生物体微弱磁场检测技术在某部特殊作业人员健康评估中的应用研究

目的:研究某部特殊作业人员的健康状况,为有针对性地提出防护措施提供参考依据。方法:随机抽取某部不同工作岗位的特殊作业人员145名,进行生物体微弱磁场检测分析,以获取包括疲劳、免疫、睡眠、脑机能、血压、心脏、消化、肝胆、泌尿生殖、呼吸、运动、钙代谢、糖代谢、脂代谢、嘌呤代谢等15个系统在内的108项健康评估检测指标。对于每一项指标,仪器自带有其正常值范围,凡低于下限或高于上限的指标被视为异常。结果:所测特殊作业人员总体在钙代谢系统、消化系统、心脏系统、血压系统、呼吸系统、运动系统、免疫系统等七个系统存在不适症状的较为突出,其中钙代谢失衡的占比83.45%,脾胃不和的占比78.62%,心脏功能欠佳的占比72.41%,血压不稳的占比64.14%,咽喉不适的占比59.31%,骨关节不适的占比58.62%,免疫功能下降的占比51.72%。出现运动系统"颈椎疾患"症状的人数占比,实验组明显高于对照组(P0.05)。结论:特殊作业环境可能会影响作业人员的身体健康,应采取有效的安全防护措施,以减弱或消除有毒有害化学物质污染、强噪声、电磁辐射等对人体健康的影响。     

门诊预约服务体系建设中的问题与对策

门诊预约服务在政府的倡导下广泛开展,门诊预约服务体系的建设是现阶段的主要任务。预约体系包括信息系统、服务系统、管理系统和评价系统,各系统相互配合构成统一的整体。目前预约服务还面临着不少难题,对不同系统的主要问题和解决思路作一简要探讨。     

国家重点生态功能区生态-经济-社会系统耦合协调的动态演化——以新疆阿勒泰地区为例

探究国家重点生态功能区生态-经济-社会系统耦合协调的演化特征,对实现可持续发展目标、建设美丽中国有重要意义。运用耦合协调模型、剪刀差方法、耦合度模型以及VAR模型对2007—2019年阿勒泰地区EES系统耦合协调度的动态演化进行分析。结果表明：(1)2007—2019年阿勒泰地区整体耦合协调度呈现不断上升趋势,由2007年的中度失调(0.271)向2019年的轻度失调(0.371)演进,生态系统与经济系统、社会系统的发展水平呈现“X”型变动趋势,经济系统与社会系统持续上升,而生态系统略微下降。(2)经济系统与社会系统、生态系统与社会系统演化速率的剪刀差在2014年以后出现较大幅度的波动,而生态系统与经济系统演化速率的剪刀差趋于稳定态势,生态系统与经济系统、经济系统与社会系统的耦合度呈现出由无序到有序的初始过渡。(3)由脉冲响应函数及方差分解可得,阿勒泰地区EES系统耦合协调水平的提升是三系统共同作用的结果,前期主要由社会系统、经济系统驱动,后期主要依赖生态系统的改善。研究表明：国家重点生态功能区应着重减轻经济系统对社会系统和生态系统的胁迫强度,进而实现三者的协同发展。     

Escherichia coli K-12 mutants that allow transport of maltose via the beta-galactoside transport system.

We have isolated mutants of Escherichia coli that have an altered beta-galactoside transport system. This altered transport system is able to transport a sugar, maltose, that the wild-type beta-galactoside transport system is unable to transport. The mutation that alters the specificity of the transport system is in the lacY gene, and we refer to the allele as lacYmal. The lacYmal allele was detected originally in strains in which the lac genes were fused to the malF gene. Thus, as a result of gene fusion and isolation of the lacYmal mutation, a new transport system was evolved with regulatory properties and specificity similar to those of the original maltose transport system. Maltose transport via the lacYmal gene product is independent of all of the normal maltose transport system components. The altered transport system shows a higher affinity than the wild-type transport system for two normal substrates of the beta-galactoside transport system, thiomethyl-beta-D-galactoside and o-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactoside.     

