ICP-MS法测定黔产枳椇果梗、枳椇子中22种金属元素

建立微波消解-电感耦合等离子体质谱(ICP-MS)法同时分析枳椇果梗、枳椇子中Be、Mg、Al、Ti、V、Cr、Mn、Fe、Co、Ni、Cu、Zn、As、Sr、Mo、Ag、Cd、Sn、Sb、Ba、Tl、Pb等22种元素的含量。样品经微波消解后,利用ICP-MS测定上述22种元素,通过标准曲线计算其含量。实验结果表明,22种元素在其线性范围内线性关系良好,r值0.995;检出限为0.0007～1.0713μg/L;重复性的相对标准偏差(RSD)3%;精密度的相对标准偏差(RSD)7%;回收率为81.14%～112.91%。该方法灵敏度高,重复性好,分析速度快,适用于枳椇果梗、枳椇子中22种元素的含量测定。     

中立型分数阶微分控制系统能控性

研究一类分数阶中立型微分控制系统的能控性问题,对系统状态方程的分析,利用拉普拉斯变换通过基本控制系统的基础解给出了控制系统通解的表达式,并且通过构造格拉姆矩阵,研究了控制系统能控性的充分必要条件;最后通过举出一个格拉姆矩阵的计算举例来进行验证。     

基于改进Faster R-CNN的农田残膜识别方法

为了实现农田残膜的精准捡拾,提高残膜回收机的回收率.将改进Faster R-CNN卷积神经网络运用到农田残膜的识别检测中,提出了一种农田残膜的识别方法.以11MS-1850残膜回收机工作后遗留在农田表面的残膜为研究对象,分别在晴天、阴天不同时间段采集图像共计1648幅.通过更改图像亮度、旋转等方式扩充数据集,最终得到4950幅残膜样本图像,按照7:2:1划分为训练集(3465幅)、验证集(990幅)、测试集(495幅);采用双阈值算法替代传统的单阈值算法,降低了阈值对模型性能的影响;通过对比试验,选取具有残差网络结构的ResNet50作为主干特征提取网络,准确率可达88.84％,召回率为87.70％,总体精度为88.27％;为了使检测模型对小目标更加灵敏,根据数据集中残膜尺寸大小,在原有锚点基础上增加322和642的尺度参数,准确率、召回率、总体精度分别提升了1.29％、0.67％、0.97％,单幅检测时间为284.13 ms,基本满足了识别残膜的要求.可为残膜回收机加装补收装置提供参考,为研制人工智能残膜回收机提供理论基础.     

Modeling eBay price using stochastic differential equations

Online auctions have become increasingly popular in recent years. There is a growing body of research on this topic, whereas modeling online auction price curves constitutes one of the most interesting problems. Most research treats price curves as deterministic functions, which ignores the random effects of external and internal factors. To account for the randomness, a more realistic model using stochastic differential equations is proposed in this paper. The online auction price is modeled by a stochastic differential equation in which the deterministic part is equivalent to the second‐order differential equation model proposed in Wang et al. (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008, 103, 1100–1118). The model also includes a component representing the measurement errors. Explicit expressions for the likelihood function are also obtained, from which statistical inference can be conducted. Forecast accuracy of the proposed model is compared with the ODE (ordinary differential equation) approach. Simulation results show that the proposed model performs better.     

Aristotle Said “Happiness is a State of Activity” — Predicting Mood Through Body Sensing with Smartwatches

We measure and predict states of Activation and Happiness using a body sensing application connected to smartwatches. Through the sensors of commercially available smartwatches we collect individual mood states and correlate them with body sensing data such as acceleration, heart rate, light level data, and location, through the GPS sensor built into the smartphone connected to the smartwatch. We polled users on the smartwatch for seven weeks four times per day asking for their mood state. We found that both Happiness and Activation are negatively correlated with heart beats and with the levels of light. People tend to be happier when they are moving more intensely and are feeling less activated during weekends. We also found that people with a lower Conscientiousness and Neuroticism and higher Agreeableness tend to be happy more frequently. In addition, more Activation can be predicted by lower Openness to experience and higher Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Lastly, we find that tracking people’s geographical coordinates might play an important role in predicting Happiness and Activation. The methodology we propose is a first step towards building an automated mood tracking system, to be used for better teamwork and in combination with social network analysis studies.     

