Affibody‐Conjugated RALA Polymers Delivering Oligomeric 5‐Fluorodeoxyuridine for Targeted Therapy of HER2 Overexpressing Gastric Cancer

Affibody‐conjugated RALA (affi‐RA) are designed for delivering oligomeric 5‐fluorodeoxyuridine (FUdR, metabolite of 5‐FU) strand to raise the selectivity of 5‐fluorouracil (5‐FU), decrease its toxicity and improve its suboptimal therapeutic efficacy. The nanodrugs, FUdR@affi‐RA, are spontaneously assembled by electrostatic interaction between positively charged affi‐RA and negatively charged FUdR₁₅‐strands (15 consecutive FUdR). FUdR@affi‐RA exhibits excellent stability under simulated physiological conditions. Compared with free FUdR, FUdR@affi‐RA shows excellent targeting and higher cytotoxicity in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) overexpressing gastric cancer N87 cells. Moreover, the anticancer mechanism studies reveal that FUdR@affi‐RA enhances the expression and activity of apoptosis‐associated proteins in the Bcl‐2/Bax‐caspase 8,9‐caspase 3 apoptotic pathway induced by FUdR. This study indicates that the fusion vector, affi‐RA, presents a promising delivery system platform for nucleoside analogue drugs and provides a new strategy for the development of therapeutics of cancer treatment.     

DYNAMICS OF A NONLINEAR NON-AUTONOMOUS n-PATCHES PREDATOR-PREY DISPERSION-DELAY MODEL

In this paper,a nonlinear nonautonomous predator-prey dispersion model with continuous distributed delay is studied,where all parameters are time-dependent.In this system consisting of n-patches the prey species can disperse among n-patches,but the predator species is confined to one patch and cannot disperse.It is proved that the system is uniformly persistent under any dispersion rate effect.Furthermore,some sufficient conditions are established for the existence of a unique almost periodic solution of the system.The example shows that the criteria in the paper are new,general and easily verifiable.     

LAMOST恒星光谱巡天与银河系恒星晕研究

星系的形成和演化问题是当今天体物理的前沿和核心。由于身居其中,而且可以对单个的恒星进行仔细的观测,银河系因此成为了研究星系的形成和演化乃至宇宙学的一个极重要样本。银河系的晕(包括恒星晕和暗物质晕)被证实具有非常复杂的结构,其中所蕴藏的信息使人们有可能揭示银河系的结构、形成和丰富的演化历史,其中的一些特殊天体可以用来探求银河系中央黑洞等当下天体物理的热点问题。LAMOST银河系恒星低分辨光谱巡天是迄今为止最大的同类观测项目,其形成的数据库非常适宜人们开展许多银河系结构和演化方面的工作。文章介绍了LAMOST银河系巡天在银晕和相关结构上正在开展的研究工作,并展示了一些早期的科学研究成果。     

Enhancing sound absorption using periodic micro-perforated structure with porous layer

To get desired sound absorption,we proposed a novel periodic composite structure comprised of micro-perforated plates(MPPs),porous materials and air cavities.The composite structure is then solved using an equivalent circuit model,with equivalent fluid porous model and Maa's theory.Distributed four-pole elements are used to handle structures which are not compact compared to the sound wavelength.The model procedures are validated and confirmed as satisfactory by published results and finite-element results.Analysis conducted on a single layer shows that,compared with traditional MPP,the porous addition can increase sound absorption in the low-to-medium frequency range;however,the advantage of porous materials in the high-frequency range is lost.Meanwhile,by arranging the porous materials in parallel and controlling their filling ratios,the absorption curve of the composite structure can be tuned.As to periodic composite structures,it is found that the influence of layer number N is mainly in the low-to-medium frequency range.When N varies,the half-absorption bandwidth increases over 40%(≥380 Hz) compared with a single layer.Compared with multi-layered MPPs,N=2 and N=4 produce an increase of bandwidth by 50%(≥400 Hz) and 30%(≥300 Hz) respectively.As N increases,the sound absorption is better but the enhancement weakens as it tends to the limit of the composite structure.These results show the potential enhancements that can be made to the traditional MPP,which can benefit the research on wideband noise reduction in the low-to-medium frequency range.     

