关于我省农业产业结构调整的几点思考

江西是传统的农业大省,要调整农业产业结构,就必须增强广大农村基层干部调整农业产业结构的紧迫感,结合市场需求,发挥我省优势,理清调整思路,尤其在农村政策、农业信息、农产品加工与销售等方面要强化政府服务的职能.只有这样,才能真正做到增加农民收入,减轻农民负担,促进农业发展,保证农村稳定.     

Signaling life and death in the thymus: timing is everything

T lymphocytes are generated in the thymus, where developing thymocytes must accept one of two fates: They either differentiate or they die. These fates are chiefly determined by signals that originate from the T cell receptor (TCR), a single receptor complex with a remarkable capacity to decide between distinct cell fates. This review explores TCR signaling in thymocytes and focuses on the kinetic aspects of ligand binding, coreceptor involvement, protein phosphorylation, and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation. Understanding the logic of TCR signaling may eventually explain how thymocytes and T cells distinguish self from nonself, a phenomenon that has fascinated immunologists for 50 years.     

半胱胺对大鼠血脂代谢和抗氧化能力的影响

在高能量/高脂日粮条件下,研究半胱胺对大鼠血脂和机体抗氧化能力的影响。结果表明:高能量/高脂日粮提高大鼠血浆TC,TG,TC/HDL-C,TG/HDL-C的水平;与高能量/高脂日粮组相比,添加半胱胺降低TC,TG,LDL-C,TC/HDL-C,TG/HDL-C和血糖的水平;高能量/高脂日粮不能诱导明显的氧化应激,添加半胱胺日粮对氧化还原指标影响不明显。表明高能量/高脂日粮能提高血脂水平,添加半胱胺可恢复血脂。     

Confirmation of the Carolina slate belt as an exotic terrane

An assemblage of Middle Cambrian Atlantic faunal province trilobites has been found in the rocks of the Carolina slate belt near Batesburg, South Carolina. Geologic and paleomagnetic data suggest that the Carolina slate belt and the adjacent Charlotte belt constitute an exotic terrane that was accreted to North America in early to middle Paleozoic time.     

Topographic controls on the invasion of Pteronia incana (Blue bush) onto hillslopes in Ngqushwa (formerly Peddie) district,Eastern Cape,South Africa

The role of topographic factors in the invasion of hillslopes by Pteronia incana, an unpalatable shrub, was investigated. The study combined field observations with image analysis based on high-resolution infrared imagery. A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of 20 m spatial resolution was used to derive terrain parameters. The Topographic Wetness Index (WI), a component of the TOPMODEL, was derived from the DEM and its relationship with the spatial distribution of P. incana was explored. The absence/presence of P. incana was noted to be strongly influenced by slope angle and aspect. The probability for P. incana occurrence increased with slope steepness and southerly slope orientation. Abandoned and grazing lands were identified as the main invasion hotspots on hillslopes. The combined influence of slope gradient and aspect, and land use was noted to have promoted the invasion. This is borne out by the concentration of the invasion on abandoned steep slopes with a southerly orientation.     

Birds in Western Australian wheatbelt reserves—implications for conservation

Bird species richness in 22 reserves in the Western Australian wheatbelt was shown to be related not to isolation from adjacent uncleared land, either spatially or with time since clearing of land in their vicinity, but to area of reserve and certain reserve habitat variables. The nature of these relationships was examined with multiple regression analysis. Reserve area was the most important variable, except in some passerine groups, where numbers of plant species, vegetation associations, and plant life form and density classes in each vegetation stratum were, separately, more important than area. Eighty-two percent of the variation in the number of bird species was explained by area of reserve and number of plant species, indicating the importance of floristics to the total bird assemblage within reserves. The number of formations present (the broadest vegetation structural grouping used) did not explain any of the variation in species numbers in any of the bird groupings.There were more resident passerine species present in wheatbelt reserves than there were breeding passerine species on similar-sized southwestern Australian late-Pleistocene/Holocene islands, although the species versus area relationship of the resident habitat-specific passerines (P₅ group) was very similar to that of the island land-bird faunas. The P₅ species group contained many species which probably responded to wheatbelt reserves as islands; some of these species may fail to persist in the wheatbelt in the long term. Twenty-three species usually resident in reserves and 15 ‘non-residents’ were identified as being ‘vulnerable’ or of uncertain conservation status in the wheatbelt.Some vegetation formations within reserves were more important to birds than others; woodlands were most important both to resident and transient species. Most species do not appear to distinguish between shrublands and heaths as major habitats; Species richness versus formation area relationship suggest that insular patchiness for birds in the wheatbelt was manifest at the level of vegetation formations. Reserves as small as 80 ha were important sanctuaries for birds in the wheatbelt, although 1500 ha was considered a minimum area of reserve to conserve a local avifauna. Reserves of the order of 30,000–94,000 ha were required to contain most of the avifauna of the wheatbelt.