木马病毒传播数学模型研究

随着网络行为同社会行为联系的进一步密切,网络攻击的最终目的越来越多地落在获取具体的经济意义上.病毒制造者和传播者在巨大利益的驱使下,利用木马技术进行各种网络盗窃、诈骗活动.计算机网络病毒传播模型是研究计算机网络病毒的手段和工具之一,根据木马病毒的特点,建立了木马病毒的数学模型,研究了影响病毒传播的参数及对应措施.     

Whole‐Genome Sequencing of a Single Viral Species from a Highly Heterogeneous Sample

Metagenomic studies suggest that only a small fraction of the viruses that exist in nature have been identified and studied. Characterization of unknown viral genomes is hindered by the many genomes populating any virus sample. A new method is reported that integrates drop‐based microfluidics and computational analysis to enable the purification of any single viral species from a complex mixed virus sample and the retrieval of complete genome sequences. By using this platform, the genome sequence of a 5243 bp dsDNA virus that was spiked into wastewater was retrieved with greater than 96 % sequence coverage and more than 99.8 % sequence identity. This method holds great potential for virus discovery since it allows enrichment and sequencing of previously undescribed viruses as well as known viruses.     

Clickable functionalization of liposomes with the gH625 peptide from Herpes simplex virus type I for intracellular drug delivery

Liposomes externally modified with the nineteen residues gH625 peptide, previously identified as a membrane‐perturbing domain in the gH glycoprotein of Herpes simplex virus type I, have been prepared in order to improve the intracellular uptake of an encapsulated drug. An easy and versatile synthetic strategy, based on click chemistry, has been used to bind, in a controlled way, several copies of the hydrophobic gH625 peptide on the external surface of 1,2‐dioleoyl‐sn‐glycero‐3‐phosphocholine (DOPG)‐based liposomes. Electron paramagnetic resonance studies, on liposomes derivatized with gH625 peptides, which are modified with the 2,2,6,6‐tetramethylpiperidine‐1‐oxyl‐4‐amino‐4‐carboxylic acid (TOAC) spin label in several peptide positions, confirm the positioning of the coupled peptides on the liposome external surface, whereas dynamic light scattering measurements indicate an increase of the diameter of the liposomes of approximately 30 % after peptide introduction. Liposomes have been loaded with the cytotoxic drug doxorubicin and their ability to penetrate inside cells has been evaluated by confocal microscopy experiments. Results suggest that liposomes functionalized with gH625 may act as promising intracellular targeting carriers for efficient delivery of drugs, such as chemotherapeutic agents, into tumor cells.     

Unusual properties of icosahedral boron-rich solids

Icosahedral boron-rich solids are materials containing boron-rich units in which atoms reside at an icosahedron's 12 vertices. These materials are known for their exceptional bonding and the unusual structures that result. This article describes how the unusual bonding generates other distinctive and useful effects. In particular, radiation-induced atomic vacancies and interstitials spontaneously recombine to produce the “self-healing” that underlies these materials’ extraordinary radiation tolerance. Furthermore, boron carbides, a group of icosahedral boron-rich solids, possess unusual electronic, magnetic and thermal properties. For example, the charge carriers, holes, localize as singlet pairs on icosahedra. The unusual origin of this localization is indicated by the absence of a concomitant photo-ionization. The thermally assisted hopping of singlet pairs between icosahedra produces Seebeck coefficients that are unexpectedly large and only weakly dependent on carrier concentration. These properties are exploited in devices: (1) long-lived high-power high-capacity beta-voltaic cells, (2) very high temperature thermoelectrics and (3) solid-state neutron detectors.     

A multistep flux-corrected transport scheme

A multistep flux-corrected transport (MFCT) scheme is developed to achieve conservative and monotonic tracer transports for multistep dynamical cores. MFCT extends Zalesak two-time level scheme to any multistep time-differencing schemes by including multiple high-order fluxes in the antidiffusive flux, while computing the two-time level low-order monotone solution. The multistep time-differencing scheme used in this study is the third-order Adams–Bashforth (AB3) scheme implemented in a finite-volume icosahedral shallow-water model. The accuracy of AB3 MFCT is quantified by the shape-preserving advection experiments in non-divergent flow, as well as a cosine bell whose shape changes during advection in shear flow. AB3 MFCT has been shown to be insensitive to time step size. This make AB3 MFCT an attractive transport scheme for explicit high resolution model applications with small time step. MFCT is tested in shallow-water model simulations to demonstrate that the use of MFCT maintains positive-definite tracer transport, while at the same time conserving both fluid mass and tracer mass within round-off errors in the AB3 dynamic core.     

Hybrid Polymeric Systems for Nano-Selective Counter Intervention in Virus Life Cycle

Self assembly of viral biopolymers to nano-complexes forming virions during virus delivery from infected cell and reverse disintegration to virus entry into new cells play a crucial role in viral life cycle and in viral diseases. Therefore artificial instruments for selective counter intervention into these processes are dramatically required for the high effective antiviral protection. Hybrid macromolecular systems (HMS) rationally integrating heterogeneous structure-functional factors for selective recognition - inhibition of viruses (nano-objects) without detriment for cells (micro-objects) can become a molecular basis for cardinal progress in this area. Here we discuss approaches to design and current experimental results of synthesis, and antiviral selectivity evaluations of the HMS, based on combinations of polyelectrolyte-grafted components constructed on principles of mimicry and/or complementarity to viral targets or virus-sensitive cell receptors. Particularly, the HMS generations strongly inhibiting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were created as platform to novel drug development against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.