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Description: Hot-spot effect is well-known in the practical application of solar cells. The faults of hot spots seriously affect the performance and service life of solar cells. In order to highlight the infrared and visible complementary information of hot spots and discover more details, this paper presents a novel method, which fuses an infrared image saliency map based on random rectangular regions of interest with visible image by NonSubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT). Firstly, the infrared hot spots image was detected by saliency map which is randomly sampled. Secondly, the infrared and visible image of the hot spots are transformed into high-frequency and low-frequency sub-bands by NSCT. Finally, absolute value maximization and saliency map guidance are used to fuse low-frequency and high-frequency sub-bands respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared with a set of related fusion methods, the presented method can better highlight the hot spots and other abund...

Description: In order to solve the problem of high-salt ballast wastewater treatment, Sequencing Biofilm Batch Reactor of new packing activated sludge process used to simulate an experimental study. When Chloride ion concentration is 20±2g/L, the impacts of reaction period and anoxic time (Ta) / aerobic time (To) on the effect of the treatment process and sludge activity were investigated. The results show the salt acclimation SBBR process can effectively remove organic contaminants; when the reaction period was 49h, the removal rates of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) reached more than 91.0%, and the removal rate of NH+ 4 -N was 83.3%, the removal rate of Total Nitrogen (TN) was 67.7%, and the effluent concentration of COD, NH+ 4 -N and TN were respectively 45.7mg/L, 7.8mg/L and 18.6mg/L. At this time, TF reached 43.6pg/ml. With the Ta / To increase, the degree of denitrification increased and the nitrification rate reduced. When Ta/To 1:3, the optimal nitrogen removal appeared, ammonia remova...

Description: Despite stem cell transplant and new therapies, nearly all patients with AL and MM die of disease or complications of treatment. Novel approaches that selectively kill clonal plasma cells are needed. CD32B, the inhibitory Fcγ receptor IIB, is a member of the Fc receptor (FcR) family on chromosome 1q. B-cells and some monocytes and dendritic cell subtypes express cell-surface CD32B, which has a cytoplasmic inhibitory motif important in regulating immune responses. Unlike the CD32B2 isoform on myeloid cells, CD32B1 on B-cells is not internalized, making it a suitable target for monoclonal antibody (MAb) therapy (Blood 2006Jun6 Epub). CD32B has not previously been found on AL and MM plasma cells. We used purified CD138+ marrow and blood cells from AL, MM and plasma cell leukemia (PCL) patients, and 5 human MM cell lines, to evaluate CD32B gene and cell-surface expression with gene expression profiles (GEP) (Affymetrix U133 PLUS 2.0), RT-PCR for CD32B1 and B2, and flow-cytometry with the 2B6 MAb for CD32B. In AL, GEP showed that CD32B expression was significantly higher than other FcR genes (p98% of all AL plasma cells. In MM, public GEP data (http://lambertlab.uams) showed that CD32B expression was significantly higher than other FcR genes while RT-PCR showed CD32B1 message in CD138+ MM and PCL specimens but not in the RPMI 8226 cell line. Cytogenetic analysis then showed that 8226 cells lack t(4;14) but have 4 copies of 1q, implicating segmental uniparental tetrasomy of a mutant allele in the lack of CD32B message. Flow cytometry showed median 96% CD32B expression on CD138+ marrow cells from patients with normal or hyperdiploid cytogenetics, but significantly lower expression (median 69%, p=0.01) in patients with unfavorable cytogenetics (del 13, t(4;14)). CD32B expression was lower still on PCL specimens (median 10%) and nil on MM cell lines. We then investigated the GEP of sorted CD138+/CD32B+ and CD32B− fractions from MM patients. In CD138+/CD32B+ cells, CD45C and CXCR4 were overexpressed. In CD138+/CD32B− cells, genes on chromosome 1q were overexpressed, including those for cancer testis antigens and others possibly associated with biologic aggressivity (Cancer Cell2006;9:313). Notably, the CD32B-specific MAb 2B6 directs human mononuclear cell cytotoxicity against CD32B+ cell lines, reduces tumor growth and improves tumor-free survival in a mouse xenograft model. Moreover, an Fc-engineered humanized variant of 2B6 elicits ADCC-mediated specific cytotoxicity against a low-level CD32B+ MM cell line in vitro. In sum, these data show that CD32B is important in AL and MM; that CD32B on AL and the majority of MM plasma cells provides a target for MAb therapy; and that, given the results in MM, PCL and MM cell lines, CD32B expression is inversely related to biologic aggressivity. Genetic instability of chromosome 1q may provide a direct basis for this relationship thereby mechanistically linking CD32B expression in MM to prognosis. These data support further evaluation of CD32B and clinical studies of anti-CD32B MAb therapy in AL and MM.