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    2์„ธ๋Œ€ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์šฉ์ถœ์Šคํ…ํŠธ ์‚ฝ์ž…ํ›„ ์ž์—ฐ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์™€ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰ํ™˜์ž์—์„œ์˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ฑ์ ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ

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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ(๋ฐ•์‚ฌ)--์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋Œ€ํ•™์› :์˜๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์˜ํ•™๊ณผ,2020. 2. ๊น€ํšจ์ˆ˜.Abstract Objectives We investigated the course of in-stent restenosis and evaluated the revascularization strategy in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in a large scale registry. Background The progression of restenosis has not been fully evaluated in 2nd-generation drug eluting stents era. Moreover, the completeness of revascularization in STEMI patients with high risk factors is uncertain. Methods We investigated and analyzed the restenosis course of 944 stented lesions from 394 patients who had at least two serial follow-up angiograms, using quantitative coronary angiography analysis. A total of 1,311 STEMI patients with multivessel coronary artery disease were analyzed. Complete revascularization (CR) was defined by angiography and by a residual SYNTAX score <8. The primary study endpoints were patient oriented composite outcome (POCO) and cardiac death during 3-year follow-up. We also evaluated the effects of CR in patients with diabetes mellitus patients and those with reduced left ventricle (LV) function. Results The restenosis progression velocity of diameter stenosis was 12.1ยฑ21.0%/year and 3.7ยฑ10.1%/year during the first and second follow-up periods, respectively, which showed no significant difference (p>0.05) between contemporary stents. Overall, patients who underwent angiographic CR (579 patients, 44.2%) had significantly fewer 3-year clinical events than those of patients who underwent incomplete revascularization (IR). (POCO: 14.9% and 24.0%, p<0.001, cardiac death: 3.5% and 8.9%, p<0.001, for CR vs. IR). Multivariate analysis showed that CR significantly reduced 3-year POCO (adjusted HR 0.63, 95% CI 0.48-0.83) and cardiac death (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 0.51, 95% CI 0.29-0.89). The results were corroborated using SS-based CR definition. When divided into subgroups according to the presence of diabetes, CR significantly reduced 3-year POCO (adjusted HR 0.52, 95% CI 0.35-0.76) only in the non-diabetes group. When the patients were divided into subgroups according to baseline left ventricular (LV) function, CR significantly reduced 3-year POCO (adjusted HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.43-0.82) only in the preserved LV function group. Conclusions The progression rate of in-stent restenosis differed at different time intervals. Contemporary stents had similar rates of restenosis progression. CR could improve clinical outcomes in STEMI patients with multivessel disease. However, the beneficial effect of CR neutralized in those with diabetes mellitus or reduced LV function.์ดˆ๋ก ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ชฉ์  ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋‹ค๊ธฐ๊ด€ ๋ ˆ์ง€์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ST ๋ถ„์ ˆ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰ํ™˜์ž์—์„œ ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ๊ณผ ๋น„์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์˜ 3๋…„ ์ž„์ƒ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์Šคํ…ํŠธ๋‚ด์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฅ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•ด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์Šคํ…ํŠธ๋‚ด์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋‹ค๊ธฐ๊ด€ ๋ ˆ์ง€์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ST ๋ถ„์ ˆ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰ํ™˜์ž์—์„œ ๊ด€์ƒ๋™๋งฅ ์Šคํ…ํŠธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ 3๋…„ ์ž„์ƒ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ 2์„ธ๋Œ€ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์šฉ์ถœ์Šคํ…ํŠธ์˜ ์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฅ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ์œ„ํ—˜์ธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ST ๋ถ„์ ˆ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์—์„œ ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ์Šคํ…ํŠธ ์‹œ์ˆ ํ›„ ๋‘ ์ฐจ๋ก€์˜ ๋ณ‘์› ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์˜์ˆ ์„ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๋Ÿ‰์  ๊ด€์ƒ๋™๋งฅ์กฐ์˜์ˆ  ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ 394๋ช… ํ™˜์ž์˜ 944๊ฐœ์˜ ๊ด€์ƒ๋™๋งฅ ๋ณ‘๋ณ€์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด 1311๋ช…์˜ ST ๋ถ„์ ˆ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰ ๋‹คํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์—์„œ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์€ ํ˜ˆ๊ด€์กฐ์˜์ˆ ์ƒ์˜ ํŒ๋…๊ณผ ์ž”์—ฌ SYNTAX ์ ์ˆ˜<8์ , ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ •์˜๋ฅผ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ž„์ƒ์˜ˆํ›„๋Š” ํ™˜์ž ์—ฐ๊ด€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ง, ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰, ์žฌ์‹œ์ˆ (Patient oriented composite outcome)๊ณผ ์‹ฌ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์š” ์ข…๊ฒฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ST ๋ถ„์ ˆ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์—์„œ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘๊ณผ ์ขŒ์‹ฌ์‹ค๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ €ํ•˜์˜ ๋™๋ฐ˜์—ฌ๋ถ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ„์„๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ ์Šคํ…ํŠธ ์‚ฝ์ž…ํ›„ ์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฅ ์€ 9๊ฐœ์›” ์ „๊ณผ 9๊ฐœ์›”ํ›„์— ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์กŒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 12.1ยฑ21.0%/๋…„, 3.7ยฑ10.1%/๋…„ ์ด์˜€๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ˜„์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์šฉ์ถœ์Šคํ…ํŠธ๋“ค๊ฐ„ ์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰์ •๋„์™€ ์ง„ํ–‰์†๋„์€ ์œ ์˜ํ•œ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค(p>0.05). ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ™˜์ž๋Š”(579๋ช…, 44.2%) ๋น„์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ™˜์ž์— ๋น„ํ•ด 3๋…„ ์ž„์ƒ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๋ฐœ์ƒ๋ฅ ์ด ์œ ์˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋‹ค. (ํ™˜์ž ์—ฐ๊ด€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด: 14.9% vs. 24.0%, p<0.001; ์‹ฌ์žฅ์‚ฌ: 3.5% vs. 8.9%, p<0.001). ๋‹ค๋ณ€๋Ÿ‰ ๋ถ„์„์—์„œ๋„ ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์ด 3๋…„ ํ™˜์ž ์—ฐ๊ด€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๊ณผ ์‹ฌ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ ์˜๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ์ค„์˜€์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ค€๋‹ค. [ํ™˜์ž ์—ฐ๊ด€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด: ๋ณด์ • ์œ„ํ—˜๋น„ 0.63(0.48-0.83); ์‹ฌ์žฅ์‚ฌ: ๋ณด์ • ์œ„ํ—˜๋น„ 0.51(0.29-0.89)]. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž”์—ฌ SYNTAX ์ ์ˆ˜์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ•˜์—ฌ ์ •์˜ํ•œ ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์˜ ํ‰๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋„ ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์กŒ๋‹ค. ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘์˜ ๋™๋ฐ˜ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด ๋ณด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์€ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘์„ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ํ™˜์ž๊ทธ๋ฃน์—์„œ๋งŒ 3๋…„ ํ™˜์ž ์—ฐ๊ด€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ค„์˜€๋‹ค [๋ณด์ • ์œ„ํ—˜๋น„ 0.52(0.35-0.76)]. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ขŒ์‹ฌ์‹ค๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ €ํ•˜์˜ ๋™๋ฐ˜ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด ๋ณด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์€ ์ขŒ์‹ฌ์‹ค ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ €ํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ํ™˜์ž๊ทธ๋ฃน์—์„œ๋งŒ 3๋…„ ํ™˜์ž ์—ฐ๊ด€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ค„์˜€๋‹ค [๋ณด์ • ์œ„ํ—˜๋น„ 0.58(0.43-0.82)]. ๊ฒฐ๋ก  ์Šคํ…ํŠธ๋‚ด์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฅ ์€ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์™€ ํ›„๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ  ํ˜„์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์šฉ์ถœ์Šคํ…ํŠธ๋“ค์€ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์žฌํ˜‘์ฐฉ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค. ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์€ST ๋ถ„์ ˆ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰ ๋‹คํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ์ž„์ƒ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์™„์ „ ์žฌ๊ด€๋ฅ˜์ˆ ์€ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘ ํ˜น์€ ์ขŒ์‹ฌ์‹ค๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ €ํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ํ™˜์ž์—์„œ๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.General Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Progression of restenosis in stented coronary 3 Introductions 4 Methods 5 Results 10 Discussion 13 Conclusion 16 Chapter 2. Comparative analysis of coronary stent therapy in patients with myocardial infarction 18 Introductions 19 Methods 22 Results 27 Discussion 32 Conclusion 40 References 41 Tables 55 Figures 91 Abstract (in Korean) 106Docto

