Deconfinement Phase Transition Including Perturbative QCD Corrections in （Proto）neutron Star Matter

Deconlinement phase transition and neutrino trapping in （proto）neutron star matter are investigated in a chiral hadronic model （also referred to as the FST model） for the hadronic phase （HP） and in the color-flavor-locked （CFL） quark model for the deconlined quark phase. We include a perturbative QCD correction parameter αs in the CFL quark matter equation of states. It is shown that the CFL quark core with K^0 condensation forms in neutron star matter with the large value of αs. If the small value of αs is taken, hyperons suppress the CFL quark phase and the liP is dominant in the high-density region of （proto）neutron star matter. Neutrino trapping makes the fraction of the CFL quark matter decrease compared with those without neutrino trapping. Moreover, increasing the QCD correction parameter as or decreasing the bag constant B and the strange quark mass ms can make the fraction of the CFL quark matter increase, simultaneously, the fraction of neutrino in protoneutron star matter increases, too. The maximum masses and the corresponding radii of （proto）neutron stars are not sensitive to the QCD correction parameter αs.     

2000 Vol.11 No.8 P.Preparation of AChE Inhibitors From Jujubogenin

A dammarane derivative dihydrojujubogenin-2-en-1-one, which possesses a skeleton and pharmacophore partially similar to those of Territrem B, a potent AChE inhibitor, was synthesized via three different paths. The anti-AChE activity of this compound and related analogue was measured.     

Viscosity method for hierarchical fixed point and variational inequalities with applications

A viscosity method for a hierarchical fixed point solving variational inequality problems is presented. The method is used to solve variational inequalities, where the involved mappings are non-expansive. Solutions are sought in the set of the fixed points of another non-expansive mapping. As applications, we use the results to study problems of the monotone variational inequality, the convex programming, the hierarchical minimization, and the quadratic minimization over fixed point sets.     

Ab initio study of superoxide anion—water clusters O2 − (H2O)n=1-5

The structures, energies, Spectra, and charge transfer to solvent (CTTS) energies of the hydrated superoxide anion clusters have been investigated using both density functional calculations (DFT) with Becke-3-parameters employing Lee-Yang-Parr functionals (B3LYP) and second-order M?ller Plesset perturbation (MP2) calculations employing highly diffuse basis sets. Given the good agreement of our predicted results with the experimental spectra and enthalpy, it would be interesting if the CTTS energies could be experimentally determined.     

四碘化钛-三異丁基铝催化体系制备顺式-1,4-聚丁二烯——Ⅰ.催化剂的活性和聚合物的性质

研究了丁二烯在苯中有四碘化钛-三异丁基铝催化剂的存在下的聚合。发现这一催化体系的活性取决于Al/Ti比和聚合温度。对每一四碘化钛用量出现一具有最高活性的“临界Al/Ti此”;低于这一Al/Ti比,活性完全消失;高于这一Al/Ti比则活性逐渐降低(图2)。 增加Al/Ti可以减慢聚合速度而不影响最终转化率(图3);因此,可以利用Al/Ti来控制这一聚合反应以防止反应混合物的积热现象(图4)。 这一催化体系的优点是不论在任何条件下,包括催化剂组成(例如Al/Ti)和聚合条件(例如温度),聚合物都不合凝胶,而顺-1,4-结构含量总能在90％以上(表2)。 聚合物的分子量取决于两个主要因素:四碘化钛用量和聚合温度;增加四碘化钛用量和升高聚合温度都降低分子量(图5和图6)。Al/Ti对分子量的影响则不甚明显(图6)。 用这种催化剂制得的顺-1,4-聚丁二烯的分子量分布很窄(图7);因此,虽然这是一个非均相催化体系,它的活性中心可能比较单纯,大概不会含有多种活性中心。     

A Comparison of Residual-stress Measurements Using Blind-hole, Abrasive-jet and Trepan-ring Methods

This article describes the results of residual-stress measurements which were made on an artillery-projectile metal part to determine whether the state of the stress could be a factor in promoting a failure that had occurred during ballistic test firing. An additional objective of the work was to evaluate the suitability of several different methods for measuring residual stresses by the performance of these measurements on the same metal part.     

Optical Properties of Zinc-Blende InGaN/GaN Quantum Well Structures and Comparison with Experiment

Optical properties of zinc-blende InGaN/GaN Q W structures are investigated using the multiband effective-mass theory. The transition wavelength values at 300 K ranged from 440 to 570nm in the investigated range of the In composition and the well width. The theoretical wavelengths show reasonable agreement with the experimental results. The optical gain decreases with the increasing well width. This is mainly due to the reduction in the quasi-Fermi-level separation because the optical matrix element increases with the well width.     

Spectral Analysis of Social Networks to Identify Periodicity

Two key problems in the study of longitudinal networks are determining when to chunk continuous time data into discrete time periods for network analysis and identifying periodicity in the data. In addition, statistical process control applied to longitudinal social network measures can be biased by the effects of relational dependence and periodicity in the data. Thus, the detection of change is often obscured by random noise. Fourier analysis is used to determine statistically significant periodic frequencies in longitudinal network data. Two approaches are then offered: using significant periods as a basis to chunk data for longitudinal network analysis or using the significant periods to filter the longitudinal data. E-mail communication collected at the United States Military Academy is examined.     

Basis set limit binding energies of hydrogen bonded clusters

The utility of the recently developed extrapolation method to estimate the binding energies of weakly bound clusters at the basis set limit exploiting the similar basis set convergence behaviour of correlation energies of the monomer and cluster in correlated calculations (J. chem. Phys., 116, 5389 (2002)) was tested for small to medium (HF)_n and (H₂O)_n (n = 2–5) clusters using various correlation consistent cc-pVXZ (X= D,T,Q,5) basis sets containing different numbers of diffuse functions and 6–31G type basis sets at the MP2 and CCSD(T) level for which accurate basis set limits are available for comparison. It is shown that the basis set limit binding energies estimated by this extrapolation method with modest size of basis sets (cc-pVDZ/cc-pVTZ or 6–3 1 G(d,p)/6-3 IG(2df,2pd)) are much closer to the exact basis set limits than the estimates by commonly used X ^?3 extrapolation or counterpoise corrected binding energies, signifying the importance of this extrapolation method for the study of large weakly bound clusters. It is also shown that the inclusion of appropriate diffuse functions in the basis sets can significantly improve the accuracy of the estimated basis set limits by this extrapolation method. For (HF)_n clusters the MP2 and CCSD(T) basis set limits estimated by this extrapolation method with aug-cc-pVDZ and aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets are 18.4 (18.5) and 18.9 (18.9) for the dimer, 61.8 (62) and 63.2 (63) for the trimer, 113.5 and 114.7 (116) for the tetramer, and 155.2 and 156.3 (158) for the pentamer, respectively, with the values in parentheses representing the apparent basis set limits, with the numbers in units of kJ mol^?1. The corresponding results for (H₂O)_n clusters are 20.5 (20.5) and 20.6 (20.7) for (H₂O)₂, and 60.5 (61) and 60.1 (60) for (H₂O)₃, respectively.