The characteristics of young Indigenous drink drivers in Queensland,Australia

Objective: This study investigates the prevalence and characteristics of first drink driving convictions among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians (aged from 14 to 24) and considers some of the risk factors associated with recidivism.

Methods: Convictions recorded between 2006 and 2013 were extracted from the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney General database. Convictions were regrouped by gender, age, Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia classification, and sentence severity. Chi-square analyses and logistic regression were conducted to identify group differences in offense characteristics for gender and recidivism (recidivists versus nonrecidivists).

Results: The sample consisted of 1,583 individuals (74.1% males) convicted in the 8-year period. Gender comparisons showed that there was no significant difference in age at time of first offense, blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level at apprehension, or type of penalty received between males and females. However, males received larger fines and longer periods of license disqualification. Comparisons for reoffending and non-reoffending revealed that males, drivers aged 14–17 years of age and 18 to 20 years of age, and inner regional drivers were more likely to reoffend.

Conclusions: There were limited differences between females and males or recidivists and nonrecidivists at first conviction. Convictions for drink driving may provide an opportunity for early alcohol intervention with Indigenous young drivers (<20 years) because it is likely to be an individual's first alcohol-related conviction.     

仓库火灾特点、原因及防范对策探讨

分析某地仓库火灾的统计数据,归纳总结了仓库火灾特点,得出仓库火灾的主要原因,并按照"3E对策"的原则,从安全技术、安全教育、安全管理三个方面提出预防与控制仓库火灾对策.     

阜山金矿进回风巷粉尘孔粒径分布及其分形特征

为探究金属矿井下粉尘孔粒径特征,以阜山金矿为例,系统研究其进风巷粉尘(IAD)、回风巷粉尘(RAD)的孔粒径分布(PSD)情况.首先,利用激光粒度分析仪与扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、低温液氮吸附仪分别测试粉尘粒径与孔参数,然后利用分形理论计算并分析其粒度分形维数与孔分形维数.结果 表明:RAD粒径比IAD粒径小,两者最可...     

Association between older driver characteristics, on-road driving test performance, and crash liability

From May 1999, a new system for licensing older drivers was introduced in New Zealand. It included a practical on-road driving test with expanded scope, to be completed every two years from the time the driver turns 80. The relationship between crashes and test performance needed to be studied to inform the debate regarding the testing system. The population studied was all drivers who entered this licensing system during its first three years of operation. They were defined as crash involved if they were involved in an injury crash during the two years following their first licensure under the new system. Logistic regression was used to describe the risk of crash involvement in terms of driving test performance and other driver characteristics. Each driving test failure was associated with a 33% increase in the odds of crash involvement (95% CI 14% to 55%), controlling for age, gender, minor traffic violations, and whether the older driver lived with another licensed driver or not. Minor traffic violations in the two years following the driving test were associated with twice the odds of crash involvement. These results suggest that the new on-road driving test does identify older driver behaviors or limitations that are related to crash liability. It is anticipated that the results presented here will provide essential information for discussing older driver licensing systems, whose impact will grow in importance as the population of drivers ages.     

Individual characteristics,work perceptions,and affective reactions influences on differentiated absence criteria

The present study provides support for the utility of studying absence as a multi-dimensional criterion. Survey responses were collected from 194 bus drivers and paired with categorized archival absences. Seven absence indices were created and linked with three categories of predictors: (1) affective reactions to the work environment; (2) work-related perceptions; and (3) individual resource characteristis. The relationships between the multiple absence criteria and the three sets of predictors were examined both separately and combined using part canonical, and canonical correlation analyses. Affective responses fully mediated the influence of work perceptions on absence, and partially mediated the influence of individual resource variables. Redundancy coefficients and a rotated structure matrix were employed to identify two significant dimensions labeled, nonwork obligations and stress reactions, that linked the combined predictor sets with the set of absence measures. Together these dimensions accounted for 15 per cent of the variance in absence, with predictors differing in their explanatory power. Implications for the management of employee absence programs were discussed.     

