脑及其自我先天本能和后天驱动力的神经生物化学观念

这本专著总结了作者多年来最重要的研究成果。研究表明，人的大脑皮层具有获得驱动力的独特能力．正是这种能力创造了人类社会，并促使人类社会不断进化。作者认为，人类社会目前还处于反复实验的发展阶段，但其最终必将由现在的不可知状态逐渐过渡到理性指导的平衡状态。通过对获得性驱动力的特殊分析及以前曾认为不可知的脑机理的发现，作者对社会生活的发展及艺术、科学的起源给出了合理的生理学解释。本书的目的是要论证即使在脑及其自我的关系中，自然规律仍然是简单的，而不是不可知的。     

数字通信系统 第三版

本书全面介绍了数字通信系统的理论和实际应用方法，并且包含了在数字信号传输中需要运用的关于设计、实现和测试的最新方法和技术。此书介绍的基本技术有：纠错码、多路复用、数字调制、数字用户线路、电缆调制、移动无线网络、城域网和光纤网络。新的工业标准有：声音／视频编码、SONET/SDH、DWDM、ATM、宽带无线网、网络同步和网络管理。每一章节后都有评述和参考文献和大量习题（无答案）。     

Mutations in the gene encoding pejvakin, a newly identified protein of the afferent auditory pathway, cause DFNB59 auditory neuropathy

Auditory neuropathy is a particular type of hearing impairment in which neural transmission of the auditory signal is impaired, while cochlear outer hair cells remain functional. Here we report on DFNB59, a newly identified gene on chromosome 2q31.1-q31.3 mutated in four families segregating autosomal recessive auditory neuropathy. DFNB59 encodes pejvakin, a 352-residue protein. Pejvakin is a paralog of DFNA5, a protein of unknown function also involved in deafness. By immunohistofluorescence, pejvakin is detected in the cell bodies of neurons of the afferent auditory pathway. Furthermore, Dfnb59 knock-in mice, homozygous for the R183W variant identified in one DFNB59 family, show abnormal auditory brainstem responses indicative of neuronal dysfunction along the auditory pathway. Unlike previously described sensorineural deafness genes, all of which underlie cochlear cell pathologies, DFNB59 is the first human gene implicated in nonsyndromic deafness due to a neuronal defect.     

Purification and cloning of amyloid precursor protein beta-secretase from human brain

Proteolytic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) generates amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide, which is thought to be causal for the pathology and subsequent cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. Cleavage by beta-secretase at the amino terminus of the Abeta peptide sequence, between residues 671 and 672 of APP, leads to the generation and extracellular release of beta-cleaved soluble APP, and a corresponding cell-associated carboxy-terminal fragment. Cleavage of the C-terminal fragment by gamma-secretase(s) leads to the formation of Abeta. The pathogenic mutation K670M671-->N670L671 at the beta-secretase cleavage site in APP, which was discovered in a Swedish family with familial Alzheimer's disease, leads to increased beta-secretase cleavage of the mutant substrate. Here we describe a membrane-bound enzyme activity that cleaves full-length APP at the beta-secretase cleavage site, and find it to be the predominant beta-cleavage activity in human brain. We have purified this enzyme activity to homogeneity from human brain using a new substrate analogue inhibitor of the enzyme activity, and show that the purified enzyme has all the properties predicted for beta-secretase. Cloning and expression of the enzyme reveals that human brain beta-secretase is a new membrane-bound aspartic proteinase.     

美国对付外星人的武器

美国国家航空航天局发布消息说,1977年发射的"旅行者1号"探测器已抵达太阳系边缘,这意味着"人类第一个星际使者"有望不久后首次脱离太阳系,进入星际空间。那让我们天马行空地想象一下,假如"人类星际使者"遭遇外星人怎么办?或者,更糟糕的情况,如果将并不友善的外星人引到地球,向人类发起袭击又该怎么办?人类在抵御外星人入侵时,是否已掌握合适的     

Preparation and characterization of doubly substituted microwave absorbing material by sol-gel technique for super high frequency applications

Rare earth Dy~(3+)and divalent Mn~(2+)elements substituting W-type hexagonal ferrites Ba_(1-x)Dy_xZn_2Fe_(16-y)Mn_yO_(27)(x=0,0.02,0.06,0.1 and y=0,0.1,0.3,0.5)were prepared by sol-gel method.The thermo-gravimetric analysis(TGA)and differential scanning calorimetry(DSC)was carried out to find the temperature at which single phase can be obtained.XRD patterns indicate the presence of the single phase for all the synthesized samples with the absence of any extra peak due to unreacted material and secondary phases.The occurrence of absorption bands at low wave numbers(563 and 446 cm~(-1)),can be assigned to the stretching vibration of metal and oxygen ions in FTIR spectra,which also confirms the single hexagonal phase for prepared material.The grains are of platelet like structure,which enhances the microwave absorption properties of hexagonal ferrites.The synthesized material exhibits the minimum reflection loss of-20.9 dB at 11.8 GHz frequency,which reflects the applications of this material in super high frequency devices.The microwave conductivity of the material increases with frequency.     

结晶条件对聚丙烯-聚异丁烯共混物形态和性能的影响

通过WAXS,SAXS和拉伸试验对聚丙烯-聚异丁烯共混物进行了表征,讨论了结晶条件和共混物的组成对其形态和拉伸行为的影响,与室温淬火试样相比,等温结晶试样具有较高的结晶度、较厚的晶片、较高的拉伸模量及强度、较差的韧性,PIB的存在导致iPP结晶度降低,力学性能变差。     

某些交错群和对称群的刻划

设G为群,π_e(G)为G中元的阶之集.在文献中作者证明了G(?)A_n当且仅当(1)π_e(G)=π_e(A_n),(2)|G|=|A_n|.对某些交错群,如A_5,A_7,A_8可以仅用上述条件(1)加以刻划.在文献中作者证明了对所有的对称群S_n,n≥2,可用上述条件(1)和(2)加以刻划.然而,对群S_i,i=2,3,…,6均不能由条件(1)单独确定.