Regional characteristics of naturally occurring radionuclides in surface sediments of Chinese deserts and the Keum River area of Korea

Naturally occurring radionuclides (NORN) such as ⁴⁰K, ²²⁶Ra and ²³²Th from 44 surface sediment samples collected from four desert regions of Chinese were determined to investigate the regional characteristics of the source areas of Asian dust. The radionuclides for 41 surface sediment samples collected from seven sites of the Keum River area in Korea were also determined to compare the regional characteristics with the Chinese desert area. The specific activities (SA) and the specific activity ratios (SAR) of the radionuclides were investigated for distinguishing the source region of Asian dust. The SA of ²²⁶Ra and ²³²Th as well as the SAR of ²²⁶Ra/⁴⁰K and ²³²Th/⁴⁰K were found to be useful to characterize source area and tracing Asian dust.     

上甸子区域大气本底站NO2柱浓度光谱反演及其变化特征

为了探究京津冀本底浓度地区NO₂这一重要空气污染物的变化特征,采用多轴差分吸收光谱技术（MAX-DOAS）在上甸子区域大气本底站开展了太阳散射光谱观测以及NO₂柱浓度反演研究。在NO₂的405～430nm特征谱段进行了定量光谱解析,并通过几何近似法计算了2009年7～9月NO₂对流层垂直柱浓度（VCD_trop）。观测期间NO₂ VCD_trop平均值和最大值分别为5.43×1015和7.15×1016 molec·cm-2。NO₂ VCD_trop日均值浓度水平较低,但总体上有上升趋势。NO₂ VCD_trop变化过程与风速风向关系密切：西南风时风速越小NO₂ VCD_trop越低,东北风对NO₂ VCD_trop有扩散稀释作用。NO₂ VCD_trop日变化形态总体上呈现为中午时段低、早晚较高的特征,并且傍晚峰值比早间峰值略高。上甸子站NO₂ VCD_trop浓度水平和日变化幅度相比北京城区同期观测结果明显偏小。NO₂ VCD_trop变化特征与河北香河和固城等污染相对较轻站点观测到的变化特征相一致。总之,MAX-DOAS能够有效监测区域本底大气的NO₂ VCD_trop,其变化特征与工业和交通排放、大气光化学过程、大气传输等复杂因素有关,还需积累更多数据和深入研究。     

玉米作物多光谱图像精准分割与叶绿素诊断方法研究

为了快速获取大田玉米作物长势信息, 基于多光谱图像开展了大田玉米叶绿素指标的非破坏性诊断研究。应用自主开发的2-CCD多光谱图像感知系统, 在田间采集玉米冠层可见光［Blue(B), Green(G), Red(R);400～700 nm］和近红外(Near-infrared: NIR, 760～1 000 nm)图像, 并使用SPAD同步测量样本叶绿素指标。采集后图像经自适应平滑滤波处理后, 进行图像玉米植株提取。为了选择最优算法实现玉米植株与杂草、土壤背景的分割, 首先比较了最大类间方差(OTSU)分割算法和局部阈值处理分割算法, 选取了基于局部统计的可变阈值处理方法对玉米NIR图像进行初步分割, 进而采用区域标记算法进行精细分割, 分割准确率达95.59%。将分割结果应用于玉米植株可见光图像R, G, B各通道, 从而实现了玉米植株多光谱图像中可见光图像的整体分割。基于分割后R, G, B和NIR四个通道的玉米冠层图像, 提取了各通道图像灰度均值(ANIR, ARed, AGreen和ABlue)并计算了归一化植被指数(NDVI)、比值植被指数(RVI)和绿色归一化植被指数(NDGI)作为光谱特征参数, 建立了玉米冠层叶绿素指标诊断的偏最小二乘法回归模型。结果表明, 建模R2达0.596 0, 预测R2达0.568 5, 该方法通过玉米多光谱图像特征参数评估叶片叶绿素含量, 可为大田玉米长势监测提供支持。     

Efficiency of the medical care industry: Evidence from the Italian regional system

What might be the relation between clinical research and efficiency of medical care suppliers? Is the hypothesis of a positive relation consistent? Considering efficiency as the supplier’s ability to maximize the number of patients hospitalized in a mobility process among regions (i.e. mobility balance), this work aims at highlighting the existence of a positive externality of pharmaceutical clinical research on that kind of efficiency. In other words, an externality is able to affect the patients’ perception of good/bad quality of outputs supplied by the medical care industry, leading their mobility process. Taking Italy and the mobility of patients among regions into account, an Operational Research study will be performed in order to support this assumption.The goal of this work is to show an alternative way to increase the efficiency of medical care suppliers on the market of health care, that is to say, through their competitiveness on the market of human experimentation.     

Sevoflurane and nitrous oxide increase regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and regional cerebral blood volume (rCBV) in a drug-specific manner in human volunteers

Anesthesia for diagnostic procedures, e.g., MRI measurements, has increasingly used sevoflurane and nitrous oxide in recent years. Sevoflurane and nitrous oxide are known cerebrovasodilatators, however, which potentially interferes with MRI examination of cerebral hemodynamics. To compare the effects of relevant equianesthetic concentrations (0.4 MAC) of both drugs on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and regional cerebral blood volume (rCBV) we used contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) perfusion measurement, which has the advantage of providing regional anatomic resolution.

Sevoflurane increased rCBF more than did nitrous oxide in all regions except in parietal and frontal gray matter. Nitrous oxide, by contrast, increased rCBV in most of the gray matter regions more than did sevoflurane. In summary we show that, in contrast to nitrous oxide, sevoflurane supratentorially reversed the anterior-posterior gradient in rCBF and typically redistributed rCBF to infratentorial gray matter. In contrast, nitrous oxide increased rCBV more than did sevoflurane. Both inhalational anesthetics had a drug-specific influence on cerebral hemodynamics, which is of importance when interpreting MRI studies of cerebral hemodynamics in anesthetized patients.     

