Use of chemical variation and predation as plant defenses byEncelia farinosa against a specialist herbivore

Larvae of the monophagous herbivore,Trirhabda geminata, selectively eat particular plants and plant parts of its natural host,Encelia farinosa. Measurements of leaf damage and larval positions on branches through time support this observation. Time-lapse movie photography revealed that larvae are sufficiently mobile to search most of a plant in a 48-hr period and that aggregations were the result of larval activity and not directly the result of oviposition. Experiments withT. geminata larvae on artificial diets containing a range of natural concentrations of chemical extracts fromE. farinosa leaves showed that the larvae grew significantly slower and had a lower overall survivorship at the high concentration. Combining the results of all choice tests, larvae appeared unable to distinguish between high- and low-concentration agar diets. Considered individually, larval preferences for natural production concentrations changed as the season progressed. Early-season larvae preferred low-concentration leaves, while late-season larvae preferred high-concentrations. Measurements of chemical and nitrogen content of leaves selected by larvae in the field confirmed this pattern. Percent parasitism in field-collected larvae increased with season as the larval population decreased. This combination of slowed growth and increasing parasitism and predation is a putative defense strategy ofEncelia farinosa to prevent adaptation by a specialist herbivore to the total range of compounds elaborated.     

OPS和OPC系列稠油乳化降黏剂的研制

以工业品烷基酚聚氧乙烯醚OP-n（n=4,6,8,10,15）为起始原料,合成了烷基酚聚氧乙烯醚乙酸盐OPC-n和磺酸盐OPS-n两个系列的阴-非离子表面活性剂。以酸值和黏度不同的胜利单家寺和陈庄稠油为实验油样。将OPC-n和OPS-n溶于矿化度5811 mg/kg的胜利标准盐水和NaCl、CaCl2盐水中作为水相,按油、水质量比7∶3在50℃用玻棒搅拌混合,观察是否形成水包油乳状液并测黏度进行确认。在胜利标准盐水溶液中,OPC-n和OPS-n乳化稠油所需的最低质量分数,随稠油、表面活性剂类型及氧乙烯链节数n而变,一般而言,OPC-n系列中的OPC-8和OPS-n系列中的OPS-4乳化稠油的性能最好,该最低质量分数值分别为0.05%或0.025%和0.025%。在NaCl盐水溶液中,OPC-n的该最低质量分数值与稠油和n有关,均随盐含量增加而增大,在盐含量≤15%时,抗盐性最好的OPC-8和OPC-10的该值≤0.05%;OPS-n的抗盐性好于OPC-n。OPC-n的抗钙性良好,钙盐含量为2%时该最低质量分数≤0.1%;OPS-n的抗钙性更好,钙盐含量为2%和3%时该最低质量分数仅为0.025%或0.05%。表6参5。     

A novel methanol-tolerant Ir-Se chalcogenide electrocatalyst for oyxgen reduction

A novel methanol-tolerant oxygen-reduction catalyst, Iridium-selenium (Ir-Se) chalcogenide, was synthesized by chemical precipitation in an organic solvent. Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) analysis confirmed that the synthesized Ir-Se chalcogenide had a chemical formula of Ir₄Se. This chalcogenide showed strong catalytic activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and a high methanol tolerance. It was found that most of the oxygen could be directly reduced to water through a four-electron pathway with less than 10% hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) being produced during the ORR. The improvement in catalytic activity of the Ir-Se chalcogenide in comparison with that of pure Ir might be attributed to the effect of a bimetallic interaction.     

A simplified cascade current‐source inverter interconnected to a single‐phase three‐wire distribution system and its application to electric energy storage systems with batteries

A novel current source inverter system interconnected to the single‐phase grid is proposed. It has the same construction as the conventional three‐phase current source inverter that is interconnected to the single‐phase three‐wire distribution system. Though the proposed circuit has no output transformer, it can be equivalently performed as the single‐phase double cascade inverter by diverting the pole transformer in the utility system. By controlling the appropriate scheme, the output currents can be obtained as the five‐level waveforms and their distortions can be decreased sufficiently. It is applied to the interactive electric energy storage system with batteries and the basic discharging characteristics are discussed experimentally. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 150(2): 50–61, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.10380     

用熔融还原的方法从浸钒渣中提镓——碳饱和情况下的熔融还原过程

用通用旋转组合设计的方法得到了浸钒渣在饱和碳的熔融还原过程中镓的还原提取率与温度,时间及CaO的加入量关系的非线性数学模型。用非线性优化的方法并综合考虑Fe,Mn的回收,得到了最优的工艺条件及结果;用Langmuir—Knudsen方程推算了镓在铁液中的理论挥发量与时间的关系,与由本模型得到的关系式是一致的。     

邯邢地区发展直接还原铁的优势与前景

根据目前我国炼钢生产情况，废钢供应市场预测，以及我国直接还原技术发展状况，在介绍邯邢地区矿产资源优势及优越的区位环境基础上，提出观点，认为邯邢地区发展直接还原傻铁生产优势明显，经济可行，前景广阔。     

二进制分辨矩阵在连续属性约简中的研究

针对二进制分辨矩阵无法处理连续型数据,提出一种基于邻域的改进二进制分辨矩阵及其属性约简方法。实验结果表明,与先数据离散化,后属性约简的方法相比,利用文中方法提取出的特征属性的分类能力更高。     

一种相容决策表的属性值与属性约简方法

针对相容决策表,另辟一种数据约简思路,与传统数据约简方法不同的是,本文方法考虑属性值约简与属性约简之间的关联,该方法首先进行属性值约简,然后再进行属性约简,本文并给予了充分的证明,而普通的方法并没有考虑它们之间的联系,并有许多冗余的比较操作。     

OPEN XML文档数字签名的C#实现

针对电子文档的安全性问题,分析了文档的各种数字签名情况,设计了一种能够完成多种签名方法,且能全面验证签名的文档签名系统。系统采用C#编程,从而提高了电子文档的安全性。     

基于维间扩展和事务压缩的关联规则算法改进

Apriori是关联规则挖掘的经典算法,在利用该算法进行医疗数据挖掘的过程中,发现其频繁项集产生过程有一些不必要的开销,为此提出了改进算法Mypriori,利用维间扩展和事务压缩策略来提高频集发现的效率,并通过实验验证了算法的有效性.