[Application of the LUR Model in the Prediction of Spatial Distributions of Soil Heavy Metals].

Using the Jintan District of Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province as an example, the LUR model was used to study the spatial distribution of heavy metals and to simulate the spatial distribution of heavy metals in the study area. Compared with the traditional LUR model and the ordinary Kriging interpolation model, the following conclusions were obtained. ① The soil heavy metal content in the study area was highly and significantly correlated with land factors, with the main factor of land use and influencing factors of heavy metals in the soil environment (P<0.01). In terms of influencing factors, the soil Cu and Zn contents were significantly correlated with the area related to traffic in a 2000 m buffer area and 2000 m buffer zone, respectively. The soil Cr, Cu, and Zn contents were significantly correlated with OM, Corg, TC, and TN (P<0.01). ② The R2 of the LUR-S models of the spatial distribution of the heavy metals, Pb, Cr, Cu, and Zn, in the study area were improved by 0.041, 0.406, 0.102, and 0.501, respectively, compared with the traditional LUR model. The accuracy test R2 values were improved by 0.1477, 0.0116, 0.2310, and 0.081, respectively; and the RMSE was reduced by 2.413, 0.631, 1.112, and 2.138, respectively. It was shown that the LUR-S model, which considered the source-sink relationship, had a higher accuracy than the traditional LUR model and ordinary Kriging interpolation model. ③ The LUR-S model was more suitable for the prediction of the spatial distribution of heavy metals with lower pollution and smaller variations, while results for the prediction of the heavy metals with higher pollution and larger variations were worse.

[Climate suitability for tea growing in Zhejiang Province].

It is important to quantitatively assess the climate suitability of tea and its response to climate change. Based on meteorological indices of tea growth and daily meteorological data from 1971 to 2010 in Zhejiang Province, three climate suitability models for single climate factors, including temperature, precipitation and sunshine, were established at a 10-day scale by using the fuzzy mathematics method, and a comprehensive climate suitability model was established with the geometric average method. The results indicated that the climate suitability was high in the tea growth season in Zhejiang Province, and the three kinds of climate suitability were all higher than 0.6. As for the single factor climate suitability, temperature suitability was the highest and sunshine suitability was the lowest. There were obvious inter-annual variations of tea climate suitability, with a decline trend in the 1970s, less variation in the 1980s, and an obvious incline trend after the 1990s. The change tendency of climate suitability for spring tea was similar with that of annual climate suitability, lower in the 1980s, higher in the 1970s and after the 1990s. However, the variation amplitude of the climate suitability for spring tea was larger. The climate suitability for summer tea and autumn tea showed a decline trend from 1971 to 2010.

Histopathological changes post cryoablation in canine myocardium / 中华心血管病杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>The purpose of this study was to observe histopathological changes post cryoablation in canine myocardium, to characterize the specific ablation lesion post cryoablation.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Cryothermal ablation was applied on myocardium (both epicardium and endocardium) of 14 mongrel dogs with different ablation parameters (-25 degrees C x 4 min, -50 degrees C x 4 min, -75 degrees C x 4 min, -75 degrees C x 2 min, -75 degrees C x 6 min, -75 degrees C x 8 min). Lesion dimensions and histopathologic changes were observed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The discrete, sharply delimited lesions were detected in cryoablated myocardium. Histologically, cryoablation in all temperatures studied induced heterogeneous necrosis of the myocardium. Lesion dimensions are related to freezing time and temperature.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Cryoablation is a feasible and preferably choice for clinical application due to its controllable myocardium lesions.</p>