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The primary aim of our research was to investigate the applicability of activated sludge models (ASM) for aerobic thermophilic processes, especially autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion (ATAD). The ASM3 model (Gujer et al., 1999) theoretically seems to be the most suitable, because storage plays an important role in a batch-feed cycle system like ATAD. The ASM3 model was extended with an activation step of the thermophilic organisms. This model was calibrated and verified by independent test results, demonstrating its ability to describe the process. The growth (microH = 26.04 day(-1)), storage (k(STO) = 20.39 day(-1)), hydrolysis (kH = 11.15 day(-1)) and decay rates (b 9H,O2) = 1.28 day(-1), b(STO,O2 = 1.10 day-1)) obtained from calibration are significantly higher at 55 degrees C than at mesophilic temperatures, justifying the faster metabolism at higher temperatures. An inert fraction of the biomass (characterized by the model parameter f(i) = 0.4) was found to be significantly greater than in the mesophilic case. This can be attributed to the lower diversity of the thermophilic species and thus to their narrower substrate spectra. 相似文献
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Cannibalistic tendencies are well known in spiders and may be a significant factor influencing population size. The wolf
spider, Pardosa agrestis, is the dominant non-web-building spider in a wide range of central European agricultural habitats. Preliminary field observations
indicated an extended reproductive period, which results in a very wide size distribution of juvenile instars. We hypothesised
that if cannibalism is enhanced by differences in size, especially during periods when prey is scarce, these populations might
be susceptible to cannibalism in an ecologically significant way. Laboratory studies were conducted on juvenile P. agrestis in arenas. We analysed the following specific aspects of cannibalism: (1) the effect of the weight ratio between the opponents;
(2) the effect of weight per se, and (3) the role of hunger level in determining cannibalistic tendencies of spiders. The
role of weight and hunger were analysed in separate experiments, in both cases by controlling for the other variable. The
results showed that cannibalism was strongly positively correlated with both weight ratio and hunger, but absolute size/age
of an individual could not predict the occurrence of a cannibalistic event. These experiments generated the plausible hypothesis
that cannibalism might be an important phenomenon in the regulation of real populations, which should be tested specifically
in future field experiments.
Received: 15 December 1997 / Accepted after revision: 10 October 1998 相似文献
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Ferenc Csillag Sándor Kabos Tarmo K. Remmel 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2008,15(4):385-401
We revisit one of the classical problems in geography and cartography where multiple observations on a lattice (N) need to be grouped into many fewer regions (G), especially when this number of desired regions is unknown a priori. Since an optimization through all possible aggregations
is not feasible, a hierarchical classification scheme is proposed with an objective function sensitive to spatial pattern.
The objective function to be minimized during the assignment of observations to regions (classification) consists of two terms:
the first characterizes accuracy and the second, model complexity. For the latter, we introduce a spatial measure that characterizes
the number of homogeneous patches rather than the usual number of classes. A simulation study shows that such a classification
procedure is less sensitive to random and spatially correlated error (noise) than non-spatial classification. We also show
that for conditional autoregressive error (noise) fields the optimal partitioning is the one that has the highest within-units
generalized Moran coefficient. The classifier is implemented in ArcView to demonstrate both a socio-economic and an environmental
application to illustrate some potential applications.
