Crystalline quartz has long been identified as among the weakest of abundant crustal minerals. This weakness is particularly evident around the α–β phase inversion at 573°C, in which Si–O bonds undergo a displacive structural transformation from trigonal to hexagonal symmetry. Here we present data using indentation testing methodologies that highlight the precipitous extent of the transformational weakening. Although the indentations are localized over relatively small specimen contact areas, the data quantify the essential deformation and fracture properties of quartz in a predominantly (but not exclusively) compressive stress field, at temperatures and pressures pertinent to conditions in the earth's crust. 相似文献
Romanian policy makers have to perceive that human intervention on river basins land cover is influencing rainfall-runoff relation and the used methodology cannot accurately estimate watershed surface flow transformations. Global water cycles and energy fluxes understanding is leading to better predictions of land atmosphere interaction and local hydro-climates evolution. The water transfer time determination from rainfall to runoff needs accurate measurements of river basins hydrological parameters. Here, we analyzed and compared the lag time value results of two different methodologies (curve number and rational methodology) used for 54 Romanian small catchment areas study. The focus of this paper is the lag time evaluation and interpretation for an effective implementation of the best methodology approach in the Romanian geographical space. Our research in small river basins was developed using remote sensing technology maps, GIS and environmental datasets in combination with field work on every drainage basin in order to assess the specific morphological features and validate the land cover typology. We found that Soil Conservation Service - Curve Number (SCS-CN) method is widely used according to USA landscape features classification, but not necessarily applicable to Romanian river basins characteristics. Our results show how the official Romanian rational methodology national standard (RNS) can be improved and the limits of SCS-CN method.
Crossover designs are an extremely useful tool to investigators, and group sequential methods have proven highly proficient at improving the efficiency of parallel group trials. Yet, group sequential methods and crossover designs have rarely been paired together. One possible explanation for this could be the absence of a formal proof of how to strongly control the familywise error rate in the case when multiple comparisons will be made. Here, we provide this proof, valid for any number of initial experimental treatments and any number of stages, when results are analyzed using a linear mixed model. We then establish formulae for the expected sample size and expected number of observations of such a trial, given any choice of stopping boundaries. Finally, utilizing the four-treatment, four-period TOMADO trial as an example, we demonstrate that group sequential methods in this setting could have reduced the trials expected number of observations under the global null hypothesis by over 33%. 相似文献
Three-dimensional models, or pharmacophores, describing Euclidean constraints on the location on small molecules of functional
groups (like hydrophobic groups, hydrogen acceptors and donors, etc.), are often used in drug design to describe the medicinal
activity of potential drugs (or ‘ligands’). This medicinal activity is produced by interaction of the functional groups on
the ligand with a binding site on a target protein. In identifying structure-activity relations of this kind there are three
principal issues: (1) It is often difficult to “align” the ligands in order to identify common structural properties that
may be responsible for activity; (2) Ligands in solution can adopt different shapes (or `conformations’) arising from torsional
rotations about bonds. The 3-D molecular substructure is typically sought on one or more low-energy conformers; and (3) Pharmacophore
models must, ideally, predict medicinal activity on some quantitative scale. It has been shown that the logical representation
adopted by Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) naturally resolves many of the difficulties associated with the alignment and
multi-conformation issues. However, the predictions of models constructed by ILP have hitherto only been nominal, predicting
medicinal activity to be present or absent. In this paper, we investigate the construction of two kinds of quantitative pharmacophoric
models with ILP: (a) Models that predict the probability that a ligand is “active”; and (b) Models that predict the actual
medicinal activity of a ligand. Quantitative predictions are obtained by the utilising the following statistical procedures
as background knowledge: logistic regression and naive Bayes, for probability prediction; linear and kernel regression, for
activity prediction. The multi-conformation issue and, more generally, the relational representation used by ILP results in
some special difficulties in the use of any statistical procedure. We present the principal issues and some solutions. Specifically,
using data on the inhibition of the protease Thermolysin, we demonstrate that it is possible for an ILP program to construct
good quantitative structure-activity models. We also comment on the relationship of this work to other recent developments
in statistical relational learning.
Editors: Tamás Horváth and Akihiro Yamamoto 相似文献
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is frequently associated with severe periodontitis. Many periodontitis patients have elevated levels of serum IgG antibodies to A. actinomycetemcomitans, but the role of these antibodies is unknown. This study evaluated the functional capacity of anti-A. actinomycetemcomitans IgG antibody to enhance phagocytosis of A. actinomycetemcomitans by polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Chemoluminescence assays were done using sera from 64 subjects, 61 of whom had severe periodontitis; results were compared with the subject's anti-A. actinomycetemcomitans IgG titer and avidity. There was a strong correlation between chemoluminescence and antibody log titer (P < .00001) and a weak correlation between chemoluminescence and antibody avidity (P < .05). The results support the hypothesis that anti-A. actinomycetemcomitans IgG antibodies are important in promoting phagocytosis and killing of A. actinomycetemcomitans. Subjects who develop high levels of highly avid antibodies against A. actinomycetemcomitans may have greater resistance to continued or repeated infection by this pathogen. 相似文献