EFFECT OF DIETARY SORGHUM DISTILLERY RESIDUE ON HEMATOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURED GREY MULLET (MUGIL CEPHALUS)—AN ANIMAL MODEL FOR PRESCREENING ANTIOXIDANT AND BLOOD THINNING ACTIVITIES

The sorghum distillery residue (SDR) has been an underutilized by‐product with estimated production of 150 ton/day in Kinmen, Taiwan. The objective of this study was to test for any physiological effects of SDR, thus to utilize it as a nutraceutical feed ingredient in diets for cultured fish. Hot air‐dried, wet, and dehulled‐wet sorghum distillery residue showed 63%, 90% and 97% inhibition of the hemoglobin‐catalyzed oxidation of linoleic acid compared to soybean (13%) and rice bran (78%). The feed formulated with 20% wet or dehulled‐wet sorghum distillery residue both showed an antioxidant activity of 68% being higher than the control diet (53%). Feeding these diets to cultured grey mullet for 60 days in summer (temperature ranged 24–30C), resulted in a lower hydroperoxide content in gill tissue, as shown by a chemiluminesence intensity of 1806 or 1409 mV as opposed to 2666 mV for fish fed a control diet. In winter, when the water temperature decreased to 14C, grey mullet fed a diet consisting of 10% dehulled wet sorghum distillery residue had a blood viscosity of 1.9 mPas and a hematocrit value of 33%, in contrast to 3.6 mPas and 41% for control. The blood of the control group started to aggregate in 6 h and showed hemolysis, while the mullet fed dehulled, wet sorghum distillery residue did not show blood aggregation, maintained normal fluidity and erythrocyte membrane integrity. It seems that cultured fish may have the potential as an animal model for prescreening antioxidant and blood thinning effects of food ingredients.     

Effect of Forming Pressure on the Internal Structure of Alumina Green Bodies Examined with Immersion Liquid Technique

Green bodies prepared by compaction of alumina granules were made transparent by an immersion liquid technique, and the internal structure was characterized with an optical microscope to study the effect of forming pressure on the internal structure. Clear images obtained by the technique provide more detailed information than other existing methods for structures ranging from one to tens of micrometers. Intergranular pores were present between unfractured granules. Their sizes and concentration tended to decrease with increasing forming pressure. However, pores were clearly present even in the green body prepared at 600 MPa. A rod- and needlelike feature was also found and was concluded to correspond to a high-density region. The significance of large pores and high-density regions on processing as well as the details of the technique is discussed.     

Evaluation of Time-Intensity Sensory Responses using a Personal Computer

A method is presented which utilizes a personal computer to measure time-intensity (T-I) sensory responses. The judge uses a game paddle which moves an “X” along a fixed scale appearing on the monitor screen to indicate the attribute intensity at each instant in time. A clicker device on the game paddle can be used to record the occurrence of events such as initial mouth entry and time of swallowing. Data acquisition is continuous with the data stored on discs. This technique has advantages over strip chart recorder methods. Disc storage allows rapid and efficient data analysis. Judges can perform the evaluations virtually unsupervised with only minimal training.     

Development of a physics analysis procedure for the prismatic very high temperature gas-cooled reactors

A new physics analysis procedure has been developed for a prismatic very high temperature gas-cooled reactor based on a conventional two-step procedure for the PWR physics analysis. The HELIOS and MASTER codes were employed to generate the coarse group cross sections through a transport lattice calculation, and to perform the 3-dimensional core physics analysis by a nodal diffusion calculation, respectively. Physics analysis of the prismatic VHTRs involves particular modeling issues such as a double heterogeneity of the coated fuel particles, a neutron streaming in the coolant channels, a strong core-reflector interaction, and large spectrum shifts due to changes of the surrounding environment and state parameters. Double heterogeneity effect was considered by using a recently developed reactivity-equivalent physical transformation method. Neutron streaming effect was quantified through 3-dimensional Monte Carlo transport calculations by using the MCNP code. Strong core-reflector interaction could be handled by applying an equivalence theory to the generation of the reflector cross sections. The effects of a spectrum shift could be covered by optimizing the coarse energy group structure. A two-step analysis procedure was established for the prismatic VHTR physics analysis by combining all the methodologies described above. The applicability of our code system was tested against core benchmark problems. The results of these benchmark tests show that our code system is very accurate and practical for a prismatic VHTR physics analysis.     