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Tarmo K. Remmel (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Determination of selected neonicotinoid insecticides by liquid chromatography with thermal lens spectrometric detection 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Valéria Guzsvány Azamela Madžgalj Polonca Trebše Ferenc Gaál Mladen Franko 《Environmental Chemistry Letters》2007,5(4):203-208
We studied the analysis of trace amounts of neonicotinoid insecticides by liquid chromatography coupled with a thermal lens
spectrometric detector (TLS). This multi-residue analysis method is based on the reversed phase separation on C18 column, isocratic elution and collinear dual beam TLS detection. The insecticides thiamethoxam, imidacloprid, acetamiprid
and thiacloprid were detected with retention times of 4.4, 5.7, 6.5 and 8.5 min and limits of quantifications of 50, 89, 10,
and 25 μg/L, respectively. The retention times agreed well with those obtained by the same chromatographic method but using
a diode-array detector (DAD). The limits of quantifications for imidacloprid were identical in both techniques. However, the
limits of quantifications for thiamethoxam, acetamiprid and thiacloprid were up to 8.5 times lower using the TLS detector
compared to the diode-array detector. The applicability of the developed procedure was tested on spiked river water and potato
samples. 相似文献
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István Jablonkai Ferenc Dutka 《Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B》2013,48(3):555-559
Abstract Safening activities of natural compounds DIMBOA, DIBOA, and MBOA, as well as synthetic 1,4‐benzoxazin‐3‐ones were tested against acetochlor and EPTC injuries to maize. No safening activities of natural products and from low to moderate activity of synthetic benzoxazinones were observed. In order to explain inefficacy of natural compounds we studied the influence of these molecules on enzymes participating in metabolic detoxication of acetochlor and EPTC. Pretreatment with DIMBOA elevated maize cytochrome P450 levels. Pretreatments with chemicals containing 1,4‐benzoxazin‐3‐one backbone did not alter glutathione S‐transferase enzyme activities. However, all natural products inhibited glutathione S‐transferase activity of roots and shoots in vitro after addition to the enzyme. Safening ineffectiveness of natural hydroxamic acids may be explained by their inhibitory effects on GST enzymes due to their reaction with sulfhydryl groups on the enzyme. 相似文献
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It is a current challenge to better understand the relative importance of species in ecosystems, and the network perspective is able to offer quantitative tools for this. It is plausible to assume, in general, that well-linked species, being key interactors, are also more important for the community. Recently a number of methods have been suggested for quantifying the network position of species in ecological networks (like the topological importance metric, TI). Most of them are based on node centrality indices and it may happen that the two most important species in a food web have very similar interaction structure and they can essentially replace each other if one becomes extinct. For conservation considerations it is a challenge to identify species that are richly connected and, at the same time, have a relatively unique and irreplaceable interaction pattern. We present a new method and illustrate our approach by using the Kuosheng Bay trophic network in Taiwan. The new method is based on the interaction matrix, where the strength of the interaction between nodes i and j depends only on topology. By defining a threshold separating weak and strong interactors, we define the effective range of interactions for each graph node. If the overlaps between pairs of these ranges are quantified, we gain a metric expressing how unique is the interaction pattern of a focal node (TO). The combination of centrality (TI) and uniqueness (TO) is called topological functionality (TF). We compare the nodal importance rank provided by this metric to others based on a variety of centrality measures. The main conclusion is that shrimps seem to have the most unique interaction pattern despite that their structural importance has been underestimated by all conventional centrality indices. Also, our network analysis suggests that fisheries disturb the ecosystem in a more critical network position than the impingement by the local power plant. 相似文献
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Ferenc L. Tóth 《Integrated Assessment》2000,1(2):127-136
A standard framework is presented as an underlying model for the discounting debate. Views and proposals for the techniques
and rates of discounting are assessed. Alternative modeling frameworks for studying intergenerational equity issues are evaluated
with the result that the basic insights they provide do not differ very much. Results from model experiments involving different
discount rate proposals show that fudging the discount rate does not lead to efficient climate policy. Three major clusters
of opinions are identified regarding the applicability of cost-benefit analysis to the climate change problem and the appropriate
discount rate to use. It is concluded that under some very special circumstances the cost-benefit rule should be abandoned
and cost-effective strategies implying standard discount rates should be sought to reach clearly defined and justified environmental
targets.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Ishikawa Toshiharu Matsumoto Akio Szidarovszky Ferenc 《Environmental Economics and Policy Studies》2019,21(4):579-597
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - This study demonstrates the conditions under which an increase in the ambient charge positively or negatively affects the total level of non-point... 相似文献