Influence of family of origin and adult romantic partners on romantic attachment security.

According to attachment theory, attachment style derives from social experiences throughout the life span. The authors tested this expectation by examining associations between the quality of observed interaction patterns in the family of origin during adolescence and self-reported romantic attachment style and observed romantic relationship behaviors in adulthood (ages 25 and 27). Family and romantic relationship interactions were rated by trained observers from video recordings of structured conversation tasks. Attachment style was assessed with items from D. W. Griffin and K. Bartholomew's (1994a) Relationship Scales Questionnaire. Observational ratings of warmth and sensitivity in family interactions were positively related to similar behaviors by romantic partners and to attachment security. In addition, romantic interactions characterized by high warmth and low hostility at age 25 predicted greater attachment security at 27, after controlling for attachment security at age 25. However, attachment security at age 25 did not predict later romantic relationship interactions after controlling for earlier interactions. These findings underscore the importance of close relationships in the development of romantic attachment security but do not indicate that attachment security predicts the quality of interactions in romantic relationships. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hydrogen and Oxygen Bubble Attachment to a Bitumen Drop

Air bubble – bitumen attachment is a critical step in the flotation of bitumen from mined oil sand. In this study, single bubble – bitumen drop attachment was observed directly using a novel experimental technique. Induction time is determined and used as an indication of bubble‐bitumen attachment potency for both hydrogen and oxygen bubbles. The attachment tests were conducted in deaerated municipal water (City of Edmonton tap water) at temperatures ranging from 22–50°C. Induction times measured for hydrogen bubble attachment were shorter than those for oxygen bubbles. Coalescence tests were also conducted in the absence of bitumen, and showed that hydrogen bubbles coalesced more rapidly than oxygen bubbles in both deaerated municipal water and clear (solids‐free) process water.     

焦炭塔裙座与简体连接区域应力分析

以焦炭塔失效的敏感部位——筒体与裙座连接处附近区域为研究对象,采用大型有限元分析软件ANSYS,分析、比较了4种不同的连接形式(一般对焊型、搭接型、堆焊型和整体煅焊型)对机械应力强度的影响.结果表明,连接形式对最大机械应力的影响并不明显,从连接处的应力值来看,整体煅焊型和堆焊型结构明显比另外两种结构好,搭接型的应力值最...     

掺硼金刚石薄膜电极的氨基化改性及电化学行为

采用重氮盐电化学还原的方法对掺硼金刚石薄膜电极进行氨基化改性,光电子能谱（XPS）证明表面N元素的存在,同时可以通过406 eV、400 eV峰强度的变化,证明硝基还原为氨基。以Fe(CN)₆^－3/－4氧化还原电对为探针,进一步证明了氨基层的存在。采用循环伏安法和差分脉冲伏安法研究了改性后电极的电化学行为。通过分别检测多巴胺和抗坏血酸以及它们的混合溶液,表明选用差分脉冲伏安法,氨基化改性掺硼金刚石薄膜电极能够有效分离检测两者的氧化峰,分离后两峰电势差约为0.3 V。电极表面吸附血浆蛋白后,阻碍了Fe(CN)₆^－3/－4氧化还原对的电子传递,但是并不妨碍多巴胺的检测。     

Layer by layer assembly of glucose oxidase and thiourea onto glassy carbon electrode: Fabrication of glucose biosensor

For the first time a novel, simple and facile approach is described to construct highly stable glucose oxidase (GOx) multilayer onto glassy carbon (GC) electrode using thiourea (TU) as a covalent attachment cross-linker. The layer by layer (LBL) attachment process was confirmed by cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared reflection spectroscopy (FT-IR-RS) techniques. Immobilized GOx shows excellent electrocatalytic activity toward glucose oxidation using ferrocenemethanol as artificial electron transfer mediator and biosensor response was directly correlated to the number of bilayers. The surface coverage of active GOx per bilayer, heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant (k_s) and Michaelis–Menten constant (K_M), of immobilized GOx were 1.50 × 10⁻¹² mol cm⁻², 9.2 ± 0.5 s⁻¹ and 3.42(±0.2) mM, respectively. The biosensor constructed with four-bilayers of TU/GOx showed good stability, high reproducibility, long life-time, fast amperometric response (5 s) with the high sensitivity of 5.73 μA mM⁻¹ cm⁻² and low detection limit of 6 μM at concentration range up to 5.5 mM.     

