Simultaneous determination of boscalid and fludioxonil in grape and soil under field conditions by gas chromatography/tandem triple quadrupole mass spectrometry

A gas chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry method was developed and validated to simultaneously determine boscalid and fludioxonil in grape and soil samples. These samples were extracted with 10 mL of acetonitrile and purified using a mixed primary secondary amine/octadecylsilane sorbent. The method showed good linearity (R² > 0.99) in the calibration range 0.005–2 μg/mL for both pesticides. The limits of detection and quantification for the two analytes in grape and soil were 0.006 and 0.02 mg/kg, respectively. Fungicide recoveries in grape and soil were 81.18–92.11% for boscalid and 82.73–97.67% for fludioxonil with relative standard deviations of 1.31–10.31%. The established method was successfully applied to the residual analysis of boscalid and fludioxonil in real grape and soil samples. The terminal residue concentrations of boscalid and fludioxonil in grape samples collected from Anhui and Guizhou were <5 mg/kg (the maximum residue limit set by China) 7 days after the last application and 1 mg/kg (the maximum residue limit set by USA) 14 days after the last application. These results could provide guidance for the proper and safe use of boscalid and fludioxonil in grape and help the Chinese government to establish an MRL for fludioxonil in grape.     

Graded annihilators of modules over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring, and tight closure

This paper is concerned with the tight closure of an ideal in a commutative Noetherian local ring of prime characteristic . Several authors, including R. Fedder, K-i. Watanabe, K. E. Smith, N. Hara and F. Enescu, have used the natural Frobenius action on the top local cohomology module of such an to good effect in the study of tight closure, and this paper uses that device. The main part of the paper develops a theory of what are here called `special annihilator submodules' of a left module over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring associated to ; this theory is then applied in the later sections of the paper to the top local cohomology module of and used to show that, if is Cohen-Macaulay, then it must have a weak parameter test element, even if it is not excellent.

     

Empirical process approach to some two-sample problems based on ranked set samples

We study the asymptotic properties of both the horizontal and vertical shift functions based on independent ranked set samples drawn from continuous distributions. Several tests derived from these shift processes are developed. We show that by using balanced ranked set samples with bigger set sizes, one can decrease the width of the confidence band and hence increase the power of these tests. These theoretical findings are validated through small-scale simulation studies. An application of the proposed techniques to a cancer mortality data set is also provided. Part of the research was conducted while Kaushik Ghosh was visiting Statistical Research and Applications Branch of the National Cancer Institute on an Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment.     

定数截尾两参数指数——威布尔分布形状参数的Bayes估计

在不同的损失函数下,本文研究了两参数指数—威布尔分布(EWD)形状参数的Bayes估计问题.基于定数截尾试验,当其中一个形状参数α已知时,给出了另一个形状参数θ在三种不同损失函数下的Bayes估计表达式,并求得了可靠度函数的Bayes点估计.最后运用随机模拟方法,将Bayes估计和极大似然估计进行了比较.结果表明,LINEX损失下Bayes估计的精度比极大似然估计高.     

关于参数型copula函数的拟合检验

在金融和保险中,copula函数是一种构造多元相关分布函数的有力工具．然而,怎样选择一个适当的copula函数用于拟合数据,并没有找到统一的方法．因此,基于copula函数的经验分布,我们提出了一种用于检验具有某种特定参数结构的copula函数拟合数据优良性的方法,并得到了此检验的渐近性质．由于该检验统计量的极限分布依赖未知参数,我们采用非参数蒙特卡罗方法确定临界值．我们做了一个简单的模拟来验证本文提出的检验方法的功效．     

A Constraint Programming Approach to Extract the Maximum Number of Non-Overlapping Test Forms

This paper introduces a novel approach for extracting the maximum number of non-overlapping test forms from a large collection of overlapping test sections assembled from a given item bank. The approach involves solving maximum set packing problems (MSPs). A branch-and-bound MSP algorithm is developed along with techniques adapted from constraint programming to estimate lower and upper bounds on the optimal MSP solution. The algorithm is general and can be applied in other applications including combinatorial auctions. The results of computer simulations and experiments with an operational item bank are presented. An erratum to this article is available at .     

The empirical behavior of sampling methods for stochastic programming

We investigate the quality of solutions obtained from sample-average approximations to two-stage stochastic linear programs with recourse. We use a recently developed software tool executing on a computational grid to solve many large instances of these problems, allowing us to obtain high-quality solutions and to verify optimality and near-optimality of the computed solutions in various ways. Research supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38, and by the National Science Foundation under Grant 9726385. Research supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38, and by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-0073770. Research supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38, and by the National Science Foundation under Grants 9726385 and 0082065.     

Statistical Inference with Fractional Brownian Motion

We give a test between two complex hypothesis; namely we test whether a fractional Brownian motion (fBm) has a linear trend against a certain non-linear trend. We study some related questions, like goodness-of-fit test and volatility estimation in these models.     

乙醇含量拉曼光谱检测中噪声与背景同时消除方法研究

乙醇含量拉曼光谱检测中,拉曼光谱信号中的各种噪声及光谱荧光造成的基线漂移和样品池背景等,影响了校正模型的预测精度。利用总体平均经验模态分解,将光谱信号分解成若干无模态混叠的内在模式分量,根据排列熵的信号随机性检测判据判断出代表背景信息和噪声信息的内在模式分量,将其置零即可同时消除拉曼光谱中的噪声与背景。将总体平均经验模态分解与排列熵相结合的预处理方法应用于乙醇含量的拉曼光谱检测中,并与小波变换和平均平滑滤波做了对比。实验结果表明：应用总体平均经验模态分解与排列熵相结合的方法能够有效的同时消除乙醇含量拉曼光谱检测中的噪声和背景信息,提高校正模型的预测精度,且使用简便,无需参数设置,对乙醇含量拉曼光谱检测具有实用价值。     

Asymptotic properties of Rao's test for testing hypotheses in discrete parameter stochastic processes

Summary In this note some asymptotically optimum tests for testing hypotheses concerning parameters when the observations are dependent are obtained. Test statistics based on the score functions, similar to the one proposed by Rao in the case when the observations are i.i.d. are proposed. Asymptotically UMP tests for one sided hypotheses against one sided alternatives and asymptotically UMP unbiased test for a simple hypothesis against two sided alternatives are derived. In the multiparameter case tests for simple hypotheses that have asymptotically best constant power on some family of surfaces in the parameter space are derived.