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This article discusses the issue of negative interference from calcium dobesilate in the Roche sarcosine oxidase creatinine assay and proposes a solution using CuO. The study found that calcium dobesilate can cause false decreased creatinine values in patients, which poses challenges to clinical diagnosis and treatment. The researchers conducted experiments using CuO as an oxidant to correct the interference of calcium dobesilate on serum creatinine measurements. The results showed that CuO effectively corrected the interference, making it a cost-effective and easily implementable solution compared to other methods. However, further testing is needed to determine its application in other detecting systems. [Extracted from the article]

The performance of low-cost smart terminals is limited by the performance of their low-cost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) hardware and chips, as well as by the impact of complex urban environments, which affect the positioning accuracy and stability of GNSS services. To this end, this paper proposes a robust adaptive Kalman filter for different environments that can be applied after data preprocessing. Based on the Kalman filter algorithm, a robust estimation approach is introduced into real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning to make judgments on the abnormal observation values of low-cost smart terminals, which amplifies the variance and covariance of the outlier observation equation, and reduces the impact of outliers on positioning performance. The Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics III (IGG III) function is used for regulation purposes, where prior information is modified and refreshed using the equivalent weight matrix and adaptive factors, thus reducing the impact of system model errors on system state estimation results. In addition, a robust factor is defined to adjust positioning deviation weighting between the pre- and post-test robust estimates. The experimental results show that after robust RTK positioning in the static experiments, the overall improvement in positioning accuracies of the Xiaomi 8, Huawei P40, Huawei mate40, and low-cost M8 receiver reached 29.6%, 31.3%, 32.1%, and 30.7%, respectively. Similarly, after applying the proposed robust method in the dynamic experiments, the overall positioning accuracies of the Xiaomi 8, Huawei P40, Huawei mate40, and the low-cost M8 receiver improved by 28.3%, 32.9%, 35.4%, and 26.2%, respectively. The experimental results reveal that an excellent positioning effect of a smartphone is positively correlated with robust RTK positioning performance. However, it is worth noting that when the positioning accuracy reaches a high level, such as the positioning results achieved using low-cost receivers, the robustness performance shows a relatively decreasing trend. This finding suggests that under the condition of high positioning accuracy, the sensitivity of specific positioning equipment to interference sources may increase, resulting in a decline in the effect of robust RTK positioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The blockage caused by liquid loading poses a major problem to the aged gas wells. Various categories of foaming surfactants including zwitterionic, anionic and cationic surfactants are often used for foam‐based gas well deliquification. In this study, a foaming formula containing anionic (sodium lauroyl sarcosinate, LSS), cationic Gemini (C16AGB and C12AGB) and zwitterionic (C16APB and C12APB) surfactants was developed. This foaming formula was first optimized through the foaming ability and foam stability tests, and then evaluated through liquid unloading performance tests under various salinity, condensate, methanol and temperature conditions. Synergy was observed in the foaming ability and foam stability measurements when LSS, C16AGB, C12AGB, C16APB and C12APB were combined at a molar ratio of 5:4:1:4:1. The foaming formula exhibited excellent liquid unloading performance at high salinity (up to 26 × 104 mg/L), high condensate fraction (up to 25%) and high methanol fraction (up to 50%) conditions. The presence of 10% methanol significantly enhanced foaming efficiency (referred to as the ratio of the foam mass to the initial liquid mass) and liquid unloading efficiency of the foaming formula at 20–90°C. Furthermore, the surface tension measurements and the foam morphological investigation were carried out to reveal the observed synergy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many studies have substantiated the perceptual symbol system, which assumes a routine generation of perceptual information during language comprehension, but little is known about the processing format in which the perceptual information of different dimensions is conveyed simultaneously during sentence comprehension. The current study provides the first experimental evidence of how multidimensional perceptual information (color and shape) was processed during online sentence comprehension in Mandarin. We designed three consecutive sentence–picture verification tasks that only differed in the delay of the display of pictures preceded by declarative sentences. The processing was analyzed in three stages based on time intervals (i.e., 0ms, +750ms, +1500ms). The response accuracy and response time data were reported. The initial stage (i.e., ISI=0ms) attested the match effect of color and shape, but the simulated representation of color and shape did not interact. In the intermediate stage (i.e., ISI=750ms), the routinely simulated color and shape interacted, but the match facilitation was found only in cases where one perceptual information was in mismatch while the other was not. In the final stage (i.e., ISI=1500ms), the match facilitation of one particular perceptual property was influenced by a mismatch with the other perceptual property. These results suggested that multiple perceptual information presented simultaneously was processed in an additive manner to a large extent before entering into the final stage, where the simulated perceptual information was integrated in a multiplicative manner. The results also suggested that color and shape were comparable to object recognition when conjointly conveyed. In relation to other evidence from behavioral and event-related potential studies on sentence reading in the discussion, we subscribed to the idea that the full semantic integration became available over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]