Effect of dimethoate on the immune system of female mice

Abstract

The functional status of the immune system of female mice exposed to a single oral dose of dimethoate (16 mg / kg) was evaluated by assessing cell mediated and humoral immune responses, in addition to the effect of dimethoate on spleen and body weights after different time intervals. The data showed that dimethoate caused a time ‐ depended decrease in spleen weights in the absence of a change in body weights. The immunologic effect of dimethoate to female mice produced a dose‐dependent decrease in the number of the rosette forming cells (total and active erythrocyte rosette). The ability of splenocytes to proliferation in response to mitogens; phytohemagglutinin (PHA) for T cell and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for B cell were significantly decreased at the different times. As compared to control, a significant decrease in serum total immunoglobulins (Ig) and IgM was found, while IgG was non‐significant deceased. Results of this study also revealed that dimethoate caused a significant decrease in the number of plaque forming cell (PFC / 10⁶ splenocytes) in a time dependent manner.     

武汉阳逻化石木及砾石层研究进展

阳逻砾石层及所含的大量的化石木,在古植物学、长江中游的古环境和古长江的形成与演化研究中具有重要意义。随着1984年阳逻被子化石木的发现,武汉阳逻化石木和阳逻砾石层就一直为学者们所关注。先后发现的硅化木化石已达200余件。在阳逻化石木鉴定、植物分类、植物生态学和古环境研究方面,在阳逻砾石层的时代及年龄、成因和物源等方面,做了大量的研究,发表了许多重要成果。然而,在一些基础问题研究上还存在着明显的分歧。建议:(1)在化石木的来源和砾石层物源分析方面,开展系统的沉积学、岩石学、矿物学以及地球化学的综合研究;(2)通过综合地层学研究,即生物地层(植物化石组合)、岩石地层(长江中游岩石地层对比)、地貌地层(长江中游地貌对比)和年代地层的综合对比,重点尝试宇生核元素、化石自旋共振(ESR)等测年技术的应用,以查明化石木和砾石层的形成时代;(3)加强化石木和砂砾层环境信息深入挖掘和综合对比分析。在查明化石木植物树种的组合全貌的基础上,通过古植被类型的恢复,特别是应加强化石木的显微结构分析,通过观察其构造特征和生长轮(木轮、年轮)的宽窄等信息,分析其古气候环境。     

生物质秸秆成型燃料的制备、应用与市场

介绍了国内外生物质能源技术的应用及生物质燃料的研发制备情况,分析了目前生物质燃料制备技术、资源化利用的现状以及存在的问题,针对符合中国国情的生物质(秸秆)成型燃料生产技术及市场需求进行了分析探讨。     

循环经济产业体系论纲

循环经济的核心是物质在产业间和产业与环境间的循环流动。发展循环经济要落实到具体的产业和企业上。需搞清具有物质循环利用关系的产业及其间的关系。为区别传统经济产业间的关系，避免走入用传统产业理论指导循环经济建设的误区，本文提出产业体系和循环经济产业体系的概念。并将若干与某种生产要素有关的产业相互联系、相互制约而构成的整体称为产业体系。以物质要素循环利用关系为纽带的产业体系称为循环经济产业体系。根据物质在环境社会系统中的流动模式。将循环经济产业体系中的产业分成物资产业、人的产业和环境产业三大类。要在传统（线性）经济的基础上发展循环经济。需理性地按生态学原理规范经济活动。重点强化废弃物再生和回用的环境产业。使之同物资产业和人的产业相协调。产业体系是对产业结构概念的发展。循环经济产业体系是循环经济理论和建设的重要内容。构建循环经济理论体系、出台有关法律法规和产业政策。是循环经济建设工作的重点。     

Improving the environmental performance of machine-tools: influence of technology and throughput on the electrical energy consumption of a press-brake

Machine-tools have been identified as one of the main energy-using products to be analyzed in an Ecodesign perspective, targeting the reduction of their environmental impact. Following this, machine-tool manufacturers are committed to anticipate eminent regulations and are looking for guidelines to improve their products on an effective and low-cost manner. This paper describes part of the energy consumption study followed in the frame of the Ecodesign of a commercial press-brake. All-hydraulic and all-electric commercially available systems, of different capacities and working in real production scenarios, have been included. From this study, a preliminary version of an LCI dataset for the bending process is proposed, structured in technology, machine capacity and usage mode categories, and using the bending cycle as the reference unit. The energy consumption per category was estimated based on a specific process energy model built as a function of the referred parameters. The contribution of the respective machine-tool structure to the environmental impact of the machining process is to be included, targeting the completion of such machining unit process dataset. The full LCA of an all-hydraulic system revealed the significant contribution of the machine-tool structure to the global life-cycle environmental impact of the machine (about 40%), while electricity during use phase contributes with about 46% to the total impact. This contradicts the general results published for other metal and non-metal forming processes, and is understood to be related with the discrete loading character of such forming processes here discussed.     

