U.K. universities. Cash-short schools aim to raise fees, recruit foreign students     

Marshall E 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,307(5710):656

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First check my genome, doctor     

Marshall E 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,302(5645):589

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Clinical trials and tribulations. Lemons, oranges, and complexity. Introduction     

Marshall E 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2008,322(5899):209

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Apple mealiness detection using fluorescence and self-organising maps     

Dimitrios Moshou  Stijn Wahlen  Reto Strasser  Ann Schenk  Herman Ramon 《Computers and Electronics in Agriculture》2003,40(1-3):103

The chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics of ‘Jonagold’ and ‘Cox’ apples, stored under different conditions to induce mealiness, were measured. Three different storage conditions were considered causing three mealiness levels: not mealy, moderately and strongly mealy. Also destructive measurements of the texture (firmness, hardness, juice content and soluble solids content) were done. Classification into different mealiness levels based on the fluorescence measurements was more performant than a classification based on the destructive measurements. To estimate the mealiness level in a non-destructive way from the fluorescence features, a number of different classifiers were constructed. Quadratic discriminants and supervised and unsupervised neural networks were tested and compared. The self-organising map gives promising results when compared with the multi-layer perceptrons and quadratic discriminant analysis. The different advantages of the constructed classifiers suggest that fluorescence can be used in an automatic sorting line to assess certain types of mealiness.  相似文献   

Signal transduction. Capturing polo kinase     

Silljé HH  Nigg EA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,299(5610):1190-1191

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Clinical research. Gene therapy a suspect in leukemia-like disease     

Marshall E 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2002,298(5591):34-35

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Sludged Blood     

Knisely MH  Bloch EH  Eliot TS  Warner L 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1947,106(2758):431-440

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Biomedical research. Despite protests, MRC to move its largest institute into London     

Marshall E 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,307(5712):1028

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Rhizosphere priming of soil organic matter by bacterial groups in a grassland soil     

Jeffrey A. Bird  Donald J. Herman 《Soil biology & biochemistry》2011,43(4):718-725

Plants often impact the rate of native soil organic matter turnover through root interactions with soil organisms; however the role of root-microbial interactions in mediation of the “priming effect” is not well understood. We examined the effects of living plant roots and N fertilization on belowground C dynamics in a California annual grassland soil (Haploxeralf) during a two-year greenhouse study. The fate of ¹³C-labeled belowground C (roots and organic matter) was followed under planted (Avena barbata) and unplanted conditions, and with and without supplemental N (20 kg N ha⁻¹ season⁻¹) over two periods of plant growth, each followed by a dry, fallow period of 120 d. Turnover of belowground ¹³C SOM was followed using ¹³C-phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) biomarkers. Living roots increased the turnover and loss of belowground ¹³C compared with unplanted soils. Planted soils had 20% less belowground ¹³C present than in unplanted soils after 2 cycles of planting and fallow. After 2 treatment cycles, unlabeled soil C was 4.8% higher in planted soils than unplanted. The addition of N to soils decreased the turnover of enriched belowground ¹³C during the first treatment season in both planted and unplanted soils, however no effect of N was observed thereafter. Our findings suggest that A. barbata may increase soil C levels over time because root and exudate C inputs are significant, but that increase will be moderated by an overall faster C mineralization rate of belowground C. N addition may slow soil C losses; however, the effect was minor and transient in this system. The labeled root-derived ¹³C was initially recovered in gram negative (highest enrichment), gram positive, and fungal biomarkers. With successive growing seasons, the labeled C in the gram negative and fungal markers declined, while gram positive markers continued to accumulate labeled belowground C. The rhizosphere of A. barbata shifted the microbial community composition, resulting in greater abundances of gram negative markers and lower abundances of gram positive, actinobacteria and cyclopropyl PLFA markers compared to unplanted soil. However, the longer-term utilization of labeled belowground C by gram positive bacteria was enhanced in the rhizosphere microbial community compared with unplanted soils. We suggest that the activities of gram positive bacteria may be major controllers of multi-year rhizosphere-related priming of SOM decomposition.  相似文献   

Development of on-line measurement system of bulk density based on on-line measured draught, depth and soil moisture content     

Abdul Mounem Mouazen  Herman Ramon 《Soil & Tillage Research》2006,86(2):218-229

On-line measurement of soil compaction is needed for site specific tillage management. The soil bulk density (ρ) indicating soil compaction was measured on-line by means of a developed compaction sensor system that comprised several sensors for on-line measurement of the draught (D) of a soil cutting tool (subsoiler), the soil cutting depth (d) and the soil moisture content (w). The subsoiler D was measured with a single shear beam load cell, whereas d was measured with a wheel gauge that consisted of a swinging arm metal wheel and a linear variable differential transducer (LVDT). The soil w was measured with a near infrared fibre-type spectrophotometer sensor. These on-line three measured parameters were used to calculate ρ, by utilising a hybrid numerical–statistical mathematical model developed in a previous study. Punctual kriging was performed using the variogram estimation and spatial prediction with error (VESPER) 1.6 software to develop the field maps of ρ, soil w, subsoiler d and D, based on 10 m × 10 m grid. To verify the on-line measured ρ map, this map was compared with the map measured by the conventional core sampling method.

The spherical semivariogram models, providing the best fit for all properties was used for kriging of different maps. Maps developed showed that no clear correlation could be detected between different parameters measured and subsoiler D. However, the D value was smaller at shallow penetration d, whereas large D coincided with large ρ values at few positions in the field. Maps of ρ measured with the core sampling and on-line methods were similar, with correlation coefficient (r) and the standard error values of 0.75 and 0.054 Mg m⁻³, respectively. On-line measured ρ exhibited larger errors at very dry zones. The normal distribution of the ρ error between the two different measurement methods showed that about 72% of the errors were less than 0.05 Mg m⁻³ in absolute values. However, the overall mean error of on-line measured ρ was of a small value of 2.3%, which ensures the method accuracy for on-line measurement of ρ. Measurement under very dry conditions should be minimised, because it can lead to a relatively large error, and hence, compacted zones at dry zones cannot be detected correctly.  相似文献