Cluster Analysis Classification of Honey from Two Different Climatic Zones Based on Selected Physicochemical and of Microbiological Parameters

The geographical origin of honey affects its composition, which is of key importance for the health-promoting properties and safety of the product. European regulations clearly define the physicochemical requirements for honey that determine the microbiological quality. On the other hand, legislation abolishes microbiological criteria. In the study 40 honey samples originating from two different climatic zones were analyzed. The water content, pH, water activity analysis and the microbiological quality of honey samples have been tested using the reference plate method (total viable count, yeast and molds, lactic acid bacteria, Bacillus spp.). The cluster classification showed that total viable count of bacteria could be used as a measure alternative to the count of Bacillus spp. and 70% of honeys from the tropical climate zone had different microbiological quality than honeys from the temperate climate zone but still under the level 3.0 log cfu/g. The study has revealed that geographical origin of honey may significantly affect the quality and safety of honey. It was considered that water content can be the most informative and handy marker of the microbiological quality of honeys. Analysis of lactic acid bacteria showed temperate climate zone honeys as a source of beneficial bacteria in the diet.     

Classification of Wines Based on Combination of ^1H NMR Spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis

A combination of ^1H nuclear magnetic resonance （NMR） spectroscopy and principal component analysis （PCA） has shown the potential for being a useful method for classification of type, production origin or geographic origin of wines. In this preliminary study, twenty-one bottled wines were classified/separated for their location of production in Shacheng, Changli and Yantai, and the types of the blended, medium dry, dry white and dry red wines, using the NMR-PCA method. The wines were produced by three subsidiary companies of an enterprise according to the same national standard. The separation was believed to be mainly due to the fermentation process for different wines and environmental variations, such as local climate, soil, underground water, sunlight and rainfall. The major chemicals associated with the separation were identified.     

基于聚类分析的初三化学学业质量发展研究

以2013-2016年广州市各区（县级市）中考化学成绩的4种数据为指标，运用聚类分析研究广州市区域初三化学学业质量的发展状况。研究发现各区（县级市）主要分为3大类，部分区在不同年份的类别中移动，倾向于建立一个包括越来越多区域的第1大类。广州市区域初三化学学业质量逐步向优质均衡发展。系统的中学生化学探究活动和化学教师研训活动是实现这一发展的重要原因。     

概率主成分分析联合支持向量机的前列腺SELDI-TOF质谱数据分析方法研究

基于前列腺癌检测中获取的表面增强激光解吸/离子化飞行时间质谱(SELDI-TOF-MS)数据,提出一种概率主成分分析(PPCA)联合支持向量机(SVM)的分类方法。对临床322例血清样本的质谱数据进行特征提取,以随机选取训练样本集(225例)构造SVM判别模型,对剩余样本集(97例)进行测试。采用均方根误差、识别率与预测率指标,将所构造的PPCA-SVM模型分别与偏最小二乘(Partial least squares,PLS)和PCA-SVM模型进行比较,发现PLS模型的识别率和预测率分别为90.92%和76.38%,PCA-SVM模型分别为99.23%和84.63%,而PPCA-SVM模型分别为99.01%和90.41%。因此SELDI-TOF-MS技术结合PPCA-SVM在样品分类中具有准确、重复性好等优点,为前列腺癌早期诊断提供了一种新方法。     

基于遗传进化的聚类分析新方法

提出了一种基于遗传进化策略的聚类分析新方法，将聚类问题转换为实数空间的优化问题．用遗传策略在连续的实数空间寻找最优类中心，既可避免求解组合优化问题，减少计算量，又可避免在优化过程中陷入局部最优．此遗传聚类方法用于对4组实际数据进行硬分类和模糊分类，结果令人满意．     

A Simple Frontal Analysis Equation to Determine the Adsorption Parameters of Solute Molecules on Different Adsorbents

