ELIMINATING ARTIFACTS IN THE STUDY OF SINGULARITY/MIXEDNESS OF TASTE STIMULI

Taste stimuli with a single solute were not judged as tasting equally singular; this confirmed earlier results, except in this study the possibility of the results being caused by trigeminal effects was virtually eliminated. Binary mixtures were generally perceived as more mixed than single solute stimuli, indicating a degree of analytic mixing. However, a caffeine/KCl mixture was perceived as more singular tasting than some single solute stimuli, indicating a degree of synthetic mixing. A preliminary examination was made of the hypotheses that the perceived mixedness of a taste mixture might be determined by a summation of the mixedness of its components or alternatively by latency effects.     

古交遗址群文化性质初探

古交盆地地处汾河上游,前后发现的旧石器遗存共有五处,分别属于旧石器时代早、中、晚三期。其中以王家沟时代为最早,约处于中更新世之初。古交旧石器的丰富内涵,对研究汾河流域,以三棱大尖状器为特征文化的传承关系,将会赋予新意。     

一类食饵种群具有常数存放率的Kolmogorov系统的定性分析

本文对一类食饵种群具有常数存放率的Kolmogorov系统进行了定性分析,研究了系统平衡点的性态,证明了极限环的存在和唯一性．     

TIME-INTENSITY PROPERTIES OF SWEET AND BITTER STIMULI: IMPLICATIONS FOR SWEET AND BITTER TASTE CHEMORECEPTION

Interindividual differences in sweet and bitter taste sensitivity were investigated using time-intensity (TI) measurements and multivariate statistics. TI profiles were obtained in triplicate from 25 subjects for 23 sweet and/or bitter stimuli first matched to be approximately equi-intense to 200 mM NaCl. Sweet stimuli, except for the larger sweeteners, were less persistent, and required less time to reach maximum intensity than bitter stimuli. The results of principal component (PCA) and cluster (CA) analyses of the stimuli X subjects matrices for maximum intensity (Imax), time to maximum intensity (Tmax), total duration (Tdur), and area under the curve (Area) suggest that sweet and bitter stimuli do not share common receptors; and that there are at least two receptor mechanisms each for sweet taste (one for sugars and other small compounds, and the other for large sweeteners) and bitter taste (one for PTC/PROP and one for other bitter compounds).     

COUNTING STELLER SEA LION PUPS IN ALASKA: AN EVALUATION OF MEDIUMFORMAT, COLOR AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Estimates of Steller sea lion ( Eumetopias jubatus ) pup production are valuable for estimating population trend and size. Currently in Alaska, pups are counted by visiting rookeries, driving older animals into the water, then walking through the rookeries and counting the pups, a highly disruptive procedure. At smaller rookeries, with good vantage points, pups are occasionally counted from the periphery of rookeries without disturbing the sea lions. We evaluated counts made from medium-format, color, aerial photographs as an alternative to drive counts and peripheral counts. Neither the peripheral counts nor the aerial photographic counts disturbed animals on the rokeries. There were strong 1:1 linear relationships between photographic counts and drive counts ( r ²= 0.966, P < 0.001) and between photographic counts and peripheral counts ( r ²= 0.999, P < 0.001). Precision was similar for all three methods of counting. We suggest that medium-format, color, aerial photographs is appropriate for routine surveys of Steller sea lion pups in Alaska because it is not disruptive to the hauled-out sea lions and provides comparable estimates with similar precision to drive and peripheral counts. Large areas canbe rapidly surveyed during periods of good weather with a minimum of manpower.     

菊头蝠捕食时对障碍物的回避能力

食虫蝙蝠依靠发射超声讯号并收听其回声来感知周围环境。Griffin(1944)将此过程命名为“回声定位”(Echolocation)。测定这种“回声定位”能力,通常都采用障碍物回避试验法(Griffin,1944,1974;Suga,1969;Jen,1980),即让蝙蝠在静止不动的细丝阵列之间飞行,记录碰撞和回避障碍物的次数,以判断蝙蝠“回声定位”能力的有无和高低。Jell与 McCarty(1978)发展了这一方法,让蝙蝠在障碍物间捕食飞行,并比较观察,发现蝙蝠能有效地回避障碍目标。了解自然界中以捕食昆虫为生的蝙蝠,在其捕食过程中,如何回避障碍物这个问题,对研究食虫蝙蝠的“回声定位”机制是有意义的。本文以鲁氏菊头蝠(Rhinolophus rouxi)为对象进行了实验研究。     

AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF SELECTION ON COLOR MORPHS OF THE POLYMORPHIC SPIDER ENOPLOGNATHA OVATA (ARANEAE: THERIDIIDAE)

The annual theridiid spider Enoplognatha ovata exhibits a genetically based color polymorphism of red and nonred phenotypes. We evaluated fitness differences between red and nonred spiders by manipulating morph frequencies in a population in which red morphs were rare (≤5%). Broods from red females were introduced to open experimental plots from which natural aggregations of spiders had been repeatedly removed. Control plots in which spiders were removed but not replaced were used to estimate spider immigration from surrounding vegetation into experimental plots. Morph frequencies observed in experimental plots one year following the manipulation were adjusted by immigration estimates and tested against frequencies predicted with the hypothesis of no selection. We found no evidence of selection against red morphs: female morph frequencies in experimental plots did not differ significantly from expected frequencies assuming no selection; female frequencies did not change significantly between subadult and adult stages; and red and nonred spiders exhibited similar fecundities. We conclude that 1) selection on E. ovata color morphs is not likely to be detected easily within a single population because of the swamping effect of dispersal and 2) local patterns of morph-frequency variation may arise more from dispersal and drift than from selection on the color phenotypes.     

海藻糖微生物酶法合成机制的研究

来源于嗜酸热古菌芝田硫化叶菌(Sulfolobus shibatae)B12的麦芽寡糖基海藻糖合酶(MTSase)和麦芽寡糖基海藻糖海藻糖水解酶(MTHase)基因在大肠杆菌中获得表达。将获得纯化的两个酶,分别以麦芽寡糖和淀粉为转化底物,在pH5.5,60℃条件下合成海藻糖。从反应产物分析结果可知,两个酶合成海藻糖时能利用的最小底物是麦芽四糖,海藻糖产率与麦芽寡糖链长正相关。同时还发现两个酶都具有轻微的α-1,4-葡萄糖苷酶活性,能在麦芽寡糖还原末端水解α-1,4糖苷键,生成葡萄糖分子,其反应最小底物分别是麦芽三糖和四糖。推测海藻糖合成酶可能有两个不同的催化活性中心。     

THE MEASUREMENT OF TASTE DISCRIMINATION WITH THE SAME-DIFFERENT TASK: A DETECTION-THEORY ANALYSIS

The biases to which the same-different task is prone can be accounted for by having subjects rate their confidence that two stimuli are the same or different. The rating method of detection theory was therefore used to study the discriminability of two concentrations of a fruit drink. A model in which the decision variable was the difference in sensory strength of the two samples provided a satisfactory fit to the Receiver Operating Characteristics of four of the five subjects. The bias-free index of discriminability, d', was estimated for each subject. A combined operating characteristic, derived from jackknifing the data of the individual subjects, revealed an asymmetry characteristic of the differencing model. The results suggest that the same-different task, which is readily understood by subjects, can provide an unbiased measure of the discriminability of foods or beverages.     

TREATMENT OF AN INDIAN WOMAN WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION BY A LATINA THERAPTIS: CULTURAL FORMULATION

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry -     

FITNESS CONSEQUENCES OF OUTCROSSING IN A SOCIAL SPIDER WITH AN INBREEDING MATING SYSTEM

Inbreeding mating systems are uncommon because of inbreeding depression. Mating among close relatives can evolve, however, when outcrossing is constrained. Social spiders show obligatory mating among siblings. In combination with a female‐biased sex ratio, sib‐mating results in small effective populations. In such a system, high genetic homozygosity is expected, and drift may cause population divergence. We tested the effect of outcrossing in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola. Females were mated to sib‐males, to a non‐nestmate within the population, or to a male from a distant population, and fitness traits of F1s were compared. We found reduced hatching success of broods from between‐population crosses, suggesting the presence of population divergence at a large geographical scale that may result in population incompatibility. However, a lack of a difference in offspring performance between inbred and outbred crosses indicates little genetic variation between populations, and could suggest recent colonization by a common ancestor. This is consistent with population dynamics of frequent colonizations by single sib‐mated females of common origin, and extinctions of populations after few generations. Although drift or single mutations can lead to population divergence at a relatively short time scale, it is possible that dynamic population processes homogenize these effects at longer time scales.     

