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Twelve of the main European LCA software packages currently available are examined wirh the aim of establishing which are the most appropriate for LCAs on industrial processes. The packages performances are assessed in terms of
–  • Volume of Data
–  • WindowsTM environment
–  • Network Capabilities
–  • Impact Assessment
–  • Graphical representation of the inventory results
–  • Sensitivity analysis
–  • Units
–  • Cost
–  • User Support
–  • Flow Diagrams
–  • Burdens allocation
–  • Transparency of data
–  • Input & output parameters
–  • Demo version
–  • Quality of data
The review concludes with a Specification Table which summarises the facilities available on each software package. The general conclusion from this study is that for industrially based LCAs, there are four packages which may offer advantages over the rest. These are The Boustead Model, The Ecobilan Group’s TEAM™, PEMS 3.0 and SimaPro 3.1.  相似文献   

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We hypothesized that manganese deficient animals fed high vs moderate levels of polyunsaturated fat would either manifest evidence of increased oxidative stress or would experience compensatory changes in antioxidant enzymes and/or shifts in manganese utilization that result in decreased endogenous gut manganese losses. Rats (females in Study 1, males in Study 2,n = 8/treatment) were fed diets that contained 5 or 20% corn oil by weight and either 0.01 or 1.5 μmol manganese/g diet. In study 2,54Mn complexed to albumin was injected into the portal vein to assess gut endogenous losses of manganese. The manganese deficient rats:
1.  Had 30–50% lower liver, tibia, kidney, spleen, and pancreas manganese concentrations than manganese adequate rats;
2.  Conserved manganese through ≈70-fold reductions in endogenous fecal losses of manganese;
3.  Had lower heart manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) activity; and
4.  Experienced only two minor compensatory changes in the activity of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) and catalase.
Gut endogenous losses of manganese tended to account for a smaller proportion of absorbed manganese in rats fed high-fat diets; otherwise fat intake had few effects on tissue manganese concentrations.  相似文献   

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1.  Coupling mechanisms between ciliary beating and the membrane potential in Paramecium were investigated under voltage clamp applying intracellular pressure injection of cAMP, cGMP and Ca-EGTA buffer. Ciliary responses following step changes in membrane potential were recorded by high-speed video on magnetic tape.
2.  Injections of cAMP and cGMP up to millimolar concentrations caused no detectable changes in the frequency voltage relationship. A minor effect was that the ciliary reorientation towards the anterior cell end (reversal) tended to be inhibited with depolarization up to 10 mV.
3.  Injection of Ca2+ into the cell clamped at the resting potential caused a transient anteriad ciliary reorientation and a simultaneous increase in the beating frequency.
4.  Injection of EGTA (to buffer Ca2+ below 10–8 M) was ineffective in relation to frequency for several minutes. After this time, hyperpolarization- and depolarization activated frequency responses of EGTA-injected cells were increasingly inhibited. The ciliary reorientation following depolarization was not affected by EGTA.
5.  A posterior contraction of the cell diameter was noticed upon membrane hyperpolarization. The contraction coincided in time with the increase in beating frequency.
6.  The results support the view that the voltage-dependent augmentation of the ciliary beating rate is not directly mediated by an intracellular increase in either cAMP or cGMP.
7.  The role of Ca2+ as intracellular messenger in the ciliary and somatic compartments is discussed.
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1.  Properties of the membrane currents ofDidinium nasutum have been investigated under voltage clamp in different solutions and after deciliation.
2.  Theearly transient Ca2+ inward current activates in a voltage-dependent manner. Inactivation is both Ca2+ -dependent and voltage-dependent.
3.  Alate Ca2+ current rises with time to peak > 50 ms and decays in the order of seconds.
4.  Activation and inactivation of the late Ca2+ current is voltage-dependent.
5.  The delayed outward current is activated by voltage. The kinetics of this K+ current, but not its amplitude, are enhanced in the presence of intracellular EGTA.
6.  The two voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels are located in the cilia, whereas all K+ channels are restricted to the somatic membrane.
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The caudal photoreceptors (CPRs) of crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) can trigger walking and abdominal movements by their response to light.
