宽能带隙电子器件

硅集成电路和数据存贮是两种最成功的技术，目前，这两种技术继续以高速度发展。在集成电路技术中，按照摩尔定律，一块芯片上的晶体管数目每隔18个月就会翻一翻。而对于磁盘驱动技术，自1991年起磁头的总体位密度以每年60％至100％的速率增加。集成电路是通过对半导体应用电场控制载流子流动来工作的，因此关键的参数是电子或空穴上的电荷。而在磁性数据存贮中关键的参数是电子的自旋。     

Regulation of cellulose synthesis in Acetobacter xylinum by cyclic diguanylic acid

Cellulose is the most abundant renewable carbon resource on earth and is an indispensable raw material for the wood, paper, and textile industries. A model system to study the mechanism of cellulose biogenesis is the bacterium Acetobacter xylinum which produces pure cellulose as an extracellular product. It was from this organism that in vitro preparations which possessed high levels of cellulose synthase activity were first obtained in both membranous and soluble forms. We recently demonstrated that this activity is subject to a complex multi-component regulatory system, in which the synthase is directly affected by an unusual cyclic nucleotide activator enzymatically formed from GTP, and indirectly by a Ca (2+) -sensitive phosphodiesterase which degrades the activator. The cellulose synthase activator (CSA) has now been identified as bis-(3' 5')-cyclic diguanylic acid (5'G3'p5'G3'p) on the basis of mass spectroscopic data, nuclear magnetic resonance analysis and comparison with chemically synthesized material. We also report here on intermediary steps in the synthesis and degradation of this novel circular dinucleotide, which have been integrated into a model for the regulation of cellulose synthesis.     

日本核安全措施的现状

去年10月12日,核安全委员会发表了1989年核安全年报.为了回答民众对切尔诺贝利事故激发的不断增长的核电站安全的关心,该报告就"核电站的故障与失灵和吸取教训等"问题,着重审查了日本核电站安全保障的概念以及它们与故障、失灵的关系.该报告也提出了当代大事件(故障、失灵和其他事件)的详细     

沃森博士谈人体基因解译计划与日本

詹姆斯·沃森(James D WAFSON)是人体基因解译计划负责人.他以1961年肯尼迪总统决定将人类送往月球那样的口气,就该计划的重要性作了如此叙述:"为了彻底搞清具有30亿碱基对的人体遗传基因序列,最终需花去相当于将美国人送抵月球的十分之一左右的费用.但是,基因解译计划对人类生活所     

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations before 2.2 billion years ago

The composition of the Earth's early atmosphere is a subject of continuing debate. In particular, it has been suggested that elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide would have been necessary to maintain normal surface temperatures in the face of lower solar luminosity in early Earth history. Fossil weathering profiles, known as palaeosols, have provided semi-quantitative constraints on atmospheric oxygen partial pressure (pO2) before 2.2 Gyr ago. Here we use the same well studied palaeosols to constrain atmospheric pCO2 between 2.75 and 2.2 Gyr ago. The observation that iron lost from the tops of these profiles was reprecipitated lower down as iron silicate minerals, rather than as iron carbonate, indicates that atmospheric pCO2 must have been less than 10(-1.4) atm--about 100 times today's level of 360 p.p.m., and at least five times lower than that required in one-dimensional climate models to compensate for lower solar luminosity at 2.75 Gyr. Our results suggest that either the Earth's early climate was much more sensitive to increases in pCO2 than has been thought, or that one or more greenhouse gases other than CO2 contributed significantly to the atmosphere's radiative balance during the late Archaean and early Proterozoic eons.     

微波在白血病无损探测中的应用：FDTD分析模型

讨论应用微波对白血病进行无损探测的可能性,采用柱坐标系下时域有限差分（ＦＤＴＤ）法分析人体小腿的微波散射特性及白血病的存在对其微波散射特性产生的影响．数值结果表明,通过测量人体小腿上部的微波散射特性,可以反演出骨髓介电特性的变化情况,据此判断白血病存在的可能性及病变的程度．该技术可应用于白血病的无损探测及治疗过程中的监测