从PISA视角分析新加坡初中Discover Chemistry教材中的科学探究思想

基于2015年经济合作与发展组织公布的PISA测试的最新结果，以及新加坡学生的科学成绩，结合新加坡初中科学教学大纲对新加坡初中化学教材中体现的科学探究思想进行分析。以Discover Chemistry教材为素材，从中选取实验类、调查类、反思和交流类探究活动，挖掘其蕴含的科学素养，分析教材中的探究思想，旨在为我国教科书中的科学探究内容的编写与修改提供启示，也为教师和学生开展有效的探究活动提供借鉴。     

Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Applied to Hydrocarbons in a Microwave Excited Process Plasma

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) carried out using the BOXCARS technique is applied to quantify the density and temperature of hydrogen, methane, and methyl in a process plasma generated by a surfatron in the pressure range from 30 to 3000 Pa. Below approximately 500 Pa all species and their temperatures have a flat distribution dominated by diffusive processes. At higher pressure the plasma localizes near the inner surface of the surfatron tube. A strong depletion of the methane ground state density is observed, where the gas temperature remains at 400 K on a moderate level. On the other side the methyl density is high at the position of high methane depletion. The measured methyl density is a factor of 200 lower than the methane density, in contrast to the factor 10–20 often reported in the literature. The measured data can be interpreted by proper modeling by means of the Boltzmann equation of electrons, balancing of chemical reactions and diffusive processes. The calculated methane and methyl densities agree with the measured ones only if the electron temperature is assumed to be near 1 eV and thus much lower than predicted in previous papers.     

Plasma Technologies for Reducing CO2 Emissions From Combustion Exhaust with Toxic Admixtures to Utilisable Products

The method reported here provides a contribution to CO₂ and combustion exhaust utilisation. A multifunctional system for gas removal was tested on various sources of exhaust (internal combustion engine, brown coal boiler, bituminous pulverised coal boiler, gas boiler, glass oven, VOC sources) in full-scale or by-pass gas flow volumes. A spontaneously-pulsing, direct-current electric discharge operating in a corona geometry was used. The discharge has strongly shining channels migrating quickly along the stressed electrode. The synergetic effect of electric discharge and heterogeneous catalysis on the organometallic part of the product formed on the non-stressed electrode was responsible for the specific character of the products. The final product of the process is a powder with a fractal structure on the microscopic level with low specific mass and insoluble in water. The main component (95%) of the solid product is an amorphous condensate of amino acids with about 5% of organometallic compound with catalytic properties. The product was analysed using IR absorption spectrometry, microscopic photography, HPLC and thermogravimetry. The following amino acids were observed in the final product: alanine, serine, glycine, aspartic acid, lysine, arginine, methionine, histidine. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Resonance ionization spectroscopy of radioisotopes at the IGISOL facility, JYFL

The method of resonance ionization spectroscopy for measurements of hyperfine structures and isotope shifts of heavy elements, at the IGISOL facility, Jyväskylä, is discussed. Two laser geometries are considered, with reference to the effect they have on resolution and efficiency of measurements. Results of off line resonance ionization tests on natural sodium are reported.     

Global well-posedness and scattering for a nonlinear Klein–Gordon system in low dimensions

This article investigates the global well-posedness and the scattering for a nonlinear Klein–Gordon system in spatial dimensions 1 and 2. We establish a Morawetz estimate for this system which is similar to the Morawetz estimate established by Nakanishi [K. Nakanishi, Energy scattering for nonlinear Klein–Gordon and Schrödinger equations in spatial dimensions 1 and 2, J. Funct. Anal. 169(1), pp. 201–225], combining this Morawetz estimate with the induction on energy argument developed by Bourgain [J. Bourgain, Global well-posedness of defocusing 3D critical NLS in the radial case, J. Am. Math. Soc. 12 (1999), pp. 145–171], the bound of a certain space-time norm and scattering result are obtained.     

Regularity properties of transition probabilities in infinite dimensions

In a Hilbert space H we consider a process X solution of a semilinear stochastic differential equation, driven by a Wiener process. We prove that, under appropriate conditions, the transition probabilities of X are absolutely continuous with respect to a properly chosen gaussian measure μ in H, and the corresponding densities belong to some Wiener-Sobolev spaces over (H,μ). In the linear caseX is a nonsymmetric Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, with possibly degenerate diffusion coefficient. The general case is treated by the Girsanov. Theorem and the Malliavin calculus. Examples and applications to stochastic partial differential equations are given     

Fractal Interpolation on a Torus

A very general method of fractal interpolation on T ¹ is proposed in the first place. The approach includes the classical cases using trigonometric functions, periodic splines, etc. but, at the same time, adds a diversity of fractal elements which may be more appropriate to model the complexity of some variables. Upper bounds of the committed error are provided. The arguments avoid the use of derivatives in order to handle a wider framework. The Lebesgue constant of the associated partition plays a key role. The procedure is proved convergent for the interpolation of specific functions with respect to some nodal bases. In a second part, the approximation is then extended to bidimensional tori via tensor product of interpolation spaces. Some sufficient conditions for the convergence of the process in the Fourier case are deduced.