Evaluation of Radiometric System for Detecting Bacteremia

An automated radiometric system (BACTEC, Johnston Laboratories) for detection of bacteremia was evaluated in parallel with a standard blood culture system in use in our laboratory. Of 1,445 blood cultures from 484 patients with possible bacteremia, 106 sets of cultures (excluding 39 presumed contaminated), representing 56 patients, were positive by both methods. The conventional system yielded 85 positive cultures from 48 patients, whereas the BACTEC system yielded 84 positive cultures from 43 patients. The BACTEC system failed to detect 22 cultures that were positive in the conventional system, and the conventional system failed to detect 21 cultures that were positive in the BACTEC system. The detection efficiency was generally equivalent in the two systems except for the lower detection rates of anaerobes and Enterobacter aerogenes by the BACTEC system and the lower detection rates of Torulopsis glabrata and, possibly, Pseudomonas sp. (group IVD) in the conventional system. The BACTEC system had a slight advantage over the conventional system in the time interval to detection of positivity. Approximately 20% of the positive cultures detected by the BACTEC system were detected on the first day of incubation compared with 7% by the conventional system. The recovery rates and detection times of anaerobes were less efficient by the BACTEC system than by the conventional system. It does not appear that the radiometric method has much advantage over available conventional methods.     

Using the Q system in Drosophila melanogaster

In Drosophila, the GAL4/UAS/GAL80 repressible binary expression system is widely used to manipulate or mark tissues of interest. However, complex biological systems often require distinct transgenic manipulations of different cell populations. For this purpose, we recently developed the Q system, a second repressible binary expression system. We describe here the basic steps for performing a variety of Q system experiments in vivo. These include how to generate and use Q system reagents to express effector transgenes in tissues of interest, how to use the Q system in conjunction with the GAL4 system to generate intersectional expression patterns that precisely limit which tissues will be experimentally manipulated and how to use the Q system to perform mosaic analysis. The protocol described here can be adapted to a wide range of experimental designs.     

Properties of a catecholaminergic system in some coelenterates. A histochemical and autoradiographic study

Properties of a catecholaminergic nervous system in a coelenterate nervous system are described. The catecholamine present shows similarities to noradrenalin but it is not identical with noradrenalin. Contrary to known vertebrate catecholaminergic systems, neither a reuptake system nor a degrading system is present in the coelenterate catecholaminergic nervous system.     

Optimal control mode of a biochemical feedback system

An optimal feedback system for constant-value control of biochemical reaction system was investigated by computer simulations. A feedback system containing a cyclic enzyme system where two enzyme types share a substrate in a cyclic manner, was found to be the most reliable one. This feedback system has a capability to keep the stationary value of the end product at a desired level against not only exogenous substrate supply but also endogenous parametric disturbances. The cyclic enzyme system installed as a control element of this feedback system played the role of comparator in this feedback system. The control mode of this feedback system was in good agreement with that of a system established by means of optimization technique based on the maximum principle. Also bang - bang control could be performed in this biochemical feedback system as well as in electrical one.     

A knowledge-based system for the strategic control level of robots in flexible manufacturing cells

The strategic control level synthesis for robots is related to a hierarchical robot control problem. The main control problem at the strategic control level is to select the model and algorithm to be used by the lower control level to execute the given robot task. Usually there are several lower control level models and algorithms that can be used by the robot control system for every robot task. Strategic control level synthesis depends on the particular robot system application. In a typical application, when the robot system is used in a flexible manufacturing system for manipulating various part types, the robot tasks executed by the robot system depend on the manufacturing processes in the system. If the robot system is applied in another flexible manufacturing system, dedicated to other manufacturing processes, another set of robot tasks might be needed to perform the necessary operations. Therefore, the quantity and the kind of knowledge required in the system for the strategic control level differ from one application to another. Such a fact creates the appropriate conditions for employing some artificial intelligence techniques. This article describes a knowledge-based system approach to the strategic control level synthesis problem.     

制度供给视角下的基本医疗体制改革之决策

基本医疗改革的财政投入模式应从单一关注医疗服务供给转向协同关注医疗服务产出，无过错医疗损害救济应纳入国家财政投入的预算体系。面对医疗损害的高发性，以救济为心的医疗侵权责任制度应向以预防中心的制度进行改革。医疗过失诉讼制度对医疗体系有着深刻的负面制约作用。基本医疗改革的决策应从更宏观的视角进行制度供给设计。     

Modulation of dynamic parameters of muscle reflex by selective activation of its gamma system

The ability of the gamma system to modify the dynamics of the muscle reflex control system is investigated. The dynamics of the triceps surae muscle in decerebrate cat preparations with intact reflex loops were modulated by contralateral tibial and peroneal nerve stimulation. The parameters of the mathematical models representing the muscle reflex system were estimated by the least squares method. The behaviour of the mathematical models of the system, under various degrees of gamma system stimulation, was then studied in response to disturbance inputs. It is shown that the gamma motor system is an efficient agent for carrying out modifications in the dynamics of the muscle reflex system. The possible functional significance of this phenomenon within the framework of operation of the muscular control system is discussed with reference to optimal adaptive system concepts.     

