Two closely related adenovirus genome types with kidney or respiratory tract tropism differ in their binding to epithelial cells of various origins

The host cell interactions of the genome types Ad11p and Ad11a of human adenovirus serotype 11, displaying kidney or respiratory tropism, were compared using FACS analysis. Kinetic experiments indicated that the virus binding stated immediately and reached a plateau after 30 min. The binding of biotinylated virions to seven continuous cell lines. A549, A498, J82, HeLa, CHO, MDCK, and human diploid fibroblasts (HEDF), was quantitated by FACS analysis. The binding capacities of the two viruses to all human cell lines but A549 cells appeared to differ. Ad11p virions manifested high affinities, whereas Ad11a virions presented low affinities. Neither of the two viruses bound to CHO or MDCK cells. Reciprocal competition experiments showed that the Ad11a virions could be weakly blocked by the Ad11p virions, whereas the Ad11p virions could not be competed at all by the Ad11a virions. The binding of the Ad11p virions to cells could be blocked by the rfiber antiserum of Ad11p, but not by the corresponding antiserum against Ad11a or Ad35p. A comparison of the cytopathogenicity of the seven cell lines infected by Ad11p and Ad11a demonstrated that the efficiency of the initial event of an adenovirus infection directly affects the outcome of the viral infection. The Ad11a in the A498, J82, HeLa, or HEDF cells that presented lower affinity and receptor concentration showed 100 times less infectivity than that in A549 cells displaying high affinity and receptor concentration. These results indicate that the cell susceptibility to Ad11p and Ad11a infection strongly depends on both the number of fiber receptors on the host cells and the receptor affinity for ligands on the fiber knob. Our findings also suggest that the receptors for Ad11p and Ad11a on the surface of different cell types may be different or on different sites.     

新型高性能脉冲峰值保持电路

本文介绍了两种新型跨导型脉冲峰值保持器，分别用于多丝正比室（ＭＷＰＣ）和复合晶体闪烁探测器（Ｐｈｏｓｗｉｃｈ）输出脉冲信号的形状和幅度分析。电路的跨导放大级采用跨导型集成运算放大器，使电路结构简单化，且性能优良可靠，能响应输入脉冲最小上升时间分别为５０ｎｓ（Ｐｈｏｓｗｉｃｈ）和５００ｎｓ（ＭＷＰＣ）的信号，在４０ｄＢ的动态范围内，两电路的积分非线性均好于０．１％，特别适用于空间γ射线观测。     

高可用性舰船网络系统研究

随着舰船信息系统网络化应用的不断增加,信息系统对舰船网络的依赖性也在不断增强,这对网络持续提供服务的高可用能力提出了更高的要求。鉴于目前舰船网络系统的可用性不能满足舰船信息业务对数据中断恢复时间所提出的要求,将最新的商用高可用性IRF2技术引入舰船网络系统,提出了一种新的舰船网络系统方案。该方案采用双交换机堆叠及跨交换机链路聚合的方式实现网络的网关冗余和路径冗余,简化了网络的逻辑结构,提高了整网的故障恢复时间。通过搭建的原型系统对方案的重要参数进行了测试,结果表明：相比于目前的舰船网络,该方案提升了网络效率,并将故障倒换时间从秒级缩短到了50ms级。     

基于进化计算的兴趣建模

为实现对个体的兴趣建模,提出基于进化计算的建模(Evolutionary Computation Based Modeling,ECBM)方法。该方法采用定性和定量相结合的方式对个体的兴趣系统进行建模,首先通过定性分析构建个体的兴趣模型框架,然后通过进化计算(Evolutionary Computation)方法对模型参数自动进化。实验结果表明,ECBM能够通过数据驱动模式优化模型参数,并利用更新信息进化模型,使其不断逼近真实系统。     