多窗口住院管理系统的设计

本文介绍了一种事件驱动的多窗口程度设计方法,分析了设计的难点及解决方法。并用此方法设计了住院管理系统。该系统具有操作方便、实用、多窗口协同处理的特点。     

PHENYLBUTAZONE: AN EVALUATION OF ITS USE

Phenylbutazone (Butazolidin®), one of the newer antirheumatic drugs, while providing varying degrees of symptomatic relief in various types of rheumatism, may also cause serious toxic side effects. It is most effective in acute gout, and slightly less so in rheumatoid arthritis, of both the spondylitic and peripheral types. Its use in degenerative arthritis is not indicated. Its toxic side effects include gastrointestinal upsets, edema, rash, stomatitis, purpura, hematuria, agranulocytosis and reactivation of peptic ulcer. Several fatalities have been reported. It is, however, a valuable drug if used properly. Extreme caution should be exercised in selection of patients, in administration of the drug and in continuous observation of patients receiving it.     

以浮游植物评价巢湖水质污染及富营养化

对巢湖浮游植物在22个样点,四季采样,进行了种类组成、种群数量、优势种、污染指示种,多样性指数及硅藻指数等群落生态学的初步研究。选用其中种群数量、优势种、污染指示种、硅藻指数对巢湖水质污染及营养水平进行了总评与分区评价。就巢湖总体而论,藻量年均值达111×10~6个/升(细胞数,或个体数为14.7×10~6个/升),硅藻指数96.7,群落组成种类中,污染指示种占64.2％,除冬季外,各样点多以微囊藻、鱼腥藻为主的蓝藻占优势,其分布频度年平均达98.8％,多度年平均达79.7％,而在夏、秋季,两者则分别为100和99.7％,表明巢湖已受到中等程度的污染,属蓝藻型富营养湖泊;与过去巢湖浮游植物的调查资料对比,表明最近几年来,人为富营养化进程在加速。     

一个有相互干扰的食植系统的研究

本文运用常微分方程定性理论讨论了一个放牧有相互干扰的食植系统,获得了该系统极限环存在唯一性及全局渐近稳定性的充分条件．     

DIFFERENCE TASTE THRESHOLDS FOR SUCROSE IN WATER AND IN ORANGE JUICE: AN INTERLABORATORY STUDY

Difference taste thresholds, expressed as jnd values or Weberratios, were determined for sucrose in water and in orange juiceat laboratories in Sweden, U.S.A., Poland and Switzerland usinga method of constant stimuli. The following total arithmeticmean values of all 172 individual jnd values were obtained:0.266 and 0.400% sucrose at 2 and 5% sucrose in water, respectively;0.977 and 1.19% sucrose at 1.5 and 3.75% sucrose in orange juice,respectively. The frequency distributions of the individualvalues were asymetrical and showed a large variation among subjects.The results of some additional experiments at 2 and 5% sucrosein orange juice, performed only by the Polish laboratory, arereported also. Significance analyses performed according to one parametricmethod (t-test), using pooled data of groups of subjects, andone non-parametric method (Mann-Whitney's U-test), using individualthreshold values, gave the same conclusion in practically allcases. The data indicated that females had slightly lower average discriminationthresholds than males. There was a significant degree of correlationbetween subjects' discriminatory ability at different concentrationsof sucrose in each of the two media. Few significant differences between the laboratories were foundfor sucrose in water, whereas for sucrose in orange juice thefollowing rank order, from lowest to highest average jnd value,among the laboratories was obtained for both concentrationstested: Poland < U.S.A. < Sweden = Switzerland. Some speculationswere advanced as partial explanation for the differences amongthe laboratories. ^*Formerly Johansson     

猫外膝体神经元对光栅刺激方位倾向性的一种分布特性

我们检测了猫外膝体(LGN)神经元对闪烁方波光栅的反应与光栅方位的关系。对一定对比度和空间频率的光栅,26个记录到的神经元的反应均随方位不同而变化,其最大反应和最小反应的比值平均为3.0±0.3(S.E.)。神经元的最优方位(即引起最大反应的光栅方位)随其感受野中心在视网膜上的位置而异,具有平行于其各自感受野中心与视网膜中央区(area cen-sralis)的连接线的倾向。