Temperature dependence of the dual phosphorescence from xanthone in n-hexane matrices

The phosphoresence spectrum and lifetime of xanthone embedded in an n-hexane matrix has been investigated as a function of temperature (1·6-100 K). Vibrational analyses of the spectra reveal that emission occurs from three sites, two of which are dominant. Emission from one site (B) occurs from the ³ nπ* state of a planar xanthone molecule and is characterized by strong totally symmetric carbonyl stretching vibrations and a short lifetime (2·4 ms). Emission from the other site (C) is shown to arise from the ³ππ* state of an out-of-plane distorted xanthone molecule. It displays a vibrational structure rich in modes of a ₁, b ₁, and b ₂ (C _2v notation) symmetry and a long lifetime (115 ms). Both direct spin orbit coupling via configurational mixing of the nπ* and ππ* states due to the non-planarity of the molecule in its ³ππ* state and spin-orbit vibronic interaction involving ³ A ₁(ππ*)-¹ A ₂(nπ*) spin-orbit and ¹ A ₂(nπ*)-¹ B ₂(ππ*) vibronic interaction via out-of-plane b ₁ vibrations are shown to be responsible for the C site emission intensity. Vibronic mixing between the ³ππ* and ³ nπ* states is not important. With increasing temperature, the phosphorescence intensity from the B site (³ nπ*) emitters increases at first, reaches a maximum at ～20 K and then decreases. The C site (³ππ*) intensity simply decreases with rising temperature. At a given temperature, the phosphorescence lifetimes are identical and exponential for all emission bands regardless of site origin. These observations indicate an equilibrium between emitters in the two sites throughout the lattice. A phonon-assisted energy transfer mechanism is proposed to account for these observations.     

A method for calibrating the position error of phase retrieval with transverse translation diversity in optical wavefront measurement

We present a method for calibrating the position error of phase retrieval with transverse translation diversity in optical wavefront in situation where the position error sharply influences algorithm precision. This method involves testifying that the essence of the position error in phase retrieval is the translation in frequency domain and the minimum of iterative error against position error reaches when there is no position error. Then the least square method is used for fitting the relationship between the iterative error and the assumed position error in polynomial function. The computer simulations used to prove the validity of this method are described. The results indicated that this method can calibrate the position error to approximately 1/500 mm which nearly has no influence on the phase retrieval.     

锂离子进入碳纳米管端口速度的分子动力学模拟

锂离子进入碳纳米管端口的速度V Li是影响锂离子电池充电性能的重要因素.采用分子动力学模拟方法,研究了直径、温度、电场强度和端口改性官能团四种因子对其影响.运用正交实验方法,分析得出了各因子及其不同水平的影响规律.结果表明,四种因子的影响力度由大到小依次为:电场强度、官能团类型、碳纳米管直径和温度.在本文的模拟条件下,随着电场强度和碳纳米管直径的增大,V Li逐渐增加,且在电场强度下的增幅会更显著;碳纳米管端口官能团分别改性为氢原子(—H),羟基(—OH),氨基(—NH2)以及羧基(—COOH)时,V Li会逐步降低;随着温度的增大,V Li先增加后减小,但整体波动偏幅不大.     

Spatiotemporal propagation characteristics based on the exact solutions of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation by intensity moments

Based on the exact solutions of the (3 + 1)-dimensional ((3 + 1)D) generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation (GNLSE), we analyze the spatiotemporal propagation characteristics by intensity moments when a laser propagates in an inhomogeneous nonlinear medium. The different order intensity moment can describe the characteristics of a laser, and in the paper, the beam width (BW), the pulse width (PW), the skewness and the kurtosis parameter are calculated. The spatiotemporal propagation stability of the exact solutions is analyzed in detail by the second-order intensity moment. We find that when the diffraction and dispersion coefficients are the identical distributed functions, the BW and PW of the exact solutions are constants or vary periodically during nonlinear propagation. So, the spatiotemporal propagation of the exact solutions is stable. When the diffraction and dispersion coefficients are other coefficients, the BW and PW of the exact solutions vary irregularly due to the effect of a chirp. Thus the spatiotemporal propagation of the exact solutions is unstable. The results are helpful to the extendable investigation of nonlinear propagation and control of a laser pulse.     

Three dimensional steady subsonic Euler flows in bounded nozzles

The existence and uniqueness of three dimensional steady subsonic Euler flows in rectangular nozzles were obtained when prescribing normal component of momentum at both the entrance and exit. If, in addition, the normal component of the voriticity and the variation of Bernoulli's function at the entrance are both zero, then there exists a unique subsonic potential flow when the magnitude of the normal component of the momentum is less than a critical number. As the magnitude of the normal component of the momentum approaches the critical number, the associated flows converge to a subsonic–sonic flow. Furthermore, when the normal component of vorticity and the variation of Bernoulli function are both small, the existence and uniqueness of subsonic Euler flows with non-zero vorticity are established. The proof of these results is based on a new formulation for the Euler system, a priori estimate for nonlinear elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions, detailed study for a linear div–curl system, and delicate estimate for the transport equations.