比较CypherTM和TaxusTM支架在冠心病合并糖尿病患者中应用的安全性和有效性

背景与裸支架相比,药物洗脱支架可以显著降低冠心病合并糖尿病患者PCI术后再狭窄率和靶病变重建率.但目前尚未见关于直接比较雷帕霉素洗脱支架(CypherTM)和紫杉醇洗脱支架(TaxusTM)在治疗冠心病合并糖尿病患者中安全性和有效性的研究.目的观察和比较两种药物洗脱支架在冠心病合并糖尿病患者中应用的安全性和有效性.方法自2002年6月～2004年2月新加坡国立大学医院心脏中心所有置入Cypher或Taxus支架冠心病合并糖尿病患者,观察:术后6个月的主要不良心脏事件(包括死亡、心肌梗死、靶病变重建).结果     

Electron beam deposition and characterization of thin film Ti-Ni for shape memory applications

Thin film of Ti-Ni alloy has a potential to perform the microactuation functions required in the microelectromechanical system (MEMS).It is essential, however, to have good uniformity in both chemical composition and thickness to realize its full potential as an active component of MEMS devices.Electron beam evaporation technique was employed in this study to fabricate the thin films of Ti-Ni alloy on different substrates.The targets used for the evaporation were first prepared by electron beam melting.The uniformity of composition and microstructure of the thin films were characterized by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).The mechanical property of the thin films was evaluated by the nano-indentation test.The martensitic transformation temperature was measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).It is confirmed that the chemical composition of deposited thin films is identical to that of the target materials.Furthermore, results from depth profiling of the chemical composition variation reveal that the electron beam evaporation process yields better compositional homogeneity than other conventional methods such as sputtering and thermal evaporation.Microstructural observation by TEM shows that nanometer size precipitates are preferentially distributed along the grain boundaries of a few micron size grains.The hardness and elastic modulus of thin films decreases with an increase in Ti contents.     

感知风险对大学生网购服装满意度的影响

针对网购感知风险对大学生网购服装满意度影响关系,通过文献分析将网购感知风险要因划分为经济风险、性能风险、社会心理风险、隐私风险和时间风险5个下位要因,同时将满意度要因划分为产品满意度和使用满意度,在此基础上设定研究假设模型、编制问卷并展开调研.SPSS信度检验表明,感知风险的信度为0.812～0.898,满意度的信度为0.859～0.871.SPSS因子探索性分析结果表明:性能风险对感知风险的贡献率最大,为3.312;产品满足对满意度的贡献率最大,为2.232.AMOS验证表明:经济风险对产品满足的路径系数为0.22,关系显著;性能风险对满意度路径系数分别为0.68、0.81,关系显著;时间风险对满意度路径系数分别为0.20、0.51,关系显著;隐私风险对满意度路径系数分别为0.25、0.19,关系显著;其他假设关系不显著.研究结果可以为服装网购商城运营者提供顾客管理、产品构成和营销战略等参考.     

THE EFFECT OF FURNACE ATMOSPHERE DUE TO COMBUSTION UPON HYDROGEN CONTENT IN LIQUID STEEL

<正> 在炼钢过程中,炉气中水汽是钢液中含氢的主要来源。就平炉而言,除了空气湿度和炼钢原材料带入炉中的水分以外,还有煤气燃烧生成的水汽。根据过去的研究结果,由于空气湿度直接或间接引起的水汽分压,一般波动于0.01—0.08个大气压之间,而煤气燃烧废气中的水汽分压则经常在0.1个大气压以上,有时甚至可以超过0.2     

THE LOSS OF NON-METALLIC INCLUSIONS IN STEEL DURING ELECTROLYTIC SEPARATION

<正> 电解法分离钢中的非金属夹杂物已被确定为比较适合的方法之一,在苏联、我国以及有些别的国家都正广泛地采用着;可是最近Баталин和Розенфелд在考察电解法分离非金属夹杂物的准确性和适用性时,他们以硫酸亚铁为电解液,用铂作阳极,以纯MnO及流钢砖中渣膜作夹杂物,测出在电解过程中的损失量,最后得到的结果是前者几乎全部补溶解了,而后者的损失量也是很严重的,其中被溶解的MnO也达1/3以上。这个事实是不是就说明了电解分离钢中的夹杂物非常不可靠了呢,我们有进一步研究的必要。本文的目的仅说明非金属夹杂物在电解分离过程中被溶解的情形,但不能用以肯定电解分离及分析是完全可靠的,因为其中的其他步骤(如破坏碳化物)还可能引起严重的损失,我们还须要更深入的进行研究。