Fetal rat brain hemisphere tissue in nonadherent stationary organ culture

Summary A simple organ culture system for brain tissue is described. Fragments of fetal rat brain hemisphere tissue are explanted to multiwell dishes base-coated with semisolid agar. In this system nonadherent organ culture can be performed for at least 50 days. Cell migration, biochemical and morphological differentiation and the formation of a layered architecture seem to mimic some of the phenomena occurring in the developing rat brain in vivo. The fragments may therefore be a useful organ culture model for nervous tissue.     

Dissolved organic carbon trends resulting from changes in atmospheric deposition chemistry

Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain recent, widespread increases in concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the surface waters of glaciated landscapes across eastern North America and northern and central Europe. Some invoke anthropogenic forcing through mechanisms related to climate change, nitrogen deposition or changes in land use, and by implication suggest that current concentrations and fluxes are without precedent. All of these hypotheses imply that DOC levels will continue to rise, with unpredictable consequences for the global carbon cycle. Alternatively, it has been proposed that DOC concentrations are returning toward pre-industrial levels as a result of a gradual decline in the sulphate content of atmospheric deposition. Here we show, through the assessment of time series data from 522 remote lakes and streams in North America and northern Europe, that rising trends in DOC between 1990 and 2004 can be concisely explained by a simple model based solely on changes in deposition chemistry and catchment acid-sensitivity. We demonstrate that DOC concentrations have increased in proportion to the rates at which atmospherically deposited anthropogenic sulphur and sea salt have declined. We conclude that acid deposition to these ecosystems has been partially buffered by changes in organic acidity and that the rise in DOC is integral to recovery from acidification. Over recent decades, deposition-driven increases in organic matter solubility may have increased the export of DOC to the oceans, a potentially important component of regional carbon balances. The increase in DOC concentrations in these regions appears unrelated to other climatic factors.     

磁电式钢丝绳缺陷检测传感器的研制

本文研究了磁电式钢丝绳缺陷检测传感器的结构设计方法,讨论了集成Hall元件在漏磁检测中的应用特点,在此基础上给出了采用整体随动定心结构、多元件独立通道检测的缺陷检测传感器.     

基于立体靶标的摄像机标定方法

为获取视觉测量系统中二维图像到三维空间位置的变换关系,提出一种基于立体靶标的摄像机标定方法.针对无畸变小孔成像模型,使用最小二乘法求解初始投影矩阵后通过LM准则对其优化;根据多张图像对应的投影矩阵,求解摄像机内参数及各相应外参数;引入二阶径向畸变模型,建立理想图像坐标和实际图像坐标间的方程求解初始畸变系数;使用LM准则...