关于国家自然科学基金资助摩擦学基础研究的分析与讨论

本文首先对国家自然科学基金在１９８６－１９９１年间资助摩擦学基础研究的情况进行了简洁的分析，接着就其资助办法作了介绍，最后着重对如何利用科学基金促进摩擦学的发展问题作了讨论，指出应当把坚持应用摩擦学学科发展战略的研究成果、鼓励和支持创新性研究、积极支持交叉学科研究和注意扶植新的学科生长点、加强摩擦学研究与实际应用相结合和促进优秀青年摩擦学研究人才的迅速成长等作为国家自然科学基金资助摩擦学基础研究的     

Influence of corrugation frequency and amplitude on the stress state of hollow elliptic cylinders

The influence of corrugation frequency and amplitude on the displacement and stress fields is analyzed based on an approach to solving stress problems for corrugated elliptical cylinders with certain end conditions.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 87–93, September 2004.     

铽荧光纳米配合物的制备及其潜血手印显现应用

以铽离子为发光中心、对苯二甲酸为第一配体、菲咯啉为第二配体,采用化学方法一步制备出表面羧基修饰的铽荧光纳米配合物。使用活化剂1-(3-二甲氨基丙基)-3-乙基碳二亚胺盐酸盐配合稳定剂N-羟基琥珀酰亚胺对配合物表面的羧基进行活化,促使活化羧基与潜血手印中的胺基在温和条件下迅速发生酰胺反应,成功实现了潜血手印的靶向显现。优化了潜血手印显现的最佳条件,显现悬浮液中配合物与水的质量比推荐为1∶35,显现浸泡时间推荐为20 s。并深入探究了手印显现的对比度、灵敏度、选择性、适用性。实验结果表明,制备的表面活化羧基修饰的铽荧光纳米配合物适用于光滑非渗透性及半渗透性客体表面潜血手印的高质量与高效率显现。     

Rapid determination of catecholamines in urine samples by nonaqueous microchip electrophoresis with LIF detection

A method was developed for the rapid separation of catecholamines by nonaqueous microchip electrophoresis (NAMCE) with LIF detection, A homemade pump‐free negative pressure sampling device was used for rapid bias‐free sampling in NAMCE, the injection time was 0.5 s and the electrophoresis separation conditions were optimized. Under the optimized conditions, the samples were separated completely in <1 min. The average migration times of the epinephrine (E), dopamine (DA), and norepinephrine (NE) were 34.26, 43.81, and 50.07 s, with an RSD of 1.05, 1.26, and 0.89% (n = 7), respectively. The linearity of the method ranged from 0.0125 to 2.0 mg/L for E and 0.025～4.0 mg/L for DA and NE, with correlation coefficients ranging between 0.9978 and 0.9986. The detection limits of E, DA, and NE were 2.5, 5.0, and 5.0 μg/L, respectively. The recoveries of E, DA, and NE in spiked urine samples were between 86 and 103%, with RSDs of 4.5～6.8% (n = 5). The proposed NAMCE with LIF detection combined with a pump‐free negative pressure sampling device is a simple, inexpensive, energy efficient, miniaturized system that can be successfully applied for the determination of catecholamines in urine samples.     

Multi-objective decision analysis for competence-oriented project portfolio selection

This paper develops a multi-objective optimization model for project portfolio selection taking employee competencies and their evolution into account. The objectives can include economic gains as well as gains expressed in terms of aggregated competence increments according to pre-defined profiles. In order to determine Pareto-optimal solutions, the overall problem is decomposed into a master problem addressing the portfolio selection itself, and a slave problem dealing with a suitable assignment of personnel to the work packages of the selected projects over time. We provide an asymptotic approximation of the problem by a linearized formulation, which allows an efficient and exact solution of the slave problem. For the solution of the master problem, we compare the multi-objective metaheuristics NSGA-II and P-ACO. Experimental results both for synthetically generated test instances and for real-world test instances, based on an application case from the E-Commerce Competence Center Austria, are presented.     

A sensitive, rapid ferricyanide-mediated toxicity bioassay developed using Escherichia coli

A need for rapid toxicity techniques has seen recent research into developing new microbiological assays and characterising their toxicity responses using a range of substances. A microbiological bioassay that determines changes in ferricyanide-mediated respiration for toxicity measurement (FM-TOX) shows particular promise. The development and optimisation of an improved FM-TOX method, incorporating novel features, is described using Escherichia coli as the biocatalyst. Omission of an exogenous carbon source, used in previously described FM-TOX assays, substantially improves the assay sensitivity. In addition, the development of a two-step procedure (toxicant exposure followed by determination of microbial respiratory activity) was found to enhance the inhibition of E. coli by 3,5-dichlorophenol and four other toxicants, compared to single-step procedures. Other assay parameters, such as the ferricyanide concentration, exposure times and optical density of the biocatalyst were also optimised, sometimes based on practical aspects. Toxicity tests were carried out using the adopted technique on both organic and inorganic toxicants, with classic sigmoid-shaped dose-response curves observed, as well as some non-standard responses. IC₅₀ data is presented for a number of common toxicants. The optimised assay provides a good foundation for further toxicity testing using E. coli, as well as the potential for expanding the technique to utilise other bacteria with complementary toxicity responses, thereby allowing use of the assay in a range of applications.     

Reviving Pólya's “Look Back” in a Singapore school

This study is based on the stance that Pólya's “Look Back,” though understudied, remains relevant to Mathematics curricula that place emphasis on problem solving. Although the Singapore Mathematics curriculum adopts the goal of teaching Look Back, research about how it is carried out in actual classroom practice is rare. In our project, we focus on a redesign of a teacher development programme that is targeted to help teachers realize Pólya's original vision of Look Back in the classroom. We report the cases of two teachers who have participated in the teacher development programme: their thinking about Look Back (through interview records) and their interpretation of Look Back in their classroom practice (through video records). By bringing these two spheres of data together, we discuss their degree of ‘buy-in’ to Look Back in the overall problem solving enterprise.     

Recent advances in clinical microdialysis

Clinical microdialysis (MD) is a minimally invasive sampling technique that offers selective in-vivo measurement of free, active drug or biomolecule concentrations in human tissues and organs. From a regulatory perspective, MD can thus be seen as a suitable scientific tool that meets regulatory requirements for the study of tissue distribution or bioequivalence during drug development. From a clinical perspective, the use of MD in different applications has shown the potential to rationalize drug-dosing regimens and to influence clinical decision-making, although validation and correlation of MD-derived results with clinical response are required to promote routine clinical use of the technique. From an analytical perspective, highly sensitive analytical systems have increasingly become available for MD-sample analysis, and these have further improved the quality and the power of MD-derived information. Given the constant development in recent years, MD data might become an important part of new drug submissions and clinical treatment algorithms, and might positively influence patient benefit in the future.     

A Highly Sensitive Kinetic Spectrophotometric System and Its Analytical Potential for Chromatographic Detection of Metal Ions

Micelles,microemulsions.vesicles,etc.,areorganicmicroheterogeneousmedia.Useofthesemediainanalyticalreactionsfordevelopingnewkinetic-baseddeterminationsorimprovingpreviouslyestablishedkineticmethodshasbeenreported"2.Inrecentyears,amixedmicellarmediumc...     

Endogenous Opening Policy and Nonlinear Economic Development—Physical Capital,Human Capital and Economic Structure

This paper is concerned with nonlinear issues in economic development. We suggest a model of dynamic interdependence of economic development, openness and human capital accumulation. The model provides some insights into complex of modernization of mainland China. We show conditions under which the dynamic system exhibits multiple equilibria, limit cycles or catastrophes.