基于水质响应系数的浅水湖泊水环境容量计算方法

根据湖泊污染物迁移转化机理、质量守恒原理,提出浅水湖泊污染物浓度场稳定判别方法。根据湖泊浓度场稳定后水质控制点污染物浓度与各入湖河道污染物通量的响应关系,构建多入湖河流水质响应系数矩阵,并采用线性规划法求解浅水湖泊各入湖河道水环境容量。与常规方法相比,该方法充分考虑了多入湖河流入湖污染物通量的叠加影响,提高了湖泊水环境容量的计算精度。     

宽带随机振动试验条件的加速因子

研究基于疲劳损伤等效的宽带随机振动试验条件的加速因子。首先回顾了基于窄带模型的随机振动试验条件的加速因子表达式,然后应用随机振动疲劳损伤的频域估计方法——基于窄带模型的修正方法（WL方法、α0.75方法和TB方法等）,得到了宽带随机振动试验条件加速因子计算的通用表达式。数值模拟分析表明,基于窄带模型的加速因子表达式对于比例载荷的宽带随机振动也是适用的,而对于非比例载荷,则需要应用文中提出的通用表达式才可以获得宽带随机振动的加速因子。     

含藻河流中生化需氧重(BOD_5)水质模拟方法的研究

含丰富藻类的河流由于藻类的光合作用与呼吸作用导致水中的溶解氧变化十分复杂且昼夜的变幅很大。使生化需氧量BOD_5的模拟所需采用的BOD_5—DO耦合模型的求解十分困难。本文根据在绵远河与石亭江的实际研究中采用了罗宾斯模型并作了合理的简化。利用藻类在夜间只有呼吸作用的特点进行溶解氧平衡计算以确定模型参数。在水质模拟中对模拟值与实测值作了比较,可看出模拟精度较好,因此本方法是适用和可取的。     

基本农田指标分解的熵权系数法研究

针对基本农田指标分解的问题，应用熵权系数法的基本原理，综合考虑评价对象的多种指标，提出对基本农田指标分解的多指标综合评价的熵权系数方法，克服了以往基本农田指标分解的只注重几个简单指标而造成结果的偏差。以济南市基本农田指标分解为例，进行了具体的评价计算。     

极值理论在重金属污染土壤修复中的应用

为了准确预测重金属污染地块不同区域内重金属的最大值,以便于后续筛选重金属修复技术、确定重金属修复药剂使用量等提供依据,采用极值理论方法对某重金属砷污染地块三块区域内的重金属砷浓度数据进行极值分布的统计分析,对比不同分布形式对重金属砷浓度数据拟合的效果。结果表明:广义极值分布可以很好地描述重金属砷浓度数据的分布情况,通过K-S检验、作图法和P-P散点图法验证得出广义极值分布形式对重金属砷浓度数据拟合效果最好,通过广义极值分布形式的表达式可以计算得出A、B和C区不同概率下重金属浓度的最大值。     

改进AHP法定权的浦东新区水质对比系数评价

层次分析法定权近应用较广，但也存在计算复杂，不易掌握，受人为主观影响较大，权重不稳定等问题。本文提出的改进ＡＨＰ法以地面水环境质量分级标准为依据建立三标度比较矩阵计算水环境指标的权重，克服上述了不足，并把计算出的权重值应用到浦东新水质的对比系数评价中，评价结果与实际情况较为吻俣。     

基于Kriging模型的载人航天某装置结构优化设计研究

对于处在振动环境中的载人航天某装置复杂结构,设计过程中存在最小化质量、同时最大化一阶整体振动频率的多目标优化问题,可以利用多目标遗传算法(NSGA-II)求解得到Pareto最优解集,但利用NSGA-II进行求解计算量大,对于复杂结构更甚。为了节省计算时间,提出基于Kriging代理模型的复杂结构多目标优化设计方法,首先通过拉丁超立方采样获得样本点,然后通过样本点创建Kriging模型,最后利用多目标遗传算法求解代理模型得到Pareto最优解集,方便设计师从中选择最优解,优化结果表明本文所述方法合理有效。     

湿热海洋工程钢结构涂料实证评价关键技术及应用

针对湿热海洋工程钢结构涂料面临高温、高湿、高盐和强辐照的严酷环境,现有的评价技术已无法满足对涂料实际耐久性能的有效评价。通过对钢结构涂料大气区、飞溅区等区域实证测试平台的搭建,利用优化涂层阻抗监测探头的设计,改良对涂层失效行为的监测技术,并将结合实证测试试验方法和结果,制定涂料实证评价关键技术,为湿热海洋钢结构防腐技术提供有力保障。     

