激光治疗肿瘤的计算研究

根据激光治疗肿瘤的机理建立了激光治疗肿瘤的理论计算模型,并应用有限元计算方法对双光纤照射椭球形肿瘤组织的模型进行了定量计算研究;研究结果表明,对于长轴为2.0 cm、短轴为1.2 cm的实心椭球形肿瘤体,将2个直径为0.4 mm的球状光纤对称放置在主轴上相距0.8~1.0 cm的范围内,可以使光动力学的效果和热疗的效果同时达到最佳值。     

关于Smarandache函数的一个猜想

对于正整数a,设S(a)是Smarandache函数。利用有关Goldbach猜想的结果证明了:对于任何正整数k,方程S(x1) S(x2) … S(xk)=S(x1 x2 … xk)都有无穷多组正整数解(x1,x2,…,xk).     

水泥基复合固化剂对镉和锌混合污染土的固化试验研究

为了研究水泥基复合固化剂对重金属混合污染土的固化稳定效果及其与单一重金属污染土的固化效果差别,探究锌和镉离子之间是否有协同或拮抗作用,采用水泥、石灰、粉煤灰和蒙脱石等作为复合固化剂,通过开展无侧限抗压强度试验、毒性浸出试验、X射线衍射分析（XRD）以及电镜扫描分析（SEM）,研究锌镉混合污染土在不同固化剂掺量下的强度特性与浸出毒性、pH值与浸出毒性间的关系、重金属混合污染土与单一重金属污染土的固化效果差异,并通过XRD和SEM分别对固化产物的成分和形貌进行微观分析,进而分析固化机理。试验结果表明：用生石灰、粉煤灰、海泡石、蒙脱土替代等量水泥可使固化产物的强度提高;Zn²⁺与Cd²⁺之间不存在拮抗作用,Cd²⁺的存在还会有助于Zn²⁺的固定;重金属离子的浸出浓度随浸出液pH值的增大而明显降低;固化效果好的样品相较于固化效果差的样品有更多的针状、网状等较为致密的结构。     

隐私侵犯经历对网络用户自我披露的影响机制

网络用户的自我披露对以用户生成内容为业务基础的互联网企业具有战略意义.然而,隐私侵犯事件层出不穷.如何鼓励有隐私侵犯经历的用户持续披露个人信息对互联网企业至关重要.采用系统性随机分层抽样,结合代理理论和社会契约理论构建模型,研究了隐私侵犯经历对自我披露的作用机制.结果表明,隐私侵犯经历对自我披露意愿具有直接效应和间接效应:隐私侵犯经历与自我披露意愿之间存在强烈负向关系,并通过影响网络用户对隐私政策、隐私保护技术、行业自律和法律执行的有效性感知影响自我披露意愿.本研究阐明了隐私侵犯经历对自我披露的具体作用机制,为互联网企业鼓励有隐私侵犯经历的用户持续披露个人信息提供可操作性建议.     

The Documentary Real: Thinking Documentary Aesthetics

In this article we consider the growing interest in recent years in the use of documentary strategies in the wold of contemporary art, film and performing arts and explore some of the central epistemological assumptions underpinning the persistent idea that the documentary should be equated with ‘non-fiction’. Following Stella Bruzzi we argue that if documentary theory maintains objectivity as the primary measure of value, it will inevitably and continuously arrive at the conclusion that the documentary genre is fundamentally flawed. Instead, we propose to move beyond the ‘realist epistemology’ of documentary theory and focus on the ‘documentary real’, i.e. the specific performativity of the reality constructed in and by the documentary genre. In the last paragraphs, we introduce the various articles that address the “documentary real” in this special issue.     