1.  In a restrained, inverted crayfish, illumination of A6 evoked a CPR discharge followed by leg movements and bursting from the abdominal tonic flexor (TF) motoneurons. Intracellular electrical stimulation of a single CPR at high frequency (80 Hz) evoked similar responses.
2.  Responses only occurred when a single CPR axon was driven at 60 Hz or more and outlasted the stimulus.
3.  CPR stimulation also excites the pattern-initiating network (Moore and Larimer 1987) in the abdomen.
4.  The axon of the CPR projects from ganglion A6 to the brain. Terminal branches occur in the subesophageal ganglion and the brain. A small descending interneuron is dye-coupled to CPR in the subesophageal ganglion.
5.  In animals with cut circumesophageal connectives, the CPRs can evoke walking and the abdominal motor pattern.
6.  The relationship of the abdominal motor pattern to walking is altered by restraint and/or inversion. In freely moving crayfish, the cyclic abdominal motor pattern is only observed with backward walking. In restrained, inverted crayfish, the motor pattern occurs with both forward or backward walking.
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3DFS is a 3D flexible searching system for lead discovery. Version 1.0 of 3DFS was published recently (Wang, T.; Zhou, J. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 1998, 38, 71–77). Here version 1.2 represents a substantial improvement over version 1.0. There are six major changes in version 1.2 compared to version 1.0.
1.  A new rule of aromatic ring recognition.
2.  The inclusion of multiple-type atoms and chains in queries.
3.  The inclusion of more spatial constraints, especially the directions of lone pairs.
4.  The improvement of the query file format.
5.  The addition of genetic search for flexible search.
6.  An output option for generating MOLfiles of hits.
Besides the above, this paper supplies:
1.  More query examples.
2.  A comparison between genetic search and Powell optimization.
3.  More detailed comparison between 3DFS and Chem-X.
4.  A preliminary application of 3DFS to K+ channel opener studies.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s0089490050231  相似文献   

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Müller  D. G.  Frenzer  K. 《Hydrobiologia》1993,(1):37-44
Culture studies with healthy and virus-infected isolates of Ectocarpus siliculosus, Feldmannia simplex and F. irregularis gave the following results:
–  Virus particles are produced in deformed reproductive organs (sporangia or gametangia) of the hosts and are released into the surrounding seawater.
–  Their infective potential is lost after several days of storage under laboratory conditions.
–  New infections occur when gametes or spores of the host get in contact with virus particles. The virus genome enters all cells of the developing new plant via mitosis.
–  Virus expression is variable, and in many cases the viability of the host is not impaired. Infected host plants may be partly fertile and pass the infection to their daughter plants.
–  Meiosis of the host can eliminate the virus genome and generate healthy progeny.
–  The genome of the Ectocarpus virus consists of dsDNA. Meiotic segregation patterns suggest an intimate association between virus genome and host chromosomes.
–  An extra-generic host range has been demonstrated for the Ectocarpus virus.
–  Field observations suggest that virus infections in ectocarpalean algae occur on all coasts of the world, and many or all Ectocarpus and Feldmannia populations are subject to contact with virus genomes.
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–  — Use of a 2-dimensional spectrophotometer allows the detection and analysis of spatiotemporal patterns in biological samples
–  — the “in vitro” system—yeast extract—behaves as an excitable medium. Oscillatory degradation of trehalose yields NADH-oscillations which, after running out, convert to spatiotemporal waves
–  — the observation of excitability coupled to oscillatory processes in biological systems might provide new insights into the meaning of oscillations for metabolism
–  — with an “in vitro” system at hand, it should be possible to perform defined experimental manipulations in order to detect the mechanism for excitability in biological systems.
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1.  In this commentary we discuss results obtained by a micromethod for the study of Cl– permeability across single nerve membranes from rabbit Deiters' neurons.
2.  These results showed the presence of GABAA receptors on the nerve cell membrane cytoplasmic side.
3.  We could show that these receptor complexes have a higher affinity for GABA than their extracellularly facing counterparts. Moreover, they present a phenomenon of desensitization. Another distinct property is that upon activation by GABA, they expose positive charges at their cytoplasmic mouths.
4.  We propose that these receptor complexes could functionin situ as a device for extruding Cl– anions from the nerve cell interior. This phenomenon would create an electrochemical gradient for Cl– penetration into the cell upon the action of extracellular GABA, after its presynaptic release.
