[Objective] The aim was to clone H6H gene from Atropa belladonna and construct an efficient plant expression vector.[Method] The coding sequence of H6H(Hyoscyamine 6β-hydroxylase)was cloned from Atropa belladonna w...[Objective] The aim was to clone H6H gene from Atropa belladonna and construct an efficient plant expression vector.[Method] The coding sequence of H6H(Hyoscyamine 6β-hydroxylase)was cloned from Atropa belladonna with RT-PCR.Then,the sequence was subcloned into the reconstructed plant binary expression vector p2301 to construct the recombinant vector p2301-H6H,which was then introduced into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 and Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain C58C1,respectively.[Result] The engineering bacteria p2301-H6H-LBA4404 and p2301-H6H-C58C1 which could be directly used in genetic improvement were obtained.[Conclusion] The present research provided basis for the increasing of alkaloid content of Atropa belladonna by plant genetic engineering technology.展开更多
[Objective] The research aimed to establish the high frequency regeneration system of Atropa belladonna L. and screen the kanamycin (Kan) resistance. [Method] The leaves and axillary buds of Atropa belladonna L. wer...[Objective] The research aimed to establish the high frequency regeneration system of Atropa belladonna L. and screen the kanamycin (Kan) resistance. [Method] The leaves and axillary buds of Atropa belladonna L. were as the explants,the influences of different ratios of 6-BA and NAA in the medium on the adventitious bud differentiation and the sensibility of leaf on Kan were studied. [Result] MS+4.5 mg/L 6-BA+0.2 mg/L NAA was the optimum medium of leaf adventitious bud differentiation,and the differentiation ratio of adventitious bud reached 100%. The number of adventitious bud differentiation on 1. 0 cm ×1. 0 cm leaf block averagely reached 5.85. MS+3.0 mg/L 6-BA+0.1 mg/L NAA was the optimum medium of axillary bud adventitious bud differentiation,and the differentiation ratio of adventitious bud reached 100%. The average number of adventitious bud differentiation in every axillary bud was during 4-8. The optimum screening concentration for genetic transformation of Atropa belladonna L. leaf was 400.0 mg/L of Kan. [Conclusion] The research laid the foundation for the rapid propagation of Atropa belladonna L. aseptic seedling and the genetic transformation based on the leaf disc cocultivation.展开更多
Experiments simulating the effect of coal mine stopping through a fault zone were designed based on a working face of the Qianqiu coal mine in Yima, China. Through simulation of the physical process of fault reactivat...Experiments simulating the effect of coal mine stopping through a fault zone were designed based on a working face of the Qianqiu coal mine in Yima, China. Through simulation of the physical process of fault reactivation and coal bumps, the displacement of the surrounding strata and evolution characteristics of fault stress under the effect of mining were studied. The mechanism of fault reactivation induced by coal mining was analyzed. The results show that shortly before fault reactiva- tion, the normal stress and shear stress increased rapidly and the risk of a fault slip occurring was also increased. The fault reac- tivation, caused by the mining activity, occurred when the working face was 25-35 m from the fault along the hanging wall. The influence of mining increased the possibility of fault reactivation, while the local failure of the bearing capacity of the working face was the direct cause of the fault slip. Our results indicate that the influence of fault slip on the coal of the working face had a transient impact and acted as a loading-unloading function.展开更多
An accurate finite element ( FE ) model of the human middle ear can provide better understanding of the mechanics of middle ear, and can be used for aiding the design of the implantable middle ear hearing devices. I...An accurate finite element ( FE ) model of the human middle ear can provide better understanding of the mechanics of middle ear, and can be used for aiding the design of the implantable middle ear hearing devices. In this paper, a threedimensional (3D) FE model of the human middle ear was constructed, including the tympanic membrane, ossicular bones, and middle ear suspensory ligaments/museles. This model was constructed based on a complete set of computerized tomography section images of a healthy volunteer's left ear by reverse engineering technology. The validity of this model was confirmed by comparing the motions of the tympanic membrane and stapes footplate obtained by this model with published experimental measurements on human temporal bones. The result shows that the model is reasonable in predicting the biomechanics of the human middle ear.展开更多
In this note,by combining the nice numerical performance of PR and HS methods with the global convergence property of FR method,a class of new restarting three terms conjugate gradient methods is presented.Global conv...In this note,by combining the nice numerical performance of PR and HS methods with the global convergence property of FR method,a class of new restarting three terms conjugate gradient methods is presented.Global convergence properties of the new method with two kinds of common line searches are proved.展开更多
