响应面法优化海洋微生物发酵产生纤溶化合物的培养条件

采用响应面法对海洋微生物长孢葡萄穗霉菌FG216发酵产生纤溶化合物FGFC1 (Fungi fibrinolyticcompound 1)培养条件进行优化.在单因素试验结果的基础上通过Design-Expert软件对培养时间、诱导物添加量、培养温度进行3因素响应面试验设计,以FGFC1产出量为响应值优化菌株FG216的培养条件,并验证响应面预测值与实测值的一致性.结果表明,在培养时间为9d、诱导物添加量为0.5％、培养温度为28℃的最优培养条件下FGFC1产量可达1 978.33 mg/L,实测值与响应面预测值拟合良好,说明通过响应面试验设计对FG216培养条件的优化是有效的.     

响应面结合主成分分析方法优化黄瓜种子GA3包衣浓度和贮藏时间组合

采用响应面结合主成分分析方法优化黄瓜种子GA_3包衣浓度和贮藏时间的组合.采用响应面试验设计的二因素14个组合对黄瓜种子GA_3浓度和贮藏时间进行处理,然后进行发芽试验.对得到的苗高、叶绿素含量和根系活力指数进行主成分分析,对得到的主成分向量进行响应面分析,找到了提高黄瓜幼苗苗高、叶绿素含量和根系活力的最佳处理组合.     

海金沙草总黄酮提取工艺的响应面优化

为了提高海金沙草总黄酮提取效率,运用了Plackett-Burman试验设计、爬陡坡试验和Box-Behnken设计对提取工艺进行了响应面优化试验。利用Plackett-Burman对影响总黄酮提取的诸多相关因素进行了评价并成功筛选出主效应因子,即提取时间、提取温度和乙醇浓度。在Plackett-Burman设计基础上,根据主效应因子作用大小与方向进行了爬陡坡试验。最后用Box-Behnken响应面技术优化了总黄酮提取工艺并建立了关键影响产量的二次多项式数学模型,解模型逆矩阵得最优解(优化方案),即提取温度X1=45.45℃,乙醇体积分数X2=47.1%、提取时间X3=84.8 min。模型预测结果为0.433 mg.L-1,验证试验结果为0.428±0.004 mg.L-1(n=3)。     

全球变化野外控制试验及其在土壤微生物生态学研究中的应用

全球变化是近几十年世界广泛关注的热点之一.土地利用变化和化石能源消耗已引起如温室气体增多、气温升高、降水格局改变等多种形式的变化.这些变化对整个生态系统过程,特别是陆地生态系统碳氮循环过程有着深远影响.自20世纪70年代以来,世界各地已开展大量野外控制试验用以模拟单因子和多因子气候变化的影响,这些研究对解释生态系统响应和适应全球变化的内在机制提供了重要的基础.本文梳理了全球变化控制试验的发展历程,介绍了不同因子模拟控制试验的研究概况及不足之处,重点阐述CO₂倍增、增温、降水和模拟氮沉降等全球变化控制试验在土壤微生物生态学研究中的应用,探析土壤微生物及其介导的生态学过程对全球变化的响应和反馈,并对未来野外控制试验需关注的问题和研究方向进行了展望,为认识气候变化对地下生态系统的影响提供参考.     

响应面法优化牦牛肝蛋白提取工艺研究

对牦牛肝中主要营养成分进行测定,然后用单因素和响应面分析法确定牦牛肝蛋白的最佳提取工艺.通过单因素试验选取影响因素与水平,在此基础上采用四因素三水平的响应面分析法,根据回归分析确定最佳提取工艺.试验结果表明:鲜牦牛肝水分含量为70.85%、灰分含量为0.7%、蛋白含量为19.70%、粗脂肪含量为2.92%;最佳提取工艺...     

