A method of determining the levels of deoxynivalenol (vomitoxin) and its metabolites]

A method has been developed for assay of deoxynivalenol (DON) and its metabolite desepoxideoxynivalenol (DOM-1) in animal excrements with the use of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with UV-detection (218 nm). The method includes purification in the mini-column with activated carbon and aluminium oxide. The detection limit was 50 ng/g, relative standard deviation--0.05-0.1, the degree of toxin isolation--76-89%. DON isolated from Fusarium macroceras, strain 579a, cultivated in rice under laboratory conditions, and DOM-1 obtained as a result of DON incubation with the contents of the beef first stomach, were used in the study. The structure of toxins isolated has been proved by the mass-spectrometry method. The method developed by the authors was used in the study of DON metabolism in vivo in monkeys.     

Forced Filtration of a Water–Ethanol Liquid–Vapor Mixture through a Porous Medium

Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering -     

An air curtain for Protecting Hydraulic Structures from seismic and blast effects

Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 10, pp. 1–6, October, 1992.     

Investigation of mechanical and thermophysical properties of composite materials based on “black binders” with the aim of optimizing the process of their cementing

Optimum conditions for cementing prepared roofing paper are determined and an installation for laying prepared roofing paper as a hydroinsulating roofing carpet is designed.Gomel Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 151–153, August, 1992.     

Study of natural and industrial electromagnetic fields for predicting ejection hazatds during mining of carnallite

Institute of Mining, Moscow. Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 1, pp. 78–83, January–February, 1991.     

On the capacity of a cellular CDMA system

It is shown that, particularly for terrestrial cellular telephony, the interference-suppression feature of CDMA (code division multiple access) can result in a many-fold increase in capacity over analog and even over competing digital techniques. A single-cell system, such as a hubbed satellite network, is addressed, and the basic expression for capacity is developed. The corresponding expressions for a multiple-cell system are derived. and the distribution on the number of users supportable per cell is determined. It is concluded that properly augmented and power-controlled multiple-cell CDMA promises a quantum increase in current cellular capacity     

The digi-neocognitron: a digital neocognitron neural network modelfor VLSI

One of the most complicated ANN models, the neocognitron (NC), is adapted to an efficient all-digital implementation for VLSI. The new model, the digi-neocognitron (DNC), has the same pattern recognition performance as the NC. The DNC model is derived from the NC model by a combination of preprocessing approximation and the definition of new model functions, e.g., multiplication and division are eliminated by conversion of factors to powers of 2, requiring only shift operations. The NC model is reviewed, the DNC model is presented, a methodology to convert NC models to DNC models is discussed, and the performances of the two models are compared on a character recognition example. The DNC model has substantial advantages over the NC model for VLSI implementation. The area-delay product is improved by two to three orders of magnitude, and I/O and memory requirements are reduced by representation of weights with 3 bits or less and neuron outputs with 4 bits or 7 bits.