Internal interactions within the human circadian system: the masking effect

Summary In the realm of human circadian rhythms, the masking effect is defined as the change in the course of deep body temperature induced by changes in the degree of physical activity, or by the alteration between sleep and wake. This effect is particularly obvious during internal desynchronization where the rhythms of deep body temperature, and the sleep-wake sleep-wake sleep cycle — i.e. one of the masking factors — run with different periods.Every sleep onset is accompanied by a rapid drop, and wake onset by a rapid rise in deep body temperature, each one with an overshoot of about 50% of the steady state variations. When rhythms are calculated, with the dominant temperature period as the screening period, exclusively from data obtained during sleep episodes, on the one hand, and from those obtained exclusively during wake, on the other, two average cycles emerge: the sleep temperature curve and the wake temperature curve. Both run in parallel but are separated by the masking effcct. As derived from many experiments, the mean masking effect amounts to 0.28±0.06°C. The masking effect also depends to some extent on the phase of the temperature rhtthm; it is larger than average around the temperature maximum and during the descending phase of the temperature cycle, where the alertness commonly is highest and the probability to sleep, in general, and the REM sleep propensity, in particular, are smaller than average. This also can be interpreted to indicate that the sleep temperature curve is phase advanced relative to the wake temperature curve; this, on the average, by 0.9±0.3 h.If the individually determined amount of masking is added to the temperature data obtained during sleep, or substracted from the temperature data obtained during wake, a temperature curve emerges that can be though of as being purified of the masking effect. Analyses of this artificial curve allow estimation of that part of the internal interactions uninfluenced by the masking effect. On the average, about half of the amount of interaction between the rhythm of sleep-wake and that of deep body temperature is explained by the masking effect, whereas the other half is oscillatory interaction. Both types of interaction are inherent and inseparable parts of the circadian clock mechanism, as can be deduced from model considerations.     

稀土高碳当量灰口铸铁组织与性能的研究

本文研究了利用稀土合金改善高碳当量灰口铸铁质量的可能性,稀土合金对高碳当 量灰口铸铁组织和性能影响的规律,以及稀土夹杂物在铸铁各相中分布的规律．发现了 稀土合金加入量与铸铁的机械性能之间明显的对应关系——“双峰值效应”。对稀土高 碳当量灰口铸铁的某些高温机械、物理、化学性能进行了研究。结果表明稀土合金加入 到高碳当量灰口铸铁中以后能净化铁水,改善组织,并提高其性能．     

分数阶黏弹性饱和地基与板的共同作用

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宗教文化对泉州古城街道活力的影响分析

以泉州古城为例,利用多源数据构建街道活力与其影响因素的分析框架,建立包含街道物理环境影响因素和宗教文化影响因素的街道活力评价指标体系.分析宗教建筑对街道活力的影响,并进一步分析宗教建筑与街道的空间关系对街道活力的影响.研究结果表明：街道活力与街道两侧的寺庙宗祠的数量呈负相关,香火旺盛的寺庙宗祠会提升附近街道的活力,但与寺庙宗祠距离无显著相关关系;在寺庙宗祠入口设置广场或宽敞的步行区可以集聚人气,并在寺庙宗祠周围布置商业或与其他景点结合以形成连续的活力点,有助于提升街道活力.     

高层建筑外附雨篷的表面风压和气动力系数

采用风洞试验方法研究高层建筑外附雨篷的风压特征,分析风压系数、风压相关性、非高斯性和整体升力系数随风向角的变化,给出围护结构的设计风压,最后研究倾角和出挑长度对整体力系数的影响. 研究发现,高层建筑外附雨篷上表面风压系数在正迎风时最大值接近1.4,系气流受到后方高层建筑的阻挡下翻导致;上、下表面的最大整体压力系数出现正迎风情况,最大值分别为1.24和0.76;上、下表面的最大整体升力系数出现侧风面,最大值分别为1.13和1.01;上下叠加后测点风压的非高斯性比单表面增强;上表面和下表面的升力系数在0°~70°风向呈现高斯分布,在80°~180°风向呈现较强的非高斯分布;高层建筑外附雨篷上表面的极值正压大于下表面;雨篷整体升力系数按照倾角-10°、0°、10°依次递增.     

浅论温室效应及其灾害和对策

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Increase in the survival time of mice exposed to ionizing radiation by a new class of free radical scavengers

Summary N-acyl dehydroalanines react with and scavenge mainly superoxide radical and hydroxyl radical (HO^.). The ortho-methoxyphenylacetyl dehydroalanine derivative, indexed as AD-20, protects mice against damage resulting from total body X-irradiation, as measured by the increase in their survival time. AD-20 increases the LD₅₀ at 30 days from 6.1 to 7.3 Gy in animals exposed to a wide range of X-rays (6 to 10 Gy). The dose reduction factor (D R F) of AD-20 is 1.20. We postulate that such radioprotective effect may result from its free radical scavenging activity.     

稀土肥料在日光温室栽培草莓上的应用研究

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DrugFET的研究（XⅢ）：四苯硼钠一烟碱FET的研制与应用

本文将离子敏感场效应晶体管（ＩＳＦＥＴ）与药物敏感膜相结合,研制成一种药物敏感场效应晶体管传感器（ＤｒｕｇＦＥＴ）。用四苯硼钠为电活性物质,邻苯二甲酸二辛酯为增塑剂,制成ｐｖｃ膜,对烟碱的线性范围为１．０×１０－２～２．０×１０－５ｍｏｌ／Ｌ,斜率为５７．５ｍｖ／ｐｃ,适宜ｐＨ范围为５．５～８．０,检出限为１．０×１０－６ｍｏｌ／Ｌ。用该传感器分析烟草中烟碱的含量,结果和分光光度法相一致。     

QCD真空凝聚与夸克,胶子相互作用的非微扰三点顶角函数

利用格林函数方法,借助于固定点规范条件,导出了ＱＣＤ物理真空中夸克,胶子凝聚对夸克,胶子三点相互作用顶角的修正,得到了非微扰夸克,胶子相互作用行为奠定了基础。