Do trehalose and trehalase function in renal glucose transport?

Maximum catalytic capacity for renal trehalase varied from 20 micromoles (of glucose produced per minute per gram of fresh tissue) for the armadillo down to zero for the rat, the cat, most turtles, fishes, and all birds and snakes investigated. Labeled trehalose could not be demonstrated in the kidney of the rabbit and the rat after injection with labeled glucose. These data do not support the hypothesis that trehalase and trehalose function in the transport of glucose through the kidney.     

蜂猴(Nycticebus coucang)心电图分析

 本文报道5例正常蜂猴心电图的初步研究,动物取仰卧位,描记标准肢导联、加压单极肢导联和3个心前区导联.结果:心率从130次/min到214次/min,平均179±32.45次/min,R-R间期,P-R间期,ORS波时间和Q-T间期平均各为0.33±0.087s,0.078±0.017s,0.042±0.01s,0.264±0.043s.并描述不同导联不同波的形态和振幅.     

Luminescence Enhancement by the Introduction of Disorder into Poly(p-phenylene vinylene)

A method is described for increasing luminescence in poly(p-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) light-emitting diodes. Cis linkages were engineered into the PPV chain. These linkages interrupt conjugation and interfere with the packing of the polymer chains, which results in the formation of amorphous PPV. Large-area electroluminescent devices were prepared from this polymer. Devices made of an aluminum electrode, PPV as the luminescent layer, and an electron-transporting layer have internal quantum efficiencies of 2 percent, a turn-on voltage of 20 volts, and can carry current densities of 2000 milliamperes per square centimeter. The current density is at least an order of magnitude higher than previously obtained.     

Primordial radioelements and cosmogenic radionuclides in lunar samples from apollo 15

Two basalts, two breccias, and two soils from Apollo 15 were analyzed by nondestructive gamma-ray spectrometry. The concentrations of potassium, thorium, and uranium in the basalts were similar to those in the Apollo 12 basalts, but the potassium: uranium ratios were somewhat higher. Primordial radioelements were enriched in the soils and breccia, consistent with a two-component mixture of mare basalt and up to 20 percent foreign component (KREEP). The abundance patterns for cosmogenic radionuclides implied surface sampling for all specimens. The galactic cosmic-ray production rate of vanadium-48 was determined as 57 +/- 11 disintegrations per minute per kilogram of iron. Cobalt-56 concentrations were used to estimate the intensity of the solar flare of 25 January 1971.     

Radiuin-226 and radon-222 in the coastal waters of west Florida: high concentrations and atmospheric degassing

On the central portion of the west Florida continental shelf, radionuclide activities show unusually wide variations: radium-226 activities up to 350 disintegrations per minute per 100 liters, radon-222 activities up to 1300 disintegrations per minute per 100 liters, and deficiencies of radon-222 as low as -10 disintegrations per minute per 100 liters. Florida's phosphate-rich strata seerm to be the principal source of the radionuclides, with the transfer occurring directly from sediments or indirectly in streams, ground-water flow, and geothermal springs. Winter storm fronts may enhance radon degassing in the shelf waters.     

Acetylcholine liberation from cerebral cortex during paradoxical (REM) sleep

The rate of liberation of free acetylcholine from the surface of prostigmin-treated cerebral cortex in the freely moving cat has been determined in states of slow wave sleep, paradoxical or activated sleep, and waking. The average rate during slow wave sleep (1.2 nanograms per minute per square centimeter of cortical surface) increased during paradoxical sleep (2.2 nanograms per minute) and during waking (2.1 nanograms per minute). The rate of acetylcholine release is thus related to the electroencephalogram pattern of desynchronized activatin of the cortex rahter than to the behavioral responsiveness of the animals.     

