桑蚕种良卵率调查中样本间卵粒数的偏差控制方法

桑蚕种良卵率是蚕种质量检验的重要指标,控制样本间卵粒数的偏差是保证良卵率准确性的关键。通过对桑蚕卵粒重的调查分析,得出其分布服从正态分布。若从一批蚕种中抽取1g卵作为样本,则来自同一总体的2个样本的卵粒数之差不超过16粒,其置信概率为95%;当置信概率取99%时,两个样本的卵粒数之差不超过21粒。文章为蚕业生产提供了一种实用的克卵粒数偏差控制方法。     

Adopting epidemic model to optimize medication and surgical intervention of excess weight

We combined an epidemic model with an objective function to minimize the weighted sum of people with excess weight and the cost of a medication and surgical intervention in the population. The epidemic model is consisted of ordinary differential equations to describe three subpopulation groups based on weight. We introduced an intervention using medication and surgery to deal with excess weight. An objective function is constructed taking into consideration the cost of the intervention as well as the weight distribution of the population. Using empirical data, we show that fixed participation rate reduces the size of obese population but increases the size for overweight. An optimal participation rate exists and decreases with respect to time. Both theoretical analysis and empirical example confirm the existence of an optimal participation rate, $u^{?}$. Under $u^{?}$, the weighted sum of overweight (S) and obese (O) population as well as the cost of the program is minimized. This article highlights the existence of an optimal participation rate that minimizes the number of people with excess weight and the cost of the intervention. The time-varying optimal participation rate could contribute to designing future public health interventions of excess weight.     

Cost benefit analysis of series systems with warm standby components

This paper deals with the cost benefit analysis of series systems with warm standby components. The time-to-repair and the time-to-failure for each of the primary and warm standby components is assumed to have the negative exponential distribution. We develop the explicit expressions for the mean time-to-failure, MTTF, and the steady-state availability, A _T () for three configurations and perform a comparative analysis. Under the cost/benefit (C/B) criterion, comparisons are made based on assumed numerical values given to the distribution parameters, and to the cost of the components. The configurations are ranked based on: MTTF, A _T (), and C/B where B is either MTTF or A _T ().     

带模糊约束的最小费用流问题

本文首次提出了带模糊约束的最小费用流问题,建立了相应的数学模型并给出了求解这一模型的有关算法。最后,给出了一个具体实例。     

Economics of food irradiation

The number of products being radiation processed worldwide is constantly increasing and today includes such diverse items as medical disposables, fruits and vegetables, spices, meats, seafoods and waste products. This range of products to be processed has resulted in a wide range of irradiator designs and capital and operating cost requirements.This paper discusses the economics of low dose food irradiation applications and the effects of various parameters on unit processing costs. It provides a model for calculating specific unit processing costs by correlating known capital costs with annual operating costs and annual throughputs. It is intended to provide the reader with a general knowledge of how unit processing costs are derived.     

Spectrometry: Speciation of Parts PER Billion of Metal Ions Using Silica and C18-Bonded Silica Columns and Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

Abstract

It is demonstrated that silica gel columns will quantitatively adsorb free Cu²⁺ and Pb²⁺ ions at pH > 8. These are eluted with 0.1 M HNO₃ but not with methanol. Negatively charged EDTA chelates are not adsorbed. Neutral APDC chelates are partially adsorbed on silica columns, but are quantitatively adsorbed on C18-bonded columns, and are eluted with methanol. The metal ions are partially adsorbed on C18-bonded columns, due to residual silanol groups. A microcolumn (1 mm i.d., 5 cm length) manifold system is described for automatic delivery of eluant (0.12 ml) to a heated atomic absorption graphite atomizer, using either methanol or 0.1 M HNO₃ in methanol eluant, allowing speciation and measurement of parts per billion of metals. These studies demonstrate that by using a mixed column or sequential columns of silica gel and C18-bonded silica, cationic and neutral metal species could be adsorbed, followed by sequential elution and measurement using methanol and then 0.1 M HNO. Negatively charged species could be measured directly in the sample eluant or obtained by difference from a total metal measurement.     

The Analysis of Cell Contents of Some Papaveraceous Plants by Newly Devised Automated Histochemical Chromatography

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Contents of the colored cells (alkaloidal cells¹) found in Macleaya cordata root and Sanguinaria canadensis rhizome were analysed quantitatively by histochemical chromatography (HC) with the help of newly modified automated micromanipulator.

These were found to have 4 alkaloids viz protopine type protopine(1) and allocryptopine(2) and benzo- [c]phenanthridine type (sanguinarine(3) and cheleryth-rine(4)) in both the plants. Quantitatively the pro-topine alkaloids were 10-40 ng per cell while the benzo-[c]phenanthridines (as chlorides) were only 1-6 ng per cell in M. cordata root. However, in S. canadensis rhizome the relative quantities of the 4 alkaloids (1), (2), (3) and (4) were found to be 10, 13, 137 and 68 ng per cell respectively.     

Two-beam interference detection of the changes in fibre structural parameters during low drawing process

A Pluta polarizing interference microscope with a fibre stretching device attached was used to detect the changes in molecular structure that occur during the fibre cold drawing process. Fibres drawn with low draw ratios show different types of deformation mechanisms. The interference patterns recorded at different draw ratios are used to relate the deformation mechanisms with the measured structural parameters. Some optical parameters are measured such as; refractive indices nand n birefringence n, the polarizability per unit volume , the orientation distribution function f(θ), the angle θ between the stretching direction and the chain axis, and the angle θ_m which the transition dipole moment of the molecular species makes with the molecular axis (chain axis). Three polymeric fibres (Polyethylene terephthalate PET, Polypropylene PP and Polyamide PA) were used in this study and their interferograms are illustrated.