机械工程专业学生在企业完成毕业设计的尝试

按照学校,企业联合方式进行毕业设计的尝试过程和结果,并且指出了要注意的问题,结果表明,这种实施毕业设计的主式有设计工作量比较饱满,训练贴近工程实际,学生积极性高,结合就业比较密切等优点.     

发达国家早期与当今发展中国家经济发展的跨期比较--拓展发展经济学理论视野的一种新尝试

不管是发达国家还是发展中国家,每个经济体的经济发展都要经历由传统农业社会向现代工业社会转型的经济发展过程,这是我们拓展发展经济学的理论视野。在发展经济学的分析框架中研究发达国家早期发展历程,并将其与当今发展中国家经济发展进行垮期比较研究的客观基础。这种跨期比较研究既能为发展经济学提供更丰富的经验素材,并从经济发展思想史中吸取思想营养,使其理论视野更为广阔、逻辑更为严谨,又能为当今发展中国家选择发展道路提供更为丰富具体的历史参照系和更深入的理论阐释。     

Chemical basis of pupal cannibalism in a caterpillar (Utetheisa ornatrix).

The moth Utetheisa ornatrix derives protection against predation from systemic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) that it sequesters as a larva from its foodplants (Leguminosae, Crotalaria spp.). We here show, in laboratory tests, that Utetheisa deficient in body PA can make up for the chemical shortfall by cannibalizing pupae. We present evidence indicating that cannibalism in larvae is elicited not by hunger, but possibly by PA deficiency itself, and that in making cannibalistic choices larvae prefer PA-containing over PA-free pupae. PAs themselves, either in crystalline form or as additives to food items, proved phagostimulatory to larvae. In nature Utetheisa tend to pupate away from their foodplant, essentially out of reach of larval attack. The threat of cannibalism may have contributed to the evolution of this pupation behavior.     

Probing met repressor-operator recognition in solution.

The three-dimensional crystal structure of the Escherichia coli methionine repressor, MetJ, complexed with a DNA operator fragment is described in an accompanying article. The complex exhibits several novel features of DNA-protein interaction. DNA sequence recognition is achieved largely by hydrogen-bond contacts between the bases and amino-acid side chains located on a beta-ribbon, a mode of recognition previously hypothesized on the basis of modelling of idealized beta-strands and DNA, and mutagenesis of the Salmonella phage P22 repressors Arc and Mnt. The complex comprises a pair of MetJ repressor dimers which bind to adjacent met-box sites on the DNA, and contact each other by means of a pair of antiparallel alpha-helices. Here we assess the importance of these contacts, and also of contacts that would be made between the C-helices of the protein and DNA in a previous model of the complex, by studying mutations aimed at disrupting them. The role of the carboxy-terminal helix face in operator binding was unclear, but we demonstrate that recognition of operator sequences occurs through side chains in the beta-strand motif and that dimer-dimer interactions are required for effective repression.     

Overcompensation and population cycles in an ungulate.

Although theoretical studies show that overcompensatory density-dependent mechanisms can potentially generate regular or chaotic fluctuations in animal numbers, the majority of realistic single-species models of invertebrate populations are not overcompensatory enough to cause sustained population cycles. The possibility that overcompensation may generate cycles or chaos in vertebrate populations has seldom been considered. Here we show that highly overcompensatng density-dependent mortality can generate recurrent population crashes consistent with those observed in a naturally limited population of Soay sheep. The observed interval of three or more years between crashes points to sharp 'focusing' of mortality over a narrow range of population density.     

血液的光学性质研究

本文用辐射输运理论方法去计算红细胞的光学特征量,并在此基础上提出检测血细胞数密度的理论实验方案,其结果与传统的方法一致。本文为开发一种血球数自动检测仪提供了理论基础和仪器结构原型。