Molecular Mechanisms of Sexual Dimorphism in Threespine Stickleback

Sexual dimorphism is commonly understood as differences in external features, such as morphological features or coloration. However, it can more broadly encompass behavior and physiology and at the core of these differences is the genetic mechanism – mRNA and protein expression. How, and which, molecular mechanisms influence sexually dimorphic features is not well understood thus far. DNA, RNA and proteins are the template required to create the phenotype of an individual, and they are connected to each other via processes of transcription and translation. As the genome of males and females are almost identical with the exception of the few genes on the sex chromosome or the sex-determining alleles (in the case of organisms without sex chromosomes), it is likely that many of the downstream processes resulting in sexual dimorphism are produced by changes in gene regulation and result from a regulatory cascade and not from a vastly different gene composition. Thus, in this thesis a systems biology approach is used to understand sexual dimorphism at all molecular levels and how different genomic features, e.g. sex chromosome evolution, can affect the interplay of these molecules. The threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, is used as the model to investigate molecular mechanisms of sexual dimorphism. It has well-characterized ecology and behavior, especially in the breeding season when sexual dimorphism is high. Moreover, threespine stickleback has a recently evolved Y chromosome in the early stages of sex chromosome evolution, characterized by a lack of recombination leading to degeneration (i.e. gene loss). The aim of my thesis is to investigate how the genotype links to the molecular phenotype and relates to differences in molecular expression between males and females. Based on previous research on sex differences in mRNA expression, I investigated sex-biased protein expression in adult fish outside the breeding season to see if differences persisted after translation. As sex-biased expression also prevailed in the proteome and previous transcription expression seemed to be related to the sex chromosomes, I investigated the genome level with a particular focus on the sex-chromosomes. I characterized the status of Y chromosome degeneration in the threespine stickleback and its effects on gene function. Furthermore, since the degeneration process leaves genes in a single copy in males, I examined whether the resulting dosage difference of messenger RNA for hemizygous genes is compensated as it is in other organisms. In addition, threespine sticklebacks have wellcharacterized behavioral differences related to the male’s social status during the breeding season. To understand the connection between the genotype and behavior, I examined gene expression patterns related to breeding behavior using dominant and subordinate males as well as female

Net working capital estimation model in project business

The objective of this Master’s thesis is to develop a model which estimates net working capital (NWC) monthly in a year period. The study is conducted by a constructive research which uses a case study. The estimation model is designed in the need of one case company which operates in project business. Net working capital components should be linked together by an automatic model and estimated individually, including advanced components of NWC for example POC receivables. Net working capital estimation model of this study contains three parts: output template, input template and calculation model. The output template gets estimate values automatically from the input template and the calculation model. Into the input template estimate values of more stable NWC components are inputted manually. The calculate model gets estimate values for major affecting components automatically from the systems of a company by using a historical data and made plans. As a precondition for the functionality of the estimation calculation is that sales are estimated in one year period because the sales are linked to all NWC components.

Expression and purification of the immunogenically active fragment B of the Park Williams 8 Corynebacterium diphtheriae strain toxin

The construction of a hexahistidine-tagged version of the B fragment of diphtheria toxin (DTB) represents an important step in the study of the biological properties of DTB because it will permit the production of pure recombinant DTB (rDTB) in less time and with higher yields than currently available. In the present study, the genomic DNA of the Corynebacterium diphtheriae Park Williams 8 (PW8) vaccine strain was used as a template for PCR amplification of the dtb gene. After amplification, the dtb gene was cloned and expressed in competent Escherichia coli M15™ cells using the expression vector pQE-30™. The lysate obtained from transformed E. coli cells containing the rDTB PW8 was clarified by centrifugation and purified by affinity chromatography. The homogeneity of the purified rDTB PW8 was confirmed by immunoblotting using mouse polyclonal anti-diphtheria toxoid antibodies and the immune response induced in animals with rDTB PW8 was evaluated by ELISA and dermonecrotic neutralization assays. The main result of the present study was an alternative and accessible method for the expression and purification of immunogenically reactive rDTB PW8 using commercially available systems. Data also provided preliminary evidence that rabbits immunized with rDTB PW8 are able to mount a neutralizing response against the challenge with toxigenic C. diphtheriae.

