Parallel ultra-high flow rate liquid chromatography with mass spectrometric detection using a multiplex electrospray source for direct, sensitive determination of pharmaceuticals in plasma at extremely high throughput

Recent years have seen increasing usage of large particle size stationary phases and ultra-high flow rate liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) for rapid determination of pharmaceuticals in plasma without prior sample preparation. This lack of sample preparation prior to analysis, together with the extremely high throughput of the chromatography, makes the technique extremely attractive to the bioanalyst. Further, the introduction of multiple sprayer interfaces to mass spectrometers provides the potential for even higher throughput. In this paper, we present parallel ultra-high flow rate liquid chromatography using four columns in parallel and a four-way multiple sprayer interface to the mass spectrometer. We have applied this on both the narrow-bore and capillary scale. This technique enables the quantification of drugs from four plasma samples simultaneously, at nanogram per millilitre concentrations, from small aliquots of plasma without sample preparation and with throughputs of up to 120 samples per hour.     

太极拳干预社区中老年人亚健康状态的临床随机对照试验

目的:评价太极拳干预中老年亚健康的疗效。方法:采用随机单盲方法,将符合亚健康诊断标准的受试者100例,随机分为太极拳干预组和一般运动干预组。两组受试者分别进行每周三次,每次30min的太极拳锻炼和一般体育运动锻炼,疗程均为16周。临床疗效观察采用SF-36生命质量评分。结果:太极拳干预组生命质量干预前后评分差值与一般体育运动组比较显示:在总体健康和生命活力两个维度的差异有统计学意义。结论:太极拳较一般运动能更好地改善中老年亚健康人群生命质量。     

福建省青少年游泳运动员比赛表现的影响因素探析

采用文献资料法、问卷调查法、数理统计法,对影响福建省青少年游泳运动员比赛表现的影响因素进行研究。经过对34个因素进行因子分析,得出影响运动员比赛表现的影响因素的9个主因子。对9大因子进行分析得知,运动员比赛表现是个人技战术水平、心理能力、客观环境、人为因素、赛前准备、教练信任、对手作用、最佳体验与自我评价等多方面因素影响的结果,为我国游泳运动员训练和赛前控制比赛状态提供理论参考。     

Radiation boundary conditions for wave-like equations

In the numerical computation of hyperbolic equations it is not practical to use infinite domains. Instead, one truncates the domain with an artificial boundary. In this study we construct a sequence of radiating boundary conditions for wave-like equations. We prove that as the artificial boundary is moved to infinity the solution approaches the solution of the infinite domain as O(r^?m?1/2) for the m-th boundary condition. Numerical experiments with problems in jet acoustics verify the practical nature and utility of the boundary conditions.     

A photometric redshift of z = 6.39 +/- 0.12 for GRB 050904

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows are the most brilliant transient events in the Universe. Both the bursts themselves and their afterglows have been predicted to be visible out to redshifts of z approximately 20, and therefore to be powerful probes of the early Universe. The burst GRB 000131, at z = 4.50, was hitherto the most distant such event identified. Here we report the discovery of the bright near-infrared afterglow of GRB 050904 (ref. 4). From our measurements of the near-infrared afterglow, and our failure to detect the optical afterglow, we determine the photometric redshift of the burst to be z = 6.39 - 0.12 + 0.11 (refs 5-7). Subsequently, it was measured spectroscopically to be z = 6.29 +/- 0.01, in agreement with our photometric estimate. These results demonstrate that GRBs can be used to trace the star formation, metallicity, and reionization histories of the early Universe.     

X-ray absorption spectroscopy under high pressures in diamond anvil cells

Abstract

Although potentially extremely important for understanding the high-pressure microscopic behaviour of materials, over the years the area of high-pressure EXAFS in particular using diamond anvil cells has proved to be technically difficult. This has significantly hampered its development. The interference of X-ray dimaction from the diamonds in the diamond anvil cell with the absorption signal has proved to be a challenging problem to tackle, restricting the use of high-pressure EXAFS to energies below about 11 key Below 11 keV however the technique is also limited due to absorption of incident X-rays by the diamonds making it virtually impossible to conduct X-ray absorption experiments below about 9keV In this paper we describe in detail the methodology for scanriirig high-pressure EXAFS in diamond anvil cells and examine the origins of the associated problems and ways of dealing with them. We also demonstrate that it is possible to extend the useful range of studied absorption edges from 7keV up to at least 30keV This brings about new opportunities for high pressure EXAFS using diamond anvil cells.     

Pannexin 1 channels mediate 'find-me' signal release and membrane permeability during apoptosis

Apoptotic cells release 'find-me' signals at the earliest stages of death to recruit phagocytes. The nucleotides ATP and UTP represent one class of find-me signals, but their mechanism of release is not known. Here, we identify the plasma membrane channel pannexin 1 (PANX1) as a mediator of find-me signal/nucleotide release from apoptotic cells. Pharmacological inhibition and siRNA-mediated knockdown of PANX1 led to decreased nucleotide release and monocyte recruitment by apoptotic cells. Conversely, PANX1 overexpression enhanced nucleotide release from apoptotic cells and phagocyte recruitment. Patch-clamp recordings showed that PANX1 was basally inactive, and that induction of PANX1 currents occurred only during apoptosis. Mechanistically, PANX1 itself was a target of effector caspases (caspases 3 and 7), and a specific caspase-cleavage site within PANX1 was essential for PANX1 function during apoptosis. Expression of truncated PANX1 (at the putative caspase cleavage site) resulted in a constitutively open channel. PANX1 was also important for the 'selective' plasma membrane permeability of early apoptotic cells to specific dyes. Collectively, these data identify PANX1 as a plasma membrane channel mediating the regulated release of find-me signals and selective plasma membrane permeability during apoptosis, and a new mechanism of PANX1 activation by caspases.     

基于人力资本视角下上海市高校体育教师培训体系的研究

运用人力资本理论,从改善上海市高校体育教师培训质量,优化体育教师人力资本等角度探讨了构建上海市高校体育教师培训体系的必要性,并设计出由培训需求评价、培训计划制定、培训过程实施与控制以及培训效果评估等各环节共同组成的科学培训体系。