Particulates formed by a stabilized high voltage spark discharge

Light scattering was used to demonstrate the presence of small (?1 μm) particles in the immediate surroundings of a stable spark discharge. Several parameters, including electrode composition and surface condition, which are of importance in emission spectrochemical analysis, were found to be of importance in affecting the scattering signal. Electron micrographs of the heaviest particles revealed two distinct types of particles. Analytical implications are discussed.     

An unusual reaction of terramycin with methyl iodide

An unusual fragmentation reaction was observed when terramycin is treated with MeI in acetone at room temp. The reaction proceeds with quaternization, loss of trimethylamine, fission of bonds 4a,5 and 12,12a with formation of an aldehydo-lactone derived from rings B, C and D. Additionally some transformations of this lactone are described.     

基于双谱估计的BL Lac天体S5 0716+714光变周期

大幅度、快速光变是BL Lac天体的重要特征之一,光变研究对探索BL Lac天体内部的物理过程和机理具有特殊的意义.从大量文献中收集了BL Lac天体S5 0716+714光学V,R,I 3个波段从1994年到2008年的有效观测数据,并将这些数据30天平均后进行自回归模型(AR)的双谱估计. 双谱的等高线图和对角切片图表明,双谱估计能消除噪声的干扰来提取有用信息,抑制了噪声、提高了信噪比,有很高的分辨率,避免了伪峰的出现,能准确地认证BL Lac天体的光变周期值.由V,R,I 3个波段的双谱等高线图和对     

眼底相机的均匀照明及消杂光干扰设计

给出了一种新型眼底相机照明系统的设计方案。针对现行眼底相机照明系统复杂的问题,对经典的柯勒照明光路进行改良设计,得到了一个结构简单的眼底照明系统。结构中除网膜物镜外,只需用到4片透镜,且眼底照明区域直径连续可调,充分利用了光能。通过在照明光路中添加黑点板和环形光阑,屏蔽了系统99%以上的杂散光,使眼底相机成像画面的信噪比达到20dB以上,提高了对比度。同时在Gullstrand_Le标准眼模型上,得到一个均匀度达95%以上的照明区域。     

Koszul and Gorenstein Properties for Homogeneous Algebras

The Koszul property was generalized to homogeneous algebras of degree in [5], and related to -complexes. We show that if the -homogeneous algebra is generalized Koszul, AS-Gorenstein and of finite global dimension, then one can apply the Van den Bergh duality theorem to i.e., there is a Poincaré duality between Hochschild homology and cohomology of as for .     

Understanding the polarization signal of spherical particles for microwave limb radiances

This paper presents a simple conceptual model to explain that even spherical scatterers lead to a polarization difference signal for microwave limb radiances. The conceptual model relates the polarization difference measured by a limb-looking sensor situated inside a cloud with the anisotropy of the radiation. In the simulations, it was assumed that the cloud consists of spherical ice particles with a radius of which were situated between 10.6 and 12.3 km altitude. The frequencies 318 and 500 GHz were considered.The results of the conceptual model were compared to the results of the fully polarized scattering model ARTS-1-1. The comparison showed a good qualitative agreement. The polarization difference decreases inside the cloud with increasing height and changes sign. This behavior can be related to a different amount of radiation coming from the atmosphere above and below the cloud, compared to the amount of radiation coming from the sides. The sign of polarization difference of the scattered radiation is opposite for these two radiation sources.     

Recent developments in the line-by-line modeling of outgoing longwave radiation

High frequency resolution radiative transfer model calculations with the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator (ARTS) were used to simulate the clear-sky outgoing longwave radiative flux (OLR) at the top of the atmosphere. Compared to earlier calculations by Clough and coworkers the model used a spherical atmosphere instead of a plane parallel atmosphere, updated spectroscopic parameters from HITRAN, and updated continuum parameterizations from Mlawer and coworkers. These modifications lead to a reduction in simulated OLR by approximately 4.1%, the largest part, approximately 2.5%, being due to the absence of the plane parallel approximation. As a simple application of the new model, the sensitivity of OLR to changes in humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, and temperature were investigated for different cloud-free atmospheric scenarios. It was found that for the tropical scenario a 20% change in humidity has a larger impact than a doubling of the carbon dioxide concentration. The sensitive altitude region for temperature and humidity changes is the entire free troposphere, including the upper troposphere where humidity data quality is poor.     

On the modulus of -convexity

In this paper, we prove that the moduli of W^*-convexity, introduced by Ji Gao [J. Gao, The W^*-convexity and normal structure in Banach spaces, Appl. Math. Lett. 17 (2004) 1381–1386], of a Banach space X and of the ultrapower of X itself coincide whenever X is super-reflexive. Moreover, we improve a sufficient condition for uniform normal structure of the space and its dual. This generalizes and strengthens the main results of [J. Gao, The W^*-convexity and normal structure in Banach spaces, Appl. Math. Lett. 17 (2004) 1381–1386].     

On convergence of closed convex sets

In this paper we introduce a convergence concept for closed convex subsets of a finite-dimensional normed vector space. This convergence is called C-convergence. It is defined by appropriate notions of upper and lower limits. We compare this convergence with the well-known Painlevé-Kuratowski convergence and with scalar convergence. In fact, we show that a sequence (An)_n∈NC-converges to A if and only if the corresponding support functions converge pointwise, except at relative boundary points of the domain of the support function of A, to the support function of A.     

The range of united K-theory

We prove that the united K-theory functor is a surjective functor from the category of real simple separable purely infinite C^∗-algebras to the category of countable acyclic CRT-modules. As a consequence, we show that every complex Kirchberg algebra satisfying the universal coefficient theorem is the complexification of a real C^∗-algebra.