Simultaneous Determination of Acetylsalicylic Acid and Caffeine in Pharmaceutical Formulation by First Derivative Synchronous Fluorimetric Method

A sensitive, rapid, and specific assay has been developed for the simultaneous determination of acetylsalicylic acid and caffeine in commercial tablets based on their natural fluorescence. The mixture of these drugs was resolved by first derivative synchronous fluorimetric technique using two scans. At Δλ=106 nm, using first derivative synchronous scanning, only acetylsalicylic acid yields a detectable signal at 316 nm (peak to zero method) which is unaffected by caffeine. At Δλ=30 nm, the signal of caffeine at 288 nm (peak to zero method) is not affected by acetylsalicylic acid. The range of application is between 0.021 and 41.62 μg ml⁻¹ (correlation coefficient, R=0.9995) for acetylsalicylic acid and between 0.4486 and 44.86 μg ml⁻¹ (correlation coefficient, R=0.99786) for caffeine. The recovery range of 98.40–102% for acetylsalicylic acid and 90–100.5% for caffeine from their synthetic mixture was reported. Overall recovery of both compounds about 97–99% for acetylsalicylic acid and 97–98% for caffeine was obtained from real sample analysis. The detection limits are 0.0013 μg ml⁻¹ and 0.0306 μg ml⁻¹ for acetylsalicylic acid and caffeine, respectively. The relative standard deviation (n=10) for 20 μg ml⁻¹ of acetylsalicylic acid is 2.75% and for 2.2 μg ml⁻¹of caffeine is 1.7%.     

A Predictive Coarse‐Grained Model for Semiflexible Polymers in Specific Solvents

A predictive CG model based on a conventional freely rotating chain was developed to describe semiflexible polymers on a relatively large length/time scale. Parameterization of the model requires only two material properties such as, the Kuhn length and coil density. The diameter of spherical “beads” employed in the model is used as an effective parameter that needs to be determined from preliminary data. Once determined for a particular solvent system, this parameter can then be used to model general solvent systems on a parameter‐free basis. Comparison with SANS data on dilute conjugated polymer solutions reveals that the CG polymer model can well describe material properties ranging from local rodlike segments to bulk interchain aggregates.

     

Optimal design of acoustic performance for automotive air-cleaner

The research on optimal design of acoustic performance for air-cleaner was presented and evaluated in this paper using a numerical simulation method and experimental method. A modified measurement was proposed in the paper to solve the problem of air flow noise caused by the original measurement layout. The modified measurement was proved to produce good results. A new study on the acoustic effect of filter was also developed here and noise reduction (NR) of the air-cleaner was predicted based on the study using the numerical simulation method. Actual intake noise was then predicted using the simulation method. Side branch silencers were designed to improve the acoustic capacity of the air-cleaner. The result shows that the newly optimized air-cleaner has a much better performance of noise elimination when engine operating.     

磁控溅射技术室温生长氢化ZnO∶Ga薄膜及其特性研究

采用直流脉冲磁控溅射方法,在室温下生长氢化Ga掺杂ZnO薄膜(GZO/H),并通过湿法后腐蚀技术获得绒面结构.研究了室温下H2流量对薄膜结构、光电性能及表面形貌的影响.实验表明,氢化GZO(GZO/H)薄膜具有良好的(002)晶面择优取向生长,引入适当流量的H2可以有效提高薄膜的电学特性,GZO/H薄膜具有更低的电阻率以及较高的迁移率和载流子浓度.当通入H2流量为6 sccm时,薄膜电阻率为6.8 ×10-4 Ω·cm,Hall迁移率达34.2 cm2/Ⅴ·s,制备的GZO/H薄膜可见光区域平均透过率优于85;.此外,研究了H2流量对湿法腐蚀后绒面GZO/H薄膜表面形貌的影响,提出了一种薄膜绒面结构形成过程模型.     

