A Gas Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry method for the determination of six phthalates which are banned by European Union Regulation and USA CPSIA, in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) toys is studied in this article. The samples were extracted in six hours by Soxhlet extractor when using dichloromethane as the extracting agent, researched by orthogonal experiment. Using TIC (total ion chromatogram) and SIM (select ion monitor) of GC-MS to achieve phthalate's qualitative and quantitative determination, of which detection limit, accuracy and operating procedure are better than the standards in EN 14372:2004 clause 6.3.2 and ASTM D7083-04.
The purpose of the current study was to retrospectively assess the effect of postoperative radiotherapy (RT) delay on survival for patients with esophageal cancer. From 2008 to 2011, patients with esophageal cancer who had undergone postoperative RT in five different hospitals in China were reviewed. Clinical data, including time interval between surgery to RT, were prospectively collected. Kaplan-Meier method was conducted to estimate the effect of each variable on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), with differences assessed by log-rank test. Univariate Cox proportional-hazards models were performed for both PFS and OS for all assumed predictor variables. Statistically significant predictor variables (P < .05) on univariate analysis were then included in multivariate Cox proportional-hazards models, which were performed to compare the effects of RT delay on PFS and OS. A total of 316 patients were finally enrolled in this prospectively multicentric study. Time to RT after surgery varied from 12 days to over 60 days (median, 26 days). Multivariate analysis showed that delay to RT longer than the median does not appear to be a survival cost. There was also no statistically difference in PFS (P = .513) or OS (P = .236) between patients stratified by quartiles (≤21 days vs ≧35 days). However, patients with particularly long delays (≧42 days) demonstrated a detrimental impact on OS (P = .021) but not PFS (P = .580). Delaying postoperative RT of esophageal cancer does not impact PFS, but results in a significant reduction on OS if delaying longer than 6 weeks.
The accuracy of Global Positioning System (GPS) is often combined with the reliability of Inertial Navigation System (INS) to accomplish navigation. This paper proposes an innovative way to filter and fuse the GPS and INS information. UKF is employed to simulate the information convergence of the dynamic model which maintains better performance in nonlinear system. So we can obtain a fair precise filtering result when both are online. At the same time, the INS data is trained with the result as training target when it is the unique input. This paper raises the idea that Support Vector Machine (SVM) is adopted to train the INS data during GPS outage and the simulated annealing is applied to realize the optimization of the parameters of kernel function and the penalty function in the SVM algorithm. Therefore, the integration navigation could retain almost as precise as the GPS when the GPS is off-line.
Non-geostationary (NGEO) satellite networks have a series of advantages over terrestrial networks. However, traditional routing algorithms such as the Dijkstra's Shortest Path (DSP) algorithm always lead to some Inter-Satellite Links (ISLs) heavily loaded. To guarantee a better distribution of traffic among satellites, this paper proposes a Fuzzy Satellite Congestion Indicator (FSCI) to estimate congestion status among neighboring satellites. Indeed, a satellite notifies its neighboring satellites of its FSCI. When it is about to get congested, it requests its neighboring satellites to decrease their data forwarding rates by sending them a self status notification signaling message. In response, the neighboring satellites search for less congested paths according to Fuzzy Route Determination. The routing strategy discussed above is Fuzzy Satellite Routing(FSR). This routing algorithm avoids both congestion and packet drops at the satellite. It also ensures a better traffic distribution over the entire satellite constellation. The mechanism of multiple traffic classes is also discussed in FSR. The good performance of FSR, in terms of short end-to-end delay, higher throughput, and lower packet drops, is verified via a set of simulations using the Network Simulator 2 (NS2).
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