Synthesis of cetyltrimethylammonium tribromide (CTMATB) and its application in the selective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides

The bright yellow crystalline cetyltrimethylammonium tribromide (CTMATB) reagent has been synthesized from the reaction of CTMAB and KBr with H₂MoO₄·H₂O, H₂O₂ and H₂SO₄ in the molar ratio 1:2:0.01:4:0.93. CTMATB selectively oxidizes a variety of dialkyl and alkyl aryl sulfides to the corresponding sulfoxides in high yields under mild conditions.     

Littlest Higgs Model and Higgs Boson Associated Production with Top Quark Pair at High Energy Linear e+e- Collider

In the parameter space allowed by the electroweak precision measurement data, we consider the contributions of the new particles predicted by the littlest Higgs model to the Higgs boson associated production with top quark pair in the future high energy linear e⁺e^- collider (ILC). We find that the contributions mainly come from the new gauge bosons Z_H and B_H. For reasonable values of the free parameters, the absolute value of the relative correction parameter δσ/σ^SM can be significanly large, which might be observed in the future ILC experiment with √{S}=800 GeV.     

一种基于新型小波包阈值的图像去噪方法

提出了一种基于小波包理论去除图像噪声的方法,用小波包把图像分解为高频分量和低频分量,根据高频分量估计噪声的标准差,并利用该标准差以及Birge-Massart惩罚函数计算阈值.鉴于传统软硬阈值的缺陷,采用一种新型阈值量化方法,用三次多项式在硬阈值的基础上插值,使新的阈值函数保持了连续性和可导性.通过这种方法既消除了图像的振铃现象,又保留了细节成分.实验表明：与传统方法相比,新方法使图像视觉效果和峰值信噪比均获得提高.     

发展经济学的演变、行为转向及其当代意义

发展经济学是经济学的一个重要分支,往往会受到不同经济学流派的影响。通过考察发展经济学的演变过程,可以揭示新古典发展经济学、政府主导发展经济学、新制度发展经济学和不完全信息发展经济学之间的异同点。由于现有新古典传统下的经济发展理论都没有涉及信息处理不完美或心理维度问题,因此有必要重点探讨行为经济学对发展经济学的心理或行为的作用机制。因心理账户、默认规则和认知偏差等非理性行为系统性偏离经济人模型,从而对当代经济发展会产生重大的影响。综合研究表明,行为失灵与市场失灵、交易成本和信息不对称等经济理论形成的互补认识,摆脱了自由市场和政府主导的简单两分法,更全面认识到政府在经济和社会发展中的助推作用,为有效市场与有为政府“两只手”有机结合奠定新的微观基础,也进一步丰富了发展经济学的理论研究视野,为新时代推动经济高质量发展提供新的政策启示。     

习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想学理化研究论纲

加强对习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的学理化研究具有重大理论和现实意义。开展学理化研究,一方面是要坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导,加快推动学科体系、学术体系和话语体系建设,推动构建中国特色哲学社会科学;另一方面,学理化研究可以增强对新思想的学科体系、学术体系和话语体系的有力支撑,使新思想进一步彰显其内在的学理性、创新性和整体性,从而全面系统揭示习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的时代性、科学性和真理性,以及彰显当代中国马克思主义理论的优秀品质和学风文风。开展学理化研究,要紧扣习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想这一根本性主题和主线,聚焦并挖掘新思想对马克思主义理论的原创性贡献,更好体现新思想的理论创新性、价值创造性以及实践指导性。推动学理化研究,需要处理好学理化研究与党的理论宣传和贯彻落实以及与思想性和工具性、实践性和理论性、学术话语和政策话语、本土化和国际化、学理化和大众化等之间的内在关系。     

U.S. EPA Regulatory Perspectives on the Use of QSAR for New and Existing Chemical Evaluations

Abstract

As testing is not required, ecotoxicity or fate data are available for ≈ 5% of the approximately 2,300 new chemicals/year (26,000 + total) submitted to the US-EPA. The EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) regulatory program was forced to develop and rely upon QSARs to estimate the ecotoxicity and fate of most of the new chemicals evaluated for hazard and risk assessment. QSAR methods routinely result in ecotoxicity estimations of acute and chronic toxicity to fish, aquatic invertebrates, and algae, and in fate estimations of physical/chemical properties, degradation, and bioconcentration. The EPA's Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory of existing chemicals currently lists over 72,000 chemicals. Most existing chemicals also appear to have little or no ecotoxicity or fate data available and the OPPT new chemical QSAR methods now provide predictions and cross-checks of test data for the regulation of existing chemicals. Examples include the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), the Design for the Environment (DfE), and the OECD/SIDS/HPV Programs. QSAR screening of the TSCA Inventory has prioritized thousands of existing chemicals for possible regulatory testing of: 1) persistent bioaccumulative chemicals, and 2) the high ecotoxicity of specific discrete organic chemicals.     

Solubility of Anthraquinone Derivatives in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: New Correlations

Solubility of several anthraquinone derivatives in supercritical carbon dioxide was readily available in the literature, but correcting ability of the existing models was poor. Therefore, in this work, two new models have been developed for better correlation based on solid–liquid phase equilibria. The new model has five adjustable parameters correlating the solubility isotherms as a function of temperature. The accuracy of the proposed models was evaluated by correlating 25 binary systems. The proposed models observed provide the best overall correlations. The overall deviation between the experimental and the correlated results was less than 11.46% in averaged absolute relative deviation (AARD). Moreover, exiting solubility models were also evaluated for all the compounds for the comparison purpose.