A genome-wide association study in Han Chinese identifies new susceptibility loci for ankylosing spondylitis

To identify susceptibility loci for ankylosing spondylitis, we performed a two-stage genome-wide association study in Han Chinese. In the discovery stage, we analyzed 1,356,350 autosomal SNPs in 1,837 individuals with ankylosing spondylitis and 4,231 controls; in the validation stage, we analyzed 30 suggestive SNPs in an additional 2,100 affected individuals and 3,496 controls. We identified two new susceptibility loci between EDIL3 and HAPLN1 at 5q14.3 (rs4552569; P = 8.77 × 10(-10)) and within ANO6 at 12q12 (rs17095830; P = 1.63 × 10(-8)). We also confirmed previously reported associations in Europeans within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region (top SNP, rs13202464; P < 5 × 10(-324)) and at 2p15 (rs10865331; P = 1.98 × 10(-8)). We show that rs13202464 within the MHC region mainly represents the risk effect of HLA-B*27 variants (including HLA-B*2704, HLA-B*2705 and HLA-B*2715) in Chinese. The two newly discovered loci implicate genes related to bone formation and cartilage development, suggesting their potential involvement in the etiology of ankylosing spondylitis.     

Cdk5 targets active Src for ubiquitin-dependent degradation by phosphorylating Src(S75)

The non-receptor tyrosine kinase Src is a critical regulator of cytoskeletal contraction, cell adhesion, and migration. In normal cells, Src activity is stringently controlled by Csk-dependent phosphorylation of Src(Y530), and by Cullin-5-dependent ubiquitinylation, which affects active Src(pY419) exclusively, leading to its degradation by the proteosome. Previous work has shown that Src activity is also limited by Cdk5, a proline-directed kinase, which has been shown to phosphorylate Src(S75). Here we show that this phosphorylation promotes the ubiquitin-dependent degradation of Src, thus restricting the availability of active Src. We demonstrate that Src(S75) phosphorylation occurs in vivo in epithelial cells, and like ubiquitinylation, is associated only with active Src. Preventing Cdk5-dependent phosphorylation of Src(S75), by site-specific mutation of S75 or by Cdk5 inhibition or suppression, increases Src(Y419) phosphorylation and kinase activity, resulting in Src-dependent cytoskeletal changes. In transfected cells, ubiquitinylation of Src(S75A) is about 35% that of wild-type Src-V5, and its half-life is approximately 2.5-fold greater. Cdk5 suppression leads to a comparable decrease in the ubiquitinylation of endogenous Src and a similar increase in Src stability. Together, these findings demonstrate that Cdk5-dependent phosphorylation of Src(S75) is a physiologically significant mechanism of regulating intracellular Src activity.     

IFT54 regulates IFT20 stability but is not essential for tubulin transport during ciliogenesis

Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is required for ciliogenesis by ferrying ciliary components using IFT complexes as cargo adaptors. IFT54 is a component of the IFT-B complex and is also associated with cytoplasmic microtubules (MTs). Loss of IFT54 impairs cilia assembly as well as cytoplasmic MT dynamics. The N-terminal calponin homology (CH) domain of IFT54 interacts with tubulins/MTs and has been proposed to transport tubulin during ciliogenesis, whereas the C-terminal coiled-coil (CC) domain binds IFT20. However, the precise function of these domains in vivo is not well understood. We showed that in Chlamydomonas, loss of IFT54 completely blocks ciliogenesis but does not affect spindle formation and proper cell cycle progression, even though IFT54 interacts with mitotic MTs. Interestingly, IFT54 lacking the CH domain allows proper flagellar assembly. The CH domain is required for the association of IFT54 with the axoneme but not with mitotic MTs, and also regulates the flagellar import of IFT54 but not IFT81 and IFT46. The C-terminal CC domain is essential for IFT54 to bind IFT20, and for its recruitment to the basal body and incorporation into IFT complexes. Complete loss of IFT54 or the CC domain destabilizes IFT20. ift54 mutant cells expressing the CC domain alone rescue the stability of IFT20 and form stunted flagella with accumulation of both IFT-A component IFT43 and IFT-B component IFT46, indicating that IFT54 also functions in IFT turn-around at the flagellar tip.     

