Stepwise replication identifies a low-producing lymphotoxin-alpha allele as a major risk factor for early-onset leprosy

Host genetics has an important role in leprosy, and variants in the shared promoter region of PARK2 and PACRG were the first major susceptibility factors identified by positional cloning. Here we report the linkage disequilibrium mapping of the second linkage peak of our previous genome-wide scan, located close to the HLA complex. In both a Vietnamese familial sample and an Indian case-control sample, the low-producing lymphotoxin-alpha (LTA)+80 A allele was significantly associated with an increase in leprosy risk (P = 0.007 and P = 0.01, respectively). Analysis of an additional case-control sample from Brazil and an additional familial sample from Vietnam showed that the LTA+80 effect was much stronger in young individuals. In the combined sample of 298 Vietnamese familial trios, the odds ratio of leprosy for LTA+80 AA/AC versus CC subjects was 2.11 (P = 0.000024), which increased to 5.63 (P = 0.0000004) in the subsample of 121 trios of affected individuals diagnosed before 16 years of age. In addition to identifying LTA as a major gene associated with early-onset leprosy, our study highlights the critical role of case- and population-specific factors in the dissection of susceptibility variants in complex diseases.     

示波极谱法测定矿物中痕量硒

本文采用SeS_3~(2-)—KIO_3体系示波催化波法,测定了矿物中的痕景硒。硒在-0.56V处产生催化极谱波。检出限为0.04ppb,相对标准偏差为2.79%,同收率为90.0～97.8%。     

大熊猫主食竹种微量元素研究

用原子吸收分光光度法测定了卧龙自然保护区大熊猫主食竹种——冷箭竹(Bashania fangiana)、拐棍竹(Fargesia robusta)、华西箭竹(Fargesia nit—ida)、峨眉玉山竹(Yushania chungii)的叶、笋——幼竹、一年杆、二年杆共208例中的Cu、Zn、Mn、Fe、Ca、Mg、K等七种元素含量。找到了微量元素含量与竹类、竹龄、竹株部位、竹的生长环境(海拔高度、季节)以及与大熊猫食性等的关系。     

New Results on Stability and Stabilization of Delayed Caputo Fractional Order Systems with Convex Polytopic Uncertainties

In this paper, the problems of robust stability and stabilization, for the first time, are studied for delayed fractional-order linear systems with convex polytopic uncertainties. The authors derive some sufficient conditions for the problems based on linear matrix inequality technique combined with fractional Razumikhin stability theorem. All the results are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities that are numerically tractable. The proposed results are quite general and improve those given in the literature since many factors, such as discrete and distributed delays, convex polytopic uncertainties, global stability and stabilizability, are considered. Numerical examples and simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the effectiveness of our results.     

偶联剂对HDPE基竹塑复合材料性能的影响

以高密度聚乙烯(HDPE)、竹粉(BF)为原料,马来酸酐接枝聚丙烯(MAH-g-PP)作为偶联剂,通过混炼、平板热压成型制备竹粉/HDPE复合材料,研究了马来酸酐接枝聚丙烯添加量(0、2%、5%、8%)对竹粉/HDPE复合材料吸湿性、吸水性、弯曲强度、拉伸强度以及抗冲击强度等性能的影响。结果表明:MAH-g-PP能显著改善竹粉/HDPE复合材料的吸湿、吸水性能,明显提高复合材料的力学性能; 当MAH-g-PP添加量为5%时,复合材料的吸湿、吸水率最低,静曲强度与弹性模量分别提高68%和30.4%,拉伸强度与抗冲击强度分别增长53.7%和75%; 而当MAH-g-PP添加量为8%时,复合材料的力学性能在一定程度上有所降低。红外光谱(FTIR)分析显示,添加MAH-g-PP后竹粉的游离羟基与马来酸酐之间发生了酯化反应。     

Chromosome 6q25 is linked to susceptibility to leprosy in a Vietnamese population

Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affects an estimated 700,000 persons each year. Clinically, leprosy can be categorized as paucibacillary or multibacillary disease. These clinical forms develop in persons that are intrinsically susceptible to leprosy per se, that is, leprosy independent of its specific clinical manifestation. We report here on a genome-wide search for loci controlling susceptibility to leprosy per se in a panel of 86 families including 205 siblings affected with leprosy from Southern Vietnam. Using model-free linkage analysis, we found significant evidence for a susceptibility gene on chromosome region 6q25 (maximum likelihood binomial (MLB) lod score 4.31; P = 5 x 10(-6)). We confirmed this by family-based association analysis in an independent panel of 208 Vietnamese leprosy simplex families. Of seven microsatellite markers underlying the linkage peak, alleles of two markers (D6S1035 and D6S305) showed strong evidence for association with leprosy (P = 6.7 x 10(-4) and P = 5.9 x 10(-5), respectively).     

抚育对乌桕林经济效益的影响

本文报告对乌桕林抚育方式试验结果。除试验因素不同外,在其他条件相同的情况下,以每年对乌桕树进行一次申度修剪,耕翻林地一次,在林下套种春花生—茹菜的抚育方式,乌桕林的经济效益最好。     

Susceptibility to leprosy is associated with PARK2 and PACRG

Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and affects about 700,000 individuals each year. It has long been thought that leprosy has a strong genetic component, and recently we mapped a leprosy susceptibility locus to chromosome 6 region q25-q26 (ref. 3). Here we investigate this region further by using a systematic association scan of the chromosomal interval most likely to harbour this leprosy susceptibility locus. In 197 Vietnamese families we found a significant association between leprosy and 17 markers located in a block of approx. 80 kilobases overlapping the 5' regulatory region shared by the Parkinson's disease gene PARK2 and the co-regulated gene PACRG. Possession of as few as two of the 17 risk alleles was highly predictive of leprosy. This was confirmed in a sample of 975 unrelated leprosy cases and controls from Brazil in whom the same alleles were strongly associated with leprosy. Variants in the regulatory region shared by PARK2 and PACRG therefore act as common risk factors for leprosy.     

用BASIC语言判定命题推理的有效性

本文利用BASIC语言中较少为人所用的逻辑运算功能.来判定命题推理的有效性。     

Robust Finite-Time Stability and Stabilization of a Class of Fractional-Order Switched Nonlinear Systems

This paper deals with the problem of finite-time boundedness and finite-time stabilization boundedness of fractional-order switched nonlinear systems with exogenous inputs. By constructing a simple Lyapunov-like function and using some properties of Caputo derivative, the authors obtain some new sufficient conditions for the problem via linear matrix inequalities, which can be efficiently solved by using existing convex algorithms. A constructive geometric is used to design switching laws amongst the subsystems. The obtained results are more general and useful than some existing works, and cover them as special cases, in which only linear fractional-order systems were presented. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.