Epigenetic silencers and Notch collaborate to promote malignant tumours by Rb silencing

Cancer is both a genetic and an epigenetic disease. Inactivation of tumour-suppressor genes by epigenetic changes is frequently observed in human cancers, particularly as a result of the modifications of histones and DNA methylation. It is therefore important to understand how these damaging changes might come about. By studying tumorigenesis in the Drosophila eye, here we identify two Polycomb group epigenetic silencers, Pipsqueak and Lola, that participate in this process. When coupled with overexpression of Delta, deregulation of the expression of Pipsqueak and Lola induces the formation of metastatic tumours. This phenotype depends on the histone-modifying enzymes Rpd3 (a histone deacetylase), Su(var)3-9 and E(z), as well as on the chromodomain protein Polycomb. Expression of the gene Retinoblastoma-family protein (Rbf) is downregulated in these tumours and, indeed, this downregulation is associated with DNA hypermethylation. Together, these results establish a mechanism that links the Notch-Delta pathway, epigenetic silencing pathways and cell-cycle control in the process of tumorigenesis.     

H3PNH＋H2CO类Wittig反应中四元环中间体的从头算研究

用从头算方法在ＭＰ２／６－３１Ｇ＊＊水平上优化出类Ｗｉｔｉｇ反应Ｈ３ＰＮＨ＋Ｈ２ＣＯ→Ｈ３ＰＯ＋Ｈ２ＣＮＨ中的中间稳定态、过渡态及复合态的几何构型。计算结果表明该反应是一个二步反应,在反应途径上存在一个四元环中间体。     

氯化钡生产工艺的研究

论述了氯化钡的两种主要生产工艺,对反应、除杂及分离、浓缩及结晶等工序作了深入的研究,并对影响产品收率、质量等有关的主要因素作了进一步的探讨,同时提供了浓缩结晶的新方法,另外也对生产过程中的劳动保护和环境保护提出了参考意见。     

Gravity modes as a way to distinguish between hydrogen- and helium-burning red giant stars

Red giants are evolved stars that have exhausted the supply of hydrogen in their cores and instead burn hydrogen in a surrounding shell. Once a red giant is sufficiently evolved, the helium in the core also undergoes fusion. Outstanding issues in our understanding of red giants include uncertainties in the amount of mass lost at the surface before helium ignition and the amount of internal mixing from rotation and other processes. Progress is hampered by our inability to distinguish between red giants burning helium in the core and those still only burning hydrogen in a shell. Asteroseismology offers a way forward, being a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars using their natural oscillation frequencies. Here we report observations of gravity-mode period spacings in red giants that permit a distinction between evolutionary stages to be made. We use high-precision photometry obtained by the Kepler spacecraft over more than a year to measure oscillations in several hundred red giants. We find many stars whose dipole modes show sequences with approximately regular period spacings. These stars fall into two clear groups, allowing us to distinguish unambiguously between hydrogen-shell-burning stars (period spacing mostly ～ 50 seconds) and those that are also burning helium (period spacing ～ 100 to 300 seconds).     

The gene encoding ganglioside-induced differentiation-associated protein 1 is mutated in axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 4A disease.

We identified three distinct mutations and six mutant alleles in GDAP1 in three families with axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy and vocal cord paresis, which were previously linked to the CMT4A locus on chromosome 8q21.1. These results establish the molecular etiology of CMT4A (MIM 214400) and suggest that it may be associated with both axonal and demyelinating phenotypes.     

Promoting Entrepreneurship through a Community Learning Model – Case Study: Green Businesses

This article presents a community learning model formulated by Engineers Without Borders Colombia with the aim of providing communities with tools to create sustainable productive solutions which have relevancy for members and for potential customers. The goal of this formulation is to promote learning processes that are guided by decisions made by community members to propose sustainable and replicable initiatives. The model applicability is evidenced through a case study devoted to strengthening community-led green businesses in the Guavio Province, Colombia by collecting lessons and conclusions. Ultimately, this collection will prove useful in replicating the learning model in other similar rural communities.

     

基于逻辑选择脉冲时滞动力系统的稳定性分析

为了使动力系统在稳定性分析上更具有一般化,能更加精确实际地刻画自然现象;针对具有逻辑选择脉冲效应的时滞动力系统,提出此系统的全局指数稳定性分析问题,可在一定程度上推广一般脉冲时滞动力系统的稳定性分析;通过引入具有逻辑选择脉冲效应的时滞非线性动力系统,并利用半张量积将该动力系统中的逻辑函数转换为代数状态空间表示,再建立脉冲型 Halanay 微分不等式来估计该动力系统中线性系统部分的 Cauchy 矩阵;基于此,对向量和函数给出了4个假设条件,得到在逻辑选择脉冲控制下的非线性时滞系统的零解全局指数稳定性判定依据,且证明了此动力系统的指数收敛率为 λ-η。     

棉机织物在风场中的自由动态弯曲性测试及影响因素分析

采用一种新的动态弯曲测试方法并制作测试装置,将矩形自制纯棉机织物试样置于规定的稳定风场中,一端固定,另一端自由下垂,在气流的作用下来回自由弯曲摆动;提出动态弯曲角指标,每隔1/24s对织物试样在来回弯曲运动中的动态弯曲角进行测试,得到该指标随时间的变化曲线和一段时间内的平均值,以此对棉机织物试样的动态弯曲变形行为进行分析和评价.通过试验分析,探讨气流、纱线线密度、织物密度及组织结构对织物动态弯曲变形性能的影响.研究发现,织物试样在一定的气流环境中呈现一种有内在规律性的动态弯曲变形行为,这种行为是织物本身和外界气流等多因素下的综合效果.