903 research outputs found
Ecological model to predict potential habitats of Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum in the mountainous regions, China
Schistosomiasis japonica is a parasitic disease that remains endemic in seven provinces in the People's Republic of China (P.R. China). One of the most important measures in the process of schistosomiasis elimination in P.R. China is control of Oncomelania hupensis, the unique intermediate host snail of Schistosoma japonicum. Compared with plains/swamp and lake regions, the hilly/mountainous regions of schistosomiasis endemic areas are more complicated, which makes the snail survey difficult to conduct precisely and efficiently. There is a pressing call to identify the snail habitats of mountainous regions in an efficient and cost-effective manner.; Twelve out of 56 administrative villages distributed with O. hupensis in Eryuan, Yunnan Province, were randomly selected to set up the ecological model. Thirty out of the rest of 78 villages (villages selected for building model were excluded from the villages for validation) in Eryuan and 30 out of 89 villages in Midu, Yunnan Province were selected via a chessboard method for model validation, respectively. Nine-year-average Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) as well as Digital Elevation Model (DEM) covering Eryuan and Midu were extracted from MODIS and ASTER satellite images, respectively. Slope, elevation and the distance from every village to its nearest stream were derived from DEM. Suitable survival environment conditions for snails were defined by comparing historical snail presence data and remote sensing derived images. According to the suitable conditions for snails, environment factors, i.e. NDVI, LST, elevation, slope and the distance from every village to its nearest stream, were integrated into an ecological niche model to predict O. hupensis potential habitats in Eryuan and Midu. The evaluation of the model was assessed by comparing the model prediction and field investigation. Then, the consistency rate of model validation was calculated in Eryuan and Midu Counties, respectively. The final ecological niche model for potential O. hupensis habitats prediction comprised the following environmental factors, namely: NDVI (≥ 0.446), LST (≥ 22.70°C), elevation (≤ 2,300 m), slope (≤ 11°) and the distance to nearest stream (≤ 1,000 m). The potential O. hupensis habitats in Eryuan distributed in the Lancang River basin and O. hupensis in Midu shows a trend of clustering in the north and spotty distribution in the south. The consistency rates of the ecological niche model in Eryuan and Midu were 76.67% and 83.33%, respectively.; The ecological niche model integrated with NDVI, LST, elevation, slope and distance from every village to its nearest stream adequately predicted the snail habitats in the mountainous regions
The linear and nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings model for the multiphoton transition
With the Jaynes-Cummings model, we have studied the atom and light field
quantum entanglement of multiphoton transition, and researched the effect of
initial state superposition coefficient , the transition photon number
, the quantum discord and the nonlinear coefficient on the
quantum entanglement degrees. We have given the quantum entanglement degrees
curves with time evolution, and obtained some results, which should have been
used in quantum computing and quantum information.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404.0821, arXiv:1205.0979
by other author
Dendritic cell immunoreceptor (DCIR) is associated with anti-cyclic citrullinated peptides (anti-CCP) antibody - negative rheumatoid arthritis in Chinese Han population
RheumatologySCI(E)CPCI-S(ISTP)0MEETING ABSTRACTnull1
Design and characterization of protein-quercetin bioactive nanoparticles
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The synthesis of bioactive nanoparticles with precise molecular level control is a major challenge in bionanotechnology. Understanding the nature of the interactions between the active components and transport biomaterials is thus essential for the rational formulation of bio-nanocarriers. The current study presents a single molecule of bovine serum albumin (BSA), lysozyme (Lys), or myoglobin (Mb) used to load hydrophobic drugs such as quercetin (Q) and other flavonoids.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Induced by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), BSA, Lys, and Mb formed spherical nanocarriers with sizes less than 70 nm. After loading Q, the size was further reduced by 30%. The adsorption of Q on protein is mainly hydrophobic, and is related to the synergy of Trp residues with the molecular environment of the proteins. Seven Q molecules could be entrapped by one Lys molecule, 9 by one Mb, and 11 by one BSA. The controlled releasing measurements indicate that these bioactive nanoparticles have long-term antioxidant protection effects on the activity of Q in both acidic and neutral conditions. The antioxidant activity evaluation indicates that the activity of Q is not hindered by the formation of protein nanoparticles. Other flavonoids, such as kaempferol and rutin, were also investigated.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>BSA exhibits the most remarkable abilities of loading, controlled release, and antioxidant protection of active drugs, indicating that such type of bionanoparticles is very promising in the field of bionanotechnology.</p
How Does Adult Attachment Affect Human Recognition of Love-related and Sex-related Stimuli: An ERP Study
Journal articleThis paper reports the descriptive analysis of a large sample of safety climate survey data (n = 110,014) collected over 10 years from U.S. Naval aircrew using the Command Safety Assessment Survey (CSAS)
Enhanced surface acceleration of fast electrons by using sub-wavelength grating targets
Surface acceleration of fast electrons in intense laser-plasma interaction is
improved by using sub-wavelength grating targets. The fast electron beam
emitted along the target surface was enhanced by more than three times relative
to that by using planar target. The total number of the fast electrons ejected
from the front side of target was also increased by about one time. The method
to enhance the surface acceleration of fast electron is effective for various
targets with sub-wavelength structured surface, and can be applied widely in
the cone-guided fast ignition, energetic ion acceleration, plasma device, and
other high energy density physics experiments.Comment: 14 pages, 4figure
Suppression of decoherence by bath ordering
The dynamics of two coupled spins-1/2 coupled to a spin-bath is studied as an
extended model of the Tessieri-Wilkie Hamiltonian \cite{TWmodel}. The pair of
spins served as an open subsystem were prepared in one of the Bell states and
the bath consisted of some spins-1/2 is in a thermal equilibrium state from the
very beginning. It is found that with the increasing the coupling strength of
the bath spins, the bath forms a resonant antiferromagnetic order. The
polarization correlation between the two spins of the subsystem and the
concurrence are recovered in some extent to the isolated subsystem. This
suppression of the subsystem decoherence may be used to control the quantum
devices in practical applications.Comment: 32 pages, Chinese Physics (accepted
2-(1H-Indol-3-yl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazolidine-1-oxyl 3-oxide
In the title compound, C15H18N3O2, the plane of the indole ring system is twisted with respect to the plane of the nitronyl nitroxide moiety, exhibiting a dihedral angle of 21.61 (6)°. The crystal packing is stabilized by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and weak C—H⋯O interactions
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