SHORT COMMUNICATION CLASSIFICATION METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE QUALITY PARAMETERS

There are many chemical products where product conformity is decided upon by qualitative humanjudgements of overall product quality.Nowadays,quantitative instrumentally determined qualityparameters become available which are intended to replace such qualitative judgements by means ofautomatic decision rules using multivariate specification limits.Six classification methods to derive suchlimits are compared in terms of their power to predict corresponding human judgements on overall colorconformity of 17 dyestuffs based on historical quality data.Standard statistical classification methodsturned out to be unacceptable for the routine generation of decision rules because of the frequent distinctsuboptimality of their predictive power.Instead,a simple non-statistical classification method utilizinga priori knowledge about the underlying data structure yielded uniformly satisfactory decision rules.     

REVIEW ARTICLE MULTIVARIATE EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS AND GRAPHICS:A TUTORIAL

Exploratory data analysis(EDA)is a toolbox of data manipulation methods for looking at data to seewhat they seem to say,i.e.one tries to let the data speak for themselves.In this way there is hope thatthe data will lead to indications about'models'of relationships not expected a priori.In this respect EDAis a pre-step to confirmatory data analysis which delivers measures of how adequate a model is.In thistutorial the focus is on multivariate exploratory data analysis for quantitative data using linear methodsfor dimension reduction and prediction.Purely graphical multivariate tools such as 3D rotation andscatterplot matrices are discussed after having introduced the univariate and bivariate tools on which theyare based.The main tasks of multivariate exploratory data analysis are identified as'search for structure'by dimension reduction and'model selection'by comparing predictive power.Resampling is used tosupport validity,and variables selection to improve interpretability.     

Determinations of particle size distributions in natural waters use of Zeiss Micro-Videomat image analyzer

Use of a Zeiss Micro-Videomat electronic image analyzer for routine measurements of size distributions of particles found in natural waters greater than 0.3 μm has been investigated. Staining of particles with a solution of Gentiana-violet eliminated the multiple-count problem which has frustrated earlier attempts to use image analyzers for quantitative phytoplankton work. Concentration of samples from the lake water column was successfully achieved with an impact centrifuge. Losses of inorganic particles indicate that the centrifuge method must be evaluated on an individual case basis. Precision and accuracy of the Zeiss Micro-Videomat using either sedimentation (Utermöhl) or centrifugation for sample concentration were satisfactory for particles larger than 1 μm. The system appears promising for routine surveillance of raw water quality at water treatment plants, and performance of unit processes used for particulate removal, as well as for specific investigations of ecological phenomena in natural waters.     

Seismic Features of the Crust-Upper Mantle Beneath Karamay-Kuqa, Xinjiang

1. IntoductionSponsored by the National 305 Program, China, a teleseismic experiment was performed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and the French Scientific Research Center in Tian Shan area from June 1997 to February 1998. The array was mostly deployed along the main road, starting from Karamay in the north to Kuqa in the south. Geologically, the 700 km-long profile covers the Junggar basin, the Tian Shan Mts., the Bo-A Fault and the Korla Fault, ending in nort…     

成矿元素的气相迁移与实验研究

越来越多的野外观测和实验数据表明,气相对成矿元素的迁移和富集具有不可忽视的作用。由高温火山气体形成的升华壳和凝结水中富集多种岩浆组分和成矿金属;中低温的地热田水蒸气中也检测到成矿元素;某些斑岩型铜-金矿床的富气体包裹体比共存的盐水包裹体更富集Cu和Au。金属呈简单氯化物或氟化物、硫化物、含氧酸及原子迁移的理论假设低估了400℃以下气体搬运成矿金属的能力,而必须考虑溶剂化作用(水合作用),有关银、金、铜、锡、钼、钨在水热气相中的溶解度实验证实了这一点,基于实验数据的热力学模拟计算表明,水热气相可运移足够的成矿金属以形成具有经济价值的浅成热液型和斑岩型矿床。此外,实验也证实砷和硼从液相分配至气相中也与水合作用有关,其气液相间的分配系数随温度和水蒸气的压力增大而增强。无疑地,成矿金属被水热气相搬运的理论对理解金属矿床的形成机理和发展诸如深穿透地球化学的地球气找矿方法具有重要意义。