The aim of this paper is to develop a rapid, and highly sensitive quantitative HPLC fingerprint method with multiple indicators by using the Compound Chinese Medicine Wuwei Changyanning granule and 5 herbs in the prescription. The quantitative fingerprint chromatogram with multiple indicators was investigated. ⅰ)6 compositions included rutin, gallic acid, chlorogenic acid, atractylenolideⅠ, pac...

Vibration Analysis Tests (VAT) and Acoustic Emission tests (AE) are used in several industrial applications. Many of them perform analysis in the frequency domain. Peaks in the power density spectrum hold relevant information about acoustic events. In this paper we propose a novel method for feature extraction of vibration samples by analyzing the shape of their auto power spectrum density func...

The usefulness of Fourier analyses as a tool for determining key parameters of cancellous bone structure is investigated. The autocorrelation function is used to determine measures of preferred orientation of trabeculae and anisotropy. Peaks in the power spectrum are used to determine average trabecular strut spacing. Good agreement and high correlations were observed when these frequency domai...

In elution chromatography, mod$ers sometimes are added to the mobile phase to compete with sample solutes for binding sites in order to reduce the retention time and band spreading of sample solutes. In this work, the interrelationship between modiJiers and sample solutes in preparative and large-scale chromatography is investigated using a nonlinear multicomponent rate model in which axial dis...

The conventional parboiling of rough rice is a lengthy process that takes 24-28 h to complete. It would be beneficial to the industry if the processing time could be reduced. The objective of this study was to develop an ultrasound based one-step protocol for soaking and gelatinization during rice parboiling. The gelatinization temperature was measured by alkali (KOH) degradation and found to b...

Predator-prey relationships are integral to ecosystem stability and functioning. These relationships are, however, difficult to maintain in protected areas where large predators are increasingly being reintroduced and confined. Where predators make kills has a profound influence on their role in ecosystems, but the relative importance of environmental variables in determining kill sites, and ho...

JUST over one hundred years ago Robert Graves, in an address to medical students, wrote these words: "Be assured of this, that however accurate be your knowledge of anatomy, however skilful you may be in chemical theories and manipulations, however extensively you may have mastered botany, however well you are acquainted with the nature and properties of drugs-be assured, I say, that you have a...

In this paper, we focus on a “local property” of permutations: value-peak. A permutation σ has a value-peak σ(i) if σ(i − 1) < σ(i) > σ(i + 1) for some i ∈ [2, n − 1]. Define V P (σ) as the set of value-peaks of the permutation σ. For any S ⊆ [3, n], define V Pn(S) such that V P (σ) = S. Let Pn = {S | V Pn(S) 6= ∅}. we make the set Pn into a poset Pn by defining S T if S ⊆ T as sets. We prove t...

The feedback from architectural decisions to the elaboration of requirements is an established concept in the software engineering community. However, pinpointing the nature of this feedback in a precise way is a largely open problem. Often, the feedback is generically characterized as additional qualities that might be affected by an architect’s choice. This paper provides a practical perspect...