    Promjena tlaฤne ฤvrstoฤ‡e zida nakon korozije sulfatom uz visoku koncentraciju Ca2+

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    At the bedrock section of the auxiliary shaft of the Tong-ting coal mine, the sidewall has varying degradation degrees in different parts. The part on which water flowed is barely corroded, whereas the moist part near the pouring joints is seriously corroded. We first studied the mechanism of this phenomenon by chromatography, X-ray diffraction, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. We then used simplified models built by particle flow code software (i.e., particle flow code in three dimensions, PFC3D) to analyse how increasing degradation depth affects compressive strength and failure patterns. The results were as follows. (1) Gypsum and calcite in corrosive water were supersaturated. The part on which water flowed was protected by the crystallized precipitation on the concrete. By contrast, the degradation of the part where water flowed through pouring joints was aggravated by internal crystallization and dissolution. (2) PFC3D numerical simulation indicated that decreases in vertical ultimate stress were strongly linearly correlated with degradation depth. As for the โˆ’355.5 m damaged part, reinforcement should be conducted before degradation depth reaches 250 mm. (3) No obvious signs were observed prior to the failure of the corroded sidewall. Therefore, the development of degradation depth should be monitored before degradation parts are reinforced.U pomoฤ‡nom oknu rudnika ugljena Tong-ting u pojasu temeljne stijene pojedini dijelovi zida pokazuju razliฤite stupnjeve propadanja. Podruฤja na kojima je tekla voda malo su korodirana, dok su vlaลพni dijelovi uz izljeve izrazito korodirani. Mehanizmi te pojave najprije su prouฤavani kromatografijom, rendgenskom difrakcijom i energijski disperzivnom rendgenskom spektroskopijom. Veza izmeฤ‘u dubine korozije i tlaฤne ฤvrstoฤ‡e te obrasca sloma analizirana je pojednostavljenim modelom utemeljenim na kรดdu toka ฤestica (kรดd toka ฤestica u tri dimenzije, PFC3D). (1) Voda je prezasiฤ‡ena s obzirom na gips i kalcit. Dijelovi preko kojih je voda tekla zaลกtiฤ‡eni su precipitatom na betonu. Nasuprot tome, propadanje je pojaฤano kristalizacijom i otapanjem u nutrini izljeva. (2) Numeriฤka simulacija modelom PFC3D pokazuje linearnu vezu izmeฤ‘u smanjenja vertikalnog maksimalnog naprezanja i dubine degradacije. Oลกteฤ‡eni dio na โˆ’355,5 m trebat ฤ‡e pojaฤati prije nego korozija dopre do 250 mm dubine. (3) Nisu bili uoฤeni jasni pokazatelji propadanja prije sloma korodiranog zida. Stoga treba pratiti napredovanje propadanja prije nego uniลกteni dijelovi budu ojaฤani

    Thermal resistance effect on anomalous diffusion of molecules under confinement

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    Diffusion is generally faster at higher temperatures. Here, a counterintuitive behavior is observed in that the movement of long-chain molecules slows as the temperature increases under confinement. This report confirms that this anomalous diffusion is caused by the โ€œthermal resistance effect,โ€ in which the diffusion resistance of linear-chain molecules is equivalent to that with branched-chain configurations at high temperature. It then restrains the molecular transportation in the nanoscale channels, as further confirmed by zero length column experiments. This work enriches our understanding of the anomalous diffusion family and provides fundamental insights into the mechanism inside confined systems.This work is supported by the National NaturalScience Foundation of China (22032005, 21902180, 21802164, 21991092,21991090, 22002174 and 91645112), and the Natural Science Foundation ofHubei Province of China (2018CFA009), the Key Research Program of FrontierSciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (QYZDB-SSW-SLH026), and SinopecCorp. (417012-4). We are grateful to the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Centerfor their support in computing facilities.Peer reviewe

    Genome and transcriptome analysis of Enterococcus faecium from intestinal colonization and Enterococcus faecium from urinary tract infection

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    IntroductionEnterococcus faecium is a common pathogen responsible for urinary tract infections (UTIs) and often establishes extensive colonization within the intestinal tract. Our aim was to assess the genomic and transcriptomic differences between colonized E. faecium without UTI (only-colonization) and colonized E. faecium causing UTI (endogenous infections).MethodWe investigated the correlation between fecal isolates from the same patient and UTI-causing isolates using PFGE and WGS, and classified fecal isolates into two groups: those that solely colonized and those associated with endogenous urinary tract infections. We characterized the genomes of colonization-only and endogenously infected isolates by Scoary GWAS, and the transcriptomes of the isolates at 3โ€‰h urine exposure to assess pathogen-related changes.ResultBased on PFGE and WGS, eight isolates of endogenously infected E. faecium and nine isolates of only-colonized E. faecium were characterized and carbon and nitrogen regulated metabolisms such as genes encoding the phosphotransferase (PTS) system were enriched in endogenously infected E. faecium. Transcriptome analysis revealed significant differences in gene expression in the PTS system, lysine synthesis, galactose metabolism and citrate import between endogenously infected and only-colonized E. faecium isolates, highlighting the important role of certain carbon regulatory genes in the colonization and survival of endogenously infected E. faecium.ConclusionIn only-colonized and endogenously infected isolates, we observed differential expression patterns of genes related to carbon metabolism and amino acids, suggesting that metabolic diversity is a strategy for isolates leading to endogenous infection

