GC/MS characterization of mate tea leaves extracts obtained from high-pressure CO2 extraction

This work presents a study concerning the chemical characteristics and analytical separation process of the essential oil obtained from high-pressure carbon dioxide extraction of Ilex paraguariensis. The experiments were performed in a laboratory-scale unit in the temperature range of 20–40 °C, from 100 to 250 bar. A blend of the I. paraguariensis extracts was percolated through a preparative chromatographic column, containing silica gel, and successively eluted with 150 mL of each of the following solvents: hexane, toluene, dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, acetone and methanol. The raw extract and its fractions were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry detection (GC/MS). The fractionation procedure showed to be a good clean up technique due to the isolation of different classes of compounds in each fraction. Chromatographic analyses allowed the identification of caffeine, fatty acids and esters, phytol, squalene, Vitamin E, stigmasterol derivatives and saturated hydrocarbons.     

溶剂萃取分离锂同位素研究Ⅱ.苏丹Ⅰ-中性配位体协萃体系萃取分离锂同位素效应探讨

文章讨论了苏丹I-中性配位体协萃体系萃取分离锂同位素中螯合剂和协萃剂的结构效应。为了获得高的同位素分离效应,螯合剂必须是弱酸性的(PK_α>11),具有强的分子内氢键及易于形成六元螯合环。协萃剂结构不仅要求无空间位阻,而且具有强的配位基。α随配位基的碱性增大而相应提高。萃取络合物中螯合环的增多亦有利于体系α的提高。此外本文还讨论了一些萃取体系的同位素富集方向和萃锂体系用于分离同位素的前景。     

万家寨引黄工程北干线输水管基湿陷性特征研究

山西省万家寨引黄工程北干线输水管线大部分地段通过黄土地区，黄土地基的湿陷性已成为主要的工程地质问题。在湿陷性黄土地区进行工程建设，应查明黄土的工程特性，湿陷性质、厚度、成因及其分布变化，确定场地湿陷类型和地基湿陷等级，并按工程设计的特性需求，进行地基处理等研究是十分必要的。     

吐哈盆地雁木西油田天然气成因分析

雁木西油田所产天然气在吐哈盆地有一定的特殊性，主要表现为含有一定量的硫化氢气体，部分样品的氮气含量高、甲烷含量低、烃类碳同位素值较重，并且重烃碳同位素值发生了倒转。探讨这些特殊性有助于全面认识吐哈盆地的天然气来源、成因与分布规律等，为此在天然气地球化学特征分析的基础上，结合具体的地质条件对天然气的来源、成因进行了系统地分析并取得了如下认识：①雁木西油田的原油溶解气分布在鄯善群和白垩系油藏中，成因上为腐殖型天然气，由烃类和非烃类组成；②烃类气体由甲烷和重烃组成，不同组分的含量与干燥系数均在较宽的范围内变化，但都表现为湿气特征；③非烃类气体主要由N₂、H₂S、CO₂等组成，其中CO₂含量普遍较低；④烃类气体、部分非烃气体及其伴生的原油主要来自侏罗系烃源岩，部分高含量的氮气为大气来源，硫化氢与深部石炭系海相碳酸盐岩有关；⑤部分天然气遭受了次生变化，烃类碳同位素值偏重、重烃碳同位素值倒转均与细菌的生物降解作用有关。     

Optimal Locations of Groundwater Extractions in Coastal Aquifers

A regional water supply management model for coastal aquifers was developed. One of its outcomes is the definition of the optimized locations for groundwater withdrawal. Such a tool permits the analysis of alternative plans for groundwater extraction and the sustainable use of water resources in a coastal aquifer subject to saltwater intrusion. The principal components are the evolutionary optimization and the analytical/numerical simulation models. The optimization technique looks for the best well locations taking into consideration the economic results and the satisfaction of the societal water demand. However these two concerns are conditioned by trying to control the saltwater intrusion, i.e., preserving the environmental equilibrium. The simulation model uses the governing mathematical equations for groundwater movement to find the interface between freshwater and saltwater. Because of the non-linearity in the system and the possibility of a jumping interface, a security distance was defined. This is a controlling variable which can be set by the decision makers. The model was applied to a typical case with interesting results. For example, diagrams showing the relationship between the location of the wells and the security distance(s) are of importance to the managers. It was also crucial to have an understanding of the tradeoffs between groundwater withdrawals, positions of the wells from the coast line, and the security distance. The model was also applied to a real case in order to relate the extractions, distances and artificial recharge (not presented in this paper).     

Achievement of specificational information usage with true and false feedback in learning a visual relative-mass discrimination task.

Participants' usage of informational variables in learning visual relative-mass discrimination in collisions was tracked by means of PROBIT correlations. Four groups received feedback that was true or accorded with either of three nonspecificational cue variables. A majority in each group adopted the feedback, but several participants defied the false feedback. Unlike in previous research, the fit to data of the relative-mass invariant could not be bettered by post hoc linear combinations of the cues. Discriminability was lower in the use of the invariant. Analytic complexity was rejected as an explanation for discriminability differences. A "smart mechanism" for pickup of the relative-mass invariant was developed as an extension of G. Johansson's (1950/1994) vector model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Two-tier architecture for unconstrained handwritten character recognition

In this paper, we propose an approach that combines the unsupervised and supervised learning techniques for unconstrained handwritten numeral recognition. This approach uses the Kohonen self-organizing neural network for data classification in the first stage and the learning vector quantization (LVQ) model in the second stage to improve classification accuracy. The combined architecture performs better than the Kohonen self-organizing map alone. In the proposed approach, the collection of centroids at different phases of training plays a vital role in the performance of the recognition system. Four experiments have been conducted and experimental results show that the collection of centroids in the middle of the training gives high performance in terms of speed and accuracy. The systems developed also resolve the confusion between handwritten numerals.     

栅氧化层TDDB可靠性评价试验及模型参数提取

采用恒定电压和恒定电流试验方法对20nm栅氧化层进行了TDDB可靠性评价试验，并完成了1／E模型参数提取，给出了恒定电流应力下描述氧化层TDDB退化的统计模型，较好地解释了试验结果。     

铜萃取剂BK992和LIX984的性能研究

研究羟肟类铜萃取剂的结构与性能的关系。试验研究了铜萃取剂BK992和LIX984的对比萃取及混合萃取性能指标 ,试验表明BK992与LIX984的使用性能相当 ,两种铜萃取剂相互混合不影响使用性能指标。     

检测骨架图形特征点的新方法

端点、折点、歧点和交点是骨架图形的重要特点是，提出用快速查表法检测侯选特征点，再进行侯选特征点聚集，用局部结构分析，去除假特征点，判别真特征点的类型，并对折点给以大致的定量描述。实验结果表明，该方法能快速有效地找出骨架图形的特征点，在目标识别、字符识别等应用中起着关键作用。