The Flow Behavior and Forming Limit Modeling of an Al- Cu-Mg Aluminum Alloy Sheet Considering the Effects of Pre-Strain and Solution Heat Treatment

Xiao-Qiang Li,Gui-Qiang Guo,Hong-Zhi Gao,Nan Song,Dong-Sheng Li 한국정밀공학회 2015 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Vol. No.

Al-Cu-Mg aluminum alloy sheet is widely used for aircraft skin. Multi-stage forming combined with Solution Heat Treatment (SHT) is necessary for some geometrically complex productions in aircraft skin components. However, the effects of pre-strain and natural ageing time on the formability of Al-Cu-Mg aluminum alloy sheet are not fully understood. In this study, the deformation responses of an Al-Cu-Mg aluminum alloy sheet, over a range of pre-strain levels (0% to 6%) and natural ageing time levels (0 h to 2 h) were investigated. A modified Hollomon constitutive model coupling with pre-strain and natural ageing time was proposed to characterize the deformation responses of the Al-Cu-Mg aluminum alloy sheet. The hemispherical dome tests were performed at natural ageing time levels ranging from 0.25 h to 1.5 h. Marciniak and Kuczynski (M-K) theory was used to obtain the forming limit prediction model which takes pre-strain and natural ageing time into account. The theoretical Forming Limit Curves (FLCs) were compared with the experimental results.

Association Between C-reactive Protein and Risk of Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

Guo, Yong-Zhong,Pan, Lei,Du, Chang-Jun,Ren, Dun-Qiang,Xie, Xiao-Mei Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2013 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.14 No.1

Background: Associations between elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) and cancer risk have been reported for many years, but the results from prospective cohort studies remains controversial. A meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies was therefore conducted to address this issue. Methods: Eligible studies were identified by searching the PubMed and EMBASE up to October 2012. Pooled hazard ratios (HR) was calculated by using random effects model. Results: Eleven prospective cohort studies involving a total of 194,796 participants and 11,459 cancer cases were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled HR per natural log unit change in CRP was 1.105 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.033-1.178) for all-cancer, 1.308 (95% CI: 1.097-1.519) for lung cancer, 1.040 (95% CI: 0.910-1.170) for breast cancer, 1.063 (95% CI: 0.965-1.161) for prostate cancer, and 1.055 (95% CI: 0.925-1.184) for colorectal cancer. Dose-response analysis showed that the exponentiated linear trend for a change of one natural log unit in CRP was 1.012 (95% CI: 1.006-1.018) for all-cancer. No evidence of publication bias was observed. Conclusions: The results of this meta-analysis showed that the elevated levels of CRP are associated with an increased risk of all-cancer, lung cancer, and possibly breast, prostate and colorectal cancer. The result supports a role of chronic inflammation in carcinogenesis. Further research effort should be performed to identify whether CRP, as a marker of inflammation, has a direct role in carcinogenesis.

Cathepsin C Interacts with TNF-α/p38 MAPK Signaling Pathway to Promote Proliferation and Metastasis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Guo-Pei Zhang,Xiao Yue,Shao-Qiang Li 대한암학회 2020 Cancer Research and Treatment Vol.52 No.1

Purpose Although cathepsin C (CTSC) has been reported to maintain malignant biological properties in various cancers, its functions in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain obscure. We aimed to investigate the potential role of CTSC in HCC. Materials and Methods HCC tissue microarrays (n=122) were employed to analyze the correlation between CTSC expression and clinicopathological characteristics through immunohistochemistry staining. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, western blot assay, Cell Counting Kit-8 assay, colony formation, cell migration, and invasion assays, xenograft mice model were adopted to validate what had been indicated by the bioinformatic web tools. Results By bioinformatic tools and tissue microarrays, CTSC was found upregulated in HCC compared with normal liver tissues, and its higher expression was correlated with poor prognosis of HCC patients (hazard ratio, 2.402; 95% confidence interval, 1.493 to 3.865; p < 0.001). By gain/loss-of-function assays, we implicated that CTSC functioned as an oncogene to promote the proliferation and metastasis of HCC cells. Mechanistically, we revealed that CTSC was involved in several cancer-related signaling pathways by Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, among which tumor necrosis factor ! (TNF-!)/p38 pathway was verified to be activated by CTSC. Furthermore, we found that TNF-! could activate CTSC expression in a concentration- dependent manner. Ralimetinib, an oral p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitor could inhibit CTSC expression. These indicated a potential positive feedback loop between CTSC and TNF-!/MAPK (p38) signaling. Conclusion Taken together, CTSC plays an important role in the growth and metastasis of HCC and may be a promising therapeutic target upon HCC.

