Molybdenum isotopic composition as a tracer for low-medium temperature hydrothermal ore-forming systems: A case study on the Dajiangping pyrite deposit,western Guangdong Province,China

Little is known about the range or controls on the molybdenum isotopic composition of low-medium temperature hydrothermal ore-forming systems. We present molybdenum isotope data from 12 hydrothermal syndepositional silicalite and carbonaceous slate samples from the Dajiangping pyrite deposit in western Guangdong Province, South China. The δ ^97/95 Mo values from Orebody III range from −0.02‰ to 0.29‰, with an average of 0.18‰. In contrast, the composition values from Orebody IV display a larger variation from −0.70‰ to 0.62‰. However, the five samples from the main ore bed all show strong negative values. This indicates that the significant variation in molybdenum isotopic composition supports different hydrothermal ore-forming metallogenesis and a metallogenic environment between the two orebodies. Orebody III is likely to have been deposited from submarine exhalative hydrothermal fluids under a relatively strong reducing environment and Orebody IV may have also been influenced by hydrothermal superimposition in a more oxidized disequilibrium condition. In addition, the δ ^97/95 Mo values of Orebody IV are clearly negative, together with the values increasing stratigraphically upward in the ore beds, suggesting that the metallogenic environment of Orebody IV is different from the open oceanic systems. There might be dynamic fractionation in this restricted environment. Therefore, the molybdenum isotope can be used as an effective tracer for the ore-forming fluid and metallogenic environment.     

基于组合码字的矢量量化编码算法

传统的矢量量化编码方法总是将待编码矢量以码书中唯一的最匹配码字作为其近似输出矢量,以实现数据压缩的目的.这种方法对远离码字的矢量无法避免显著的误差.本文提出组合编码的矢量量化方法,其思想是对远离码字的矢量进行主辅组合编码,对主码字编码造成的误差通过辅码字加以补偿.实验表明,该方法在很小降低压缩比率的条件下显著提高了矢量编码精度,能够在信号处理等领域发挥有效作用.     

不同倍性(2×、3×、4×)鸭梨基因组DNA甲基化水平与模式分析

以鸭梨(Pyrus.bretschneideri Rehd.cv.‘Yali')多倍体(2×、3×、4×)为材料,应用甲基化敏感扩增多态性(methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism,MSAP)技术研究不同倍性鸭梨基因组DNA甲基化水平及模式变化.共筛选22对引物,平均每对引物产生约50条带,统计100～500 bp的扩增带,共计954个位点.分析表明:鸭梨2×、3×、4×分别检测到831、886、852个位点,发生甲基化位点分别占15.5%、20.0%、16.8%,其中全甲基化占9.7%、11.9%、9.7%.分析这些位点甲基化模式表明:甲基化模式在三个倍性间类型相同的占所检测位点的69.2%,仅两种倍性相同的为25.4%,各不相同的占5.5%,其中三倍体41.4%甲基化位点发生改变,显示出独特的DNA甲基化特点.     

超声临界角侧波速度测量方法的研究

声速(SOS)是描述声波在媒质中传播特性的一个基本物理量,通过媒质中声速的测定,可以了解媒质的特性或状态变化.基于临界角侧波原理的超声速度测量方法是声速测量方法中的一种,但现有的临界角侧波测量方法精度较低,适用范围小,在测量声速时易受干扰.为此提出了一种新的基于临界角侧波理论的定量超声速度测量方法,该测量方法引入了一个新的参数———倾斜角补偿时间,该参数通过接收时间的差值求得.通过引入该参数,本方法在实际测量中提高了测量精度.     

Hilbert空间中一类包含集值随机模糊映射的变分包含问题

作者构造了一个迭代算法,解决了Hilbert空间内一类包含H(·,·)-单调集值映射和随机模糊映射的变分包含问题.作者给出了这个解存在的一个充分必要条件,并且证明出这个迭代序列刚好收敛到这个变分包含的解.     

