The association of the Arabidopsis actin-related protein (ARP) 2/3 complex with cell membranes is linked to its assembly status but not its activation

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Phone-level pronunciation scoring and assessment for interactive language learning

This paper investigates a method of automatic pronunciation scoring for use in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) systems. The method utilizes a likelihood-based `Goodness of Pronunciation' (GOP) measure which is extended to include individual thresholds for each phone based on both averaged native confidence scores and on rejection statistics provided by human judges. Further improvements are obtained by incorporating models of the subject's native language and by augmenting the recognition networks to include expected pronunciation errors. The various GOP measures are assessed using a specially recorded database of non-native speakers which has been annotated to mark phone-level pronunciation errors. Since pronunciation assessment is highly subjective, a set of four performance measures has been designed, each of them measuring different aspects of how well computer-derived phone-level scores agree with human scores. These performance measures are used to cross-validate the reference annotations and to assess the basic GOP algorithm and its refinements. The experimental results suggest that a likelihood-based pronunciation scoring metric can achieve usable performance, especially after applying the various enhancements.

饱食因子及其制备方法和其基因

本发明涉及一种饱食因子及其制备方法和其基因，属于生物医学领域。该饱食因子为从中国两栖类动物大蹼铃蟾(Bombina maxima)皮肤分泌物中分离得到的由28个氨基酸组成的一种单链多肽，分子量3229.57，等电点7.7，多肽氨基酸全序列一级结构为：Asp Met Tyr Glu Ile Lys Gln Tyr Lys The Ala HisGly Arg Pro Pro Ile Cys Ala Pro Gly Glu Gln Cys Pro Ile Trp Val-AMIDATION。制备方法是收集大蹼铃蟾皮肤分泌物，离心去除沉淀、冷冻干燥后，经凝胶过滤、离子交换柱层析、高压液相反相柱层析分离纯化后即得到。编码饱食因子的基因由1041个核苷酸组成，其中编码成熟饱食因子为第835-918位核苷酸。具有抑制进食，增强缓激肽生物效应的作用，作为制备肥胖症治疗药物，心血管系统疾病治疗药物的应用。

Triggering in a thermoacoustic system with stochastic noise

This paper explores the mechanism of triggering in a simple thermoacoustic system, the Rijke tube. It is demonstrated that additive stochastic perturbations can cause triggering before the linear stability limit of a thermoacoustic system. When triggering from low noise amplitudes, the system is seen to evolve to self-sustained oscillations via an unstable periodic solution of the governing equations. Practical stability is introduced as a measure of the stability of a linearly stable state when finite perturbations are present. The concept of a stochastic stability map is used to demonstrate the change in practical stability limits for a system with a subcritical bifurcation, once stochastic terms are included. The practical stability limits are found to be strongly dependent on the strength of noise.

Transient growth and triggering in the horizontal Rijke tube Matthew

This theoretical paper examines a non-normal and non-linear model of a horizontal Rijke tube. Linear and non-linear optimal initial states, which maximize acoustic energy growth over a given time from a given energy, are calculated. It is found that non-linearity and non-normality both contribute to transient growth and that, for this model, linear optimal states are only a good predictor of non-linear optimal states for low initial energies. Two types of non-linear optimal initial state are found. The first has strong energy growth during the first period of the fundamental mode but loses energy thereafter. The second has weaker energy growth during the first period but retains high energy for longer. The second type causes triggering to self-sustained oscillations from lower energy than the first and has higher energy in the fundamental mode. This suggests, for instance, that low frequency noise will be more effective at causing triggering than high frequency noise.

黄鳝DEAD-box家族PL10基因的克隆与序列分析

通过PCR克隆的方法,从黄鳝(Monopterus albus)中得到两个PL10 基因的cDNA片段Mo PL10A和Mo PL10B,长度均为1.127 kb,推测其编码375个氨基酸的蛋白片段.结合其他PL10类同源物序列,对这两条cDNA进行了分析和初步的功能推测.根据此片段的氨基酸序列构建的系统发育树与形态分类结果一致.在不同组织中的RT PCR结果表明Mo PL10A和Mo PL10B的mRNA在各组织中的分布有差异.