煤矿区水环境中多环芳烃污染物的组成与分布

采集23个石龙区地表水样和地下水样,用色谱-质谱技术鉴定不同水体中二-七环芳烃化合物,检出了14种优控多环芳烃(Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons,简称PAHs),即萘、菲、蒽、芴、芘、苯并[a]蒽、(卄屈)荧蒽、苯并[b]荧蒽、苯并[k]荧蒽、苯并[a]芘、二苯并[a,h]蒽、茚并[1,2,3-c,d]芘、苯并[g,h,i].结果表明,所检测的地表水样中多环芳烃含量为0.068～8.377 μg/L,地下水样中优控多环芳烃含量为0.043～0.47 μg/L;三、四环芳烃化合物含量普遍较高,且三环芳烃中菲含量最高,四环芳烃中荧蒽和芘含量普遍较高.应用甲基菲指数(MPI1)、甲基菲与菲比值(MP/P)、荧蒽与芘比值(FL/PY)和"三芴"系列的组成特征等标志物参数进行分析,得出煤及其不完全燃烧对水环境中多环芳烃的贡献较大.     

Motor vehicle fatalities among Gulf War era veterans: characteristics, mechanisms, and circumstances

OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to describe fatal motor vehicle crashes (MVC) among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War era and to compare the distribution of crash and individual characteristics between those deployed to the Gulf War (GWV) and those not deployed (NDV). METHODS: We compared individual characteristics, crash mechanisms, and crash circumstances between 765 GWV and 553 NDV who died from MVC within the first five years of the war, between May 1991 and December 1995. RESULTS: Overall, GWV and NDV who died from a MVC were more likely to be enlisted males (97%), 21-30 years old (72%), have a high school education or less (91%), drive a passenger car (52%), and not use restraints (60%). The overall annual rate of motor vehicle fatalities for GWV (23.6 per 100,000; 95% confidence interval: 21.9-25.3) was significantly greater than the rate for NDV (15.9, 95% CI: 14.6-17.3). GWV with the highest motor vehicle fatality rates include males (24.8, 95% CI: 23.0-26.6), 17-20 year olds (105.0, 95% CI: 78.2-138.1), and those not married (27.3, 95% CI: 25.1-30.1). Adjusting for differences in age distribution across GWV and NDV did not account for the difference in rates. Characteristics of MVC fatalities that were over-represented among GWV include serving as regular active duty (p = 0.001), having a high school education or less (p = 0.01), being involved in a single-vehicle crash (p = 0.008), and dying within the first hour following the crash (p = 0.004). Also, we identified a greater proportion of alcohol-related crashes among GWV during the late night and early morning hours. CONCLUSIONS: The highest rates of motor vehicle fatality among young, single males in the military mirror the experience of the general population. Further research is necessary to determine modifiable risk factors that can be targeted for specific interventions and whether the elevated late night alcohol-related crash rate among GWV is an effect of deployment or an inherent population bias among those selected for operational deployments.     

Work characteristics,challenge appraisal,creativity, and proactive behavior: A multi‐level study

Work characteristics such as time pressure and job control can be experienced as a challenge that is positively associated with performance‐related behaviors. Using experience‐sampling data from 149 employees, we examined the relationships between these work characteristics and creativity and proactive behavior on a daily level. Results from multilevel analyses indicate that time pressure and job control are perceived as challenging, and that challenge appraisal in turn is related to daily creativity and proactive behavior. Furthermore, cross‐level mediation analyses revealed that daily work characteristics act as the mechanism underlying the relationships between chronic work characteristics and challenge appraisal. This study supports the view of time pressure as a challenge‐related stressor that leads to favorable outcomes. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Routinization,work characteristics and their relationships with creative and proactive behaviors

Researchers have claimed that routinization hinders creativity. However, empirical evidence for this assumption is sparse. In this study, we argue that routinization may be beneficial for creativity and related behavior due to available resources that can be used to develop new ideas while working. We examine the relationship between routinization and four work characteristics (job control, job complexity, time pressure, and supervisor support) on the one hand and a range of creative and proactive behaviors on the other hand in a randomly selected sample of 278 employees of a German high‐tech company. Regression analyses reveal that in addition to work characteristics, routinization is generally positively related to creative and proactive behaviors. Ways to enhance routinization and thereby creative and proactive behaviors are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Release characteristics and control of nitrogen,phosphate, organic matter from spent mushroom compost amended soil in a column experiment

