Dual-path handheld system for cornea and retina imaging using optical coherence tomography

Optical Review - A dual-path handheld system is proposed for cornea and retina imaging using spectral domain optical coherence tomography. The handheld sample arm is designed to acquire two images...     

Further results on stabilization of neural-network-based systems using sampled-data control

Nonlinear Dynamics - This paper investigates the problem of stabilization for sampled-data neural-network-based systems under variable sampling. A novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF)...     

Solution properties,unperturbed dimensions,and chain flexibility of poly(1‐adamantyl acrylate)

Poly(1‐adamantyl acrylate) (PAdA) exhibits much higher glass transition and degradation temperatures than other polyacrylates. However, the quantitative evaluation of the stiffness of this polymer chain has not been reported previously. In this study, the dilute solution properties and conformational characteristics of PAdA were evaluated using viscometry and scattering techniques. The unperturbed dimensions of this polymer were evaluated using the Burchard–Stockmayer–Fixman extrapolation and the touched‐bead wormlike chain model. The PAdA chain has a comparable persistence length, diameter per bead and characteristic ratio to poly(methyl methacrylate) and polystyrene. All these results indicate that PAdA is less flexible than common polyacrylates. In addition, the second virial coefficients (A₂) of PAdA in different solvents obtained by static light scattering were compared. Among the solvents investigated, tetrahydrofuran is a moderate solvent. Radius of gyration of a polymer sample in the various solvents ranged from 16.8 to 30.3 nm. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2017 , 55, 1526–1531     

燃煤锅炉粉煤灰中典型痕量金属元素淋滤特性研究

本文通过批淋滤实验研究了某电厂2号炉三个静电除尘器下粉煤灰中Cd、Cr、Pb、V的淋滤特性.淋滤液选择pH=4的HCI和pH=10的NaOH溶液,液固比为4:1;批淋滤选取从15分钟到7天的14个时间进行.实验结果显示,在实验条件下,Cr在酸性条件下淋出滤较高,而Pb在碱性条件下淋出滤较高;其中Cr随着淋滤时间的增加,淋出滤有显著增加,且三种粉煤灰中淋出滤大小为LCr3>LCr2>LCr1.     

Design variable tolerance effects on the natural frequency variance of constrained multi-body systems in dynamic equilibrium

The design variable tolerance effects on the natural frequency variance of constrained multi-body systems in dynamic equilibrium are investigated in this study. Monte-Carlo simulation is often employed for such investigations, but it is known to have serious drawbacks. Excessive amount of computation time needs to be consumed since a large number of evaluations are usually required for the method. Furthermore, the solution accuracy cannot be always guaranteed in spite of the excessive amount of computation time. In order to overcome such drawbacks, a method employing eigenvalue sensitivity information is proposed to obtain the variance of natural frequency in this study. In order to verify the accuracy and the efficiency of the method, some numerical examples of multi-body systems in dynamic equilibrium are solved and the results are compared to those obtained by an analytical method and Monte-Carlo simulation.     

An $$H^1$$-Galerkin mixed finite element method for time fractional reaction–diffusion equation

In this article, an \(H^1\)-Galerkin mixed finite element (MFE) method for solving time fractional reaction–diffusion equation is presented. The optimal time convergence order \(O(\varDelta t^{2-\alpha })\) and the optimal spatial rate of convergence in \(H^1\) and \(L^2\)-norms for variable \(u\) and its gradient \(\sigma \) are derived. Moreover, some numerical results are shown to support our theoretical analysis.     

Synthesis,Characterizations, and Crystal Structures of α-Hydroxyphosphonic Acid Esters

This article describes the synthesis of α-hydroxyphosphonic acid esters using the Pudovik reaction. IR, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR, ³¹P NMR, MS, and elemental analysis were employed to confirm their structures. X-ray structure analysis is reported for six compounds. The antibacterial activities of these compounds are also reported.

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