早老性痴呆症基因治疗

大脑外科手术在任何情况下都是需要细心处理的。若再与试验性的基因疗法结合 ,复杂性就更令人震惊。然而圣地亚哥加州大学的一个研究小组正在进行这种尝试 ,以期发现治疗早老性痴呆症的新方法。塔斯吉恩斯基领导的科研小组在 4月中旬举行的一次新闻发布会上宣布 :他们已经把一簇经基因改造的组织移植到一名 60岁罹患早老性痴呆症妇女的大脑深层。这次历时 1 1小时完成的手术 ,是首次尝试用基因疗法治疗早老性痴呆症。其主要目的是支援位于前脑下部的称为类胆碱功能细胞的神经元。这些脑细胞在人们推理和处理信息过程中发挥重要作用 ,不过它…     

长毛鼠(Diplothrix, Muridae)化石在日本琉球群岛以外的首次发现

记述了产自安徽繁昌人字洞早更新世早期的扬子长毛鼠(新种)Diplothrix yangziensis sp. nov.. 现生长毛鼠属为单型种, 仅生活于日本的琉球群岛, 其化石也仅零星发现于其栖息地晚更新世的地层中. 新种以M1齿尖横脊较平直, 上臼齿的t3, t9发育, M3少退化, m1具下中附尖, m2, m3的唇侧下前边尖发育等特征不同于中国第四纪其他已知大型鼠类, 而应归入长毛鼠属. 同时, 新种以体型相对小, 齿冠更细窄, M1前、后齿带发育, M3少退化, m1后齿带小, m3有下后附尖和后齿带等特征比现生属型种D. legata及其他已知的长毛鼠化石更为原始, 很可能是D. legata的直接祖先类型. 中国扬子长毛鼠(新种)是该属在硫球群岛以外的首次发现, 也是迄今该属中时代最早、最原始的种类, 这为探讨长毛鼠的演化、扩散和古生态环境的变迁提供了重要信息.     

大樱桃早果高产栽培技术

大樱桃具有果大、肉硬、耐贮藏和成熟较晚的特性。为解决成熟期较晚和提高产量，提出了大樱桃建园、选用优良品种、树形修剪、阶段管理、病虫害防治和促进早果的栽培技术措施。     

闽西南晚古生代-早三叠世沉积特征及其大地构造意义

闽西南晚古生代-早三叠世具有典型的被动大陆边缘沉积建造特征,被动大陆边缘大陆坡向南倾斜,大田、漳平一线相当于当时陆坡下部的位置,沉积盆地中心位于大田-龙岩-永定一带,具有北、南两个方向的物质来源.闽西南晚古生代古生物有特提斯域亲缘分子,早三叠世溪口组是被动大陆边缘最后的海相沉积,其构造演化历史与古特提斯洋的演化在时间和地质特征等方面非常相似.晚古生代-早三叠世早期,闽西南海域可能是古特提斯海域的一个分支,它的构造演化从一个侧面反映了东古特提斯的演化.     

Optimal dividend strategies in a double compound poisson risk process

In this paper, we consider a double compound Poisson risk model involving two independent classes ofinsurance risks with a threshold dividend strategy. We derived the integro-differential equations (IDE) with certain boundary conditions for the present value of dividends until ruin. When the claims from both classes are exponentially distributed, we show that the threshold dividend strategy is an optimal dividend strategy.     

马岛:从未结束的战争

正军政府与老牌殖民国的战斗阿根廷本来希望借马岛战争转移国内矛盾,结果却让英国重建了自信。4月2日是英国和阿根廷马岛(英称福克兰群岛)战争爆发30周年纪念日,两国各自举行纪念活动悼念阵亡士兵。在阿根廷南部城市乌斯怀亚,总统克里斯蒂娜·费尔南德     

Theoretical analysis of reactive solid-liquid interfacial energies

The characterization of reactive solid-liquid interfacial energies and solid surface energies is a pressing problem in materials science and surface science. Based on the concept that unbalanced forces doing work, a mathematical formulation between surface energies and interfacial energies for reactive wetting is presented. The resulting formalism has significant generality in which the equilibrium Young’s equation for solid-liquid interfacial energies is just a special case. It is shown that a solid-liquid interfacial energy at non-equilibrium is always higher than that at equilibrium, and that the transformation of reactive interfaces to equilib-rium interfaces is an inevitable, spontaneous process. The numerical range of solid-liquid interfacial energies γsl for a limited, solid-liquid interfacial wetting system was calculated to be 0 ≤γsl ≤γsg. The calculation methods for reactive solid-liquid interfacial energies and solid surface energies are presented. They are significant for composite materials and weld, powder sinter, package of electronic devices, and other surface and interfacial issues in metallurgy.     

非线性耦合Schrdinger-KdV方程的新精确解

在文献(Phys.Lett.,2008,A372(4):417-423.)的基础上,通过改变辅助微分方程,提出了一种广义的(G’/G)-展开法,并利用该方法求解了耦合Schrdinger-KdV方程,得到耦合Schrdinger-KdV方程的诸多用Jacobi椭圆函数表示的新解,当Jacobi椭圆函数的模m→1或0时,便得到耦合Schrdinger-KdV方程用双曲函数或三角函数表示的精确解.     

国外科技期刊亮点

痘病毒与先天性免疫系统间的角力;新型“隐形衣”研制成功;保持心态平和可预防老年痴呆;大脑低血糖可能诱发早老性痴呆;找到瘦素蛋白减重原理     

Receding horizon H∞ control for discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems

Receding horizon H∞ control scheme which can deal with both the H∞ disturbance attenuation and mean square stability is proposed for a class of discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems when minimizing a given quadratic performance criteria. First, a control law is established for jump systems based on pontryagin’s minimum principle and it can be constructed through numerical solution of iterative equations. The aim of this control strategy is to obtain an optimal control which can minimize the cost function under the worst disturbance at every sampling time. Due to the difficulty of the assurance of stability, then the above mentioned approach is improved by determining terminal weighting matrix which satisfies cost monotonicity condition. The control move which is calculated by using this type of terminal weighting matrix as boundary condition naturally guarantees the mean square stability of the closed-loop system. A sufficient condition for the existence of the terminal weighting matrix is presented in linear matrix inequality (LMI) form which can be solved efficiently by available software toolbox. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.