Mixed 2-phenylpyridine and 5-substitued-8-hydroxyquinolines palladium(II) complexes: new emitters in solutions at room temperature

The newly synthesized complexes formed by cyclopalladated 2-phenylpyridine co-ordinated to 5-substituted-8-hydroxyquinolines, are at room temperature and in fluid solution, luminescent with an absolute photoluminescent quantum yield which depends on the nature of the substituent in position 5.     

Differentiability Properties of an Abstract Autonomous Composition Operator

The autonomous composition operator is the nonlinear map whichtakes a pair of functions into its composite function. The compositionoperator often appears in problems of nonlinear analysis andto analyse such problems it is often important to know whetherthe composition operator is continuous or differentiable. Afairly large number of papers in the literature have been devotedto the study of composition operators. For fullscale references,we refer the reader to the extensive monographs of Appell andZabrejko [1] and Runst and Sickel [8]. To exemplify a typicalsituation, we consider the semilinear Dirichlet boundary valueproblem where denotes a sufficiently regular bounded open subset ofR^N, and h₀ a map of R to R, and where u is the unknown of theproblem. We assume that we know that a certain function u₀ belongingto a certain function space X solves (1.1). Then if we wishto know whether by perturbing h₀ in a certain function space,say Y, the solutions u depend on h continuously, with differentiability,with analyticity or bifurcate, we could set G[h, u] u+h u,recast problem (1.1) into the abstract form G[h, u] (1.2) and study the solution set of equation (1.2) around the pair(h₀, u₀) by means of the implicit function theorem or by localbifurcation theorems in a Banach space setting.     

Simulation of stress waves in attenuating drill strings, including piezoelectric sources and sensors

A key element in drill steering and prediction of lithology ahead-of-the-bit is the transmission of while-drilling information from the bottom of the well to the rig operator and the geophysicists. Mud-pulse telemetry, based on pressure pulses along the drilling mud and extensional waves through the drill string, is the most used technique. The last method, properly designed, could transmit data rates up to 100 bits per second, against the 1 or 2 bits per second achieved with pressure pulses. In this work, a time-domain algorithm is developed for the propagation of one-dimensional axial, torsional, and flexural stress waves, including transducer sources and sensors. In addition, the equations include relaxation mechanisms simulating the viscoelastic behavior of the steel, dielectric losses, and any other losses, such as those produced by the presence of the drilling mud, the casing, and the formation. Moreover, the algorithm simulates the passbands and stopbands due to the presence of the coupling joints and pulse distortion and delay due to nonuniform cross-section areas. Acoustic and electric pulses, generated at one location in the string, can be propagated and detected at any other location by piezoelectric and acoustic sensors, such as PCB accelerometers, clamp-on ammeters, force, and strain transducers.     

Flow injection-chemical vapor generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry hyphenated system for organic mercury determination: A step forward

Monomethylmercury and ethylmercury were determined on line using flow injection-chemical vapor generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry without neither requiring a pre-treatment with chemical oxidants, nor UV/MW additional post column interface, nor organic solvents, nor complexing agents, such as cysteine. Inorganic mercury, monomethylmercury and ethylmercury were detected by atomic fluorescence spectrometry in an Ar/H₂ miniaturized flame after sodium borohydride reduction to Hg⁰, monomethylmercury hydride and ethylmercury hydride, respectively. The effect of mercury complexing agent such as cysteine, ethylendiaminotetracetic acid and HCl with respect to water and Ar/H₂ microflame was investigated.The behavior of inorganic mercury, monomethylmercury and ethylmercury and their cysteine-complexes was also studied by continuous flow-chemical vapor generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry in order to characterize the reduction reaction with tetrahydroborate. When complexed with cysteine, inorganic mercury, monomethylmercury and ethylmercury cannot be separately quantified varying tetrahydroborate concentration due to a lack of selectivity, and their speciation requires a pre-separation stage (e.g. a chromatographic separation). If not complexed with cysteine, monomethylmercury and ethylmercury cannot be separated, as well, but their sum can be quantified separately with respect to inorganic mercury choosing a suitable concentration of tetrahydroborate (e.g. 10^? 5 mol L^? 1), thus allowing the organic/inorganic mercury speciation.The detection limits of the flow injection-chemical vapor generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry method were about 45 nmol L^? 1 (as mercury) for all the species considered, a relative standard deviation ranging between 1.8 and 2.9% and a linear dynamic range between 0.1 and 5 μmol L^? 1 were obtained. Recoveries of monomethylmercury and ethylmercury with respect to inorganic mercury were never less than 91%. Flow injection-chemical vapor generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry method was validated by analyzing the TORT-1 certificate reference material, which contains only monomethylmercury, and obtaining 83 ± 5% of monomethylmercury recovered, respectively. This method was also applied to the determination of monomethylmercury in saliva samples.     

VC‐dimension on manifolds: a first approach

The Vapnik–Chervonenkis‐dimension is an index of the capacity of a learning machine. It has been computed in several cases, but always in a Euclidean context. This paper extends the notion to classifiers acting in the more general environment of a manifold. General properties are proved, and some examples of simple classifiers on elementary manifolds are given. A large part of the research is directed toward a still open problem on product manifolds. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Module containment property for linear equations

A general module containment property is proved for almost periodic linear systems of differential equations, in both finite and infinite dimensions.     

Analysis of the SG discretizatioin scheme on a multi-dimensional domain — application to impact ionization

An analysis is carried out of the multi-dimensional extension of the Scharfetter-Gummel method. It shown that, within the frame of the drift-diffusion model of semiconductor devices, the assumption of constant electric field and current densities over suitable subelements of the discretization grid preserves the necessary degrees of freedom of the problem and, at the same time, provides some information about the current-density field. These informations are exploited for treating a case in which the dependence of the model's coefficients on the current density is strong, namely, impact ionization.     

Accelerated Projected Gradient Method for Linear Inverse Problems with Sparsity Constraints

Regularization of ill-posed linear inverse problems via ? ₁ penalization has been proposed for cases where the solution is known to be (almost) sparse. One way to obtain the minimizer of such an ? ₁ penalized functional is via an iterative soft-thresholding algorithm. We propose an alternative implementation to ? ₁-constraints, using a gradient method, with projection on ? ₁-balls. The corresponding algorithm uses again iterative soft-thresholding, now with a variable thresholding parameter. We also propose accelerated versions of this iterative method, using ingredients of the (linear) steepest descent method. We prove convergence in norm for one of these projected gradient methods, without and with acceleration.