Infrared study of nitrogen monoxide adsorption on palladium ion-exchanged ZSM-5 catalysts

The adsorption of NO at room temperature on a H-ZSM-5 catalyst exchanged with Pd(NH₃) ₄ ²⁺ complex and activated in oxygen at 773 K has been examined by FTIR spectroscopy. After the oxidizing treatment, the Pd tetrammine complex decomposed into Pd(II) ions and/or Pd(II) hydroxyl complexes dispersed in the zeolite channels. The subsequent adsorption of NO at room temperature led to the reduction of Pd(II) to Pd(I) entities, resulting in the formation and adsorption of NO₂ on H-ZSM-5. The Pd(I) entities were shown to adsorb NO and form mononitrosyl complexes dispersed in the zeolite porosity and characterized by a single infrared absorption band at 1881 cm^–1. The Pd(I) mononitrosyl complex was shown to reversibly coordinate water and NO₂ molecules. The resulting nitrosyl complex was characterized by a single NO vibration band at 1836 cm^–1.     

Fractional partial differential equation denoising models for texture image

In this paper,a set of fractional partial differential equations based on fractional total variation and fractional steepest descent approach are proposed to address the problem of traditional drawbacks of PM and ROF multi-scale denoising for texture image.By extending Green,Gauss,Stokes and Euler-Lagrange formulas to fractional field,we can find that the integer formulas are just their special case of fractional ones.In order to improve the denoising capability,we proposed 4 fractional partial differential equation based multiscale denoising models,and then discussed their stabilities and convergence rate.Theoretic deduction and experimental evaluation demonstrate the stability and astringency of fractional steepest descent approach,and fractional nonlinearly multi-scale denoising capability and best value of parameters are discussed also.The experiments results prove that the ability for preserving high-frequency edge and complex texture information of the proposed denoising models are obviously superior to traditional integral based algorithms,especially for texture detail rich images.     

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Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence -     

基于强化学习的医疗问题诉求分类

医疗问题诉求分类属于文本分类,是自然语言处理中的基础任务。该文提出一种基于强化学习的方法对医疗问题诉求进行分类。首先,通过强化学习自动识别出医疗问题中的关键词,并且对医疗问题中的关键词和非关键词赋予不同的值构成一个向量;其次,利用该向量作为attention机制的权重向量,对Bi-LSTM模型生成的隐含层状态序列加权求和得到问题表示;最后通过Softmax分类器对问题表示进行分类。实验结果表明,该方法比基于Bi-LSTM模型的分类结果准确率提高1.49%。     

Comparing the Performance of Organic Solvent Nanofiltration Membranes in Non-Polar Solvents

Organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) is gradually expanding from academic research to industrial implementation. The need for membranes with low and sharp molecular weight cutoffs that are able to operate under aggressive OSN conditions is increasing. However, the lack of comparable and uniform performance data frustrates the screening and membrane selection for processes. Here, a collaboration is presented between several academic and industrial partners analyzing the separation performance of 10 different membranes using three model process mixtures. Membrane materials range from classic polymeric and thin film composites (TFCs) to hybrid ceramic types. The model solutions were chosen to mimic cases relevant to today's industrial use: relatively low molar mass solutes (330–550 Da) in n-heptane, toluene, and anisole.     

Thermal dehydrochlorination of pure PVC polymer: Part I—thermal degradation kinetics by thermogravimetric analysis

Thermal degradation of PVC occurs in two stages, with each stage subdivided into two substages. The first refers to the dehydrochlorination, where hydrochloric acid is formed, and giving polyene structures. Hitherto, the degradation mechanism and action of hydrochloric acid as a catalyst during the dehydrochlorination stage are poorly known. Recently, the importance of the tacticity has gained attention for its influence on the dehydrochlorination mechanism. The present work focused on the dehydrochlorination stage, studying the molecular structure by FTIR analysis and the kinetic parameters by TGA analysis in Nitrogen atmosphere, based on three mathematical methods: Friedman, Kissinger, and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa. The sample was a pure homopolymer obtained by suspension polymerization. The dehydrochlorination kinetics follows a first order reaction model and occurs by nucleation and growth. The dehydrochlorination begins with the loss of very labile chlorine atoms present in defective and isotactic molecular segments. The formed HCl acts as a catalyst in the degradation. Following 40% conversion, a drop in Ea is observed. After that, chlorine atoms present in syndiotactic and atactic sequences, are released and, added to the large number of polyene chain sequences, and an increase in Ea is observed up to 60% conversion, where the dehydrochlorination stage is concluded.     

Influence of the post-deformation annealing heat treatment on the low-cycle fatigue of NiTi shape memory alloys

Shape memory alloys (SMA) suffer from the same impairing mechanisms experienced during cycling loading by classic alloys. Moreover, SMA fatigue behavior is greatly influenced by thermomechanical cycling through the zone of thermoelastic phase transformation, which is the basis of shape memory and superelasticity effects. Since the fatigue resistance of any material can be improved by an appropriate thermomechanical treatment, in the present work combined differential scanning calorimetry and microhardness testing were used to determine an optimum annealing temperature for the cold-worked Ni-50.1%Ti alloy. The optimization is based on the assumption that latent heat of transformation is proportional to the mechanical work generated by SMA upon heating, while material hardness is related to the yield stress of the material. It is supposed that an optimum trade-off in these two properties guarantees the best dimensional and functional stability of SMA devices. The level and stability of the mechanical work generated by the material during low-cycle fatigue testing are considered criteria for the material performance and thus of the validity of the proposed optimization procedure.     

A FRACTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AN OVERHEATED MEDIUM CARBON NiCrMo STEEL

利用扫描电镜研究了中碳NiCrMo钢过热断口(石状断口)的微观形态。观察结果表明,过热的石状断口为沿晶塑坑断裂。过热断口上的MnS夹杂的形态及大小变化很大,在同一个石状颗粒的各个表面上可以表现大不相同。在断口上有时直接观察到MnS夹杂的魏氏析出特征,即硫化物夹杂以极为弥散的形式均匀地析出在高温奥氏体的{100}晶面上。对各种形态的硫化物夹杂可能的形成原因及其控制因素进行了讨论。     

中文模糊限制语语料库的研究与构建

模糊限制语常用来表示不确定性和可能性的含义,由模糊限制语所引导的信息为模糊限制信息。为进行中文事实信息的抽取,应将模糊限制信息与事实信息区分开来。然而中文模糊限制语语料资源却十分缺乏,影响了中文模糊限制语和模糊限制信息检测的研究。该文研究了中文模糊限制语的分类,并在生物医学和维基百科两个领域,设计构建了一个具有2.4万句规模的中文模糊限制语语料库。统计分析了语料标注的一致性,以及模糊限制语的类型和领域之间的关系。这些资源对于中文模糊限制信息检测研究,以及中文事实信息的抽取具有重要意义。同时,为语言学家从语义和语用等方面进行模糊限制语的研究提供了强大的知识库支持。