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本文以南黄海1997~2006年10年表层海水和沉积物中重金属为主要研究对象,同时结合对生态环境信息的综合分析,系统探讨了海水和沉积物中重金属的生物地球化学特征、影响控制因素、演变趋势,并对海域生态风险进行了评估,获得了以下一系列新的结果和认识: 1.系统获得了南黄海海水和沉积物中重金属的地球化学分布模式,揭示了影响和控制其生物地球化学特征的因素 南黄海表层海水中重金属As、Cd、Cu、Hg、Pb、Zn的平均浓度分别为2.33、0.078、1.41、0.0036、0.37、6.21 μg/L,低于其它中国近海海水,而高于水交换较好的深海;表层海水重金属的分布模式(除Pb外)表现为在离岸较远的南黄海中部地区其含量较低,而近岸海区则普遍含量较高,区域分布呈现“高Cd-Cu-Hg-Zn区”,“高Pb-Cu-Zn区”以及“高Pb区”三个地球化学分区。 南黄海表层沉积物中重金属比邻近海域沉积物中的浓度低,南黄海重金属主要受沉积物粒度控制,即在细粒度高的南黄海中部区域重金属(除As外)的含量较高,粗粒度的近岸区则较低,区域分布呈现“高Cd-Cu-Pb-Zn区”,“高Hg低As-Cu-Zn区”以及“高As低Cd-Hg-Zn区”三个地球化学分区。 人类活动已经显著影响了南黄海海水中重金属的含量水平,重金属分布是径流、大气沉降、pH、盐度和重金属自身性质等各种影响因子耦合的结果。沉积物重金属的富集因子Pb>As>Hg>Cd>Zn>Cr>Cu,其中Pb和As主要来自人为污染排放,污染状况相对较重,Cr和Cu几乎没有受到人为污染的影响。沉积物的粒度是控制表层沉积物重金属分布的最主要因素,次要的因素包括沉积物有机质的含量、沉积速率以及重金属存在形态等。 2.首次获得了南黄海海水和沉积物中重金属的演变趋势 近10年来南黄海表层海水中,Zn呈上升趋势,As、Cd、Cu、Pb基本稳定变化不大,而Hg则呈略下降趋势。Zn的线性上升趋势明显,在近岸水域和中央水域中其浓度和公元年的统计关系分别为y=0.9524x+0.0034(R=0.97)和y=0.8622x+0.0299(R=0.95)(其中y为Zn的浓度,x为年度,取1997~2004)。近10年沉积物中重金属年际变化较小,浓度变化在多年均值的±(10%~30%)之间变动。As、Cd、Cu、Hg、Pb、Zn的均值变化范围分别为7.17±1.70、0.108±0.024、17.61±1.65、0.024±0.008、18.44±4.26、70.53±5.73 mg/kg,除了Hg随公元年呈较好的线性增加(y=0.0033x-6.50,R=0.75)外,其它重金属未显现出有明显的演变趋势。 近百年来,南黄海重金属的变化可分为3个阶段,20世纪60年代以前,20世纪60年代至90年代,及20世纪90年代至今。第一个阶段的60年可以看作是南黄海未明显受人类活动影响的一个时期,该段时期内明显的特征是重金属含量的变化受径流输入不均等多种因素影响,变化规律性不强;第二阶段是南黄海近岸工农业迅猛发展的阶段,由近岸传输到这一海域的重金属量增加,南黄海沉积物重金属浓度增加,沉积物质量有下降的趋势,这一阶段是人类活动影响南黄海最为明显的一个阶段;第三个阶段是20世纪90年代至今,南黄海沉积物重金属浓度呈降低趋势,与中韩两国减排及治污措施有关。近几年,南黄海沉积物的环境质量较20世纪末期有了较明显的改善。 3. 初步阐明了南黄海重金属的环境污染危害和潜在生态风险 采用潜在生态危害指数法和地积累指数等方法对南黄海沉积环境进行分析,结果表明,中等重金属污染程度海区占研究海区面积的38.7%,中等生态风险的区域则占了研究海区面积77.8%,但均未发现沉积物中的重金属与生物量的分布有明显的关系,总体表明,南黄海沉积物中的重金的污染状况及生态风险较低,南黄海沉积物质量良好。

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The article presents an interpretation of the Soli Deo honor et gloria inscription from the fronton of the metropolitan cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice. The interpretation of the text depends on whether the word soli is taken as solely attributive or also as predicative. Given both the ancient and the contemporary historical and cultural contexts the former appears more plausible.

