过路黄克隆生长对光照强度的反应

利用遮阳网产生光照梯度，以研究光照强度对克隆植物过路黄(Lysimachia christinae)形态特征和生物量分配的影响．结果表明：1)匍匐茎节间长度随光照强度的减弱而增大，遮荫明显增加过路黄的分枝角度，分枝强度没有对光强发生显著反应．遮荫使叶柄变长，而根长则变短．2)随光照强度的减弱，叶柄生物量逐渐增大；遮荫降低了叶生物量、根生物量、总生物量、根生物量比和地下生物量／地上生物量．3)在遮荫条件下，一级匍匐茎基部分株的叶生物量和分株总生物量显著大于顶部分株，而根冠比则相反．根的生物量在各分株间无显著差异．在不遮荫条件下，仅匍匐茎基部分株的叶生物量大于顶部分株，其它的生物量指标在各分株间无显著差异．在分株水平，分株的根冠比不受光强的影响．总之，过路黄的克隆生长在基株和分株水平都对光强作出了明显的反应，而且这种反应具有等级性．     

森林火灾的烟尘危害及烟呛救护

论述了森林火灾发生的条件及在燃烧过程中产生的烟尘危害，针对防火队员进行救护教育要求，在扑救森林火灾过程中扑火人员应密切注视火势，在遇到各种紧急情况时，学会避险和突围，必要时采取自救措施，把扑火人员的伤亡降到最低限度。     

工业毒物对女工生殖危害的调查研究

为了解工业毒物对女工的生殖危害,对重庆市的制药、农药、化工、机械4种行业中的6个企业的已婚女工进行问卷调查.结果表明:接触组女工出现月经经期异常、周期异常、经期不适以及妊娠并发症的阳性率均显著高于对照组(P<0 05).接触组阴道炎、盆腔炎、宫颈炎患病率均高于对照组(P<0 05).接触组中工龄大于10a的妇科肿瘤发生率明显高于对照组(P<0 05).认为工业毒物可能致妇科疾病和妇科肿瘤.     

Sol-Gel水热偶合法制备纳米AlOOH的晶相转变

以日本理学3015 X射线衍射仪研究了Sol-Gel 水热偶合法制备纳米AlOOH的晶相转变.(1) 在pH3.5、时间5 h、温度低于130 ℃时,主要生成三水铝;当温度高于130 ℃且升高至150 ℃时,三水铝完全转化为AlOOH;(2) 在pH3.5、温度150 ℃、时间小于3 h时,物相以三水铝和AlOOH共存,随时间延长至5 h,三水铝完全转化为AlOOH;(3) 在反应温度150 ℃、时间5 h、pH＞8.0时,三水铝的含量随pH的增大而增加,pH＜6.0才能转化为AlOOH .     

Genome-wide analysis of genetic alterations in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Chromosomal aberrations are a hallmark of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) but alone fail to induce leukaemia. To identify cooperating oncogenic lesions, we performed a genome-wide analysis of leukaemic cells from 242 paediatric ALL patients using high-resolution, single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays and genomic DNA sequencing. Our analyses revealed deletion, amplification, point mutation and structural rearrangement in genes encoding principal regulators of B lymphocyte development and differentiation in 40% of B-progenitor ALL cases. The PAX5 gene was the most frequent target of somatic mutation, being altered in 31.7% of cases. The identified PAX5 mutations resulted in reduced levels of PAX5 protein or the generation of hypomorphic alleles. Deletions were also detected in TCF3 (also known as E2A), EBF1, LEF1, IKZF1 (IKAROS) and IKZF3 (AIOLOS). These findings suggest that direct disruption of pathways controlling B-cell development and differentiation contributes to B-progenitor ALL pathogenesis. Moreover, these data demonstrate the power of high-resolution, genome-wide approaches to identify new molecular lesions in cancer.     

Sequential interactions with Sec23 control the direction of vesicle traffic

How the directionality of vesicle traffic is achieved remains an important unanswered question in cell biology. The Sec23p/Sec24p coat complex sorts the fusion machinery (SNAREs) into vesicles as they bud from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Vesicle tethering to the Golgi begins when the tethering factor TRAPPI binds to Sec23p. Where the coat is released and how this event relates to membrane fusion is unknown. Here we use a yeast transport assay to demonstrate that an ER-derived vesicle retains its coat until it reaches the Golgi. A Golgi-associated kinase, Hrr25p (CK1δ orthologue), then phosphorylates the Sec23p/Sec24p complex. Coat phosphorylation and dephosphorylation are needed for vesicle fusion and budding, respectively. Additionally, we show that Sec23p interacts in a sequential manner with different binding partners, including TRAPPI and Hrr25p, to ensure the directionality of ER-Golgi traffic and prevent the back-fusion of a COPII vesicle with the ER. These events are conserved in mammalian cells.     

Local charge of the ν = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state

Electrons moving in two dimensions under the influence of strong magnetic fields effectively lose their kinetic energy and display exotic behaviour dominated by Coulomb forces. When the ratio of electrons to magnetic flux quanta in the system (ν) is near 5/2, the electrons are predicted to condense into a correlated phase with fractionally charged quasiparticles and a ground-state degeneracy that grows exponentially as these quasiparticles are introduced. The only way for electrons to transform between the many ground states would be to braid the fractional excitations around each other. This property has been proposed as the basis of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. Here we present observations of localized quasiparticles at ν = 5/2, confined to puddles by disorder. Using a local electrometer to compare how quasiparticles at ν = 5/2 and ν = 7/3 charge these puddles, we were able to extract the ratio of local charges for these states. Averaged over several disorder configurations and samples, we found the ratio to be 4/3, suggesting that the local charges are = e/3 and = e/4, where e is the charge of an electron. This is in agreement with theoretical predictions for a paired state at ν = 5/2. Confirming the existence of localized e/4 quasiparticles shows that proposed interferometry experiments to test statistics and computational ability of the state at ν = 5/2 would be possible.     

Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials

The potential for increased drought frequency and severity linked to anthropogenic climate change in the semi-arid regions of the southwestern United States (US) is a serious concern. Multi-year droughts during the instrumental period and decadal-length droughts of the past two millennia were shorter and climatically different from the future permanent, 'dust-bowl-like' megadrought conditions, lasting decades to a century, that are predicted as a consequence of warming. So far, it has been unclear whether or not such megadroughts occurred in the southwestern US, and, if so, with what regularity and intensity. Here we show that periods of aridity lasting centuries to millennia occurred in the southwestern US during mid-Pleistocene interglacials. Using molecular palaeotemperature proxies to reconstruct the mean annual temperature (MAT) in mid-Pleistocene lacustrine sediment from the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, we found that the driest conditions occurred during the warmest phases of interglacials, when the MAT was comparable to or higher than the modern MAT. A collapse of drought-tolerant C(4) plant communities during these warm, dry intervals indicates a significant reduction in summer precipitation, possibly in response to a poleward migration of the subtropical dry zone. Three MAT cycles ～2?°C in amplitude occurred within Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11 and seem to correspond to the muted precessional cycles within this interglacial. In comparison with MIS 11, MIS 13 experienced higher precessional-cycle amplitudes, larger variations in MAT (4-6?°C) and a longer period of extended warmth, suggesting that local insolation variations were important to interglacial climatic variability in the southwestern US. Comparison of the early MIS 11 climate record with the Holocene record shows many similarities and implies that, in the absence of anthropogenic forcing, the region should be entering a cooler and wetter phase.