ADVANCED ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY IN CHINA .1. GENERAL ASPECT AND SOME METHODOLOGIES

The Research on Electroanalytical chemistry in China started mainly from the beginning of new China in 1949. It has already good basis and development nowadays. A review with references to the end of seventies has been published in "Reviews in Analytical Chemistry" 1) and in a book titled "Fifty years of Chinese Chemistry" edited by the Chinese Chemical Society in 1985 2). Since then more than thousand papers have been published, and it is impossible and also not necessary to describe all of them. This review only deals with the main progress of electroanalytical chemistry in China in recent years. Some new developed methodologies will be reviewed by S. Dong in the next article.

海洋经济动物精子超低温保存的研究

从1949年以来经过近五十年的发展，超低温保存种质细胞技术已经趋于成熟，特别是在家畜推广良种化的过程中发挥重要作用。对海洋动物种质细胞保存研究的范围主要集中在鲑鳟鱼类和牡蛎等少数几种海洋生物上。本研究结合“国家自然科学基金”研究项目，进行了三种贝类和两种鱼类精子的超低温保存实验，得到了它们在液氮（－196 ℃）条件下的适宜保存条件。栉孔扇贝（Chlamys farreri）冻精解冻后复苏比例、受精率和孵化率最高可达到49.39％、42.06％和12.15睦栉孔扇贝精子超低温保存时发生冷冻伤害的温度范围在－30 ℃～－60 ℃；其低温保存的最适降温速率为20 ℃／min；使用抗冻剂二甲基亚砜（DMSO）的最适浓度为5 ℃，其保存效果优于甘油；样品保存的最佳体积为0.6ml～1ml；解冻精子的最适水温为35 ℃，50 ℃次之，20 ℃最差；用自然海水激活解冻后精子的效果好于低盐度溶液；在0 ℃进行预处理平衡时间不宜太长；在抗冻液中加入蛋黄对保存效果没有改善，并且会对冻精的孵化率有抑制作用；用20 ℃／min和5％DMSO冷冻精子，液氮中保存栉孔扇贝精子55天后其复苏比例达到42.17％。超低温保存紫贻贝（Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck）精子，解冻后其复苏比例、受精率和孵化率最高可达到41.63％、69.52％和54.74％。保存紫贻贝精子最适降温速率为5 ℃／min，发生冻伤的温度范围是－20 ℃～－60 ℃；使用抗冻剂DMSO的保存效果好于甘油，且使用抗冻剂DMSO的最适浓度为15％；利用自然海水激活冻精效果好于低盐度或高pH值的溶液；样品体积（在0.2～1ml之间）对保存效果没有影响；采用15％DMSO和5 ℃／min的降温速率处理精子，液氮中保存90天后复苏比例仍达到41.8％。保存菲律宾蛤仔（Ruditapes philippinarum （Adams and Reeve））精子的最适降温速率为5 ℃／min，发生冻伤的温度范围是－30 ℃～－60 ℃；抗冻剂DMSO的保存效果好于甘油，也用DMSO与甘油混合使用，使用抗冻剂DMSO的最适浓度为10％；利用自然海水激活冻精效果好于低盐度或高pH的溶液；样品体积（在0.2％～1.6ml之间）对保存效果有显著影响。冷冻保存后精子复苏比例、受精率和孵化率最高达到40.84％、68.87％和47.17％；以最适降温速率和抗冻剂浓度处理精子，并在液氮中保存36天后冻精复苏比例仍可以达到38.54％。黑鲷（Sparus macrocephalus）精子经过超低温保存后复苏率、存活率最高可以达到61.37％和61.4。保存黑鲷精子时发生冷冻伤害的温度范围是－20 ℃～－60 ℃，适宜的降温速率为20 ℃／min；使用抗冻剂DMSO的适宜浓度为20％；样品体积对保存效果有相关性；利用自然海水激活冻精效果好于低盐度或高pH值的溶液；使用20％DMSO和20 ℃／min降温速率处理，在液氮中保存黑鲷精子66天后解冻，其复苏率和存活率分别为59.81％和58.45％。在液氮中保存真鲷（Pagrosomus major）精子时发生冷冻伤害的温域为－30 ℃～－60 ℃，适宜的降温速率为20 ℃／min；使用抗冻剂DMSO的适宜浓度为20％；采用低盐度或高pH值的溶液激活冻精的效果不如自然海水。真鲷冻精的复苏率和存活率最高可达到50.73％和62.5；以20 ℃／min和20％DMSO处理真鲷精子，保存在液氮中46天后冻精复苏率和存活率为50.63％和61.02％。通过对多种贝类和鱼类精子的超低温保存实验，不仅获得超低温保存基本条件，并且通过显微镜观察结合前人的研究，对产生冻伤的原因和保护的机理提出了一个模式。

