Formation of nano-patterned protein layers on poly (lactic acid) surface: Induced by dewetting process and self-assembly

A simple method was developed to fabricate nano-patterned protein layers on poly (lactic acid) (PLA) surface by dewetting method. It was found that nano-patterned protein layers were formed on PLA surface by slow drying in high humidity. The influence of wettability and viscoelastic properties of substrates were also investigated. As a result, typical spinodal dewetting patterns formed for BSA. However, network structures were obtained for collagen at acidic condition and well-oriented fibrils at neutral pH. It was attributed to dewetting on hydrophobic substrate as well as the plasticity and variety of collagen self-assemblies.     

论接续型乡村规划及实践要点

我国曾长期是一个农业社会，农 村是整个社会的主体，尽管现在仍处在向 城市时代过渡的高峰期，但乡村规划及其建 设依然具有重要意义。综合各种情况，接续 型乡村规划应成为当代中国乡村规划的主流 模式。这种兼顾继承与创新的规划，具有 延续文脉、有机更新、成本低廉等优势。在 运用该种规划模式时，要尊重乡村的内在空 间肌理及历史沿革，突出与彰显人文特征， 使用与乡村规模相适宜的小尺度，关注乡村 社会经济的当代转型等。     

Crush testing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Abstract

The dynamic crush test is required in the certification testing of some small type B transportation packages. International Atomic Energy Agency regulations state that the test article must be ‘subjected to a dynamic crush test by positioning the specimen on the target so as to suffer maximum damage’. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Transportation Technologies Group performs testing of type B transportation packages, including the crush test, at the National Transportation Research Center in Knoxville, TN, USA. This paper documents ORNL’s experiences performing crush tests on several different type B packages.     

Continuous salt precipitation and separation from supercritical water. Part 2. Type 2 salts and mixtures of two salts

Using a continuously operated laboratory plant for the catalytic hydrothermal gasification of biomass featuring a supercritical water salt separator we investigated the separation performance of three different binary type 2 salt-water mixtures and three ternary salt-water mixtures that consisted either of two type 1 salts or two type 2 salts dissolved in water. It turned out that a concentrated salt brine could not be recovered at the salt separator for the binary type 2 salt-water mixtures of Na₂CO₃, Na₂SO₄, and K₂SO₄. These salts precipitate as solids from supercritical water and thus lead to salt deposits inside the salt separator vessel.The ternary mixtures of two type 1 salts dissolved in water (KH₂PO₄-K₂HPO₄-H₂O and three different mixtures of NaNO₃-K₂CO₃-water) exhibited a separation performance similar to the binary solutions of type 1 salts that were discussed in Part 1 of this article. However, the mixtures showed separation performances that were different from the corresponding single salt solutions.It was also possible to recover a concentrated brine when feeding solutions containing the two type 2 salts Na₂CO₃ and K₂SO₄. For these mixtures a certain amount of the type 1 salt K₂CO₃ might form in supercritical water leading to salt separation efficiencies up to 95% for these mixtures.     

Stress, race, and body weight.

Objective: Stress has been identified as a significant factor in health and in racial/ethnic health disparities. A potential mediator in these relationships is body weight. Design: Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between stress, race, and body weight were examined in an ethnically diverse sample of overweight and obese women with Type 2 diabetes (n = 217) enrolled in a behavioral weight loss program. Main Outcome Measures: Stress (Perceived Stress Scale) was assessed at baseline only and body weight (body mass index) was assessed at baseline and 6 months. Results: Stress was not related to baseline body weight. With every 1 unit lower scored on the baseline stress measure, women lost 0.10 kg ± .04 more at 6 months (p     

Type D personality and the development of PTSD symptoms: A prospective study.

Psychological trauma and prolonged stress may cause mental disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Pretrauma personality is an important determinant of posttraumatic adjustment. Specifically, trait neuroticism has been identified as a risk factor for PTSD. Additionally, the combination of high negative affectivity or neuroticism with marked social inhibition or introversion, also called Type D personality (Denollet, 2000), may compose a risk factor for PTSD. There is no research available that examined pretrauma Type D personality in relation to PTSD. The present study examined the predictive validity of the Type D personality construct in a sample of Dutch soldiers. Data were collected prior to and 6 months after military deployment to Afghanistan. Separate multiple regression analyses were performed to examine the predictive validity of Type D personality. First, Type D personality was defined as the interaction between negative affect and social inhibition (Na × Si). In a second analysis, Type D was defined following cutoff criteria recommended by Denollet (2000). Results showed that negative affectivity was a significant predictor of PTSD symptoms. Social inhibition and the interaction Na × Si did not add to the amount of explained variance in postdeployment PTSD scores over the effects of childhood abuse, negative affectivity, and prior psychological symptoms. A second analysis showed that Type D personality (dichotomous) did not add to the amount of explained variance in postdeployment PTSD scores over the effects of childhood abuse, and prior psychological symptoms. Therefore, Type D personality appears to be of limited value to explain development of combat-related PTSD symptoms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ni-MH电池负极材料的产业化

本文叙述了Ni-MH电池的产业化现状,AB_5型储氢合金的生产与质量保证及研究与开发的新趋势。     

利用JDBC类型4驱动程序远程存取SQL Server 2000 BLOB数据

介绍SQLServer2000BLOB对象的概念,实现了用JDBC类型4驱动程序远程存取SQLServer2000BLOB对象。     

Type Checking for JavaScript

JavaScript is a powerful imperative object based language made popular by its use in web pages. It supports flexible program development by allowing dynamic addition of members to objects. Code is dynamically typed: a runtime access to a non-existing member causes an error.We suggest a static type system for JavaScript that will detect such type errors. Therefore, programmers can benefit from the flexible programming style offered by JavaScript and from the safety offered by a static type system.We demonstrate our type system with a formalism of JavaScript, JS₀. Our types are structural. Members of an object type are classified into definite and potential. A potential member becomes definite upon assignment. We outline a proof that our type system is sound.     

Syntactic control of concurrency

We consider a finitary procedural programming language (finite data-types, no recursion) extended with parallel composition and binary semaphores. Having first shown that may-equivalence of second-order open terms is undecidable we set out to find a framework in which decidability can be regained with minimum loss of expressivity. To that end we define an annotated type system that controls the number of concurrent threads created by terms and give a fully abstract game semantics for the notion of equivalence induced by typable terms and contexts. Finally, we show that the semantics of all typable terms, at any order and in the presence of iteration, has a regular-language representation and thus the restricted observational equivalence is decidable.