The spatial characteristic of the short－term and imminent anomalies of waterradonbe┐foreearthquakeinthemainlandofChina

The changes of radon content in underground water(water radon)recorded at about 200 stations in 32 earthquakes occurred in the mainland of China are studied in this paper. The result shows that the spatial distribution of short term and imminent anomalies of water radon before earthquake seems to be mainly related to the active master fault nearby the hypocenter of an earthquake and the earthquake generating mechanism. Finally, some understandings on the mechanism of the aomalies and the imminent earthquake prediction are set forth.

Short-term and imminent geomagnetic anomalies of the Wenchuan M_S8.0 earthquake and exploration on earthquake forecast

The diurnal variation of the geomagnetic vertical component is exhibited mainly by changes of phase and amplitude before strong earthquakes. Based on data recorded by the network of geomagnetic observatories in China for many years, the anomalous features of the appearance time of the minima of diurnal variations （i.e, low-point time） of the geo- magnetic vertical components and the variation of their spatial distribution （i.e, phenomena of low-point displacement） have been studied before the Wenchuan Ms8.0 earthquake. The strong aftershocks after two months＇ quiescence of M6 aftershocks of the Ms8.0 event were forecasted based on these studies. There are good correlativities between these geomagnetic anoma- lies and occurrences of earthquakes. It has been found that most earthquakes occur near the boundary line of sudden changes of the low-point time and generally within four days before or after the 27th or 41st day counting from the day of the appearance of the anomaly. In addition, the imminent anomalies in diurnal-variation amplitudes near the epicentral areas have also been studied before the Wenchuan earthquake.

The Role of Antioxidant Vitamin C on Imminent Abortion through Interaction of Superoxide Dismutase, Interferon-γ, Interleukin-4, Vascular Cells Adhesion Molecule-1, and Decidual Spiral Arteries Blood Flow

Imminent abortion needs more serious attention since it remains a big problem in Indonesia considering its epidemiology, morbidity, mortality,?and prognosis. In fact, some cases can still be prevented.?The objective of this study was to determine pathogenesis, diagnosis,?and prognosis of imminent abortion through the role of antioxidant vitamin C in the interaction of superoxide dismutase (SOD), interferon-γ?(IFN-γ), interleukin-4 (IL-4), vascular cells adhesion molecule-1?(VCAM-1), and decidual spiral artery resistance index (DSA RI).?This study took 10 months from March to December 2007 at Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Medical Faculty of?Padjadjaran?University/Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung. Sixty pregnant women who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were divided into two groups with the random clinical trial method, double-blind with?repeated measurements.?Data were analyzed statistically using t test, Mann-Whitney, Rank?Spearman, Wilcoxon, t paired, and diagnostic test.?The results of this study showed that the incidence of abortion in vitamin C group was 9 cases (30%) and placebo group was 13 cases (43.3%). There was a significant difference in SOD, IFN-γ, IL-4 and VCAM-1 level between groups of women with and without abortion (p < 0.001).?There was a significant difference of SOD level between women with abortion 655.8 (163.6) U/gHb and placebo group 824.5 (106.7) U/gHb after vitamin C administration (p = 0.008). The cutoff point of SOD?was?￡992 U/gHbwhich?showed quite high sensitivity, specificity, accuracy,?and significant difference (p < 0.001). The cutoff point abortion of DSA resistance index was ≥0.55 with 45% accuracy (p = 0.002). The highest change of IL-4 level was 60.7% in vitamin C group and VCAM-1 was?-2.2% (p < 0.05) after?vitamin C administration. There was a negative correlation in SOD changes toward IL-4 changes after vitamin C administration (r =?-0.523) (p = 0.003), a positive correlation between SOD changes and IL-4 changes (0.597) (p < 0.001), a negative correlation between SOD changes and VCAM-1 changes (r =?-0.737) (p < 0.001) and a negative correlation between SOD changes and DSA RI changes (r =?-0.208) (p = 0.022). There were significant changes in the increment of IL-4 and SOD level (p < 0.001) and a decline in IFN-γ, VCAM-1 and DSA RI (p < 0.001) before and after vitamin C administration. In conclusion, there?was a correlation between the?increase of SOD level with?the?decrease of INF-γ?level and?the?increase of IL-4 level in imminent abortion after vitamin C administration. There?was a correlation between?the?increase of SOD level with?the?decrease of DSA RI and?the?decrease of VCAM-1 level in imminent abortion after vitamin C administration. In abortion, there?was?a?decrease of SOD and IL-4 level,?as well as an?increase of IFN-γ, VCAM-1, and DSA RI level.

