The Young-Householder algorithm and the least squares multidimensional scaling of squared distances

It is shown that replacement of the zero diagonal elements of the symmetric data matrix of approximate squared distances by certain other quantities in the Young-Householder algorithm will yield a least squares fit to squared distances instead of to scalar products. Iterative algorithms for obtaining these replacement diagonal elements are described and relationships with the ELEGANT algorithm (de Leeuw 1975; Takane 1977) are discussed. In large residual situations a penalty function approach, motivated by the ELEGANT algorithm, is adopted. Empirical comparisons of the algorithms are given.An early version of this paper was presented at the Multidimensional Data Analysis Workshop, Pembroke College, Cambridge, July 1985. I want to thank Jan de Leeuw and Yoshio Takane for bringing the ELEGANT algorithm to my attention and for clarifying its rationale and notation. My thanks go also to Stephen du Toit for help with the ALSCAL computations reported in Section 7.     

Kinetic model for the smectite to illite transformation in active geothermal systems

The smectite to illite transformation in active geothermal systems of New Zealand can be simulated by a first-order reaction kinetic model, which provides direct estimates about the minumum ages of active geothermal systems themselves. The derived kinetic values show that the smectite to illite transformation is sensitive to both temperature and time.     

催化动力学测定痕量钴研究综述

综述了近年来催化动力学光度法测定痕量钴的进展情况。对催化显色动力学光度法、催化褪色动力学光度法、催化荧光光度法、阻抑动力学光度法、催化化学发光光度法等几个类别，从反应介质、灵敏度、线性范围等方面介绍了对不同反应体系的研究情况，并对催化动力学光度法测定痕量钴的发展趋势做出预测。     

浅谈路基施工高边坡开挖安全专项措施

介绍了路基施工高边坡开挖安全措施,包括健全安全管理组织机构、施工安全措施、高空作业安全措施、机械作业安全措施等。     

A radiation hybrid map of the rat genome containing 5,255 markers.

A whole-genome radiation hybrid (RH) panel was used to construct a high-resolution map of the rat genome based on microsatellite and gene markers. These include 3,019 new microsatellite markers described here for the first time and 1,714 microsatellite markers with known genetic locations, allowing comparison and integration of maps from different sources. A robust RH framework map containing 1,030 positions ordered with odds of at least 1,000:1 has been defined as a tool for mapping these markers, and for future RH mapping in the rat. More than 500 genes which have been mapped in mouse and/or human were localized with respect to the rat RH framework, allowing the construction of detailed rat-mouse and rat-human comparative maps and illustrating the power of the RH approach for comparative mapping.     

Neuroanatomy of sea spiders implies an appendicular origin of the protocerebral segment

Independent specialization of arthropod body segments has led to more than a century of debate on the homology of morphologically diverse segments, each defined by a lateral appendage and a ganglion of the central nervous system. The plesiomorphic composition of the arthropod head remains enigmatic because variation in segments and corresponding appendages is extreme. Within extant arthropod classes (Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea and Hexapoda--including the insects), correspondences between the appendage-bearing second (deutocerebral) and third (tritocerebral) cephalic neuromeres have been recently resolved on the basis of immunohistochemistry and Hox gene expression patterns. However, no appendage targets the first ganglion, the protocerebrum, and the corresponding segmental identity of this anterior region remains unclear. Reconstructions of stem-group arthropods indicate that the anteriormost region originally might have borne an ocular apparatus and a frontal appendage innervated by the protocerebrum. However, no study of the central nervous system in extant arthropods has been able to corroborate this idea directly, although recent analyses of cephalic gene expression patterns in insects suggest a segmental status for the protocerebral region. Here we investigate the developmental neuroanatomy of a putative basal arthropod, the pycnogonid sea spider, with immunohistochemical techniques. We show that the first pair of appendages, the chelifores, are innervated at an anterior position on the protocerebrum. This is the first true appendage shown to be innervated by the protocerebrum, and thus pycnogonid chelifores are not positionally homologous to appendages of extant arthropods but might, in fact, be homologous to the 'great appendages' of certain Cambrian stem-group arthropods.     

聚二甲基硅氧烷/聚醚酰亚胺平板复合膜CO2/CH4的研究

利用聚二甲基硅氧烷/聚醚酰亚胺（PDMS/PEI）非对称平板复合膜,以CO2/CH4混合体系作为研究对象,考察了原料气组成、原料气压力、渗余相流量、温度对分离过程的影响。结果表明：随着原料气中CH4组成的提高,CO2渗透速率下降,分离因子先升高,但在CH4体积分数大于0.5时,分离因子开始下降;随着原料气压力的提高,CO2的渗透速率和分离因子均为下降趋势;在不同压力和温度下,随着渗余相流量的增大,CO2渗透速率基本维持稳定,分离因子略有上升,其中在低压或者低温下,CO2分离因子变化不大,在高压或者高温下,CO2分离因子上升明显。     

磁流变液无级变速器的原理

利用广义双粘度模型,论述了磁流变液的本构特性和由外磁场控制磁流变液无级变速器传递转矩和输出转速的原理,以MRF－336AG磁流变液为例,研究了外磁场与屈服应力、转矩、输出角速度的相互,结果表明,利用控制外磁场可以达到控制磁流变液变速器传递转矩和输出转速之目的。