PETROGENESIS AND TECTONIC IMPLICATION OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC BONINITIC-THOLEIITIC LAVAS AND MAGNESIAN ANDESITES IN THE GORNY ALTAI TERRANE, NORTHWESTERN CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT

The late Neoproterozoic tholeiitic-boninitic lavas and minor magnesian andesites cropping out in the Kurai Ridge, southeast of the Gorny Altai terrane, represent magmatic products of the nascent Kuznetsk-Altai intra-oceanic island arc southwest off the Siberian continent. Samples of these rocks can provide key information about sub-arc mantle and slab-mantle interaction during the early phase of ocean-ocean subduction.The late Neoproterozoic tholeiitic-boninitic lavas and minor magnesian andesites cropping out in the Kurai Ridge, southeast of the Gorny Altai terrane, represent magmatic products of the nascent Kuznetsk-Altai intra-oceanic island arc southwest off the Siberian continent. Samples of these rocks can provide key information about sub-arc mantle and slab-mantle interaction during the early phase of ocean-ocean subduction

OVSNet : Towards One-Pass Real-Time Video Object Segmentation

Video object segmentation aims at accurately segmenting the target object regions across consecutive frames. It is technically challenging for coping with complicated factors (e.g., shape deformations, occlusion and out of the lens). Recent approaches have largely solved them by using backforth re-identification and bi-directional mask propagation. However, their methods are extremely slow and only support offline inference, which in principle cannot be applied in real time. Motivated by this observation, we propose a efficient detection-based paradigm for video object segmentation. We propose an unified One-Pass Video Segmentation framework (OVS-Net) for modeling spatial-temporal representation in a unified pipeline, which seamlessly integrates object detection, object segmentation, and object re-identification. The proposed framework lends itself to one-pass inference that effectively and efficiently performs video object segmentation. Moreover, we propose a maskguided attention module for modeling the multi-scale object boundary and multi-level feature fusion. Experiments on the challenging DAVIS 2017 demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework with comparable performance to the state-of-the-art, and the great efficiency about 11.5 FPS towards pioneering real-time work to our knowledge, more than 5 times faster than other state-of-the-art methods.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure

Microengineered synthetic cellular microenvironment for stem cells

Stem cells possess the ability of self‐renewal and differentiation into specific cell types. Therefore, stem cells have great potentials in fundamental biology studies and clinical applications. The most urgent desire for stem cell research is to generate appropriate artificial stem cell culture system, which can mimic the dynamic complexity and precise regulation of the in vivo biochemical and biomechanical signals, to regulate and direct stem cell behaviors. Precise control and regulation of the biochemical and biomechanical stimuli to stem cells have been successfully achieved using emerging micro/nanoengineering techniques. This review provides insights into how these micro/nanoengineering approaches, particularly microcontact printing and elastomeric micropost array, are applied to create dynamic and complex environment for stem cells culture. WIREs Nanomed Nanobiotechnol 2012, 4:414–427. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1175 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website .Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92053/1/1175_ftp.pd

Review of Financial Pressure

Different from foreign capital markets, china’s domestic capital markets are special, which also determines that the research on financial pressure starts from the reform of state-owned enterprises, and draws lessons from the relevant theories of financial risk and financial fraud, thus gradually forming a more diversified research results

Multi-Condition Contact Stress Analysis of High Speed Train Helical Gear

Taking traction helical gear of CRH380A high speed train for example, not only analyzing the meshing process characters of the high speed train helical gear and the tractive performance curve, but also using Pro/E to complete a three-dimensional model, combining with ANSYS workbench, helical gear contact finite element model is built in start-up, continuous and high speed conditions. A meshing period equivalent stress and contact pressure distributions of gear tooth surface are obtained by solving the model. And so are the changing regularity of gear contact state and stress on the meshing process. The result shows that based on ANSYS workbench, dynamic contact stress analysis about traction helical gear of high speed train can reflect the realistic contact stress state among the meshing process. It provides some certain references and foundations to calculate the gear’s strength analysis and modification design

Involvement of C6-volatiles in quality formation of herbal medicine: A case study in Astragalus membranaceus var. mongholicus

In this study, the effects of exogenous C6-volatiles on Astragalus membranaceus var. mongholicus growth and secondary metabolism were explored. Five-week old seedlings of A. membranaceus var. mongholicus were exposed to different concentrations of soil-borne hexanal (10, 50, 100 μM) twice/week for 4 weeks. Non-treated plants serve as control. Growth, bioactive compounds and gene expression were measured by conventional and “omic” approaches. The results demonstrated: (1) all doses of hexanal significantly decreased chlorophyll a/b contents; (2) 10 and 100 μM hexanal significantly decreased the shoot length while 50 μM hexanal kept the value at the same level as it was in the control; (3) 50 μM hexanal effectively enhanced the contents of bioactive compounds in roots and the others had no obvious effect; (4) 50 μM hexanal induced more dysregulated metabolites in leaves than in roots, especially those associated with lipid metabolism; (5) expression of unigenes annotaed as “plant-pathogen interaction”, “secondary metabolism” and “lipid metabolism” were largely induced as well as those classified into multiple growth and defense signaling pathways. Taken together, C6-volatiles can serve as potential elicitors for quality formation of herbal medicines. The online version of this article (doi: 10.5073/JABFQ.2017.090.027) contains supplementary files