MATHEMATICAL STUDY OF A PEST CONTROL MODEL INCORPORATING STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE

The menace of insect pests is a topic of major concern throughout the world. Chemical pesticides are conventionally used to control these insect pests. However, the adverse effects of these synthetic pesticides, such as high toxicity from residues in food, contamination of water and the environment resulting in human health hazard and resistance of the pest to the pesticides have necessitated development of some nonconventional approaches of biological pest control. In this research, we have focused on a mathematical model of biological pest control using the sterile insect release technique. Unlike most of the existing modeling studies in this field that mainly deal with the pest population only, we have incorporated the crop population as a distinct dynamical equation together with the fertile and sterile insect pests. Local stability analysis is performed around the crop and fertile insect free axial equilibrium, the fertile‐insect‐free boundary equilibrium, the crop‐free boundary equilibrium and the equilibrium point of coexistence. From the study we have derived a number of thresholds for the SIRR (the main parameter for our study) that cause existence and or extinction of the crop population as well as the fertile insect pests. A global study of the model system using comparison arguments revealed existence of a global attractor for the system. Numerical simulations are done to support and augment analytical results.     

假期中顾客以概率θ进人的Geo/G/1(E,SV)排队系统的队长分布

考虑单重休假的Geo/G/1离散时间排队系统,其中在服务员休假期间到达的顾客以概率θ(0<θ≤1)进入系统.通过引入"服务员忙期"和使用全概率分解技术,从任意初始状态出发,研究了队长的瞬态和稳态性质,导出了在任意时刻n瞬态队长分布的z-变换的递推表达式和稳态队长分布的递推表达式,以及稳态队长的随机分解.最后,通过数值实例,讨论了稳态队长分布对系统参数的敏感性,并阐述了获得便于计算的稳态队长分布的表达式在系统容量设计中有重要的价值.     

Demonstration of an optical self-clocked time-division switch

A novel architecture for an optical time-division switch is investigated and demonstrated at a bit rate of 625 Mbit/s. The self-clocked configuration eliminates some of the limitations found in previous optical implementations of time-division switches: the switch operation is asynchronous, no read gate is required, and an optimal number of delay lines is used. Furthermore, this paper reports the first experimental demonstration of optical space-sorting demultiplexing.     

A Review of Signal Enhancement and Noise Reduction Techniques for Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Abstract: Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), as a noninvasive spectroscopic method, permits high-resolution, high-sensitivity, fast, in situ absorption measurements of atomic and molecular species and narrow spectral features in gaseous, solid, and liquid phases. Advances in new diode laser sources and laser spectroscopic techniques generally have triggered an increasing application of TDLAS in various disciplines (for example, atmospheric environmental monitoring, chemical analysis, industrial process control, medical diagnostics and combustion monitoring, etc.) over the last four decades. This article reviews some important developments in TDLAS, from its basic principles as a spectroscopic tool to the demonstration of gas absorption measurements, emphasizing signal enhancement and noise reduction techniques developed for improving current TDLAS performance.     

Intracavity Electronic Absorption Spectra of MoO and WO Molecules in the Visible Region

Absorption electronic spectra of MoO and WO molecules have been investigated by a intracavity laser technique in the region 550–800 run. New features have been discovered.

As for MoO molecule the rotational analysis of the four bands have been carried out for the first time. Two of these bands were referred to 0–0 transitions arisen from the new (probable triplet) low-lying electronic state, two other bands were referred to transitions arisen from excited components of X⁵II ground state.

As for WO molecule the rotational analysis of 0–0 and 1–0 bands represented A-X and B-X systems have been carried out for the first time. The new band has been discovered which has been referred to new electronic transition.

Molecular constants of new states of both molecules studied have been evaluated.     

Investigation on the undercooling and crystallization of pure aluminum melt by DSC

The undercooling of pure aluminum melt was in situ investigated by differential scanning calorimeter with flux processing technique in this study. The highest undercooling of pure aluminum with 17.8 K was obtained as the thermal treatment temperature of the melt being 1033 K and the cooling rate being 50 K min^?1. When cooling rate is fixed, the undercooling depends on the melt processing temperature, and increases rapidly at the first stage. The effects of thermal treatment temperature and cooling rates on the undercooling are discussed in this article.     

多类型复发间隔时间下广义半参数风险模型

本文在多类型复发间隔时间数据下,研究了一类广义半参数风险回归模型的参数估计问题,给出了该模型中未知参数和非参数函数的一种估计方法,并证明了估计量的相合性和渐近正态性.最后利用数值模拟来评估估计量在有限样本下的表现.     

Critical parameters in a supported liquid membrane extraction technique for ionizable organic compounds with a stagnant acceptor phase

The reviews cover important critical parameters that are often optimized in a supported liquid membrane extraction technique in both flat sheet and hollow fibre designs for ionizable organic molecules. Understanding of these parameters can enable one to predict the behavior of the compound before hand and thus reduce the number of optimization experiments. Moreover, less number of experiments can be also generated using statistical techniques which are now becoming more commonly used. Supported liquid membrane extraction optimal parameters such as the conditions of the pH of the acceptor and donor phases should easily be fixed from the pKa values of the compounds. Other parameters, including the polarity of the compound can help to predict the partitioning into the membrane and the behavior of the compound. The influence of parameters such as temperature on the mass transfer in supported liquid membrane depends on the design of the module, experimental design and type of mass transfer controlling the extraction process.     

Growth and scintillation properties of the Na2W2O7 crystal

The growth and scintillation properties of the Na₂W₂O₇ crystal are reported. The solid reaction between Na₂CO₃ and WO₃ is used to synthesise the Na₂W₂O₇ material. The Na₂W₂O₇ single crystal has been grown by the Bridgman method. And the Na₂W₂O₇ single crystal with sizes 14×7×6 mm³ has been achieved. The transmission spectra, the Ultraviolet fluorescence spectra and the X-ray excited luminescence spectra of the Na₂W₂O₇ crystal are measured. The measurement results show that the Na₂W₂O₇ crystal is a promising intrinsic scintillator.