A simple frontal analysis equation to determine the adsorption parameters of solute molecules on different adsorbents was presented. It gives the relationship between the average breakthrough time and the feed solute concentration, and by using its linear form, two important parameters, the thermodynamic equilibrium constant KSL for solute adsorption on the surface of adsorbent and the number nt of total adsorption sites distributed on the surface of adsorbent, can be simultaneously determined. The frontal analyses for some aromatic hydrocarbons on RP-C18 reversed-phase medium, and some protein molecules on RP-C18 reversed-phase, WCX-1 cation-exchange, PEG-400 hydrophobic and Chelating Sepharose Fast-flow separately chelated with Zn^2＋ or Cu^2＋ media, were separately carried out to test this equation and their adsorption parameters KSL and nt were separately obtained. The results show that all these frontal analysis data can be well described by this frontal analysis equation. For all of these frontal analysis systems, their parameters nt can separately approximately keep constant and they are independent of solute molecules used, while their parameters KSL are dependent upon both of the media packed in frontal analysis column and the solute molecules used.     

A Simple Minimized System Based on Moving Drops for Antioxidant Analysis Using a Smartphone

In this paper, a novel antioxidant analysis is proposed using a simple minimized device based on moving drops as solution handling and a smartphone as a detector. This approach is based on the colorimetric determination of the scavenging activity against 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH^•), expressed as the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC₅₀), vitamin C equivalent antioxidant capacity (VCEAC), and Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC). A small drop of the positive control or the samples moves by eluting an ethanol drop down by the force of gravity to react with a DPPH^• drop in the detection zone. The color change of DPPH^• is monitored by a smartphone camera, and the color signals are processed using Adobe Photoshop software. The magenta-to-yellow ratio was successfully applied to evaluate the percentage of DPPH^• inhibition with no significant difference compared with the reference spectrophotometric method at a confidence level of 95%. The total phenolic content (TPC) was measured using the Folin–Ciocalteu assay. An application to Miang (fermented tea leaf extract) showed the consonant relationship between the scavenging activity of DPPH^• and TPC.     

A Variable Selection Method of Near Infrared Spectroscopy Based on Automatic Weighting Variable Combination Population Analysis

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) is widely used in food quantitative and qualitative analysis. Variable selection technique is a critical step of the spectrum modeling with the development of chemometrics. In this study, a novel variable selection strategy, automatic weighting variable combination population analysis (AWVCPA), is proposed. Firstly, binary matrix sampling (BMS) strategy, which provides each variable the same chance to be selected and generates different variable combinations, is used to produce a population of subsets to construct a population of sub-models. Then, the variable frequency (Fre) and partial least squares regression (Reg), two kinds of information vector (IVs), are weighted to obtain the value of the contribution of each spectral variables, and the influence of two IVs of Rre and Reg is considered to each spectral variable. Finally, it uses the exponentially decreasing function (EDF) to remove the low contribution wavelengths so as to select the characteristic variables. In the case of near infrared spectra of beer and corn, yeast and oil concentration models based on partial least squares (PLS) of prediction are established. Compared with other variable selection methods, the research shows that AWVCPA is the best variable selection strategy in the same situation. It has 72.7% improvement comparing AWVCPA-PLS to PLS and the predicted root mean square error (RMSEP) decreases from 0.5348 to 0.1457 on beer dataset. Also it has 64.7% improvement comparing AWVCPA-PLS to PLS and the RMSEP decreases from 0.0702 to 0.0248 on corn dataset.     

