节水灌溉条件下冬小麦生长期田间氮素迁移转化试验

在节水灌溉的条件下,通过田间现场试验测定了冬小麦生长期田间土壤中铵氮、硝态氮含量的动态分布,分析了田间土壤中氮素的迁移转化规律,为合理施肥提供科学依据。试验结果表明,冬小麦耕层中的营养氮素含量以硝态氮为主,约占８５％多,除用施肥的方法为植物生长提供一定的氮素以外,土壤本底的含量,特别是土壤中有机氮矿化后的无机氮也是植物营养氮素的一个重要来源,在节水灌溉的条件下,冬小麦生长季节硝态氮的深层渗漏微乎其微,但是冬小麦收割后根层中仍有大量的硝态氮,如不合理利用会在汛期因大量降水造成肥料的大量流失,并对地下水构成潜在的威胁。     

地下水咸淡水混合带动态特性试验研究

应用电导率法,通过大型移流弥散砂槽模型试验,成功地测到了混合带,并对混合带及其动态特性进行了观测、分析和研究,在总体水头的水平梯度方向与浓度的水平梯度方向（弥散的反方向）相反的条件下,得到了咸水入侵进慢退快、混合带发展演化过程中有回咸现象以及介质分层、高浓度等试验的部分规律。部分成果对滨海地区水资源的规划、管理和海（咸）水入侵的预防、治理以及移流弥散问题的物理模型、数学模型的研究有参考意义和实际应用价值。     

基于扰动分析的流程自适应控制

研究了一台机器加工一种工件的简单制造系统的流程控制问题。在对故障时间和工作时间的分布不做任何假设的情况下,利用自适应控制的思想,将整个控制过程依据一定的规则分成有限长的时间段,在每一段时间内用扰动分析估计目标函数的一阶和二阶导数,然后用基于二阶导数的随机逼近算法渐进地估计该流程控制问题中的最优阈值,从而实现了阈值的自适应控制,并利用仿真实例验证了算法的收敛性。     

一种高质量的2 kb/s语言编码算法MWI

提出一种高质量的低速率语言编码算法ＭＷＩ,该算法对传统的波形插值算法ＷＩ进行了全面的改进。ＭＷＩ采用了一种更加合理的插值模型,包括统一的清音和浊音分析合成模型、新的典型波形的提取和表示方法,并且采用动态规划的算法增加基音周期估计的准确性。由于不依赖于准确的清浊音判别,ＭＷＩ具有更强的抗噪声能力。ＭＷＩ的参数设置也有利于更加有效的参数量化。随着编码速率的下降,ＭＷＩ的质量虽然呈下降的趋势,但在２ｋｂ／ｓ的速率下,它仍然能给出具有很高清晰度和自然度的合成语音。构造的完整的ＭＷＩ２ｋｂ／ｓ的声码器,具有很高的自然度和可懂度。     

A 6,000-year sedimentary molecular record of chemocline excursions in the Black Sea

The Black Sea is the world's largest anoxic basin; it is also a contemporary analogue of the environment in which carbonaceous shales and petroleum source beds formed. Recently, Repeta et al. reported that anoxygenic photosynthesis may be an important component of carbon cycling in the present Black Sea, owing to a shoaling of the chemocline and consequent penetration of the photic zone by anaerobic waters in the past few decades. It has been suggested that this was due to an anthropogenic decrease in freshwater input to the Black Sea, although natural causes were not ruled out. Here we report the distributions of sequestered photosynthetic pigments in eight core samples of sediments from the Black Sea ranging in age from zero to 6,200 years before the present. Our results show that photosynthetic green sulphur bacteria (Chlorobiaceae [correction of Clorobiaceae]) have been active in the Black Sea for substantial periods of time in the past. This finding indicates that the penetration of the photic zone by anaerobic waters is not a recent phenomenon, and suggests that natural causes for shoaling of the chemocline are more likely than anthropogenic ones.     

Transplantation of human cortex with Alzheimer's disease into rat occipital cortex; a model for the study of Alzheimer disease

Summary Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) is a major problem in the human senescent population. As this pathology cannot be reproduced in animals, research into its development is greatly impeded. The technique of implantation of the nervous tissue has been utilized in order to establish an animal model and to test the possible existence of a transmissible agent. When human temporal cortex with Alzheimer's disease is implanted in the occipital cortex of 7-week-old rats, human cerebral tissue containing abundant tangles induces in the receiver cortex a reactive fibrous gliosis. In the processes of the astrocytes, twisted filaments are evident among bundles of normal filaments. These alterations could be induced by the metabolising of abnormal filament subunits or by some infectious agent introduced by the implant.This study is supported by grant No. 2.4517.82 of Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective of Belgium.     

An assessment of the effect of hormone and neurotransmitters on adenine and gluanine derivatives simultaneously in rat brain cortical slices

Summary A 2-dimensional thin-layer method has been developed for the separation on cellulose of adenine and guanine derivatives. Using incubated rat cerebral cortex slices it was shown that noradrenaline and acetylcholine stirnulated cAMP and cGMP production respectively but glutamate and -aminobutyric acid stimulated production of both cyclic nucleotides.     

Furocaulerpin,a new acetylenic sesquiterpenoid from the green algaCaulerpa prolifera

Summary Furocaulerpin, an acetylenic sesquiterpenoid possessing a furan ring, has been isolated from the marine algaCaulerpa prolifera, and its stereostructure elucidated mainly on the basis of physico-chemical data.This work was carried out in the frame work of the Progetto Finalizzato per l'Oceanografia e i Fondi Marini, CNR, Rome. Thanks are due to the Centro di Metodologie Chimico-Fisiche of the University of Naples (Mr I. Giudicianni) for the determination of PMR-spectra.     

Proteolytic activity on endogeneous substrates in cell-free extracts ofTrypanosoma cruzi

Summary Cell-free extracts ofTrypanosoma cruzi contain proteolytic activity able to degrade endogenous substrates. The activity was maximal at pH 3 to 4, had an optimal temperature of 65°C, and was strongly inhibited by N--p-tosyl-L-lysine chloromethyl ketone.This investigation received financial support from the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, the Fundación Julio Cherny, and the Ministerio de Salud Pública y Medio Ambiente de la República Argentina. The authors gratefully acknowledge the technical assistance of Mr Esteban Bontempi.