The present paper deals with the taxonomic reexamination and description of two species of Chirolophis collected in Chinese waters from the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. C. japonicus Herzenstein, 1890 was previously r...The present paper deals with the taxonomic reexamination and description of two species of Chirolophis collected in Chinese waters from the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. C. japonicus Herzenstein, 1890 was previously reported and known by its synonym Azuma emmnion Jordan and Snyder, 1902; C. saitone (Jordan et Snyder, 1902) represents the first record of this species in China from Bohai Sea. A key for their identification and a discussion on all the nominal species and their geographic distribution are provided.展开更多
Despite concerted efforts to create employment opportunities and the realized economic growth between 2000 and 2005, the unemployment rate in Namibia currently stands at 27.4%, according to the Labour Force Survey rel...Despite concerted efforts to create employment opportunities and the realized economic growth between 2000 and 2005, the unemployment rate in Namibia currently stands at 27.4%, according to the Labour Force Survey released in April 2013. The percentage of employed males in Namibia stands at 41.6% while that of employed females stand at 28.8% according to the National Human Resources Plan of May 2013. Analysts have put the blame on adverse climatic conditions, limited levels of skills, access to finance, and the structure of the economy. The frustration and discomfort caused by unemployment, especially among the youth, can threaten the country＇s peace and stability as it negatively impacts on the standard of living, crime rates, family happiness, and drug abuse.To date, studies on employment in Namibia have mainly concentrated on the micro and macro econometric approaches. It is important to examine how bio-demographic characteristics affect employment. This paper uses data from the 2010 Income and expenditure survey to establish the bio-demographic determinants of employment by fitting a binary logistic model. The outcome variable is employment status which is dichotomous. The independent variables which were guided by review of related literature and availability of data in the Income and Expenditure survey data set, included age-group, region, place of residence, marital status, education level, and gender. Results indicated that employment prospects in Namibia were influenced by the region, gender, marital status, and education level.展开更多
The human error mechanism in coal mine safety is analyzed specifically from safety psychological and physiological factors, worker＇ s quality, safety management, safety education, mechanical equipment, and working en...The human error mechanism in coal mine safety is analyzed specifically from safety psychological and physiological factors, worker＇ s quality, safety management, safety education, mechanical equipment, and working environment, and also a human error＇ dominant factors classification model playing a great effect on the safety production of coal mine is established with the application of ant clustering algorithm. The experimental results show that management is the key in the human errors of coal mine.展开更多
The diversity and classification of microbes has been a long-standing issue.Molecular phylogeny of the prokaryotes based on comparison of the 16S rRNA sequences of the small ribosomal subunit has led to a reasonable t...The diversity and classification of microbes has been a long-standing issue.Molecular phylogeny of the prokaryotes based on comparison of the 16S rRNA sequences of the small ribosomal subunit has led to a reasonable tree of life in the late 1970s. How-ever, the availability of more and more complete bacterial genomes has brought about complications instead of refinement of the tree. In particular, it turns out that different choice of genes may tell different history. This might be caused by possible horizontal gene transfer (HGT) among species. There is an urgent need to develop phylogenetic methods that make use of whole genome data. We describe a new approach in molecular phylogeny,namely, tree construction based on K-tuple frequency analysis of the genomic sequences.Putting aside the technicalities, we emphasize the transition from randomness to determin-ism when the string length K increases and try to comment on the challenge mentioned in the title.展开更多
Distant hybridization refers to crosses between two different species or higher-ranking taxa that enables interspecific genome transfer and leads to changes in phenotypes and genotypes of the resulting progeny.If prog...Distant hybridization refers to crosses between two different species or higher-ranking taxa that enables interspecific genome transfer and leads to changes in phenotypes and genotypes of the resulting progeny.If progeny derived from distant hybridization are bisexual and fertile,they can form a hybrid lineage through self-mating,with major implications for evolutionary biology,genetics,and breeding.Here,we review and summarize the published literature,and present our results on fish distant hybridization.Relevant problems involving distant hybridization between orders,families,subfamilies,genera,and species of animals are introduced and discussed,with an additional focus on fish distant hybrid lineages,genetic variation,patterns,and applications.Our review serves as a useful reference for evolutionary biology research and animal genetic breeding.展开更多
Graphical representation of DNA sequences is a key component in studying biological problems. In order to gain new insights in DNA sequences, this paper combined the digitized methods of single-base, base pairs and co...Graphical representation of DNA sequences is a key component in studying biological problems. In order to gain new insights in DNA sequences, this paper combined the digitized methods of single-base, base pairs and coding in triplet bases with the times of base appearing, and then a novel 4D graphical representation method of DNA sequences was put forward. It was a one-to-one correspondence of the arbitrary DNA sequence and 4D graphical representation, that avoided causing non-unique 4D graphical representation and overlapping lines. The method could reflect the biological information features of DNA sequence more comprehensively and effectively without any losses. Based on the 4D graphical representation, we used the geometric center of 4D graphical representation as eigenvalue of DNA sequences analyses, which kept the original features of the data, and then established the Euclidean distances and included angles between vectors＇ ter- minal point for similarity analyses of the first extron of the beta-globulin gene among 11 species. Finally, we established the graph of systematic hierarchical cluster analysis of 11 species to observe more easily the relationship between species. A positive outcome was reached, and the results were in accord with biological taxonomy, which also supported the rationality and effectiveness of the novel 4D graphical representation.展开更多
基金Supported by the NSFC (No. 30370185), and the Key Laboratory of Animal Biology, Chongqing Education Committee.