香港米浦基围塘中有机氯农药和多氯联苯在微型生物群落中的积累

分别在 2 0 0 1年和 2 0 0 2年用国家标准《水质 -微型生物群落监测 -PFU法》在香港米浦自然保护区的基围塘和红树林中监测水质 .在 3个基围塘中共鉴定出 91种原生动物 ,为香港地区的首次记录 .同时在群落级水平上分析了4种生态结构参数和 5种功能参数 .用化学的方法成功地监测出在此 3个基围塘的PFU挤出液中 pp′-DDE和PCB的浓度 ,并且获得两年一致性的结果 .本文化学和生物学结合的研究结果为测定水中超痕量持久性有机污染物 (POPs)的环境暴露与生态毒性提供了一种新的尝试 .图

关于九肋鳖背甲的形态与有关的记载

<正> 众所周知,我国鳖类动物中分布最广,数量最多的是中华鳖[Pelodiscus sinensis(Wieg-mann,1834)],近几年来,进行大规模人工养殖的对象,多数也是中华鳖。中华鳖的背甲都是具肋板8对。作者曾经先后仔细地观察了中华鳖42个背甲骨胳,全部恒定具8对肋板,而且没有构造上显著的变异。然而,在湖南省境内却出产一种鳖,外形与中华鳖非常相似,成鳖体型大小亦相差不很多(当地有经验的捕鳖或养鳖能手,能够加以辨认)。我国历史上就有过记载,最早追溯到明朝的晚期,我国伟大的药物学家李时珍,编写于1

Characterisation of a high plasticity marine clay using a T-bar penetrometer

A series of laboratory-scale T-bar penetrometer tests have been conducted on a clay bed virgin consolidated from reconstituted high plasticity marine clay. This investigation was mainly concerned with the effects on the penetration resistance of rate of penetration and the presence of free water on the surface of the clay bed. The rate of penetration varied between 0.005mm/s and 50mm/s. The results showed that the nature of soil resistance was 'undrained' over the range of speeds studied, and the resistance showed a marked viscous rate effect. The virgin consolidated clay bed exhibited an increase in penetration resistance by up to 35% for a factor 10 increase in rate of penetration much larger than values previously reported for kaolin. The presence of water on the surface of clay bed had a profound impact on penetration resistance, particularly on the remoulded strength obtained by taking the T-bar through successive penetration and extraction cycles. This was true even when the remoulding cycles were conducted without the T-bar breaking through the clay surface.

Determination of the surface area of common carp, Cyprinus carpio L.

A wrap method adaptation combined with AutoCAD2005 and Scion Image for Windows were used to determine the surface area of a fish. Compared with the corresponding r(2) and F of many models, the most accurate formula: S = 752.15W(0.675) (r(2) = 0.999, F = 18362.94, P < 0.0001) for estimating the surface area of common carp was obtained. Similarly, the fin formula: S = 1834.12W(0.708) (r(2) = 0.992, F = 2690.47, P < 0.0001) was also obtained for the same purpose. It was proven that these two formulae gave good estimates of surface and fin areas of four strains of common carp: Yellow-river carp, fancy carp, mirror carp and Xingguo red carp.

Molecular beam epitaxy growth and photoluminescence of type-II (GaAs1-xSbx/InyGa1-yAs)/GaAs bilayer quantum well

We report a systematical study on the molecular beam epitaxy growth and optical property of (GaAs1-xSbx/In-y Ga1-yAs)/GaAs bilayer quantum well (BQW) structures. It is shown that the growth temperature of the wells and the sequence of layer growth have significant influence on the interface quality and the subsequent photoluminescence (PL) spectra. Under optimized growth conditions, three high-quality (GaAsSb0.29/In0.4GaAs)/GaAs BQWs are successfully fabricated and a room temperature PL at 1314 nm is observed. The transition mechanism in the BQW is also discussed by photoluminescence and photoreflectance measurements. The results confirm experimentally a type-II band alignment of the interface between the GaAsSb and InGaAs layers.

Characterization and analysis of two-dimensional GaAs-based photonic crystal nanocavities at room temperature

This paper describes the design and fabrication process of a two-dimensional GaAs-based photonic crystal nanocavity and analyzes the optical characterization of cavity modes at room temperature. Single InAs/InGaAs quantum dots (QDs) layer was embedded in a GaAs waveguide layer grown on an Al0.7Ga0.3As layer and GaAs substrate. The patterning of the structure and the membrane release were achieved by using electron-beam lithography, reaction ion etching, inductively coupled plasma etching and selective wet etching. The micro-luminescence spectrum is recorded from the fabricated nanocavities, and it is found that some high-order cavity modes are clearly observed besides the lowest-order resonant mode is exhibited in spite of much high rate of nonradiative recombination. The variance of resonant modes is also discussed as a function of r/a ratio and will be used in techniques aimed to improve the probability of achieving spectral coupling of a single QD to a cavity mode.

可证明安全性理论与方法研究

论述了可证明安全性理论在安全方案与安全协议的设计与分析中的应用，内容主要包括：什么是可证明安全性，可证明安全性理论涉及到的一些基本概念，RO（randomoracle）模型方法论的基本思想及其在公钥加密和数字签名等方案中的应用研究进展，标准模型下可证明安全性理论在公钥加密和数字签名等方案中的应用研究进展，以及可证明安全性理论在会话密钥分配协议的设计与分析中的应用研究进展．