硫酸参与的湿热流域化学风化对河流水化学影响研究综述

河流水化学组成可以提供反映流域内岩石化学风化过程及河流离子来源等生物地球化学的信息。化学风化是全球碳循环的重要环节,湿热流域的水热条件可以促进流域岩石化学风化。硫酸和碳酸一样可以作为侵蚀介质参与流域岩石的化学风化,硫酸参与的湿热流域碳酸盐类化学风化可释放CO₂,但其参与的硅酸盐类化学风化对大气CO₂没有显著影响,故若不考虑硫酸作用将会导致对岩石化学风化作用下大气CO₂消耗通量的高估。水化学组成受到流域岩石化学风化的影响,通过对河流水化学组成和溶解无机碳（DIC）稳定同位素组成（δ¹³C）的分析可以确定河流水化学类型并揭示硫酸对流域岩石化学风化的定量影响。目前关于硫酸对河流水化学影响的研究逐渐增多,未来关于小流域尺度上硫酸对河流水化学的影响、硫酸影响下河流CO₂的脱气过程以及人类活动对河流水化学的影响等方面需要更多关注。     

Toxic effect of microcystin-LR on blood vessel development

Abstract

The effect of microcystin-LR (MC-LR) at 50–1000?nmol/L on blood vessel development of zebrafish embryos has been explored. Upon exposure 72-h-post-fertilization (hpf), the hatching rate was significantly reduced and malformation and fatality rates were increased in a dose-dependent manner. MC-LR induced cell cycle arrest in the G0/G1-phase and damaged DNA structure in a dose-dependent manner. In human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), MC-LR led to decreased activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), and catalase (CAT) and increased lipid peroxidation. These findings indicated that MC-LR could cause oxidative DNA damage, which mediated cell cycle arrest and inhibited cell proliferation afterwards, and retarded the blood vessel development.     

Passenger muscle responses in lane change and lane change with braking maneuvers using two belt configurations: Standard and reversible pre-pretensioner

Abstract

Objective: The introduction of integrated safety technologies in new car models calls for an improved understanding of the human occupant response in precrash situations. The aim of this article is to extensively study occupant muscle activation in vehicle maneuvers potentially occurring in precrash situations with different seat belt configurations.

Methods: Front seat male passengers wearing a 3-point seat belt with either standard or pre-pretensioning functionality were exposed to multiple autonomously carried out lane change and lane change with braking maneuvers while traveling at 73?km/h. This article focuses on muscle activation data (surface electromyography [EMG] normalized using maximum voluntary contraction [MVC] data) obtained from 38 muscles in the neck, upper extremities, the torso, and lower extremities. The raw EMG data were filtered, rectified, and smoothed. All muscle activations were presented in corridors of mean?±?one standard deviation. Separate Wilcoxon signed ranks tests were performed on volunteers’ muscle activation onset and amplitude considering 2 paired samples with the belt configuration as an independent factor.

Results: In normal driving conditions prior to any of the evasive maneuvers, activity levels were low (<2% MVC) in all muscles except for the lumbar extensors (3–5.5% MVC). During the lane change maneuver, selective muscles were activated and these activations restricted the sideway motions due to inertial loading. Averaged muscle activity, predominantly in the neck, lumbar extensor, and abdominal muscles, increased up to 24% MVC soon after the vehicle accelerated in lateral direction for all volunteers. Differences in activation time and amplitude between muscles in the right and left sides of the body were observed relative to the vehicle’s lateral motion. For specific muscles, lane changes with the pre-pretensioner belt were associated with earlier muscle activation onsets and significantly smaller activation amplitudes than for the standard belt (P?<?.05).

Conclusions: Applying a pre-pretensioner belt affected muscle activations; that is, amplitude and onset time. The present muscle activation data complement the results in a preceding publication, the volunteers’ kinematics and the boundary conditions from the same data set. An effect of belt configuration was also seen on previously published volunteers’ kinematics with lower lateral and forward displacements for head and upper torso using the pre-pretensioner belt versus the standard belt. The data provided in this article can be used for validation and further improvement of active human body models with active musculature in both sagittal and lateral loading scenarios intended for simulation of some evasive maneuvers that potentially occur prior to a crash.     

医疗器械中人的可靠性分析

医疗器械产品是一类直接关系到人生命健康的特殊产品.长期以来,医疗器械产品的使用安全性一直是亟待解决的重大问题.在医疗器械产品设计中进行人的可靠性分析能够进一步提高医疗质量,防止医疗事故.但是,这方面的工作目前还处于起步阶段.本文主要从医疗器械人的可靠性方面人手,定性及定量的分析人在使用器械时的可靠性问题.用SHEL模型来定性的分析医疗器械中人的可靠性的影响因素；用故障树方法及概率树对具体的多功能医用手术床进行定量分析；用第二代可靠性分析方法-CREAM解决定量分析的主观性问题；最后提出建立医疗器械人的可靠性数据库.以此为医疗器械产品设计提供了人的可靠性分析的方法.     

