智能电网基本理念阐释

由于可再生能源开发利用的快速发展,世界各国面临着可再生能源如何接入及充分利用等一系列问题,而智能电网则是应对这些挑战的有效战略措施.智能电网具有强大的功能、显著的综合效益和广阔的发展前景,是世界电网发展的趋势.但是智能电网不是一个单纯的技术问题,它涉及许多重要的基本理念.厘清这些理念对于科学高效地实施智能电网、对于技术创新和产业发展至关重要.为此本文从智能电网的特点、智能电网的总体设想和技术内涵、与智能电网相关的技术、智能电网的近期与远期目标以及在实施智能电网时需要注意的事项等方面阐释了智能电网的基本理念.     

Light on the structure of thromboxane A2 receptor heterodimers

The structure-based design of a mutant form of the thromboxane A(2) prostanoid receptor (TP) was instrumental in characterizing the structural determinants of the hetero-dimerization process of this G protein coupled receptor (GPCR). The results suggest that the hetero-dimeric complexes between the TPα and β isoforms are characterized by contacts between hydrophobic residues in helix 1 from both monomers. Functional characterization confirms that TPα-TPβ hetero-dimerization serves to regulate TPα function through agonist-induced internalization, with important implications in cardiovascular homeostasis. The integrated approach employed in this study can be adopted to gain structural and functional insights into the dimerization/oligomerization process of all GPCRs for which the structural model of the monomer can be achieved at reasonable atomic resolution.     

BST陶瓷异向电磁特性的研究

本文提出了一种构造全介质异向介质的全新方法，根据Maxwell方程组及本构方程中传导电流与位移电流对于物质电／磁偶极短的相同贡献，BST陶瓷中体位移电流取代金属中面传导电流，使得BST陶瓷具有异向电磁特性．从理论和实验上证明了这一理论的正确性．     

号称经典物理留下的世纪难题“湍流问题”的实质是什么？

一直以来,湍流都被认为是经典物理留下的世纪难题,因而也被认为是一个重大的基础科学问题.本文简单回顾湍流研究历史,分析了均匀各向同性湍流的研究和真实湍流的研究间为何存在鸿沟.为何前者不能解决真实湍流问题,而后者则是今后应重点开展的湍流基础研究,和如何逐步解决真实的湍流问题.在结论中提出了今后湍流研究中值得注意的几个方面.     

暗物质模型简介

本文简单介绍了一些关于暗物质的模型研究,首先概述了暗物质的发现和大致的研究框架,并介绍了一些自然的暗物质候选者,如轴子和超对称模型中的Neutralino等,随后我们讨论一些具体模型和由实验诱导的一些模型.     

超导量子比特中的Landau-Zener-Stckelberg干涉

超导量子比特是人工固态量子系统,在低温和弱耗散条件下,具有量子化的能级结构.这些能级之间的间隔可以随外加偏置电磁场连续变化,不同能级在某些偏置场可能形成量子系统中所特有的免交叉.最近研究成果表明,利用这些免交叉,可以在固态量子比特中实现Landau-Zener-Stckelberg（LZS）干涉,为测量系统的能谱、表征系统与环境的耦合、实现量子逻辑门、产生量子纠缠等提供了一个便捷的新手段.     

Origin of AIDS: contaminated polio vaccine theory refuted

Despite strong evidence to the contrary, speculation continues that the AIDS virus, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), may have crossed into humans as a result of contamination of the oral polio vaccine (OPV). This 'OPV/AIDS theory' claims that chimpanzees from the vicinity of Stanleyville--now Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo--were the source of a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVcpz) that was transmitted to humans when chimpanzee tissues were allegedly used in the preparation of OPV. Here we show that SIVcpz is indeed endemic in wild chimpanzees of this region but that the circulating virus is phylogenetically distinct from all strains of HIV-1, providing direct evidence that these chimpanzees were not the source of the human AIDS pandemic.     

The knockout mouse project

Mouse knockout technology provides a powerful means of elucidating gene function in vivo, and a publicly available genome-wide collection of mouse knockouts would be significantly enabling for biomedical discovery. To date, published knockouts exist for only about 10% of mouse genes. Furthermore, many of these are limited in utility because they have not been made or phenotyped in standardized ways, and many are not freely available to researchers. It is time to harness new technologies and efficiencies of production to mount a high-throughput international effort to produce and phenotype knockouts for all mouse genes, and place these resources into the public domain.     

An age-colour relationship for main-belt S-complex asteroids

Asteroid collisions in the main belt eject fragments that may eventually land on Earth as meteorites. It has therefore been a long-standing puzzle in planetary science that laboratory spectra of the most populous class of meteorite (ordinary chondrites, OC) do not match the remotely observed surface spectra of their presumed (S-complex) asteroidal parent bodies. One of the proposed solutions to this perplexing observation is that 'space weathering' modifies the exposed planetary surfaces over time through a variety of processes (such as solar and cosmic ray bombardment, micro-meteorite bombardment, and so on). Space weathering has been observed on lunar samples, in Earth-based laboratory experiments, and there is good evidence from spacecraft data that the process is active on asteroid surfaces. Here, we present a measurement of the rate of space weathering on S-complex main-belt asteroids using a relationship between the ages of asteroid families and their colours. Extrapolating this age-colour relationship to very young ages yields a good match to the colour of freshly cut OC meteorite samples, lending strong support to a genetic relationship between them and the S-complex asteroids.