Good ideals in Gorenstein local rings obtained by idealization

The structure of certain equimultiple good ideals in Gorenstein local rings obtained by idealization is explored.

     

Facile synthesis of 4-substituted butenolides from furan

A variety of 4-substituted butenolides were prepared utilizing 2-acetoxyfuran as a key intermediate which can be easily synthesized by anodic oxidation of furan.     

Stability evaluation of inference methods for optoelectronic fuzzy inference system

System stability of various membership functions and fuzzy control methods are compared by numerical simulations to determine the feasibility of optoelectronic fuzzy inference method. An inverted pendulum is used for the destination system. A Gaussian membership function is better than a triangular one. MIN operations of grade evaluation and modification of consequent membership functions are better than other operations. SUM operation of consequent operation is better than MAX operation.     

Temporal electric conductivity variations of hydrogenated amorphous silicon due to high energy protons

Electric conductivity variations of undoped, n-type and p-type hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin films irradiated with various energy protons are systematically investigated. Dark conductivity (DC) and photoconductivity (PC) of the undoped samples increase at first due to proton irradiation and then decrease dramatically with increasing proton fluence. The increase in DC and PC becomes greater with increased proton energy. However, this increase is metastable and gradually decreases with time at room temperature. Similar results are observed in the n-type a-Si:H, whereas only a monotonic decrease is observed in DC and PC for the p-type samples. The increase of both DC and PC due to proton irradiation is attributed to metastable donor center generation. On further irradiation both the DC and PC decrease by the accumulation of radiation-induced defects, which act as deep traps and compensate carriers. The decrease in DC and PC becomes less pronounced as the proton energy increase and can be fitted along a universal line when the proton fluence is converted into displacement per atom (dpa).     

Development of vial wall sorptive extraction and its application to determination of progesterone in human serum

A novel sample preparation method, vial wall sorptive extraction (VWSE), which uses a vial whose internal wall is coated with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), was developed. The method was applied to the determination of progesterone in human serum sample. Human serum sample (0.5 mL) spiked with progesterone-¹³C₂ was pipetted into the VWSE device and vortex mixing was performed for 30 min. Then, the serum sample was removed and the vial rinsed with purified water. Fifty microliter of methanol as liquid desorption (LD) solvent was pipetted into the VWSE device and vortex mixing was performed for 10 min. Then, the extract was analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The correlation coefficient (r) of the calibration curve over the concentration range of 0.5–200 ng mL⁻¹ was 0.999. The limit of detection (LOD) and the limit of quantification (LOQ) were 0.1 and 0.5 ng mL⁻¹, respectively. The relative recoveries were 97.9% (RSD: 4.4%, n = 6) and 102.8% (RSD: 1.1%, n = 6) for progesterone spiked at 5 and 50 ng mL⁻¹, respectively. This simple, accurate, sensitive, and selective analytical method is applicable to the trace analysis of a minute amount of sample.     

Temperature-induced reversible change in the redox response in phenothiazine-labeled poly(ethoxyethyl glycidyl ether) and its application to the thermal control of the catalytic reaction of glucose oxidase

Novel redox-active thermosensitive polymers (phenothiazine-labeled poly(ethoxyethyl glycidyl ether), PT-PEEGE), composed of a polyoxyalkylene backbone, ethoxyethoxymethyl side chains, and an electroactive phenothiazine end group, were prepared by base-catalyzed anionic ring-opening polymerization of ethoxyethyl glycidyl ether monomer in the presence of 10-(2-hydroxyethyl)phenothiazine. Phase separation of a 1.0 mmol dm(-3) (0.33 wt %) PT-PEEGE aqueous solution occurs at 28 degrees C. While the phase separation temperature (Tc) is almost constant in the concentration range above 1.0 mmol dm(-3), it increases at below 1.0 mmol dm(-3). A 10-fold decrease in the oxidation current of PT-PEEGE is observed above Tc and reflects the decrease in the apparent concentration of electroactive PT-PEEGE due to the phase separation. The redox response mainly comes from PT-PEEGE molecules in the dilute phase, resulting from the phase separation, and the half-wave potential and peak separation are independent of the phase separation. This thermally induced change in the redox response is reversible and is applied for the thermal control of the electrocatalytic reaction of glucose oxidase (GOx). The catalytic current in the presence of PT-PEEGE as an electron mediator decreases at temperatures higher than Tc. This originates from the phase separation of PT-PEEGE, and PT-PEEGE molecules which remained to be soluble participate in the electrocatalytic reactions of GOx as mediators.     

Autonomous swinging of a lipid tubule under stationary irradiation by a Nd3+:YAG laser

A micrometer-sized lipid tubule exhibits oscillatory swinging motion under stationary irradiation by a Nd(3+):YAG laser ( lambda = 1064 nm). By choosing an appropriate optical path through an objective lens, the laser can be split into dual beams focused on the same position. Using this splitting, a lipid tubule can be shown to exhibit bistability with regard to the orientation of trapping. Driven by a temperature gradient induced by local photon heating, the trapped lipid tubule shows oscillatory motion between two possible orientations. This oscillatory phenomenon of the lipid tubule is thought to represent the breaking of time-translational symmetry under thermodynamically open conditions.     

Rhodium-tris(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)phosphine catalyzed hydroformylation of dienes to dialdehydes in supercritical carbon dioxide with high activity

Rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of 1,5-hexadiene and 1,7-octadiene to corresponding dialdehydes was investigated in compressed CO₂ and in toluene using different fluorinated phosphine compounds as ligands. A rhodium complex using tris(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)phosphine is highly effective in compressed CO₂ for double hydroformylation of 1,5-hexadiene, whose TOF value is much larger than those reported so far. It has been shown that this ligand is effective also for the hydroformylation of 1,7-octadiene and scCO₂ is a better solvent than a conventional organic solvent of toluene for the title reaction.     

Evaluation of the quantitativeness of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry using an equimolar mixture of uniform poly(ethylene glycol) oligomers

Quantitativeness of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) was elucidated using an equimolar mixture of uniform poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) oligomers with no molecular weight distributions. Uniform PEG oligomers with degrees of polymerization n = 6-40 were separated from commercial PEG samples by preparative super-critical fluid chromatography. MALDI-TOF mass spectra of an equimolar mixture of the uniform PEG oligomers were recorded by adding a mixture of 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid as a matrix reagent and four chlorinated salts, i.e. LiCl, NaCl, KCl and RbCl. Remarkable non-quantitative effects were observed in the MALDI-TOF mass spectra in both the lower and higher molecular mass regions. At higher molecular masses greater than about 10(3), PEG oligomers with larger molecular mass yielded lower spectral intensities irrespective of the species of adduct cations and higher laser powers induced larger decreases in mass spectral intensities with the increase in their molecular masses. On the other hand, in the lower molecular mass region, less than about 10(3), the observed non-quantitative effect greatly depends on the species of adduct cations, indicating that the stability of the PEG-cation complex affects the MALDI-TOF mass spectral intensities of uniform PEG oligomers.