Cross-correlations between the CSI 300 spot and futures markets

Financial markets are complex dynamical systems. One of the important features of market dynamics is the existence of cross-correlations between financial variables. Based on the high-frequency transaction prices (every 5 min) data, in this study, we investigate the cross-correlations between China Securities Index 300 (CSI 300) spot and futures markets. Qualitatively, employing a statistical test in analogy to the Ljung-Box test, we find that the cross-correlations are significant at the 1 % level. Quantitatively, using the multifractal detrending moving-average cross-correlation analysis (MF-XDMA) method, we find that the cross-correlations are strongly multifractal. An interesting finding is that the cross-correlation exponent is larger than the averaged generalized scaling exponent for different q, which is different from the general conclusion. Using the method of rolling windows, we find that the cross-correlations are positive over time, which suggests that China’s securities markets are not mature and efficient markets at present.     

Calculation of Ship Sinkage and Trim Using a Finite Element Method and Unstructured Grids

An unstructured grid-based, parallel free-surface flow solver has been extended to account for sinkage and trim effects in the calculation of steady ship waves. The overall scheme of the solver combines a finite-element, equal-order, projection-type three-dimensional incompressible flow solver with a finite element, two-dimensional advection equation solver for the free surface equation. The sinkage and trim, wave profiles, and wave drag computed using the present approach are in good agreement with experimental measurements for two hull forms at a wide range of Froude numbers. Numerical predictions indicate significant differences between the wave drag for a ship fixed in at-rest position and free to sink and trim, in agreement with experimental observations.     

Fuzzy distribution fitting energy-based active contours for image segmentation

This paper presents an unsupervised fuzzy energy-based active contour model for image segmentation, based on techniques of curve evolution. The paper proposes a fuzzy energy functional which involves intensity distributions in regions of image to segment and value of fuzzy membership functions. The intensity distributions are derived using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based intensity distribution estimator. Meanwhile, the fuzzy membership functions valued in [0,1] is used to measure the association degree of each image pixel to the region outside and inside the curve. The proposed energy functional is then incorporated into a pseudo-level set formulation. To minimize the energy functional, instead of solving Euler?CLagrange equation of underlying problem, we utilize a direct method to calculate the alterations of the fuzzy energy. In addition, since the parameters of intensity distributions are preestimated, the proposed model avoids the step of updating them at each iteration of curve evolution. The proposed model therefore overcomes the initialization problem of common gradient-descent-based active contour models and converges quickly. Besides, it can work with images with blurred object boundaries. In addition, the extension of the model for the more general case of local space-varying intensities enables dealing with images with intensity inhomogeneity. Experimental results for synthetic and real images validate the desired performances of the proposed model.     

Uniqueness of Stoneley waves in pre-stressed incompressible elastic media

The main aim of this paper is to prove, for the general case, the uniqueness of Stoneley waves propagating along the bonded interface of two pre-stressed incompressible elastic half-spaces. In order to do that the authors have used the complex function method. By this approach, it is shown that the secular equation of Stoneley waves in pre-stressed incompressible elastic half-spaces has at most one solution in the complex plane. This says that if a Stoneley wave exists, then it is unique.     

Optical Absorption in Periodic Graphene Superlattices: Perpendicular Applied Magnetic Field and Temperature Effects

A detailed study of the magneto‐optical absorption is presented for graphene superlattices (SLs) subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. For a given temperature, this quantity exhibits a resonant peak structure whose characteristics depend on the magnetic field regime, circular polarization of light and SL barrier height. For the intermediate field regime, we demonstrated that the resonant peak structure of is directly correlated to the partial joint density of states. Specifically, the latter exhibits van Hove‐like singularities and peaks at energies where takes its maximum values. We also investigated the magnetoabsorption in the weak field regime for SLs exhibiting one and extra Dirac points in the absence of the field. It was found that for SLs with only one Dirac point, the absorption spectra consist of resonant peaks satisfying the same circular polarization dependent selection rule as that for pristine graphene, except for one of them. For SLs with extra Dirac points, the resonant peaks arise from transitions between singlet subbands or between doublet subbands and satisfy a circular polarization and peak intensity dependent selection rule. It was also found that the resonant structure of can be observed experimentally at room temperature in clean SLs.