近红外光谱监测体外循环手术中脑组织氧合状况的研究

体外循环手术中,为防止因脑氧供需失衡导致脑缺氧,就要实时监测患者局部脑组织的氧合状况,以根据其变化调整生理参数或采取应急手段。用该研究小组自行研制的近红外仪器(使用一个双波长的近红外光源和两个近红外检测器)监测心脏手术中患者的脑氧,可以求出局部脑组织血红蛋白浓度的变化,并根据稳态空间分辨光谱(SRS)算法求出局部脑组织的氧饱和度(rSO₂)。体外循环中用监护仪监测患者的混合静脉血氧饱和度(SvO₂)等生理参数。测得的血红蛋白浓度变化容易受到干扰,而rSO₂的抗干扰性能较好。rSO₂在整个手术过程中都可以监测到,而SvO₂只能在体外循环过程中监测到。多数患者rSO₂和SvO₂存在正向相关性,但二者的相关系数并不很高。这是因为SvO₂是大静脉的血氧饱和度,而测得的rSO₂反映局部脑组织的氧合状况,二者的生理意义不同。实验结果表明,体外循环手术中rSO₂可以反映患者脑组织氧合状况的变化,而仅仅监测SvO₂是不够的。     

The Inequality Between Two Distributions: Applications to the Analysis of Diversity Data

A new measure called diversity difference is proposed for the inequality of a pair of distributions. The diversity difference measure satisfies eight properties of a measure of inequality. This measure is simple to calculate and provides easily interpreted results.Existing inequality measures examine the distribution of a single variable whose data are arranged in a monotonic order. The new measure can employ multiple variables and does not require each to be monotonic but can be used if the data happen to be monotonic. The pair of distributions is useful for organizational diversity data because one of the distributions represents the actual proportions of employees in any class or set of classes and the other distribution is the benchmark or anchoring distribution. Data from the measure can be displayed in diversity difference trees for quick interpretation.The diversity difference measure can be arranged to define a Lorenz curve. An example with three classes (gender, race, and age) is employed to provide examples of the measure, the resulting Lorenz curve, and the disparity ratio.     

江苏区域经济差距探析

苏南,苏中,苏北地区自然条件相差不大,但是经济发展水平却存在较大差异.从苏南,苏中,苏北2001年有关经济数据入手,利用灰色系统理论,通过一些经济指标及相关因素的横向分析和对比,找出主要影响因素.再利用十个主要城市的数据,建立计量经济模型,来探求江苏区域经济发展水平差距的原因.最后对缩小这一差距提出相关建议.     

Infrared band intensities: a comparative study of the transition moment matrix elements for the fundamental and overtones: Part II. Application to CO,HCl and OH

The various expressions considered in Part I for the transition moment matrix elements of fundamental and first two overtones are applied to carbon monoxide. The coefficients a_ij in the expressions R^io = Σa_ijp_j (where R^io is the transition moment integral for the O → i vibrational transition and p_j is the dipole moment derivative ?^jP/?XXX^j, XXX = (r — r_e)/r_e, r_e is equilibrium bond distance) are reported for i,j = 1, 2, 3. It is found that these coefficients do not vary by more than 5% when compared for the same i,j values in various expressions irrespective of the most exhaustive treatments used in deriving the original expressions. On the basis of the values of the coefficients obtained for CO, generalisations have been suggested on the effects of inclusion of mechanical and electrical anharmonicity to the intensities of fundamental and first two overtones. It is generally observed that the contribution of p'₁, is about 100 fold more than the contribution of p'₂, for R¹⁰. On the other hand the contributions of p'₁, and p, for R²⁰ and R³⁰ are of nearly equal magnitude but opposite in sign. The contribution of p'₁ to R¹⁰ is much higher than its contribution to R²⁰ and R²⁰. The various observations lead us to conclude that, whereas the effect of inclusion of mechanical anharmonicity on the intensity of the fundamental band is negligible, this effect is almost comparable to the effect of inclusion of electrical anharmonicity for the first two overtones. Simple forms of the a_ij expressions are applied to HC1 and OH to demonstrate the effect of variation of molecular constants on the a_ij values. On the basis of the observed trend in the values of these coefficients for CO, HCl and OH general remarks on the effects of hydrogen bonding on IR band intensities are given.     

宝石能谱CT对胃癌区域淋巴结转移的诊断价值

目的 研究宝石能谱CT（gemstone spectral CT,GSCT）对胃癌区域淋巴结转移的诊断价值。方法 回顾分析52例胃镜下组织学活检证实为胃癌并行GSCT（GSCT 组,24 例）或双源CT（dual source CT,DSCT）（DSCT 组,28 例）的患者,两组除常规CT增强检查外,GSCT在动脉期应用能谱成像GSI（gemstone spectral imaging）软件,获得区域转移淋巴结与胃癌病变的能谱衰减曲线,对比分析两组CT结果与术后病理结果符合率及GSCT 对转移淋巴结评估的准确性。结果 通过计算淋巴结大小、CT 值差值及短长径比值的方法,GSCT 组评估淋巴结转移与病理符合率高于DSCT 组（P＜0.05）;胃癌及转移淋巴结能谱分析结果无统计学差异（P≥0.05）。结论 GSCT 检查胃癌区域淋巴结转移与病理结果的一致性高于DSCT;GSCT可对胃癌术前转移淋巴结进行详细判断,并对术前评估提供了理论依据和技术支持,具有重要的临床应用价值。