Invertible conditions,indices and periods of matrices over an incline are considered.In all proofs multiplicative commutativity is not used.Some results about invertibility, indices and periods in a commutative inclin...Invertible conditions,indices and periods of matrices over an incline are considered.In all proofs multiplicative commutativity is not used.Some results about invertibility, indices and periods in a commutative incline are proved to be correct also for any incline.展开更多
Yukio Ninagawa (1935-2016) was expected to achieve in a few years the great milestone of directing the complete collection of Shakespeare plays in new Japanese translations. This paper reconsiders Ninagawa's direct...Yukio Ninagawa (1935-2016) was expected to achieve in a few years the great milestone of directing the complete collection of Shakespeare plays in new Japanese translations. This paper reconsiders Ninagawa's direction from a global/local perspective with a special focus on several last works directed by him: Richard II, performed by young players of the Saitama Next Theater in February 2012, which was especially intended for the local Japanese audience; Ninagawa Macbeth, which was performed in September 2015 and was a revival of the director's internationally-acclaimed production, first performed in Japan in 1980 and abroad in 1985 onwards; and Two Gentlemen of Verona, the thirty-first in his series of Shakespeare plays and seventh in his series of Shakespeare plays with all-male casts, in October 2015. His last plays were not as perfect as he was still experimenting. This paper concludes, however, that while possessed by the power of theater, his direction emits its magical and subversive power and suggestion to give the audience vital energy to live in this world of tough conflicts. He continued to hope to make global and local spectators wonder at the plays he directed.展开更多
The use of "should" in the applied translation studies such as translators training, translation aids and translation criticism has proved to be one of the most important tools for progress in the discipline since H...The use of "should" in the applied translation studies such as translators training, translation aids and translation criticism has proved to be one of the most important tools for progress in the discipline since Holme put forward the basic map of Translation Studies. In this paper, the author discusses mainly the use of "should" in translation criticism, arguing that, the many advantages to be had by this method notwithstanding, there are problems. For example, it is not always fair to judge one translator's work too soon and too sure; and offering overwhelming advice induces disrespect to the translator. For these reasons, the author argues, it is worth exploring ways of translation criticism beyond traditional mode of"should" which may seem subversive of standard uses, either alone or in conjunction with Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS).展开更多
The 16th-century Protestant Reformation shattered the foundations of faith and art. As traditional theology was both besieged and defended, art had to adapt. Of course, a new theology needed new kinds of pictorial ext...The 16th-century Protestant Reformation shattered the foundations of faith and art. As traditional theology was both besieged and defended, art had to adapt. Of course, a new theology needed new kinds of pictorial extrapolations. But truly, the most interesting change was hidden in plain sight. Subjects that may have looked familiar were in fact utterly new, because subversive ideas and contexts uprooted older meanings. The painting Madonna with Parrots (1533), by Hans Baldung Grien demoted the chaste protectress by transforming her into a flawed, even dangerous, human mother. In the painting, an oddly sultry Virgin shows off her breast, her shoulder, and her chest as a parrot nibbles her neck. The complexities of Baldung's painting underpin debates about the status of the Virgin during the Reformation and the freedom of an artist to tamper with sacred subject matter.展开更多
Purpose: Sports participation and physical fitness are widely beneficial for young people, yet activity levels among young people are declining.Despite growing popular media attention on the participation of sexual mi...Purpose: Sports participation and physical fitness are widely beneficial for young people, yet activity levels among young people are declining.Despite growing popular media attention on the participation of sexual minority(e.g., lesbian, gay, and bisexual) youth in sports and various campaigns to improve the often homophobic climate of sports, there is limited evidence that sexual minority youth participate in sports. Our aim was to provide a current portrait of sports participation among 3 groups of sexual minority youth(e.g., lesbian, gay, and bisexual) in British Columbia, Canada, as well as to document population trends.Methods: Pooled population-level data from British Columbia, Canada(n = 99,373) were used to examine trends and disparities in sports participation among sexual minority and heterosexual youth. Age-adjusted logistic regression models were used to examine changes in participation over time and disparities in participation over time(1998—2013).Results: We found an overall decline in sports participation and physical activity(PA) for all youth. Sexual minority students were less likely to participate in formal sports(with a coach) and informal sports(without a coach) compared with their heterosexual peers. The disparity in participating in informal sports between heterosexual and sexual minority youth has narrowed over time for some sexual orientation groups, whereas the disparity in participating in formal sports has widened over time in some cases.Conclusion: This study provides a comprehensive examination of sports participation among sexual minority youth over the past 15 years.Despite changing societal attitudes and laudable efforts to reduce homophobia in sports, results suggest that there are continued barriers to participation for sexual minority youth. Further research is needed to understand the factors that limit sports participation for these youth and to inform program development. PA is critical to lifelong health and well-being, and thus continued efforts are needed to increase the sports participation of sexual minority youth in particular.展开更多