Spent mushroom compost (SMC) is a co-product of edible mushroom which contains abundant nutrients including organics, nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P). This study is related to the release potential of nitrogen, phosphate and organic matter from SMC amended soil in column-based experiments. Results showed that due to SMC application, NH₄⁺–N and NO₃⁻–N concentrations in leachate decreased by 92.5% and 76.3%, respectively, while EC and COD_Cr concentrations increased by 84.2% and 481.9%, respectively, as compared to chemical fertilizers. Moreover, a minor loss of TN_cum (65%) and TP_cum (almost equal value) exhibited good nutrient retention capacity. Leaching test results demonstrated that the mixed application of SMC and chemical fertilizers could alleviate excessive COD_Cr level in SMC leachate. The release process of nutrients in SMC amended soil could be described by first/first order mixed model, indicating that nutrients leached from SMC follow a two-stage pattern.     

A review on hybrid mixture explosions: Safety parameters,explosion regimes and criteria,flame characteristics

The hybrid mixture of combustible dusts and flammable gases/vapours widely exist in various industries, including mining, petrochemical, metallurgical, textile and pharmaceutical. It may pose a higher explosion risk than gas/vapor or dust/mist explosions since the hybrid explosions can still be initiated even though both the gas and the dust concentration are lower than their lower explosion limit (LEL) values. Understanding the explosion threat of hybrid mixtures not only contributes to the inherent safety and sustainability of industrial process design, but promotes the efficiency of loss prevention and mitigation. To date, however, there is no test standard with reliable explosion criteria available to determine the safety parameters of all types of hybrid mixture explosions, nor the flame propagation and quenching mechanism or theoretical explanation behind these parameters. This review presents a state-of-the-art overview of the comprehensive understanding of hybrid mixture explosions mainly in an experimental study level; thereby, the main limitations and challenges to be faced are explored. The discussed main contents include the experimental measurement for the safety parameters of hybrid mixtures (i.e., explosion sensitivity and severity parameters) via typical test apparatuses, explosion regime and criterion of hybrid mixtures, the detailed flame propagation/quenching characteristics behind the explosion severities/sensitivities of hybrid mixtures. This work aims to summarize the essential basics of experimental studies, and to provide the perspectives based on the current research gaps to understand the explosion hazards of hybrid mixtures in-depth.     

铅锌冶炼厂周边农田土壤、苕子与荠菜的重金属污染特征

在云南某铅锌矿冶炼厂周边农田,采集当地主要绿肥(苕子)与野菜(荠菜)的植株和根部土壤样品,测定重金属(Pb、Zn、Cu和Cd)的全量和DTPA提取的有效态质量比,并进行污染评价.结果表明:1)综合污染指数评价显示,铅锌冶炼厂周边农田土壤以重度和中度重金属污染为主,Cd质量比为GB 15618-1995《土壤环境质量标准》三级标准限值的1.94～8.30倍,污染程度最重,其次为Pb和Zn;2)荠菜植株Pb、Zn和Cd质量比的最大值、平均值均大于苕子;荠菜对Cd的富集系数大于1,对Pb、Zn和Cd的转移系数大于或接近1;3)苕子和荠菜地上部与土壤的Cd、Pb质量比,苕子地下部与土壤的Pb质量比,荠菜地上部与土壤的Zn质量比均呈显著或极显著正相关.研究表明:铅锌冶炼厂周边农田存在严重的重金属污染,Cd是主要污染因子;苕子和荠菜植株重金属质量比高,且荠菜对重金属的富集能力大于苕子.     

