Spectrophotometric and physicochemical investigations of Congo,alizarin red dyes and BSA interactions with Au,Ag and Au/Ag mix nanoparticles,and their antimicrobial activities

Individual and mix metal nanoparticles of Ag and Au have been prepared by the reducing method where citrate was used as reducing/stabilizing agent. The prepared NPs were characterized with UV/Visible and transmission electron microscopic (TEM) tools. The characteristic peak in UV/Visible at 525, 444 and 531 nm for Au, Ag and Ag/Au mix NPs respectively, gave primary confirmation of prepared NPs. TEM analysis showed the size of nanoparticles as 44.04, 19.78 and 30.93 nm for Ag, Au and Ag/Au mix NPs respectively. Congo and alizarin red dye interactions studies have been performed with prepared NPs to see the removal of the pollutants from water. Congo dye has shown weaker interaction as compared to alizarin due to structural symmetry. Amongst all, the AgNPs have shown maximum 67% and 75% interactions with Congo red and alizarin respectively due to high negative charges on the surface. The Au, Ag and Au/Ag mix NPs have shown stronger interaction with bovine serum albumin (BSA) protein up to 51, 59, 55% respectively, estimated through UV/Vis and physicochemical analysis. The biological evaluations of the prepared NPs have shown their antibacterial activity against Gram + ve and –ve species showing up to 9 cm zone of inhibition. The BSA interaction and antibacterial activity of NPs reveal the importance of NPs in medicinal field.     

城市购物中心不同商铺种类的租户组合优化实证研究

优化租户组合是提升购物中心租金收入的有效途径.以长三角和珠三角5个城市6家购物中心的457家商铺作为研究对象,对商铺种类的租户组合进行了实证分析.结合中国实际,将商铺种类划分为主力店、次主力店和非主力店.实证结果表明,这三大商铺种类是异质性的,主力店和次主力店租金水平显著低于非主力店.借助于租赁的规模经济,规模越大的商铺获得的租金折扣越多.商铺位置对商铺租金的影响总体较为显著,但在不同商铺种类之间差异较大.因而,有必要对这三大种类的租户进行有效组合,以实现购物中心整体的最优化运作.     

Impact of Internal Heat Source on Mixed Convective Transverse Transport of Viscoplastic Material under Viscosity Variation

This communication addresses the impact of heat source/sink along with mixed convection on oblique flow of Casson fluid having variable viscosity. Similarity analysis has been utilized to model governing equations, which are simplified to set of nonlinear differential equations. Computational procedure of shooting algorithm along with 4th order Range-Kutta-Fehlberg scheme is opted to attain the velocity and temperature distributions. Impact of imperative parameters on Casson fluid flow, temperature, significant physical quantities such as skin friction, local heat flux and streamlines are displayed via graphs.     

Sasobit对SBS改性沥青性能的影响研究

为揭示温拌剂Sasobit对SBS改性沥青性能的影响,本文分别进行了不同温拌剂含量沥青的三大指标、布氏粘度、粘温扫描、动态剪切流变和低温弯曲流变等试验。结果表明:Sasobit使SBS沥青软化点降低,虽然其温度敏感性增大,但对针入度和延度影响不大。温拌沥青在105℃以上高温区粘度明显下降,这对施工有利;但随温度的降低,粘度却比原样提高,这对实际使用有利。依据三大指标和粘度试验结果,本文提出SBS沥青的Sasobit最佳掺量为3%。粘温扫描曲线显示,含Sasobit沥青粘度增大,特别是在75℃以下的温度区域,这对夏季抗车辙有利。此外,温拌剂Sasobit使SBS沥青的PG分级的高温等级提高,而对低温等级影响不大。     

A deterministic tabu search algorithm for the fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem

The fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem consists of defining the type, the number of vehicles of each type, as well as the order in which to serve the customers with each vehicle when a company has to distribute goods to a set of customers geographically spread, with the objective of minimizing the total costs. In this paper, a heuristic algorithm based on tabu search is proposed and tested on several benchmark instances. The computational results show that the proposed algorithm produces high quality results within a reasonable computing time. Some new best solutions are reported for a set of test problems used in the literature.     

