This paper is concerned with the need for more interdisciplinary, systems oriented, research directed towards major problems encountered by decision makers in industry and government; a need which is more difficult to meet in the face of traditional methods of organising knowledge and research. It emphasises the need to acknowledge the true complexity of the problems and the interactive nature of any effective research procedure. As an illustration, both of the need and the problems involved in meeting it, the development of a new program of research into problems of Management and Technology at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, which is supported by seventeen nations of all political complexions, is analysed. The implication is that we can do something about the future, but we must be prepared to do. 相似文献
The existence of reliable and flexible FORTRAN programs for integer linear programming has recently enabled the development of very efficient algorithms for the travelling salesman problem. The main characteristic of these algorithms is the relaxation of most of the constraints of the problem during its solution. The same approach can be used for the solution of the m-salesmen problem in which m salesmen starting from the same city must visit only once n cities at minimum cost. The number of salesmen can be fixed in advance or allowed to vary, upper and lower bounds set on the number of salesmen and even fixed costs associated with the salesmen. The results obtained so far are very encouraging. Problems of up to 100 cities have been solved optimally for the m-travelling salesmen case and other more complex problems are currently under study. 相似文献
The Q-value for the 129Xe(3He, d)130Cs reaction is measured to be +5 ± 20 keV. By combining this result with the known neutron separation energy of 130Xe, we derive the total decay energy of 130Cs130Xe to beQEC = 2974 ± 20 keV. This value agrees well with two previous positron end-point measurements but disagrees with the corresponding value derived from the 1977 atomic mass evaluation. This has significance in testing the accuracy of the calculated ratio for 130Cs decay. The mass excess of 130Cs is derived to be ?86908 ± 14 keV. An excited state in 130Cs. was also identified at 121 ± 15 keV with J < 3 and positive parity. The Q-value for 136Xe(3He, d)137Cs was measured to be 1918 ± 12 keV. 相似文献
Good technique, i.e. competence in carrying out operational research, is as vital for the practitioner to acquire as competence in the traditional ‘techniques’. It is suggested that universities should teach students how to conduct simple projects prior to alerting them to more sophisticated methodological issues.As an aid to this task, the traditional five or six parts of an operational research project are broken down and extended into 39 steps, and regrouped into three phases. Also, five skills are identified as being conceptually essential to "good" operational research, which students can develop through tackling suitable case studies. 相似文献
Graphite electrodes fabricated by screen-printing have been used as amperometric detectors in biosensors based on NAD(+)-dependent dehydrogenases, tyrosinase, or genetically modified acetylcholinesterases. The mono-enzyme sensors have been optimized as disposable or reusable devices for detection of a variety of substrates important in the food industry ( D-lactic acid, L-lactic acid, acetaldehyde) or in environmental pollution control (phenols and dithiocarbamate, carbamate and organophosphorus pesticides). The sensors were prepared in four configurations differing in enzyme confinement, enzyme immobilization and location of the immobilization agent in the biosensor assembly. Tests on real samples have been performed with the biosensors; D-lactic acid and acetaldehyde have been detected in wine and phenols in air. 相似文献
The complexing processes in the MII-dithiomalonamide-diacetyl triple system (M=Ni, Cu) occuring in the nickel(II)- and copper(II)hexacyanoferrate(II) gelatin-immobilized matrix in contact with aqueous alkaline solutions (pH~12) containing dithiomalonamide and diacetyl at room temperature, and between MCl2, dithiomalonamideanddiacetylinEtOHsolutionsuponheatingto$80°C, have been studied. In the NiII-dithiomalonamide-diacetyl system, template synthesis occurs in EtOH solution but does not occur in the gelatin-immobilized matrix, whereas in the CuII-dithiomalonamide-diacetyl system, template synthesis occurs in the gelatin-immobilized matrix but not in EtOH solution. Dithiomalonamide and diacetyl are the ligand synthons in the processes indicated. 相似文献
