Research about DNA composition has been concentrated on DNA damage in the past few decades. However, it still remains a great challenge to construct a rapid, facile, and accurate approach for simultaneously monitoring...
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Research about DNA composition has been concentrated on DNA damage in the past few decades. However, it still remains a great challenge to construct a rapid, facile, and accurate approach for simultaneously monitoring four DNA bases, guanine (G), adenine (A), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). Herein, a novel electrochemical sensor based on phenanthroimidazole derivative, 2-(4-bromophenyl)-1-phenyl-1H-phenanthro[9,10-d]-imidazole (PPI), is successfully fabricated by a simple electrochemical method. The bromophenyl group in PI could expand their aromatic plane, induce the pi-conjugated extension, and enhance the charge transfer and pi-pi interaction. The phenyl group at N1 position could regulate the intermolecular interaction, which could promote the possibility of intermolecular connection. The PPI polymer (poly(PPI)) with pi-electron enriched conjugation architecture has been applied in simultaneous determination of G, A, T, and C in neutral solution by square wave voltammetry (SWV) method with well-separated peak potentials at 0.714, 1.004, 1.177, and 1.353 V, respectively. The sensor functionalized with poly(PPI) exhibits wide linear response for G, A, T, and C in the concentration ranges of 3-300, 1-300, 30-800, and 20-750 mu M, respectively. With favorable selectivity, stability, and reproducibility, the sensor is successfully utilized to monitor four DNA bases in real samples, displaying a promising prospect for electrochemical sensing devices.
The immunological enhancement characteristics of the immunopotentiator CVC1302 were evaluated for foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) inactivated vaccine in pigs. Eight-week-old piglets were vaccinated with the foot-a...
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The immunological enhancement characteristics of the immunopotentiator CVC1302 were evaluated for foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) inactivated vaccine in pigs. Eight-week-old piglets were vaccinated with the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine alone (FMD-vaccine group) or with the addition of CVC1302 (FMD-CVC1302 group), and the serum liquid phase blocking ELISA (LPB-ELISA) antibody titers, IgG1 and IgG2 levels, and the levels of four cytokines secreted by peripheral blood lymphocytes were measured at 28 days post vaccination (dpv). In the FMD-CVC1302 group, the LPB-ELISA antibody titers, IgG1, and IgG2 titers, and IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, and IFN-gamma levels at 28 dpv were significantly higher than those in the FMD-vaccine group. The FMD-CVC1302 group had long-lasting antibody titers (>7.8 log(2)), lasting for at least 6 months. In addition, piglets were vaccinated with or without addition of CVC1302 to the FMD vaccine at three different doses (1, 1/3, and 1/9 of the standard vaccine dose) and the serum LPBELISA antibody and serum neutralizing (SN) antibody titers were detected at 28 dpv. Then all pigs were challenged with virulent FMDV for PD50 value, and the levels of FMDV-specific RNA copies for the two full-dose groups at 3 and 10 days post challenge (dpc) were measured. The LPB-ELISA and SN antibody titers for the three doses in the FMD-CVC1302 groups were significantly higher than those in the FMD-vaccine groups at the same doses (p < 0.05). Post-virus challenge, the FMDV-specific RNA copy number in the FMD-CVC1302 group was lower than that in the FMD-vaccine group at 3 and 10 dpc. The PD50 value was 15.85 for the FMD-CVC1302 group, which was obviously higher than that for the FMD-vaccine group (10.96), and in the 1/9-dose of FMD-vaccine group only 3/5 pigs were protected. These results indicate that CVC1302 can enhance the immune efficacy and protective ability of the FMD vaccine in pigs. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Network reconfiguration and demand response can both reduce the loss and improve the security of the distribution networks (DNs). In this paper, we describe a day-ahead DN reconfiguration schedule model considering de...