对转换层结构中应用短肢剪力墙问题的探讨

文章通过对某转换层结构分别采用一般剪力墙和短肢剪力墙两种不同方案进行弹性阶段对比分析,得出将短肢剪力墙应用到转换层结构中对结构抗震性能的影响,并提出一些设计建议。     

核磁共振在蛋白质研究中的应用进展

蛋白质是一类重要的生物大分子,在生物体内执行各种各样的生理功能.自18世纪蛋白质被发现以来,蛋白质研究的重点从早期的分离纯化逐渐深入到结构与功能.     

A current filamentation mechanism for breaking magnetic field lines during reconnection

During magnetic reconnection, the field lines must break and reconnect to release the energy that drives solar and stellar flares and other explosive events in space and in the laboratory. Exactly how this happens has been unclear, because dissipation is needed to break magnetic field lines and classical collisions are typically weak. Ion-electron drag arising from turbulence, dubbed 'anomalous resistivity', and thermal momentum transport are two mechanisms that have been widely invoked. Measurements of enhanced turbulence near reconnection sites in space and in the laboratory support the anomalous resistivity idea but there has been no demonstration from measurements that this turbulence produces the necessary enhanced drag. Here we report computer simulations that show that neither of the two previously favoured mechanisms controls how magnetic field lines reconnect in the plasmas of greatest interest, those in which the magnetic field dominates the energy budget. Rather, we find that when the current layers that form during magnetic reconnection become too intense, they disintegrate and spread into a complex web of filaments that causes the rate of reconnection to increase abruptly. This filamentary web can be explored in the laboratory or in space with satellites that can measure the resulting electromagnetic turbulence.     

A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes

The first Cenozoic ice sheets initiated in Antarctica from the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains and other highlands as a result of rapid global cooling ～34 million years ago. In the subsequent 20 million years, at a time of declining atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and an evolving Antarctic circumpolar current, sedimentary sequence interpretation and numerical modelling suggest that cyclical periods of ice-sheet expansion to the continental margin, followed by retreat to the subglacial highlands, occurred up to thirty times. These fluctuations were paced by orbital changes and were a major influence on global sea levels. Ice-sheet models show that the nature of such oscillations is critically dependent on the pattern and extent of Antarctic topographic lowlands. Here we show that the basal topography of the Aurora Subglacial Basin of East Antarctica, at present overlain by 2-4.5?km of ice, is characterized by a series of well-defined topographic channels within a mountain block landscape. The identification of this fjord landscape, based on new data from ice-penetrating radar, provides an improved understanding of the topography of the Aurora Subglacial Basin and its surroundings, and reveals a complex surface sculpted by a succession of ice-sheet configurations substantially different from today's. At different stages during its fluctuations, the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet lay pinned along the margins of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, the upland boundaries of which are currently above sea level and the deepest parts of which are more than 1?km below sea level. Although the timing of the channel incision remains uncertain, our results suggest that the fjord landscape was carved by at least two iceflow regimes of different scales and directions, each of which would have over-deepened existing topographic depressions, reversing valley floor slopes.     

Ebola virus entry requires the cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick C1

Infections by the Ebola and Marburg filoviruses cause a rapidly fatal haemorrhagic fever in humans for which no approved antivirals are available. Filovirus entry is mediated by the viral spike glycoprotein (GP), which attaches viral particles to the cell surface, delivers them to endosomes and catalyses fusion between viral and endosomal membranes. Additional host factors in the endosomal compartment are probably required for viral membrane fusion; however, despite considerable efforts, these critical host factors have defied molecular identification. Here we describe a genome-wide haploid genetic screen in human cells to identify host factors required for Ebola virus entry. Our screen uncovered 67 mutations disrupting all six members of the homotypic fusion and vacuole protein-sorting (HOPS) multisubunit tethering complex, which is involved in the fusion of endosomes to lysosomes, and 39 independent mutations that disrupt the endo/lysosomal cholesterol transporter protein Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1). Cells defective for the HOPS complex or NPC1 function, including primary fibroblasts derived from human Niemann-Pick type C1 disease patients, are resistant to infection by Ebola virus and Marburg virus, but remain fully susceptible to a suite of unrelated viruses. We show that membrane fusion mediated by filovirus glycoproteins and viral escape from the vesicular compartment require the NPC1 protein, independent of its known function in cholesterol transport. Our findings uncover unique features of the entry pathway used by filoviruses and indicate potential antiviral strategies to combat these deadly agents.