Highly Selective Recovery of Lanthanides by Using a Layered Vanadate with Acid and Radiation Resistance

It is of vital importance to capture lanthanides (nuclear fission products) from waste solutions for radionuclide remediation owing to their hazards. The effective separation of lanthanides are achieved by an acid/base‐stable and radiation‐resistant vanadate, namely, [Me₂NH₂]V₃O₇ ( 1 ). It exhibits high adsorption capacities for lanthanides (q_m^Eu=161.4 mg g^?1; q_m^Sm=139.2 mg g^?1). And high adsorption capacities are maintained over a pH range of 2.0–6.9 (q_m^Eu=75.1 mg g^?1 at low pH of 2.5). It displays high selectivity for Eu³⁺ (simulant of An³⁺) against a large excess of interfering ions. It can efficiently separate Eu³⁺ and Cs⁺ (or Sr²⁺) with the highest separation factor SF_Eu/Cs of 156 (SF_Eu/Sr of 134) to date. The adsorption mechanism is revealed by calculations and XPS, EXAFS, Raman, and elemental analyses. These merits combined with facile synthesis and convenient elution makes the title vanadate a promising lanthanide scavenger for environmental remediation.     

三方相互体谅讨价还价模型

对于较重要的三方合作利益分配博弈问题,将相互体谅作为基本遵循并基于适应性预期模型,建立三方相互体谅讨价还价模型.运用这个模型,可以把三方相互体谅讨价还价达成均衡,归结为单调有界数列收敛与常系数非齐次线性差分方程组求解的结合运用.三方相互体谅讨价还价属于不完全信息动态合作博弈.对模型求解,一般地揭示三方相互体谅讨价还价达成均衡的过程与结果,阐明讨价还价有满足初始条件的唯一解和充要条件,以及充要条件的经济含义和数学意义.三方相互体谅讨价还价模型是对于两方相互体谅讨价还价模型的拓展,可以为建立更多方相互体谅讨价还价模型提供借鉴.     

A MODEL FOR ESTIMATING PREMIUMS TO REDUCE IRRIGATION ON FARMS

Abstract This paper aims to determine the minimum agri‐environmental premium per hectare that farmers should receive to reduce crop irrigation. To this end, the authors develop a mixed‐integer quadratic model using a new methodology based on traditional positive mathematical programming, which allows the inclusion in the model of crop variants that are not present in the baseline situation of the farms. What is shown is that the results obtained with this new methodology, using the cost average approach of calibration, are the same as those obtained with an empirical method, when there is no change of crop distribution after the changeover from irrigated to nonirrigated farms. The theoretical results are compared with those obtained using the calibration with exogenous elasticities and are illustrated numerically for a representative farm of an area around Spain's Tablas de Daimiel in which the use of groundwater for crop irrigation has led to the ongoing deterioration of wetlands that depend on the same source of water, endangering the region's environmental sustainability.     

室外用通信光缆长期阻水机理

在光缆设计与产品生产中,如何有效阻水不仅是保障光缆最佳环境性能也是延长光缆使用寿命的重要基础;为此,本文对长期阻水物理模型进行重点阐述,对解决当前横向渗水起到一定实际指导意义。     

Graphite Carbon Nitride and Its Composites for Medicine and Health Applications

With the progress of science and technology and the improvement of people‘s living standards, the performance of traditional materials can no longer fully meet the needs of social development. Graphitic phase carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄), as a new type of nanomaterial, has good properties. Its unique graphite like structure and stable thermodynamic characteristics have led an increasing number of researchers to explore its diverse functions and use this as a basis to develop related energy and products for applications in various fields. Among them, applications in the field of medicine health have become popular in recent years. Therefore, this review summarizes the synthesis methods of g-C₃N₄ and its composites, as well as their applications in food, medicine, environmental monitoring and disease treatment, in the hope of providing references and basis for further expanding the applications of g-C₃N₄ in large health areas.     

Determination of fipronil and its metabolites in environmental water samples by meltblown nonwoven fabric-based solid-phase extraction combined with gas chromatography-electron capture detection

In this study, a new method for the determination of fipronil and its three metabolites in environmental water samples was developed based on meltblown nonwoven fabric solid-phase extraction combined with gas chromatography-electron capture detection. As the core material of medical masks, meltblown nonwoven fabric is made of polypropylene superfine fibers which are randomly distributed and bonded together with a relatively large specific surface area and good permeability. Polypropylene as a high molecular hydrocarbon-based polymer has the characteristics of good hydrophobicity and lipophilicity, which can be applied for the separation and enrichment of hydrophobic substances in food, environment, and biological samples. The meltblown nonwoven fabric is soft and can fill the solid-phase extraction cartridge tightly. This aspect also makes it suitable to be used as an ideal solid-phase extraction sorbent. A series of parameters influencing the extraction efficiency were investigated, and under the optimized conditions, fipronil and its three metabolites had a good linear relationship in the range of 0.2–100 μg/L with a correlation coefficient R^{2 of} more than 0.999. The recoveries at three spiked concentrations were in the range of 99.2–107.3% with the relative standard deviations less than 9.8% (intra-day) and 8.1% (inter-day). The limit of detection for the four target analytes was in the range of 0.02–0.06 μg/L. Finally, this method was successfully applied in the analysis of fipronil and its three metabolites in various types of environmental water samples.     