金具零部件表面防腐蚀试验研究

随着经济的持续高速增长,各行业用电需求增大。在加快特高压骨干电网建设的同时,提高现有电网的输电能力、输电质量成为重中之重。金具是海上换流站的重要组成部分,海洋环境的特殊性,对金具提出了更高的耐腐蚀性能要求。为了探究海洋环境对金具的腐蚀性,选用ZL101A和ZL102两种典型的铝合金金具,采用5种辅助防腐蚀工艺获得5种耐腐蚀样本,并模拟海上工况对其分别进行盐雾腐蚀试验,得出最优防腐蚀工艺。研究表明：ZL101A和ZL102两种铝合金具有一定的耐腐蚀性能,ZL101A铝合金的耐腐蚀性能强于ZL102铝合金的;抛丸处理的防腐措施在ZL101A铝合金样本中的防腐蚀表现要强于ZL102铝合金样本的;阳极氧化在两种材质中防腐蚀表现均为优异,是最优异的防腐蚀工艺。     

Adaptive SPC monitoring scheme for DOE-based APC

Automatic process control （APC） based on design of experiment （DOE） is a cost-efficient approach for variation reduction. The process changes both in mean and variance owing to online parameter adjustment make it hard to apply traditional SPC charts in such DOE-based APC applied process. An adaptive SPC scheme is developed, which can better track the process transitions and achieve the possible SPC run cost reduction when the process is stable. The control law of SPC parameters is designed by fully utilizing the estimation properties of the process model instead of traditionally using the data collected from the production line. An example is provided to illustrate the proposed adaptive SPC design approach.     

General and efficient parallel approach of finite element-boundary integral-multilevel fast multipole algorithm

A general and efficient parallel approach is proposed for the first time to parallelize the hybrid finiteelement-boundary-integral-multi-level fast multipole algorithm （FE-BI-MLFMA）. Among many algorithms of FE-BI-MLFMA, the decomposition algorithm （DA） is chosen as a basis for the parallelization of FE-BI-MLFMA because of its distinct numerical characteristics suitable for parallelization. On the basis of the DA, the parallelization of FE-BI-MLFMA is carried out by employing the parallelized multi-frontal method for the matrix from the finiteelement method and the parallelized MLFMA for the matrix from the boundary integral method respectively. The programming and numerical experiments of the proposed parallel approach are carried out in the high perfor- mance computing platform CEMS-Liuhui. Numerical experiments demonstrate that FE-BI-MLFMA is efficiently parallelized and its computational capacity is greatly improved without losing accuracy, efficiency, and generality.     

证券投资决策的微分对策方法研究

在证券价格存在有界不确定性的假设下,研究了基于最差情况的最优证券投资决策问题。首先建立了证券投资决策的微分对策模型,然后,证明了该微分对策模型存在唯一的值函数,最后,根据微分对策理论得出了值函数所满足的偏微分方程。     

业务过程重组若干问题之探讨

业务过程重组是创造性地应用信息技术,以业务过程为导向,调整企业的各种业务流、组织结构,进行企业组织管理的全面创新．本文就业务过程重组的内涵、认识误区、与信息技术的关系和实施中的问题与发展前景进行探讨     

超导和准光铁氧体器件的新近发展(一)--铁氧体超导器件的现状与发展

本文综述了微波铁氧体超导器件和毫米波应用的准光环行器的新近发展。这些超小型化具有高性能的高温超导（ＨＴＳ）铁氧体器件和高功率准光环行器的试验成功,将对微波单片集成、混合平面集成和毫米波雷达系统的发展产生重要的影响。将分二部分对上述内容加以叙述。     

纳米TiO2的应用

纳米TiO2因其具有更为独特的性能,例如优异的紫外屏蔽作用、透明无毒、奇特的颜色及光催化作用等,引起了人们的普遍关注,对它的制备、性能和应用展开了深入的研究.本文概述了纳米TiO2在有机和无机废水处理、杀菌、空气净化、紫外屏蔽、表面自清洁材料、高级涂料、静电屏蔽、红外吸收、红外反射、隐身材料及增强增韧材料等方面的应用和最新研究进展.