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1.  Gas exchange and blood gas transport has been studied in the amphibious teleost,Amphipnous cuchia. A. cuchia is a bimodal breather. Respiratory gas exchange takes place in a pair of specialized air sacs extending from the pharyngeal cavity. Aquatic and aerial gas exchange also takes place in vestigial gills, across buccopharyngeal surfaces and in the skin. All blood draining the air sacs is returned via systemic veins to the heart before systemic distribution.
2.  Oxygen uptake in fish kept in water with access to air was 33.3±8.0 ml O2STP·kg–1·h–1. About 65% of this uptake resulted from air breathing. Upon removal from water the O2 uptake rose to 44.6±15.7 ml O2· kg–1·h–1, while confinement to water breathing reduced the O2 uptake to 16.4±2.7 ml O2·kg–1·h–1. The latter value was 50% higher than aquatic O2 uptake when air breathing was available.
3.  Amphipnous practices periodic breathing and normal breathhold periods last 8–10 min. In the early phase of breathholding the gas exchange ratio (RE) was close to 0.7 but declined to low levels with breathholding. Mean RE for an average breathhold was 0.2. The low RE of the air sacs results from a high cutaneous CO2 elimination in water as well as in moist air. Estimated blood flows to the air sacs indicate flow of about 20 ml min–1 shortly after an air breath declining to 5 ml·min–1 late in a breath-hold period.
4.  Due to the shunting of air sac blood to systemic venous (jugular vein) blood, the jugular vein P\textO2 P_{{\text{O}}_2 } carried the most oxygenated blood averaging 35.2 mm Hg, the dorsal aorta 23.4 mm Hg and the hepatic vein 18.6 mm Hg.
5.  A. cuchia blood has a very high Hb concentration and O2 capacity reaching 15.5 gram % and 22 vol%, respectively. TheP 50 value was 7.9 mm Hg at pH 7.6. The Bohr factor, was –0.57, then-value 2.05 and the temperature sensitivity of the O2-Hb binding expressed by H=–13.1 Kcal·mole Hb–1. Buffering capacity was high: 34.1 mM HCO3 –·1–1.
6.  The vascular configuration inA. cuchia suggests a low efficiency of gas transport. A high blood O2 capacity and O2 affinity and a high cardiac output reduce the efficiency loss and permit the fish to suspend with air breathing for up to 30 min with a modest reduction in arterial O2 saturation from near 90% to 60%. The high blood O2 affinity allows breathholding to occur at reduced rates of systemic blood flow due to the large O2 stores available in venous blood during normal breathing.
7.  Ventral aortic blood pressure fell from about 60 mm Hg systolic value to 40 mm Hg in the dorsal aorta indicating considerable vascular resistance in the shunt connecting these vessels. The pressure gradient across the shunt remained unchanged with the breathhold cycle and is thus not part of the vasomotor activity controlling blood flow to the aerial gas exchanger.
8.  The data are discussed in relation to other air breathing fishes, notably the electric eel,Electrophorus electricus, and the African lungfish,Protopterus aethiopicus.
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Nanomedical developments range from nanoparticles for molecular diagnostics, imaging and therapy to integrated medical nanosystems, which may perform complex repair actions at the cellular level inside the body in the future. There are three categories where MNT are applied in biomedicine
–  • drug discovery (genomics, proteomics, HTS)
–  • diagnostics
–  • drug deliveries
This paper will concentrate on visions and applications for drug deliveries and medical diagnostics.  相似文献   

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1.  We have obtained a cDNA clone encoding a human retinal D2 dopamine receptor.
2.  The longest open reading frame (1242 bp) of this clone encodes a protein of 414 amino acids having a predicted molecular weight of 47,000 and a transmembrane topology similar to that of other G protein-coupled receptors.
3.  Transient transfection of COS-7 cells with an expression vector containing the clone resulted in expression of a protein possessing a pharmacological profile similar to that of the D2 dopamine receptor found in striatum and retina.
4.  Northern blot analysis indicated that, in rat brain and retina, the mRNA for this receptor was 2.9 kb in size.
5.  In situ hybridization was performed to examine the distribution of the mRNA for this receptor in human retina. Specific hybridization was detected in both the inner and the outer nuclear layers.