Orwell's text The Road to Wigan Pier, henceforth referred to as RWP, is problematic due to the ambiguity of its status as a literary genre. The text is subversive on many levels, namely on the level of form. In order...Orwell's text The Road to Wigan Pier, henceforth referred to as RWP, is problematic due to the ambiguity of its status as a literary genre. The text is subversive on many levels, namely on the level of form. In order to show some aspects of the author's challenge of the conventional norms and methods of literary writing, a comparison between the writer's original diary of the journey to the industrial North of England, the main site of the coal mines, and the present book could be of great import. This reveals the author's genuine intellectual ability to manipulate and rearrange the events and scenes of the story on the discourse level. The author's manipulation and rearrangement of the story (the journey), events and scenes, clearly reveals his potential literary creativity and imagination. Orwell has deployed many strategies to fulfil this purpose. Each strategy is actually a contribution to the author's overall argument and at the same time it constitutes a further aspect of subversion. The first aspect of subversion lies on the level of form itself. The form of the book is effectively very challenging. Contrary to the conventional view of the fictional novel, the study of Orwell's text based on Grrard Genette's model reveals his challenge of the basic novelistic parameters. The novelistic ingredients such as setting, characterisation, and plot development have been treated in a subverting way. Though not totally discarded, they have been manipulated for the purpose of the author's general argument, which is Socialism. For instance, characters in the novel are treated as types, that is, representatives of their class. Besides, the order of scenes and events has been rearranged for the purpose of foregrounding representative scenes like the description of the Brookers' lodging-house. The author's treatment of the material of the text is primarily based on his personal experience as an outside observer during his journey to the North. Therefore, the exploration of the novel from a structuralist perspective based on Genette's model does not merely aim at the pure application of some literary and critical approaches to Orwell's text. This may be misleading since the investigation may fall in superficiality and simplicity. But the strategy deployed is actually a further contribution to the author's general argument and a manifestation of the novel's status as a creative and subversive text.展开更多
基金Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing~~
文摘[Objective] The aim was to clone H6H gene from Atropa belladonna and construct an efficient plant expression vector.[Method] The coding sequence of H6H(Hyoscyamine 6β-hydroxylase)was cloned from Atropa belladonna with RT-PCR.Then,the sequence was subcloned into the reconstructed plant binary expression vector p2301 to construct the recombinant vector p2301-H6H,which was then introduced into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 and Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain C58C1,respectively.[Result] The engineering bacteria p2301-H6H-LBA4404 and p2301-H6H-C58C1 which could be directly used in genetic improvement were obtained.[Conclusion] The present research provided basis for the increasing of alkaloid content of Atropa belladonna by plant genetic engineering technology.
基金Supported by National High Technology Research Development Plan Item (2010AA100503)~~
文摘[Objective] The research aimed to establish the high frequency regeneration system of Atropa belladonna L. and screen the kanamycin (Kan) resistance. [Method] The leaves and axillary buds of Atropa belladonna L. were as the explants,the influences of different ratios of 6-BA and NAA in the medium on the adventitious bud differentiation and the sensibility of leaf on Kan were studied. [Result] MS+4.5 mg/L 6-BA+0.2 mg/L NAA was the optimum medium of leaf adventitious bud differentiation,and the differentiation ratio of adventitious bud reached 100%. The number of adventitious bud differentiation on 1. 0 cm ×1. 0 cm leaf block averagely reached 5.85. MS+3.0 mg/L 6-BA+0.1 mg/L NAA was the optimum medium of axillary bud adventitious bud differentiation,and the differentiation ratio of adventitious bud reached 100%. The average number of adventitious bud differentiation in every axillary bud was during 4-8. The optimum screening concentration for genetic transformation of Atropa belladonna L. leaf was 400.0 mg/L of Kan. [Conclusion] The research laid the foundation for the rapid propagation of Atropa belladonna L. aseptic seedling and the genetic transformation based on the leaf disc cocultivation.