REGγ is a strong candidate for the regulation of cell cycle, proliferation and the invasion by poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma cells

REGγ is a proteasome activator that facilitates the degradation of small peptides. Abnormally high expression of REGγ has been observed in thyroid carcinomas. The purpose of the present study was to explore the role of REGγ in poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma (PDTC). For this purpose, small interfering RNA (siRNA) was introduced to down-regulate the level of REGγ in the PDTC cell line SW579. Down-regulation of REGγ at the mRNA and protein levels was confirmed by RT-PCR and Western blot analyses. FACS analysis revealed cell cycle arrest at the G1/S transition, the MTT assay showed inhibition of cell proliferation, and the Transwell assay showed restricted cell invasion. Furthermore, the expression of the p21 protein was increased, the expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) protein decreased, and the expression of the p27 protein was unchanged as shown by Western blot analyses. REGγ plays a critical role in the cell cycle, proliferation and invasion of SW579 cells. The alteration of p21 and PCNA proteins related to the down-regulation of REGγ suggests that p21 and PCNA participate in the process of REGγ regulation of cell cycle progression and cell proliferation. Thus, targeting REGγ has a therapeutic potential in the management of PDTC patients.

Attentional bias modulation by reappraisal in patients with generalized anxiety disorder: an event-related potential study

Affective states influence subsequent attention allocation. We evaluated emotional negativity bias modulation by reappraisal in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) relative to normal controls. Event-related potential (ERP) recordings were obtained, and changes in P200 and P300 amplitudes in response to negative or neutral words were noted after decreasing negative emotion or establishing a neutral condition. We found that in GAD patients only, the mean P200 amplitude after negative word presentation was much higher than after the presentation of neutral words. In normal controls, after downregulation of negative emotion, the mean P300 amplitude in response to negative words was much lower than after neutral words, and this was significant in both the left and right regions. In GAD patients, the negative bias remained prominent and was not affected by reappraisal at the early stage. Reappraisal was observed to have a lateralized effect at the late stage.

Computed tomography findings of hepatic veno-occlusive disease caused by Sedum aizoon with histopathological correlation

This study investigated the value of computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatic veno-occlusive disease (HVOD) caused by Sedum aizoon (SA). The clinical manifestations, treatment results, imaging findings, and histological findings of the liver were analyzed in 39 patients with HVOD caused by SA. Hepatomegaly, liver dysfunction, abdominal effusion, and geographic density changes on liver CT scans were found in all 39 patients. The pathological findings of histological liver examination included swelling and point-like necrosis of liver cells, significant expansion and congestion of the sinuses, endothelial swelling, and wall thickening with incomplete lumen occlusion of small liver vessels. CT geographic density changes were confirmed by histological examination of the liver in 18 patients. Sixteen patients with small amounts of ascites that started within 4 weeks of treatment recovered completely or significantly improved after symptomatic and supportive treatment. However, only 43.75% of the patients with larger amounts of ascites improved following symptomatic and supportive treatment. In conclusion, liver CT examination is a valuable, safe, and noninvasive tool for the diagnosis of HVOD caused by SA. In selected cases, liver CT examination may replace liver biopsy and histological analysis.

Green Service Level Agreement under Sustainability Lens in IT Industry

Nowadays, when most of the business are moving forward to sustainability by providing or getting different services from different vendors, Service Level Agreement (SLA) becomes very important for both the business providers/vendors and as well as for users/customers. There are many ways to inform users/customers about various services with its inherent execution functionalities and even non-functional/Quality of Services (QoS) aspects through negotiating, evaluating or monitoring SLAs. However, these traditional SLA actually do not cover eco-efficient green issues or IT ethics issues for sustainability. That is why green SLA (GSLA) should come into play. GSLA is a formal agreement incorporating all the traditional commitments as well as green issues and ethics issues in IT business sectors. GSLA research would survey on different traditional SLA parameters for various services like as network, compute, storage and multimedia in IT business areas. At the same time, this survey could focus on finding the gaps and incorporation of these traditional SLA parameters with green issues for all these mentioned services. This research is mainly points on integration of green parameters in existing SLAs, defining GSLA with new green performance indicators and their measurable units. Finally, a GSLA template could define compiling all the green indicators such as recycling, radio-wave, toxic material usage, obsolescence indication, ICT product life cycles, energy cost etc for sustainable development. Moreover, people’s interaction and IT ethics issues such as security and privacy, user satisfaction, intellectual property right, user reliability, confidentiality etc could also need to add for proposing a new GSLA. However, integration of new and existing performance indicators in the proposed GSLA for sustainable development could be difficult for ICT engineers. Therefore, this research also discovers the management complexity of proposed green SLA through designing a general informational model and analyses of all the relationships, dependencies and effects between various newly identified services under sustainability pillars. However, sustainability could only be achieved through proper implementation of newly proposed GSLA, which largely depends on monitoring the performance of the green indicators. Therefore, this research focuses on monitoring and evaluating phase of GSLA indicators through the interactions with traditional basic SLA indicators, which would help to achieve proper implementation of future GSLA. Finally, this newly proposed GSLA informational model and monitoring aspects could definitely help different service providers/vendors to design their future business strategy in this new transitional sustainable society.

