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Y连锁遗传性耳聋家系的发现，使遗传性耳聋的遗传方式涵盖了全部孟德尔单基因病的遗传方式，为Y染色体的结构和功能研究展开了一个新的画面。作为男性性别决定的染色体，Y染色体大部分区域可以逃脱基因交换作用，从而存在大量的重复序列。这使得研究Y连锁遗传性耳聋的致病机制、重复序列的存在意义、Y染色体的生物学功能，困难重重。本文回顾了Y连锁遗传性耳聋家系的研究进展、Y染色体的功能以及长读长测序技术对Y染色体测序的可能发现，以期为Y连锁遗传性耳聋的研究提供思路与参考。.

This paper focuses on the shear resistance of the bolted connection between steel plate and bamboo curtain plywood. From the fifteen groups of specimens, the performance grade, bolt diameter and end distance of bolts have an influence on the ultimate bearing capacity of joints and the yield load of joints and the yield load is 65%∼75% of the ultimate load. The initial stiffness of the node increases with the bolt diameter increasing. Provide certain materials and theoretical references for bamboo in the future design and research.

Non-adherence to bisphosphonates exposes the elderly female osteoporosis patients to an increased risk of fracture. This was one of the first studies to explore the relationship between medication adherence and self-perception of aging. Feelings of lacking control and expectations for negative events, beliefs of illness’s chronic duration nature, and its linkage with aging were associated with of poor medication adherence. To examine the relationship between medication adherence to bisphosphonates and self-perception of aging in elderly female patients with osteoporosis. This was a cross-sectional survey. A convenience sample of 245 elderly female patients with osteoporosis prescribed regular oral bisphosphonate therapy was recruited from three tertiary hospitals in China. Sociodemographic and osteoporosis-related data, Morisky Medication Adherence Scale-8 (MMAS-8) and Aging Perceptions Questionnaire (APQ) data were collected. Mean adherence score measured by MMAS-8 was 4.46(SD = 1.91; range, 0.25–7.00). Percentages of good and poor adherence were 28.6 and 71.4 %, which showed a poor medication adherence. Six domains of APQ statistically significantly associated with medication adherence. Interestingly, with control of age, educational status, marital status, and symptoms accompanying osteoporosis as covariates in the multivariate linear regression model, the effects of three domains disappeared. Significantly, worse adherence was observed in those patients who had higher feelings of lack of control, more expectations for negative events, more beliefs of osteoporosis’s chronic duration nature and its linkage with aging. We conclude that feelings of lacking control, expectations for negative events, beliefs of illness’s chronic duration nature, and its linkage with aging were associated with poor medication adherence in elderly female patients with osteoporosis. Concerns about self-perception of aging need to be addressed in order to improve medication adherence.

In this study, porous carbon (3DHPC) with a 3D honeycomb-like structure was synthesized from waste biomass corncob via hydrothermal carbonization coupled with KOH activation and investigated as a capacitive deionization (CDI) electrode material. The obtained 3DHPC possesses a hierarchal macroporous and mesoporous structure, and a large accessible specific surface area (952 m2 g−1). Electrochemical tests showed that the 3DHPC electrode exhibited a specific capacitance of 452 F g−1 and good electric conductivity. Moreover, the feasibility of electrosorptive removal of chromium(VI) from an aqueous solution using the 3DHPC electrode was demonstrated. When 1.0 V was applied to a solution containing 30 mg L−1 chromium(VI), the 3DHPC electrode exhibited a higher removal efficiency of 91.58% compared with that in the open circuit condition. This enhanced adsorption results from the improved affinity between chromium(VI) and the electrode under electrochemical assistance involving a non-faradic process. Consequently, the 3DHPC electrode with typical double-layer capacitor behavior is demonstrated to be a favorable electrode material for capacitive deionization.

Wheat stalk was pyrolyzed under microwave irradiation and different dilute acids pretreatment, and the pyrolytic mixture were extracted with tetrahydrofuran. The effects of dilute acids pretreatment on the yield of tetrahydrofuran-extractable fraction and the selective conversion of wheat stalk under microwave irradiation were investigated. Compositions of extractable fraction were analyzed with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The results indicated that acids can remarkably improve the formation of furfural, pyran-2-one, and 2-butenal, etc.

The inhibition performance of PWVA inhibitor on carbon steel was studied in 55% LiBr + 0.07 mol/L LiOH solution. Results indicated that PWVA inhibitor decreased both anodic and cathodic polarization current density and widened the passive potential region of carbon steel in the test solution. It could be classified as mixed inhibitor. PWVA has a strong oxidizability. It could form an intact and compact film which consisted of Fe 2 O 3 on carbon steel surface in the test solution. The passive film retarded Br ― which corroded the metal matrix in the test solution. When the concentration of PWVA was 300 mg/L, it showed an excellent inhibition effect. However, when the temperature was higher than 173 °C, the corrosion rate of carbon steel in 55% LiBr + 0.07 mol/L LiOH solution increased rapidly.