通风速率对土壤中四氯化碳污染物去除效率的影响研究

某重要岩溶地下水源地受到四氯化碳的严重污染,为此采用土柱通风试验模拟土壤气相抽提(SVE)净化四氯化碳污染物的过程,对通风速率为40mL·min-1和70mL·min-1两种条件下土壤四氯化碳的去除过程进行了试验模拟研究。结果表明,土柱通风能有效去除土壤中的四氯化碳污染物,通风条件下土壤中四氯化碳的去除过程符合一级反应动力学,土壤中四氯化碳浓度C的对数值ln[C(/μg·L-1)]与时间t呈良好的线性关系,相关系数均在0.95以上。通风速率为40mL·min-1的土柱A各取样口四氯化碳去除反应速率常数k值在0.0132～0.0155h-1之间,通风速率为70mL·min-1的土柱B各取样口k值在0.0178～0.0222h-1之间,说明增大通风速率能提高土壤中四氯化碳污染物的去除效率。     

Line-scan hyperspectral imaging system for real-time inspection of poultry carcasses with fecal material and ingesta

In poultry processing plants, fecal material and ingesta are the primary source of carcass contamination with microbial pathogens. The current practice of the poultry inspection in the United States is primarily human visual observations. Since the visual inspection is becoming more challenging in poultry processing plants adopting high-speed lines, a rapid sorting system could significantly improve the detection and monitoring of carcasses with surface fecal material and ingesta. As a result, we developed a prototype line-scan hyperspectral imaging system configured as a real-time multispectral imaging subsystem for online detection of surface fecal material and ingesta. Specifically, we integrated a commercially available off-the-shelf hyperspectral image camera into the system with two line lights and a custom software program for real-time multispectral imaging. The bottleneck of the imaging system was the data acquisition. For that reason, a multithreaded software architecture was designed and implemented not only to meet the application requirements such as speed and detection accuracy, but also to be customizable to different imaging applications such as systemic disease detection in the future. The image acquisition and processing speed tests confirmed the system could operate to scan poultry carcasses in commercial poultry processing plants. The fecal detection algorithm was based on the previous research using different hyperspectral imaging systems. A new carcass detection and image formation algorithm was developed to allow existing image processing and detection algorithms reusable without any modifications. Sixteen chicken carcasses and four different types of fecal and ingesta samples were used in a study to test the imaging system at two different speeds (140 birds per minute and 180 birds per minute) in a pilot-scale poultry processing facility. The study found that the system could grab and process three waveband images of carcasses moving up to 180 birds per minute (a line-scan rate 286 Hz) and detect fecal material and ingesta on their surfaces. The detection accuracy of the system varied between 89% and 98% with minimum false positive errors (less than 1%), depending on tested detection algorithms. Therefore, these findings provide the basis of not only a commercially viable imaging platform for fecal detection but also a single poultry inspection system for multiple tasks such as systemic disease detection and quality sorting.     

Continuous gas chromatography

Continuous gas chromatography has been achieved with a radialflow chromatographic channel free of packing and formed between two closely spaced (50 to 75 microns) disc surfaces (optically flat and solvent-coated) rotating at one-half or one revolution per second. This technique provides high capacity and immediate response (in a fraction of a second). Mixtures of hydrocarbon gases have been separated at flow rates of 6 to 30 cubic centimeters per minute with 100 to 150 cubic centimeters per minute of nitrogen carrier gas in a chromatographic channel only 39 millimeters long.     

Oxygen consumption of a flying bird

Budgerygahs (Melopsittacus undulatus) flew with a minimum oxygen consumption of 38 milliliters per gramhour at each of three speeds between 19 and 33 kilometers per hour in a recirculating wind tunnel. An oxygen debt accumulated in the first minute of flight and was repaid in the minute following cessation of flight. Frequency of wingbeat was independent of flight speed. The data suggest that flying budgerygahs have a higher cardiac output per kilogram of body weight than mammals and that flight muscle of the budgerygah is among the most metabolically active tissues known.     

Hyperfine zeeman effect atomic absorption spectrometer for mercury

A new type of atomic absorption spectrometer-one that detects trace mercury in host material, based on hyperfine structure lines in a magnetic field-was developed and tested on various substances. This device can detect trace mercury to about 0.04 part per million (40 parts per billion) in about 1 minute. No chemical separation from the host material is necessary.     

Red-Emitting Semiconductor Quantum Dot Lasers

Visible-stimulated emission in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) laser structure has been demonstrated. Red-emitting, self-assembled QDs of highly strained InAlAs have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on a GaAs substrate. Carriers injected electrically from the doped regions of a separate confinement heterostructure thermalized efficiently into the zero-dimensional QD states, and stimulated emission at approximately 707 nanometers was observed at 77 kelvin with a threshold current of 175 milliamperes for a 60-micrometer by 400-micrometer broad area laser. An external efficiency of approximately 8.5 percent at low temperature and a peak power greater than 200 milliwatts demonstrate the good size distribution and high gain in these high-quality QDs.     