基金Supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program Fund (2010CB226801) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50704034) the State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining Open Research Fund (SKLCRSM11KFB08)
文摘Experiments simulating the effect of coal mine stopping through a fault zone were designed based on a working face of the Qianqiu coal mine in Yima, China. Through simulation of the physical process of fault reactivation and coal bumps, the displacement of the surrounding strata and evolution characteristics of fault stress under the effect of mining were studied. The mechanism of fault reactivation induced by coal mining was analyzed. The results show that shortly before fault reactiva- tion, the normal stress and shear stress increased rapidly and the risk of a fault slip occurring was also increased. The fault reac- tivation, caused by the mining activity, occurred when the working face was 25-35 m from the fault along the hanging wall. The influence of mining increased the possibility of fault reactivation, while the local failure of the bearing capacity of the working face was the direct cause of the fault slip. Our results indicate that the influence of fault slip on the coal of the working face had a transient impact and acted as a loading-unloading function.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No. 10772121)Med-Science Cross Research Foundation of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China(No.YG2007MS14)
文摘An accurate finite element ( FE ) model of the human middle ear can provide better understanding of the mechanics of middle ear, and can be used for aiding the design of the implantable middle ear hearing devices. In this paper, a threedimensional (3D) FE model of the human middle ear was constructed, including the tympanic membrane, ossicular bones, and middle ear suspensory ligaments/museles. This model was constructed based on a complete set of computerized tomography section images of a healthy volunteer's left ear by reverse engineering technology. The validity of this model was confirmed by comparing the motions of the tympanic membrane and stapes footplate obtained by this model with published experimental measurements on human temporal bones. The result shows that the model is reasonable in predicting the biomechanics of the human middle ear.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10571106) Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(10CX04044A)
文摘In this note,by combining the nice numerical performance of PR and HS methods with the global convergence property of FR method,a class of new restarting three terms conjugate gradient methods is presented.Global convergence properties of the new method with two kinds of common line searches are proved.
基金Supported by the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(11YZ225)
文摘Invertible conditions,indices and periods of matrices over an incline are considered.In all proofs multiplicative commutativity is not used.Some results about invertibility, indices and periods in a commutative incline are proved to be correct also for any incline.
文摘Yukio Ninagawa (1935-2016) was expected to achieve in a few years the great milestone of directing the complete collection of Shakespeare plays in new Japanese translations. This paper reconsiders Ninagawa's direction from a global/local perspective with a special focus on several last works directed by him: Richard II, performed by young players of the Saitama Next Theater in February 2012, which was especially intended for the local Japanese audience; Ninagawa Macbeth, which was performed in September 2015 and was a revival of the director's internationally-acclaimed production, first performed in Japan in 1980 and abroad in 1985 onwards; and Two Gentlemen of Verona, the thirty-first in his series of Shakespeare plays and seventh in his series of Shakespeare plays with all-male casts, in October 2015. His last plays were not as perfect as he was still experimenting. This paper concludes, however, that while possessed by the power of theater, his direction emits its magical and subversive power and suggestion to give the audience vital energy to live in this world of tough conflicts. He continued to hope to make global and local spectators wonder at the plays he directed.
文摘The use of "should" in the applied translation studies such as translators training, translation aids and translation criticism has proved to be one of the most important tools for progress in the discipline since Holme put forward the basic map of Translation Studies. In this paper, the author discusses mainly the use of "should" in translation criticism, arguing that, the many advantages to be had by this method notwithstanding, there are problems. For example, it is not always fair to judge one translator's work too soon and too sure; and offering overwhelming advice induces disrespect to the translator. For these reasons, the author argues, it is worth exploring ways of translation criticism beyond traditional mode of"should" which may seem subversive of standard uses, either alone or in conjunction with Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS).