文摘The present paper deals with the taxonomic reexamination and description of two species of Chirolophis collected in Chinese waters from the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. C. japonicus Herzenstein, 1890 was previously reported and known by its synonym Azuma emmnion Jordan and Snyder, 1902; C. saitone (Jordan et Snyder, 1902) represents the first record of this species in China from Bohai Sea. A key for their identification and a discussion on all the nominal species and their geographic distribution are provided.
文摘Despite concerted efforts to create employment opportunities and the realized economic growth between 2000 and 2005, the unemployment rate in Namibia currently stands at 27.4%, according to the Labour Force Survey released in April 2013. The percentage of employed males in Namibia stands at 41.6% while that of employed females stand at 28.8% according to the National Human Resources Plan of May 2013. Analysts have put the blame on adverse climatic conditions, limited levels of skills, access to finance, and the structure of the economy. The frustration and discomfort caused by unemployment, especially among the youth, can threaten the country＇s peace and stability as it negatively impacts on the standard of living, crime rates, family happiness, and drug abuse.To date, studies on employment in Namibia have mainly concentrated on the micro and macro econometric approaches. It is important to examine how bio-demographic characteristics affect employment. This paper uses data from the 2010 Income and expenditure survey to establish the bio-demographic determinants of employment by fitting a binary logistic model. The outcome variable is employment status which is dichotomous. The independent variables which were guided by review of related literature and availability of data in the Income and Expenditure survey data set, included age-group, region, place of residence, marital status, education level, and gender. Results indicated that employment prospects in Namibia were influenced by the region, gender, marital status, and education level.
文摘The human error mechanism in coal mine safety is analyzed specifically from safety psychological and physiological factors, worker＇ s quality, safety management, safety education, mechanical equipment, and working environment, and also a human error＇ dominant factors classification model playing a great effect on the safety production of coal mine is established with the application of ant clustering algorithm. The experimental results show that management is the key in the human errors of coal mine.
基金supported by The National Basic Research Development Program of China(No.2009CB42115)the National Natural Science foundation of China(No.40901289),and WWF China
基金This work was partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China,the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Project,the Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and the Major Innovation Research Project"248"of Beijing Munic
文摘The diversity and classification of microbes has been a long-standing issue.Molecular phylogeny of the prokaryotes based on comparison of the 16S rRNA sequences of the small ribosomal subunit has led to a reasonable tree of life in the late 1970s. How-ever, the availability of more and more complete bacterial genomes has brought about complications instead of refinement of the tree. In particular, it turns out that different choice of genes may tell different history. This might be caused by possible horizontal gene transfer (HGT) among species. There is an urgent need to develop phylogenetic methods that make use of whole genome data. We describe a new approach in molecular phylogeny,namely, tree construction based on K-tuple frequency analysis of the genomic sequences.Putting aside the technicalities, we emphasize the transition from randomness to determin-ism when the string length K increases and try to comment on the challenge mentioned in the title.
基金supported by the Major International Cooperation Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31210103918)Training Program of the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91331105)+3 种基金the National Key Basic Research Program of China(2012CB722305)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(2011AA100403)the Cooperative Innovation Center of Engineering and New Products for Developmental Biology of Hunan Province(20134486)the Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province and China
文摘Distant hybridization refers to crosses between two different species or higher-ranking taxa that enables interspecific genome transfer and leads to changes in phenotypes and genotypes of the resulting progeny.If progeny derived from distant hybridization are bisexual and fertile,they can form a hybrid lineage through self-mating,with major implications for evolutionary biology,genetics,and breeding.Here,we review and summarize the published literature,and present our results on fish distant hybridization.Relevant problems involving distant hybridization between orders,families,subfamilies,genera,and species of animals are introduced and discussed,with an additional focus on fish distant hybrid lineages,genetic variation,patterns,and applications.Our review serves as a useful reference for evolutionary biology research and animal genetic breeding.
基金The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 11271163） and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities （JUSRP51317B）.
文摘Graphical representation of DNA sequences is a key component in studying biological problems. In order to gain new insights in DNA sequences, this paper combined the digitized methods of single-base, base pairs and coding in triplet bases with the times of base appearing, and then a novel 4D graphical representation method of DNA sequences was put forward. It was a one-to-one correspondence of the arbitrary DNA sequence and 4D graphical representation, that avoided causing non-unique 4D graphical representation and overlapping lines. The method could reflect the biological information features of DNA sequence more comprehensively and effectively without any losses. Based on the 4D graphical representation, we used the geometric center of 4D graphical representation as eigenvalue of DNA sequences analyses, which kept the original features of the data, and then established the Euclidean distances and included angles between vectors＇ ter- minal point for similarity analyses of the first extron of the beta-globulin gene among 11 species. Finally, we established the graph of systematic hierarchical cluster analysis of 11 species to observe more easily the relationship between species. A positive outcome was reached, and the results were in accord with biological taxonomy, which also supported the rationality and effectiveness of the novel 4D graphical representation.
