超声导波定量评价长骨骨折状况

采用超声导波评价长骨骨折已成为近年来的研究热点之一,为了定量地评价长骨骨折状况,本文采用二维时域有限差分仿真方法定量分析了超声导波在部分断裂和完全断裂的长骨中的传播情况.结果表明,采用低频窄带高斯包络正弦信号可成功激励出两个低阶导波模式S0和A0,其中A0模式对长骨骨折状况较为敏感.S0和A0模式幅度的比值S0/A0被用于评价长骨骨折程度,S0/A0随裂纹宽度、裂纹深度的增加显著上升.因此超声导波模式转换现象可用于定量表征骨折长骨的裂纹深度和裂纹宽度的变化,对长骨骨折愈合的监测也具有一定意义.     

Dynamics of Mid-Palaeocene North Atlantic rifting linked with European intra-plate deformations

The process of continental break-up provides a large-scale experiment that can be used to test causal relations between plate tectonics and the dynamics of the Earth's deep mantle. Detailed diagnostic information on the timing and dynamics of such events, which are not resolved by plate kinematic reconstructions, can be obtained from the response of the interior of adjacent continental plates to stress changes generated by plate boundary processes. Here we demonstrate a causal relationship between North Atlantic continental rifting at approximately 62 Myr ago and an abrupt change of the intra-plate deformation style in the adjacent European continent. The rifting involved a left-lateral displacement between the North American-Greenland plate and Eurasia, which initiated the observed pause in the relative convergence of Europe and Africa. The associated stress change in the European continent was significant and explains the sudden termination of a approximately 20-Myr-long contractional intra-plate deformation within Europe, during the late Cretaceous period to the earliest Palaeocene epoch, which was replaced by low-amplitude intra-plate stress-relaxation features. The pre-rupture tectonic stress was large enough to have been responsible for precipitating continental break-up, so there is no need to invoke a thermal mantle plume as a driving mechanism. The model explains the simultaneous timing of several diverse geological events, and shows how the intra-continental stratigraphic record can reveal the timing and dynamics of stress changes, which cannot be resolved by reconstructions based only on plate kinematics.     

A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness

As population structure can result in spurious associations, it has constrained the use of association studies in human and plant genetics. Association mapping, however, holds great promise if true signals of functional association can be separated from the vast number of false signals generated by population structure. We have developed a unified mixed-model approach to account for multiple levels of relatedness simultaneously as detected by random genetic markers. We applied this new approach to two samples: a family-based sample of 14 human families, for quantitative gene expression dissection, and a sample of 277 diverse maize inbred lines with complex familial relationships and population structure, for quantitative trait dissection. Our method demonstrates improved control of both type I and type II error rates over other methods. As this new method crosses the boundary between family-based and structured association samples, it provides a powerful complement to currently available methods for association mapping.     

We find them here, we find them there: Functional bacterial amyloid

Protein amyloid is often deposited in connection with neurodegenerative diseases. Such deposits generally possess three principal drawbacks: cytotoxicity, lack of spatial control in their deposition and structural polymorphism. These are typical features of biologically non-optimized systems which have not been exposed to evolutionary pressure. Nevertheless, Nature uses the cross-beta self-organizing principle in many structural contexts where a strong but pliable material is needed. Functional amyloid is found in humans, invertebrates, fungi and, not least, bacteria, in which amyloid may be the rule rather than the exception. Detailed case studies reveal how directed nucleation can use tailor-made proteins optimized to assume a specific amyloid conformation, leading to remarkably robust assemblies. This makes it highly challenging to purify and analyze the products formed in vivo. We contrast pathogenic and in-vitro-formed amyloid with functional amyloid, paying particular reference to bacterial amyloid, and discuss challenges and perspectives in identifying and characterizing this class of protein.     

基于子波分解计算散射子平均间距的倒谱法

提出了一种对超声散射信号分析的方法－－子波分解（ＷＤ）倒谱法,并利用该方法对正常猪肝组织的回波信号进行了分析,对软组织中散射的平均间距进行了估计,与用ＡＲＩ倒谱法所得结果进行了比较,结果表明：ＷＤ倒谱比ＡＲ倒谱更能反映软组织的微观结构特征,说明ＷＤ倒谱是软组织超声散射信号分析与软组织散射子平均间距定特征的一种有效方法。     

Corporate Social Responsibility as a Messy Problem: Linking Systems and Sensemaking Perspectives

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an essential topic with regard to the relationship between business and the wider society. It is a complex and controversial phenomenon that can best be addressed via systems theory and the sensemaking perspective. This paper proposes a way to link a dialectical systems perspective with communications that includes the sensemaking and dialogic collective approaches, which help to build systems of organised activities that aim to find solutions to complex problems from a holistic perspective. Companies are increasingly aware that if they wish to be successful actors in their business and societal relationships, the traditional sole focus on maximising profit is counterproductive, especially in terms of sustaining their value chains. A holistic approach to CSR and the value chain involves companies integrating their stakeholders along their value chains, especially at the downstream and upstream extremes (their customers and suppliers). This paper illustrates its theoretical perspectives with a case study of JYSK, a multinational company based in Denmark, which demonstrates how the company based its actual management of CSR on its willingness to learn from its own actions and from the actions of others.     

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

Our knowledge of species and functional composition of the human gut microbiome is rapidly increasing, but it is still based on very few cohorts and little is known about variation across the world. By combining 22 newly sequenced faecal metagenomes of individuals from four countries with previously published data sets, here we identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific. We also confirmed the enterotypes in two published, larger cohorts, indicating that intestinal microbiota variation is generally stratified, not continuous. This indicates further the existence of a limited number of well-balanced host-microbial symbiotic states that might respond differently to diet and drug intake. The enterotypes are mostly driven by species composition, but abundant molecular functions are not necessarily provided by abundant species, highlighting the importance of a functional analysis to understand microbial communities. Although individual host properties such as body mass index, age, or gender cannot explain the observed enterotypes, data-driven marker genes or functional modules can be identified for each of these host properties. For example, twelve genes significantly correlate with age and three functional modules with the body mass index, hinting at a diagnostic potential of microbial markers.     

奥沙普秦的线性扫描极谱法测定

用线性扫描极谱法和循环伏安法研究奥沙普秦在0.05mol.L-1HAc-NaAc缓冲溶液(pH5.18)中的电化学行为。奥沙普秦于-1.221V(vs.SCE)处产生一灵敏的吸附波,奥沙普秦浓度在4.0μg.L-1～2000.0μg.L-1范围时,其一次微分线性扫描峰电流与奥沙普秦浓度呈良好的线性关系,相关系数r=0.99920(n=15),检出限为2.4μg.L-1。对200.0μg.L-1奥沙普秦溶液进行6次平行试验,RSD为1.02%,回收率在94.3%～96.2%之间,方法可用于其在片剂中含量的测定。     

浅议施工企业工程项目效益评估

简述了工程项目效益评估产生的背景及在确定项目经济技术承包指标管理活动中所发挥的作用，详细介绍了工程项目效益评估的内容、依据及评估的程序。