Dicyanate semi IPNs—A new class of high performance,high temperature plastics

Dicyanate Semi-Interpenetrating Polymer Networks (semi IPNs) are made by dissolving a thermoplastic in crosslinking dicyanates and then curing the resulting mixture. The semi IPNs produced are strong, with tensile strengths of 10,000 to 12,000 psi, and flexible, with elongations to break of 10 to 17 percent. Dicyanate semi IPNs also have good thermal stability and the softening temperatures of the IPNs are significantly, higher than those of the corresponding thermoplastics.     

The concept of an endurance limit for adhesive joints

The effect of cyclic stressing on the strength of single lap adhesive joints has been studied and a considerable reduction in strength observed when the maximum stress exceeds about 40% of the ultimate tensile strength, but whether or not a true endurance limit exists is not proven. Fallacies are shown in some of the techniques which have been proposed for studying the fatigue behaviour of adhesive joints.     

Specific retroactive interference in modified recognition tests: Evidence for an unknown cause of interference.

McCloskey and Zaragoza (1985a) have recently argued that all item-specific retroactive interference (RI) can be attributed to response bias or demand characteristics. These sources of RI were eliminated in the present studies by a modified recognition test that excluded the interpolated item. Nature pictures were shown; some were followed by related pictures (experimental), and others were followed by dissimilar pictures (control). When forced to choose between two related pictures (the original and a new picture), the original picture was chosen more often for control than for experimental items (Experiments 1 and 2). Paired-associate studies were cited that have found RI in analogous matching recognition tests. These findings contradict McCloskey and Zaragoza's conclusion and must be attributed to some other cause of item-specific RI, such as trace alteration (e.g., Loftus, 1979). Experiments 3 and 4 showed that most items must be accessible in order to detect RI in the forced-choice modified test. However, even with sensitive measures, RI has not always been found in modified recognition. Suggestions are offered to explain the discrepant results. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Nonlinear superposition in saturation recording of disk media

The magnetic readback signal is generally assumed to be made up of linearly superposed single transition responses. As the transition spacing is reduced, this property is seen not to hold, With particulate disks, we find the head signal can be reconstructed as a linear superposition of variably spaced individual transitions, while with cobalt alloy film disks, both the spacing and the amplitude of individual transitions vary as a function of the data. This behavior is interpreted by a self consistent 2D recording model, linear superposition improves dramatically with lowM_{r}tdisk media.     

Rapid and comprehensive indicator for evaluation of performance of treatment processes and of river waters.

Naturally occurring UV active compounds, commonly present in almost all source waters, can be rapidly monitored by their ultraviolet absorbance at 260 nm (E260). Herein, the extent of correlation between the E260 and the removal efficiency of the hazardous contaminants, endocrine disrupters and dioxins, were investigated using various treatment and river source waters. The detection of various types of hazardous contaminants using sophisticated analytical methods, such as high resolution gas chromatography (HRGC)/high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)/inductively coupled plasma (ICP)/mass spectrometry (MS), as well as various short-term bioassays, can require hours or even days for results to be obtained. The removal of the E260 correlated well with those of individual contaminants, such as endocrine disruptor chemicals and dioxins, with the various treatment processes employed. In the plots of the endocrine disrupters against the DOC/E260, a correlation was found with the endocrine activity of the Korean/Japanese river waters employed in this study.     

Influence of residual milk-clotting enzyme and proteolysis on melting properties of soft cheese

In this work, we assessed the influence of coagulant residual activity and primary proteolysis on Cremoso Argentino cheese melting properties. For that purpose, we made Cremoso soft cheeses using different amounts of coagulant, and also obtained samples in which milk-clotting enzyme was inactivated. Primary proteolysis correlated with residual activity of coagulant in early stages of cheese ripening; however, it was similar in all cheeses after 30 days. The hydrolysis of caseins did not significantly affect the melting ability of the cheeses, expressed as the area increase after heating samples under standardized conditions. Samples with similar proximate composition showed some changes in meltability; those seemed related to pH evolution during ripening.     

聚丙烯催化剂的研发进展

综述了用于丙烯聚合的Ziegler-Natta催化剂在给电子体技术及催化剂制备工艺等方面,茂金属催化剂在制备丙烯均聚物、丙烯共聚物及特殊聚丙烯等方面,非茂单活性中心催化剂在丙烯活性聚合、丙烯与极性单体共聚及水介质聚合等方面的研发进展;讨论了聚丙烯催化剂的前景。     

煤直接液化中SO2-4 /ZrO2固体酸的催化作用

以二苯甲烷、苯乙醚为煤的模型化合物,以四氢萘(THN)为溶剂,进行中高压加氢液化实验,结合产物的气相色谱和质谱分析,考察了SO2-4/ZrO2固体酸对煤直接液化的催化作用及加氢液化机理.实验结果表明,SO2-4/ZrO2固体酸对模型化合物的转化具有良好的催化活性,与非催化液化相比,400 ℃、H2初压5 MPa、30 min时二苯甲烷的转化率由8.96%提高到61.75%,且模型化合物的存在促进了溶剂THN的转化,上述条件下THN的转化率也达到10.92%;模型化合物及THN的转化主要包括氢解、异构、氢转移及烷基化等反应;SO2-4/ZrO2固体酸的催化作用主要为酸催化的离子反应机理,增强催化剂的酸性有利于煤的催化液化.     

助催化剂对TiCl_4/MgCl_2催化丙烯高温聚合的影响

研究了助催化剂种类(三甲基铝、三异丁基铝、三正己基铝、三乙基铝和甲基铝氧烷)及其含量对无内、外给电子体的TiCl4/MgCl2催化剂催化丙烯高温(100℃)聚合性能的影响,并用结晶分级分析、示差扫描量热和凝胶渗透色谱等方法分析了所得聚丙烯的结晶熔融行为和微观结构。实验结果表明,聚合温度从70℃升至100℃时,TiCl4/MgCl2催化剂的定向能力基本不变;100℃聚合时,以烷基化能力较弱的三异丁基铝为助催化剂时TiCl4/MgCl2催化剂的活性最高,而采用烷基化能力最强的三甲基铝为助催化剂时TiCl4/MgCl2催化剂的活性最低;100℃聚合时,助催化剂的种类对TiCl4/MgCl2催化剂的定向能力影响很小。     

A heuristic for the label printing problem

Label printing finds many applications in industry. However, this task is still labor intensive in many printing factories. Since each template can only accommodate a fixed number of labels, an important task is to work out the compositions of templates by allocating suitable labels to each template in order to fulfill the order requirements effectively. The template design could be rather arbitrary, which usually ends up with a lot of excessive printed labels. Enhancing the template design will significantly improve the efficiency of the printing process, and, at the same time, reduce the waste of resources. This motivates the study of more automatic design methods. In this paper, the problem is first formulated as a nonlinear integer programming problem. The main variables in the formulation are the compositions and the printing frequencies of templates. For practical purpose, each type of label is confined to one template only which allows automated packing and handling. The structure of the problems is carefully analyzed and a new algorithm is proposed. Numerical results show that the proposed method is a simple but effective way of generating good template designs.