Brine shrimp toxicity guided fractionation of the extracts from two mixed Fijian collections of the cyanobacteria Lyngbya majuscula and Schizothrix sp. led to the isolation of eleven novel chlorinated lipids. All of these metabolites show an intriguing constellation of unsaturation (olefinic and acetylenic bonds) and chlorination at the two termini of a 15-carbon chain. The central carbon atom of the chain (C-8) is substituted in each case with an N-acetate function. Taveuniamides A-E have an adjacent carbomethoxy group at C-9 to form a protected β-amino acid while taveuniamides F-K have a methylene group at this position. A standard assortment of 2D NMR techniques in concert with mass spectrometry and other analytical techniques were used to define the structures of these novel metabolites. Taveuniamides F, G and K were the most potent brine shrimp toxins with LD50s between 1.7-1.9 μg/mL. 相似文献
As a computationally effective tool, the first-order term of the radiative perturbation theory has been computed successfully, and has been applied in a number of areas. In this article, we develop the computational expressions for the higher-order terms of the perturbation expansion in a plane parallel atmosphere. These expressions are then implemented, and numerical results for some typical cases are presented. These results indicate that the computation is successful and that the higher-order terms are essential in cases where the first-order term alone cannot predict the perturbation with sufficient accuracy. 相似文献
Let 1→N→G→G/N→1 be a short exact sequence of profinite groups, and let p be a prime number. We prove that if G is of finite cohomological p-dimension n:=cdp(G)<∞ and if the order of is finite for k:=cdp(N), the virtual cohomological p-dimension of G/N equals n?k. To cite this article: T. Weigel, P. Zalesskii, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 338 (2004).相似文献
Volumetric gas-liquid mass transfer coefficients were measured in suspensions of cellulose fibers with concentrations ranging from 0 to 20 g/L. The mass transfer coefficients were measured using the dynamic method. Results are presented for three different combinations of impellers at a variety of gassing rates and agitation speeds. Rheological properties of the cellulose fibers were also measured using the impeller viscometer method. Tests were conducted in a 20 L stirred-tank fermentor and in 65 L tank with a height to diameter ratio of 3:1. Power consumption was measured in both vessels. At low agitation rates, two Rushton turbines gave 20% better performance than the Rushton and hydrofoil combination and 40% better performance than the Rushton and propeller combination for oxygen transfer. At higher agitation rates, the Rushton and hydrofoil combination gave 14 and 25% better performance for oxygen transfer than two Rushton turbines and the Rushton and hydrofoil combination, respectively.
We consider a generalization of the axioms of a TQFT, the so-called half-projective TQFT's, where we inserted an anomaly,
, in the composition law. Here μ0 is a coboundary (in a group cohomological sense) on the cobordism categories with non-negative, integer values. The element
of the ring over which the TQFT is defined does not have to be invertible. In particular, it may be zero.
This modification makes it possible to extend quantum-invariants, which vanish on S1×S2, to non-trivial TQFT's. Note, that a TQFT in the ordinary sense of Atiyah with this property has to be trivial all together.
We organize our discussions such that the notion of a half-projective TQFT is extracted as the only possible generalization
under a few very natural assumptions.
Based on separate work with Lyubashenko on connected TQFT's, we construct a large class of half-projective TQFT's with . Their invariants all vanish on S1×S2, and they coincide with the Hennings invariant for non-semisimple Hopf algebras and, more generally, with the Lyubashenko
invariant for non-semisimple categories.
We also develop a few topological tools that allow us to determine the cocycle μ0 and find numbers, ϱ(M), such that the linear map associated to a cobordism, M, is of the form . They are concerned with connectivity properties of cobordisms, as for example maximal non-separating surfaces. We introduce
in particular the notions of “interior” homotopy and homology groups,
and of coordinate graphs, which are functions on cobordisms with values in the morphisms of a graph category.
For applications we will prove that half-projective TQFT's with vanish on cobordisms with infinite interior homology, and we argue that the order of divergence of the TQFT on a cobordism,
M, in the “classical limit” can be estimated by the rank of its maximal free interior group, which coincides with ϱ(M).
Received: 20 October 1997 / Accepted: 18 March 1998 相似文献
Recently, with the advent of supercomputers, there has been considerable interest in the use of direct numerical simulation to obtain information about turbulent shear flow at low Reynolds number. This paper presents a pseudospectral technique to solve the full three-dimensional time-dependent Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusion equations without the use of subgrid-scale modelling. The technique has not been previously used for fully developed turbulent channel flow simulation and is based on methods applied in other contexts. The emphasis of this paper is to provide a reasonably detailed account of how the simulation is done rather than to present new calculations of turbulence. The details of an algorithm for turbulent channel flow simulation and the grid and time step sizes needed to integrate through transient behaviour to steady state turbulence have not been published before and are presented here. Results from a Cray-2 simulation of fully developed turbulent flow in a channel with heat transfer are presented along with a critical comparison between experiment and computation. The first- and second-order moments agree well with experimental measurements; the agreement is poor for higher-order moments such as the skewness and flatness near the walls of the channel. Detailed information given about the effects of spatial grid resolution on a computed results is important for estimating the size of the computation required to study various aspects of a turbulent flow. 相似文献
Fiber formation via the cellulose/ammonia/ammonium thiocyanate system by wet spinning has been investigated. This report presents a characterization of the structure and tensile properties of fibers spun under various coagulation conditions. Microscopic observations showed that the molecular size of coagulant was the dominant factor governing the crosssectional shape of the fibers. Density, birefringence, and crystallinity data indicated that a higher cellulose concentration and lower coagulation temperature favored development of a fiber with a denser and more oriented structure. Under optimum conditions, a welldefined fibrillar structure was obtained. Fiber tensile property measurements suggested the existence of a linear relationship between the fiber breaking tenacity and the product of the square of the Hermans' orientation factor and the infrared crystallinity index. 相似文献
Summary A new method of evaluating the Tolman cone angle from X-ray structural data available from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Base has been developed and a statistical analysis of the cone angles of the phosphines PPh3, PMe2Ph, PMePh2, PMe3, PEt3 and PCy3 (Cy = cyclohexyl) in transition metal complexes has been completed. 相似文献