Monovalent cation leaks in human red cells caused by single amino-acid substitutions in the transport domain of the band 3 chloride-bicarbonate exchanger, AE1

We identified 11 human pedigrees with dominantly inherited hemolytic anemias in both the hereditary stomatocytosis and spherocytosis classes. Affected individuals in these families had an increase in membrane permeability to Na and K that is particularly marked at 0 degrees C. We found that disease in these pedigrees was associated with a series of single amino-acid substitutions in the intramembrane domain of the erythrocyte band 3 anion exchanger, AE1. Anion movements were reduced in the abnormal red cells. The 'leak' cation fluxes were inhibited by SITS, dipyridamole and NS1652, chemically diverse inhibitors of band 3. Expression of the mutated genes in Xenopus laevis oocytes induced abnormal Na and K fluxes in the oocytes, and the induced Cl transport was low. These data are consistent with the suggestion that the substitutions convert the protein from an anion exchanger into an unregulated cation channel.     

融合双通道音节特征的藏文La格例句自动分类模型

基于藏文La格(??????)例句的自动分类在藏语自然语言处理领域的重要性,根据藏文La格的用法和添接规则,在对藏文La格例句进行分类并定义分类概念的基础上,提出一种融合双通道音节特征的藏文La格例句自动分类模型.该模型首先使用word2vec和Glove构建双通道藏文音节嵌入,分别在每路卷积中融合双通道音节特征,丰富...     

高校计算机课程教学与改革探讨

以计算机为核心的多媒体教学在我国高校已经蓬勃兴起。文章针对现在教育面临的新形式,进行了高校计算机课程的教学与改革探讨。针对电子科技大学已经开展的多媒体式、专周式教学,就如何培养学生技能、提高动手能力,为最后的就业打下坚实基础提出了一些想法和建议。并对一些教学方法的效果进行了统计分析,通过分析和探讨,结合教学实际,提出了一些措施与建议,希望对探讨高校计算机专业教学、学习、就业有所帮助。     

Liquid crystal 'blue phases' with a wide temperature range

Liquid crystal 'blue phases' are highly fluid self-assembled three-dimensional cubic defect structures that exist over narrow temperature ranges in highly chiral liquid crystals. The characteristic period of these defects is of the order of the wavelength of visible light, and they give rise to vivid specular reflections that are controllable with external fields. Blue phases may be considered as examples of tuneable photonic crystals with many potential applications. The disadvantage of these materials, as predicted theoretically and proved experimentally, is that they have limited thermal stability: they exist over a small temperature range (0.5-2 degrees C) between isotropic and chiral nematic (N*) thermotropic phases, which limits their practical applicability. Here we report a generic family of liquid crystals that demonstrate an unusually broad body-centred cubic phase (BP I*) from 60 degrees C down to 16 degrees C. We prove this with optical texture analysis, selective reflection spectroscopy, K?ssel diagrams and differential scanning calorimetry, and show, using a simple polarizer-free electro-optic cell, that the reflected colour is switched reversibly in applied electric fields over a wide colour range in typically 10 ms. We propose that the unusual behaviour of these blue phase materials is due to their dimeric molecular structure and their very high flexoelectric coefficients. This in turn sets out new theoretical challenges and potentially opens up new photonic applications.     

Electroreception and electrolocation in platypus

Electroreceptors with sensitivity in the microvolt range, which mainly function to detect live prey, are well known in phylogenetically old fishes and some amphibians. In African mormyriform and South American gymnotiform fishes this sense has evolved to an active system using an electric organ as a source for impedance measurement of the environment and for communication. Electroreception in higher vertebrates has not previously been reported. Here we establish that the platypus, the Australian nocturnal diving monotreme, can locate and avoid objects on the basis of d.c. fields. High-frequency sensitivity to a.c. could allow the detection of muscle activity of animals, such as crustaceans, which are preyed on by the platypus. Recordings of cortical evoked potentials showed that the bill of the platypus, previously considered to be exclusively mechanoreceptive, is also an electroreceptive organ with behavioural and electrophysiological sensitivity of approximately 50 microV cm-1. Several lines of evidence suggest that electroreception has evolved independently in this monotreme.