新型环保硅酸盐钝化液对多元合金渗层耐蚀性的影响

传统铬酸盐钝化剂含有Cr⁶⁺，毒性较高且危害环境，使用受到严格限制。近年来硅酸盐、钼酸盐、稀土盐等无机盐钝化技术得到推广应用。其中，硅酸盐钝化液具有稳定性好、工艺简单、无毒无污染等特点，在电镀锌、热浸镀锌及多元合金共渗等工业领域得到广泛研究。本论文通过正交试验研究了硅酸盐钝化液的配比及钝化工艺对多元合金渗层耐蚀性的影响。结果表明，常温钝化形成的硅酸盐钝化膜可以显著改善渗层的表面状态，提高渗层的耐碱性、耐中性盐雾性能及低频阻抗值和容抗弧半径，当硅酸盐钝化液与水的配比为1∶1，浸泡时间为3 min，固化温度为100℃，固化时间为60 min时，钝化膜具有最佳的耐蚀性。     

屏蔽电缆电磁脉冲屏蔽效能表征参数研究

屏蔽电缆广泛应用于电力系统,而其极易遭受雷电电磁脉冲（Lightning Electromagnetic Pulse, LEMP）的干扰。其雷电电磁脉冲耦合是工程电磁防护的一个重要研究内容。采用三同轴时域测量方法实际测量了某型同轴电缆芯线的电磁脉冲响应,计算了屏蔽层转移阻抗;利用FDTD、Agrawal耦合模型和转移阻抗一阶近似模型分析了雷电通道近区架空屏蔽电缆芯线上的感应电压。根据分析结果讨论了雷电电磁脉冲分析中转移阻抗的近似描述方法。     

Conversion of temperate forests into heaths: Role of ecosystem disturbance and ericaceous plants

Fire and logging in nutrient-poor temperate forests with certain ericaceous understory plants may convert the forests into heaths. The process of disturbance-induced heath formation is documented by using examples ofCalluna in western Europe,Kalmia in Newfoundland, andGaultheria (salal) in coastal British Columbia. In a cool, temperate climate, rapid vegetative growth ofCalluna, Kalmia, and salal following disturbance results in increasing organic accumulation (paludification), nutrient sequestration, soil acidification, and allelochemicals. These are thought to be the main reasons to conifer regeneration failure in disturbed habitats. If continuation in forest is a land-use objective, then temperate forests with an ericaceous understory should not be logged unless effective silvicultural methods are devised to control the ericaceous plants and restore forest regeneration. Preharvest vegetation control may be considered as an option. Failure to control the understory plants may lead to a long-term vegetation shift, from forest to heathland, particularly in nutrient-poor sites. Successful methods of controllingKalmia andGaultheria, however, have yet to be developed. While theKalmia- andGaultheria- dominated heathlands are undesirable in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, a wide range ofCalluna heathlands of western Europe are being conserved as natural and seminatural vegetation.     

BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ESTUARINE/COASTAL POLLUTION1

ABSTRACT: Sustained interest in and concern about the health status of the aquatic environment has resulted in extensive research focused on (1) effects of pollution on survival, growth, and reproduction of resource species at all life stages; (2) diseases of fish and shellfish, as they may be related to pollution and as they may serve as indicators of environmental stress; and (3) contaminant body burdens in fish and shellfish - their effects on the aquatic animals and their potential effects on humans. Effects, lethal and sublethal, of pollutants on life history stages of fish and shellfish have been documented, as have impacts on local stocks in badly degraded habitats, but as yet there has been no adequate quantitative demonstration of effects on entire aquatic species - probably because of the difficulty in sorting out relative effects of the many environmental factors that influence abundance. Sublethal effects, especially those that result in disease, have been examined intensively, and some diseases and disease syndromes have been associated statistically with pollution. Other pollution indicators (biochemical, physiological, genetic, behavioral, and ecological) have also received some attention, as have body burdens of contaminants in aquatic species. Research, especially that conducted during the past decade, has done much to clarify the many pathways and toxic effects of contaminants on aquatic animals, and has also helped to identify mechanisms for survival of fish and shellfish in the presence of environmental changes caused by human activities.     

