An improved LC–MS/MS method for determination of docetaxel and its application to population pharmacokinetic study in Chinese cancer patients

Because of its unpredictable side effects and efficacy, the anticancer drug docetaxel (DTX) requires improved characterisation of its pharmacokinetic profiles through population pharmacokinetic studies. A sensitive and rugged LC–MS/MS method for the detection of DTX in human plasma was developed and optimised using paclitaxel as an internal standard (IS). The plasma samples underwent rapid extraction using hybrid solid-phase extraction-protein precipitation. The analyte and IS were separated with an isocratic system on a Zorbax Eclipse Plus C₁₈ column using water containing 0.05% acetic acid along with 20 μM of sodium acetate and methanol (30/70, v/v) as the mobile phase. Quantification was performed using a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer through multiple reaction monitoring in positive mode, using the m/z 830.3 → 548.8 and m/z 876.3 → 307.7 transitions for DTX and paclitaxel, respectively. The range of the calibration curve was 1–500 ng/mL for DTX, and the linear correlation coefficient was >0.99. The accuracies ranged from −4.6 to 4.2%, and the precision was no higher than 7.0% for the analytes. No significant matrix effect was observed. Both DTX and the IS showed considerable recovery. This method was finally applied to the establishment of a population pharmacokinetic model to optimise the clinical use of DTX.     

珍稀特有植物华顶杜鹃的种群结构和种间联结

华顶杜鹃（Rhododendron huadingense）因分布地域的局限和资源量的稀少，被列为浙江省珍稀濒危植物。基于珍稀特有植物华顶杜鹃主要分布区的样地调查数据，通过分析群落相似性、种群结构，并基于2×2联列表，应用共同出现百分率PC、联结系数AC、Pearson积矩相关系数r_p和Spearman秩相关系数r_s等方法对华顶杜鹃乔木层22个主要物种、灌木层24个主要物种的种间联结的显著性和关联强度进行了定量测定，以揭示华顶杜鹃群落不同结构层次中主要物种的种间关系及其种群濒危的原因。结果显示：（1）华顶杜鹃生长在光照较强的阳坡，不同产地所处群落物种组成差异较大。（2）种群结构显示，各群落均处于不同程度的衰退阶段，幼苗和幼树储备不足，种群呈衰退趋势；各样地的龄级结构不完整，普遍出现断代现象。（3）方差比率VR和统计量W表明，华顶杜鹃群落中物种整体关联性不显著；PC值显示乔木层和灌木层共507个种对，有183个相互独立，其余大部分PC值小于0.6，联结性较弱；AC值显示，乔木层和灌木层中除25个种对具有显著的联结性外，其余AC值的绝对值小于0.6；r_p值和r_s值正负关联比在0.36~0.85，显著检验率在0.06~0.08。表明华顶杜鹃所在群落种间关系较为松散，整体关联性弱；大部分物种生态习性差异较大，在共存时无法达到资源的最佳分配和利用状态，群落尚处不稳定阶段。为抑制其种群的衰退趋势，应加强对华顶杜鹃个体和群落生境的保护，需要适当的人为干预。     

Modeling the depletion of dissolved oxygen in a water body located near a city

Water bodies located nearby cities are much prone to pollution, especially in the developing countries, where effluents treatment facilities are generally lacking. The main reason for this phenomenon is the increasing population in the cities, and the large number of industries located near them. This leads to generation of huge amounts of domestic and industrial sewage that is discharged into the water bodies, increasing their organic pollutant load and resulting in the depletion of dissolved oxygen. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model for this situation, focusing especially on the resulting quality of the water, determined by the level of dissolved oxygen. The model also accounts for resources needed for the population survival and for the industrial operations. In addition, we describe also the decomposition of organic pollutants by bacteria in the aquatic medium. Feasibility conditions and stability criteria of the system's equilibria are determined analytically. The results show that human population and industries are relevant influential factors responsible for the increase in organic pollutants and the decrease in dissolved oxygen in the water body, in the sense that they may exert a destabilizing effect on the system. The numerical simulations confirm the analytical results. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Hybrid Finite Volume Method for Advection Equations and Its Applications in Population Dynamics

