Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging.

This review is about the development of three-dimensional (3D) ultrasonic medical imaging, how it works, and where its future lies. It assumes knowledge of two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound, which is covered elsewhere in this issue. The three main ways in which 3D ultrasound may be acquired are described: the mechanically swept 3D probe, the 2D transducer array that can acquire intrinsically 3D data, and the freehand 3D ultrasound. This provides an appreciation of the constraints implicit in each of these approaches together with their strengths and weaknesses. Then some of the techniques that are used for processing the 3D data and the way this can lead to information of clinical value are discussed. A table is provided to show the range of clinical applications reported in the literature. Finally, the discussion relating to the technology and its clinical applications to explain why 3D ultrasound has been relatively slow to be adopted in routine clinics is drawn together and the issues that will govern its development in the future explored.

萱草花粉发育

本实验应用光学显微镜、电子显微镜和荧光显微镜，对萱草（Hemerocallis fulva L.）小孢子的形态发育过程进行了研究。并运用组织化学染色方法对花粉粒中淀粉的变化，花粉壁中多糖的成份作了初步观察。 ①小孢子母细胞时期：小孢子母细胞最初为一团紧密排列的多角形细胞，其细胞体积大，细胞核也较大，细胞质浓。接着小孢子进行减数分裂。小孢子母细胞在减数分裂工开始在小孢子母细胞相接触的一端形成胼胝质。 ②四分体时期：小孢子母细胞以连续型的方式减数分裂产生四个小孢子。接着四个小孢子周围被胼胝质所包围将其分成四个单核小孢子，进入四分体时期。此时小孢子细胞质中存有许多线粒体、质体、高尔基体。 ③单核小孢子时期：单核小孢子初期细胞质中存有高尔基体、内质网、线粒体、脂体。此时小孢子最明显的一个特征就是，细胞质中造粉体含量特别丰富，而且特别发达。接着小孢子细胞质液泡化，中央出现一大液泡，此时细胞质中造粉体几乎消失，只是还含有许多原质体，在细胞核对面的一端又出现一Myelin-like结构。 ④二细胞花粉时期：萱草属于二细胞花粉。在生殖细胞与营养细胞之间有一简单单层细胞壁。此细胞壁不均匀增厚，有的地方特别厚，有的地方特别薄。在壁周围，生殖细胞内含有许多高尔基体小泡，它直接参与壁的构建。此时生殖细胞中含有高尔基体、线粒体。营养细胞中含有许多造粉体、高尔基体、线粒体、内质网。草此阶段一特殊特性就是生殖细胞在形成初期会有质体，到后期此质体解体。 ⑤萱草花粉壁的建成：在四分体阶段，质膜开始内陷，在质膜与胼胝质壁之间出现纤维状初生原外壁。接着在初生原外壁上形成原基粒棒、原覆盖层、原基足层。在原基足层与质膜之间留有一 "White-line"。小孢子从四分体中释放出来后，花粉外壁内层（endexine）和内壁层开始形成。同时，在花粉沟外还形成一中层。

库布齐沙漠油蒿群落水量平衡研究

鄂尔多斯高原位于中国北方敏感的生态过渡带，水分往往是制约该区域内植物生存、生长和生态系统结构与功能的最主要的限制因子。境内分布大面积的沙地，沙地天然植被以油蒿（Artemisia ordosica）灌丛为主，是重要的沙地牧场。油蒿在新固定沙地上和半流动沙地上长势良好，随着沙地的固定、地表土壤结皮的形成，生长变差，呈现出衰败的迹象。这种现象被认为是由于沙地土壤水分状况改变而驱动的自发演替。沙地土壤水分状况通常与降水量直接相关，降水格局影响植物根系层土壤水分的补充，植被、土壤结构及地表结皮、微地形等其它生物和非生物因素也会引起土壤水分在时间和空间上的再分配。降水只有克服植被和土壤表层的截留与直接蒸发，并下渗到根系层土壤中，才能有效地补充为土壤水分，进而为植物利用。因此，小雨量的降雨往往对土壤水分的补充，特别是对油蒿根系层土壤水分的补充效果有限。在该地区特定自然条件下，单次降雨雨量多大才能有效地补充沙地油蒿群落的土壤水分？在特定降雨格局下，一年内补充到土壤中且能被植物生长利用的有效降雨量究竟是多少？这些都直接影响土壤水分状况和群落的稳定以及长期演替。 为了解决以上两个问题，借助涡度相关技术对鄂尔多斯高原库布齐沙漠油蒿群落的蒸散过程及土壤水分状况进行观测，配合以地面植物群落、土壤物理特性调查，综合考虑生态系统水文平衡的各个环节，对沙地土壤水分状况以及降雨格局对土壤水分的补充进行了研究。 结果表明，2006年全年降水总量为229.4 mm，年蒸散量281.4 mm，降雨、蒸散主要集中在5～10月。5～10月间，降雨29次，总降雨量223.2 mm，各次降雨量、降雨历时、降雨强度变异较大。5.0 mm以下降雨16次，累计降雨量14.0 mm，5.0 mm以上降雨对总降雨量贡献大。雨后被植被和地表截留直接蒸发的水分和的有效降雨受降雨特性及其他气象条件共同影响，通常5.0 mm以上降雨能有效补充到油蒿根系层土壤，有效降雨量累计153.9 mm，降雨效率约68.9%。