乳牛胚胎冷冻保存技术和受胎率的研究

51枚可用胚胎,依次通过含有3.3%,6.7%,10%甘油的抗冻剂处理后,装入26支塑料细管,置于冷冻仪上,以每分钟降低1℃的速率从室温降-6.5℃,平衡5 min 后进行诱发植冰,又平衡5 min,再以每分钟降低0.3℃的速率降至-36℃,平衡10 min 后直接投入-196℃的液氮中保存。先后从液氮中取出16支冷冻保存不同时间(1,8,9,10,28,29,31,32,62天)的冷冻胚胎塑料细管,用30℃温水进行快速解冻,分3步脱除甘油,回收32枚胚胎,其中可用胚胎22枚分别移植给11头受体牛,结果4头妊娠(妊娠率为36.3%)并顺利生下4头发育正常的犊牛。     

Aluminum-26 in pacific sediment: implications

Aluminum-26 has been detected in a sample of sediment from the South Pacific. The disintegration rate of 0.8 disintegration per minute per kilogram of dry sediment is considerably higher than that expected from cosmic-ray spallation of atmospheric argon; it appears to result mainly from accretion of activity induced in interplanetary dust by solar-flare particles. This finding is in keeping with Wasson's published estimates regarding the magnitude of this effect, and confirms the order-of-magnitude correctness of the solar-particle flux and terrestrial accretion rate of interplanetary dust used in that calculation.     

Neuronal perikarya of rat brain isolated by zonal centrifugation

Cerebral cortex and hippocampus of rat were disrupted in a specially designed tissue-press and prepared as a 2 percent suspension in 10 percent buffered Ficoll medium and fractionated by density-gradient centrifugation in the B XIV zonal rotor. The suspension was injected into a buffered 30 percent Ficoll, 58 percent sucrose discontinuous gradient previously loaded in the B XlV zonal rotor spinning at 3500 revolutions per minute. Intact neuronal perikarya were recovered as a discrete band in the dense sucrose zone of the gradient after centrifugation at 35,000 revolutions per minute for 45 minutes.     

Carbon-14 Dating with the Liquid Scintillation Counter: Total Synthesis of the Benzene Solvent

Samples are analyzed for natural radiocarbon content by a total synthesis of benzene from their organic constituents. The benzene is employed as the solvent in a liquid scintillation counter. The instrument used permits 15grams of carbon to be counted with an efficiency of 40 percent and a background of 13 counts per minute.     

Spectra, Variability, Size, and Polarization of H2O Microwave Emission Sources in the Galaxy

Radio spectral line radiation of water molecules at a wavelength of 1.35 centimeters has been measured from eight sources in the galaxy. The sources are less than I arc minute in diameter, have extremely high brightness temperatures, and show many spectral features. Some spectral features are slightly polarized and some have changed greatly in intensity in a few weeks time.     

Body Temperature of Dermochelys coriacea: Warm Turtle from Cold Water

The deep body temperature of a leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, taken out of cold water, was 18 degrees C above the water temperature. A large size favoring heat retention from muscular activity is probably responsible for this differential. Cooling rates (k) in water, measured on a second animal, were in the order of 0.001 degrees C per minute per degree of difference between body and ambient temperature.     

Suppressing drosophila circadian rhythm with dim light

Drosophila larvae were reared and allowed to pupate in continuous bright white light. The pupae were then transferred to a much dimmer blue light. In continuous blue light of intensity below 0.001 erg per square centimeter per second, adult flies emerged in pulses 24.7 hours apart, each pulse occupying about 6 hours. But in continuous light of intensity exceeding 0.1 erg per square centimeter per second, they emerged at a steady rate. This intensity range from effective darkness to effective light is roughly from starlight to moonlight. Inside this range, the emergence peaks broaden for about a week with little change of period.     

AN ADJUSTABLE RESISTANCE WITH LINEAR RESPONSE TO AIR FLOW FOR RESPIRATION EXPERIMENTS

A. simple easily adjustable linear response resistance apparatus is described. The resistance unit contains a glass filter cloth, the effective area of which is adjusted by a mercury column. The resistance of the unit can be adjusted from 0.1 to 1.0 millimeters of water per liter of air flow per minute. The resistance can be easily increased or decreased during the progress of an experiment. The mercury hazard during inspiration was evaluated and not found significant for experiments of one hour.