Climate as the dominant control on C<Subscript>3</Subscript> and C<Subscript>4</Subscript> plant abundance in the Loess Plateau: Organic carbon isotope evidence from the last glacial-interglacial loess-soil sequences

Two modes of photosynthesis predominate in terres-REPORTS trial plants: the C3 and C4 modes[1]. The C3 mode is used by all of trees, bushes, and cold season grasses. The C4 mode is used by the most of tropical and warm season grasses. They are disadvantaged relative to C3 plants at high CO2/O2 ratios because of the additional energy ex-pense needed to concentrate CO2 in the bundle-sheath cells. At low CO2/O2, however, C4 plants can achieve a relatively high quantum yield by suppressin…     

Thermodynamic evolution of lithosphere of the North China craton： Records from lower crust and upper mantle xenoliths from Hannuoba

Lithospheric thinning in East China attracts much attention of geologists. In many cases where a lithospheric thinning is inferred, the trigger for instability is a preced-ing episode of crustal thickening by the continental colli-sion[1]. Lithospheric processes (e.g. lithospheric thinning) could be recorded by the thermal history of the lower crustal and upper mantle xenoliths. Xu et al.[2] suggested that the cooling (from >1200 to 850℃) recorded by spinel harzburgite from Northeast China …     

Climate indexes of phytoliths from Homo erectus'''' cave deposits in Nanjing

Many related papers have been published since the first report on the discovery of Nanjing hominid crania by Mu et al.[1]. Mu et al.[1], Xu et al.[2—4], the Tangshan Ar-chaeological Team[5] and Dong[6] have successively stud-ied the Nanjing Homo erectus?symbiotic faunas. Mu et al. and Xu et al. considered that the nature of the fauna in the Tangshan area belongs to the Oriental Realm,and this region was usually occupied by Ailuropoda-Tapirus fauna in the Pleistocene. However, the typica…     

Interfamily pregnancy and expression of CD57, CD68 in deciduas between golden hamster and mouse

Pregnancy between different species is one of the key steps to interspecific somatic cell cloning. Although interspecific clone embryos have been constructed, they could not develop to birth after being transferred to recipi-ents. In order to clarify the mechanism of this phenomenon, interfamily pregnancy between golden hamste (Mesocricetus auratus) and mouse (Mus musculus) was studied. Co-culture results indicated that the adhesion ratios of golden hamster blastocysts on mouse uterine epithelia monolayer 12, 24, 48 and 72 h after co-culture were all significantly lower than those of mouse blastocysts. The outgrowth ratios of golden hamster blastocysts on mouse uterine epithelia monolayer 48, 72 h after co-culture were both significantly lower than those of mouse blastocysts (P < 0.01). Golden hamster抯 blastula could be implanted and develop to D 11 of pregnancy after being transferred to mouse uterus (the 7th day after embryo transfer). Compared to the transfer of mouse embryo to mouse uterus, the successful ratio of interfamily embryo transfer was lower and the bulk of fetus was smaller than that of intraspecific fetus. Compared to intraspecific preg-nancy of mouse, the remote decidual tissue of interfamily pregnancy on D8 is looser. At the same time, expressions of CD57 and CD 68 in remote deciduas were both higher than those in the secondary deciduas in both intraspecific and interfamily pregnancy. However, expressions of the two molecules in interfamily pregnancy were lower than those in intraspecific pregnancy. These results showed that interfam-ily pregnancy could be established between golden hamster and mouse. But the development of fetus in interfamily pregnancy was slower than that in intraspecific pregnancy. The expression difference of CD57 and CD68 indicates the difference of immunoreaction between interfamily and in-traspecific pregnancy, which may be one of the reasons lead-ing to interfamily pregnancy termination.     

Response of the accumulation of proline in the bodies of<Emphasis Type="Italic">Populus euphratica</Emphasis> to the change of groundwater level at the lower reaches of Tarim River

The content of proline in the plant bodies is closely related to the converse-succession-resistant capability of plants. Under the drought stress, the proline accumulates rapidly in the plant bodies for maintaining a certain mois-ture content and an expanding-pressure momentum in cells through the osmoregulation, thus the drought-resis- tant capability and the converse-succession-resistant ca-pability of plants are increased[1,2]. Many researches on the relationship between the proline and the…     

Thermodynamic characterization of two novel spin-crossover complexes

Spin-crossover complexes are of great interest to the scientists because of their potential application in molecular-based electronic devices. Some octahedral metal compounds with 3dn (4 ≤ n ≤ 7) configuration can induce a spin state conversion through a fine tuning condition (temperature, pressure, light irradiation, etc.). If the conversion occurs reversibly with a hystersis loop and color change, it will make the system possessing memory effect. The memory effect can be magnified and the …     

SOME INITIAL-OBLIQUE DERIVATIVE BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR QUASILINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS WITH UNBOUNDED COEFFICIENTS

1 IntroductionThis paper is concerned with the a priori estimates and the ekistence of solutions of theinitiaLoblique derivative boundary value problem for quasilinear non-divergence parabolic equa-tions as follows:where O is a bounded domain in R"(N > 2) with smooth boundary 0a e C' ', QT =[o,T) x a be the parabolic domain in H" ,, ST = [o,T) x aa is the lateral boundary, andarQT is the parabolic boundary of QT' The repeated indices means summatiOns from 1 to N.In [11, the first bounda…     

A REPRESENTATION THEOREM OF THE BOUNDED REGULAR OPERATORS FROM SOME SPACE X ONTO L_1(μ)

1 PreliminaryIn this paPer, (n, Z, p) denotes the measure space of all finite complete positive measures,Ll (p) denotes all Bochner integrable functions on (Q, Z, p). Suppose X, Y are normed vectorlattices, X denotes the positive cone of X, L(X, Y) denotes all the 1inear operators from Xto Y. However, L(X, Y) may not be a lattice under the classical order. In [1], we know that ifX is a Banach lattice, then R(X, Y) 2 L"(X, Y), and if Y is order complete, so does R(X, Y).(Here R(X…     

QUEUEING NETWORKS WITH INSTANTANEOUS SEQUENTIAL TRANSITIONS

1 IntroductionQueueing networks have been one of the most importallt techniques in the modeling andanalysis of computer, communication, transportation, and Iogistics systems. The first queueingnetwork model was introduced by J..k,..[i'2], in which Jackson considers a network with Nnodes, and transitions of the typex -- x -- ej ek5 i,k = 0,1,'',N, (1)where x = (x1, x2)'' 5 XN) denotes the number of customers at the N nodes, ej is the unitvector with a 1 at the j-th position and 0 elsewh…     

高校数字图书馆混合型存储系统的设计

存储系统作为数字图书馆的支撑平台,是数字图书馆建设的一个基础和重要组成部分.文章叙述了数字化图书馆中存储的特点,介绍了新型存储技术的分类和各自的特性,结合高校图书馆建设实例,提出高校数字图书馆存储系统的解决方案.