Asymptotic analysis of elastic curved rods

We consider a sequence of curved rods which consist of isotropic material and which are clamped on the lower base or on both bases. We study the asymptotic behaviour of the stress tensor and displacement under the assumptions of linearized elasticity when the cross‐sectional diameter of the rods tends to zero and the body force is given in the particular form. The analysis covers the case of a non‐smooth limit line of centroids. We show how the body force and the choice of the approximating curved rods can affect the strong convergence and the limit form of the stress tensor for the curved rods clamped on both bases. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Concurrent combined verification: reducing false positives in automated NMR structure verification through the evaluation of multiple challenge control structures

Automated structure verification using ¹H NMR data or a combination of ¹H and heteronuclear single‐quantum correlation (HSQC) data is gaining more interest as a routine application for qualitative evaluation of large compound libraries produced by synthetic chemistry. The goal of this automated software method is to identify a manageable subset of compounds and data that require human review. In practice, the automated method will flag structure and data combinations that exhibit some inconsistency (i.e. strange chemical shifts, conflicts in multiplicity, or overestimated and underestimated integration values) and validate those that appear consistent. One drawback of this approach is that no automated system can guarantee that all passing structures are indeed correct structures. The major reason for this is that approaches using only ¹H or even ¹H and HSQC spectra often do not provide sufficient information to properly distinguish between similar structures. Therefore, current implementations of automated structure verification systems allow, in principle, false positive results. Presented in this work is a method that greatly reduces the probability of an automated validation system passing incorrect structures (i.e. false positives). This novel method was applied to automatically validate 127 non‐proprietary compounds from several commercial sources. Presented also is the impact of this approach on false positive and false negative results. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Regarding some thermoelastic models of “coating-substrate” system deformation

In present research, we investigate dynamic coupled thermoelasticity problem for a “coating-substrate” system. We present a number of models of thermoelastic deformation of the “coating-substrate” system with thermomechanical characteristics which may vary both continuously and discontinuously. To solve these problems, we use the variational principle of coupled thermoelasticity in the Laplace transforms space and hypotheses on a distribution of temperature and displacements transforms. The transforms inversion is realized according to the Durbin method. The calculations were carried out based on both proposed simplified models and FEM.     

Electrochemical performance of lithium titanate anode fabricated using a water-based binder

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Flavonoid Glycosides from the Aerial Part of Lespedeza tomentosa

Chemistry of Natural Compounds - The aerial part of Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Maxim. growing in southern Primorsky Krai, Russian Federation, yielded 10 identified flavonoid glycosides, eight of...     

Journal information flow in nanotechnology

The nanotechnology development is accompanied by an intensive growth of information flow which is specially noticeable as applied to journal information flow. Now over the world there are the 69 nano-titled journals with the impact factor and/or a settled periodicity as well as the 70 those which lack stability periodicity and are in an organization stage. Only 49 nano-titled have the impact factor with the comparatively high mean value of about 3.44. The domestic nano-titled journals published in Russia, India, China, and other countries are also considered. The attention is taken that in the 2006–2010 period the 95 new nano-titled journals were organized and in 2011 this process is continuing and seems to be the most impressive. Many nano-related journals (including classical physical, chemical and materials science ones) are also described and discussed.     

Estimation of heavy-tailed probability density function with application to Web data

Summary  Common non-parametric estimators of a probability density function (PDF) show bad performance for heavy-tailed PDFs. Using a parametric approximation of the true cumulative distribution function (CDF), the transformation-retransformation of the data is explored here as a useful tool for the reliable PDF prediction. The PDF estimators are compared by their capacity to solve a classification problem. Simulation results and an application to Web data analysis are presented, too.     

A Structural Property Concerning Abstract Commensurability of Subgroups

Further properties of a group introduced by the first authorin 1980 (sometimes called the first Grigorchuk group) are established.These are notably that any two infinite finitely generated subgroupsof have isomorphic subgroups of finite index and that the generalizedword problem for is soluble.