From protein structure to function with bioinformatics

It has long been known that amino acids are the building blocks for proteins and govern their folding into specific three-dimensional structures. However, the details of this process are still unknown and represent one of the main problems in structural bioinformatics, which is a highly active research area with the focus on the prediction of three-dimensional structure and its relationship to protein function. The protein structure prediction procedure encompasses several different steps from searches and analyses of sequences and structures, through sequence alignment to the creation of the structural model. Careful evaluation and analysis ultimately results in a hypothetical structure, which can be used to study biological phenomena in, for example, research at the molecular level, biotechnology and especially in drug discovery and development. In this thesis, the structures of five proteins were modeled with templatebased methods, which use proteins with known structures (templates) to model related or structurally similar proteins. The resulting models were an important asset for the interpretation and explanation of biological phenomena, such as amino acids and interaction networks that are essential for the function and/or ligand specificity of the studied proteins. The five proteins represent different case studies with their own challenges like varying template availability, which resulted in a different structure prediction process. This thesis presents the techniques and considerations, which should be taken into account in the modeling procedure to overcome limitations and produce a hypothetical and reliable three-dimensional structure. As each project shows, the reliability is highly dependent on the extensive incorporation of experimental data or known literature and, although experimental verification of in silico results is always desirable to increase the reliability, the presented projects show that also the experimental studies can greatly benefit from structural models. With the help of in silico studies, the experiments can be targeted and precisely designed, thereby saving both money and time. As the programs used in structural bioinformatics are constantly improved and the range of templates increases through structural genomics efforts, the mutual benefits between in silico and experimental studies become even more prominent. Hence, reliable models for protein three-dimensional structures achieved through careful planning and thoughtful executions are, and will continue to be, valuable and indispensable sources for structural information to be combined with functional data.

Partial characterization of genes from the embryonic axis of Melanoxylon brauna Schott. (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae) seeds

The objective of this study was to partially characterize some genes involved in the desiccation tolerance of the embryonic axis of Melanoxylon brauna seeds subjected, or not, to oven fast-drying. Seeds were initially dried rapidly in an oven at 40 ºC, 50 ºC, 60 ºC, 70 ºC, and 80 °C, for 24, 48 and 72 h and then subjected to germination tests and moisture content determination. Degenerate primers were designed for 19 genes. The CDNA was used as a template for PCR amplifications using the degenerate primers, and the PCR products obtained