ANXA2对肝癌细胞F-actin表达及细胞微结构的调节

为了研究ANXA2对人肝癌细胞F-actin表达的调节,通过siRNA技术抑制肝癌细胞SMMC-7721的ANXA2表达,以免疫荧光法观察了F-actin表达及细胞微结构的变化.结果显示:抑制ANXA2基因表达后,细胞聚合成束的F-actin明显减弱,并由聚集分布变成弥散分布,且细胞的伪足、微绒毛等微结构生长受到抑制.结果提示,ANXA2表达水平的变化可能改变了SMMC-7721细胞F-actin的表达、聚合、重排与分布,从而导致细胞的细胞骨架重建,进而引起细胞的运动力与形态发生一系列变化.上述结果对进一步阐明ANXA2如何影响F-actin的动态组装以及ANXA2在细胞骨架系统重塑过程中的作用机制等提供了证据.     

Electro-Pulse-Boring (EPB):Novel Super-Deep Drilling Technology for Low Cost Electricity

The inexhaustible heat deposit in great depths (5–10 km) is a scientific fact. Such deposit occurs around the globe. Thereby, everybody is enabled to generate autonomously clean and renew-able energy, ...     

The effect of photodynamic therapy on tumor angiogenesis

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), the activation of a photosensitive drug in tumor tissue with light of specific wavelength, has been used effectively to treat certain solid tumors. Though therapeutic responses are encouraging, PDT-mediated oxidative stress can act as an angiogenic switch that ultimately leads to neovascularization and tumor recurrence. This article explores the effect of PDT on angiogenesis in different tumor models. Overexpression of proangiogenic vascular endothelial growth factor, cyclooxygenase-2 and matrix metalloproteases has often been reported post-illumination. Recent clinical studies have demonstrated that inhibiting angiogenesis after chemotherapy and radiotherapy is an attractive and valuable approach to cancer treatment. In this review, we report the effective therapeutic strategy of combining angiogenesis inhibitors with PDT to control and treat tumors.     

香港建筑业生产效率的计算与分析

应用一种非参数经济计量方法－－数据包围分析（DEA）对香港建筑业1981－1994年间的生产效率进行计算和分析。结果显示,香港建筑业的生产效率总体上有所提高,其年平均增长率为0．41％,生产效率增长的原因主要有劳动力素质的提高,施工技术的改进,管理水平的进步以及生产规模的扩大。     

可扩充计算年度综述

本书是《可扩充计算》丛书的第5卷。全书是由4篇综述组成的。第1篇不规则算法的并行计算策略，考虑了三个具有代表性的不规则应用；无结构重啮合、稀疏矩阵计算和N体问题。第2篇在群与网格上的大规模不规则计算的实时支持，介绍了一个正在形成的计算基础结构——在计算群集和计算网格上实施不规则数据密集应用的一种综合方法，即想法、技术、概念及软件结构；提出了并行化策略和一个叫做lib的运行时程序库，该程序库支持不规则与缺乏核心的计算，并且介绍了在安装有建立于lib基础上的软件的PC以及工作站群集所获得的试验执行结果。     

AN FTIR SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMA TREATED WOOL FABRIC

FTIR-ATR technique with second-order derivative measurement was used for assessing the amount of oxidation products of cystine present on the plasma-treated wool fabric surface. In this paper, three non-polymerising gases namely oxygen, nitrogen and 25% hydrogen/75% nitrogen gas mixture were used for the plasma treatment of wool fabric. The oxidation products of cystine studied included S-sulphonate, cysteic acid, cystine monoxide and cystine dioxide. The variations of the amount of these products as a function of treatment time were studied. Experimental results showed that the oxygen plasma could produce a large amount of oxidation products of cystine on the wool fabric surface followed by nitrogen plasma and gas mixture plasma.     

Towards robust regional estimates of CO2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models

Information about regional carbon sources and sinks can be derived from variations in observed atmospheric CO2 concentrations via inverse modelling with atmospheric tracer transport models. A consensus has not yet been reached regarding the size and distribution of regional carbon fluxes obtained using this approach, partly owing to the use of several different atmospheric transport models. Here we report estimates of surface-atmosphere CO2 fluxes from an intercomparison of atmospheric CO2 inversion models (the TransCom 3 project), which includes 16 transport models and model variants. We find an uptake of CO2 in the southern extratropical ocean less than that estimated from ocean measurements, a result that is not sensitive to transport models or methodological approaches. We also find a northern land carbon sink that is distributed relatively evenly among the continents of the Northern Hemisphere, but these results show some sensitivity to transport differences among models, especially in how they respond to seasonal terrestrial exchange of CO2. Overall, carbon fluxes integrated over latitudinal zones are strongly constrained by observations in the middle to high latitudes. Further significant constraints to our understanding of regional carbon fluxes will therefore require improvements in transport models and expansion of the CO2 observation network within the tropics.     

ELECTRONIC DISCLOSURE AND FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

1. Introduction Majority of financial information are disseminated through the Internet, every day, huge amount of financial information are generated but the utilization is not good enough: according to the 10th WWW User Survey by the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Centre (GVU 1998), more than 45 percent of the respondents felt that they were not able to find the information they needed. A study of the Internet demography showed that searching, retrieving, and utilizing the avail…