An Adaptive Design for Six Sigma（ ADFSS ） ： a Simulated Annealing and Regression Analysis Embedded Approach

Design for six sigma (DFSS) is a powerful approach of designing products,processes,and services with the objective of meeting the needs of customers in a cost-effective manner.DFSS activities are class...     

Food and habitat relationships of Claassenia sabulosa (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in the Upper Colorado River, Colorado

Streambed surveys were conducted along the upper Colorado River, Colorado, to describe the distributions of Claassenia sabulosa larvae in relation to current speed and to determine their diets. We also addressed diel feeding periodicity by sampling during both day and night. Claassenia sabulosa was more abundant in riffle habitats than in runs. A positive relationship existed between C. sabulosa abundance and stream current, with larval size increasing with current speed. Chironomidae, Baetidae, and Simulidae collectively accounted for 93% of the prey found in stonefly guts; however, these categories were not consumed equally by all C. sabulosa . Smaller C. sabulosa primarily ate chironomids, and larger individuals consumed more baetids. Only a slight difference existed in the percentage of empty guts between night- and day-collected stoneflies, and ranges of prey per gut at night were higher than those in the day, suggesting that these stoneflies may forage more intensively at night.     

浅谈公路养护管理存在的问题与对策

公路基本建设事业的快速发展，对公路养护工程提出了更高的要求，公路养护不断遇到新的难题，面对困难和挑战。文章结合本地区公路养护实际工作实践，对公路养护管理存在的问题进行了分析，并探讨了相应对策。     

考虑轴颈偏斜时滑动轴承的动力特性

本文建立了同时考虑轴颈径向位移和歪斜时的滑动轴承动力学模型.对于这种模型,油膜力将扩展为四个广义力分量.文章将相应的动力系数矩阵分解为对称和反对称两部分并讨论其物理性质.然后,本文推导得出该模型的正交变换矩阵,在此基础上导得各向同性的动力系数矩阵表达式,并讨论了诸元素的物理意义.文章最后引入动力系数椭圆的概念以分析非对称动力系数矩阵的变换性质.     

Repeat I of the dihydropyridine receptor is critical in determining calcium channel activation kinetics.

Membrane depolarization causes many kinds of ion channels to open, a process termed activation. For both Na+ channels and Ca2+ channels, kinetic analysis of current has suggested that during activation the channel undergoes several conformational changes before reaching the open state. Structurally, these channels share a common motif: the central element is a large polypeptide with four repeating units of homology (repeats I-IV), each containing a voltage-sensing region, the S4 segment. This suggests that the distinct conformational transitions inferred from kinetic analysis may be equated with conformational changes of the individual structural repeats. To investigate the molecular basis of channel activation, we constructed complementary DNAs encoding chimaeric Ca2+ channels in which one or more of the four repeats of the skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor are replaced by the corresponding repeats derived from the cardiac dihydropyridine receptor. We report here that repeat I determines whether the chimaeric Ca2+ channel shows slow (skeletal muscle-like) or rapid (cardiac-like) activation.     

On the complexity of self.

Self peptides bound to self major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules have been implicated both in positive and in negative selection of T cells during intrathymic development. We report here that the novel MHC-restricted monoclonal antibody Y-Ae detects the MHC class II bound form of a major self peptide. Y-Ae binds approximately 12% of the relevant MHC class II molecules on self antigen presenting cells. The peptide detected by Y-Ae is one of several major peptides eluted from the MHC molecule. These data suggest that self peptides presented by self MHC class II molecules at densities sufficient to signal a CD4 T cell are of very limited complexity. Furthermore, as Y-Ae stains antigen presenting cells that mediate negative selection but not thymic cortical epithelial cells that drive positive selection, differential expression of self peptide:self MHC class II complexes may be a key feature of intrathymic selection.     

Homeobox gene expression correlated with the bifurcation process of limb cartilage development.

The complex architecture of the limb cartilage pattern probably develops by the sequential segmentation and branching process of precartilaginous cell condensation under the control of positional signalling provided by the zone of polarizing activity (anteroposterior) and the apical ectodermal ridge (proximodistal). This signalling is monitored and interpreted in the mesenchymal cells and induces the position-specific response of subsets of genes. Homeobox genes may be responsible for the interpretation of signalling. A correlation between limb pattern and expression domains of the homeobox genes in the upstream region of Hox/Chox-4 has been proposed. We have analysed the spatial expression pattern of the Chox-1 genes during development of chick limb buds. In contrast to genes in Hox/Chox-4 expressed coordinately along the anteroposterior axis, homeobox genes in Chox-1 have unique and mutually exclusive expression domains along the proximodistal axis. We report here that the expression domains of the Chox-1 genes are closely related to the segmental structure of cartilage along the proximodistal axis, whereas the expression domains of the Chox-4 genes are related to the cartilage branching pattern.     

Acceleration of activation and inactivation by the beta subunit of the skeletal muscle calcium channel.

The L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel is an important link in excitation-contraction coupling of muscle cells (reviewed in refs 2 and 3). The channel has two functional characteristics: calcium permeation and receptor sites for calcium antagonists. In skeletal muscle the channel is a complex of five subunits, alpha 1, alpha 2, beta, gamma and delta. Complementary DNAs to these subunits have been cloned and their amino-acid sequences deduced. The skeletal muscle alpha 1 subunit cDNA expressed in L cells manifests as specific calcium-ion permeation, as well as sensitivity to the three classes of organic calcium-channel blockers. We report here that coexpression of the alpha 1 subunit with other subunits results in significant changes in dihydropyridine binding and gating properties. The available number of drug receptor sites increases 10-fold with an alpha 1 beta combination, whereas the affinity of the dihydropyridine binding site remains unchanged. Also, the presence of the beta subunit accelerates activation and inactivation kinetics of the calcium-channel current.     

Cloning of cDNA for the glutamate-binding subunit of an NMDA receptor complex.

The amino acids L-glutamic and L-aspartic acids form the most widespread excitatory transmitter network in mammalian brain. The excitation produced by L-glutamic acid is important in the early development of the nervous system, synaptic plasticity and memory formation, seizures and neuronal degeneration. The receptors activated by L-glutamic acid are a target for therapeutic intervention in neurodegenerative diseases, brain ischaemia and epilepsy. There are two types of receptors for the excitatory amino acids, those that lead to the opening of cation-selective channels and those that activate phospholipase C (ref. 11). The receptors activating ion channels are NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) and kainate/AMPA (alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionate)-sensitive receptors. The complementary DNAs for the kainate/AMPA receptor and for the metabotropic receptor have been cloned. We report here on the isolation and characterization of a protein complex of four major proteins that represents an intact complex of the NMDA receptor ion channel and on the cloning of the cDNA for one of the subunits of this receptor complex, the glutamate-binding protein.