were purified, cloned and sequenced. The seeds showed a gradual reduction in percent germination with increasing temperature and drying time. Nucleotide sequences of the cloned fragments related to genes CAT1, SPS1, Abi5, Transk and PM25 were obtained. The similarity analysis with the sequences deposited in databases revealed similarities with genes CAT1, SPS1, Transk and PM25 from other plant species. The nucleotide sequences obtained from the respective genes will be used for designing specific primers for gene expression analyses during seed germination in order to understand the causes for loss of physiological quality of Melanoxylon brauna seeds.

Aikaerotteisesti fluoresenssia mittaavan reaaliaikaisen PCR-laitteen kehitys

Kvantitatiivinen reaaliaikainen polymeraasiketjureaktio (engl. polymerase chain reaction, PCR) on osoittautunut käyttäjäystävällisimmäksi menetelmäksi nukleiinihapposekvenssien kvantitoimisessa. Tätä menetelmää voidaan herkistää pienempien DNA-pitoisuuksien havaitsemiseen käyttämällä hyväksi aikaerotteista fluorometriaa (engl. time-resolved fluorometry, TRF) ja luminoivia lantanidileimoja, joiden fluoresenssin pitkän eliniän ansiosta emission mittaus voidaan suorittaa vasta hetki virittävän valopulssin jälkeen, jolloin lyhytikäinen taustasäteily ehtii sammua. Tuloksena saadaan korkea signaali-taustasuhde. Tämän diplomityön tarkoituksena oli rakentaa TRF:än pystyvä reaaliaikainen PCR-laite, sillä tällaista laitetta ei ole markkinoilla tarjolla. Laite rakennettiin kehittämällä lämpökierrätin ja yhdistämällä se valmiiseen TRF:än kykenevään mittapäähän. Mittapään ja lämpökierrättimen hallitsemiseksi kehitettiin myös tietokoneohjelma. Valon tuottamiseksi ja mittaamiseksi haluttiin käyttää edullisia komponentteja, joten työssä käytettiin valmiin mittapään optiikkaa, jossa viritys tapahtuu hohtodiodilla (engl. light-emitting diode, LED) ja lantanidileiman emission mittaus fotodiodilla (engl. photodiode, PD) tai valomonistinputkella (engl. photomultiplier tube, PMT). Myös mittapään suorituskykyä tutkittiin. Työtä varten kehitettiin lämpökierrätin, joka koostui Peltier-elementillä lämmitettävästä PCR-putkitelineestä ja lämpökannesta. Mittalaitteen suorituskyvyn tutkimiseen käytettiin kelaattikomplementaatioon perustuvaa PCR-tuotteen havaitsemismenetelmää. Kelaattikomplementaatio perustuu kahteen erilliseen oligonukleotidimolekyyliin, joista toiseen on sidottu lantanidi-ioni ja toiseen valoa absorboiva ligandirakenne, jotka yhdessä muodostavat fluoresoivan kokonaisuuden. Kehitetyn lämpökierrättimen todettiin olevan tarpeeksi tarkka sekä tehokas ja sen lämmitys- ja jäähdytysnopeuden maksimeiksi saatiin 2,6 °C/sekunti. Detektorina käytetyn PD:n ei todettu olevan tarpeeksi herkkä emission havainnoimiseksi ja se korvattiin laitteessa PMT:llä. Käytetyllä PCR-määrityksellä kynnyssykleiksi (engl. threshold cycle, Ct) sekä kehitetylle että referenssilaitteelle saatiin 28,4 käyttämällä samaa 100 000 kopion DNA:n aloitusmäärää. Työssä osoitettiin, että on mahdollista kehittää edullisia komponentteja käyttävä, TRF:än pystyvä, reaaliaikainen PCR-laite, joka kykenee vastaavaan Ct-arvoon kuin vertailulaite. PD:n herkkyys ei kuitenkaan riittänyt. Tulokset olivat lupaavia, sillä LED- ja PD-teknologiat kehittyvät ja markkinoille on tullut myös muita komponentteja, joiden avulla on tulevaisuudessa mahdollista kehittää vielä herkempi laite.