全二维气相色谱-飞行时间质谱结合聚类分析与Fisher判别分析对铁观音品质等级的评价研究

采用丙酮超声萃取铁观音样品,以全二维气相色谱-飞行时间质谱分析丙酮提取物。经筛选,在24份不同产季与等级的铁观音中获得68种共有组分,并结合质谱数据库、保留指数与结构谱图等进行了初步鉴定。在此基础上以基于Ward法的聚类分析将所有样品分为3个类别,获得了与感官审评基本相似的结果。通过逐步判别获得5种对分类结果有显著影响的组分,以此为变量通过Fisher判别法建立了4个判别函数,其对样品等级分类的结果与感官审评结果的符合率达到95.8%。证实了通过分析茶叶生化成分进行品质评判的可能。     

A Simple and Rapid Method for the Identification of Amphetamine and Metamphetamine Hydrochlorides by Mass Spectrometry

Abstract

In order to determine amphetamine and metamphetamine, we have used a method never used before in the legal practice. The aim of our work was to optimize the measurement conditions for the rapid and accurate determination of amphetamine and metamphetamine. We have developed a method which makes possible the unambiguous identification of the hydrochlorides of the hallucinogens amphetamine and metamphetamine, even when these two are present simultaneously. In our work we have used the ammonium salt technique. The information available from the mass spectra (molecular ion, appearance of characteristic fragments) are dependent on the temperature of the direct sample and the ionisation energy. As a consequence, we have primarily studied the influence of the above two parameters upon the mass spectra.     

聚丁二烯红外目标因素分析

前文报道了聚丁二烯微观结构的分析方法,在目标因素分析中测摩尔消光系数对标定聚丁二烯含量要作校正,少量杂质还会影响准确定量,如在1000～650 cm~(-1)谱区的结果不是很满意的。本文按文献的谱线趋向,去掉谱区内的杂质吸收部分,以此修正摩尔消光系数作为目标向量,从而进行目标因素分析定量计算,所得结果较满意。     

A High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Method for the Analysis of the Natural Medicine,Forsythia Suspensa

Samples of Forsythia suspensa from raw (Laoqiao) and ripe (Qingqiao) fruit were analyzed with the use of HPLC-DAD and the EIS-MS techniques. Seventeen peaks were detected, and of these, twelve were identified. Most were related to the glucopyranoside molecular fragment. Samples collected from three geographical areas (Shanxi, Henan and Shandong Provinces), were discriminated with the use of hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA), discriminant analysis (DA), and principal component analysis (PCA) models, but only PCA was able to provide further information about the relationships between objects and loadings; eight peaks were related to the provinces of sample origin. The supervised classification models-K-nearest neighbor (KNN), least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM), and counter propagation artificial neural network (CP-ANN) methods, indicated successful classification but KNN produced 100% classification rate. Thus, the fruit were discriminated on the basis of their places of origin.     

Reactions of Various Nucleophiles with d-Glucal over Keggin-Type Heteropoly Compounds: A Simple,Rapid, and Expedient Method for the Synthesis of Pseudoglycals

The reaction of benzyl alcohol with 3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-d-glucal has been investigated with several heteropoly compounds, and the optimal catalyst is 12-tungstophosphoric acid supported on carbon. In the presence of this catalyst, various alcohols gave the corresponding alkyl and aryl 2,3-unsaturated glycopyranosides in excellent yields and good anomeric selectivity under solvent-free condition. 4,6-Di-O-acetyl-2,3-dideoxy-α-d-erythro-hex-2-enopyranosyl cyanide and ethyl 4,6-di-O-acetyl-2,3-dideoxy-1-thio-α-d-erythro-hex-2-enopyranoside have also been prepared with trimethylsilyl cyanide and ethanthiol as nucleophiles, respectively. The catalyst could be easily recovered and reused several times with slight loss of activity. The selectivity to give α-anomers predominantly did not show any change in all runs.     

