Crystal structures of 2,4-dimethylthioxanthene 10,10-dioxide, 2,4,9-trimethylthioxanthene 10,10-dioxide,and 2,4-dimethyl-9-isopropylthioxanthene 10,10-dioxide

The structures of 2,4-dimethylthioxanthene 10,10-dioxide, 1 , 2,4,9-trimethylthioxanthene 10,10-dioxide, 2 , and 2,4-dimethyl-9-isopropylthioxanthene 10,10-dioxide, 3 , have been determined by x-ray diffraction. The central ring of the thioxanthene ring system is in a boat conformation. The 9-methyl substituent in 2 and the 9-isopropyl substituent in 3 are both in the boat-axial conformation with respect to the central ring. The folding angles between the planes of the two benzo rings are 136.6°, 142.9°, and 134.3° for 1, 2 , and 3 , respectively.     

A new efficient decarboxylative reduction of γ-carbamoyloxy-α,β-unsaturated esters with lithium dialkylcuprate

A new synthetically useful decarboxylative reduction of γ-carbamoyloxy-α,β-unsaturated esters with lithium dialkylcuprate under mild condition was described.     

Particle simulation of a high-power gyrotron oscillator

A self consistent and time-dependent particle code has been developed to simulate the beam-wave dynamics in a gyrotron oscillator. The code is first applied to investigate the effect of the self-consistent field profile on the scaling of the cavity-filling rate with beam current. The fixed-field theory predicts that the transient-wave growth rate depends linearly on the beam current. The simulation results agree with the theoretical prediction at low beam currents. As the beam current increases, the modified field profile changes the nature of the gain scaling from linear to nonlinear. At higher beam currents, the excited wave is observed to exhibit the behavior of the modulated oscillation, due to unequal couplings to the forward- and backward-going waves by the beam. Associated with such amplitude modulation is a periodic variation of the self-consistent field profile. At still higher beam currents, the system becomes chaotic, showing the effect of periodic doubling. Simulation results are presented for the efficiency, the self-consistent field profile, and the scaling of the transient growth rate with the beam current     

Effect of excess Pb on crystallinity and ferroelectric properties of PZT(40/60) films on LaNiO3 coated Si substrates by MOD technique

Pb(Zr_0.4Ti_0.6)O₃ [PZT(40/60)] films were deposited onto LaNiO₃ (LNO) coated Si substrates by metal-organic decomposition (MOD) technique. Excess Pb was incorporated in the film by using excess Pb (2%–15%) in the solution. The crystallinity and ferroelectric properties of PZT films were investigated by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), RT66A test system and HP4194 impedance analyzer, respectively. Rayleigh law was employed to analyze the defect concentration in the films. The results show that all the PZT films show the (1 0 0) preferential orientation with complete perovskite structure except for the 2% film displaying some pyrochlore phase. The (1 0 0) preferential orientation is mainly attributed to LNO bottom electrode, which has the highly (1 0 0) preferential orientation. The 10% film shows the best polarization and dielectric properties. The remnant polarization and coercive field are about 10.1 μC/cm² and 73 kV/cm under an electric field around 330 kV/cm, respectively. And the dielectric constant and dissipation factor are about 656 and 0.022 at a frequency of 1 kHz, respectively. The good ferroelectric properties of the 10% film are mainly attributed to the low defect concentration in the film.     

Generating,scheduling and rostering of shift crew-duties: Applications at the Hong Kong International Airport

In the context of manpower planning, goal programming (GP) is extremely useful for generating shift duties of fixed length. A fixed-length duty consists of a fixed number of contiguous hours of work in a day, with a meal/rest break somewhere preferably around the middle of these working hours. It is such properties that enable the straightforward, yet flexible GP modeling. We propose GP models for an integrated problem of crew duties assignment, for baggage services section staff at the Hong Kong International Airport. The problem is solved via decomposition into its duties generating phase—a GP planner, followed by its GP scheduling and rostering phase. The results can be adopted as a good crew schedule in the sense that it is both feasible, satisfying various work conditions, and “optimal” in minimizing idle shifts.     

A note on the inventory models for deteriorating items with ramp type demand rate

In this research we study the inventory models for deteriorating items with ramp type demand rate. We first clearly point out some questionable results that appeared in (Mandal, B., Pal, A.K., 1998. Order level inventory system with ramp type demand rate for deteriorating items. Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics 1, 49–66 and Wu, K.S., Ouyang, L.Y., 2000. A replenishment policy for deteriorating items with ramp type demand rate (Short Communication). Proceedings of National Science Council ROC (A) 24, 279–286). And then resolve the similar problem by offering a rigorous and efficient method to derive the optimal solution. In addition, we also propose an extended inventory model with ramp type demand rate and its optimal feasible solution to amend the incompleteness in the previous work. Moreover, we also proposed a very good inventory replenishment policy for this kind of inventory model. We believe that our work will provide a solid foundation for the further study of this sort of important inventory models with ramp type demand rate.