Conservation and the 4 Rs,which are rescue,rehabilitation, release,and research

Vertebrate animals can be injured or threatened with injury through human activities, thus warranting their “rescue.” Details of wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, release, and associated research (our 4 Rs) are often recorded in large databases, resulting in a wealth of available information. This information has huge research potential and can contribute to understanding of animal biology, anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, and species conservation. However, such databases have been little used, few studies have evaluated factors influencing success of rehabilitation and/or release, recommended actions to conserve threatened species have rarely arisen, and direct benefits for species conservation are yet to be demonstrated. We therefore recommend that additional research be based on data from rescue, rehabilitation, and release of animals that is broader in scope than previous research and would have community support.     

Governing trade-offs in ecosystem services and disservices to achieve human–wildlife coexistence

Sustaining wildlife populations, which provide both ecosystem services and disservices, represents a worldwide conservation challenge. The ecosystem services and Ostrom's social–ecological systems frameworks have been adopted across natural and social sciences to characterize benefits from nature. Despite their generalizability, individually they do not include explicit tools for addressing the sustainable management of many wildlife populations. For instance, Ostrom's framework does not specifically address competing perspectives on wildlife, whereas the ecosystem services framework provides a limited representation of the social and governance context wherein such competing perspectives are embedded. We developed a unified social–ecological framework of ecosystem disservices and services (SEEDS) that advances both frameworks by explicitly acknowledging the importance of competing wildlife perspectives embedded in the social and governance contexts. The SEEDS framework emulates the hierarchical structure of Ostrom's social–ecological systems, but adds subsystems reflecting heterogeneous stakeholder views and experiences of wildlife-based services and disservices. To facilitate operationalizing SEEDS and further broader analyses across human–wildlife systems, we devised a list of variables to describe SEEDS subsystems, such as types and level of services and disservices, cost and benefit sharing, and social participation of stakeholders. Steps to implement SEEDS involve engaging local communities and stakeholders to define the subsystems, analyze interactions and outcomes, and identify leverage points and actions to remedy unwanted outcomes. These steps connect SEEDS with other existing approaches in social–ecological research and can guide analyses across systems or within individual systems to provide new insights and management options for sustainable human–wildlife coexistence.     

垃圾焚烧炉燃烧过程的优化控制策略

焚烧炉控制旨在使城市垃圾经处理后达到无害化、减量化和资源化的目标,既有利于环境保护,也有良好的社会经济效益。针对垃圾焚烧过程中由于燃烧对象复杂性导致的控制难题,提出了一种对垃圾焚烧系统实施优化控制的仿人智能控制策略。研究出稳定燃烧评判指标、控制模型、工程控制算法,并进行仿真试验。系统仿真试验结果表明:仿人智能控制策略鲁棒性强、控制品种好,是一种有效的控制策略。     

彗星实验检测新农药呋喃虫酰肼对小鼠细胞DNA的损伤(Damaging Effects of Pesticide JS-118 on DNA of Mice Cells Measured by the Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis Assay)

应用彗星实验检测了新农药呋喃虫酰肼(JS-118)对小鼠脾细胞和睾丸细胞的DNA损伤,并比较了这两种细胞对呋喃虫酰肼的敏感性.体外染毒1.5h后,进行单细胞凝胶电泳,然后EB染色并用CASP分析图像.结果表明,呋喃虫酰肼在各个剂量浓度(100、200、500、1000mg·L-1)都会引起睾丸细胞DNA损伤(与对照组均具有显着性差异,p<0.05),且存在明显的剂量-效应关系;而呋喃虫酰肼在较高剂量浓度(200、500、1000mg·L-1)可引起脾细胞DNA损伤(与对照组均具有显着性差异,p<0.05),且存在明显的剂量-效应关系.与脾细胞相比,睾丸细胞对呋喃虫酰肼更为敏感.     

动物性食品中PCBs的生物有效性及人体日暴露评估

通过测定上海市售动物性食品中PCBs的浓度和生物有效性,评估该地区PCBs的人体日暴露量.结果表明,不同种类食品中PCBs的浓度在未检出~3734.3pg/g(湿重)之间,3~6氯PCBs为主要同系物.鱼类中PCBs浓度高于畜类、禽类和软体类.鱼类PCBs的浓度水平遵循以下两规律:海水鱼>淡水鱼;肉食性鱼>杂食性鱼>草食性鱼.采用模拟人体胃肠消化过程测得PCBs的生物有效性,由于食品中脂肪含量与PCBs的生物有效性具有显著的线性关系,故可用于计算样品中PCBs的生物有效性.该地区居民每天通过动物性食品摄入的PCBs量为24439.3pg/d,以PCBs的生物有效性计量为5034.5pg/d.对不同暴露源(包括灰尘和大气颗粒物)的分析表明,鱼类是PCBs人体暴露的主要贡献者,约占人体PCBs日暴露的60%.     

不同接种条件下微生物燃料电池产电特性分析

比较了11种不同来源的接种物对微生物燃料电池产电性能的影响,并考察了接种污泥的TCOD和pH值等特性对电池产电情况的影响.结果表明,以华南农业大学资源环境学院新肥室沼气池污泥为接种物的燃料电池产电效果最好,产生的最大电压为0.53V(外电阻为500Ω),最大功率密度达到9.12W/m3.污泥的初始TCOD越高,所产生的电能越多;而pH值在5.6~7.8范围内时,对MFC产电能力的影响不大.通过扫描电镜对阳极表面微生物的观察发现,不同接种物电池阳极富集的微生物存在很大差异,这可能是影响微生物燃料电池产电性能的最主要因素之一.