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Reflection of the Development of Professional Graduates Education in China
The development of professional degree graduates education plays a crucial role in social economy development and the industrial restructuring, promotes academic degrees and graduates education growth and could further ameliorate China's professional degrees education system. Currently, the professional degree graduates education meet with some problems, such as low level of professional degrees education, the scale of development imbalances, lack of innovation in training mode, quality assurance and management system is incomplete, the policy formulated backwardness. As a higher education theory researcher, rational thinking of these problems would help to stimulate the long-term development of professional degree graduates education and to provide educational reference
Persistent spin current in mesoscopic ferrimagnetic spin ring
Using a semiclassical approach, we study the persistent magnetization current
of a mesoscopic ferrimagnetic ring in a nonuniform magnetic field. At zero
temperature, there exists persistent spin current because of the quantum
fluctuation of magnons, similar to the case of an antiferromagnetic spin ring.
At low temperature, the current shows activation behavior because of the
field-induced gap. At higher temperature, the magnitude of the spin current is
proportional to temperature T, similar to the reported result of a
ferromagnetic spin ring.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, one more reference adde
Recent Developments on the Mechanism and Kinetics of Esterification Reaction Promoted by Various Catalysts
Identification of SNP-containing regulatory motifs in the myelodysplastic syndromes model using SNP arrays ad gene expression arrays
Myelodysplastic syndromes have increased in frequency and incidence in the American population, but patient prognosis has not significantly improved over the last decade. Such improvements could be realized if biomarkers for accurate diagnosis and prognostic stratification were successfully identified. In this study, we propose a method that associates two state-of-the-art array technologies-single nucleotide polymor-phism (SNP) array and gene expression array-with gene motifs considered transcription factor-binding sites (TFBS). We are particularly interested in SNP-containing motifs introduced by genetic variation and mutation as TFBS. The potential regulation of SNP-containing motifs affects only when certain mutations occur. These motifs can be identified from a group of co-expressed genes with copy number variation. Then, we used a sliding window to identify motif candidates near SNPs on gene sequences. The candidates were filtered by coarse thresholding and fine statistical testing. Using the regression. based LARS-EN algorithm and a level. wise sequence combination procedure, we identified 28 SNP-containing motifs as candidate TFBS. We confirmed 21 of the 28 motifs with ChIP-chip fragments in the TRANSFAC database. Another six motifs were validated by TRANSFAC via searching binding fragments on co-regulated genes. The identified motifs and their location genes can be considered potential biomarkers for myelodysplastic syndromes. Thus, our proposed method, a novel strategy for associating two data categories, is capable of integrating information from different sources to identify reliable candidate regulatory SNP-containing motifs introduced by genetic variation and mutation
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A 25-hydroxycholecalciferol–fortified dairy drink is more effective at raising a marker of postprandial vitamin D status than cholecalciferol in men with suboptimal vitamin D status
Background: One strategy for improving population vitamin D status is consumption of fortified foods. However, the
effects of dairy products fortified with different vitamin D isoforms on postprandial vitamin D status and metabolic
outcomes have not been addressed.
Objective: We investigated whether consumption of dairy drinks fortified with either 25-hydroxycholecalciferol [25(OH)D3] or
cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) had differential effects on 24-h circulating plasma 25(OH)D3 concentration (a marker of vitamin
D status) and cardiometabolic risk markers.
Methods: A randomized, controlled, 3-way crossover, double-blind, postprandial study was conducted in 17 men with
suboptimal vitamin D status [mean 6 SEM age: 49 6 3 y; body mass index (in kg/m2): 26.4 6 0.6; and plasma 25(OH)D3
concentration: 31.7 6 3.4 nmol/L]. They were randomly assigned to consume 3 different test meals (4.54 MJ, 51 g fat, 125 g
carbohydrate, and 23 g protein),which contained either a nonfortified dairy drink (control), 20 mg 25(OH)D3-fortified (+HyD3) dairy
drink, or 20 mg vitamin D3–fortified (+D3) dairy drink with toasted bread and jam on different occasions, separated by a 2-wk
washout. Plasma 25(OH)D3 concentrations and cardiometabolic risk markers, including vascular stiffness, serum lipids, and
inflammatory markers, were measured frequently within 8 h postprandially and 24 h after the dairy drink was consumed.
Results: Plasma 25(OH)D3 concentrations (the primary outcome) were significantly higher after the +HyD3 dairy drink was
consumed compared with +D3 and control (P = 0.019), which was reflected in the 1.5-fold and 1.8-fold greater incremental
area under the curve for the 0–8 h response, respectively. The change in plasma 25(OH)D3 concentrations from baseline to
24 h for the +HyD3 dairy drink was also 0.9-fold higher than the +D3 dairy drink and 4.4-fold higher than the control
(P < 0.0001), which were not significantly different from each other.
Conclusion: The dairy drink fortified with 25(OH)D3 was more effective at raising plasma 25(OH)D3 concentrations
postprandially than was the dairy drink fortified with vitamin D3 in men with suboptimal vitamin D status
The tonoplast-localized transporter OsHMA3 plays an important role in maintaining Zn homeostasis in rice
In order to respond to fluctuating zinc (Zn) in the environment, plants must have a system to control Zn homeostasis. However, how plants maintain an appropriate level of Zn during their growth and development is still poorly understood. In this study, we found that OsHMA3, a tonoplast-localized transporter for Zn/Cd, plays an important role in Zn homeostasis in rice. Accessions with the functional allele of OsHMA3 showed greater tolerance to high Zn than those with the non-functional allele based on root elongation test. A 67Zn-labeling experiment showed that accessions with loss of function of OsHMA3 had lower Zn accumulation in the roots but similar concentrations in the shoots compared with functional OsHMA3 accessions. When exposed to Zn-free growing medium, the concentration in the root cell sap was rapidly decreased in accessions with functional OsHMA3, but less dramatic changes were observed in non-functional accessions. A mobility experiment showed that more Zn in the roots was translocated to the shoots in accessions with functional OsHMA3. Higher expression levels of OsZIP4, OsZIP5, OsZIP8, and OsZIP10 were found in the roots of accessions with functional OsHMA3 in response to Zn deficiency. Taken together, our results indicate that OsHMA3 plays an important role in rice roots in both Zn detoxification and storage by sequestration into the vacuoles, depending on Zn concentration in the environment
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