6.  These findings are consistent with prior physiological and autoradiographic studies describing the localization of D2 dopamine receptors in vertebrate retinas. Our observations suggest that photoreceptors as well as cells in the inner nuclear layer of human retinas may express the mRNA for this D2 dopamine receptor.
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Looking at the on-going discussions, integrated product policy seems to become important for the LCA community and should therefore be reflected in the International Journal of LCA. Reasons include that IPP:
–  clearly follows life cycle thinking,
–  encourages the usage of the life cycle tool box, e.g. for product-innovation,
–  could become a political umbrella for a new co-operation along the life cycle - beyond the old roles of life cycle stakeholders acting on their own,
–  faces similar issues as the LCA community looking e.g. at environmental value / objective setting.
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Zusammenfassung  Insgesamt wurden 60 Resteier des Rotmilans in drei Untersuchungsgebieten im südlichen Teil des Bundeslandes Sachsen-Anhalt zwischen 1987–1993 gesammelt und auf elf persistente Chlorkohlenwasserstoff-Verbindungen und Quecksilber sowie z. T. auf radioaktive Nuklide untersucht:
1.  Die Eiproben waren hauptsächlich mit p,p'-DDE, PCB 138, 153 und 180 sowie Hg belastet, jedoch auf einem für die Reproduktion unbedenklichem Niveau.
2.  Proben aus Industrie- und Großstadtnähe waren signifikant höher mit den Industrieabprodukten HCB, -HCH und höherchlorierten PCBs kontaminiert. Proben aus landwirtschaftlich intensiv genutzten Gebieten enthielten mehr p,p'-DDT. p,p'-DDE, Hg und -HCH zeigten keine signifikanten Unterschiede in ihrer räumlichen Verteilung.
3.  Da die Spitzenwerte der einzelnen Verbindungen in verschiedenen Jahren auftreten, sind die Trends unterschiedlich und zeigen Abnahmen über den gesamten Untersuchungszeitraum hinweg (PCB 52), Abnahmen erst ab 1990/91 (HCB, - und -HCH, Hg) bzw. Anstiege nach vorangegangenem Kontaminationsrückgang (höherchlorierte PCB, p,p'-DDE). Mögliche Ursachen werden diskutiert.
4.  Die Untersuchung von vier Eiinhalten von 1988 auf radioaktive Nuklide (Cäsium-Isotope) verlief negativ.
Persistent organochlorine compounds, mercury and radionuclids in eggs of Red Kite (Milvus milvus) from Saxony-Anhalt (Germany)
Summary  Sixty infertile Red Kite eggs were collected in three regions in the southern part of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Their contents were tested for eleven chlorinated hydrocarbons, mercury and partly for radionuclids (radiocesium):
1.  The egg samples on average contained p,p'-DDE, PCB 138, PCB 153, PCB 180 and Hg in low concentrations.
2.  The samples from an industrial and urban region contained significantly more HCB, -HCH and high chlorinated PCBs. The contamination of p,p'-DDT was on a higher level in eggs from farmed areas.
3.  The trends of the chemicals were different between 1987 and 1993. PCB 52 shows a significant decrease in this time and HCB, - und -HCH, Hg only since 1990/91. p,p'-DDE, PCB 138, PCB 153 and PCB 180 increased up to 1992, after contamination decreased. Possible reasons are discussed.
4.  The contents of four eggs from 1988 did not include radiocesium.
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1.  A 28-kDa peptide from the brain of the tobacco hornworm,Manduca sexta, was purifiedvia HPLC. The peptide copurified with the insect neurohormone, prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), through two HPLC columns.
2.  Immunocyctochemistry using polyclonal antibodies against the 28-kDa peptide revealed that the peptide was produced in the same protocerebral neurons that produce PTTH. Western blot analysis demonstrated that the 28-kDa peptide and big PTTH are different molecules.
3.  A PTTHin vitro bioassay indicated that despite having chromatographic properties similar to those of big PTTH and being produced by the same neurons, the 28-kDa peptide did not have PTTH activity.
4.  Amino acid sequence analysis yielded a 27 N-terminal amino acid sequence that had no similarity with known peptides.
5.  Immunocytochemical studies revealed that the 28-kDa peptide is present as early as 30% embryonic development and is absent by adult eclosion. This is in contrast to big PTTH, which is expressed throughout theManduca life cycle.
