Efficient conversion of fructose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural over sulfated porous carbon catalyst

Sulfated porous carbon (PC-SO3H) catalyst was successfully synthesized from one-pot treatment of porous polydivinylbenzene in H2SO4 at 250 C, which exhibited very good catalytic performances in the production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from fructose.     

纳米Bi-Ni氧化物改性碱性MnO2电极

电化学行为;纳米Bi-Ni氧化物改性碱性MnO2电极     

Mesoporous materials for drug delivery

Research on mesoporous materials for biomedical purposes has experienced an outstanding increase during recent years. Since 2001, when MCM-41 was first proposed as drug-delivery system, silica-based materials, such as SBA-15 or MCM-48, and some metal-organic frameworks have been discussed as drug carriers and controlled-release systems. Mesoporous materials are intended for both systemic-delivery systems and implantable local-delivery devices. The latter application provides very promising possibilities in the field of bone-tissue repair because of the excellent behavior of these materials as bioceramics. This Minireview deals with the advances in this field by the control of the textural parameters, surface functionalization, and the synthesis of sophisticated stimuli-response systems.     

Spectroscopic study on the interaction between[Hg（SCN）4]2- and hemoglobin

The interaction between[Hg（SCN）₄]^2- and hemoglobin（Hb） under conditions that simulate a physiological environment was investigated by UV-vis spectroscopy,fluorescence spectroscopy,resonance Rayleigh scattering（RRS） spectroscopy and circular dichroism（CD） spectroscopy.The results obtained from the change of UV-vis and CD spectra,the quenching of Hb fluorescence and the enhancement of RRS intensity proved that a 10:1 type complex was formed between[Hg（SCN）₄]^2- and Hb.The possible mechanism suggested for the interaction was that ten Hg（SCN）₄]^2- anions entered the four subunits of a Hb molecule to react with some residues to form an adduct by coordination and electrostatic forces.The coordination of[Hg（SCN）₄]^2- with Trp was the major cause of the fluorescence quenching of Hb.     

Nonlinear two-point boundary value problems with multiple solutions

In the first part of this paper we study the convergence of finite difference methods to approximate the maximal solution of problems of the form:u+f (x, u)=0, with boundary conditions eitheru(0)=u(b)=0 oru(0)=u (b)=0, 0<b1. The functionf(x, u) satisfies several conditions that are explicitly given in § 1. This work extends earlier results of Parter (see references at the end).Since this problem has in general more than one solution we develop in the second part two algorithms to approximate solutions characterized by the number of their zeros in (0, 1). We include in the last Section numerical results and some additional comments on the implementation of the algorithms on a digital computer.The research of this author was supported by the Office of Naval Research under contract N^o N-0014-67-A-0128-004.Part of this research was carried on while this author was visiting the Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, during the summer of 1969.     

Speaker Recognition Using Constrained Convolutional Neural Networks in Emotional Speech

Speaker recognition is an important classification task, which can be solved using several approaches. Although building a speaker recognition model on a closed set of speakers under neutral speaking conditions is a well-researched task and there are solutions that provide excellent performance, the classification accuracy of developed models significantly decreases when applying them to emotional speech or in the presence of interference. Furthermore, deep models may require a large number of parameters, so constrained solutions are desirable in order to implement them on edge devices in the Internet of Things systems for real-time detection. The aim of this paper is to propose a simple and constrained convolutional neural network for speaker recognition tasks and to examine its robustness for recognition in emotional speech conditions. We examine three quantization methods for developing a constrained network: floating-point eight format, ternary scalar quantization, and binary scalar quantization. The results are demonstrated on the recently recorded SEAC dataset.