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BACKGROUND:The Framingham Heart Study (FHS), founded in 1948 to examine the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, is among the most comprehensively characterized multi-generational studies in the world. Many collected phenotypes have substantial genetic contributors; yet most genetic determinants remain to be identified. Using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from a 100K genome-wide scan, we examine the associations of common polymorphisms with phenotypic variation in this community-based cohort and provide a full-disclosure, web-based resource of results for future replication studies.METHODS:Adult participants (n = 1345) of the largest 310 pedigrees in the FHS, many biologically related, were genotyped with the 100K Affymetrix GeneChip. These genotypes were used to assess their contribution to 987 phenotypes collected in FHS over 56 years of follow up, including: cardiovascular risk factors and biomarkers; subclinical and clinical cardiovascular disease; cancer and longevity traits; and traits in pulmonary, sleep, neurology, renal, and bone domains. We conducted genome-wide variance components linkage and population-based and family-based association tests.RESULTS:The participants were white of European descent and from the FHS Original and Offspring Cohorts (examination 1 Offspring mean age 32 +/- 9 years, 54% women). This overview summarizes the methods, selected findings and limitations of the results presented in the accompanying series of 17 manuscripts. The presented association results are based on 70,897 autosomal SNPs meeting the following criteria: minor allele frequency [greater than or equal to] 10%, genotype call rate [greater than or equal to] 80%, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium p-value [greater than or equal to] 0.001, and satisfying Mendelian consistency. Linkage analyses are based on 11,200 SNPs and short-tandem repeats. Results of phenotype-genotype linkages and associations for all autosomal SNPs are posted on the NCBI dbGaP website at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?id=phs000007.CONCLUSION:We have created a full-disclosure resource of results, posted on the dbGaP website, from a genome-wide association study in the FHS. Because we used three analytical approaches to examine the association and linkage of 987 phenotypes with thousands of SNPs, our results must be considered hypothesis-generating and need to be replicated. Results from the FHS 100K project with NCBI web posting provides a resource for investigators to identify high priority findings for replication.

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At Vita Columbae VC 2.17, Adomnán has severely misunderstood a written source which originally described how Columba ordered one party to a dispute, an alleged maleficus ‘evil-doer’ called Silnán, to milk a sick cow in order to settle the dispute by demonstrating that its contaminated milk was the real, hidden cause of the harm which had occasioned the dispute. Adomnán misread a description of a bos maculosus ‘pock-marked bovine’ to refer to a bos masculus ‘male bovine’, and proceeded to misunderstand the story as the description of some form of contest between Columba and a maleficus ‘sorcerer’.

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Salt iodine content in Switzerland was raised from 7.5 to 15 mg per kg in 1980, and since then dietary iodine intake has been considered to be sufficient, even though a slight decrease due to imported food has recently been reported. The aim of this study was to establish normal values for thyroid volumes of school children who can be assumed to have had a sufficient iodine intake all their lifetime. Moreover, the present investigation was undertaken to verify that iodine sufficiency had been achieved equally in two regions each served by one of the two Swiss salt producers. Mean iodine concentration in urine spot samples from school children was 16.1 μg/dl, and it was identical in both the city of Lausanne (n=215) and the city of Solothurn (n=208). Thus it can be stated that in both cities (served by two different salt producers) iodine intake is equal and sufficient. Accordingly, thyroid volumes measured by ultrasound in school children aged 6 to 16 years were the same in both Lausanne (n=202) and Solothurn (n=207). Moreover, the age-adjusted median volumes at the 97th percentiles closely agree with and validate provisional international reference values recently proposed by the World Health Organisation and by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disease.

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Transient expression in nonsteroidogenic mammalian cells of the rat wild type I and type II 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/Δ5-Δ4-isomerase (3β- HSD) cDNAs shows that the encoded proteins, in addition to being able to catalyze the oxidation and isomerization of Δ5-3β-hydroxysteroid precursors into the corresponding Δ4-3-ketosteroids, interconvert 5α- dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol (3β-diol). When homogenate from cells transfected with a plasmid vector containing type I 3β-HSD is incubated in the presence of DHT using NAD+ as cofactor, a somewhat unexpected metabolite is formed, namely 5α-androstanedione (A- dione), thus indicating an intrinsic androgenic 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17β-HSD) activity of this 3β-HSD isoform. Although the relative Vmax of 17β-HSD activity is 14.9-fold lower than that of 3β-HSD activity, the Km value for the 17β-HSD activity of type I 3β-HSD is 7.97 μM, a value which is in the same range as the conversion of DHT into 3β- diol which shows a Km value of 4.02 μM. Interestingly, this 17β-HSD activity is highly predominant in unbroken cells in culture, thus supporting the physiological relevance of this 'secondary' activity. Such 17β-HSD activity is inhibited by the classical substrates of 3β-HSD, namely pregnenolone (PREG), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), Δ5-androstene-3β,17β- diol (Δ5-diol), 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol (3β-diol) and DHT, with IC50 values of 2.7, 1.0, 3.2, 6.2, and 6.3 μM, respectively. Although dual enzymatic activities have been previously reported for purified preparations of other steroidogenic enzymes, the present data demonstrate the multifunctional enzymatic activities associated with a recombinant oxidoreductase enzyme. In addition to its well known 3β-HSD activity, this enzyme possesses the ability to catalyze DHT into A-dione thus potentially controlling the level of the active androgen DHT in classical steroidogenic as well as peripheral intracrine tissues.

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Hoy vengo a exponer una queja. Cada día, casi a todas horas, y, prácticamente en todo el mundo, soy maltratado. Y ese maltrato no es fruto del azar. Obedece patrones bien determinados de antemano por las voluntades de mis torturadores. Reconozco que a veces no es un maltrato auténtico y que incluso puede divertirme. Eso me mantiene en forma y me da un dinamismo que mi posición habitual no sugiere.