Desulfurization of dibenzothiophene（DBT） by a novel strain Lysinibacillus sphaericus DMT-7 isolated from diesel contaminated soil

A new bacterial strain DMT-7 capable of selectively desulfurizing dibenzothiophene (DBT) was isolated from diesel contaminated soil. The DMT-7 was characterized and identified as Lysinibacillus sphaericus DMT-7 (NCBI GenBank Accession No. GQ496620) using 16S rDNA gene sequence analysis. The desulfurized product of DBT, 2-hydroxybiphenyl (2HBP), was identified and confirmed by high performance liquid chromatography analysis and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy analysis respectively. The desulfurization kinetics revealed that DMT-7 started desulfurization of DBT into 2HBP after the lag phase of 24 hr, exponentially increasing the accumulation of 2HBP up to 15 days leading to approximately 60% desulfurization of the DBT. However, further growth resulted into DBT degradation. The induced culture of DMT-7 showed shorter lag phase of 6 hr and early onset of stationary phase within 10 days for desulfurization as compared to that of non-induced culture clearly indicating the inducibility of the desulfurization pathway of DMT-7. In addition, Lysinibacillus sphaericus DMT-7 also possess the ability to utilize broad range of substrates as sole source of sulfur such as benzothiophene, 3,4-benzo DBT, 4,6-dimethyl DBT, and 4,6-dibutyl DBT. Therefore, Lysinibacillus sphaericus DMT-7 could serve as model system for efficient biodesulfurization of diesel and petrol.     

中国南方碳酸盐岩上覆红土形成机制研究进展

碳酸盐岩上覆红土在中国南方分布广泛,已提出的用于解释其形成机制的有溶蚀-残积说、溶蚀-交代说和外来沉积说,溶蚀-残积说应该是红土形成的真正机制。形成红土消耗的原岩可能是质纯碳酸盐岩,但更可能是含有泥质碳酸盐岩,甚至碎屑岩或粘土岩。红土中粘土矿物来源应该有二,一是原岩所夹粘土矿物,二是原岩中硅酸盐矿物溶解形成的次生粘土矿物;铁氧化物应该来自原岩中黄铁矿的次生演化。完整的红土剖面应该由红土层、杂色粘土层和碳酸盐岩腐岩组成。碳酸盐岩腐岩形成于包气带,由原岩中的碳酸盐溶解后再次沉淀形成,主要由钙华和残余碳酸盐晶体组成。红土地区的石漠化趋势主要与红土向地下岩溶空间渗漏有关。     

Short-term effect of temperature variation on the competition between PAOs and GAOs during acclimation period of an EBPR system

Sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) processes was used to investigate the impact of the temperature shock on the competition between phosphorus-accumulating organisms (PAOs) and glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs) in start-up stage. During the 34 days operation, SBR was set with temperature variation(0–5 d, 22±1°C; 6–13 d, 29±1°C; 14–34 d, 14±1°C). PAOs and GAOs were analyzed by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), and intracellular polyphosphate granules were stained by Neisser-stain. The results showed that the influence of temperature shock on PAOs’ abundance was more serious than that on GAOs in the enriching process. Under sudden and substantially temperature variation, from 22±1°C to 29±1°C and then to 14±1°C, the domination of PAOs was deteriorated. After temperature shock, PAOs’ competitive advantages at low temperature that concluded in other study did not appear in our study. As mesophilic, GAOs (indicated by Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria) were more temperature adaptive and better grew and took the domination at 14±1°C in the end. In the competition process, organisms of tetrad forming organisms (TFOs)-like shape which were considered as typical GAOs, were observed. With the evidence of poly-P granules containing by Neisser-straining and result of FISH, these organisms of TFOs-like shape were better to be assumed as adaption state or a special self-protecting shape of PAOs.     

出水水头对自生生物动态膜过滤性能的影响

增加出水水头不利于自生生物动态膜(SFDM)的恢复.随着恢复期出水水头的增加,SFDM的稳定出水通量逐渐达到一个极限通量,约为35L·(m²·h)^-1.继续增大出水水头,稳定出水通量甚至有降低的趋势在相同的出水通量下,动态膜的稳定运行时间随着恢复期出水水头的增加而显著降低.当恢复期出水水头为0.5cm时,稳定运行的时间＞10d,当恢复期出水水头为10cm时,稳定运行时间＜5h.研究了产生上述现象的原因,并提出使每个过滤周期从出水水头为0处开始的操作策略.     

板料成形模拟中压边力处理的研究

针对弹性压边建立了一个力学模型 ,用于板料成形的动力显式有限元模拟。以NU MISHEET’93方盒拉深标准考题为例 ,模拟了方盒在不同压边力情况下的起皱情况。数值计算结果表明该模型能有效地模拟弹性压边力 ,并预测工件法兰部位的起皱状况。