The Coordination Chemistry of f-Block Elements in Molten Salts

The coordination chemistry of f-block elements (lanthanide and actinide) in molten salts has become a resounding topic in view of its great importance to the research and development (R&D) of molten salt reactors and pyroprocessing. In this Review article, a general overview of the coordination chemistry of f-block elements in molten salts is provided including past achievements and recent advances. Particular emphases are placed on the oxidation state, speciation, and solution structure of f-block metal ions in molten salts, as well as their relationships with the salt composition. Furthermore, this review briefly discusses the spectroscopic and theoretical methods that complement each other in revealing the coordination properties.     

On pointwise decay rates of time‐periodic solutions to the Navier–Stokes equation

We study the existence of a time‐periodic solution with pointwise decay properties to the Navier–Stokes equation in the whole space. We show that if the time‐periodic external force is sufficiently small in an appropriate sense, then there exists a time‐periodic solution $\{u,p\}$ of the Navier–Stokes equation such that $|{?}^j{u(t,x)|=O(|x|}^{1?n?j})$ and $|{?}^j{p(t,x)|=O(|x|}^{?n?j})(j=0,1,\dots )$ uniformly in $t\in \mathbb{R}$ as $|x|\to \infty$. Our solution decays faster than the time‐periodic Stokes fundamental solution and the faster decay of its spatial derivatives of higher order is also described.     

Collective Strategy Condensation: When Envy Splits Societies

Human societies are characterized by three constituent features, besides others. (A) Options, as for jobs and societal positions, differ with respect to their associated monetary and non-monetary payoffs. (B) Competition leads to reduced payoffs when individuals compete for the same option as others. (C) People care about how they are doing relatively to others. The latter trait—the propensity to compare one’s own success with that of others—expresses itself as envy. It is shown that the combination of (A)–(C) leads to spontaneous class stratification. Societies of agents split endogenously into two social classes, an upper and a lower class, when envy becomes relevant. A comprehensive analysis of the Nash equilibria characterizing a basic reference game is presented. Class separation is due to the condensation of the strategies of lower-class agents, which play an identical mixed strategy. Upper-class agents do not condense, following individualist pure strategies. The model and results are size-consistent, holding for arbitrary large numbers of agents and options. Analytic results are confirmed by extensive numerical simulations. An analogy to interacting confined classical particles is discussed.     

Dynamics of Bacteriorhodopsin in the Dark-Adapted State from Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

To achieve efficient proton pumping in the light-driven proton pump bacteriorhodopsin (bR), the protein must be tightly coupled to the retinal to rapidly convert retinal isomerization into protein structural rearrangements. Methyl group dynamics of bR embedded in lipid nanodiscs were determined in the dark-adapted state, and were found to be mostly well ordered at the cytosolic side. Methyl groups in the M145A mutant of bR, which displays only 10 % residual proton pumping activity, are less well ordered, suggesting a link between side-chain dynamics on the cytosolic side of the bR cavity and proton pumping activity. In addition, slow conformational exchange, attributed to low frequency motions of aromatic rings, was indirectly observed for residues on the extracellular side of the bR cavity. This may be related to reorganization of the water network. These observations provide a detailed picture of previously undescribed equilibrium dynamics on different time scales for ground-state bR.     

公共图书馆如何吸引读者参与读者活动

近年来,政府加大了对公共图书馆事业的投入力度,公共图书馆不再仅限于传统的图书借还功能,组织举办读者活动已成为图书馆的重点工作. 分析了公共图书馆举办的读者活动引不起读者兴趣的原因,提出了解决这一问题的对策和建议.     

一个包含Smarandache Ceil函数的对偶函数的方程

利用初等方法研究了一个包含Smarandache Ceil函数Sk(n)的对偶函数-Sk(n),给出了当k=6时方程-S6(1)+-S6(2)+…+-S6(n)=6Ω(n)的具体正整数解。     

基于DNA-AuNCs的荧光传感新方法灵敏检测胰蛋白酶活性

以DNA模板金纳米簇(DNA-AuNCs)作为荧光探针,发展了一种灵敏检测胰蛋白酶活性的荧光分析新方法.在胰蛋白酶存在条件下,牛血清白蛋白水解成多肽片段,释放出游离的半胱氨酸残基.半胱氨酸残基与金纳米簇通过Au-S键形成非荧光的配合物,导致金纳米簇的荧光强度显著降低.该方法对胰蛋白酶的线性检测范围为0.1～2.0mg/L,检出限为20μg/L(R_(SN)=3).此外,该方法被成功应用于人血清样品中胰蛋白酶含量的测定.     

高维Euler方程组的强松弛极限

利用能量积分, 讨论在初值充分小的情形下, 高维带有阻尼项的Euler方程组光滑解的整体存在性和强松弛极限, 得到了解的一致先验估计, 并证明当松弛时间趋于0时, 整体解的渐近行为由多孔渗流方程控制.