Landmark memories are more robust when acquired at the nest site than en route: experiments in desert ants

Foraging desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, encounter different sequences of visual landmarks while navigating by path integration. This paper explores the question whether the storage of landmark information depends on the context in which the landmarks are learned during an ant's foraging journey. Two experimental set-ups were designed in which the ants experienced an artificial landmark panorama that was placed either around the nest entrance (nest marks) or along the vector route leading straight towards the feeder (route marks). The two training paradigms resulted in pronounced differences in the storage characteristics of the acquired landmark information: memory traces of nest marks were much more robust against extinction and/or suppression than those of route marks. In functional terms, this result is in accord with the observation that desert ants encounter new route marks during every foraging run but always pass the same landmarks when approaching the nest entrance.     

浅成环境中岩浆流体的演化:稳定同位素透视

根据矿床地质背景、热液蚀变组合、流体包裹体和稳定同位素地球比学．特别是根据浅成岩浆热液环境中特征矿物明矾石的稳定同位素（δDδ18O、δ34S）组成，研究岩浆成矿流体的来源、动态演化与成成矿机理，获得了许多新认识；根据δ34S和δ18O可将明矾石划分出两种不同的成因类型；岩浆成矿热液在时间上从早期的气相流体向主成矿期的液相流体演化，而岩浆热液矿床在空间上主要定位干脆性-延性过渡带。     

电化学检测离子色谱法测定氰化物、硫化物、碘化物和溴化物

用离子色谱(IC)和通过银工作电极的电化学检测来分离和检测氰化物、硫化物、碘化物和溴化物。它们的检测性限分别为2PPb、30PPb、lOPPb和lOPPb。氰化物和硫化物能同时测定,以及还有其它能被IC测定的一般阴离子。包含在镉和锌络合物中的氰化物作为总游离氰化物被定量测定,而包含在镍和铜络合物中的氰化物只有一部分作为游离氰化物被测定。在金、铁或钴络合物中强键合的氰化物不被测定。虽然离子交换技术能容易地使氰化物或硫化物与大多数普遍的阴离子分离,但是它们通过一般的方法如电导法的检测是     

Fluid Mechanics of Biological Surfaces and their Technological Application

 A survey is given on fluid-dynamic effects caused by the structure and properties of biological surfaces. It is demonstrated that the results of investigations aiming at technological applications can also provide insights into biophysical phenomena. Techniques are described both for reducing wall shear stresses and for controlling boundary-layer separation. (a) Wall shear stress reduction was investigated experimentally for various riblet surfaces including a shark skin replica. The latter consists of 800 plastic model scales with compliant anchoring. Hairy surfaces are also considered, and surfaces in which the no-slip condition is modified. Self-cleaning surfaces such as that of lotus leaves represent an interesting option to avoid fluid-dynamic deterioration by the agglomeration of dirt. An example of technological implementation is discussed for riblets in long-range commercial aircraft. (b) Separation control is also an important issue in biology. After a few brief comments on vortex generators, the mechanism of separation control by bird feathers is described in detail. Self-activated movable flaps (=artificial bird feathers) represent a high-lift system enhancing the maximum lift of airfoils by about 20%. This is achieved without perceivable deleterious effects under cruise conditions. Finally, flight experiments on an aircraft with laminar wing and movable flaps are presented.     

硒酸钠和亚硒酸钠对长春花细胞悬浮生长的影响

研究了硒化合物对长春花(C.roseus)细胞悬浮生长的影响.在pH5.5培养介质中,当Se(Ⅵ)>0.5ppm或Se(Ⅳ)>0.6ppm时,将抑制C.roseus细胞悬浮生长,其致死浓度分别是100ppm Se(Ⅵ)和2.0ppm Se(Ⅳ).C.roseus对硒化合物有效强的富集作用.硒化合物的毒性和培养介质的pH值有关.在本试验条件下,硒酸钠和亚硒酸钠对Hg~(2+)无拮抗作用.     

Protozoan colonization on artificial substrates in relation to water quality in a tropical Indian harbour

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经济、能源、环境的综合评价模型

前言十年来,各国曾发生多起有关能源与环境问题。这种无秩序的不断增加的能源消费,廉价能源供给日益减少的经济发展比例,加重了环境污染。因此,对能源供给和环境保护的有关决策已介入了政治,这是所有发达国家而临困境所作出的必然结果。这结果产生了把环境政策和能源政策加以模型化,作为分析判断的尝试。为考查能源、经济与环境之间的相互关系,社会科学以及其他领域的专家共同完成了第一个模型,此模型揭示了能源,包含经济活动及其活动场所与环境之间相互作用,经济与环境具有极为密切的关系,环境也     

澳大利亚原油对比的研究

<正> 在过去的几年里,计算机化的色谱-质谱已被认为是在原油对比研究中起了重要的作用,尤其重要的是它能够检测出原油或生油岩有机质中的微量生物标志物。在原油对比中,最广泛使用的生物标志物是甾烷和藿烷型的三萜烷等。本报告是用计算机化的色谱-质谱研究澳大利亚几个不同盆地所获得的一系列原油的结果,尤其是关于这些原油中的二环倍半萜类、二萜类以及甾烷和三萜烷的研究结果。     

地幔交代作用

<正> “地幔交代作用”的思想是由Bailey(1970,1972)明确提出的,用以解释与大陆内上拱及断裂区域有关的高碱性岩浆作用。从那以后,大量研究表明地幔岩石的交代变化是一种常见的现象,它可能对决定来自地幔的岩浆的化学及同位素特征起关键作用。本文拟综述这一概念的现状并总结地幔中交代作用的性质     

Concurrency: a system design approach to environmental management and sustainability

The lessons of history indicate that mismanagement of natural resources and the environment often leads to potentially adverse consequences.The increasing interest in economic development,particularly in the developing countries of the world coupled with increasing population pressures and the globalization of economic activity is placing noticeable stresses on the ultimate sustainability of both human and environmental systems.Sustainable development is not a new concept.It has been an area of concern for different elements of society for some time.Yet efforts to understand the implications of sustainable development have not,until recently,been formalized.We have focused singularly on economic development and environmental quality as if they were mutually exclusive.This paper focuses on the concept of concurrency as both a conceptual framework and practicable method of understanding and implementing the ecology and economy of sustainability.