The role of epidemiology in cancer prevention

1. ISA Brown and Shaver 288 pullets were changed from 8 h to 8, 10, 13 or 16 h photoperiods at 42, 63, 84, 105, 126 or 142 d of age. 2. Age at first egg (AFE) was curvilinearly affected by the size and timing of the change in photoperiod. AFE was advanced most by a photoperiod change from 8 to 13 h made at 63 or 84 d. ISA birds were generally more responsive than Shaver to the photoperiod changes. 3. Longer photoperiods significantly increased survivors' egg production, but decreased liveability to 504 d. so that eggs per hen housed were unaffected. Retarding AFE by 10 d reduced survivors' egg numbers by 7.0, but increased mean egg weight by 1.26 g. Egg output by Shaver birds was unaffected by AFE, but that of ISA was curvilinearly affected, with an apogee at an AFE of 135 d. In both breeds, egg weight and egg output were greater following an early or late, rather than a mid-term photostimulation. 4. Photoperiod significantly increased mean daily food intake during lay by 1.26 g/h. A 10 d retardation in AFE resulted in a reduction in food intake of 1 g/d. Efficiency of food conversion deteriorated according to the square of the photoperiod, and changed curvilinearly according to age at photostimulation. Food conversion efficiency improved by 0.05 g/g for each 10 d delay in AFE. 5. Shell quality was unaffected by AFE, but deteriorated with increasing photoperiod and was curvilinearly affected by age at photostimulation with the smallest shell weights associated with photostimulation at 63 d. The incidence of double-yolked (DY) egg production increased with photoperiod and decreased with delayed photostimulation. There was an exponential regression of DY eggs on AFE. 6. Body weight at first egg increased by 75 g/d delay in AFE, but body weight at 504 d of age was unaffected by AFE, photoperiod or age at photostimulation. Body weight gain during lay increased by 15 g/h increase in photoperiod, decreased by 6 g per 10 d delay in photostimulation and by 40 g per 10 d delay in AFE. Fat content at 504 d increased by about 10 g/kg and by 23 g/bird for each 10 d delay in AFE. 7. Mortality in lay increased by 0.8%/h increase in photoperiod, but was unaffected by either age at photostimulation or AFE.     

A neuronal ryanodine receptor mediates light-induced phase delays of the circadian clock

Circadian clocks are complex biochemical systems that cycle with a period of approximately 24 hours. They integrate temporal information regarding phasing of the solar cycle, and adjust their phase so as to synchronize an organism's internal state to the local environmental day and night. Nocturnal light is the dominant regulator of this entrainment. In mammals, information about nocturnal light is transmitted by glutamate released from retinal projections to the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus. Clock resetting requires the activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors, which mediate Ca2+ influx. The response induced by such activation depends on the clock's temporal state: during early night it delays the clock phase, whereas in late night the clock phase is advanced. To investigate this differential response, we sought signalling elements that contribute solely to phase delay. We analysed intracellular calcium-channel ryanodine receptors, which mediate coupled Ca2+ signalling. Depletion of intracellular Ca2+ stores during early night blocked the effects of glutamate. Activators of ryanodine receptors induced phase resetting only in early night; inhibitors selectively blocked delays induced by light and glutamate. These findings implicate the release of intracellular Ca2+ through ryanodine receptors in the light-induced phase delay of the circadian clock restricted to the early night.     

Recurrent Meesmann''s corneal epithelial dystrophy after penetrating keratoplasty

Endoscopic treatment of chronic pancreatitis has drawn benefits from endoscopic procedures previously described for the main bile duct. Endotherapy is developing throughout the world. Cyst drainage procedures certainly represent the largest step forward in that non-surgical approach, whatever it is either direct (through the stomach or the duodenum) or indirect through the papilla in the duodenum. This procedure gives similar results to surgery with a lower morbidity. Pancreatic duct drainage associated with stone clearance is feasible and provides good results which have not yet been compared with those obtained thanks to surgery. Nonetheless, when the duct is not widely dilated it has been proven to be a satisfactory alternative to surgery. By contrast, chronic cholestasis does not appear to be a good indication of endotherapy.     