Bacillus ferrooxidans sp. nov., an iron(II)-oxidizing bacterium isolated from paddy soil

Guo-Wei Zhou,Xiao-Ru Yang,Jian-Qiang Su,Bang-Xiao Zheng,Yong-Guan Zhu 한국미생물학회 2018 The journal of microbiology Vol.56 No.7

An endospore-forming bacterium, designated YT-3T, was isolated from a paddy soil in Yingtan, Jiangxi, China. Cells of strain YT-3T were Gram-positive, rod-shaped, facultative anaerobic, catalase, and oxidase positive. The optimum growth temperature and pH were 30°C (ranged from 15 to 50°C) and 6.5–7.0 (ranged from 3 to 11), respectively. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain YT-3T was affiliated to the genus Bacillus and displayed the highest similarity to that of Bacillus drentensis JCM 21707T (98.3%), followed by B. ginsengisoli JCM 17335T (97.8%) and B. fumarioli JCM 21708T (97.0%). The similarity of rpoB gene sequence between strain YT-3T and B. drentensis JCM 21707T, B. ginsengisoli JCM 17335T and B. fumarioli JCM 21708T was 80.4%, 81.5%, and 82.1%, respectively. The genomic DNA G + C content was 44.9 mol%. The predominant respiratory quinone was Menaquinone-7, and meso-diaminopimelic acid was present in the peptidoglycan layer of cell wall. The major fatty acids were C15:0 anteiso (36.2%), C14:0 iso (19.6%), C15:0 iso (17.4%), and C16:0 iso (9.8%). The polar lipid profile consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phospholipids, and ammoniac phospholipids. The DNA-DNA hybridization values between isolate YT-3T and B. drentensis (JCM 21707T), B. ginsengisoli (JCM 17335T), and B. fumarioli (JCM 21708T) were 36.3%, 30.3%, and 25.3%, respectively. On the basis of physiological, genetic and biochemical data, strain YT-3T represented a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus ferrooxidans sp. nov was proposed. The type strain is YT-3T (= KCTC 33875T = CCTCC AB 2017049T).

Effective removal of anilines using porous activated carbon based on ureaformaldehyde resin

Fu-Qiang An,Dong Zhang,Xiao-Xia Yue,Guo-Li Ou,Jian-Feng Gao,Tuo-Ping Hu 한국화학공학회 2016 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.33 No.2

The effective removal of aniline and its derivatives from wastewater is very important due to the high toxicity. Adsorption with a high-performance adsorbent is an efficient pathway. A novel activated carbon, ACUF-700, was synthesized using homemade ureaformaldehyde resin as the major carbon source carbonized at 700 oC. ACUF-700 is characterized by surface area analyzer, FTIR, elemental analyzer, and SEM. The adsorption properties of ACUF-700 towards anilines are also investigated by using batch methods. The test results showed that the ACUF-700 possesses higher specific surface area and narrower pore size distribution. In virtue of its developed pore structure and nitrogencontaining chemical groups, the adsorption capacities towards aniline, p-toluidine and p-chloroaniline could reach 95.6, 108.1 and 128.9mg/g, respectively. The adsorption process could be well described by the intra-particle mass transfer diffusion model and Sips model. Besides, ACUF700 was regenerated easily using diluted hydrochloric acid solution as eluent and ACUF700 possesses better reusability.

Bacterial Foraging Optimization Based on LS-SVM for BTP Forecasting

SONG Qiang,GUO Xiao-bo,LI hua 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Hybrid Information Techno Vol.9 No.1

Because of the nonlinear characteristics of the BTP in sintering process, the BTP forecasting is difficult to realize. The LS-SVM was employed in this study for forecasting. However, Because SVM is using the two programming support vector, computing and solving two quadratic programming will involve matrix of order m, when the M number is large storage and computing the matrix will consume a large amount of computer memory and calculation time. The traditional training methods based on searching technique are not effective and fast. Therefore, bacterial foraging optimization (BFO) was adopted to optimize the LS-SVM. BFO is a novel and powerful global search technique, It is found that Bacteria Foraging Algorithm (BFO) is capable of improving the speed of convergence as well as the precision in the desired result. Simulation results clearly illustrate that the proposed approach is very efficient and could easily be extended for other global optimization problems. It can conclude that BFO is effective and rapid for the cluster analysis problem.

Prefrontal cortex miR-29b-3p plays a key role in the antidepressant-like effect of ketamine in rats

Yun-Qiang Wan,Jian-Guo Feng,Mao Li,Mao-Zhou Wang,Li Liu,Xueru Liu,Xiao-Xia Duan,Chun-Xiang Zhang,Xiao-Bin Wang 생화학분자생물학회 2018 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.50 No.-