响应面法优化嗜热链球菌增殖培养基

目的 为了降低嗜热链球菌工业化生产成本,提高其发酵活菌数,对嗜热链球菌原始培养基的成分进行了响应面优化.方法 利用Design-Expert软件首先采用Plackett-Burman试验设计筛选出了影响嗜热链球菌生长的显著因子,再依据响应面法设计试验,得到嗜热链球菌的优化培养基配比.结果 乳糖、酵母粉和L-半胱氨酸为嗜热链球菌生长的显著性因子;优化后培养基配比由结果分析可知,当活菌数达到最大值时,即:乳糖的浓度为3.6％,酵母粉的浓度为1.74％,L-半胱氨酸的浓度为1.1％,牛肉蛋白胨1％,酪胨1％,KH2PO4 0.20％,Na2 HPO40.20％,叶温-80 0.1％活菌数为最高2.34×109 CFU/mL.结论 采用响应面分析法优化的培养基较经典TPY培养基活菌数提高了近2～3倍.     

响应面法优化紫甘薯花色苷水解条件

使用响应面法优化了紫甘薯花色苷的水解条件.使用高效液相色谱-多波长检测器测定花青素含量.采用3因素3水平Box-Behnken中心组合设计,优化了水解时间、盐酸浓度和水解温度对矢车菊素和芍药素峰面积之和的综合影响.结果显示,紫甘薯花色苷的最佳水浴水解条件为:盐酸浓度4.54 mol/L,水浴温度100℃,水解时间45.8 min.在最优条件下进行验证试验,响应值为理论值的96.5％,说明该响应面法优化方法可行.     

响应面分析法优化(R)-扁桃酸发酵培养基

采用响应面分析法对Bacillussp.HB20菌株合成(R)-扁桃酸的培养基成分进行优化。首先利用Plackett-Burman试验设计筛选出影响(R)-扁桃酸产率的三个主要因素:麦芽糖、蛋白胨和牛肉膏。在此基础上用最陡爬坡路径逼近最大响应区域,再利用Box-Behnken试验设计及响应面分析法进行回归分析。结果表明,麦芽糖、蛋白胨和牛肉膏浓度与(R)-扁桃酸产率存在显著的相关性,通过求解回归方程得到最佳质量浓度:蛋白胨11.507g/L,牛肉膏6.708g/L,麦芽糖10.907g/L,(R)-扁桃酸产率理论最大值达到66.87%。经模型验证,预测值与验证试验平均值接近,在优化条件下(R)-扁桃酸产率提高了25.87%。     

华北夏玉米干物质分配系数对干旱胁迫的响应

干物质分配系数反映作物各器官干物质的分配与积累,研究干物质分配系数对干旱胁迫的响应,是研究干旱胁迫对作物生长发育影响的基础.本文基于华北夏玉米主产省山东、河北和山西3个试验点2013—2015年田间水分控制试验资料,建立了夏玉米苗期、抽雄期、灌浆期3个主要发育阶段叶、茎、穗的干物质分配系数与土壤相对湿度的定量关系模型,分析了叶、茎、穗干物质分配系数对不同程度干旱胁迫的响应.结果表明: 3个阶段叶、茎、穗的干物质分配系数与土壤相对湿度均呈显著的一元二次关系.干旱胁迫下,叶片向外转运的干物质相对减少,叶干物质分配比例增加,并且在轻、中度干旱胁迫时的灌浆期(叶干物质分配系数增加0.04~0.09)以及重度干旱胁迫时的抽雄期(叶干物质分配系数增加0.17)响应最敏感.穗干物质分配系数对干旱胁迫表现为负响应,干旱胁迫越严重,分配系数越小,轻-重度干旱胁迫使穗干物质分配系数减小0.08~0.34.茎干物质分配系数对干旱胁迫的响应总体表现为灌浆期(正响应)＞抽雄期(负响应)＞苗期(负响应).     