Stock assessment of sin croaker Johnieops sina (Cuvier) from Bombay waters

Growth, mortality and stock parameters of Johnieops sina (Cuvier) based on the data collected from 1989 to 1994 from Sassoon Dock and New Ferry Wharf landing centres of Greater Bombay has been discussed here. The von Bertallanffy's growth parameters for this species were estimated as follows, L∞= 266 mm, K=0.91 per year and W∞=193 g. This species grows to 159 and 223 mm at the end of first and second year of its life. The mortality parameters estimated were Z=6.17, M=2. 03 and F=4.14. The E and U were calculated as 0.62 and 0.63 respectively. Length cohort and Thompson Bell analyses show that there is no decline in the catches at the present level of fishing. But even by doubling the efforts the catches can go up by only 9.4 % indicating that the fishing efforts is not economical and proportional to the increase in yield.

ANNEALING BEHAVIOUR OF HIGH DOSE As** plus IMPLANTS.

The annealing behaviour of doses up to 4. 10**1**6 ions/cm**2 implanted at ion currents up to 10ma is described. Differences between rapid isothermal and furnace annealing in the measured sheet resistances are due to different amounts of diffusion and to loss of dopant by evaporation. Implantation at high currents (10ma) does not appear to affect the quality of the regrown material provided the temperature rise during implantation is small.

Vortex Transport and Blade Interactions in High Pressure Turbines

This paper presents a study of the three-dimensional flow field within the blade rows of a high-pressure axial flow steam turbine stage. Half-delta wings were fixed to a rotating hub to simulate an upstream rotor passage vortex. The flow field is investigated in a Low-Speed Research Turbine using pneumatic and hot-wire probes downstream of the blade row. The paper examines the impact of the delta wing vortex transport on the performance of the downstream blade row. Steady and unsteady numerical simulations were performed using structured 3D Navier-Stokes solver to further understand the flow field. The loss measurements at the exit of the stator blade showed an increase in stagnation pressure loss due to the delta wing vortex transport. The increase in loss was 21% of the datum stator loss, demonstrating the importance of this vortex interaction. The transport of the stator viscous flow through the rotor blade row is also described. The rotor exit flow was affected by the interaction between the enhanced stator passage vortex and the rotor blade row. Flow underturning near the hub and overturning towards the mid-span was observed, contrary to the classical model of overturning near the hub and underturning towards the mid-span. The unsteady numerical simulation results were further analysed to identify the entropy producing regions in the unsteady flow field.

Defining the orientation of the tandem fusions that occurred during the evolution of Indian muntjac chromosomes by BAC mapping

The Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak vaginalis) has a karyotype of 2n=6 in the female and 7 in the male, the karyotypic evolution of which through extensive tandem fusions and several centric fusions has been well-documented by recent molecular cytogenetic studies. In an attempt to define the fusion orientations of conserved chromosomal segments and the molecular mechanisms underlying the tandem fusions, we have constructed a highly redundant (more than six times of whole genome coverage) bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of Indian muntjac. The BAC library contains 124,800 clones with no chromosome bias and has an average insert DNA size of 120 kb. A total of 223 clones have been mapped by fluorescent in situ hybridization onto the chromosomes of both Indian muntjac and Chinese muntjac and a high-resolution comparative map has been established. Our mapping results demonstrate that all tandem fusions that occurred during the evolution of Indian muntjac karyotype from the acrocentric 2n=70 hypothetical ancestral karyotype are centromere-telomere (head-tail) fusions.