    Sex-related impact on clinical outcomes of patients treated with drug-eluting stents according to clinical presentation: Patient-level pooled analysis from the GRAND-DES registry

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    Background: The contribution of sex and initial clinical presentation to the long-term outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is still debated. Methods: Individual patient data from 5 Korean-multicenter drug-eluting stent (DES) registries (The GRAND-DES) were pooled. A total of 17,286 patients completed 3-year follow-up (5216 women and 12,070 men). The median follow-up duration was 1125 days (interquartile range 1097โ€“1140 days), and the primary endpoint was cardiac death at 3 years. Results: The clinical indication for PCI was stable angina pectoris (SAP) in 36.8%, unstable angina pectoris (UAP) or non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in 47.4%, and STEMI in 15.8%. In all groups, women were older and had a higher proportion of hypertension and diabetes mellitus compared with men. Women presenting with STEMI were older than women with SAP, with the opposite seen in men. There was no sex difference in cardiac death for SAP or UAP/NSTEMI. In STEMI patients, the incidence of cardiac death (7.9% vs. 4.4%, p = 0.001), all-cause mortality (11.1% vs. 6.9%, p = 0.001), and minor bleeding (2.2% vs. 1.2%, p = 0.043) was significantly higher in women. After multivariable adjustment, cardiac death was lower in women for UAP/NSTEMI (HR 0.69, 95% CI 0.53โ€“0.89, p = 0.005), while it was similar for STEMI (HR 0.97, 95% CI 0.65โ€“1.44, p = 0.884). Conclusions: There was no sex difference in cardiac death after PCI with DES for SAP and UAP/NSTEMI patients. In STEMI patients, women had worse outcomes compared with men; however, after the adjustment of confounders, female sex was not an independent predictor of mortality

    Multitasking scheduling problems with a rate-modifying activity

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    Thin film hydride generation: determination of ultra-trace copper by flow injection in situ hydride trapping graphite furnace AAS

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    A novel system which significantly enhances copper hydride generation efficiency was used for the determination of trace copper by coupling a flow injection system to a graphite furnace for in situ collection of the analyte and subsequent AAS detection. A single device integrated the functions of hydride generator and gas liquid separator. Solutions of the sample containing 0.0005% (m/v) phenanthroline and 1% formic acid were merged with tetrahydroborate reductant to yield a thin film wetting a reaction surface from which product vapor was efficiently liberated and transported to the heated furnace. Optimum operating conditions provided for a generation/transport/collection efficiency of 8\u201312%. Interferences from common transition and noble metals were effectively eliminated. A limit of detection of 100 pg ml 121 was obtained based on processing a 1 ml sample volume. A precision of better than 4% (RSD) at 1 ng ml 121 was typical. The methodology was successfully applied to the determination of Cu in several NRCC natural water and biological tissue Certified Reference MaterialsPeer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

    Optimal Semi-Online Algorithm for Scheduling on Two Parallel Batch Processing Machines

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    International audienceBatch processing machine scheduling in uncertain environment attracts more and more attention in the last decade. This paper deals with semi-online scheduling on two parallel batch processing machines with non-decreasing processing time of job. Jobs arrive over time in the online paradigm, and the processing time of any batch is equal to the length of the last arrival job in the batch. We study the unbounded model where each processing batch may contain an unlimited number of jobs, and the objective is to minimize the makespan. Given any job (Formula presented.) together with its following job (Formula presented.), it is assumed that their processing times satisfy (Formula presented.) where ฮฑ โ‰ฅ 1 is a constant. That is, jobs arrive in a non-decreasing order of processing times. We mainly propose an optimal ฯ•-competitive online algorithm where ฯ• โ‰ฅ 1 is a solution of equation ฯ•3 + (ฮฑ-1)ฯ•2 + (ฮฑ2 - ฮฑ - 1)ฯ• - ฮฑ2 = 0
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