Electrocatalytic Oxidation of H_2 O_ 2 at a Carbon Paste Electrode Modified with a Nickel (Ⅱ)-5,11,17,23-Tetra-Tert-Butyl-25,27-Bis(Diethylcarbamoylmethoxy)Calix[4] Arene Complex and Its Application

0　IntroductionThegreatimportanceofnickelelectrochemistryinalkalinemedium ,especiallyforpotentialapplication ,hasattractedmuchattetionofresearcherseithertostudythebehaviorofnickel basedelectrodeitselforitsactivitytowardsothermolecules.Manyreportsshowedthatthenickelbasedelectrodeshaveelectro catalyticactivityforreactionsofappliedinterest,suchaselectro chemicaldeterminationofantioxidantsinfood[1 ] ,detectionofni tricoxide (NO )insolution[2 ] ,electrocatalyticoxidationofmethanol[1 ] ,alcohol[3] ,…     

Detecting myocardial ischemia with 2-D CVIB imaging method--an in vivo animal experiment study

A 2-D cyclic variation of integrated backscatter (CVIB) imaging method was established for detecting myocardial ischemia. To demonstrate the feasibility and validity of this method, animal experiments were conducted. Acute myocardial ischemia was induced by occluding left anterior descending coronary artery in 10 anesthetized open-chest dogs. While scanning the normal hearts and the ischemic hearts with a B scanner, digital radiofrequency data were acquired by a real-time acquisition system in synchronism. The offline analysis to the radio-frequency signal with the 2-D CVIB imaging method was performed to verify the consistency between the imaging result and the design of the experiment. In addition, 4 dogs in experiment were treated with the heart pacemaker in order to investigate the influence of changing in heart rate on the detection of ischemic myocardium with the proposed method. The experimental result showed that the 2-D CVIB imaging method succeeded in detecting the ischemic myocardium and is a new non-invasive way for the cardiologists to both quantitatively and visually evaluate the contractile performance of the myocardium.     

Simulation of the diffusion process in composite porous media by random walks

A new random-walk interpolation scheme was developed to simulate solute transport through composite porous media with different porosities as well as different diffusivities. The significant influences of the abrupt variations of porosity and diffusivity on solute transport were simulated by tracking random walkers through a linear interpolation domain across the heterogeneity interface. The displacements of the random walkers within the interpolation region were obtained explicitly by establishing the equivalence between the Fokker-Planck equation and the advection-dispersion equation. Applications indicate that the random-walk interpolation method can simulate one- and two-dimensional, 2nd-order diffusion processes in composite media without local mass conservation errors. In addition, both the theoretical derivations and the numerical simulations show that the drift and dispersion of particles depend on the type of Markov process selected to reflect the dynamics of random walkers. If the nonlinear Langevin equation is used, the gradient of porosity and the gradient of diffusivity strongly affect the drift displacement of particles. Therefore, random-walking particles driven by the gradient of porosity, the gradient of diffusivity, and the random diffusion, can imitate the transport of solute under only pure diffusion in composite porous media containing abrupt variations of porosity and diffusivity.     

Reproductive Biology and Prospects for Conservation of Caldesia parnassifolia (Alismataceae)——A Threatened Monocot in China

0　ＩｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎＡｌｉｓｍａｔａｃｅａｅｉｓａｃｏｓｍｏｐｏｌｉｔａｎｆａｍｉｌｙｔｈａｔｃｏｎｓｉｓｔｓｏｆ 11ｇｅｎｅｒａａｎｄａｐｐｒｏｘｉｍａｔｅｌｙ 95ｓｐｅｃｉｅｓ[1] .Ａｌｌｔｈｅｓｐｅｃｉｅｓｉｎｔｈｉｓｆａｍｉｌｙａｒｅａｑｕａｔｉｃｏｒｓｅｍｉ ａｑｕａｔｉｃｗｉｔｈｔｈｅｍａｊｏｒｉｔｙｏｃｃｕｒｒｉｎｇｉｎｔｈｅＮｅｗＷｏｒｌｄ .ＴｈｅｇｅｎｕｓＣａｌｄｅｓｉａｉｓｒｅｓｔｒｉｃｔｅｄｔｏｔｈｅＯｌｄＷｏｒｌｄｆｒｏｍＡｆｒｉｃａａｎｄＭａｄａｇａｓｃａｒａｎｄＳ…     

韩国对华直接投资的特点和发展趋势

韩国是我国的近邻和重要的贸易伙伴，自1992年8月中韩两国正式建交后，韩国对华投资增长迅速，经过十多年的发展，在外商在华投资中的地位迅速上升，已成为中国吸收外商直接投资的第七大来源地，而中国也成为韩国的第一大海外投资对象国。截止2002年底，韩国对华累计投资额达到151．99亿美元，占全部在华外商投资额的3．2％。本文就韩国对华投资的一些情况做一些分析。     