Early SIV and HIV infection promotes the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis in cDCs

Classical dendritic cells (cDCs) play a pivotal role in the early events that tip the immune response toward persistence or viral control. In vitro studies indicate that HIV infection induces the dysregulation of cDCs through binding of the LILRB2 inhibitory receptor to its MHC-I ligands and the strength of this interaction was proposed to drive disease progression. However, the dynamics of the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis in cDCs during early immune responses against HIV are yet unknown. Here, we show that early HIV-1 infection induces a strong and simultaneous increase of LILRB2 and MHC-I expression on the surface of blood cDCs. We further characterized the early dynamics of LILRB2 and MHC-I expression by showing that SIVmac251 infection of macaques promotes coordinated up-regulation of LILRB2 and MHC-I on cDCs and monocytes/macrophages, from blood and lymph nodes. Orientation towards the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis starts from the first days of infection and is transiently induced in the entire cDC population in acute phase. Analysis of the factors involved indicates that HIV-1 replication, TLR7/8 triggering, and treatment by IL-10 or type I IFNs increase LILRB2 expression. Finally, enhancement of the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis is specific to HIV-1 and SIVmac251 infections, as expression of LILRB2 on cDCs decreased in naturally controlled chikungunya virus infection of macaques. Altogether, our data reveal a unique up-regulation of LILRB2 and its MHC-I ligands on cDCs in the early phase of SIV/HIV infection, which may account for immune dysregulation at a critical stage of the anti-viral response.     

EVOKE: A Value-Driven Concept Selection Method for Early System Design

The development of new technologically advanced products requires the contribution from a range of skills and disciplines, which are often difficult to find within a single company or organization. Requirements establishment practices in Systems Engineering (SE), while ensuring coordination of activities and tasks across the supply network, fall short when it comes to facilitate knowledge sharing and negotiation during early system design. Empirical observations show that when system-level requirements are not available or not mature enough, engineers dealing with the development of long lead-time sub-systems tend to target local optima, rather than opening up the design space. This phenomenon causes design teams to generate solutions that do not embody the best possible configuration for the overall system. The aim of this paper is to show how methodologies for value-driven design may address this issue, facilitating early stage design iterations and the resolution of early stage design trade-offs. The paper describes how such methodologies may help gathering and dispatching relevant knowledge about the ‘design intent’ of a system to the cross-functional engineering teams, so to facilitate a more concurrent process for requirement elicitation in SE. The paper also describes EVOKE (Early Value Oriented design exploration with KnowledgE maturity), a concept selection method that allows benchmarking design options at sub-system level on the base of value-related information communicated by the system integrators. The use of EVOKE is exemplified in an industrial case study related to the design of an aero-engine component. EVOKE’s ability to raise awareness on the value contribution of early stage design concepts in the SE process has been further verified with industrial practitioners in ad-hoc design episodes.     

面向中亚地区的多语种专业领域术语库及本体知识库构建

针对目前乌兹别克语、哈萨克语等中亚语种急缺专业领域词典、术语库及知识本体库的问题,文章以安全领域为例,利用现有术语作为种子词,自动采集维基百科及双语专业词典中的术语对,人工校对后构建了中型中、俄、乌、哈多语种专业领域术语库。以此术语库为基础,搭建了包含人员、组织、地域、技术、设备、活动、文件7大类及35个子类的领域本体,最后讨论了该专业术语库及领域本体库的扩展潜力和应用前景。本成果是一项重要的基础性工作,对中亚语种的术语词典编撰、术语学、自然语言处理和语言教学研究均有较大现实意义。     

The expansion of GPCR transactivation-dependent signalling to include serine/threonine kinase receptors represents a new cell signalling frontier

G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling is mediated through transactivation-independent signalling pathways or the transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors and the recently reported activation of the serine/threonine kinase receptors, most notably the transforming growth factor-β receptor family. Since the original observation of GPCR transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors, there has been considerable work on the mechanism of transactivation and several pathways are prominent. These pathways include the “triple membrane bypass” pathway and the generation of reactive oxygen species. The recent recognition of GPCR transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors enormously broadens the GPCR signalling paradigm. It may be predicted that the transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors would have mechanistic similarities with transactivation of tyrosine kinase pathways; however, initial studies suggest that these two transactivation pathways are mechanistically distinct. Important questions are the relative importance of tyrosine and serine/threonine transactivation pathways, the contribution of transactivation to overall GPCR signalling, mechanisms of transactivation and the range of cell types in which this phenomenon occurs. The ultimate significance of transactivation-dependent signalling remains to be defined but it appears to be prominent and if so will represent a new cell signalling frontier.     

中国大气颗粒物污染与致癌研究进展

 室外空气污染和污染空气中的颗粒物是一类致癌物，而近年中国的大气颗粒物污染仍然维持在较高浓度水平。通过综述中国近年大气颗粒物污染现状和开展的颗粒物致癌机制研究，分析中国研究中颗粒物有关实验动物致癌性的证据和颗粒物致癌的人群流行病学线索，阐述大气颗粒物与癌症的关系，提出中国亟需开展相关研究。