Emerging markets and the international financial architecture: a blueprint for reform

If emerging markets are to achieve their objective of joining the ranks of industrialized, developed countries, they must use their economic and political influence to support radical change in the international financial system. This working paper recommends John Maynard Keynes's "clearing union" as a blueprint for reform of the international financial architecture that could address emerging market grievances more effectively than current approaches. Keynes's proposal for the postwar international system sought to remedy some of the same problems currently facing emerging market economies. It was based on the idea that financial stability was predicated on a balance between imports and exports over time, with any divergence from balance providing automatic financing of the debit countries by the creditor countries via a global clearinghouse or settlement system for trade and payments on current account. This eliminated national currency payments for imports and exports; countries received credits or debits in a notional unit of account fixed to national currency. Since the unit of account could not be traded, bought, or sold, it would not be an international reserve currency. The credits with the clearinghouse could only be used to offset debits by buying imports, and if not used for this purpose they would eventually be extinguished; hence the burden of adjustment would be shared equally - credit generated by surpluses would have to be used to buy imports from the countries with debit balances. Emerging market economies could improve upon current schemes for regionally governed financial institutions by using this proposal as a template for the creation of regional clearing unions using a notional unit of account.

Metal oxides prepared through the nanocasting approach-mechanistic study, surface interactions and applications in separation

Mesoporous metal oxides are nowadays widely used in various technological applications, for instance in catalysis, biomolecular separations and drug delivery. A popular technique used to synthesize mesoporous metal oxides is the nanocasting process. Mesoporous metal oxide replicas are obtained from the impregnation of a porous template with a metal oxide precursor followed by thermal treatment and removal of the template by etching in NaOH or HF solutions. In a similar manner to the traditional casting wherein the product inherits the features of the mold, the metal oxide replicas are supposed to have an inverse structure of the starting porous template. This is however not the case, as broken or deformed particles and other structural defects have all been experienced during nanocasting experiments. Although the nanocasting technique is widely used, not all the processing steps are well understood. Questions over the fidelity of replication and morphology control are yet to be adequately answered. This work therefore attempts to answer some of these questions by elucidating the nanocasting process, pin pointing the crucial steps involved and how to harness this knowledge in making wholesome replicas which are a true replication of the starting templates. The rich surface chemistry of mesoporous metal oxides is an important reason why they are widely used in applications such as catalysis, biomolecular separation, etc. At times the surface is modified or functionalized with organic species for stability or for a particular application. In this work, nanocast metal oxides (TiO2, ZrO2 and SnO2) and SiO2 were modified with amino-containing molecules using four different approaches, namely (a) covalent bonding of 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES), (b) adsorption of 2-aminoethyl dihydrogen phosphate (AEDP), (c) surface polymerization of aziridine and (d) adsorption of poly(ethylenimine) (PEI) through electrostatic interactions. Afterwards, the hydrolytic stability of each functionalization was investigated at pH 2 and 10 by zeta potential measurements. The modifications were successful except for the AEDP approach which was unable to produce efficient amino-modification on any of the metal oxides used. The APTES, aziridine and PEI amino-modifications were fairly stable at pH 10 for all the metal oxides tested while only AZ and PEI modified-SnO2 were stable at pH 2 after 40 h. Furthermore, the functionalized metal oxides (SiO2, Mn2O3, ZrO2 and SnO2) were packed into columns for capillary liquid chromatography (CLC) and capillary electrochromatography (CEC). Among the functionalized metal oxides, aziridinefunctionalized SiO2, (SiO2-AZ) showed good chemical stability, and was the most useful packing material in both CLC and CEC. Lastly, nanocast metal oxides were synthesized for phosphopeptide enrichment which is a technique used to enrich phosphorylated proteins in biological samples prior to mass spectrometry analysis. By using the nanocasting technique to prepare the metal oxides, the surface area was controlled within a range of 42-75 m2/g thereby enabling an objective comparison of the metal oxides. The binding characteristics of these metal oxides were compared by using samples with different levels of complexity such as synthetic peptides and cell lysates. The results show that nanocast TiO2, ZrO2, Fe2O3 and In2O3 have comparable binding characteristics. Furthermore, In2O3 which is a novel material in phosphopeptide enrichment applications performed comparably with standard TiO2 which is the benchmark for such phosphopeptide enrichment procedures. The performance of the metal oxides was explained by ranking the metal oxides according to their isoelectric points and acidity. Overall, the clarification of the nanocasting process provided in this work will aid the synthesis of metal oxides with true fidelity of replication. Also, the different applications of the metal oxides based on their surface interactions and binding characteristics show the versatility of metal oxide materials. Some of these results can form the basis from which further applications and protocols can be developed.