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(纸本)9781538656860
Network reconfiguration and demand response can both reduce the loss and improve the security of the distribution networks (DNs). In this paper, we describe a day-ahead DN reconfiguration schedule model considering demand response, in which network reconfiguration is conducted by distribution system operator (DSO) while the demand response strategies are realized by customer aggregators. To preserve information privacy and reduce computational burden, a two-level decomposition & coordination algorithm is proposed to solve this model, which is based on a log-barrier cost function. In the upper level, the DSO optimizes the network reconfiguration schedule, calculates the barrier cost of every load bus and then sends it to the corresponding customer aggregator. In the lower level, every customer aggregator exploits available controllable demands like heat pump (HP), electric vehicle (EV) to minimize the nodal daily cost based on the barrier cost calculated in DSO. Numerical tests verify the promising convergence of this decomposition algorithm and show a reduction of the total cost in DN.
To study the direct coal liquefaction in the isothermal stage of Shenhua Shendong bituminous coal, the direct coal liquefaction with an iron-based catalyst was carried out in a 0.01 ton/day continuous tubular facility...
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To study the direct coal liquefaction in the isothermal stage of Shenhua Shendong bituminous coal, the direct coal liquefaction with an iron-based catalyst was carried out in a 0.01 ton/day continuous tubular facility in the temperature range of 445-465 degrees C, with hydrogenated anthracene and wash oil as the solvent. An eight-lump kinetic model of the isothermal stage was proposed, and the kinetic parameters were estimated. The result showed that, in the isothermal stage, the oil was mainly obtained from pre-asphaltene and asphaltene (PAA) rather than from coal directly. The model was valid for the isothermal stage of direct coal liquefaction.
In recent decades, NGS data analysis has become a major research field in bioinformatics, which presents great advantages in many application scenarios. Many algorithms and software were designed for analyzing the NGS...
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(纸本)9781728118680
In recent decades, NGS data analysis has become a major research field in bioinformatics, which presents great advantages in many application scenarios. Many algorithms and software were designed for analyzing the NGS data, while simulation datasets are urgently needed for testing software and optimizing their parameter configurations. Thus, a series of NGS data simulators have been published. However, the existing simulators cannot satisfy the requirements from many specific scenarios. First, they do not support many newly discovered variations. Second, complex structural variations are difficult to generate. In addition, along with the increase of population data, it is urgent to increase population information simulation. In this paper, we propose GSDcreator, a comprehensive NGS simulator that overcome the three weaknesses mentioned above. It can produce all known types of variation, where the complex of variations are also supported. Furthermore, it can capture many important real data features including population polymorphism, insert size distribution, adjacent site depth distribution, overall depth distribution, quality score distribution, amplification bias, sequencing errors and so on. It's highlighted that 1000 Genomes Project Database is taken as a reference and integrates population genetic information to simulate population polymorphism. To test the performance, we did a lot of experiments and found that simulated data produced by GSDcreator are quit mimic to the real sequencing data.
Ti(C, N)-based cermets with different N/(C + N) ratios were prepared by vacuum sintering. The effect of nitrogen content on microstructure of Ti(C, N) based cermets was analyzed using a combination of the electron bac...
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Ti(C, N)-based cermets with different N/(C + N) ratios were prepared by vacuum sintering. The effect of nitrogen content on microstructure of Ti(C, N) based cermets was analyzed using a combination of the electron backscatter diffraction in a scanning electron microscope (EBSD/SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). The combination of XRD and SEM/BSE effectively showed the influence of the carbon and nitrogen contents on the core/rim microstructure features. EBSD maps gave a vivid image for hard phase grains, especially the carbonitride grain size distribution, orientation distribution and crack propagation. The combination of EBSD/SEM and TEM revealed a highly coherent interface between the core and rim. The carbonitride particle and the binder had a large high angle boundary and a coherent interface. A constant interface orientation of the carbonitride particle and binder was characterized. The major factors determining the transverse rupture strength and the fracture toughness were discussed in terms of the crack propagation. (C) 2016 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
<正>How the amount and nutritional composition of diets influence organismal development,fecundity and health are largely *** axenic chemically defined food *** maintenance medium(CeMM) is a powerful experiment ma...
<正>How the amount and nutritional composition of diets influence organismal development,fecundity and health are largely *** axenic chemically defined food *** maintenance medium(CeMM) is a powerful experiment material to study the impact of diet and nutrition on life-history traits such as growth and *** studies have shown that the eat-2 gene,
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