H7[NiV13O38] was synthesized from K7[NiV13O38] using an ion exchange method. Then Pr2H[NiV13O38] was obtained by double decomposition of H7[NiV13O38] with Pr2(CO3)3. The actual amount of praseodymium measured by elemental analysis coincides with the designed amount of praseodymium in Pr2H[NiV13O38]. The i.r. spectra suggested that the [NiV13O38]7– anion did not collapse after the ion exchange and double decomposition. The 51V n.m.r. spectrum of Pr2H[NiV13O38] showed four peaks and their ratio of the relative intensity was 4:4:4:1. This result agrees with the chemical environment of V atoms in the [NiV13O38]7– anion. In vitro antitumor activities of polyoxometalates on several human tumor cells have been investigated using the MTT method. Pr2H[NiV13O38] is the most effective polyoxometalate tested in this study for inhibiting KB cell. Pr2H[NiV13O38] also showed remarkable inhibitory effect on some other tumor cells: HCT, Bel, B16, BCAP and ESCL cells. These results indicate that Pr2H[NiV13O38] is a potent broad spectrum antitumor agent. The structure type of polyoxometalates greatly influences their antitumor activity: the order of structure type for inhibiting KB cell is: [NiV13O38]7–>[Mo7O24]6–>Anderson structure Keggin structure Dawson structure. Moreover, the nature of the polyatom in the polyoxometalates also greatly influences their antitumor activity: the polyatom order for inhibiting KB cell is: V>Mo W. On the other hand, the nature of the counter cation and the heteroatom in the polyoxometalates exerted a relatively small influence on the inhibitory effect against the KB cell, although the praseodymium salt of [NiV13O38]7– showed a higher antitumor activity than its potassium salt. 相似文献
The reduction of benzophenone (Bzph) in 3-pentanone (PEN), acetone (ACE), N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA), N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), tetrahydrofuran (THF), acetonitrile (ACN) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) with n-tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate (TBAPF6) as background electrolyte was studied using the technique of cyclic voltammetry at the temperature of 263.15 K. The half-wave
potentials (E1/2) were extracted. The reduction of Bzph occurs in two successive one-electron steps to produce first the free radical anion
Bzph− and then the dianion Bzph2−. The results indicated that the radical anion Bzph− is reoxidized to Bzph in all investigated solvent media whereas the dianion Bzph2− is reoxidized to Bzph− only in THF. The heterogeneous electron-transfer rate constants (ks) were evaluated by employing the electrochemical rate equation proposed by Nicholson. The rate of electron transfer for the
Bzph/Bzph− couple was found to be relatively slow in all investigated solvent media. Consequently, the electron-transfer processes can
be recognized as quasi-reversible. The diffusion coefficients (D) of Bzph in the investigated solvent media have been calculated using the modified Randles-Sevcik equation. The effect of
the physical and chemical properties of the solvent medium on the electrochemical behavior of Bzph has been examined. 相似文献
Some investigations concerning the decolorization of Acid Red G azo dye by photooxidation with hydrogen peroxide were performed.
The influences of pH, oxidant concentration, and the presence of Fe2+ or other metal ions (Co2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+) as potential catalysts, were investigated. The best results were obtained in the presence of ferrous ions in acid and neutral
media. The other ions are not as effective as Fe2+ for dye decolorization. Co2+ and Cu2+ ions have a catalytic action, at low concentration, within a wide range of pH. Ni2+ and Mn2+ ions have no catalytic effect in photooxidation with hydrogen peroxide at acid Ni2+ and Mn2+ ions have no catalytic effect in photooxidation with hydrogen peroxide at acid pH values, but show a weak action in alkaline
media. 相似文献
Reactions of the platinum(IV) nitrile complexes [PtCl4(RCN)2] (R = Me, CH2Ph, Ph) with 1,2- and 1,4-PhS(=NH)C6H4SPh in CH2Cl2 afforded addition products of sulfimides and coordinated nitriles, viz., the [PtCl4{NH=C(R)N=S(Ph)(C6H4SPh)}2] complexes. The latter were isolated in 75—90% yields and characterized by elemental analysis, positive-ion FAB mass spectrometry, IR spectroscopy, and 1H and 13C1H NMR spectroscopy. The temperature dependence of the 1H NMR spectra of the model [PtCl4{NH=C(R)N=SPh2}2] complexes (R = Me, Et) in CD2Cl2 studied in a temperature range from +40 to -70 °C demonstrated that E—Z isomerization of the ligands is a dynamic process in a range from +40 to -10 °C. The activation free energy of this process was calculated.Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk.Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1618–1622, August, 2004. 相似文献