Seven Kinds of Animals in Imminent Danger

To protect the ecological balance and the environment for our existence, China has organized the projects to Rescue Seven Kinds of Animals, the panda, ibis, Yangtze crocodile, Hainan deer, David’s deer, big nosed antelop, and wild horse which are in imminent danger. Panda protection project. From 1992 to the year 2000, 14 panda reserves will be established, covering 4,242 sq km, including 2,479 sq km for the habitation of pandas. The construction and management of the. 13 existing panda reserves will be improved, covering 5,380 sq kin. And 17 new reserve corridors will be set up and 32 stations will be built in

Jiangxi Restructures Jiangxi Tungsten Industry Group, a Feast of Investment in the Tungsten Industry is Imminent

On August 30 this year,the state-owned enterprise reform in Jiangxi Province made fresh progress.Jiangxi,a province long acclaimed as the'Global Capital of Tungsten',this time focuses the key reform target on tungsten and rare metals.According to Chen Deqin,Secretary of the CPC Party Committee of Jiangxi Province State-owned

The imminent weakening of export momentum The analysis of China’s foreign trade of textiles from January to August

The weakening of export momentumAnalysts anticipated an imminent weakeningof export momentum for China’s textile and

Scientists Doubt Imminent Birth of Human Clone

选注者言:2003年正含笑朝我们走来。全球的科技领域将向世人展示怎样的靓丽风景呢?人们猜想,新年的第一道风景是:克隆人的诞生。从本文可以窥见,对于这个即将到来的新生命,人们忧虑大于欢乐,怀疑多于赞扬,质问压倒理解!这是有道理的。1997年诞生的多利羊,已经向人们表现了它早衰的迹象,更何况,世界第一例克隆人若生下来之后是一个个deformities/geneticabnormalities(畸形;怪胎),那将如何是好!但是,我们又必须看到问题的另一面:克隆人,也许是人类社会发展的一个必然现象。汽车诞生的时候,不是也引发过一片杂音吗?——因为,汽车能把无辜的路人撞死!

Probable satellite thermal infrared anomaly before the Zhangbei M_s=6.2 earthquake on January 10, 1998

This paper used the thermal infrared data of the satellite NOAA-AAVHRR of the north pat of North China (113°~119°E, 38°~42°N), and processed the remote sensing data through radiation adjustment, geometric adjust ment and so on by the software 'The Monitoring and Fast Process System of Earthquake Precursor Thermal Infra red Anomaly', inversed the each surface temperature. Some disturbances effect had been excluded, and thermal infrared temperature anomaly had been extracted by the picture difference method. The Zhangbei M_s=6.2 earth quake is used as the example in the paper, so that in the paper thermal infrared characteristics on time-space before earthquake and the relationship between the anomaly and the earthquake prediction have been summarized. Within more than ten days before the Zhangbei earthquake, the thermal infrared anomaly had emerged widely along Zhangjiakou-Bobal seismic belt, and the anomalous region seemed like a belt and it is also consistent with the tectonic background there; the anomaly expanded from the outside toward the earthquake focus, but the focus lay at the edge of the thermal infrared region. So it is possible to explore a new anomaly observation method for earthquake prediction by observing and studying the satellite thermal infrared anomaly before big earthquakes happen.

Deceased organ donation for transplantation: Challenges and opportunities

Organ transplantation saves thousands of lives every year but the shortage of donors is a major limiting factor to increase transplantation rates. To allow more patients to be transplanted before they die on the waitlist an increase in the number of donors is necessary. Patients with devastating irreversible brain injury, if medically suitable, are potential deceased donors and strategies are needed to successfully convert them into actual donors. Multiple steps in the process of deceased organ donation can be targeted to increase the number of organs suitable for transplant. In this review, after describing this process, we discuss current challenges and potential strategies to expand the pool of deceased donors.

Tidal wave anomalies of geoelectrical field before remote earthquakes

In this paper, geoelectrical field anomalies at Changli and Xingji station in Hebei Province were analyzed before five remote earthquakes. It was found that the anomalies mainly occurred two or three months before earthquakes, which is of importance to short-term and impendent earthquake prediction. There exhibited different characteristics in geoelectrical field anomalies, but they were closely related to tidal waves, for example, the increasing in ampli- tude at semidiurnal and semimonthly periods of tidal waves; the decreasing or disappearing in amplitude of tidal waves that should have been recorded normally at that time; while there accompanied incremental signals with high frequency, such as jump variations. It was thought that the formation mechanism of the geoelectrical anoma- lies before strong earthquakes resulted from stress-strain resonance effects when rock was weakened during the preparation process in seismic area, and then signals of electric field propagated to remote stations in free space or crust, and superposed on the geoelectric field tidal waves recorded at the stations, leading to increasing or decreasing in amplitude of geoelectrical tidal waves. The high frequency signals may be related to the variation of rock porosity, permeability and so on beneath the stations, as a result of the dynamic effects of remote earthquakes.

'Reconciliation vessel' within de Ⅰ-Ching book: Theoretical methodological analysis of its relevant hexagrams

The Ⅰ-Ching is one of the most significant texts in the literature of the world and embodies,as no other text does,the Chinese spirit and thought.Its perpetuation along millennia has exercised crucial influence on the development of Chinese philosophy and medicine.The hypotheses of its abstractions compose a 'body of assumptions' that hierarchs concepts through a self-regulated process of reciprocal control,which allows the accurate prediction of specific sequences of events according to 'fields of similarities'.This peculiarity enables this system of knowledge to make possible predictions based upon the Natural Laws with incredible accuracy,which is effective to process expectations and arguments or to affirm or reject its judgments.A detailed analysis of two consecutive hexagrams (N 23 & N 24) allows the understanding not only of the bases that consolidate the 'Reconciliation vessel' but also of the specific determination of its function in the frame of Risk management that can be compared to present ISO standards.