Comprehensive Profiling by Non-targeted Stable Isotope Tracing Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry: A New Tool Complementing Metabolomic Analyses of Polar Metabolites

Mass spectrometry (MS) driven metabolomics is a frequently used tool in various areas of life sciences; however, the analysis of polar metabolites is less commonly included. In general, metabolomic analyses lead to the detection of the total amount of all covered metabolites. This is currently a major limitation with respect to metabolites showing high turnover rates, but no changes in their concentration. Such metabolites and pathways could be crucial metabolic nodes (e.g., potential drug targets in cancer metabolism). A stable-isotope tracing capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry (CE-MS) metabolomic approach was developed to cover both polar metabolites and isotopologues in a non-targeted way. An in-house developed software enables high throughput processing of complex multidimensional data. The practicability is demonstrated analyzing [U-¹³C]-glucose exposed prostate cancer and non-cancer cells. This CE-MS-driven analytical strategy complements polar metabolite profiles through isotopologue labeling patterns, thereby improving not only the metabolomic coverage, but also the understanding of metabolism.     

A posteriori error estimation for a singularly perturbed Volterra integro-differential equation

Numerical Algorithms - A singularly perturbed Volterra integro-differential equation with an integrable singularity in the integral term is considered. The upwind difference method is used to...     

四元数辛李代数MAD子代数的共轭性

利用四元数理论, 证明了四元数体上辛李代数为实半单李代数, 其极大可交换ad-\!\!可对角化(简称MAD)子代数是相互共轭的.     

高校校园文化景观设计创意和表达

高校校园的文化景观不仅对其师生有潜移默化的教育作用,更会传达给师生归属感和认同感.以上海应用技术学院奉贤校区的"思贤庭"为例,在设计中结合地理位置、学科特色、功能定位、校园文化特色等,从场地原有的精神特性、历史文脉出发,演绎推导出校园文化景观的语境、符号等要素,形成了较有典型意义的校园文化景观表达模式.指出,文化景观创意的表达无需说教,可用"只言片语"的形式含蓄表达,重要的是营造出既符合功能需求又具有灵性的校园户外空间.     

全球著名体育城市构建的内在逻辑与优化路径——基于上海体育名城建设的分析

基于当前新时代体育事业发展背景，在上海市构建全球著名体育城市的发展过程中，分析其构建的内涵与动机，解析构建全球著名体育城市的内在逻辑规律，采用SWOT-PEST组合矩阵模型并结合政治、经济、社会、技术背景因素，依次对上海市构建著名体育城市的内部优势、劣势环境与外部机遇、威胁环境进行相应的剖析，以此组合得出模型的优化路径，为上海市构建全球著名体育城市提出战略发展方向上的建议：转化发展理念，健全体育行政管理机制；强化产业结构，升级体育经济规模效益；深化健康意识，完善公共体育服务体系；进化科技运用，扩充体育技术创新领域。     

利用ARGO实验寻找GRBs的本底研究

位于西藏羊八井宇宙线观测站(海拔4300 m)的ARGO-YBJ实验具有高海拔、大视场、全覆盖特点,其阈能约几百个GeV,在探测高能GRBs方面具有独特的优势.ARGO-YBJ实验不能分辨光子和质子,要在大量的宇宙线事例中找出光子信号,就必须正确地估计背景事例率,这是寻找高能GRBs的关键.本文采用"等天顶角法"对ARGO实验中寻找GRBs的宇宙线本底进行了分析.由于地球的自转,天顶角随着时间的变化而变化.本文重点分析了长暴在其持续时间内天顶角的变化,从而更加准确地进行了本底估计.     

Surface of room temperature ionic liquid [bmim][PF6] studied by polarization- and experimental configuration-dependent sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy

Understanding and control of the surface properties such as molecular orientations are of great importance in numerous applications of ionic liquids. However, there remain discrepancies among the previous experimental and theoretical studies on the surface orientation and structures of room temperature ionic liquids(RTIL) systems. In this article, the orientation of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium([bmin]) cation at the air/liquid interface of a characteristic RTIL, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate([bmim][PF6]), was investigated by the sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy(SFG-VS). Detailed polarization and experimental configuration analyses of the SFG-VS spectra showed the possibility of a small spectral splitting in the CH3 symmetric stretching region, which can be further attributed to the probable existence of multiple orientations for the interfacial [bmim] cations. In addition, the(N)–CH3 vibrations were absent, ruling out the prediction by several recent molecular dynamics simulations which state that portions of the [bmim] cations orient with a standing-up(N)–CH3 group at the ionic liquid surface. Hence, new realistic theoretical models have to be developed to reflect the complex nature of the ionic liquid surface.     

Multi-stable quantum droplets in optical lattices

Nonlinear Dynamics - We address the nonlinear dynamics of binary Bose-Einstein condensates with mutually symmetric spinor components trapped in an optical lattice. The interaction between the...     

Comparative absorption kinetics of seven active ingredients of Eucommia ulmoides extracts by intestinal in situ circulatory perfusion in normal and spontaneous hypertensive rats

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. (E. ulmoides) is a valuable and nourishing medicinal herb in China that has been used in the treatment of hypertension. Given the fact that most traditional Chinese medicine is mainly used to treat disease, investigating the pharmacokinetics of traditional Chinese medicines in the pathological state is more useful than that in the normal state. However, the differences in the absorption kinetics of active ingredients of E. ulmoides extract between pathological and physiological conditions have not been reported. Therefore, in this study, the rat intestinal in situ circulatory perfusion model was used to investigate the differences in absorption kinetics of seven active ingredients of E. ulmoides extract in normal and spontaneously hypertensive rats, namely, genipinic acid, protocatechuic acid, neochlorogenic acid, chlorogenic acid, cryptochlorogenic acid, (+)-pinoresinol di-O-β-D -glucopyranoside and (+)-pinoresinol 4′-O-β-D -glucopyranoside. Our results indicate that the pathological state of spontaneous hypertension may change the absorption of active components of E. ulmoides extracts, and these findings may provide a reference for improving the rational use of E. ulmoides in the clinic.