6.  These data suggest that the 28-kDa peptide is another secretory phenotype of the lateral neurosecretory cell group III (L-NSC III) which may have functions distinct from those for big PTTH or may act synergistically with big PTTH.
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J. Robb 《Human Evolution》1994,9(3):215-229
In recent years anthropologists have made much progress in understanding ancient activities from skeletal remains. In this paper, material from the Iron Age cemetery at Pontecagnano (VII-IV century BC) is used to illustrate activity-related traits of eight basic categories:
(1)  idiosyncratic patterns of dental wear
(2)  activity-related articular degeneration
(3)  non-pathological functional alterations (neoformations, contact facets)
(4)  mechanical remodelling of bone architecture
(5)  enthesopathies (muscular lesions)
(6)  traumatic lesions
(7)  activity-related pathologies
(8)  activity-related nutritional characteristics
These traits, and others, can be used not only singly but in conjunction to define (a) patterns of activity and occupational specialization for individuals, and (b) distributions within society reflecting the basic division of labor by geneder and class.  相似文献   

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Phytoplanktonic populations were studied in Tazenat lake by three methods:
–  Primary production using 14C technic
–  Standing crop estimation
–  Amount of chlorophyll a
A comparison of the results obtained gives an insight into the utilisation and transformation of energy by the biota of the lake  相似文献   

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1.  The physiology and morphology of olfactory interneurons in the brain of larval Manduca sexta were studied using intracellular recording and staining techniques. Antennal olfactory receptors were stimulated with volatile substances from plants and with pure odorants. Neurons responding to the stimuli were investigated further to reveal their response specificities, dose-response characteristics, and morphology.
2.  We found no evidence of specific labeled-lines among the odor-responsive interneurons, as none responded exclusively to one plant odor or pure odorant; most olfactory interneurons were broadly tuned in their response spectra. This finding is consistent with an across-fiber pattern of odor coding.
3.  Mechanosensory and olfactory information are integrated at early stages of central processing, appearing in the responses of some local interneurons restricted to the primary olfactory nucleus in the brain, the larval antennal center (LAC).
4.  The responses of LAC projection neurons and higher-order protocerebral interneurons to a given odor were more consistent than the responses of LAC local interneurons.
5.  The LAC appears to be functionally subdivided, as both local and projection neurons had arborizations in specific parts of the LAC, but none had dendrites throughout the LAC.
6.  The mushroom bodies and the lateral protocerebrum contain neurons that respond to olfactory stimulation.
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Summary  
1.  The phenotype of the ‘assimilated bithorax’ stock is due in part to a number of genes, on all the chromosomes, which act directly on the individuals containing them, and partly to a recessive X-chromosome condition which causes a maternal effect.
2.  Attempts to break down the maternal-effect condition by crossing-over were unsuccessful.
3.  The maternal effect condition, when made homozygous in a wild-type background, causes the appearance of some bithoraxes in the next generation.
4.  The condition may have arisen by mutation during the course of the selection by which the assimilated stock was built up, but it may have been present in very low frequency in the initial population.
5.  The offspring of females homozygous for the maternal-effect condition do not produce a higher percentage of bithoraxes, following ether treatment, than do flies of similar genotype from other mothers.
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1.  We used laser vibrometry and free field sound stimulation to study the frequency responses of the eardrum and the lateral body wall of awake male Eleutherodactylus coqui.
2.  The eardrum snowed one of two distinct frequency responses depending on whether the glottis was open (GO response) or closed (GC response) during the measurement.
3.  The lateral body wall vibrated with a maximum amplitude close to that of the eardrum and in the same frequency range.
4.  Covering the frog's body wall with vaseline reduced the vibration amplitude of the GC response by up to 15 dB.
5.  When a closed sound delivery system was used to stimulate a local area of the body wall the eardrum also showed one of two types of responses.
6.  These results suggest that sound is transmitted via the lung cavity to the internal surface of the eardrum. This lung input has a significant influence on the vibrations of the eardrum even when the glottis is closed.
7.  The vibration amplitude of the eardrum changed with the angle of sound incidence. The directionality was most pronounced in a narrow frequency range between the two main frequencies of the conspecific advertisement call.
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