Surface activity of commercial food grade modified starches

An attempt to quantitative evaluation of the functionality of food grade chemically modified starches in the emulsion systems by estimation of their surface activity as well as the capability of thickening food products was the main purpose of this present work. It was stated that chemically modified starches reveal higher surface activity at air/water and toluene/water interfaces in comparison to the native starch. The increase of the degree of substitution of polar carboxyl groups as well as rather non-polar acetyl ones results in an enhance of surface activity. Starch sodium octenylsuccinate stands out from other investigated starches, in its excellent capability of lowering surface and interfacial tension. Cross-linked starches reveal excellent stabilisation activity at a pH range of 5.5–7.0 but their surface activity is lower than those of other modified starches. Acetylated starch as well as starch sodium octenylsuccinate reveal satisfactory thickening capability up to pH 4.5 and moreover their surface activity (especially of E 1450) allows us to recommend them as functional constituents of food emulsions. Low thickening capability of oxidised starches rather excluded these derivatives from the group of potential functional additives for food emulsions.     

板翅式换热器物流分配研究综述

板翅式换热器由于具有紧凑高效等突出优点,在航空、化工、HVAC等领域具有重要地位。由多种因素引起换热器内部流动的不均匀分配,是造成换热效能的下降最主要原因之一。文中总结了国内外学者对于板翅式换热器物流分配不均匀的研究,详细阐述了各种流动分配模型及其对换热器效能的影响。     

An innovative method for quality control of conjugated Haemophilus influenzae vaccines: A short review of two-dimensional nanoparticle electrophoresis

This article provides an overview of a 2D agarose electrophoretic procedure for the characterization of semi-synthetic Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis vaccines that were prepared for the immunization of small children. The analysis of such vaccines has been particularly challenging because the vaccine particles (i) are highly negatively charged, (ii) are as large as or even larger than intact viruses, and (iii) have a continuous (polydisperse) size distribution because of randomizing steps in the vaccine production (sonification and crosslinking). As a result of these characteristics, 1D electrophoresis of the vaccines produced smears without discernable peaks, but with a second dimension of separation a characteristic vaccine fingerprint was obtained. Whereas O’Farrell gels can accomplish a 2D separation according to size and charge for samples with protein-sized particles, nondenaturing 2D agarose electrophoresis achieves a similar result for much larger virus-sized particles. The separation principle, however, is different. Even though the 2D electrophoretic method was developed from 1983 to 1995, it remains a promising tool for vaccine quality control and for predicting vaccine effectiveness. Modern technology makes the analysis significantly more practical and affordable than it was more than 10 years ago, and the method is applicable to a variety of conjugated vaccines and complex mixtures of virus-sized particles.     

超细镍粉复合材料的微波电磁特性研究

以蒸馏水为溶剂,利用快捷、温和的液相还原法制备超细镍粉,将得到的超细镍粉作为填料制备了复合材料,考察了复合材料的电磁屏蔽和吸波性能．结果表明,超细镍粉质量分数为80％的树脂基复合材料在130MHz～1．5GHz测试频段范围内的电磁屏蔽性能高于45dB;而厚度为2mm的超细镍粉／石蜡复合材料在7GHz附近的反射率可达-27dB．     

Explicit portfolio for unit-linked life insurance contracts with surrender option

Introducing a surrender option in unit-linked life insurance contracts leads to a dependence between the surrender time and the financial market. [J. Barbarin, Risk minimizing strategies for life insurance contracts with surrender option, Tech. rep., University of Louvain-La-Neuve, 2007] used a lot of concepts from credit risk to describe the surrender time in order to hedge such types of contracts. The basic assumption made by Barbarin is that the surrender time is not a stopping time with respect to the financial market.The goal of this article is to make the hedging strategies more explicit by introducing concrete processes for the risky asset and by restricting the hazard process to an absolutely continuous process.First, we assume that the risky asset follows a geometric Brownian motion. This extends the theory of [T. Møller, Risk-minimizing hedging strategies for insurance payment processes, Finance and Stochastics 5 (2001) 419–446], in that the random times of payment are not independent of the financial market. Second, the risky asset follows a Lévy process.For both cases, we assume the payment process contains a continuous payment stream until surrender or maturity and a payment at surrender or at maturity, whichever comes first.     

