Conservation of Bio synthetic pheromone pathways in honeybees Apis

Social insects use complex chemical communication systems to govern many aspects of their life. We studied chemical changes in Dufours gland secretions associated with ovary development in several genotypes of honeybees. We found that C28–C38 esters were associated only with cavity nesting honeybee queens, while the alcohol eicosenol was associated only with their non-laying workers. In contrast, both egg-laying anarchistic workers and all parasitic Cape workers from queenright colonies showed the typical queen pattern (i.e. esters present and eicosenol absent), while egg-laying wild-type and anarchistic workers in queenless colonies showed an intermediate pattern, producing both esters and eicosenol but at intermediate levels. Furthermore, neither esters nor eicosenol were found in aerial nesting honeybee species. Both esters and eicosenol are biosynthetically similar compounds since both are recognizable products of fatty acid biosynthesis. Therefore, we propose that in honeybees the biosynthesis of esters and eicosenol in the Dufours gland is caste-regulated and this pathway has been conserved over evolutionary time.     

唐钢2×150t转炉煤气回收系统设计及运行实践

在此较详细地介绍了唐钢一炼钢厂 2× 15 0t转炉煤气回收湿法除尘工艺和系统的技术特点。该系统设计吸收了国内外大型转炉煤气回收的经验。经近 18个月的生产实践 ;认为效果良好 ,煤气回收率近 80 % ,热值近 80 0 0kJ Nm3,放散排放浓度小于 80mg m     

上海市噪声污染控制方法的探讨

随着上海城市的发展，噪声污染成了危害群众身心健康的主要公害之一。在分析了上海市4种环境噪声污染现状的基础上，提出了加强各类噪声控制以及创建噪声达标小区等一系列防治方法。     

The influence of the physical environment on the self-organised foraging patterns of ants

Among social insects such as ants, scouts that modulate their recruiting behaviour, following simple rules based on local information, generate collective patterns of foraging. Here we demonstrate that features of the abiotic environment, specifically the foraging substrate, may also be influential in the emergence of group-level decisions such as the choice of one foraging path. Experimental data and theoretical analyses show that the collective patterns can arise independently of behavioural changes of individual scouts and can result, through self-organising processes, from the physico-chemical properties of the environment that alter the dynamics of information transfer by chemical trails.     

土壤对六价铬的还原容量初步研究

提出并讨论了土壤的潜在还原容量、有效还原容量和条件还原容量等概念，通过对采用北京和唐山地下水饮用水源区３个包气带土壤样品的土柱淋滤实验，研究了土壤对水溶液中六价铬的还原作用，研究了上述土壤各种还原容量之间的关系及影响因素，探讨了向土壤中投加适量常见，无毒，价廉的还原性物质以提高土壤还原能力的方法和将其应用于去除灌溉用污染地下水中六价铬的可能性，实验结果表明，在正常环境条件下，土壤的有效还原容量比土     

云南小水泥粉尘污染及治理探讨

进入九十年代后，由于盲目上马，布局失控，云南省小水泥迅速发展。落后的工艺技术和管理使水泥粉尘排放量剧增，对大气造成了严重污染。应积极推进小水泥结构调整，加强管理，综合治理，才能减少粉尘排放量，改善大气环境质量