糖姜甘薯脯的研制

以鲜姜、甘薯为主要原料研制糖姜甘薯脯,分别对成品的护色、硬化及风味等工艺条件进行了研究,所得产品风味独特、营养丰富.实验所得的最佳配方为:0.3%的亚硫酸氢钠,0.5%的明矾溶液,9%的鲜姜,0.03%柠檬酸和一定量糖.     

基于安全人机学的驾驶作业疲劳评价模型研究

驾驶作业涉及人-汽车-环境,是较复杂的半自动化人机系统,驾驶作业疲劳是由多种因素造成的,对其评价存在不确定性.建立一种多因素多等级的评价模型,对驾驶作业疲劳程度进行总体评价,对致劳因素进行排序,为驾驶疲劳的评价及预防和减轻驾驶疲劳提供一种方法.     

基于多元目标的主成分分析的热岛效应成因研究——以西安市为例

城市热岛效应作为城市化进程的负效应,其成因具有复杂性和地域性特征.以西安市为例,基于多元目标分析的主成分方法定量计算了不同影响因子对西安市热岛效应的贡献度大小,并以此为基础,最终筛选了城市人口、人均拥有道路面积、人均拥有机动车数、人均绿化面积、建成区面积、降水量及平均风速7个主要因素作为西安市热岛效应的主要成因;最后,从调整城市规划思路、控制工业热源、调控民用热源等三个方面为出发点构建了应对西安市热岛效应的宏观调控体系,其内容由3个一级指标、12个二级指标和5个三级指标构成.对应对和缓解西安市热岛效应具有积极的指导意义,也为其它城市应对热岛效应提供范式参考.     

脉冲激光电源中的全枯相移零电压变换器（ZVT）

讨论了负载短路和开路情况下实现零电压软开关的策略，并以所研制的由IGBT做为开关器件的9kW（峰值功率）全桥ZVT脉冲激光电源为例进行了说明。     

圆锯片综合特性检测系统的硬件设计

圆锯片综合特性检测系统是根据国内外学者的圆锯片适张研究成果和频谱分析、坐标映射的理论,综合计算机技术、传感器技术、信号调理技术和数据采集处理技术来开发的,检测系统软件是Visual C 开发,在Win32环境下运行.整个检测系统操作简便、人机界面友好、具有较强数据管理功能,能在工业现场条件下快速、准确、无损地检测圆锯片适张状态.     

Spark环境下基于多维布隆过滤器的星型连接算法

为了适应联机分析处理(OLAP)系统中实时数据高性能分析需求不断提高的需求,提出一种能够适合Spark环境并结合多维Bloom Filter(MDBF)的星型连接算法SMDBFSJ。首先,根据多个维表构建MDBF,利用其占用空间小的特点,广播到所有节点;然后,在本地节点完成事实表过滤操作,事实表不需要在节点间移动数据;最后,过滤后的事实表与维表采用重划分方式进行连接,进而得到最终结果。SMDBFSJ算法避免了事实表数据移动,通过MDBF减小了需要广播的数据量,充分结合了广播连接和重划分连接的优势。实验结果表明了该算法的有效性,在单机和集群环境下,该算法相比重划分连接均获得了3倍左右的性能提升。     

PRACTICAL INCONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT FOR CRITICAL-TASKS DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Abstract

In this paper, the problem of logical consistency in critical-tasks decision systems is addressed. It is shown how local search techniques can be used to check the (in)consistency of very large propositional knowledge bases (KBs). Using new heuristic findings. we can now implement efficient forms of diagnostic reasoning in the context of very large ICBs modeling deep models of complex devices and including patterns of default reasoning.