今古奇觀Jin gu qi guan.Merveilles de l'antiquité et des temps modernes.

Contient : I, livre 1三孝廉讓產立高名San xiao lian rang chan li gao ming.Les trois licenciés charitables qui acquièrent de la célébrité ; II, livre 2兩縣令競義婚孤女Liang xian ling jing yi hun gu nü.L'orpheline ; III, livre 3滕大尹鬼斷家私Teng da yin gui duan jia si.Le portrait de famille ; IV, livre 4裴晉公義還原配Pei jin gong yi huan yuan phei.Comment le mandarin Dan bi perdit et retrouva sa fiancée ; V, livre 5杜十娘怒沈百寶箱Du shi niang nu chen bai bao xiang.Du Shi niang, de colère, jette dans l'eau la cassette de bijoux ; VI, livre 6李謫仙醉草嚇蠻書Li zhe xian zui cao he man shu.Le poète Li Tai bai ; VII, livre 7賣油郎獨占花魁Mai you lang du zhan hua khoei.Le vendeur d'huile qui seul possède la reine de beauté ; VIII, livre 8灌園叟（alias 吏）晚逢仙女Guan yuan sou (alias li) wan feng xian nü.Les pivoines ; IX, livre 9轉運漢巧遇洞庭紅Zhuan yun han qiao yu dong ting hong.Le couli des transports, adroitement, reçoit la beauté du Dong ting ; X, livre 10看財奴刁買寃家主Kan cai nu diao mai yuan jia zhu.Richesse mal acquise (Comment le ciel donne et reprend les richesses) ; XI, livre 11吳保安棄家贖友Wu bao an qi jia shu you.Véritable amitié ; XII, livre 12羊角哀舍命全交Yang jue ai she ming quan jiao.Yang Jue ai fait le sacrifice do sa vie par dévouement pour un ami ; XIII, livre 13沈小霞相會出師表Shen xiao xia xiang hui chu shi biao.Shen Xiao xia rencontre et présente le modèle des maîtres ; XIV, livre 14宋金郎團圓破氊笠Song jin lang tuan yuan po zhan li.Les tendres époux ; XV, livre 15盧太學詩酒傲公侯Lu tai xue shi jiu ao gong hou.Lu tai xue, poète et ivre, brave les princes ; XVI, livre 16李汧公窮邸遇俠客Li qian gong qiong di yu xie ke.Li Qian gong, dans sa résidence misérable, traite un hôte magnanime ; XVII, livre 17蘇小妹三難新郎Su xiao mei san nan xin lang.La jeune Su trois fois maltraite un nouveau marié ; XVIII, livre 18劉元普雙生貴子Liu yuan pu shuang sheng gui zi.Liu Yuan pu obtient deux beaux enfants ; XIX, livre 19俞伯牙摔琴謝知音Yu bai ya choai qin xie zhi yin.Le luth brisé ; XX, livre 20莊子休鼓盆成大道Zhuang zi xiu gu phen cheng da dao.La matrone du pays de Song ; XXI, livre 21老門生三世報恩Lao men sheng san shi bao en.Le vieil élève montre sa reconnaissance à la troisième génération ; XXII, livre 22鈍秀才一朝交泰Dun xiu cai yi zhao jiao tai.Le bachelier obtus tout d'un coup exerce son influence formatrice ; XXIII, livre 23蔣興哥重會珍珠衫Jiang xing ge chong hui zheng zhu shan.Le négociant ruiné (La tunique de perles) ; XXIV, livre 24陳御史巧勘金釵鈿Chen yu shi qiao kan jin tchhai tian.Une cause célèbre ; XXV, livre 25徐老僕義憤成家Xu lao bu yi fen cheng jia.Un serviteur méritant ; XXVI, livre 26蔡小姐忍辱報讐Cai xiao jie ren ru bao chou .L'héroïsme de la piété filiale ; XXVII, livre 27錢秀才錯占鳳凰儔.Qian xiu cai tsho zhan feng huang chou .Mariage forcé ; XXVIII, livre 28喬太守亂㸃鴛鴦譜.Qiao tai shou luan dian yuan yang pu.Le préfet Qiao pointe à tort le registre des unions ; XXIX, livre 29懷私怨很僕告主Huai si yuan hen bu gao zhu.Le crime puni ; XXX, livre 30念親恩孝女藏兒Nian qin en xiao nü cang er.La calomnie démasquée ; XXXI, livre 31呂大郎還金完骨肉Lü da lang huan jin wan gu ru.Les trois frères ; XXXII, livre 32金玉奴棒打薄情郎.Jin yu nu bang da bai qing lang.Femme et mari ingrats ; XXXIII, livre 33唐解元玩世出奇.Tang jie yuan wan shi chu qi.Le mariage du licencié Tang (Tang le jie yuan) ; XXXIV, livre 34女秀才移花接木.Nü xiu cai yi hua jie mu.La bachelière du pays de Zhu ; XXXV, livre 35王喬鸞百年長恨.Wang qiao luan bai nian chang hen.Le ressentiment perpétuel de Wang Qiao luan ; XXXVI, livre 36十三郎五歲朝天.Shi san lang wu sui chao tian.Shi san lang pendant cinq ans se tourne vers le ciel ; XXXVII, livre 37崔俊臣巧合芙蓉屏.Cui jun chen qiao he fu yong ping.Paravent révélateur ; XXXVIII, livre 38趙縣君喬送黃柑子.Zhao xian jun qiao song huang gan zi.Chantage ; XXXIX, livre 39誇妙術丹容提金.Khoa miao shu dan yong ti jin.Les alchimistes ; XL, livre 40逞多財（alias 錢多） 白丁橫帶Cheng duo cai (qian duo) bai ding heng dai.Cupidité et dérèglement