Genetic analysis and molecular mapping of a presenescing leaf gene psll in rice （Oryza sativa L.）

A rice psl1 （presenescing leaf） mutant was obtained from a japonica variety Zhonghua 11 via radiation of ^60Co-γ in M2 generation. Every leaf of the mutant began to wither after it reached the biggest length, while the leaves of the wild variety could keep green for 25--35 d. In this study, genetic analysis and gene mapping were carried out for the mutant identified. The SSR marker analysis showed that the mutant was controlled by a single recessive gene （psl1） located on chromosome 2. Fine mapping of the psl1 locus was conducted with 34 new STS markers developed around psl1 anchored region based on the sequence diversity between Nipponbare and 93-11. The psl1 was further mapped between two STS markers, STS2-19 and STS2-26, with genetic distances of 0.43 and 0.11 cM, respectively, while cosegregated with STS2-25. A BAC contig was found to span the psl1 locus, the region being delimited to 48 kb. This result was very useful for cloning of the psl1 gene.     

Design of TakagiSugeno fuzzy model based nonlinear sliding model controller

1.INTRODUCTION Sincethefirstpaperonfuzzysetswaspublished,fuzzy logiccontrol(FLC)hasattractedgreatattentionfrom boththeacademicandindustrialcommunities.Much progresshasbeenmadeinsuccessfullyapplyingFLCto industrialcontrolsystems.Manytheoreticalresultsabout stabilityanalysisanddesignoffuzzylogiccontrollersys temshavealsobeenobtained.Amongvariouskindsoffuzzycontrolmethods,manycontroldesignmethodshavebeenproposedon theTakagi Sugeno(T S)fuzzymodel[1].Thebasic ideaofthesemethodsincludestwos…     

Complementation in the composition of steel slag and red mud for preparation of novel ceramics

A method for preparing novel ceramics was developed in this study. Different ratios red muds were added to steel slags to optimize the preparation of novel ceramics by a traditional ceramic preparation process. The sintering mechanism, microstructure, and performance were studied by X-ray diffraction techniques, scanning electron microscopy, and combined experiments of linear shrinkage, water absorption, and flexural strength. The results confirmed that red mud can reduce the volumetric instabilities through the complementarity of red mud and ferroalloy slag. The crystal phases in the ceramics are all pyroxene group minerals, including diopside ferrian, augite, and diopside. The flexural strength of the ceramic that contains 40wt% red mud and was prepared at the optimal sintering temperature (1140℃) is greater than 93 MPa; its corresponding water absorption is less than 0.05%.     

The design of a novel parallel haptic device

A novel haptic device which is characterized by large workspace, high rigidity, simple kinematics and easy construction is presented. This device is a parallel mechanism which is composed of a base plate, three sub-chains, and a mobile plate. Each sub-chain is attached to the base plate through a pin joint and to the top plate through a spherical joint. The sub-chain is derived from and kinematically equivalent to a pantograph linkage but is redesigned to solve the difficult problem of motor-fitting. The spherical joint is of the ball-in-socket type, but has much larger workspace than its regular counterpart. The kinematics is analyzed, and the inverse kinematics analysis is performed with a geometric approach. The complete workspace is readily obtained with the spherical coordinate system searching method. The optimal value of the cone angle of the spherical joint is shown to be 100°.     

Single-cell discrimination based on optical tweezers Raman spectroscopy

The ability to discriminate between single cells in a label-free and noninvasive fashion is important for the classification of cells, and for the identification of similar cells from different origins. In this paper, we present the Raman spectroscopy-based identifi- cation of different types of single cells in aqueous media, and discrimination between the same types of cells from different donors using a novel Laser Tweezers Raman Spectroscopy (LTRS) technique, which combines laser trapping and micro-Raman spectroscopy. First, we measured the spectra of individual living human erythrocytes, i.e. red blood cells, and leucocytes (U937 cancer cells). High-quality Raman spectra with low fluorescence were obtained using a home-LTRS apparatus and 20 cells were measured for each cell type. The smoothing, baseline subtraction, and normalization of the data were followed by a principal components analysis (PCA). The PCA loading plots showed that the two different types of cells could be completely separated based only on the first component (PC1) (i.e. the peaks at 1300 cm1 ); the discrimination accuracy could therefore reach 100%. More than 50 spectra were taken for each erythrocyte obtained from the four healthy volunteers. The average discrimination accuracy was 84.5% for two random individuals taken from the four volunteers, according to the first and second PCs. This work demonstrates that LTRS is a powerful tool for the accurate identification and discrimination of single cells, and it has the potential to be applied for the highly sensitive identification of cells in clinical diagnosis and medical jurisprudence.