Arginine: New and Exciting Developments for an“Old”Amino Acid

Arginine (2-amino-5-guanidino pentanoic acid) was shown in 1895 by Hedin to be present in the proteins of horn. Metabolic nitrogen balance studies, conducted in 1957 by Rose in human adults and in 1959 by Snyderman and coworkers in young infants, revealed that a dietary source of this amino acid was not an obligatory requirement for growth and maintenance of nitrogen homeostasis in healthy individuals. Hence, It was initially classified as a non-essential (dispensable) amino acid and, perhaps, for reasons of this classification arginine did not receivc the earlier atteniion it now deserves, in relation to an understanding of the nutritional biochemistry and physiology of its metabolism in humans subjects. However, there is currently a considerable interest in the cellular and tissue functions, as well as clinical, therapeutic significance, of arginine. In this paper we review the multiple functions of arginlne, including its role in the L-arginine-nitric oxide pathway,cellular regeneration, immune function, protein synthesis and protein breakdown. We then consider some in vivo aspects of the physiology of arginine metabolism, which varies greatly among eukaryotes, with particular reference to humans. Against this background, studies of arginine in the nutrition of humans under various pathophysiological conditions are reviewed briefly. Finally, a new, updated concept for the metabolic basis for the 'conditional essentiality' of arginine is proposed

Exciting Forces for a Wave Energy Device Consisting of a Pair of Coaxial Cylinders in Water of Finite Depth

Two coaxial vertical cylinders-one is a riding hollow cylinder and the other a solid cylinder of greater radius at some distance above an impermeable horizontal bottom,were considered.This problem of diffraction by these two cylinders,which were considered as idealization of a buoy and a circular plate,can be considered as a wave energy device.The wave energy that is created and transferred by this device can be appropriately used in many applications in lieu of conventional energy.Method of separation of variables was used to obtain the analytical expressions for the diffracted potentials in four clearly identified regions.By applying the appropriate matching conditions along the three virtual boundaries between the regions,a system of linear equations was obtained,which was solved for the unknown coefficients.The potentials allowed us to obtain the exciting forces acting on both cylinders.Sets of exciting forces were obtained for different radii of the cylinders and for different gaps between the cylinders.It was observed that changes in radius and the gap had significant effect on the forces.It was found that mostly the exciting forces were significant only at lower frequencies.The exciting forces almost vanished at higher frequencies.The problem was also investigated for the base case of no plate arrangement,i.e.,the case having only the floating cylinder tethered to the sea-bed.Comparison of forces for both arrangements was carried out.In order to take care of the radiation of the cylinders due to surge motion,the corresponding added mass and the damping coefficients for both cylinders were also computed.All the results were depicted graphically and compared with available results.

Analysis on the Pressure Fluctuation Law of a Hydraulic Exciting System with a Wave-exciter

A hydraulic exciting system with a wave exciter has been constructed in order to study the hydraulic vibra- tion law. The system consists of an oil source, wave-exciter and oil cylinder, and is controlled by a wave-exciter. The working principle of the hydraulic exciting system and wave exciter has been analyzed, and its excitation process has been illustrated. The law of every pipe＇s pressure fluctuation of the system is obtained by experiment. The theo- retical analysis and experimental data prove that the pipeline pressure periodically changes and the pipeline pressure fluctuation frequency is independently controlled by the excitation frequency of the wave-exciter. Every pipelinc＇s pressure wave is produced by system flow fluctuation and water hammer coupling. The pressure fluctuation rules of the system provide a theoretical basis for the study of the associated liberation system.

HOMOLOGOUS RADIO BURSTS AND THEIR EXCITING FUNCTIONS

In this paper, the homology of four radio bursts occuring on August 28, 1989 are discussed in time domain, in frequency domain and in their exciting functions.From the discussions, it may be possible that if two radio bursts are homologus, then their ratios of the duration time for rising phases, decaying phases and total bursts are similar in time domain, so do their exciting functions. Therefore they resemble each other in their Fourier apectra.