亲水作用色谱及其在环境分析中的应用进展

亲水作用色谱(HILIC)是一种分离极性和亲水性化合物的液相色谱模式,其作为反相液相色谱(RPLC)的重要补充,近年来越来越受到各个领域的关注和重视。这不只是因为强极性化合物的分离问题在各个领域引起了重视,而且因为与RPLC比较,HILIC具有流动相组成黏度低、色谱柱渗透性好、与质谱联用的灵敏度高及反压较低等优势。本文简要概述了HILIC的发展历程、特点及保留机理,重点介绍了HILIC用于环境分析的最新进展,评述了HILIC及RPLC用于污染物分析的优缺点,并指出了HILIC用于环境分析的未来发展趋势。     

Sampling and sampling strategies for environmental analysis

Sampling errors are generally believed to dominate the errors of analytical measurement during the entire environmental data acquisition process. Unfortunately, environmental sampling errors are hardly quantified and documented even though analytical errors are frequently yet improperly reported to the third decimal point in environmental analysis. There is a significant discrepancy in directly applying traditional sampling theories (such as those developed for the binary particle systems) to trace levels of contaminants in complex environmental matrices with various spatial and temporal heterogeneities. The purpose of this critical review is to address several key issues in the development of an optimal sampling strategy with a primary goal of sample representativeness while minimizing the total number of samples and sampling frequencies, hence the cost for sampling and analysis. Several biased and statistically based sampling approaches commonly employed in environmental sampling (e.g. judgmental sampling and haphazard sampling vs. statistically based approaches such as simple random, systematic random, and stratified random sampling) are examined with respect to their pros and cons for the acquisition of scientifically reliable and legally defensible data. The effects of sample size, sample frequency and the use of compositing are addressed to illustrate the strategies for a cost reduction as well as an improved representativeness of sampling from spatially and temporally varied environmental systems. The discussions are accompanied with some recent advances and examples in the formulation of sampling strategies for the chemical or biological analysis of air, surface water, drinking water, groundwater, soil, and hazardous waste sites.     

单组分双分析通道红外气体检测方法研究

基于单分析通道非分散红外(non-dispersive infrared, NDIR)气体分析技术, 提出一种单组分双分析通道气体检测方法. 根据SO₂的红外吸收特征, 采用逐线积分气体吸收模型和方法, 选择洛伦兹展宽线型并考虑温度和气压对积分线强、线型的影响, 确定了两个分析通道的滤波参数.使用7.32 μm和4 μm波段分别反演小于等于 280 ppm与大于280 ppm的SO₂浓度;使用最小二乘法, 以三阶多项式为拟合模型, 获得了两个分析通道的定标曲线.对系统的测量线性度、检测限和测量准确度进行了分析. 两个分析通道的联合可以实现约几ppm至10000 ppm的宽动态范围的SO₂测量, 且系统测量线性度大于0.99, 测量误差小于5%.既克服了NDIR气体分析技术检测灵敏度和宽动态测量范围不能同时兼顾的缺陷, 良好的系统测量线性度还为多组分气体分析的干扰修正提供了非常必要的前提条件.     

Evolutionary model of the personal income distribution

The aim of this work is to develop a qualitative picture of the personal income distribution. Treating an economy as a self-organized system the key idea of the model is that the income distribution contains competitive and non-competitive contributions. The presented model distinguishes between three main income classes. 1. Capital income from private firms is shown to be the result of an evolutionary competition between products. A direct consequence of this competition is Gibrat’s law suggesting a lognormal income distribution for small private firms. Taking into account an additional preferential attachment mechanism for large private firms the income distribution is supplemented by a power law (Pareto) tail. 2. Due to the division of labor a diversified labor market is seen as a non-competitive market. In this case wage income exhibits an exponential distribution. 3. Also included is income from a social insurance system. It can be approximated by a Gaussian peak. A consequence of this theory is that for short time intervals a fixed ratio of total labor (total capital) to net income exists (Cobb–Douglas relation). A comparison with empirical high resolution income data confirms this pattern of the total income distribution. The theory suggests that competition is the ultimate origin of the uneven income distribution.