Ketamine has a rapid, obvious, and persistent antidepressant effect, but its underlying molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as important modulators of ketamine’s antidepressant effect. We investigated the alteration in miR-29b-3p in the brain of rats subjected to ketamine administration and chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS), and a sucrose preference test and forced swimming test were used to evaluate the rats’ depressive-like state. We used recombination adeno-associated virus (rAAV) or lentivirus-expressing miR-29b-3p to observe the change in metabotropic glutamate receptor 4 (GRM4). Cell culture and electrophysiological recordings were used to evaluate the function of miR-29b-3p. Ketamine dramatically increased miR-29b-3p expression in the prefrontal cortex of the normal rats. The dual luciferase reporter test confirmed that GRM4 was the target of miR-29b- 3p. The miR-29b-3p levels were downregulated, while the GRM4 levels were upregulated in the prefrontal cortex of the depressive-like rats. The ketamine treatment increased miR-29b-3p expression and decreased GRM4 expression in the prefrontal cortex of the depressive-like rats and primary neurons. By overexpressing and silencing miR-29b-3p, we further validated that miR-29b-3p could negatively regulate GRM4. The silencing of miR-29b-3p suppressed the Ca2+ influx in the prefrontal cortex neurons. The miR-29b-3p overexpression contributed to cell survival, cytodendrite growth, increases in extracellular glutamate concentration, and cell apoptosis inhibition. The overexpression of miR- 29b-3p by rAAV resulted in a noticeable relief of the depressive behaviors of the CUMS rats and a lower expression of GRM4. The miR-29b-3p/GRM4 pathway acts as a critical mediator of ketamine’s antidepressant effect in depressive-like rats and could be considered a potential therapeutic target for treating major depression disorder.

AN EXPLANATION ON TRANSIENT BRIGHTENING BY MAGNETIC RECONNECTION THEORY

LI BI-QIANG,LI XIAO-QING,AI GUO-XIANG The Korean Astronomical Society 1996 Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society Vol.29 No.suppl1

It. has been discovered that. active regions commonly have numerous flare-like transient. loop brightenings. We use a magnetic reconnection theory driven by a ponderamotive force on account. of the basic properties of a transient. brightening: lifetime a few mins, total energy $10^{25}\~10^{29}$ erg. The numerical results are consistent with the observations.

Toward Full Spectrum Speciation of Silver Nanoparticles and Ionic Silver by On-Line Coupling of Hollow Fiber Flow Field-Flow Fractionation and Minicolumn Concentration with Multiple Detectors

Tan, Zhi-Qiang,Liu, Jing-Fu,Guo, Xiao-Ru,Yin, Yong-Guang,Byeon, Seul Kee,Moon, Myeong Hee,Jiang, Gui-Bin American Chemical Society 2015 ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY - Vol.87 No.16

<P>The intertransformation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and ionic silver (Ag(I)) in the environment determines their transport, uptake, and toxicity, demanding methods to simultaneously separate and quantify AgNPs and Ag(I). For the first time, hollow fiber flow field-flow fractionation (HF5) and minicolumn concentration were on-line coupled together with multiple detectors (including UV–vis spectrometry, dynamic light scattering, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) for full spectrum separation, characterization, and quantification of various Ag(I) species (<I>i.e</I>., free Ag(I), weak and strong Ag(I) complexes) and differently sized AgNPs. While HF5 was employed for filtration and fractionation of AgNPs (>2 nm), the minicolumn packed with Amberlite IR120 resin functioned to trap free Ag(I) or weak Ag(I) complexes coming from the radial flow of HF5 together with the strong Ag(I) complexes and tiny AgNPs (<2 nm), which were further discriminated in a second run of focusing by oxidizing >90% of tiny AgNPs to free Ag(I) and trapped in the minicolumn. The excellent performance was verified by the good agreement of the characterization results of AgNPs determined by this method with that by transmission electron microscopy, and the satisfactory recoveries (70.7–108%) for seven Ag species, including Ag(I), the adduct of Ag(I) and cysteine, and five AgNPs with nominal diameters of 1.4 nm, 10 nm, 20 nm, 40 nm, and 60 nm in surface water samples.</P><P><B>Graphic Abstract</B> <IMG SRC='http://pubs.acs.org/appl/literatum/publisher/achs/journals/content/ancham/2015/ancham.2015.87.issue-16/acs.analchem.5b01827/production/images/medium/ac-2015-01827q_0006.gif'></P><P><A href='http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/ac5b01827'>ACS Electronic Supporting Info</A></P>

Absorption of NO from simulated flue gas by using NaClO2/(NH4)2CO3 solutions in a stirred tank reactor

Rui-Tang Guo,Wei-Guo Pan,Jian-Xing Ren,Xiao-Bo Zhang,Qiang Jin 한국화학공학회 2013 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.30 No.1

Experiments were performed in a stirred tank reactor to study the absorption kinetics of NO into aqueous solutions of NaClO2/(NH4)2CO3 solutions. The absorption process is a fast pseudo-reaction, and the reaction was found to be second-order with respect to NO and first-order with respect to NaClO2, respectively. The frequency factor and the average activation energy of this reaction were 4.56×1011 m6/(mol2 s) and 33.01 kJ/mol respectively. The absorption rate of NO increased with increasing reaction temperature, but decreased with increasing (NH4)2CO3 solution.