纳米技术的标准化进程和伦理问题

纳米技术的快速发展和纳米技术产品的逐步进入市场, 引起了人们就使用纳米产品对人类健康、安全和环境产生影响的特别关注, 这也是目前伦理学所关心的问题. 标准化不仅在消除贸易障碍、促进国际技术交流和贸易发展、提高产品在国际市场上的竞争能力方面具有重大作用, 对于保障身体健康、生命和环境的安全同样具有重要作用. 本文介绍了纳米技术的健康、安全和环境的标准化进程. 认为上述工作将促进社会科学和自然科学在纳米伦理问题上的交流与沟通, 以期共同解决纳米伦理问题.     

寄生植物和寄主植物间的物质分配

以寄生植物肉苁蓉和寄主植物梭梭为对象, 研究了寄生植物和寄主植物间的物质分配.结果显示, 肉苁蓉体内累积大量的可溶性碳水化合物, 其中可溶性总糖、淀粉以及总可溶性碳水化合物总量分别达到了5.56, 2.73, 8.29 g/株, 分别占梭梭肉苁蓉复合体的51.01%, 60.13%,53.73%; 肉苁蓉对K, P, Zn, Cu 的累积较多, 总量分别达到了348.15, 18.94, 0.24, 0.14 mg/株, 分别占复合体的18.46%, 16.36%, 7.27%, 5.67%. 本研究结果为寄生植物和寄主植物间的物质分配调节提供了初步的理论依据.     

集成微流控芯片

作为一种能够在微米级尺度操纵液体的新兴技术, 微流控芯片已经受到科学家们的广泛关注. 高密度集成的微流控芯片装置可以实现高通量并行化的实验以及多种操作单元的功能一体化, 作为一种新的方法学平台, 已经越来越多地应用于化学和生命科学的研究中. 本文着重介绍了集成化微流控芯片装置的基本概念、构建方法、及其在细胞生物学、分子生物学以及化学合成应用研究中的最新进展, 尤其强调了集成微流控芯片系统在传统方法难以达成或实现的单细胞和高通量的研究中的优势, 展望了集成化微流控芯片在化学以及生命科学中的应用前景.     

Effects of Si and Ce on the microstructure and hydrogen storage property of Ti_(26.5)Cr_(20)V_(45)Fe_(8.5)Ce_(0.5) alloy

In this paper,the effects of Si and Ce on the microstructure and hydrogen storage property of Ti26.5 Cr20V45Fe8.5Ce0.5 alloy were studied,respectively.First of all,effects of Si on the microstructure and hydrogen storage properties of Ti26.5Cr20(V45Fe8.5)1-xSixCe0.5(x=0,0.5,1.0,1.5 and 2.0 at%)alloys were studied by X-ray diffraction,scanning electron microscopy and P-C isotherm measurements.As the Si addition increases,the hydrogen absorption capacities of alloys decrease but the equilibrium pressure incre...     

Magnetocaloric effect in Er-Al-Co bulk metallic glasses

A series of Er-Al-Co bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) have been prepared by the copper mold casting method. The glass forming ability and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) for these alloys have been investigated. The second-order magnetic transition from para-magnetic to ferromagnetic states takes place at about 9 K. These BMGs exhibit excellent MCE because of their large effective magneton number; Er56Al24Co20 BMG has a maximum entropy change and refrigeration capacity of 16.06 J kg-1 K-1 and 546 J kg-1,respectively...     

RH精炼钢中全氧量变化与操作改进

为了使钢中全氧量控制在一个适当的水平,在武钢炼钢总厂RH真空脱气装置对低碳、超低碳钢进行了脱氧净化试验.结果表明,影响全氧去除的因素按作用高低依次是出钢溶解氧水平,溶解氧与钢包渣的交互作用,钢包渣,和真空处理净化时间.通过改进工艺生产了全氧量≤10×10-6,非金属夹杂物尺寸<10μm的清洁钢水,建立了一个钢包内钢水全氧浓度随时间变化的新方程,该方程考虑了全氧的表观平衡含量及环流、扩散传质对去除氧化物夹杂速率的影响.     

Influence of Node Dynamics on Cluster Global Time Continuity

The cluster global time can change in wireless sensor networks due to leader re-elections and node disabilities between two successive synchronizations,which will affect temporal relationships.This paper analyzes cluster global time continuity,using global time change models for the node dynamics.The results prove that defining the global time using the cluster average time(AGT) is more stable than defining it using a single node’s local time(SGT).With normally distributed clock-parameter assumptions,the AGT change bounds are at most 70.7% of those for the SGT’s.The impacts of the initial phase and frequency skew distributions on the global time continuity are also investigated to show that the initial phase variations may strongly influence the continuity.Simulations show that the AGT is more stable with less disabled nodes or larger clusters.The appropriate cluster size is 20-40 when there are less than 15 disabled nodes.     

Universal Distributed Estimation Scheme for a Bandwidth Constrained Ad Hoc Sensor Network

This paper describes a distributed estimation scheme (DES) for a bandwidth constrained ad hoc sensor network.The DES is universal in the sense that operations on all sensors are identical and independent of noise distribution.The scheme requires each sensor to transmit just a 1-bit message per observation.Simulation results show that the scheme achieves much better mean-squares error (MSE) performance than the simplified isotropic universal DES and even outperforms the isotropic universal DES which requires more than twice the bandwidth of this scheme.     

Applying File Information to Block-Level Content Addressable Storage

Content addressable storage (CAS) is a promising technology for improving storage efficiency as well as access throughput.Currently,many CAS products are implemented on the block level,which results in loss of file information.Thus,some sophisticated optimizations cannot be achieved,such as accurate fileprefetching.This paper presents a file-aware block-level storage system combined with the CAS function.In contrast with some existing file-level CAS,this system is transparent to upper-level applications,including the operating system and the file system.These features are achieved by using smart-disk technologies to help the storage system to learn the file-system layout.A prototype was implemented on an open-source virtual machine (VM) with the guest operating system being Windows XP.Tests show that this combination significantly reduces the size of the VM image file and improves the storage performance by discarding unused blocks and using a simple file-level prefetching strategy.     

Fine-mapping of SRT7 for short roots and identification of its candidate in rice

Three allelic short root mutants were identified by screening mutants with defective root elongation of the rice japonica cultivar Nipponbare mutant library generated via 60 Co γ-ray irradiation mutagenesis. These mutants, designated srt7-1 (short root 7-1), srt7-2 and srt7-3, respectively, had an extremely short seminal root, adventitious roots and lateral roots. Histological observation revealed the cell length of srt7 mutant roots was significantly shorter than that of wild-type roots. Genetic analysis i...