A simple and accurate method for determining accurately dissolved inorganic carbon in seawaters

Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) account for more than 95% of total carbon in seawater, so it is necessary to make reliable and precise measurements of DIC to study marine carbon cycling. In order to establish a simple and speed method, an airproof device of gas extraction-absorption was designed. Finally a simple method was developed for the determination of DIC in seawater through a large mount of experiments. The determination procedure is as follows: 100 similar to 150 mL seawater was put into conical flask, then add 10% H3PO4, the DIC in seawater sample was dissolved to form CO2 gas and carried by pure N-2, then the CO2 gas was absorbed by two grades 0.1 mol/L NaOH solution. Finally the absorbed solution was titrated by HCl standard solution of 0.01000 mol/L with the end points detected with the indicator phenolphthalein and bromocresol green-methyl red mixture. The precision and accuracy of the method were satisfied. This method was used to analyse seawater samples from Jiaozhou bay in June, 2003. The result shows that the average DIC in surface seawater is 2066 mumol/L, DIC in bottom seawater is 2075 mumol/L inside bay, but the average DIC in surface seawater is 1949 mumol/L, DIC in bottom seawater is 2147 mumol/L outside bay.

An efficient combination of supercritical fluid extraction and high-speed counter-current chromatography to extract and purify homoisoflavonoids from Ophiopogon japonicus (Thunb.) Ker-Gawler

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) was used to extract homoisoflavonoids from Ophiopogon japonicus (Thunb.) Ker-Gawler. The optimization of parameters was carried out using an orthogonal test L-9 (3)(4) including pressure, temperature, dynamic extraction time and the amount of modifier. The process was then scaled up by 100 times with a preparative SFE system under the optimized conditions of 25 MPa, 55 degrees C, 4.0 h and 25% methanol as a modifier. Then crude extracts were separated and purified by high-speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC) with a two-phase solvent system composed of n-hexane/ethyl acetate/methanol/ACN/water (1.8:1.0:1.0:1.2:1.0 v/v). There three homoisoflavonoidal compounds including methylophiopogonanone A 6-aldehydo-isoophiopogonone A, and 6-formyl-isoophiopogonanone A, were successfully isolated and purified in one step. The collected fractions were analyzed by HPLC. In each operation, 140 mg crude extracts was separated and yielded 15.3 mg of methylophiopogonanone A (96.9% purity), 4.1 mg of 6-aldehydo-isoophiopogonone A (98.3% purity) and 13.5 mg of 6-formyl-isoophiopogonanone A (97.3% purity) respectively. The chemical structure of the three homoisoflavonoids are identified by means of ESI-MS and NMR analysis.

宏观经济的决策支持系统

本文介绍了一个用于宏观经济决策的决策支持系统的内容和特点。论述了处理经济系统时建立知识库系统的必要性。着重介绍了用于宏观经济的知识库系统以及建立在这个系统基础之上的整个决策支持系统的结构。最后简述了这个系统的发展方向。

热察绥地区过去300年土地利用覆被变化

The historical land use and land cover changes is one of the key issues in LUCC research. However, the achievement of China in this field doesn't match her position in the world yet. And the reliability of the quantitive records in Chinese historical literature, the basic data for historical land use research, has been doubted. This research focuses on Re-Cha-Sui, a typical area for the farming-pastoral region in the north of China, to make a detailed case study in this field. Based on a deep mining and calibration on the data from massive historical documents and land-use surveys, the author gives a detailed analysis on the administrative region evolution, historical population dynamics, reclamation policy, and the land statistic system. According to textual researches, parallel validation and physical geographical analysis, a unified land use series for recent 300 years, which founded on the results of modern land-use surveys, is constructed. And the thematic maps on the cultivation index for different counties in several temporal sections are plotted. Based on the endeavor above, the dynamic of forest and steppe is reconstructed as well. The temporal-spatial patterns of land use/land cover changes in the area is analyzed. And the influence of different driving forces are discussed. The main conclusions of the research are as followed: 1. The quantitive records in literatures on Re-Cha-Sui area are reflection of real amounts of croplands. It is practical to reconstruct a result comparable with the modern land-use surveys, based of a deep mining and considerate validation on historical documents. The unexceptional negative attitude towards the numerical records in historical documents is unnecessary. 2. In recent 300 years, 3 climax of reclamation appeared in Re-Cha-Sui area and altered the pure pastoral area into a farming-pastoral region. The interval were respectively the early time till mid time of the Qing dynasty, the end of the Qing dynasty till early time of the Republic of China(ROC), and the time after A.D. 1949. After the first expansion, the area of cropland in this region reached 2.0 million ha. Among them, Guisui area, which was most densely cultivated, had a cultivation index over 30%, which is similar with modern situation. The second expansion covered broader area, and the amount of cropland reached 3.5 million ha. The increase of farming area after 1949 is due to the recultivation of abandoned farmland. The current area of cropland in this region is 5.6 million ha. In the southern area where the land was reclaimed early, the amount on of the cropland has some fluctuation in 300 years. While in the new reclaimed area in the north, the area of cropland has kept the trend of increasing. 3. Due to the different natural conditions, most forests in Re-Cha-Sui area distribute in the mountain area of North Hebei province, and the upland of West Liaoning province, especially the former, which has a forest coverage near 70%. However, most of these forests were destroyed before the end of the Qing dynasty. In 1949, the natural forest near Chengde was nearly cleared up. They were partly renewed after 1949 due to plantation. 4. In the steppe zone such as northern Rehe, Suiyuan and Chahar, the area of steppe has a negative correlation with that of cropland. With the expansion of cropland, the percentage of steppe has shrunk from over 80% to 53%. In the mountain area of North Hebei province, steppe expanded with the shrinkage of forest, though cropland was expanding. The percentage once reached 60%, and then fell with the renew of forest. However, in the upland of West Liaoning province, the steppe shrink slowly from original 50% to current 26%, with the expansion of cropland. 5. The land use and land cover change in Re-Cha-Sui area in recent 300 years is driven by various factors, including human dimensions such as population, policy of the government, disorder of the society, cultural tradition, and natural factors such as climate change and natural disasters. Among them, pressure from surplus population is the basic driving force.