Effects of soil profile and characteristic of exciting force on propagation of ground vibrations

Ground-borne vibrations caused by vibration sources such as road traffic and construction exhibit complicated properties during propagation from the vibration source to the inside of a building. In the present paper, a numerical analysis technique for the system of vibration source and propagation path of ground vibration is developed in order to systematically determine the propagation properties of the vibration as part of developing a predictive technique for exposure evaluations by vibrations in three directions at receiving points of vibration in the human body. First, the exciting forces in three directions for input into the numerical computation are inversely-estimated by using the measured acceleration rec- ords of the measurement points, which are near the vibration source. The thin-layered element method is used for numerical computation of the ground vibration. Then, the calculation results for the ground vibration obtained by using the estimated exciting force are compared with the measured results, and the influence of the stratified structure of the ground on the exciting force and the propagation properties of the ground vibration are studied. From these results, in a prediction of the ground vibration in three directions, it is emphasized that it is necessary to consider the influence of horizontal exciting force, although attention has been paid to only the vertical exciting force for simulating ground vibration.

An Exciting Day

One Wednesday morning 1 eleven o'clock, Tom was walking down Main Street. 2 he heard the sound of gun (手枪), he 3 the sound must come from the bank. He ran to the bank and 4 a man coming out of the bank.

An Exciting Day

One Wednesday morning 1 eleven o'clock, Tom was walking down Main Street. 2 he heard the sound of gun (手枪), he 3 the sound must come from the bank.He ran to the bank and 4 a man coming out of the bank. The man was 5 and fat 6 red hair.What's more,he carried a bag and a gun in his hand. Before Tom could do _7_,he had run into the street and disappeared(消失)among people.

REGULARITY OF VIBRATION RESPONSE OF MECHANICAL SYSTEM UNDER AFFECT OF VARI-FREQUENCY EXCITING FORCE

The vibration response formulas of the mechanical system under the affect of thevari-frequency exciting force are deduced. It is proved by the theoretical analysis and experimentalresults that the vibration response amplitude of the mechanical system under the affect of thevari-frequency exciting force is far smaller than that under the affect of the constant frequency exciting force on condition that the exciting force amplitudes are just the same;while the vari-fre-quency rate a increases to 5 Hz per second the vibration amplitude will decrease to 10% only as lowas that under the affect of the constant frequency exciting force. All these conclusions will be of significance for revealing the mechanism of suppressing chatter in van-speed cutting and analyzing theexperimental results of sine-wave scanning exciting test.

Ancient Flavor, Exciting Acrobatics

Chaoyang Theatre is famous for presenting acrobatic shows in Beijing. For Sichuan Suining Acrobatic Troupe, the performance here in the theatre is as usually-fully seated and most audiences are tourists from abroad. However,

LET'S MAKE ENGLISH MORE EXCITING

"Teacher, what are we going to do next class?" This is an exciting question which I often hear from my students. As an English conversation teacher, I can make the learning of English either a dull and boring duty, or an exciting adventure. It is very important that I make my students hate missing my class, and keep them guessing just what will happen the next time! Let us consider some important ways that any teacher can help his other students want to do

An Exciting Time for Steel City

Panzhihua, in south Sichuan’s basin, is aptly called West China’s Industrial Pearl, and "treasure bowl." This city is well known as the home of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group Company and Ertan Hydropower Station. At the beginning of 2004, two major events thrust this city into the limelight.

Robust control of exciting force for vibration control system with multi-exciters

Due to the dynamical character of electromagnetic exciter and the coupling between structure and exciter(s),the actual output force acting on the structure is usually not equal to the exact value that is supposed to be,especially when multi-exciters are used as actuators to precisely actuate large flexible structure.It is necessary to consider these effects to ensure the force generated by each exciter is the same as required.In this paper,a robust control method is proposed for the multi-input and multi-output(MIMO)structural vibration control system to trace the target actuating force of each exciter.A special signal is designed and put into the coupled mul-ti-exciter-structure system,and the input and output signals of the system are used to build a dynamic model involving both the dynamical characters of the exciters and the structure using the subspace identification method.Considering the uncertainty factors of the multi-exciter/structure system,an H-infinity robust controller is designed to decouple the coupling between structure and exciters based on the identified system model.A MIMO vibration control system combined with a flexible plate and three electromagnetic exciters is adopted to demonstrate the proposed method,both numerical simulation and model experiments showing that the output force of each exciter can trace its target force accurately within the requested frequency band.