湖泊底泥中磷的存在形态与分布特征——以长春南湖为例

本文以长春南湖表层底泥为例,利用SMT法提取不同形态的磷,探索其分布规律.结果表明,底泥中TP以IP为主(占TP质量分数66.53%以上),OP次之;IP以Fe/Al P为主(占IP质量分数在53.55%以上),Ca-P次之.其中Fe/A-P和OP为活性磷组分(占TP质量分数在65.55%以上),易于释放到水体中,是水体营养化的主要影响因素,值得引起关注.就底泥中各形态P的时空分布而言,空间上有从四周向湖心减小的趋势,其中,西北、北部和南部边缘地带磷质量比较大;时间上,随时间波动,无明显一致性规律,其中,荷花池各形态磷的质量比最大值出现在9月,南湖大桥下各形态磷的质量比最大值出现在8月.究其原因,上述规律受气候和人为因素控制.研究成果为防治富营养化提供了理论依据.     

Assessment of selected safety performance evaluation methods in regards to their conceptual,methodological and practical characteristics

The evolution of safety performance evaluation, from incident-based to prospective and recently to holistic approaches, follows the similar evolutionary path of accident causation and safety management. Holistic approaches are characterized by an integrated use of technical, organisational and human factors for the development of safety performance indicators. The aim of this paper is to propose a set of assessment criteria for safety performance evaluation methods which will also give emphasis to their holistic nature. Specific criteria related to conceptual, methodological and practical characteristics of the methods have been initially selected and six safety performance evaluation methods are evaluated in a trial implementation of these criteria. Results indicate that the proposed criteria can be applied in different types of safety performance evaluation methods in order to extract useful information in regards to their holistic character as well as to their appropriateness and usefulness.     

光合细菌CZ-1降解甲氰菊酯及其生物学特性研究

从长期使用拟除虫菊酯类农药的土壤中筛选分离到1株甲氰菊酯降解菌CZ-1,对其降解特性和生物学特件进行了研究.经生理生化试验和16 S rDNA序列同源性分析,初步将菌株CZ-1鉴定为红假单胞菌属(Rhodopseudomonas sp.).GC对菌株CZ-1降解特性的研究表明,菌株CZ-1以共代谢方式降解甲氰菊酯.最佳降解条件为:pH=7.5,35℃.菌株CZ-1在最佳降解条件下,7 d对200 mg/L的甲氰菊酯降解率达75.36%.荫株CZ-1对植物促生的相关特性表明,培养24h,菌株CZ-1能够产生吲哚乙酸(IAA)(1.86±0.12)mg/L,ACC脱氨酶活性为(0.39±0.01)U/mg,能显著增加玉米的根长.     

城市消防救援网络形态特征、抗毁性与鲁棒性研究*

为探讨城市消防规划系统救援能力的空间布局科学性,采用复杂网络理论构建某城市消防救援站现状与规划网络模型。首先从模型紧密度、性能效率、连通性等方面分析复杂网络基本网络特征;其次采用节点随机/蓄意攻击、边随机/蓄意攻击、混合随机/蓄意攻击研究网络结构的抗毁性;然后根据失效发生位置,探讨网络组织内部信息系统失活导致的合作中断的鲁棒性特征;最后针对不同的规划建设方案,讨论城市消防系统建设规划的中远期时序性。研究结果可为提高消防网络的救援能力提供理论支撑。     

太湖悬浮物磷的形态分布特征

应用螫合剂分级提取法研究太湖5个湖区悬浮物和表层沉积物中磷的形态分布特征,该方法把磷的形态分为水提取弱吸附态磷(Ex-P)、铁结合态磷(Fe-P)、钙结合态磷(Ga-P)、酸提取有机磷(OrgPac)、碱提取有机磷(Org-Palk)和残渣态磷(Res-P),并对不同形态的磷在沉积物和悬浮物质中的迁移进行了探讨.结果表明,悬浮物和沉积物中磷的形态分布差异很大,悬浮物中磷的主要形态为铁结合态磷和有机态磷,二者的相对含量之和约为80%,而表层沉积物中磷的主要形态是有机态磷,相对含量为50%;悬浮物中铁结合态磷的绝对含量平均值为1 271 mg/kg,表层沉积物中则为190 mg/kg;悬浮物中铁结合态磷相对含量平均值是沉积物中的2.7倍.大量铁结合态磷在悬浮物的沉降过程中可能完成了形态的转化,成为藻类生长的磷营养源.