Development of the nervous system in the acorn worm Balanoglossus simodensis: insights into nervous system evolution

SUMMARY To examine the evolutionary origin of the chordate nervous system, an outgroup comparison with hemichordates is needed. When the nervous systems of chordates and hemichordates are compared, two possibilities have been proposed, one of which is that the chordate nervous system has evolved from the nervous system of hemichordate‐like larva and the other that it is comparable to the adult nervous system of hemichordates. To address this issue, we investigated the entire developmental process of the nervous system in the acorn worm Balanoglossus simodensis. In tornaria larvae, the nervous system developed along the longitudinal ciliary band and the telotroch, but no neurons were observed in the ventral band or the perianal ciliary ring throughout the developmental stages. The adult nervous system began to develop at the dorsal midline at the Krohn stage, considerably earlier than metamorphosis. During metamorphosis, the larval nervous system was not incorporated into the adult nervous system. These observations strongly suggest that the hemichordate larval nervous system contributes little to the newly formed adult nervous system.     

Optimal systems: I. The vascular system

An approach to quantitative work on optimal systems is considered. Desired optimal principles are utilized in constructing a hypothetical system similar to the organ system considered. A comparison of this constructed system with the anatomical system then gives an indication of the importance of the optimal principles in the form or function of the organ system considered. These ideas are applied to the mammalian vascular system, and limiting values are obtained for some of its important component parts. The constructed system gives good agreement with anatomical data for vessel radii, lengths, and hydrodynamic resistance to flow.     

Activation of human brain galactosylceramidase by phosphatidylserine.

Assays of sphingolipid hydrolases in vitro generally require bile salts or other detergents. A few 'activator proteins' have been reported that can partially replace the detergents in the assay mixture. We report here that phosphatidylserine from bovine brain is a relatively specific activator of human brain galactosylceramidase in the absence of sodium taurocholate (phosphatidylserine system). Activity similar to that obtained with the conventional assay system containing taurocholate and oleic acid (taurocholate system) could be obtained. Other lipids tested generally gave less than 10% of the taurocholate system activity, but sulfatide could activate human brain galactosylceramidase to 20--30% of the taurocholate system. The properties of the reaction in the phosphatidylserine system were examined with human brain whole homogenate, crude soluble post-concanavalin A preparations, and partially purified preparations as the enzyme source and compared with those obtained with the taurocholate system. The pH optimum shifted from 4.2 in the taurocholate system to 4.7 in the phosphatidylserine system. The phosphatidylserine system was superior in the linearity of the reaction with respect to the enzyme protein. Reasonably linear Lineweaver-Burk plots could be obtained. The Km values for the phosphatidylserine system were greater than those for the taurocholate system. The effect of phosphatidylserine was not additive to that of taurocholate. Additional phosphatidylserine to the taurocholate system was either without effect at lower concentrations or inhibitory at higher concentrations. The assays of galactosylceramidase with phosphatidylserine and without taurocholate do not necessarily provide pragmatic advantages but offer a potentially useful system with which to study the mechanism of in vivo degradation of the membrane-bound glycosphingolipid.     

A Switching Controller System for a Wheeled Mobile Robot

A wheeled mobile mechanism with a passive and/or active linkage mechanism for rough terrain environment is developed and evaluated. The wheeled mobile mechanism which has high mobility in rough terrain needs sophisticated system to adapt various environments.We focus on the development of a switching controller system for wheeled mobile robots in rough terrain. This system consists of two sub-systems: an environment recognition system using link angles and an adaptive control system. In the environment recognition system, we introduce a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) for clustering link angles. In the adaptive controllers, we introduce neural networks to calculate the inverse model of the wheeled mobile robot.The environment recognition system can recognize the environment in which the robot travels, and the adjustable controllers are tuned by experimental results for each environment. The dual sub-system switching controller system is experimentally evaluated. The system recognizes its environment and adapts by switching the adjustable controllers. This system demonstrates superior performance to a well-tuned single PID controller.     