DEGENERATE FOUR-WAVE MIXING FOR EXCITING STATES OF MOLECULES

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION By using degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) method, the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of transparent media can be conventionally measured. Nonlinear properties of media in ground state are well known, but those in exciting state are less studied. When a medium absorbs incident radiation, a part of population can be excited into high exciting state. In DFWM this resonant enhancement effect can be used to increase the third-

Pursuing excellence to build a home for exciting discoveries

The living world remains a mystery with many exciting discoveries awaiting scientists. My interest in observing living phenomena dates back to my childhood. I was lucky enough to enter Peking University to study biology and have been on a journey of life science research ever since. Along the way, I have made stops at many scientific journals to report my discoveries. When I was a postgraduate student.

Relaxation oscillations induced by an order gap between exciting frequency and natural frequency

The main purpose of the paper is to display the relaxation oscillations, known as the bursting phenomena, for the coupled oscillators with periodic excitation with an order gap between the exciting frequency and the natural frequency. For the case when the exciting frequency is much smaller than the natural frequency, different types of bursting oscillations such as fold/fold, Hopf/Hopf bursting oscillations can be observed. By regarding the whole exciting term as a slow-varying parameter on the fact that the exciting term changes on a much smaller time scale, bifurcations sets of the generalized autonomous system is derived, which divide the parameter space into several regions associated with different types of dynamical behaviors. Two cases with typical bifurcation patterns are focused on as examples to explore the dynamical evolution with the variation of the amplitude of the external excitation. Bursting oscillations which alternate between quiescent states (QSs) and repetitive spiking states (SPs) can be obtained, the mechanism of which is presented by introducing the transformed phase portraits overlapping with the bifurcation diagrams of the generalized autonomous system. It is found that not only the forms of QSs and SPs, but also the bifurcations at the transition points between QSs and SPs, may influence the structures of bursting attractors. Furthermore, the amplitudes and the frequencies related to SPs may depend on the bifurcation patterns from the quiescent sates.

Azimuthal vector beam exciting silver triangular nanoprisms for increasing the performance of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy(SERS)with high-sensitivity performance is a very necessary detection technology.Here,we present a method for increasing the performance of SERS based on silver triangular nanoprism arrays(ATNAs)vertically excited via a focused azimuthal vector beam(AVB).The ATNA substrates with different structural parameters are prepared based on the traditional self-assembled and modified film lift-off technique.Based on a theoretical model established adopting the structural parameters of the ATNA substrates,theoretical simulation results show that AVB excitation can achieve greater electric-field enhancement than linearly polarized beam(LPB)excitation.Experimental result indicates that SERS sensitivity obtained via AVB excitation is 10^-13M(1 M=1 mol/L)using rhodamine 6 G(R6 G)as the target analyte,which is 2 orders of magnitude lower than that of LPB excitation(10^-11M).Meanwhile,the uniformity and reproducibility of the ATNA substrates are examined using Raman mapping and batch-to-batch measurement,respectively,and the Raman enhancement factor is calculated to be^3.3×10^7.This method of vector light field excitation may be used to improve the SERS performance of the substrates in fields of ultra-sensitive Raman detection.

What are Exciting in Laser Science

Recent advances in selected areas of laser science are briefly reviewed. They include laser technology, coherent control of quantum systems by lasers, X ray generation by ultrashort high intensity laser pulses, and laser spectroscopic studies of surface catalysis in real environment.

Exciting Scene, Profound Friendship——Guests of the CPAFFC Attend the Opening Ceremony Of the XXIX Olympic Games

On August 8, comrades of the CPAFFC were as excited as all the Chinese people on the day of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, over 20 foreign guests invited by the CPAFFC to attend