罗浮栲和米槠细根形态功能性状对短期氮添加的可塑性响应

氮沉降会影响细根的形态功能性状,进而影响细根对养分的吸收,导致陆地生态系统养分循环发生变化.为了解氮沉降对细根形态功能性状的影响,利用根袋法进行原位试验,研究中亚热带常绿阔叶林外生菌根树种罗浮栲和米槠细根形态对短期氮添加的可塑性响应.结果表明: 低序级根(1~3序级)的比根长和比表面积对氮添加的可塑性响应高于高序级根(4序级),细根组织密度对氮添加的可塑性响应从1序级到4序级逐渐加强,而各序级细根直径对氮添加则无显著的可塑性响应;低序级细根比根长、比表面积的可塑性响应与高序级细根组织密度的可塑性响应之间存在一定的协同变化.罗浮栲和米槠细根的比根长、比表面积、组织密度对氮添加表现出相反方向的可塑性响应,表明施氮后不同外生菌根树种采取了不同的养分觅食策略:施氮后罗浮栲在养分获取上采取的是增加比根长、比表面积和根长增殖速率的资源快速获取策略,而米槠则采取了增大细根组织密度的相对保守的资源获取策略.     

An intuitive graphical webserver for multiple-choice protein sequence search

Every day tens of thousands of sequence searches and sequence alignment queries are submitted to webservers. The capitalized word “BLAST” becomes a verb, describing the act of performing sequence search and alignment. However, if one needs to search for sequences that contain, for example, two hydrophobic and three polar residues at five given positions, the query formation on the most frequently used webservers will be difficult. Some servers support the formation of queries with regular expressions, but most of the users are unfamiliar with their syntax. Here we present an intuitive, easily applicable webserver, the Protein Sequence Analysis server, that allows the formation of multiple choice queries by simply drawing the residues to their positions; if more than one residue are drawn to the same position, then they will be nicely stacked on the user interface, indicating the multiple choice at the given position. This computer-game-like interface is natural and intuitive, and the coloring of the residues makes possible to form queries requiring not just certain amino acids in the given positions, but also small nonpolar, negatively charged, hydrophobic, positively charged, or polar ones. The webserver is available at http://psa.pitgroup.org.     

Maximum Likelihood Methods for Fitting the Burr Type XII Distribution to Life Test Data

This paper describes mathematical and computational methodology for estimating the parameters of the Burr Type XII distribution by the method of maximum likelihood. Expressions for the asymptotic variances and covariances of the parameter estimates are given, and the modality of the log-likelihood and conditional log-likelihood functions is analyzed. As a result of this analysis for various a priori known and unknown parameter combinations, conditions are given which guarantee that the parameter estimates obtained will, indeed, be maximum likelihood estimates. An efficient numerical method for maximizing the conditional log-likelihood function is described, and mathematical expressions are given for the various numerical approximations needed to evaluate the expressions given for the asymptotic variances and covariances of the parameter estimates. The methodology discussed is applied in a numerical example to life test data arising in a clinical setting.     

Integrating conservation and development: effective trade-offs between biodiversity and cost in the selection of protected areas

Strategies are needed for reconciling competing demands at the regional level when areas are to be selected for protection and there are associated costs, possibly equivalent to forgone development opportunties. As an alternative to the fixed scaling (or weighting) of costs and benefits required by cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria analyses allow the exploration of alternative weightings and a summary trade-off curve to determine preferred solutions. For alternative sets of areas, total cost could be plotted against total represented biodiversity, but a more consistent approach should look at trade-off space at the level of individual areas. For a given weighting, an area is assigned protection if and only if its contribution to total biodiversity, CB, exceeds its equivalent cost, EC (in biodiversity units). Because CB for a given area depends on which other areas are also protected, it can be more or less than EC. Here we develop an iterative strategy for selecting areas, such that, for a given weighting, an area is in the final protected set if and only if its final CB value is greater than its EC value. Sensitivity analysis is used to identify those areas that: (1) are assigned protection even when low weight is given to biodiversity, or (2) are not assigned protection even when high weight is given to biodiversity. This approach is applicable in principle to any surrogate measure for biodiversity; here examples are presented in which environmental data are summarized as an environmental space.     

Linear Discriminant Functions and Problems of Hybridization

A discriminant analysis method for frequency data for hybridization based on weighted multivariate analysis of variance is given for allotting an individual to one of groups.     

