Studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Oxidation with chloramine-b indirect determinations

Chloramine-B has been used as an oxidizing agent in hydrochloric acid medium for the indirect volumetric estimations of hydrogen peroxide, lead dioxide, manganese dioxide, selenium dioxide, sodium formate, sodium sulphide, sodium metavanadate, potassium iodate and copper sulphate using iodine monochloride as a catalyst and pre-oxidiser. Chloroform is used as an indicator. It is coloured pink owing to the liberation of iodine during the titration and becomes light pale yellow at the end-point because of the formation of iodine monochloride.     

Intrusion Detection System in Wireless Sensor Network Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Network

Wireless communication networks have much data to sense, process, and transmit. It tends to develop a security mechanism to care for these needs for such modern-day systems. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a solution that has recently gained the researcher’s attention with the application of deep learning techniques in IDS. In this paper, we propose an IDS model that uses a deep learning algorithm, conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN), enabling unsupervised learning in the model and adding an eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) classifier for faster comparison and visualization of results. The proposed method can reduce the need to deploy extra sensors to generate fake data to fool the intruder 1.2–2.6%, as the proposed system generates this fake data. The parameters were selected to give optimal results to our model without significant alterations and complications. The model learns from its dataset samples with the multiple-layer network for a refined training process. We aimed that the proposed model could improve the accuracy and thus, decrease the false detection rate and obtain good precision in the cases of both the datasets, NSL-KDD and the CICIDS2017, which can be used as a detector for cyber intrusions. The false alarm rate of the proposed model decreases by about 1.827%.

     

Volumetric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Oxidation with chloramine-t. iodine monochloride method

Chloramine-T has been used as an oxidizing agent in hydrochloric acid medium' for the volumetric estimations of potassium iodide, hydrazine sulphate, arscnious oxide, stannous chloride, mercurous chloride, tartar-emetic, potassium thiocyanate and ferrous ammonium sulphate, using iodine monochloride as a catalyst and pre-oxidizer. Chloroform is used as an indicator. It is coloured pink owing to the liberation of iodine during the titration and becomes very pale yellow at the end-point because of the formation of iodine monochloride.     

Effect of iron doping and oxygen stoichiometry on infrared absorption in Y1Ba2Cu3O7−δ

We report infrared absorption of Y₁Ba₂Cu₃O_7−δ as a function of oxygen stoichiometry (0<δ<1) and copper substitution by iron in the spectral range of 450–700 cm⁻¹. The strong bands associated with Cu-O vibrations undergo significant changes in their frequencies and intensities asδ is varied across the orthorhombic to tetragonal phase. These changes coupled with those arising as a result of doping with iron has helped in identifying the nature of the vibrational modes.     

Measurement ofL-shell photoelectric cross sections in highZ elements at 37 and 74 keV

L-shell photoelectric cross section measurements have been made at 36·818 and 74·409 keV for four elements in the range 81 ≤Z ≤ 92. The measurements at 74·409 keV are found to agree with theory, within experimental uncertainties, but the experimental values at 36·818 keV are found to be higher than the theoretical predictions. The possible reasons for the observed discrepancy are discussed.     

Off-resonance binomial preparatory pulse technique for high sensitivity MRI of H2O17

H2O17 is a freely diffusible tracer and naturally occurring isotope of O16 detectable by MRI and has been shown to be useful for assessing cerebral perfusion in animal studies using direct and indirect MR detection techniques. However, earlier MR techniques are either not sensitive to changes in small concentrations of tissue H2O17 or are not practical for use on clinical scanners. In this work, a novel method for detecting H2O17 with high sensitivity has been proposed that uses a short, intense, binomial preparatory spin lock pulse with resonance offsets for high sensitive rapid, multislice imaging of tissue H2O17. Two sets of phantom experiments were performed on the 1.5 T and repeated on 3.0 T to assess the feasibility of the proposed technique. The phantom was constructed using ovalbumin and doped with 0.4 atom% and 1.0 atom% H2O17. After obtaining initial parameters, the proposed technique was validated in an anesthetized primate model that was injected with 1.8 cc of 40 atom% H2O17. Phantom experiments showed that the proposed technique was able to detect H2O17 with relatively high sensitivity and high B1 amplitude (and small offsets) preparatory pulses produced similar results as low B1 amplitude (and larger offsets). Primate brain study showed a 42.97% difference in mean signal intensity between pre- and post-H2O17 injection. The proposed technique was successfully implemented on a clinical scanner and was able to detect H2O17 with relatively high sensitivity. Primate study has shown that such a technique can be successfully used for human imaging applications to investigate and assess cerebral perfusion.     

Novel Approach for Mobile Based App Development Incorporating MAAF

Wireless Personal Communications - Increased dominance of mobile applications (henceforth, app) over conventional software applications is quite apparent; however, there is a lack of structured...     

Rubidium uranium trisulphate: A new chemical assay standard for uranium

Rubidium uranium trisulphate [Rb₂U(SO₄)₃] was prepared as a high purity compound of uranium in different lots of 250 g each. The compound was characterised and evaluated by chemical, atomic spectrosopic, infrared, X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric methods for its use as a chemical assay standard for uranium. The compound is stoichiometric, pure, homogeneous and stable in atmospheric conditions. The solubility studies showed that Rb₂U(SO₄)₃ is easily soluble in mineral acids. An experiment based on Randomised Block Design was carried out to assign a value to the uranium content in Rb₂U(SO₄)₃ from the statistically analysed chemical data. The assigned value of [34.167±0.042]% to the uranium content is in close agreement with the theoretical value of 34.152%. Based on these studies, Rb₂U(SO₄)₃ is recommended as a chemical assay standard for uranium.     

Synthesis and characterization of titanates of the formula MTiO3 (M = Mn,Fe, Co,Ni and Cd) by co-precipitation of mixed metal oxalates

When divalent metal chloride solutions of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni and Cd were mixed with potassium titanyl oxalate solution, mixed metal oxalates were obtained in the case of Fe, Co and Ni at room temperature in the pH range 1.5–3. In the case of manganese, heating was found to be necessary to induce precipitation and complete precipitation occurred at 80 °C. Mixed cadmium and titanyl oxalate precipitation was complete at a pH of 3 at room temperature. Various physico-chemical techniques were employed to characterize the as-dried oxalate precursors and the final MTiO₃ oxide powders (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni and Cd) obtained on thermal decomposition. All these experimental results relating to the synthesis and characterizations of MTiO₃ oxides are presented in this paper. The results suggest that the reaction of potassium titanyl oxalate and metal chloride solutions may not lead to the formation of a single molecular precursor by direct salt elimination reaction in the pH range 1.5–3.