Einstein-Maxwell spacetimes endowed with twocommuting spacelike Killing vector fields areconsidered. Subject to the hypotheses that one of thetwo null geodesic congruence orthogonal to thetwo-surface generated by the two commuting spacelikeKilling vector fields is shearfree and theelectromagnetic field is non null, it is shown that,with a specific choice of null tetrad, theNewman-Penrose equations together with the Maxwell equations for theclass of spacetime considered may be reduced to asecond-order ode of Sturm-Liouville type, from whichexact solutions of the class of spacetimes consideredmay be constructed. Examples of exact solutions arethen given. Exact solutions with distribution-valuedWeyl curvature describing the scattering ofelectromagnetic shock wave with gravitational impulsiveor shock wave of variable polarisation are also constructed.

We study the critical phenomena of Kerr-AdS black hole. Phase structures are observed at different temperatures, $T_{L}$, $T_{c1}$ and $T_{c2}$ with various features. We discuss the thermal stability considering the isothermal compressibility and how phase transitions related to each other. The asymptotic value of the angular momentum also has an implication on separating stable and unstable part. Near critical temperature $T_{c1}$, the order parameter is determined to calculate the critical exponents. All the critical exponents ($\alpha$,$\beta$,$\gamma$,$\delta$)=(0,1/2,1,3) are identical to that of mean field systems. We plot the phase diagram near this critical point, and discuss the scaling symmetry of the free energy., Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, contents revised

In this paper we present highly accurate numerical results of the determination of the critical point of the antiferromagnetic Ising model in a nonzero magnetic field for the honeycomb lattice, including the critical fugacity of a nearest-neighbor exclusion lattice gas. We compute the correlation length of the Ising model using a transfer matrix approach, and locate the critical point from the data on the correlation lengths using finite-size analysis. For the purpose of a maximum numerical accuracy, the analysis is carried out by taking transfer matrices proceeding in two perpendicular directions of the lattice.

The authors consider the O(2) gauge transformation for a two-state vertex model on a lattice, and derive its fundamental algebraic invariants, the minimal set of homogeneous polynomials of the vertex weights which are invariant under O(2) transformations. Explicit expressions of the fundamental invariants are given for symmetric vertex models on lattices with coordination number p=2, 3, 4, 5, 6, generalising p=3 results obtained previously from more elaborate considerations.

Motivated by our attempt to understand the question of angular momentum of a relativistic rotating source carried away by gravitational waves, in the asymptotic regime near future null infinity of the Kerr metric, a family of null hypersurfaces intersecting null infinity in shearfree (good) cuts are constructed by means of asymptotic expansion of the eikonal equation. The geometry of the null hypersurfaces as well as the asymptotic structure of the Kerr metric near null infinity are studied. To the lowest order in angular momentum, the Bondi-Sachs form of the Kerr metric is worked out. The Newman-Unti formalism is then further developed, with which the Newman-Penrose constants of the Kerr metric are computed and shown to be zero. Possible physical implications of the vanishing of the Newman-Penrose constants of the Kerr metric are also briefly discussed.

This is China's pilot study in the assessment of the diagnostic value of serum soluble IL-2 receptor (sIL-2R) in gastric cancer. We measured its level by ELISA method in 45 patients with gastric cancer (without metastasis: 32; with metastasis: 5; recurrence: 8) 27 gastric ulcer, 27 superficial gastritis and 44 healthy controls. The mean-serum sIL-2R levels were significantly elevated in cancer patients, those with metastasis showed even higher levels than those without metastasis. These results suggested that sIL-2R can be used as a marker of host biological response in gastric cancer patients as well as a tumor marker for the diagnosis of the disease.

The authors consider the duality properties of a general vertex model on a lattice in any spatial dimension. The analysis is based on a generalised weak-graph transformation under which the partition function of the vertex model remains invariant. It is shown that the generalised weak-graph transformation is self-dual for lattice coordination number q=2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and they conjecture that the self-dual property holds for general q. They also obtain the self-dual manifold for q=3, 4, and it is found that, in an Ising subspace, the manifold coincides with the known Ising critical locus.

Considers an Ising model and the related lattice gas on the Kagome lattice with two- and three-site couplings. Using a transformation which effectively decimates the triplet interactions, the authors determine the exact phase diagram of the Ising model as well as the exact boundary of the two-phase region of the lattice gas.

Exact results are obtained for a spin-1 system on the honeycomb lattice with the Blume-Emery-Griffiths Hamiltonian −ℋ/kT =J∑i,jSiSj+K∑〈i,j〉Si2j2−Δ∑iSi2+H∑Si subject to the constraintK=−ln coshJ. ForJ>0, the system behaves like a spin-1/2 Ising ferromagnet with the free energy analytic everywhere except at the first-order phase boundaryH=0, tanhJ

A closed-form expression is proposed for the critical frontier, or the critical line, of the antiferromagnetic Ising model on the honeycomb lattice in a nonzero external magnetic field. We formulate the Ising model as an 8-vertex model and identify the critical frontier as a locus invariant under a generalized weak-graph transformation. In its simplest form the locus in an expression containing two unknown constants which we determine numerically. The resulting critical frontier lies very close to results of a finite-size analysis