中国粮食生产的区域演进研究

Grain is one of the primary material conditions of the human survival and the grain production concerns the stability and development of the society directly. The regional patterns influence greatly on the grain production and the rational production distribution the regional comparative advantages and promotes grain production. This thesis starts with summarizing of the characteristics of changes and the overall trend of regional pattern of grain production of our country since 1949. Then it carries on network analyses to the factors, which influences the evolvement of regional grain production patterns of our country. And finally it gives some proposals to the grain production distribution in the future. The main content includes: Firstly, Reviewing the regional evolvement of grain production in our country, and analyzing the changes of the regional pattern of grain production of our country on the provincial scale and county scale separately, since 1949, especially since the reform and opening up policy. The main grain production areas are acting an important position in ensuring the national grain security, so this thesis analyses the main matter of the main grain production areas, forecasts the grain production situation in the future, and selects the Northeastern main grain production areas as the typical area to carry on the positive research. Secondly, this thesis analyzes the origin causes from two respects of natural and social economy of the regional evolvement pattern of grain production in China. Thirdly, based on the summarizing to the status of the regional pattern of the grain production, this thesis proposes the precept of the grain production distribution in the future in our country. Therefore, the areas of three major cereal crops, rice, wheat and corn, are confirmed on the basis of the comparative advantages. Finally, this thesis puts forward the security system of guaranteeing the grain production progressing steady in China. According to the above analysis, some conclusions have been achieved as follows: (1) The grain gross production gets on extricating itself from awkward position frequently while fluctuating greatly annually since 1949 in China. (2) Since the reform, its traditional regional pattern of grain production, the most of which was concentrated in the south area, has changed rapidly. China's center of gravity of grain production has shifted from the south to the north, and on the belts of latitude, the grain production has represented a trend of focusing to the middle area in China. (3) The main grain production areas play a very important role in ensuring China's food security. With their relative severe situation of the problems of agriculture, rural area and peasant, China has carried out a series of measures, which aim at improving the food-producing conditions of the main grain production areas, and enhancing the grain yields there. Under this condition, a forecast of the producing amount of the main grain production areas under the nation's self-supplying rate of over 95% shows that the increasing provision production in these areas can meet the demand of the country. (4) The natural and social economic factors influence together on the changes of the grain production regional pattern. Along with the state system transition and progress of agricultural science and technology, the regional pattern of grain production is affected heavier by the agricultural policy and technological elements. (5) The grain production will be concentrated to the middle province in the future, which economic development level being medium-sized; According to crop allocation, although the rice superiority production area located in the South, its comparative advantage index is little in some degree. Meanwhile, the wheat and corn superiority production areas are in the North mainly and its scale superiority and production level advantage are all comparatively obviously.

