Seasonal variation of reproduction rates and body size of Calanus sinicus in the Southern Yellow Sea, China

Annual variations of egg production rate (EPR) and clutch size of Calanus sinicus, as well as body size of females (prosome length and dry weight), were investigated at a series of stations in the Southern Yellow Sea by onboard incubation. Calanus sinicus was spawning in all the 11 cruises investigated, and the annual variation of EPR was bimodal. Monthly average EPR was highest from May to July, respectively, 5.97, 5.36 and 6.30 eggs female(-1) d(-1), then decreased dramatically to only 1.37 eggs female(-1) d(-1) in August and attained the lowest 1.07 eggs female(-1) d(-1) in October. In November, average EPR increased again to 4.31 eggs female(-1) d(-1). Seasonal variation of clutch size was similar to EPR, except that it decreased gradually after August rather than dramatically as did EPR. Prosome length of females was maximum in May and minimum in October, but dry weight was highest in November. Monthly average EPR correlated better with prosome length than dry weight, while clutch size was rather determined by dry weight of females. It is suggested that egg production of C. sinicus was active during two discontinuous periods when both surface and bottom temperature fell into its favorite range (i.e. 10-23degreesC), and different reproductive strategies were adopted in these two reproductive peaks: other than the highest EPR, longer prosome length was also achieved by C. sinicus from May to July, while females in November developed shorter bodies but accumulated more energy for reproduction.

棕色田鼠种群繁殖特征及密度制约调节

1992年～1994年在河南灵宝市郊黄土高源农作区春夏秋逐月捕获并解剖棕色田鼠1757只（雌性961只，雄性796只），总性比为1．2073。全年都有繁殖鼠出现，但怀孕率、胎仔数、性比、繁殖指数有明显的季节变化，年间也有一定的差异。不同年龄组的性比、怀孕率、胎仔数、繁殖指数、睾丸下降率不同。种群密度对繁殖特征有明显的调节作用。高密度年份的棕色田鼠的性比、怀孕率和繁殖指数低于低密度年份。高密度区种群的繁殖强度受到抑制，雌鼠怀孕率、睾丸下降率低于低密度种群。

基于黑板处理的CIMS运行动态调度系统结构

本文针对 CIMS 功能集成中存在的问题,提出了一种解决方法——基于黑板处理的 CIMS 运行时的动态调度系统结构,它利用人工智能中的黑板处理原理,可以较好地解决企业里各种生产经营活动的调度问题——功能集成.

关于中国西南石漠化的若干问题

石漠化是西南岩溶山地脆弱生态系统发生的土地退化。根据已有的经验和研究成果, 深人探讨了中国西南岩溶山地喀斯特石漠化的科学内涵、成因、发展过程、评价指标及防治机理等。土壤和植被是岩溶环境中最为敏感的自然环境要素, 可能是石漠化过程的主要自然成因, 而以土地利用为表现形式的强烈人类活动为驱动力石漠化的发生发展过程即人为过程、生物学过程加速的地学过程。石漠与石漠化, 二者属于完全不同的范畴, 不同空间尺度的石漠化评价应有不同的评价指标、标准和石漠化生态基准的多样性, 以便为石漠化的演化研究及生态重建起一定的参考作用。鉴于石漠化现象在我国现实中存在的客观性、在理论概念上的模糊性及在生态治理中的急迫性, 有必要加强石漠化在不同时空尺度下的驱动机制研究, 特别是人类驱动力的研究, 加强原生岩溶生态系统和受损岩溶生态系统运行规律的研究。

大兴安岭近1000年来气候变化的泥炭记录

大兴安岭摩天岭泥炭藓泥炭纤维素的δ13C 时间序列揭示了近1000 a 来该区气候的演变过程。区内1000 a 的气候经历了950700 a BP、700300 a BP 及300 a BP 以来三个阶段百年尺度的干湿波动,这些波动上又叠加了一系列数十年尺度的气候变化。该序列指示了大兴安岭地区近代气候向着偏干方向发展。

Foundations of Actor Semantics

The actor message-passing model of concurrent computation has inspired new ideas in the areas of knowledge-based systems, programming languages and their semantics, and computer systems architecture. The model itself grew out of computer languages such as Planner, Smalltalk, and Simula, and out of the use of continuations to interpret imperative constructs within A-calculus. The mathematical content of the model has been developed by Carl Hewitt, Irene Greif, Henry Baker, and Giuseppe Attardi. This thesis extends and unifies their work through the following observations. The ordering laws postulated by Hewitt and Baker can be proved using a notion of global time. The most general ordering laws are in fact equivalent to an axiom of realizability in global time. Independence results suggest that some notion of global time is essential to any model of concurrent computation. Since nondeterministic concurrency is more fundamental than deterministic sequential computation, there may be no need to take fixed points in the underlying domain of a power domain. Power domains built from incomplete domains can solve the problem of providing a fixed point semantics for a class of nondeterministic programming languages in which a fair merge can be written. The event diagrams of Greif's behavioral semantics, augmented by Baker's pending events, form an incomplete domain. Its power domain is the semantic domain in which programs written in actor-based languages are assigned meanings. This denotational semantics is compatible with behavioral semantics. The locality laws postulated by Hewitt and Baker may be proved for the semantics of an actor-based language. Altering the semantics slightly can falsify the locality laws. The locality laws thus constrain what counts as an actor semantics.

Exercise for the management of type 2 diabetes: A review of the evidence

The aim is to critically review the more relevant evidence on the interrelationships between exercise and metabolic outcomes. The research questions addressed in the recent specific literature with the most relevant randomized controlled trials, meta-analysis and cohort studies are presented in three domains: aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, combined aerobic and resistance exercise. From this review appear that the effects of aerobic exercise are well established, and interventions with more vigorous aerobic exercise programs resulted in greater reductions in HbA1c, greater increase in VO2max and greater increase in insulin sensitivity. Considering the available evidence, it appears that resistance training could be an effective intervention to help glycemic control, especially considering that the effects of this form of intervention are comparable with what reported with aerobic exercise. Less studies have investigated whether combined resistance and aerobic training offers a synergistic and incremental effect on glycemic control; however, from the available evidences appear that combined exercise training seems to determine additional change in HbA1c that can be seen significant if compared with aerobic training alone and resistance training alone.