Using Paleo Reconstructions to Improve Streamflow Forecast Lead Time in the Western United States

In water stressed regions, water managers are exploring new horizons that would help in long‐range streamflow forecasts. Oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations have been shown to influence streamflow variability. In this study, long‐lead time streamflow forecasts are made using a multiclass kernel‐based data‐driven support vector machine (SVM) model. The extended streamflow records based on tree ring reconstructions were used to provide a longer time series data. Reconstructed data were used from 1658 to 1952 and the instrumental record was used from 1953 to 2007. Reconstructions for oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations included the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and North Atlantic Oscillation. Streamflow forecasts using all four oscillations were made with one‐year to five‐year lead times for 21 gages in the western United States. This is the first study that uses both instrumental and reconstructed data of oscillations in SVM model to improve streamflow forecast lead time. SVM model was able to provide “satisfactory” to “very good” forecasts with one‐ to five‐year lead time for the selected gages. The use of all the oscillation indices helped in achieving better predictability compared to using individual oscillations. The SVM modeling results are better when compared with multiple linear regression model forecasts. The findings are statistical in nature and are expected to be useful for long‐term water resources planning and management.     

Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress

Urban ecological studies, including focus on cities, suburbs, and exurbs, while having deep roots in the early to mid 20th century, have burgeoned in the last several decades. We use the state factor approach to highlight the role of important aspects of climate, substrate, organisms, relief, and time in differentiating urban from non-urban areas, and for determining heterogeneity within spatially extensive metropolitan areas. In addition to reviewing key findings relevant to each state factor, we note the emergence of tentative "urban syndromes" concerning soils, streams, wildlife and plants, and homogenization of certain ecosystem functions, such as soil organic carbon dynamics. We note the utility of the ecosystem approach, the human ecosystem framework, and watersheds as integrative tools to tie information about multiple state factors together. The organismal component of urban complexes includes the social organization of the human population, and we review key modes by which human populations within urban areas are differentiated, and how such differentiation affects environmentally relevant actions. Emerging syntheses in land change science and ecological urban design are also summarized. The multifaceted frameworks and the growing urban knowledge base do however identify some pressing research needs.     

Neighbourhood characteristics and urban gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area: staffing and voluntarism,food production,infrastructure, and sustainability practices

Urban gardens are important sources of sustenance for communities with limited access to food. Hence, this study focuses on food production in gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area in Northwest Ohio. We administered surveys to 150 garden managers from November 2014 to February 2015 in our attempt to better understand how neighbourhood racial composition and poverty levels are related to staffing and voluntarism, food production and distribution, the development of infrastructure, and the adoption of sustainability practices in urban gardens. The results from 30 gardens are presented in this paper. We used Geographic Information Systems to map the gardens and overlay the map with 2010 census data so that we could conduct demographic analyses of the neighbourhoods in which the gardens were located. Though the gardens were small – two acres or less – up to 46 varieties of food were grown in a single garden. Gardens also operated on small budgets. Food from the gardens was gifted or shared with friends, family, and neighbourhood residents. Gardens in predominantly minority neighbourhoods tended to have fewer institutional partners, less garden infrastructure, and had adopted fewer sustainable practices than gardens in predominantly White neighbourhoods. Nonetheless, residents of predominantly minority and high-poverty neighbourhoods participated in garden activities and influenced garden operations. Volunteering and staffing were racialised and gendered.     

Journalists' views of advertiser pressures on agricultural news

All major journalism ethical codes explicitly state that journalists should protect editorial copy from undue influence by outside sources. However, much of the previous research on agricultural information has concentrated on what information various media communicate (gatekeeping studies) or communication's role in increasing innovation adoption (diffusion studies). Few studies have concentrated specifically on organizational and structural constraints that might adversely affect agricultural journalists' ethical standards; those that have, focus largely on farm magazines. A study of newspaper reporters who cover agricultural news found that the most pressing ethical concern is the effect of advertiser (agri-business) pressure on editorial copy, and that their concerns in general parallel those of farm magazine writers and editors. The majority reported being in situations in which they might be exposed to advertiser pressure, including pressures to change or withhold editorial copy. Large minorities suggested that advertising pressures affect the overall environment in which agricultural journalists work, and more than one in ten said they allow advertiser pressures to influence editorial decisions. The newspaper reporters who cover agricultural beats showed slightly more resistance to advertiser pressure than did farm magazine editors in a parallel study.     