The radiation shielding offered by the commercial glass installed in Bangladeshi dwellings

One sign of a vibrant Bangladeshi economy has been the move away from the use of more traditional housing materials towards a preference for modern constructional media. Glass, one such example, used both decoratively and in a structural context, offers various advantageous properties and facets including a protective feature against radiation that has not previously been considered. Current interest examines the dosimetric possibilities offered by the commercial glass as a secondary shield and also in retrospective ionising radiation exposure analysis. Four popular brands of window glass are investigated, all available within the local market (PHP-Bangladesh, Usmania-Bangladesh, Nasir-Bangladesh and Rider-China), all with the same thickness and colour, varying in terms of elemental weight fractions as evaluated by energy dispersive X-ray analysis. As potential attenuators of transmitted radiation thereby forming secondary barriers against radiation exposure from penetrating radiations, the four brands of glass have been studied using photon energies from 59 up to 1332 keV, a range of values representative of that potentially encountered in incidents. Use has been made of a well-shielded high-purity germanium γ-ray spectrometer and associated electronics, providing for evaluation of the characteristic barrier parameters of half-value layer, radiation protection efficiency and effective atomic number (Z_eff). Of the four brands investigated, Rider provides superior secondary shielding performance. Concerning potential retrospective dosimetry the effective atomic number of the glass samples are comparable with that of the commercial thermoluminescence (TL) dosimeter TLD-200. At high doses, the TL yields are sufficient to provide for retrospective accident dosimetry.     

基于关键因素的国家重大区域规划实施效果评价

以国家重大区域规划中的长三角为实证研究对象,利用加权灰色关联度筛选出与政策效果评价关联性高度相关的政策指标:中央财政专项拨款、中央补助收入、中央固定资产投资额,进而建立政策指标与规划目标的第三产业增加值的对数回归函数,通过过去的数据预测某一特定年份第三产业增加值,并与该年份的实际值进行对比、评价国家重大区域规划的政策效果。本文的特色与创新一是通过灰色关联度剔除与政策效果评价关联度小的指标,筛选出对重大区域规划政策效果有显著影响的关键因素。二是通过时间权向量对政策指标的关联度进行加权,体现时间越近的年份、加权灰色关联度越大,指标越应该保留的思路,保证年份越近的指标数据、对评价结果影响越显著。三是通过历史数据的预测,得到在没有规划政策下、区域自然发展的目标效果,并把其与同一时点、政策实施后的实际效果进行对比,得到政策实施后的政策绩效。实证结果表明应该增大对上海和浙江影响显著的中央财政专项拨款的政策投入,减少对上海和浙江影响不显著的中央固定资产投资额的投入。     

基于风洞的设备健康管理与数据有效性判定平台研究

低速增压风洞是满足我国航空工业科技发展而建设的一座气动力重大基础试验设施。为了保障该设施的高效率和可靠地运行,以各机电设备、电气测控设备、机械装置为对象,根据其故障模式和故障特点选取合适的监测点,获取实时工作状态数据,再以数据为基础,进行状态监测、故障诊断、故障预测,实现预先性决策和针对性快速维修。基于OSA-CBM 体系构建的风洞健康管理系统,根据设备的运行状态,实现对试验数据的有效性进行实时判定,并实现了风洞装备由事后维修向视情维修转变;实现了装备从使用、维护、管理模式由分散式管理向集约式管理的转变;实现了装备系统故障诊、预测及判读从人工智能向机器智能的转变。     

内部窗口结构对开孔矩形腔体近场屏蔽效能的影响

针对开孔屏蔽腔体内置窗口的结构特点,采用扩展的传输线方法理论,建立了电偶极子天线照射下计算近场屏蔽效能的等效电路模型,推导了近似计算解析式,并计算分析了内部窗口结构对开孔腔体近场屏蔽效能的影响.结果表明:含内置窗口结构腔体的近场电场屏蔽效能小于远场屏蔽效能,腔体屏蔽效能随窗口宽度的减小而增大,电感窗口使得腔体谐振频率向上偏移,电容窗口使其谐振频率向下偏移.分析结果与CST仿真结果进行了对比,证实本文采用的等效电路方法是有效的.