Studies of the electrodeposition of palladium from baths based on [Pd(NH3)2X2] salts. I. [Pd(NH3)2Cl2] baths

Spectroscopic techniques are used to confirm the chemistry of solutions of [Pd(NH₃)₂Cl₂] in aqueous NH₄Cl at various pH. In addition, potential sweep and step methods at rotating and stationary disc electrodes (both vitreous carbon and freshly plated palladium) are used to investigate palladium deposition from a standard electroplating bath, [Pd(NH₃)₂Cl₂] in NH₄Cl/NH₃ (pH 8.9). The relative importance of oxygen reduction, hydrogen absorption and hydrogen evolution as competing cathode reactions under various conditions is defined and the advantage of strong convection for high rate plating is demonstrated.     

2-Methylthiazolidine and 4-ethylguaiacol,male sex pheromone components of the cockroachNauphoeta cinerea (dictyoptera,blaberidae): A reinvestigation

InNauphoeta cinerea, male calling behavior is associated with sex pheromone release by the sternal glands. The male pheromone that attracts females from a distance is a mixture of 2-methylthiazolidine and 4-ethylguaiacol. It is active at very low concentrations, 0.05 and 0.01 ng, respectively. Two other compounds, 3-hydroxy-2-butanone and 2-methyl-2thiazoline, act at close range, keeping the female in the vicinity of the male. The function of the volatile pheromone and those of previously described contact pheromones are discussed in regard to their possible involvement in the establishment of male dominant-subordinate relationships.     

CONTROL OF A PULSED LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION COLUMN BASED ON A MULTILEVEL SYSTEM OF AUTOMATA

This paper presents the real-time application of the learning control theory to the control of a chemical pilot plant: a pulsed liquid-liquid extraction column.

The behaviour of an agitated liquid-liquid extraction column can be related to random mechanisms such as the phenomena of droplets breakage and coalescence. Previous studies on hydrodynamic and mass transfer aspects showed that a pulsed liquid-liquid extraction column had an optimal behaviour for operating conditions close to flooding. These results led to choose the following strategy to control the column in its optimal behaviour zone:

- the measure of the conductivity of the liquid medium below the distributor which gives a good information about flooding, is the controlled variable

-the pulse frequency is the control action.

The learning control algorithm is based on a multilevel system of automata which operates in a random environment. By means of an evaluation unit of the performances of the column which generates either penalty (inaction) or reward on the basis of heuristic rules, the automaton chooses a value of the pulse frequency. This approach is essentially connected to artificial intelligence in so far as human knowledge on the plant is included in these rules.

This algorithm has been implemented on a microcomputer for control purposes. The experimental results presented show the good performances of the approach.     

Étude expérimentale du mélange réactif au sein d'un réacteur torique ondulé (RTO)

Reactive mixing in a wavy torus reactor (WTR) has been examined experimentally. Its performances are compared to these of two other reactors: a plane torus reactor (PTR) and a baffled stirred tank reactor (BSTR). hydrodynamics of mixing has been studied using a plug flow model with axial dispersion for the WTR and PTR. The effect of axial dispersion on the kinetic of a chemical reaction was then analysed for the WTR, PTR and BSTR. Mixing times were slightly longer for the WTR due to a weaker axial dispersion. We also noticed an improvement of the convertion rate for low dissipated power.     

生物柴油制备方法的应用研究进展

生物柴油以其优良的环境友好性和可再生性引起广泛关注,但较高的生产成本是其商业化生产和应用的障碍之一。综述了生物柴油的化学转酯化法和以游离脂肪酶、固定化脂肪酶、全细胞为催化剂的生物转酯化法的工业研究进展,同时还指出了采用生物转酯化法制备生物柴油时面临的一些问题。     

Al ionic radius influence on molecular dynamics simulations ofγ-Al2O3

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of-Al₂O₃, using a pairwise additive interaction potential of Pauling's type with four different radii for aluminum atoms, were analysed in order to determine the influence of the radius on the modification of coordination numbers of A1 relative to the ideal structure, at two different temperatures of 300 and 1500 K. It is found that the best choice is the radius of penta-coordinated aluminum, reproducing structural and vibrational properties of the compound in excellent agreement with experimentally observed properties.     

塔里木河干流人工与天然绿洲转化及适宜比例研究

利用1990,2000,2010年3期Landsat TM/ETM遥感影像,基于RS/GIS技术,分别提取土地利用/覆被类型信息,分析1990~2010年塔里木河流域人工绿洲和天然绿洲的变化规律及其比例,探讨该区人工绿洲和天然绿洲的适宜配比。研究结果表明:(1)1990~2010年,研究区域人工绿洲呈不断扩张,天然绿洲面积不断缩小,人工绿洲替代天然绿洲的趋势。(2)1990~2010年,人工与天然绿洲总面积几乎无差异,面积变化主要是人工绿洲与天然绿洲之间的相互转换。具体表现为:天然草地、林地等向人工绿洲中的耕地、建筑用地转化;同时植被长势衰退:高覆盖草地向中、低覆盖草地转化,中覆盖草地向低覆盖草地转化,灌木林地逐渐退化为草地,低覆盖草地向沙漠转化。(3)人工与天然绿洲面积比例在近20 a呈增加的趋势,在1990,2000,2010年,人工与天然绿洲面积比值分别是1∶9,2∶8,3∶7。     

Random Forests with ensemble of feature spaces

Random Forests receive much attention from researchers because of their excellent performance. As Breiman suggested, the performance of Random Forests depends on the strength of the weak learners in the forests and the diversity among them. However, in the literature, many researchers only considered pre-processing of the data or post-processing of the Random Forests models. In this paper, we propose a new method to increase the diversity of each tree in the forests and thereby improve the overall accuracy. During the training process of each individual tree in the forest, different rotation spaces are concatenated into a higher space at the root node. Then the best split is exhaustively searched within this higher space. The location where the best split lies decides which rotation method to be used for all subsequent nodes. The performance of the proposed method here is evaluated on 42 benchmark data sets from various research fields and compared with the standard Random Forests. The results show that the proposed method improves the performance of the Random Forests in most cases.     

Hybrid clustering solution selection strategy

Cluster ensemble approaches make use of a set of clustering solutions which are derived from different data sources to gain a more comprehensive and significant clustering result over conventional single clustering approaches. Unfortunately, not all the clustering solutions in the ensemble contribute to the final result. In this paper, we focus on the clustering solution selection strategy in the cluster ensemble, and propose to view clustering solutions as features such that suitable feature selection techniques can be used to perform clustering solution selection. Furthermore, a hybrid clustering solution selection strategy (HCSS) is designed based on a proposed weighting function, which combines several feature selection techniques for the refinement of clustering solutions in the ensemble. Finally, a new measure is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of clustering solution selection strategies. The experimental results on both UCI machine learning datasets and cancer gene expression profiles demonstrate that HCSS works well on most of the datasets, obtains more desirable final results, and outperforms most of the state-of-the-art clustering solution selection strategies.     

Large-scale SRAM-based IP lookup architectures using compact trie search structures

SRAM-based pipelined architectures for high-speed IP lookup using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has recently attracted a great deal of attention from researchers. Due to the limited amount of on-chip memory and the number of I/O pins of FPGAs, compact data structures providing high memory efficiency are in great demand.