Chaotic electron diffusion through stochastic webs enhances current flow in superlattices

Understanding how complex systems respond to change is of fundamental importance in the natural sciences. There is particular interest in systems whose classical newtonian motion becomes chaotic as an applied perturbation grows. The transition to chaos usually occurs by the gradual destruction of stable orbits in parameter space, in accordance with the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theorem--a cornerstone of nonlinear dynamics that explains, for example, gaps in the asteroid belt. By contrast, 'non-KAM' chaos switches on and off abruptly at critical values of the perturbation frequency. This type of dynamics has wide-ranging implications in the theory of plasma physics, tokamak fusion, turbulence, ion traps, and quasicrystals. Here we realize non-KAM chaos experimentally by exploiting the quantum properties of electrons in the periodic potential of a semiconductor superlattice with an applied voltage and magnetic field. The onset of chaos at discrete voltages is observed as a large increase in the current flow due to the creation of unbound electron orbits, which propagate through intricate web patterns in phase space. Non-KAM chaos therefore provides a mechanism for controlling the electrical conductivity of a condensed matter device: its extreme sensitivity could find applications in quantum electronics and photonics.     

Algorithmic compression of empirical data: reply to Twardy, Gardner, and Dowe

This discussion note responds to objections by Twardy, Gardner, and Dowe to my earlier claim that empirical data sets are algorithmically incompressible. Twardy, Gardner, and Dowe hold that many empirical data sets are compressible by Minimum Message Length technique and offer this as evidence that these data sets are algorithmically compressible. I reply that the compression achieved by Minimum Message Length technique is different from algorithmic compression. I conclude that Twardy, Gardner, and Dowe fail to establish that empirical data sets are algorithmically compressible.     

纤维增强塑料(FRP)在混凝土结构中的应用——FRP材料性能与发展

简要地介绍了纤维增强塑料（FRP）发展历史，生产过程及其优点，总结了常用类型的FRP在短期与长期荷载作用下的力学性能，并给出了作者在试验中得到的拉伸强度，弹性模量，松弛及徐变系数。此外，文中还提出了一个预测由芳纶纤维和环氧树脂组成的AFRP束长期徐变系数的方程。     

Emergent excitations in a geometrically frustrated magnet

Frustrated systems are ubiquitous, and they are interesting because their behaviour is difficult to predict; frustration can lead to macroscopic degeneracies and qualitatively new states of matter. Magnetic systems offer good examples in the form of spin lattices, where all interactions between spins cannot be simultaneously satisfied. Here we report how unusual composite spin degrees of freedom can emerge from frustrated magnetic interactions in the cubic spinel ZnCr(2)O(4). Upon cooling, groups of six spins self-organize into weakly interacting antiferromagnetic loops, whose directors -- the unique direction along which the spins are aligned, parallel or antiparallel -- govern all low-temperature dynamics. The experimental evidence comes from a measurement of the magnetic form factor by inelastic neutron scattering; the data show that neutrons scatter from hexagonal spin clusters rather than individual spins. The hexagon directors are, to a first approximation, decoupled from each other, and hence their reorientations embody the long-sought local zero energy modes for the pyrochlore lattice.     

胺钨盐的性质及其在制取亚微米级钨粉方面的应用

本文着重研究了自还原性胺钨盐的性质及其氢还原,发现,将自还原与一般氢还原适当结合,可以高效率地制备比表面积大于20m~2/g的极细、超细钨粉。对自还原的本性及该类钨盐在制取极细、超细钨粉方面的应用前景进行了讨论。     