We present in this article a very adapted finite volume numerical scheme for transport type‐equation. The scheme is an hybrid one combining an anti‐dissipative method with down‐winding approach for the flux (Després and Lagoutière, C R Acad Sci Paris Sér I Math 328(10) (1999), 939–944; Goudon, Lagoutière, and Tine, Math Method Appl Sci 23(7) (2013), 1177–1215) and an high accurate method as the WENO5 one (Jiang and Shu, J Comput Phys 126 (1996), 202–228). The main goal is to construct a scheme able to capture in exact way the numerical solution of transport type‐equation without artifact like numerical diffusion or without “stairs” like oscillations and this for any regular or discontinuous initial distribution. This kind of numerical hybrid scheme is very suitable when properties on the long term asymptotic behavior of the solution are of central importance in the modeling what is often the case in context of population dynamics where the final distribution of the considered population and its mass preservation relation are required for prediction. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 33: 1114–1142, 2017     

害虫种群尖点突变模型的几何分析

基于尖点突变的性质,对修改后的Logistic模型进行变换,并将其化为具有尖点突变的标准模型.利用微分方程定性理论,对模型进行分析,并根据突变理论,给出突变发生的条件.最后利用仿真验证结论的正确性.     

基于Leslie模型的北京市基础教育学龄人口分城乡预测

以2010年第六次人口普查数据为基点,考虑到已经开放的单独二胎政策以及全面放开的二胎政策等因素,对北京市2020—2030年基础教育学龄人口变动情况分城乡进行预测.研究发现:北京学龄人口总体上呈现先上升后下降趋势;城市学龄人口远远高于农村学龄人口;城市各个阶段学龄人口均出现了先升后降趋势;农村幼儿园学龄人口呈现快速下降趋势,小学、初中学龄人口均呈现了先升后降趋势,农村高中学龄人口呈现了"下降-上升-下降-上升"的反复波动.学龄人口的变化反映了未来教育需求的变动,在未来10-15年,北京市还需要加大教师队伍建设、加强基础设施建设,努力实现城乡教育资源均衡化,最大限度地实现教育公平.     

城镇职工养老保险随机模型研究

构建了包含个人、企业、政府等市场参与者相互制衡的城镇职工养老保险随机模型,该模型涉及了储蓄、工作期消费、个人养老金账户、工资、退休后消费共5个随机变量;利用ITo引理证明了随机微分方程解的存在性,唯一性,利用2010-2014年中国有关宏观数据,对5个变量进行了动态模拟,并对部分参数变动对模型的影响进行分析,得出了储蓄替代率和人口出生率与两期消费正相关,两者的小范围变动不会影响两期消费的趋势等结论.     

论双系统估计量的无偏性

人口普查质量评估中所使用的双系统估计量是否为无偏估计量是一个很值得深入讨论的问题。只有无偏,才能确保使用双系统估计量估计的目标总体实际人数及人口普查净误差平均等于它们的实际数。针对人口普查质量评估工作中所使用的双系统估计量,论证这个估计量的无偏性条件。采用从既定假设出发进行推演的路径论证。研究结果表明,双系统估计量是目标总体实际人数无偏估计量的必要但非充分的条件是,人口普查与其质量评估调查相互独立以及目标总体中的每一个人在人口普查中的登记概率相同,在质量评估调查中登记的概率也相同。     

改进种群多样性的双变异差分进化算法

差分进化算法(DE)是一种基于种群的启发式随机搜索技术,对于解决连续性优化问题具有较强的鲁棒性.然而传统差分进化算法存在种群多样性和收敛速度之间的矛盾,一种改进种群多样性的双变异差分进化算法(DADE),通过引入BFS-best机制(基于排序的可行解选取递减策略)改进变异算子"DE/current-to-best",将其与DE/rand/1构成双变异策略来改善DE算法中种群多样性减少的问题.同时,每个个体的控制参数基于排序自适应更新.最后,利用多个CEC2013标准测试函数对改进算法进行测试,实验结果表明,改进后的算法能有效改善种群多样性,较好地提高了算法的全局收敛能力和收敛速度.