Triterpenes and Other Constituents from Rhaponticum uniflorum

From the roots of Rhaponticum uniflorum a new triterpene was isolated together with ursolic acid(2), 3-oxo-19a-hydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid (3), pomolic acid (4), 2a,3a,19a-trihydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid (5), arctic acid (6), catechin (7) and b-sitosterol (8). The structure of the new compound was elucidated as 2a,3a,19a,25-tetrahydroxyurs-12-en-23,28-dioic acid (1) on the basis of spectral and chemical methods.

Molecular reconstruction model based on structure oriented lumping and group contribution methods

Molecular management is a promising technology to face challenges in the refining industry, such as more stringent requirements for product oil and heavier crude oil, and to maximize the value of every molecule in petroleum fractions. To achieve molecular management in refining processes, a novel model that is based on structure oriented lumping(SOL) and group contribution(GC) methods was proposed in this study. SOL method was applied to describe a petroleum fraction with structural increments, and GC method aimed to estimate molecular properties. The latter was achieved by associating rules between SOL structural increments and GC structures. A three-step reconstruction algorithm was developed to build a representative set of molecules from partial analytical data. First, structural distribution parameters were optimized with several properties. Then, a molecular library was created by using the optimized parameters. In the final step, maximum information entropy(MIE) method was applied to obtain a molecular fraction. Two industrial samples were used to validate the method, and the simulation results of the feedstock properties agreed well with the experimental data.

Bonding mechanism of X10CrNi18-8 with Ni/Al_2O_3 composite ceramic by pressureless infiltration

Abstract： An alloy steel/alumina composite was successfully fabricated by pressureless infiltration of X10CrNil8-8 steel melt on 30% （mass fraction） Ni-containing alumina based composite ceramic （Ni/Al2O3） at 1 600 ℃. The infiltration quality and interfacial bonding behavior were investigated by SEM, EDS, XRD and tensile tests. The results show that there is an obvious interfacial reaction layer between the alloying steel and the Ni/Al2O3 composite ceramic. The interfacial reactive products are （FexAly）3O4 intermetallic phase and （AlxCry）2O3 solid solution. The interracial bonding strength is as high as about 67.5 MPa. The bonding mechanism of X10CrNi 18-8 steel with the composite ceramic is that Ni inside the ceramic bodies dissolves into the alloy melt and transforms into liquid channels, consequently inducing the steel melt infiltrating and filling in the pores and the liquid channels. Moreover, the metallurgical bonding and interfacial reactive bonding also play a key role on the stability of the bonding interface.

Molecular Evolution of the Cytochrome b Gene in Geographically Isolated Populations of Oryzias Latipes

The mitochondrial cytochrome b gene was isolated from the caudal fin of Oryzias latipes and PCR was undertaken to determine phylogeny. The nucleotide sequence of the complete cytochrome b gene including the 5＇ and 3＇ ends was 1,143 base pairs （bp） and 1,137 bp encoding 380 and 378 amino acids in the K-11 strain and HS strain, respectively. In addition, higher substitutions both in base and amino acid residues occurred more frequently between the former control （Hd-rR strain） and HS strains than the K-I 1 strain. Approximately similar values in polymorphism, as assessed by restriction endonuclease digestion, were detected when utilizing 20 different enzymes. Therefore, the evolutionary processes were unlikely to involve common ancestors, especially between the K-11 strain and HS strains, in O. latipes populations in Japan. The sequence had been deposited in GenBank Data Base under accession number AB480878 （K-I I strain） and AB480879 （HS strain）.

Genetic Diversity of Mycosphaerella graminicola in Morocco Using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism

The structure of genetic diversity of Septoria tritici blotch within and among five major wheat growing regions in Morocco were assessed by AFLP （Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism technique）. A total of 596 bands were obtained from four primers. The mean percentage of polymorphic loci over all populations was 46.56%. Nord Tangerois region had the highest loci （80.03%）, followed by Gharb region （73.66%）. The mean population diversity using Shannon information index was （I = 0.293, SE = 0.0112） and the mean gene flow was 9.12. Genetic diversity value ranged from 0.66 to 0.93 with an average of 0.78. All five populations had high levels of gene diversity. High levels of gene flow and low genetic differentiation was observed among regions （PhiPT = 0.0.057, P = 0.017）. AMOVA （Analysis of Molecular Variance） showed that there was a small but statistically significant level of genetic differentiation among populations from the five bread wheat regions. However, most of the total genetic variation （94%） occurred within wheat regions while 6% was due to genetic differentiation between these regions. Results provide evidence that sexual recombination occurs frequently in the Mycosphaerella graminicola populations sampled and that most populations are genetically differentiated over the major bread wheat growing areas in Morocco.

Multimachine Power System Stabilizer based on Optimal Fuzzy PID with Genetic Algorithm Tuning

This paper presented PSS （Power system stabilizer） design based on Genetic Algorithm - Fuzzy PID （Proportional Integral and derivative） or GAFPID. GAFPID based PSS design is considered for multimachine power system. The main motivation for this design is to stabilize or to control low-fi＇equency oscillation and terminal voltage of power systems. Genetic Algorithm （GA） is employed for the optimization of the parameter of stabilizer. By minimizing an objective function in which the oscillatory speed deviation of the generator, small signal and large signal performance of the system is improved. The effectiveness of the proposed PSS in increasing the damping of system electromechanical oscillation is demonstrated in a simple two-area power system.

Optimization of cross angle based on the pumping dynamics model

The single cylinder and multi-cylinder pumping dynamics model of a swash plate piston pump were improved.Particular attention has been paid to the design influences of key parts of the valve plate such as relief groove,pre-compression/ expansion and fluid inertia effect of the unsteady flow.Some important parameters,such as the discharge area,discharge coefficient,fluid bulk modulus,were especially analyzed using numerical methods or by experiment-based estimation.Consequently,the mathematical results of pressure pulsation and flow ripple agree well with experimental results from the test-rig of the flow ripple.Therefore,the cross angle and the pre-compression angle of the valve plate was optimized,based on the pumping dynamics model.Considering both the flow ripple and the cylinder pressure of the pump,the cross angle is set to be 2.2° to 2.7° with a pre-compression angle of 1.7° to 2.2°,so the pumping dynamics character can obtain the best result.

The HAUSDORFF DIMENSION AND MEASURE OF THE GENERALIZED MORAN FRACTALS AND FOURIER SERIES

This paper studies the Hausdorff dimensions, the Hausdorff measures of generalized Moranfrontals and the convergence of the Fourier series of functions defined on some generalizedMoran fractals. A general formula is given for the calculatinn of the Hausdorff dimensions ofgeneralized Moran fractals and it is proved that their Hausdorff measures are finite positivenumbers under some conditions. In addition, the authors define an orthonormal system offunctions defilled on generalized Moran s-sets (gMs) and discuss the convergence of the Fourierseries, with respect to of each function f(x) E L1(gMs, Hs).

Improving the Performance of Practical Decoy-State Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Biased Basis Choice

Statistical fluctuations are unavoidable in realistic quantum key distribution (QKD) due to finite-size effect. Based on the four-intensity proposal on measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD) in [Phys. Rev. A93 (2016) 042324], we particularly analyze the scenario that only three intensities are used, namely a three-intensity decoy-state MDI-QKD with biased basis choice. After performing full parameter optimization method, simulations results demonstrate that this scenario can obtain distinct enhancement compared with the conventional unbiased threeintensity decoy-state method, e.g. Xu et al.’s [Phys. Rev. A 89 (2014) 052333]. Furthermore, results also show that it works more efficiently by using HSPS than using WCS at longer transmission distance.