On the optimal product mix in life insurance companies using conditional value at risk

This paper proposes a Conditional Value-at-Risk Minimization (CVaRM) approach to optimize an insurer’s product mix. By incorporating the natural hedging strategy of Cox and Lin (2007) and the two-factor stochastic mortality model of Cairns et al. (2006b), we calculate an optimize product mix for insurance companies to hedge against the systematic mortality risk under parameter uncertainty. To reflect the importance of required profit, we further integrate the premium loading of systematic risk. We compare the hedging results to those using the duration match method of Wang et al. (forthcoming), and show that the proposed CVaRM approach has a narrower quantile of loss distribution after hedging—thereby effectively reducing systematic mortality risk for life insurance companies.     

激光金属汽化汽离混合区状态参量的稳定性及其影响因素分析

在汽离混合区激光强度时空修正的基础上,近似求解了流体力学模型下的状态参数,找出了稳定状态参数的共同自洽参量,分析了自洽参量的取值方法,研究了相关参数对自洽参量的影响机制,结果发现:(1)汽离混合区内,状态参量的稳定性可用自洽参量的稳定性来表征;(2)当入射激光强度小于108W.cm-2时,自洽参量随入射激光强度变化相对较快,稳定性差;当激光强度大于108W.cm-2时,自洽参量随入射激光强度变化相对较慢,稳定性高;(3)汽离混合区各处的约化自洽参量随辐照激光的波长成变周期增加的变化,波长越长,约化自洽参量越大;(4)要使自洽参量稳定,纹波较小,宜采取短波激光辐照;(5)当蒸汽压强小于2.7×106Pa时,自洽参量随蒸汽压强成指数递减规律变化;当蒸汽压大于2.7×106Pa时,自洽参量与蒸汽压强之间没有对应关系.     

以纤维素材料为基质的降解塑料的研究进展

本文详述了以天然高分子纤维素材料为基质的降解塑料的发展。纤维素材料由于其来源丰富,有良好的反应性,优异的生物降解性,无毒性等,因而可用来制备降解塑料．其开发和应用是解决目前世界范围内的“白色污染”的一条理想途径．     

Implicit depot assignments and rotations in vehicle routing heuristics

Vehicle routing variants with multiple depots and mixed fleet present intricate combinatorial aspects related to sequencing choices, vehicle type choices, depot choices, and depots positioning. This paper introduces a dynamic programming methodology for efficiently evaluating compound neighborhoods combining sequence-based moves with an optimal choice of vehicle and depot, and an optimal determination of the first customer to be visited in the route, called rotation. The assignment choices, making the richness of the problem, are thus no more addressed in the solution structure, but implicitly determined during each move evaluation. Two meta-heuristics relying on these concepts, an iterated local search and a hybrid genetic algorithm, are presented. Extensive computational experiments demonstrate the remarkable performance of these methods on classic benchmark instances for multi-depot vehicle routing problems with and without fleet mix, as well as the notable contribution of the implicit depot choice and positioning methods to the search performance. New state-of-the-art results are obtained for multi-depot vehicle routing problems (MDVRP), and multi-depot vehicle fleet mix problems (MDVFMP) with unconstrained fleet size. The proposed concepts are fairly general, and widely applicable to many other vehicle routing variants.     

Multi-scaling mix and non-universality between population and facility density

The distribution of facilities is closely related to our social economic activities. Recent studies have reported a scaling relation between population and facility density, with the exponent depending on the type of facility. In this paper, we show that generally this exponent is not universal for a specific type of facility. Instead, by using Chinese data, we find that it increases with per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Thus our observed scaling law is actually a mixture of several multi-scaling relations. This result indicates that facilities may change their public or commercial attributes according to the outside environment. We argue that this phenomenon results from an unbalanced regional economic level, and suggest a modification of a previous model by introducing the consuming capacity. The modified model reproduces most of our observed properties.