Tutorial review on validation of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry methods: Part II

This is the part II of a tutorial review intending to give an overview of the state of the art of method validation in liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC–MS) and discuss specific issues that arise with MS (and MS–MS) detection in LC (as opposed to the “conventional” detectors). The Part II starts with briefly introducing the main quantitation methods and then addresses the performance related to quantification: linearity of signal, sensitivity, precision, trueness, accuracy, stability and measurement uncertainty. The last section is devoted to practical considerations in validation. With every performance characteristic its essence and terminology are addressed, the current status of treating it is reviewed and recommendations are given, how to handle it, specifically in the case of LC–MS methods.     

Synthesis and Properties of Thermosensitive Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide)/Waterborne Polyurethane Graded Concentration Hybrid Films

Temperature-sensitive hybrid films were synthesized with a concentration gradient by casting and UV curing of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) monomers (0%–70%) on the free surface of waterborne polyurethane (WPU) films on a Teflon substrate. The surface hardness and contact angle of the free surface with a water drop increased asymptotically with the addition of NIPAAm, whereas those on the substrate side were virtually unchanged. The diffusion coefficient (D), rates of swelling at 20°C (below the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM)) and deswelling at 50°C (above the LCST) increased with increasing NIPAM content, showing favorable thermosensitivity. In addition, the glassy state modulus and glass transition temperature (Tg) of the film increased with increasing NIPAM content, whereas the rubbery modulus decreased due to the increased molecular weight between the crosslinks. In addition, as the NIPAM content increased, the film showed a positive yield with an increased yield and fracture stress and decreased ductility. Above 50% NIPAM, the film became brittle, showing a linear stress–strain relationship.     

Recent advances of ultrasonic testing of cement based materials at early ages

To summarize some of the most important findings in the field of ultrasonic (US) testing of early age hydration and formation of structure of different cement based materials (CBMs), a review of literature with focus on US P-wave transmission and S-wave reflection methods is presented in this paper. The review shows a great ability of both US techniques to observe setting phenomena and to determine different milestones during the early age formation of CBM’s microstructure. Clear physical basis, high accuracy, and non-destructive nature of the method indicate that US methods could become standardized in the near future.     

CAMWI: Detecting protein complexes using weighted clustering coefficient and weighted density

Detection of protein complexes is very important to understand the principles of cellular organization and function. Recently, large protein–protein interactions (PPIs) networks have become available using high-throughput experimental techniques. These networks make it possible to develop computational methods for protein complex detection. Most of the current methods rely on the assumption that protein complex as a module has dense structure. However complexes have core-attachment structure and proteins in a complex core share a high degree of functional similarity, so it expects that a core has high weighted density. In this paper we present a Core-Attachment based method for protein complex detection from Weighted PPI Interactions using clustering coefficient and weighted density. Experimental results show that the proposed method, CAMWI improves the accuracy of protein complex detection.     

An extension of the Yamada‐Watanabe theorem

A well‐known result on pathwise uniqueness of the solution of stochastic differential equations in is the Yamada‐Watanabe theorem. We have extended this result by replacing the Lipschitz assumption on the drift coefficient by much weaker assumption of semi‐monotonicity.     

Stability,periodicity, and symmetries of certain second‐order fractional difference equation with quadratic terms via KAM theory

By using the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theory, we investigate the stability of the equilibrium solution of the difference equation where A ,B ,D > 0,u _?1,u ₀>0. We also use the symmetries to find effectively the periodic solutions with feasible periods. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于改进的PSO-SVM的音频信号特征识别和分类

针对音频信号准确性分类的问题,提出一种基于改进的的粒子群优化算法(PSO)的支持向量机(SVM)音频信号分类的方法,简称IPSO-SVM.首先用Mel倒谱系数法对4种音频信号进行特征提取.其次在PSO中引入自适应变异因子,能够成功地跳出局部极小值点;然后对PSO中的惯性权重进行了改进,将惯性权重由常数变为指数型递减函数.随着迭代的进行,使权重逐渐减小,这样做有利于粒子进行局部寻优.最后用改进的PSO不断优化SVM中的惩罚因子c和核函数参数g来提高预测精度.实验结果表明,与传统的SVM、PSO-SVM、GA-SVM相比,我们提出的IPSO-SVM算法分类结果更精确.     

基于权重比的民航飞行员安全行为指标权重算法

确定飞行员安全行为指标的权重,对发现民航飞行员飞行安全风险的短板,提高民航飞行安全性具有重要意义.基于指标权重比,提出了一种飞行员安全行为指标权重算法.并以此算法分析了职业安全意识、飞行情景意识、特情应变能力以及机组资源管理能力等指标对飞行员安全行为的影响程度,研究可为飞行员安全行为风险管理提供依据,对安全飞行具有积极的指导意义.     

基于函数系数自回归模型的风速时间序列预测

准确预测风电场风速是解决风能对电力系统所造成的安全、稳定运行和电能质量等问题的有效途径之一.风速的难以预测是由于它的高度随机和非线性.基于一种非参数的非线性自回归随机模型来预测风速,模型的自回归系数随模型依赖变量的变化而变化,因而它有灵活的非线性结构.数值实验和比较结果表明了这种函数系数自回归模型在风电场风速预测中的有效性.     

面向信息化战争的广义兰切斯特战争模型

21世纪是一个信息化时代,为了更好的面向信息化战争.通过对传统的兰切斯特微分方程进行改进,考虑了信息化的诸多因素,引入了战场情报感知系数和信息优势系数.构建了数学模型,并对其进行差分处理求解,比较分析了交战双方对战场感知系数变化和信息优势系数变化情况下,对战争的影响.以海湾战争为例,检验了模型的可行性.