多孔聚合物微球孔结构对丙烯催化聚合性能的影响

多孔聚苯乙烯-二乙烯基苯(PS-DVB)微球具有物理化学性质稳定、比表面积大和生产成本低等优点,同时粒径大小可调,在生物医药、吸附、分离和催化剂载体等领域具有广阔应用前景。 通过引入功能单体丙烯氰(AN)、丙烯酰胺(AA)和N-乙烯基咔唑(VC)制备了3种多孔聚合物微球(PPMs),优选含氰基官能化的PPM-AN载体负载Ziegler-Natta(Z-N)催化剂催化丙烯聚合研究孔结构对催化性能的影响。 结果表明,一方面,由于存在模板效应和受限作用,聚丙烯呈微球和纳米纤维状;另一方面,PPM-AN载体负载Z-N催化剂中Ti和Mg的负载量随着载体比表面积的增大而增多。 丙烯聚合结果表明,同一压力下,由于丙烯单体受PPM-AN载体孔的限制作用,随着孔径增大,重均相对分子质量、相对分子质量分布和等规度总体趋势均是升高。     

Celite‐Polyaniline supported palladium catalyst for chemoselective hydrogenation reactions

Polyaniline coated on particles of celite is used as support to load palladium catalyst. This heterogenized Celite?PANI?Pd system, is used as an efficient catalyst for chemoselective hydrogenation reactions. The catalyst is characterized by usual spectral, analytical techniques and studied for hydrogenation reactions at ambient conditions. The mild reaction conditions allow the control over the reactions and excellent selectivity is achieved in number of conversions. Hydrogenation of a carbon–carbon double bond was favored over other polar π‐bond systems, while labile functional groups such as benzyl ether, benzyl esters, cyano, nitro and halogen remained unaffected. Primary amines were converted to N,N‐dimethyl amines with formaldehyde, the double bond of coumarin was selectively hydrogenated without opening of the lactone functionality.     

载体结构对固态胺吸收CO2性能的影响

利用六种孔结构不同的商业无定形硅胶制备了不同四乙烯五胺（TEPA）担载量的固态胺吸收剂。吸收剂的微观结构通过BET和SEM测试;并在TGA反应器中,考察固态胺在30～80℃,CO2体积分数为1%～100%范围内的吸收性能。实验表明,固态胺吸收CO₂性能与温度、CO₂浓度以及载体结构有密切的联系。固态胺适合在低温（30～60℃）低CO₂浓度下（约10%）进行CO₂分离。载体结构通过影响最优担载量,从而影响固态胺吸收性能,孔容和孔径分别在1.211 cm³/g和13 nm附近的载体在担载量为45%时拥有最好的吸收能力（2.87 mmol/g）。     

IPSSIS: An integrated multicriteria decision support system for equity portfolio construction and selection

A fundamental principle of modern portfolio theory is that comparisons between portfolios are generally made using two criteria, corresponding to the first two moments of return distributions, namely the expected return and portfolio variance. According to this model and according to most of the portfolio models derived from the stochastic dominance approach, the group of portfolios open to comparisons is divided into two parts: on the one hand there are the efficient portfolios (those that are not dominated by any other portfolio in the group), and on the other, those that are dominated. In other words, these models do not solve for one optimal portfolio, but rather solve for an efficient set of portfolios, among which the investor must choose, given his preference system. One criticism over these models, which has often been addressed both by practitioners and academics, is that they fail to embody the objectives of the decision maker (DM), through the various stages of the decision process. Our purpose in this article is to present an integrated and innovative methodological approach for the construction and selection of equity portfolios, which will take into account the inherent multidimensional nature of the problem, while allowing the DM to incorporate his preferences in the decision process. The proposed approach, which grounds its basis on the field of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) and more specifically on multiobjective mathematical programming (MMP), is implemented in the IPSSIS (Integrated Portfolio Synthesis and Selection Information System) decision support system (DSS). The validity of the proposed approach is tested through an illustrative application in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE).     

Tactical level planning in float glass manufacturing with co-production,random yields and substitutable products

We investigate tactical level planning problems in float glass manufacturing. Float glass manufacturing is a process that has some unique properties such as uninterruptible production, random yields, partially controllable co-production compositions, complex relationships in sequencing of products, and substitutable products. Furthermore, changeover times and costs are very high, and production speed depends significantly on the product mix. These characteristics render measurement and management of the production capacity difficult. The motivation for this study is a real life problem faced at Trakya Cam in Turkey. Trakya Cam has multiple geographically separated production facilities. Since transportation of glass is expensive, logistics costs are high. In this paper, we consider multi-site aggregate planning, and color campaign duration and product mix planning. We develop a decision support system based on several mixed integer linear programming models in which production and transportation decisions are made simultaneously. The system has been fully implemented, and has been in use at Trakya Cam since 2005.     

A new quantitative structure-retention relationship model for predicting chromatographic retention time of oligonucleotides

An integrated approach is proposed to predict the chromatographic retention time of oligonucleotides based on quantitative structure-retention relationships(QSRR) models.First,the primary base sequences of oligonucleotides are translated into vectors based on scores of generalized base properties(SGBP),involving physicochemical,quantum chemical,topological,spatial structural properties,etc.;thereafter,the sequence data are transformed into a uniform matrix by auto cross covariance(ACC).ACC accounts for the ...     

Multimodal biometric authentication based on score level fusion using support vector machine

Fusion of multiple biometrics for human authentication performance improvement has received considerable attention. This paper presents a novel multimodal biometric authentication method integrating face and iris based on score level fusion. For score level fusion, support vector machine (SVM) based fusion rule is applied to combine two matching scores, respectively from Laplacianface based face verifier and phase information based iris verifier, to generate a single scalar score which is used to make the final decision. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method can bring obvious improvement comparing to the unimodal biometric identification methods and the previous fused face-iris methods.     

Applications of the ergodic iteration theorem

I prove several natural preservation theorems for the countable support iteration. This solves a question of Ros?anowski regarding the preservation of localization properties and greatly simplifies the proofs in the area (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Spherically symmetric solutions in Macroscopic Gravity

Schwarzschild’s solution to the Einstein Field Equations was one of the first and most important solutions that lead to the understanding and important experimental tests of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. However, Schwarzschild’s solution is essentially based on an ideal theory of gravitation, where all inhomogeneities are ignored. Therefore, any generalization of the Schwarzschild solution should take into account the effects of small perturbations that may be present in the gravitational field. The theory of Macroscopic Gravity characterizes the effects of the inhomogeneities through a non-perturbative and covariant averaging procedure. With similar assumptions on the geometry and matter content, a solution to the averaged field equations as dictated by Macroscopic Gravity are derived. The resulting solution provides a possible explanation for the flattening of galactic rotation curves, illustrating that Dark Matter is not real but may only be the result of averaging inhomogeneities in a spherically symmetric background.