今古奇觀Jin gu qi guan.Merveilles de l'antiquité et des temps modernes.

Contient : I, livre 1三孝廉讓產立高名San xiao lian rang chan li gao ming.Les trois licenciés charitables qui acquièrent de la célébrité ; II, livre 2兩縣令競義婚孤女Liang xian ling jing yi hun gu nü.L'orpheline ; III, livre 3滕大尹鬼斷家私Teng da yin gui duan jia si.Le portrait de famille ; IV, livre 4裴晉公義還原配Pei jin gong yi huan yuan phei.Comment le mandarin Dan bi perdit et retrouva sa fiancée ; V, livre 5杜十娘怒沈百寶箱Du shi niang nu chen bai bao xiang.Du Shi niang, de colère, jette dans l'eau la cassette de bijoux ; VI, livre 6李謫仙醉草嚇蠻書Li zhe xian zui cao he man shu.Le poète Li Tai bai ; VII, livre 7賣油郎獨占花魁Mai you lang du zhan hua khoei.Le vendeur d'huile qui seul possède la reine de beauté ; VIII, livre 8灌園叟（alias 吏）晚逢仙女Guan yuan sou (alias li) wan feng xian nü.Les pivoines ; IX, livre 9轉運漢巧遇洞庭紅Zhuan yun han qiao yu dong ting hong.Le couli des transports, adroitement, reçoit la beauté du Dong ting ; X, livre 10看財奴刁買寃家主Kan cai nu diao mai yuan jia zhu.Richesse mal acquise (Comment le ciel donne et reprend les richesses) ; XI, livre 11吳保安棄家贖友Wu bao an qi jia shu you.Véritable amitié ; XII, livre 12羊角哀舍命全交Yang jue ai she ming quan jiao.Yang Jue ai fait le sacrifice do sa vie par dévouement pour un ami ; XIII, livre 13沈小霞相會出師表Shen xiao xia xiang hui chu shi biao.Shen Xiao xia rencontre et présente le modèle des maîtres ; XIV, livre 14宋金郎團圓破氊笠Song jin lang tuan yuan po zhan li.Les tendres époux ; XV, livre 15盧太學詩酒傲公侯Lu tai xue shi jiu ao gong hou.Lu tai xue, poète et ivre, brave les princes ; XVI, livre 16李汧公窮邸遇俠客Li qian gong qiong di yu xie ke.Li Qian gong, dans sa résidence misérable, traite un hôte magnanime ; XVII, livre 17蘇小妹三難新郎Su xiao mei san nan xin lang.La jeune Su trois fois maltraite un nouveau marié ; XVIII, livre 18劉元普雙生貴子Liu yuan pu shuang sheng gui zi.Liu Yuan pu obtient deux beaux enfants ; XIX, livre 19俞伯牙摔琴謝知音Yu bai ya choai qin xie zhi yin.Le luth brisé ; XX, livre 20莊子休鼓盆成大道Zhuang zi xiu gu phen cheng da dao.La matrone du pays de Song ; XXI, livre 21老門生三世報恩Lao men sheng san shi bao en.Le vieil élève montre sa reconnaissance à la troisième génération ; XXII, livre 22鈍秀才一朝交泰Dun xiu cai yi zhao jiao tai.Le bachelier obtus tout d'un coup exerce son influence formatrice ; XXIII, livre 23蔣興哥重會珍珠衫Jiang xing ge chong hui zheng zhu shan.Le négociant ruiné (La tunique de perles) ; XXIV, livre 24陳御史巧勘金釵鈿Chen yu shi qiao kan jin tchhai tian.Une cause célèbre ; XXV, livre 25徐老僕義憤成家Xu lao bu yi fen cheng jia.Un serviteur méritant ; XXVI, livre 26蔡小姐忍辱報讐Cai xiao jie ren ru bao chou .L'héroïsme de la piété filiale ; XXVII, livre 27錢秀才錯占鳳凰儔.Qian xiu cai tsho zhan feng huang chou .Mariage forcé ; XXVIII, livre 28喬太守亂㸃鴛鴦譜.Qiao tai shou luan dian yuan yang pu.Le préfet Qiao pointe à tort le registre des unions ; XXIX, livre 29懷私怨很僕告主Huai si yuan hen bu gao zhu.Le crime puni ; XXX, livre 30念親恩孝女藏兒Nian qin en xiao nü cang er.La calomnie démasquée ; XXXI, livre 31呂大郎還金完骨肉Lü da lang huan jin wan gu ru.Les trois frères ; XXXII, livre 32金玉奴棒打薄情郎.Jin yu nu bang da bai qing lang.Femme et mari ingrats ; XXXIII, livre 33唐解元玩世出奇.Tang jie yuan wan shi chu qi.Le mariage du licencié Tang (Tang le jie yuan) ; XXXIV, livre 34女秀才移花接木.Nü xiu cai yi hua jie mu.La bachelière du pays de Zhu ; XXXV, livre 35王喬鸞百年長恨.Wang qiao luan bai nian chang hen.Le ressentiment perpétuel de Wang Qiao luan ; XXXVI, livre 36十三郎五歲朝天.Shi san lang wu sui chao tian.Shi san lang pendant cinq ans se tourne vers le ciel ; XXXVII, livre 37崔俊臣巧合芙蓉屏.Cui jun chen qiao he fu yong ping.Paravent révélateur ; XXXVIII, livre 38趙縣君喬送黃柑子.Zhao xian jun qiao song huang gan zi.Chantage ; XXXIX, livre 39誇妙術丹容提金.Khoa miao shu dan yong ti jin.Les alchimistes ; XL, livre 40逞多財（alias 錢多） 白丁橫帶Cheng duo cai (qian duo) bai ding heng dai.Cupidité et dérèglement

今古奇觀Jin gu qi guan.Merveilles de l'antiquité et des temps modernes.