Comparative assessment of the resistance of the unstirred water layer to solute transport between two different intestinal perfusion systems

The resistance of the unstirred water layer to solute transport was estimated in two different intestinal single-pass perfusion systems for a comparative study, using D-glucose as a model compound. One is a well established perfusion system in anesthetized rats as a standard (system A). The other is the one in unanesthetized rats for comparison (system B). It was demonstrated that in system B as well as in system A the resistance of the unstirred water layer to D-glucose transport should be taken into account and this resistance, accordingly, the effective thickness of the unstirred water layer (delta) which is assumed to be in proportion to its resistance, could be described as a function of the perfusion rate by using a film model. The delta decreased with increasing perfusion rate and was larger in system A than in system B at each perfusion rate; 785 microns in system A versus 319 microns in system B at the perfusion rate of 0.16 ml/min and 337 microns versus 184 micron at that of 2.95 ml/min. Thus in system B the effective thickness, accordingly, the resistance, of the unstirred water layer was reduced to about 50% of that in system A, but the resistance of the unstirred water layer could still account for 85% of the total resistance at the maximum as far as D-glucose absorption was concerned, while 93% in system A. These results suggest that, compared with perfusion experiments in anesthetized rats (system A), the resistance of the unstirred water layer is reduced but cannot be left out of consideration even if perfusion experiments are performed in unanesthetized rats (system B). And the lower resistance of the unstirred water layer in system B was attributed to a turbulent flow in contrary to a laminar flow in system A.     

Image understanding system for histopathology

An image understanding machine vision system for histological diagnoses is based on three interacting expert systems: a diagnostic expert system utilizing terms familiar to pathologists, an interpretive expert system relating human diagnostic concepts to computable histometric features and a scene segmentation expert system which extracts the diagnostic information from the imagery. The control software for the image understanding system resides on a multiprocessor computer. This article details measures to maintain system efficiency and to accommodate the requirements of interprocess communication and processing task scheduling.     

Co-expression of a prophage system and a plasmid system in Bacillus subtilis

A dual expression system for overexpressing two proteins by a single cell strain has been developed in Bacillus subtilis. This dual expression system combines the phi105MU331 prophage system and a plasmid system within a single cell. Protein expression by the prophage system is heat inducible, while that of the plasmid system is constitutive. Three candidate genes, BPN, BT, and amyE, all of Bacillus origin, were used as test models. Seven strains (BPN, BT, AMY, BS168K, MU331K, BPNK, and BTK) were constructed to investigate the influences of the prophage system and the plasmid system on each other, and to compare the efficiency of the individual expression systems with that of the dual expression system. Individually, the yield of the plasmid system is higher than that of the prophage system, which could be attributed to the constitutive nature of the expression of the plasmid system. Nonetheless, for the dual expression strains, the expression of two enzymes in a single fermentation run can reduce costs in facilities, manpower, and utilities. Fed-batch fermentation of BPNK strains confirmed the feasibility of applying this dual expression system in industrial-scale production.     

Efficacy of Tower Medfly Eclosion Systems

A 16-repetition experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of the “tower” system for eclosion of sterile medflies, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann). This system has now replaced the PARC system previously used in Florida S.I.T. programs. In addition to testing the efficacy of these eclosion systems, as compared to the PARC system, quality control was also monitored and evaluated. No significant differences were found between either system in regards to C. capitata yield, weight or flight ability (p=0.05). Based on these comparative trials, the tower eclosion system appears to be an efficient alternative to the PARC system.     

Selection of chemotherapy for patient treatment utilizing a radiometric versus a cloning system

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a number of in vitro systems that measured inhibition of glucose metabolism were used to predict the responsiveness of patients' tumors to chemotherapy. In vitro-in vivo correlations were excellent, with true positive predictions ranging from 68% to 96% and true negative predictions of 95% to 100%. The radiometric system is a new in vitro technique that measures the conversion of 14C-glucose to 14CO2. The system already has been utilized to screen prospective new antineoplastic agents for cytotoxicity. The present study was undertaken to determine if the radiometric system might be used to predict correctly the responsiveness of an individual patient's tumor to single-agent or combination-agent chemotherapy. Fifty-six tumor specimens were divided and tested for drug sensitivity in the radiometric system and a conventional human tumor clonning system. Overall, there was a significant correlation between in vitro and in vivo results for the conventional cloning system (P = 0.03). However, there was no significant relationship between in vitro and in vivo results for the radiometric system. The radiometric system consistently failed to predict the tumor's clinical sensitivity to single agents. A radiometric system is not useful in predicting the responsiveness of a patient's tumor to single agent chemotherapy and is not a replacement for the more biologically attractive human tumor cloning system.