Definition Procedures Have Little Effect on Performance of Environmental Classifications of Streams and Rivers

Mapped environmental classifications are defined using various procedures, but there has been little evaluation of the differences in their ability to discriminate variation in independent ecological characteristics. We tested the performance of environmental classifications of the streams and rivers of France that had been defined from the same environmental data using geographic regionalization and numerical classification of individual river valley segments. Test data comprised invertebrate assemblages, water chemistry, and hydrological indexes obtained from sites throughout France. Classification performance was measured by analysis of similarity (ANOSIM). Geometric regions defined by a regular grid and without regard to environmental variables and a posteriori classifications based on clustering the test datasets defined lower and upper bounds of performance for a given number of classes. Differences in classification performances were generally small. The ANOSIM statistics for the a posteriori classifications were around twice that of all environmental classifications, including geometrically defined regions. The hydro-ecoregions performed slightly better for the invertebrate data and the network classification performed slightly better for the chemistry and hydrological data. Our results indicate that environmental classifications that are defined using different procedures can be comparable in terms of their ability to discriminate variation of ecological characteristics and that alleged differences in performance arising from different classification procedures can be small relative to unexplained variation. We conclude that definition procedures might have little effect on the performance of large-scale environmental classifications and decisions over which procedures to use should be based primarily on pragmatic considerations.     

Predicting deer-vehicle collisions in an urban area

Collisions with deer and other large animals are increasing, and the resulting economic costs and risks to public safety have made mitigation measures a priority for both city and wildlife managers. We created landscape models to describe and predict deer-vehicle collision (DVCs) within the City of Edmonton, Alberta. Models based on roadside characteristics revealed that DVCs occurred frequently where roadside vegetation was both denser and more diverse, and that DVCs were more likely to occur when the groomed width of roadside right-of-ways was smaller. No DVCs occurred where the width of the vegetation-free or manicured roadside buffer was greater than 40 m. Landscape-based models showed that DVCs were more likely in more heterogeneous landscapes where road densities were lower and speed limits were higher, and where non-forested vegetation such as farmland was in closer proximity to larger tracts of forest. These models can help wildlife and transportation managers to identify locations of high collision frequency for mitigation. Modifying certain landscape and roadside habitats can be an effective way to reduce deer-vehicle collisions.     

MANGANESE CYCLE IN IMPOUNDMENT WATER

Manganese entering impounded water will undergo a cyclic transformation. Oxidation precipitates manganese from top waters. At the bottom of the lake, biological activity will render manganese soluble by both intracellular as well as extracellular activity. The study was made to demonstrate that biological reduction and transformation, organometallic complexation, together with the presence of carbon dioxide and the lowering of pH all have some effect on the solubility of manganese. Dissolved manganese may be brought back to top waters during the lake overturn and therefore deteriorates the water quality.     

Effect of Light on Biodegradation of Estrone, 17β‐Estradiol,and 17α‐Ethinylestradiol in Stream Sediment

Biodegradation of [A‐ring ¹⁴C] Estrone (E1), 17β‐estradiol (E2), and 17α‐ethinylestradiol (EE2) to ¹⁴CO₂ was investigated under light and dark conditions in microcosms containing epilithon or sediment collected from Boulder Creek, Colorado. Mineralization of the estrogen A‐ring was observed in all sediment treatments, but not epilithon treatments. No difference in net mineralization between light and dark treatments was observed for ¹⁴C‐E2. Net mineralization of ¹⁴C‐E1 and ¹⁴C‐EE2 was enhanced in light treatments. Extents of ¹⁴CO₂ accumulation and rates of mineralization were significantly greater for E2 than E1 under dark conditions, but were comparable under light conditions. These results indicate substantial differences in the uptake and metabolism of E1 and E2 in the environment and suggest biorecalcitrance of E1 relative to E2 in light‐limited environments. The extent of ¹⁴CO₂ accumulation and rate of mineralization for EE2 in dark treatments were less than half of that observed for E2 and generally lower than for E1, consistent with previous reports of EE2 biorecalcitrance. However, ¹⁴CO₂ accumulation and rates of mineralization were comparable for EE2, E2, and E1 under light conditions. These results indicate photoactivation and/or phototransformation/photodegradation processes can substantially enhance heterotrophic biodegradation of estrogens in sunlit environments and may play an important role in estrogen transport and attenuation.