A Simple Extraction Method for Determination of High Molecular Weight Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry

A simplified extraction method was developed for extracting high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from river sediments. The samples were extracted 3 times with 5 mL of solvent (toluene:methanol, 9 : 1, v/v) at 100 °C, 10 minutes for each extraction. After clean‐up and concentration, extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometer (GC‐MS). The extraction efficiency and accuracy was evaluated by the standard reference material (SRM‐1941b). Comparing to certified values, the average recoveries of high molecular weight PAHs with 3, 4, 5 and 6 fused benzene rings were 72.9∼113.2 % (R.S.D. 2.3∼6.3 %) except those of dibenz[a,h]anthracene (206.2±4.6 %). The average recoveries for PAHs spiked sediment samples were comparable with accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) and Soxhlet methods. The simple extraction method consumes less solvent, fewer amount of sample than those of conventional methods. The lowest quantitation limit of PAHs is 1.1 μg/kg.     

6种燕窝的傅里叶变换红外光谱法原性状快速鉴别

首次利用微钻石ATR探头傅里叶变换红外光谱法（FTIR）无损快速鉴别了6种燕窝。结果表明：印尼燕、越南燕、马来西亚燕、泰国血燕、菲律宾草燕和香港市售燕窝均有自己的红外特征谱,据谱图吸收峰的波数位置和相对峰强度的差异可达到燕窝类同和伪品和鉴别。该方法快速、简便、可靠。     

模型毒物急性毒性尿液核磁共振氨谱标记物的二阶段聚类分析

采用现代核磁共振技术，通过分析给药肝、肾损伤模型化合物异硫氰酸α-萘酯（灌胃150mg／kg体重）和二溴乙胺氢溴酸盐（腹腔注射250mg／kg体重）24h内Wistar大鼠尿液的^1H NMR谱，由尿液中内源性代谢物浓度变化研究了肝、肾模型毒物在大鼠体内的急性毒性。首次利用模式识别技术中的二阶段聚类分析方法解析大鼠尿液^1H NMR谱确定了模型化合物尿液^1H NMR标记物。结果表明，应用核磁共振和二阶段聚类分析相结合的方法，可提供模型化合物毒性比较清楚的认识。该方法也可用于金属化合物、中药及其它药物的毒性分类和预测研究以及建议各类靶向毒性的NMR标记物。     

模型毒物急性毒性尿液核磁共振氢谱标记物的二阶段聚类分析

采用现代核磁共振技术,通过分析给药肝、肾损伤模型化合物异硫氰酸α-萘酯(灌胃150 mg/kg体重)和二溴乙胺氢溴酸盐(腹腔注射250 mg/kg体重)24 h内W istar大鼠尿液的1H NMR谱,由尿液中内源性代谢物浓度变化研究了肝、肾模型毒物在大鼠体内的急性毒性。首次利用模式识别技术中的二阶段聚类分析方法解析大鼠尿液1H NMR谱确定了模型化合物尿液1H NMR标记物。结果表明,应用核磁共振和二阶段聚类分析相结合的方法,可提供模型化合物毒性比较清楚的认识。该方法也可用于金属化合物、中药及其它药物的毒性分类和预测研究以及建议各类靶向毒性的NMR标记物。     

Direct Analysis of Beer by ICP-AES: A Very Simple Method for the Determination of Cu, Mn and Fe

A very simple method for determination of trace amount of Cu, Mn and Fe in beer by inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-AES) was developed. The beer was directly introduced into the plasma, without dilution or adding of reagents, via a conventional V-groove nebulizer. The only sample preparation used was degassing of the beer to remove CO₂. By optimizing the ICP-AES parameters (RF power and Nebulizer gas flow rate) and by the appropriate choice of wavelengths for measurements, sufficient accuracy for the determination of the trace metals was obtained. Various types of beers were analysed by the direct ICP-AES method and for comparison, also with two other methods: by GFAAS and ICP-AES after decomposition. No significant difference was found for Cu and Mn (ANOVA, 95% confidence level) using the three methods. This was normally also the case for Fe; only in one case did the result of Fe by the direct method deviate from the other methods (10% lower results). The limit of detection for the direct method was estimated to 1.1, 0.3, and 1.1 ng mL⁻¹ for Cu, Mn, and Fe, respectively.