Sensitivity analysis of stoichiometric networks: an extension of metabolic control analysis to non-steady state trajectories

A sensitivity analysis of general stoichiometric networks is considered. The results are presented as a generalization of Metabolic Control Analysis, which has been concerned primarily with system sensitivities at steady state. An expression for time-varying sensitivity coefficients is given and the Summation and Connectivity Theorems are generalized. The results are compared to previous treatments. The analysis is accompanied by a discussion of the computation of the sensitivity coefficients and an application to a model of phototransduction.     

Analysing dose-mortality data when doses are subject to error

In microbial control of insect pests, the dose of pathogen that a subject actually receives varies because of variation in individual intakes. Variation in intake of a given concentration is equivalent to varying the concentration for a given intake. The main effect of such variation is to flatten the dose-response curve. If the dose-variation is known, a correction for this effect can be made; new estimates for the slope and intercept of the probit line are given. However, the correction increases the variance of the estimates. The theory is illustrated with an example in which the diamond-backed month, Plutella xylostella, was fed varying doses of the specific granulosis virus PxGV; intake assays using similar larvae showed the coefficient of variation of intake volume to be about 40%. Simulation studies showed that correction may be practically important only for the estimation of extreme percentiles, e.g. LD₉₅s.     

Sensitive determination of synephrine by flow-injection chemiluminescence.

It was found that light emission produced by the oxidation of luminol by potassium ferricyanide in basic medium was enhanced by synephrine, an anti-obesity drug. The optimum conditions for this chemiluminescent reaction were studied in detail in a flow injection system and employed in a new, simple and rapid method for the determination of synephrine. A mechanism for this reaction is proposed, based on the chemiluminescence reaction spectra. In the optimum conditions, CL intensity is proportional to concentration of synephrine in the 0.008-1 microg/mL range. The limit of detection is 1.6 ng/mL for synephrine (3sigma), and the relative standard deviation (n = 11) is 2.6% for 0.5 microg/mL synephrine. The method was applied to the determination of synephrine in herbal products, citrus fruit and biological fluids. The recoveries were satisfactory (90-102%). The results given by the proposed method are in good agreement with those given by HPLC-UV.     

Nonparametric comparison of two survival-time distributions in the presence of dependent censoring

When testing the null hypothesis that treatment arm-specific survival-time distributions are equal, the log-rank test is asymptotically valid when the distribution of time to censoring is conditionally independent of randomized treatment group given survival time. We introduce a test of the null hypothesis for use when the distribution of time to censoring depends on treatment group and survival time. This test does not make any assumptions regarding independence of censoring time and survival time. Asymptotic validity of this test only requires a consistent estimate of the conditional probability that the survival event is observed given both treatment group and that the survival event occurred before the time of analysis. However, by not making unverifiable assumptions about the data-generating mechanism, there exists a set of possible values of corresponding sample-mean estimates of these probabilities that are consistent with the observed data. Over this subset of the unit square, the proposed test can be calculated and a rejection region identified. A decision on the null that considers uncertainty because of censoring that may depend on treatment group and survival time can then be directly made. We also present a generalized log-rank test that enables us to provide conditions under which the ordinary log-rank test is asymptotically valid. This generalized test can also be used for testing the null hypothesis when the distribution of censoring depends on treatment group and survival time. However, use of this test requires semiparametric modeling assumptions. A simulation study and an example using a recent AIDS clinical trial are provided.     

Comparison of the Halving of Tablets Prepared with Eccentric and Rotary Tablet Presses

The aim of this study was to compare the densification of powder mixtures on eccentric and rotary tablet presses and to establish relationships with the halving properties of the resulting scored tablets. This is an important problem because the recent guidelines of EU require verification of the equal masses of tablet halves. The models of Walker, Heckel, and Kawakita were used to describe the powder densification on the two machines. The calculated parameters revealed that the shorter compression cycle of rotary machines results in poorer densification and lower tablet hardness at a given compression force. This is manifested in poorer halving properties, which are influenced mainly by the hardness. Better densification improves the halving even at lower tablet hardness. This demonstrates that these parameters can be good predictors of tablet halving properties.