中国大气降水δ^18O区域特征及其对古气候研究的意义

系统地收集和分析IAEA／WMO数据库GNIP／ISOHIS与文献报道的中国及周边大气降水和石笋的δ^18O等数据，发现大气降水δ^18O值和降水量效应在大尺度上均与前人研究结果相似，但在小尺度上具有显著的区域性特征：以塔里木盆地、鄂尔多斯盆地和潢川-合肥盆地等为中心的区域大气降水δ^18O值明显高于其它地区，而以拉萨和川-滇-黔为中心的区域明显低于其它地区；在川-滇-黔三省交界地区和湖南中东部分别出现了强和弱降水量效应。大气降水出现δ^18O较高值或降低值的主要原因可能与当地蒸发和季风等因子控制的水汽来源特征有关；而降水量效应的区域性特征可能与水汽来源结构变化密切相关。对区域上的大气降水和石笋δ^18O进行比较分析表明，以单一水汽来源为主的地区，石笋δ^18O值能较好地反映太阳辐射强度或季风强度；两种水汽来源强度相当的地区，石笋δ^18O值反映的是两种水汽来源的综合信息；在太阳辐射强度变化对不同水汽影响差异性明确之前很难直接解析为太阳辐射或季风强度信息.

'We are not Seeking Strength for its Own Sake': The British Labour Party, West Germany and the Cold War, 1951-64

Hughes, R. (2002). 'We are not Seeking Strength for its Own Sake': The British Labour Party, West Germany and the Cold War, 1951-64. Cold War History. 3(1) pp.67-94 RAE2008

Ochrona i konserwacja zasobu w archiwach państwowych w Polsce

Wydział Historyczny

Lights and shades of mission work, or, Leaves from a worker's note book : being reminiscenses of seven years service at the capital, 1885-1892 / by B.H.W.

http://www.archive.org/details/lightsandshades00bhwuoft

View-Invariant Object Category Learning, Recognition, and Search: How Spatial and Object Attention Are Coordinated Using Surface-Based Attentional Shrouds

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (F49620-01-1-0397); National Science Foundation (SBE-0354378); Office of Naval Research (N00014-01-1-0624)

Continuity and change in monetary policy and banking in Ireland 1922-43

The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the development of monetary policy and banking in southern Ireland from the attainment of independence in 1922 (gained through the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921) to the establishment of the Central Bank of Ireland in 1943. This research serves to challenge the overwhelming concentration on the findings of a small number of major works, most notably by Ronan Fanning, Maurice Moynihan and Cormac Ó’Gráda, in the existing historiography. This thesis is based on the research hypothesis that there were two key factors impacting on the development of monetary and banking institutions in Ireland in the 1922-1943 period. First, an exogenous institutional context, primarily Anglo-Irish in focus, in which the wider macroeconomic landscape directly influenced monetary policy and banking in Ireland. Second, an individualist context in which the development of relationships between key individuals dictated development patterns and institutional structures. This research highlights that key Irish policymakers, such as Joseph Brennan, evidenced a more flexible and realistic approach to banking and monetary affairs than is currently recognised. It also develops three further issues which have been overlooked in the existing historiography. First, a germ of monetary reform existed in Ireland from as early as the mid-1920s and was consistent in promoting alternative policies in the period to 1943. Second, this research challenges the view that the creation of the Currency Commission in 1927 and the establishment of the Central Bank of Ireland in 1943 were insignificant events given the continued stagnation in Irish monetary policy in the decades after 1943. Third, this thesis identifies that wider international trends did influence Irish monetary and banking affairs in the 1922-43 period. At both an institutional and more individual level the process of monetary institution building in Ireland was directly impacted by wider international experiences.

The use of fault detection and diagnostics to reduce air handling unit energy consumption

The contribution of buildings towards total worldwide energy consumption in developed countries is between 20% and 40%. Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), and more specifically Air Handling Units (AHUs) energy consumption accounts on average for 40% of a typical medical device manufacturing or pharmaceutical facility’s energy consumption. Studies have indicated that 20 – 30% energy savings are achievable by recommissioning HVAC systems, and more specifically AHU operations, to rectify faulty operation. Automated Fault Detection and Diagnosis (AFDD) is a process concerned with potentially partially or fully automating the commissioning process through the detection of faults. An expert system is a knowledge-based system, which employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to replicate the knowledge of a human subject matter expert, in a particular field, such as engineering, medicine, finance and marketing, to name a few. This thesis details the research and development work undertaken in the development and testing of a new AFDD expert system for AHUs which can be installed in minimal set up time on a large cross section of AHU types in a building management system vendor neutral manner. Both simulated and extensive field testing was undertaken against a widely available and industry known expert set of rules known as the Air Handling Unit Performance Assessment Rules (APAR) (and a later more developed version known as APAR_extended) in order to prove its effectiveness. Specifically, in tests against a dataset of 52 simulated faults, this new AFDD expert system identified all 52 derived issues whereas the APAR ruleset identified just 10. In tests using actual field data from 5 operating AHUs in 4 manufacturing facilities, the newly developed AFDD expert system for AHUs was shown to identify four individual fault case categories that the APAR method did not, as well as showing improvements made in the area of fault diagnosis.