A data access framework for service-oriented rich clients

Facilitated by the SOA and new Web technologies, Service-Oriented Rich Clients (SORCs) compose various Web-delivered services in Web browser to create new applications. The SORCs support client-side data storage and manipulation and provide more features than traditional thin clients. However, the SORCs might suffer from data access issues, mainly due to both client-side incompatible data sources and server-side improper or even undesirable cache strategies. Addressing the data access issues, this paper proposes a data access framework for SORCs. The main contributions of this paper are as follows. First, the framework makes the SORCs accommodate heterogeneous local storage solutions and diverse Web browsers properly. The framework abstracts the underlying details of different local storages and selects the most proper data sources for current SORC in use. Secondly, the framework provides a cache mechanism, which supports client-side customized cache strategies. An adaptive technique for the strategies is also proposed to adjust cache strategies based on users?? historical actions to achieve better performance.     

CloudRank-D: benchmarking and ranking cloud computing systems for data processing applications

With the explosive growth of information, more and more organizations are deploying private cloud systems or renting public cloud systems to process big data. However, there is no existing benchmark suite for evaluating cloud performance on the whole system level. To the best of our knowledge, this paper proposes the first benchmark suite CloudRank-D to benchmark and rank cloud computing systems that are shared for running big data applications. We analyze the limitations of previous metrics, e.g., floating point operations, for evaluating a cloud computing system, and propose two simple metrics: data processed per second and data processed per Joule as two complementary metrics for evaluating cloud computing systems. We detail the design of CloudRank-D that considers representative applications, diversity of data characteristics, and dynamic behaviors of both applications and system software platforms. Through experiments, we demonstrate the advantages of our proposed metrics. In several case studies, we evaluate two small-scale deployments of cloud computing systems using CloudRank-D.     

用于麦克风阵列的阵元筛选方法研究

在使用TDOA算法进行被动声定向时,为精确获取麦克风阵列阵元之间接收声源信号的时间差,进而计算目标的方位角,麦克风阵元之间必须保持较高的相位一致性。而从论文与专利检索来看,目前还没有有效方法筛选出符合要求的麦克风阵元。针对此问题,本文基于麦克风阵列阵元相位一致性的指标,设计出麦克风阵元筛选系统,通过实测数据分析表明:一致性较高的麦克风更适合组建麦克风阵列。     

ActiveX技术在LabWindows/CVI中的应用

LabWindows/CVI是National Instruments公司开发的面向计算机测控领域的虚拟仪器软件开发平台。ActiveX是Microsoft公司的组件开发技术。LabWindows/CVI为支持ActiveX开发提供了相关工具。     

基于Linux VMware虚拟机的串口通信

嵌入式开发领域经常使用串口通信,但串口通信方式占用很多硬件资源,设备的利用率较低。文章研究了基于Linux VMware虚拟机进行串口通信的Use Physical Serial Port模式、Use Out File模式以及Use Named Pipe模式的功能和特点,给出了基于VMware构建串口通信环境的方法以及具体实现过程。     

基于Copula函数的洪水峰量联合设计方法研究

为明晰洪水峰量联合设计的特点,以岗南水库洪水为例,基于Gumbel Copula函数,分析了AND、OR、Kendall、生存Kendall 4种重现期的优缺点,采用极大似然法、同频率法、条件最可能组合法3种方法计算了联合设计值。结果表明: ①AND和OR重现期在危险域和安全域的识别上存在局限性;相对而言,Kendall重现期更合理,但其安全域是无界的,这与实际不符;生存Kendall重现期则界定了有界的安全域,使得重现期的概念在逻辑上更科学合理。② 3种设计值计算方法的差别不大,但从简单实用角度出发,推荐采用同频率法计算设计值。③不同重现期标准的设计值差别比较明显,基于OR重现期计算的设计值总是最大的,生存Kendall、Kendall重现期设计值次之,AND重现期设计值最小。④推荐采用生存Kendall重现期进行两变量洪水设计,因其有比较严谨的理论基础,且设计结果兼顾了安全性与经济性。⑤两变量联合设计值与单变量设计值的差异受变量间相关性的影响较大,且变量相关性越弱,差异越大。研究显示,基于生存Kendall重现期、采用同频率法计算设计值是目前较为科学合理的洪水峰量联合设计途径。