文摘The 16th-century Protestant Reformation shattered the foundations of faith and art. As traditional theology was both besieged and defended, art had to adapt. Of course, a new theology needed new kinds of pictorial extrapolations. But truly, the most interesting change was hidden in plain sight. Subjects that may have looked familiar were in fact utterly new, because subversive ideas and contexts uprooted older meanings. The painting Madonna with Parrots (1533), by Hans Baldung Grien demoted the chaste protectress by transforming her into a flawed, even dangerous, human mother. In the painting, an oddly sultry Virgin shows off her breast, her shoulder, and her chest as a parrot nibbles her neck. The complexities of Baldung's painting underpin debates about the status of the Virgin during the Reformation and the freedom of an artist to tamper with sacred subject matter.
基金funded by grants #CPP 86374 and #MOP 119472 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
文摘Purpose: Sports participation and physical fitness are widely beneficial for young people, yet activity levels among young people are declining.Despite growing popular media attention on the participation of sexual minority(e.g., lesbian, gay, and bisexual) youth in sports and various campaigns to improve the often homophobic climate of sports, there is limited evidence that sexual minority youth participate in sports. Our aim was to provide a current portrait of sports participation among 3 groups of sexual minority youth(e.g., lesbian, gay, and bisexual) in British Columbia, Canada, as well as to document population trends.Methods: Pooled population-level data from British Columbia, Canada(n = 99,373) were used to examine trends and disparities in sports participation among sexual minority and heterosexual youth. Age-adjusted logistic regression models were used to examine changes in participation over time and disparities in participation over time(1998—2013).Results: We found an overall decline in sports participation and physical activity(PA) for all youth. Sexual minority students were less likely to participate in formal sports(with a coach) and informal sports(without a coach) compared with their heterosexual peers. The disparity in participating in informal sports between heterosexual and sexual minority youth has narrowed over time for some sexual orientation groups, whereas the disparity in participating in formal sports has widened over time in some cases.Conclusion: This study provides a comprehensive examination of sports participation among sexual minority youth over the past 15 years.Despite changing societal attitudes and laudable efforts to reduce homophobia in sports, results suggest that there are continued barriers to participation for sexual minority youth. Further research is needed to understand the factors that limit sports participation for these youth and to inform program development. PA is critical to lifelong health and well-being, and thus continued efforts are needed to increase the sports participation of sexual minority youth in particular.
文摘Orwell's text The Road to Wigan Pier, henceforth referred to as RWP, is problematic due to the ambiguity of its status as a literary genre. The text is subversive on many levels, namely on the level of form. In order to show some aspects of the author's challenge of the conventional norms and methods of literary writing, a comparison between the writer's original diary of the journey to the industrial North of England, the main site of the coal mines, and the present book could be of great import. This reveals the author's genuine intellectual ability to manipulate and rearrange the events and scenes of the story on the discourse level. The author's manipulation and rearrangement of the story (the journey), events and scenes, clearly reveals his potential literary creativity and imagination. Orwell has deployed many strategies to fulfil this purpose. Each strategy is actually a contribution to the author's overall argument and at the same time it constitutes a further aspect of subversion. The first aspect of subversion lies on the level of form itself. The form of the book is effectively very challenging. Contrary to the conventional view of the fictional novel, the study of Orwell's text based on Grrard Genette's model reveals his challenge of the basic novelistic parameters. The novelistic ingredients such as setting, characterisation, and plot development have been treated in a subverting way. Though not totally discarded, they have been manipulated for the purpose of the author's general argument, which is Socialism. For instance, characters in the novel are treated as types, that is, representatives of their class. Besides, the order of scenes and events has been rearranged for the purpose of foregrounding representative scenes like the description of the Brookers' lodging-house. The author's treatment of the material of the text is primarily based on his personal experience as an outside observer during his journey to the North. Therefore, the exploration of the novel from a structuralist perspective based on Genette's model does not merely aim at the pure application of some literary and critical approaches to Orwell's text. This may be misleading since the investigation may fall in superficiality and simplicity. But the strategy deployed is actually a further contribution to the author's general argument and a manifestation of the novel's status as a creative and subversive text.