Simultaneous determination of propranolol and pindolol by synchronous spectrofluorimetry

A completely automated method to determine the most common parameters in cured meat products is proposed. The approach to full automation is based on the coupling of a robotic station for development of preliminary operations (namely weighing of the sample, grinding, leaching, filtration and transport to the aspiration zone) and a continuous unsegmented manifold for derivatisation and spectrophotometric monitoring of the reaction coloured products. This assembly works in an unattended fashion thus eliminating the bottleneck produced by the determination of these parameters in routine laboratories. The good agreement between results obtained by the proposed method and those from conventional methods for target analytes confirms its excellent performance and usefulness.     

Complete separability of time-dependent second-order ordinary differential equations

Extending previous work on the geometric characterization of separability in the autonomous case, necessary and sufficient conditions are established for the complete separability of a system of time-dependent second-order ordinary differential equations. In deriving this result, extensive use is made of the theory of derivations of scalar and vector-valued forms along the projection :J ¹ EE of the first jet bundle of a fibre bundleE . Two illustrative examples are discussed, which fully demonstrate all aspects of the constructive nature of the theory.     

A parallel projection method for overdetermined nonlinear systems of equations

We consider overdetermined nonlinear systems of equationsF(x)=0, whereF: ^{n m} ,mn. For this type of systems we define weighted least square distance (WLSD) solutions, which represent an alternative to classical least squares solutions and to other solutions based on residual normas. We introduce a generalization of the classical method of Cimmino for linear systems and we prove local convergence results. We introduce a practical strategy for improving the global convergence properties of the method. Finally, numerical experiments are presented.Work supported by FAPESP (Grant 90/3724/6), FINEP, CNPq and FAEP-UNICAMP.