分层供应链复杂网络局部演化模型研究

供应链是一种动态的、自适应性、自组织的复杂网络系统,具有典型的复杂网络特征。考虑了供应链网络的 整体宏观行为,通过分析企业节点的产生、衰亡及退出等生长演化规律,以节点多属性参数组合作为优先连接的依据, 建立了一个分层加权供应链网络模型。实验结果显示,该模型具有无标度特性,其幂律分布的指数落在(2,3)范围内, 而且具有较大的集聚系数及较小的平均路径长度,表明了其具有小世界效应。     

Topological evolution of laminar juncture flows under different critical parameters

Horseshoe vortex topological structure has been studied extensively in the past, traditional “saddle of separation” and new “attachment saddle point” topologies found in literature both have theoretical basis and experimental and computational evidences for support. The laminar incompressible juncture flows at low Reynolds numbers especially are observed to have new topology. Studies concerning the existence of the new topology though found in literature, the topological evolution and its dependency on various critical flow parameters require further investigation. A Particle Image Velocimetry based analysis is carried out to observe the effect of aspect ratio, δ*/D and shape of the obstacle on laminar horseshoe vortex topology for small obstacles. Rise in aspect ratio evolves the topology from the traditional to new for all the cases observed. The circular cross section obstacles are found more apt to having the new topology compared to square cross sections. It is noted that the sweeping effect of the fluid above the vortex system in which horseshoe vortex is immersed plays a critical role in this evolution. Topological evolution is observed not only in the most upstream singular point region of horseshoe vortex system but also in the corner region. The corner vortex topology evolves from the traditional type to new one before the topological evolution of the most upstream singular point, resulting in a new topological pattern of the laminar juncture flows “separation-attachment combination”. The study may help extend the understanding of the three-dimensional boundary layer separation phenomenon.     

Combining the Physical Adsorption Approach and the Covalent Attachment Method to Prepare a Bifunctional Bioreactor

Aminopropyl-functionalized SBA-15 mesoporous silica was used as a support to adsorb myoglobin. Then, in order to avoid the leakage of adsorbed myoglobin, lysozyme was covalently tethered to the internal and external surface of the mesoporous silica with glutaraldehyde as the coupling agent. The property of amino-functionalized mesoporous silica was characterized by N₂ adsorption-desorption and thermogravimetric (TG) analysis. The feature of the silica-based matrix before and after myoglobin adsorption was identified by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and UV/VIS measurement. With o-dianisidine and H₂O₂ as the substrate, the peroxidase activity of adsorbed myoglobin was determined. With Micrococus lysodeilicus as the substrate, the antibacterial activity of covalently tethered lysozyme was measured. Results demonstrated that the final product not only presented peroxidase activity of the myoglobin but yielded antibacterial activity of the lysozyme.     

Evaluation of Model Simulation and Field Experiment on Collision-Attachment Efficiency for Operational Factors in Dissolved Air Flotation Process

This study conducted a series of tests and simulations to estimate collision-attachment efficiency using a trajectory analysis method, to evaluate model sensitivity due to major impact factors in designing and operating dissolved air flotation (DAF) for the various types of wastewaters, and to find the possibility of model application in determining the flotation efficiency of DAF. Collision-attachment efficiency between a bubble and a particle in the model is described by hydrodynamics related to stream function in Stokes’ flow and surface forces based on a classic DLVO theory, encoded using Matlab language software, and performed numerical analysis using the 5th Runge-Kutta method. Model simulation examined the effects of two major factors, size and zeta potential, on collision-attachment efficiency during flotation and field experiment evaluated to model results. Both results from the simulation and field experiment indicated that the larger particles presented the better collision and removal efficiency and the effect of particle zeta potential on collision-attachment efficiencies was increased as the particle zeta potential increased from the negative domain to the positive domain. Therefore, the collision-attachment efficiency model using the trajectory analysis method may be used in estimating the flotation efficiency and in explaining its characteristics.     

Noncovalently bonded quinone on self-assembled molecular layers

Aminoalkanethiol surface modifiers were investigated on gold electrodes. It was established, that quinone molecules could be attached to these surface layers in three different forms with well-distinguished redox potentials. Chemical reaction with the amino groups of the modifiers could produce monosubstituted and disubstituted quinones attached covalently to the layers. However, a third form could be detected, as well that seems to be quinone attached non-covalently to the monosubstituted quinone molecules.