长期施肥条件下土壤钾素固定影响因素分析

为探索长期不同施肥对土壤钾素固定的影响, 采用室内模拟试验对中国主要农田土壤, 即红壤、水稻土、灰漠土、塿土、潮土、黑土和紫色土对外源钾固定能力的差异性进行了研究, 并对长期施肥条件下土壤钾素固定的影响因素进行了因子分析和逐步回归分析. 结果表明, 施肥15年后, 不同土壤固钾能力大小顺序为: 黑土>紫色土>塿土>潮土>水稻土>灰漠土>红壤. 土壤主要黏土矿物类型明显影响其固钾能力, 此外, 对以2:1型黏土矿物为主的土壤而言, 其固钾能力还受两个主要因子的影响: 因子1包括土壤速效钾、缓效钾和K+饱和度3个因素, 因子2包括土壤阳离子交换量(CEC)、土壤有机质(SOM)和<0.002 mm黏粒含量3个因素. 在外源钾加入浓度较低(0.4~ 1.6 g•L?1)时, 因子1和因子2分别主要通过土壤K+饱和度和CEC的变化影响土壤的固钾能力; 在外源钾加入浓度较高(2.4~4.0 g•L?1)时, 因子1和因子2分别主要通过土壤K+饱和度和<0.002 mm黏粒含量的变化影响土壤的固钾能力.     

Biogenesis of mitochondrial porin: The import pathway

Summary We review here the present knowledge about the pathway of import and assembly of porin into mitochondria and compare it to those of other mitochondrial proteins. Porin, like all outer mitochondrial membrane proteins studied so far is made as a precursor without a cleavble signal sequence; thus targeting information must reside in the mature sequence. At least part of this information appears to be located at the amino-terminal end of the molecule. Transport into mitochondria can occur post-translationally. In a first step, the porin precursor is specifically recognized on the mitochondrial surface by a protease sensitive receptor. In a second step, porin precursor inserts partially into the outer membrane. This step is mediated by a component of the import machinery common to the import pathways of precursor proteins destined for other mitochondrial subcompartments. Finally, porin is assembled to produce the functional oligomeric form of an integral membrane protein wich is characterized by its extreme protease resistance.     

Telomere dysfunction and evolution of intestinal carcinoma in mice and humans

Telomerase activation is a common feature of advanced human cancers and facilitates the malignant transformation of cultured human cells and in mice. These experimental observations are in accord with the presence of robust telomerase activity in more advanced stages of human colorectal carcinogenesis. However, the occurrence of colon carcinomas in telomerase RNA (Terc)-null, p53-mutant mice has revealed complex interactions between telomere dynamics, checkpoint responses and carcinogenesis. We therefore sought to determine whether telomere dysfunction exerts differential effects on cancer initiation versus progression of mouse and human intestinal neoplasia. In successive generations of ApcMin Terc-/- mice, progressive telomere dysfunction led to an increase in initiated lesions (microscopic adenomas), yet a significant decline in the multiplicity and size of macroscopic adenomas. That telomere dysfunction also contributes to human colorectal carcinogenesis is supported by the appearance of anaphase bridges (a correlate of telomere dysfunction) at the adenoma-early carcinoma transition, a transition recognized for marked chromosomal instability. Together, these data are consistent with a model in which telomere dysfunction promotes the chromosomal instability that drives early carcinogenesis, while telomerase activation restores genomic stability to a level permissive for tumor progression. We propose that early and transient telomere dysfunction is a major mechanism underlying chromosomal instability of human cancer.     

低轨道航天器姿态跟踪机动控制研究

某些低轨道航天器在执行任务时 ,需要通过姿态控制系统使其有效载荷 (如星载相机 )在一段时间里连续指向地面或空间的给定目标。文中研究了带 3个反作用飞轮的低轨道航天器的姿态跟踪开展问题。首先根据刚体运动学知识推导出航天器的参考姿态角、参考角速度和参考角加速度表达式 ,然后基于卫星航天器姿态动力学给出了 3个互相垂直安装的反作用飞轮的控制律 ,并利用 L yapunov稳定性理论证明了闭环系统的渐近稳定性。最后通过数值仿真计算验证了控制算法的正确性     

Ru2 and Ru encode mouse orthologs of the genes mutated in human Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome types 5 and 6

Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a genetically heterogeneous disease involving abnormalities of melanosomes, platelet dense granules and lysosomes. Here we have used positional candidate and transgenic rescue approaches to identify the genes mutated in ruby-eye 2 and ruby-eye mice (ru2 and ru, respectively), two 'mimic' mouse models of HPS. We also show that these genes are orthologs of the genes mutated in individuals with HPS types 5 and 6, respectively, and that their protein products directly interact. Both genes are previously unknown and are found only in higher eukaryotes, and together represent a new class of genes that have evolved in higher organisms to govern the synthesis of highly specialized lysosome-related organelles.