施肥和降水增加对半干旱草地生产力和温室气体排放的影响

人类活动能显著地改变生态系统的属性和功能。这些变化不仅发生在容易观察的局部层面上，如土壤沙化、植被退化等;还能更深刻地影响到微生物控制的温室气体释放，进而影响大尺度上气候的变化。本论文根据2 年田间试验结果报告了人类干扰（草地退耕和施肥）和降水增加30%对中国北部农牧交错区（内蒙古多伦县）半干旱草地生态系统生产力和温室气体排放的影响。 本研究发现氮是影响该区草地和弃耕地生产力的最重要因子，即使低量的氮肥应用(5 g N y-1)也能使该区草地地上净初级生产力（ANPP）增加36-46%。然而氮对草地生产力影响主要集中在地上部分，对地下净初级生产力（BNPP） 影响比较微弱。单独使用磷肥对ANPP 和BNPP 均无显著影响，氮磷混施对ANPP 有显著正交互作用。增加的降水对草地和弃耕地ANPP 和BNPP 有弱的正效应，增加30%降水使草地对照ANPP 增加9-25%，BNPP 增加12%-17%，弃耕地对照ANPP 增加7%-37%，BNPP 增加36%-37% 。草地和弃耕地对照ANPP 并无显著差别，由于高于弃耕地1-3 倍的BNPP，总体上草地比弃耕地有更高的固碳能力。这个结果也说明草地能更有效地把植物地上部分固定的碳转移到地下，这与草地长期发育积累的丰富地下根系和高根冠比物种组成有关。 水肥处理及土地利用方式也深刻改变了温室气体排放。温带草地和弃耕地CO2 排放（系统呼吸：Re）存在显著季节变化，温度、水分和地上生物量是控制这些变化的主要因子。在气候温暖的6-9 月份，生物量和土壤水分是决定系统呼吸季节变化主要因子，而与温度无明显相关。随着氮肥使用，草地和弃耕地呼吸速率加大，其温度敏感系数Q10 也明显升高，这主要与氮肥使用后增加的地上生物量有关。由于水分促进作用和生物量的弱增长，增加的降水也加大了草地和弃耕地CO2 排放。低的地下生物量和有机碳氮并没有导致弃耕地低的CO2 排放，显示了农垦后土壤结构破坏导致的有机碳分解增加不会在农业弃耕后短期内（5-6 年）停止。 除了对生物量的不敏感性外，中国北部半干旱生态系统N2O 排放表现出与CO2 排放类似的变化规律：水分和温度是N2O 季节变化的主导因子;氮肥使用和降水增加都增加了N2O 排放;N2O 排放在草地对照和弃耕地对照之间没有显著差别。更少的根系对无机氮的竞争导致了弃耕地比草地有更高的N2O 释放因子（单位氮添加所引起N2O 释放）。低的土壤水分（<70% WFPS ）和无机氮都是限制反硝化发生的重要条件，因此硝化可能是草地和弃耕地N2O 的最主要来源。半干旱草地生态系统N2O 排放与CO2 排放之间存在着显著线性关系。 中国北部半干旱草地和弃耕地都起着CH4 汇的生态功能。水分是控制CH4 吸收季节变异的主导变量，土壤空隙水含量（WFPS）与CH4 指数递减方程能解释其变异的64%-83% 。增加的降水导致了土壤水分增加，从而引起甲烷氧化菌所需基质（CH4 和O2）扩散受阻，减小了土壤CH4 吸收功能。施肥并没有抑制CH4 吸收，相反由于施肥后植物速生对土壤水的抽干作用，施肥增加了植物速生期时的CH4 吸收。CH4 吸收对农垦引起的土壤微生物生境结构破坏非常敏感，在农业措施停止5-6 年后的弃耕地，CH4 吸收仍比草地低24%。 本研究初步分析了影响中国北部农牧交错区草地生态系统生产力及温室气体排放的自然环境因子和人为因子，给出了它们之间的定性、定量关系，为科学地管理中国北部草地，充分发挥其生态和经济效益功能提供了有效信息。

Numerical modelling of lubricated foil rolling

A model of lubricated cold strip rolling (1, 2) is extended to the thin foil regime. The model considers the evolution of asperity geometry and lubricant pressure through the bite, treating the strip using a conventional slab model. The elastic deflections of the rolls are coupled into the problem using an elastic finite element model. Friction between the roll and the asperities on the strip is modelled using the Coulomb and Tresca friction factor approaches. The shear stress in the Coulomb friction model is limited to the shear yield stress of the strip. A novel modification to these standard friction laws is used to mimic slipping friction in the reduction regions and sticking friction in a central neutral zone. The model is able to reproduce the sticking and slipping zones predicted by Fleck et al. (3). The variation of rolling load, lubricant film thickness and asperity contact area with rolling speed is examined, for conditions typical of rolling aluminium foil from a thickness of 50 to 25 μm. T he contact area and hence friction rises as the speed drops, leading to a large increase in rolling load. This increase is considerably more marked using Coulomb friction as compared with the friction factor approach. Forward slip increases markedly as the speed falls and a significant sticking region develops.