Evidence of G-protein-coupled receptor and substrate transporter heteromerization at a single molecule level

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can constitute complexes with non-GPCR integral membrane proteins, while such interaction has not been demonstrated at a single molecule level so far. We here investigated the potential interaction between the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) and the monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8), a member of the major facilitator superfamily (MFS), using fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS). Both the proteins are expressed endogenously on the basolateral plasma membrane of the thyrocytes and are involved in stimulation of thyroid hormone production and release. Indeed, we demonstrate strong interaction between both the proteins which causes a suppressed activation of G_q/11 by TSH-stimulated TSHR. Thus, we provide not only evidence for a novel interaction between the TSHR and MCT8, but could also prove this interaction on a single molecule level. Moreover, this interaction forces biased signaling at the TSHR. These results are of general interest for both the GPCR and the MFS research fields.     

Bias‐corrected bootstrap prediction intervals for autoregressive model: new alternatives with applications to tourism forecasting

This paper proposes the use of the bias‐corrected bootstrap for interval forecasting of an autoregressive time series with an arbitrary number of deterministic components. We use the bias‐corrected bootstrap based on two alternative bias‐correction methods: the bootstrap and an analytic formula based on asymptotic expansion. We also propose a new stationarity‐correction method, based on stable spectral factorization, as an alternative to Kilian's method exclusively used in past studies. A Monte Carlo experiment is conducted to compare small‐sample properties of prediction intervals. The results show that the bias‐corrected bootstrap prediction intervals proposed in this paper exhibit desirable small‐sample properties. It is also found that the bootstrap bias‐corrected prediction intervals based on stable spectral factorization are tighter and more stable than those based on Kilian's stationarity‐correction. The proposed methods are applied to interval forecasting for the number of tourist arrivals in Hong Kong. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Common variants at TRAF3IP2 are associated with susceptibility to psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory joint disease that is distinct from other chronic arthritides and which is frequently accompanied by psoriasis vulgaris (PsV) and seronegativity for rheumatoid factor. We conducted a genome-wide association study in 609 German individuals with PsA (cases) and 990 controls with replication in 6 European cohorts including a total of 5,488 individuals. We replicated PsA associations at HLA-C and IL12B and identified a new association at TRAF3IP2 (rs13190932, P = 8.56 × 10?1?). TRAF3IP2 was also associated with PsV in a German cohort including 2,040 individuals (rs13190932, P = 1.95 × 10?3). Sequencing of the exons of TRAF3IP2 identified a coding variant (p.Asp10Asn, rs33980500) as the most significantly associated SNP (P = 1.13 × 10?2?, odds ratio = 1.95). Functional assays showed reduced binding of this TRAF3IP2 variant to TRAF6, suggesting altered modulation of immunoregulatory signals through altered TRAF interactions as a new and shared pathway for PsA and PsV.     

Making the abstract concrete: The role of norms and values in experimental modeling

Experimental modeling is the construction of theoretical models hand in hand with experimental activity. As explained in Section 1, experimental modeling starts with claims about phenomena that use abstract concepts, concepts whose conditions of realization are not yet specified; and it ends with a concrete model of the phenomenon, a model that can be tested against data. This paper argues that this process from abstract concepts to concrete models involves judgments of relevance, which are irreducibly normative. In Section 2, we show, on the basis of several case studies, how these judgments contribute to the determination of the conditions of realization of the abstract concepts and, at the same time, of the quantities that characterize the phenomenon under study. Then, in Section 3, we compare this view on modeling with other approaches that also have acknowledged the role of relevance judgments in science. To conclude, in Section 4, we discuss the possibility of a plurality of relevance judgments and introduce a distinction between locally and generally relevant factors.     

Spectrin-based skeleton as an actor in cell signaling

This review focuses on the recent advances in functions of spectrins in non-erythroid cells. We discuss new data concerning the commonly known role of the spectrin-based skeleton in control of membrane organization, stability and shape, and tethering protein mosaics to the cellular motors and to all major filament systems. Particular effort has been undertaken to highlight recent advances linking spectrin to cell signaling phenomena and its participation in signal transduction pathways in many cell types.