Contient : I, livre 1三孝廉讓產立高名San xiao lian rang chan li gao ming.Les trois licenciés charitables qui acquièrent de la célébrité ; II, livre 2兩縣令競義婚孤女Liang xian ling jing yi hun gu nü.L'orpheline ; III, livre 3滕大尹鬼斷家私Teng da yin gui duan jia si.Le portrait de famille ; IV, livre 4裴晉公義還原配Pei jin gong yi huan yuan phei.Comment le mandarin Dan bi perdit et retrouva sa fiancée ; V, livre 5杜十娘怒沈百寶箱Du shi niang nu chen bai bao xiang.Du Shi niang, de colère, jette dans l'eau la cassette de bijoux ; VI, livre 6李謫仙醉草嚇蠻書Li zhe xian zui cao he man shu.Le poète Li Tai bai ; VII, livre 7賣油郎獨占花魁Mai you lang du zhan hua khoei.Le vendeur d'huile qui seul possède la reine de beauté ; VIII, livre 8灌園叟（alias 吏）晚逢仙女Guan yuan sou (alias li) wan feng xian nü.Les pivoines ; IX, livre 9轉運漢巧遇洞庭紅Zhuan yun han qiao yu dong ting hong.Le couli des transports, adroitement, reçoit la beauté du Dong ting ; X, livre 10看財奴刁買寃家主Kan cai nu diao mai yuan jia zhu.Richesse mal acquise (Comment le ciel donne et reprend les richesses) ; XI, livre 11吳保安棄家贖友Wu bao an qi jia shu you.Véritable amitié ; XII, livre 12羊角哀舍命全交Yang jue ai she ming quan jiao.Yang Jue ai fait le sacrifice do sa vie par dévouement pour un ami ; XIII, livre 13沈小霞相會出師表Shen xiao xia xiang hui chu shi biao.Shen Xiao xia rencontre et présente le modèle des maîtres ; XIV, livre 14宋金郎團圓破氊笠Song jin lang tuan yuan po zhan li.Les tendres époux ; XV, livre 15盧太學詩酒傲公侯Lu tai xue shi jiu ao gong hou.Lu tai xue, poète et ivre, brave les princes ; XVI, livre 16李汧公窮邸遇俠客Li qian gong qiong di yu xie ke.Li Qian gong, dans sa résidence misérable, traite un hôte magnanime ; XVII, livre 17蘇小妹三難新郎Su xiao mei san nan xin lang.La jeune Su trois fois maltraite un nouveau marié ; XVIII, livre 18劉元普雙生貴子Liu yuan pu shuang sheng gui zi.Liu Yuan pu obtient deux beaux enfants ; XIX, livre 19俞伯牙摔琴謝知音Yu bai ya choai qin xie zhi yin.Le luth brisé ; XX, livre 20莊子休鼓盆成大道Zhuang zi xiu gu phen cheng da dao.La matrone du pays de Song ; XXI, livre 21老門生三世報恩Lao men sheng san shi bao en.Le vieil élève montre sa reconnaissance à la troisième génération ; XXII, livre 22鈍秀才一朝交泰Dun xiu cai yi zhao jiao tai.Le bachelier obtus tout d'un coup exerce son influence formatrice ; XXIII, livre 23蔣興哥重會珍珠衫Jiang xing ge chong hui zheng zhu shan.Le négociant ruiné (La tunique de perles) ; XXIV, livre 24陳御史巧勘金釵鈿Chen yu shi qiao kan jin tchhai tian.Une cause célèbre ; XXV, livre 25徐老僕義憤成家Xu lao bu yi fen cheng jia.Un serviteur méritant ; XXVI, livre 26蔡小姐忍辱報讐Cai xiao jie ren ru bao chou .L'héroïsme de la piété filiale ; XXVII, livre 27錢秀才錯占鳳凰儔.Qian xiu cai tsho zhan feng huang chou .Mariage forcé ; XXVIII, livre 28喬太守亂㸃鴛鴦譜.Qiao tai shou luan dian yuan yang pu.Le préfet Qiao pointe à tort le registre des unions ; XXIX, livre 29懷私怨很僕告主Huai si yuan hen bu gao zhu.Le crime puni ; XXX, livre 30念親恩孝女藏兒Nian qin en xiao nü cang er.La calomnie démasquée ; XXXI, livre 31呂大郎還金完骨肉Lü da lang huan jin wan gu ru.Les trois frères ; XXXII, livre 32金玉奴棒打薄情郎.Jin yu nu bang da bai qing lang.Femme et mari ingrats ; XXXIII, livre 33唐解元玩世出奇.Tang jie yuan wan shi chu qi.Le mariage du licencié Tang (Tang le jie yuan) ; XXXIV, livre 34女秀才移花接木.Nü xiu cai yi hua jie mu.La bachelière du pays de Zhu ; XXXV, livre 35王喬鸞百年長恨.Wang qiao luan bai nian chang hen.Le ressentiment perpétuel de Wang Qiao luan ; XXXVI, livre 36十三郎五歲朝天.Shi san lang wu sui chao tian.Shi san lang pendant cinq ans se tourne vers le ciel ; XXXVII, livre 37崔俊臣巧合芙蓉屏.Cui jun chen qiao he fu yong ping.Paravent révélateur ; XXXVIII, livre 38趙縣君喬送黃柑子.Zhao xian jun qiao song huang gan zi.Chantage ; XXXIX, livre 39誇妙術丹容提金.Khoa miao shu dan yong ti jin.Les alchimistes ; XL, livre 40逞多財（alias 錢多） 白丁橫帶Cheng duo cai (qian duo) bai ding heng dai.Cupidité et dérèglement