Materials science: The ultrasmoothness of diamond-like carbon surfaces

The ultrasmoothness of diamond-like carbon coatings is explained by an atomistic/continuum multiscale model. At the atomic scale, carbon ion impacts induce downhill currents in the top layer of a growing film. At the continuum scale, these currents cause a rapid smoothing of initially rough substrates by erosion of hills into neighboring hollows. The predicted surface evolution is in excellent agreement with atomic force microscopy measurements. This mechanism is general, as shown by similar simulations for amorphous silicon. It explains the recently reported smoothing of multilayers and amorphous transition metal oxide films and underlines the general importance of impact-induced downhill currents for ion deposition, polishing, and nanopattering.

野生猕猴应激与抗应激的研究

：本文以野生猕猴为实验对象，以血清皮质 醇含量为指标，研究了野生猕猴 被捕获与给予氯丙嗪、Vc等药物后上述指标的变化。结果 表明：(1)野生猕猴在被捕获 后的1～2周内，血清皮质醇一直维持在一个高水平状态(24.7 8±0.20μg/dl，24.88 ±0.58μg/dl)；(2)氯丙嗪可使动物行为处于一种安静状态， 但 并不降低血清皮质醇水 平(28.73±6.16μg/dl)，(3)Vc可改善动物的精神状态，使血清 皮质醇略低(21.00 ±2.90μg/dl)(P＞0.05)，(4)氯丙嗪和Vc合用后，血清皮质 醇与单独使用氯丙嗪无明显 差异(28.07±4.45μg/dl)。

Experimental comparison of FBARs and SMRs responsitivities to mass loadings

The utilisation of thin film technology to develop film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) and solidly mounted resonators (SMRs), offers great potential to outperform the sensitivity and minimum detection limit of gravimetric sensors. Up to now, the choice between FBARs and SMRs depends primarily on the users' ability to design and fabricate Bragg reflectors and/or membranes, because neither of these two types of resonators has been demonstrated to be superior to the other. In the work reported here, it is shown that identically designed FBARs and SMRs resonating at the same frequency exhibit different responsitivities, Rm, to mass loadings, being the FBARs more responsive than the SMRs. For the specific device design and resonant frequency (∼2 GHz) of the resonators presented, FBARs' mass responsitivity is ∼20% greater than that of SMRs, and although this value should not be taken as universal for all possible device designs, it clearly indicates that FBAR devices should be favoured over SMRs in gravimetric sensing applications. © 2012 IEEE.

Idea Competitions under scrutiny: Acquisition, intelligence or public relations mechanism?

Idea Competitions (ICs) are becoming a popular mechanism chosen by firms to perform Open Innovation. They are a way to engage with external sources of knowledge such as individual entrepreneurs and small firms who are asked to submit ideas and compete for a prize. However, little is known about the success of ICs as acquisition mechanisms. The researchers conducted interviews in five multinational companies to evaluate the effects of using ICs as an acquisition mechanism. Although still preliminary, the results of this study show that the success of ICs as an acquisition mechanism remains uncertain because their output (i.e. the number of ideas acquired) is often low compared to the input (i.e. the number of ideas submitted) and effort required to run them (e.g. to vet ideas). Across the cases observed, ICs appear to be more successful at identifying and acquiring early-stage ideas, particularly those outside the current business focus. The study shows that ICs deliver other functional benefits such as improved intelligence and public relations and that these need to be considered as part of the evaluation of the IC's success. The paper concludes by discussing the conditions in which ICs are implemented and the implications for Open Innovation theory. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.

Purification and characterization of hydrosoluble components from the sap of Chinese lacquer tree Rhus vernicifera

Continuous gradient elution chromatography (CGEC) was employed to purify and separate enzymes and polysaccharides from the sap of Rhus vernicifera Chinese lacquer tree. There are three different molecules with laccase enzyme activity. Two are enzymes of each other (L1, and L2), whereas the third (RL) is an entirely separate entity. Two polysaccharides (GP1 and GP2) were also found. The Rhus laccase (RL), and isoenzymes L1 and L2, have peak molecular masses of 109,100, 120,000, 103,000 respectively; each has four copper atoms per molecule, and the pI values were 8.2, 8.6, and 9.1, respectively. The structure of the laccases was studied by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) and Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. The typical amide I (1646 cm(-1)) and amide II (1545 cm(-1)) bands were observed. The results from MALDI-TOF were similar to those from CGEC, but the molecular mass from the MALDI-TOF was significantly different from that obtained from sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.