anaerobic waters is not a recent phenomenon, and suggests that natural causes for shoaling of the chemocline are more likely than anthropogenic ones.     

Transplantation of human cortex with Alzheimer's disease into rat occipital cortex; a model for the study of Alzheimer disease

Summary Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) is a major problem in the human senescent population. As this pathology cannot be reproduced in animals, research into its development is greatly impeded. The technique of implantation of the nervous tissue has been utilized in order to establish an animal model and to test the possible existence of a transmissible agent. When human temporal cortex with Alzheimer's disease is implanted in the occipital cortex of 7-week-old rats, human cerebral tissue containing abundant tangles induces in the receiver cortex a reactive fibrous gliosis. In the processes of the astrocytes, twisted filaments are evident among bundles of normal filaments. These alterations could be induced by the metabolising of abnormal filament subunits or by some infectious agent introduced by the implant.This study is supported by grant No. 2.4517.82 of Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective of Belgium.     

An assessment of the effect of hormone and neurotransmitters on adenine and gluanine derivatives simultaneously in rat brain cortical slices

Summary A 2-dimensional thin-layer method has been developed for the separation on cellulose of adenine and guanine derivatives. Using incubated rat cerebral cortex slices it was shown that noradrenaline and acetylcholine stirnulated cAMP and cGMP production respectively but glutamate and -aminobutyric acid stimulated production of both cyclic nucleotides.     

Furocaulerpin,a new acetylenic sesquiterpenoid from the green algaCaulerpa prolifera

Summary Furocaulerpin, an acetylenic sesquiterpenoid possessing a furan ring, has been isolated from the marine algaCaulerpa prolifera, and its stereostructure elucidated mainly on the basis of physico-chemical data.This work was carried out in the frame work of the Progetto Finalizzato per l'Oceanografia e i Fondi Marini, CNR, Rome. Thanks are due to the Centro di Metodologie Chimico-Fisiche of the University of Naples (Mr I. Giudicianni) for the determination of PMR-spectra.     

Proteolytic activity on endogeneous substrates in cell-free extracts ofTrypanosoma cruzi

Summary Cell-free extracts ofTrypanosoma cruzi contain proteolytic activity able to degrade endogenous substrates. The activity was maximal at pH 3 to 4, had an optimal temperature of 65°C, and was strongly inhibited by N--p-tosyl-L-lysine chloromethyl ketone.This investigation received financial support from the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, the Fundación Julio Cherny, and the Ministerio de Salud Pública y Medio Ambiente de la República Argentina. The authors gratefully acknowledge the technical assistance of Mr Esteban Bontempi.