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微生物法生产生物 可降解塑料 PHB和 PHBHHx1.项目简介 　　可生物降解塑料—聚－β－羟基丁酸酯（ PHB）,也称生物塑料,是用微生物在糖蜜中生长时所积累的一种内聚物。在“九五”攻关过程中。清华大学开发了用废糖蜜为原料生产 PHB的工艺,成本得到很大地降低。 　　生产新型生物塑料—羟基丁酸酯 HB和羟基己酸酯 HHx共聚物 PHBHHx的关键是得到高产的菌种。能合成 PHBHHx的菌种少而又少,“九五”期间通过开发傅立叶红外无损探测技术,清华大学在数千个菌株中筛选得到了一株单胞菌,能满足生产和材料性能的要求。 PHBHHx…     

气动锤头式冲击响应谱模拟方法研究

分析了目前常用的机械撞击式响应谱试验机的特点和存在的一些问题,设计了一种以压缩空气作为锤头动力的新型气动式冲击响应谱试验机,给出了锤头速度计算公式和响应谱最大值的估算方法,为大型产品的冲击响应谱试验提供了一种手段。     

用微生物法制取聚—β—羟基丁酸酯的研究获得成功

化工部“七·五”重点科研项目—“微生物法制取聚—β—羟基丁酸酯(简称PHB,是新一代塑料)的研究”。该项目由中国科学院成都生物所承担、化工部北京化工研究院协作,科技人员经过长期、艰苦努力深入地研究,获得成功。于1991年6月29日在北京、由化工部科技司主持会议,通过小试评审验收.获得专家好评。     

夹具连接方式对冲击响应谱模拟能力影响效应分析

文章介绍了夹具结构特性与冲击响应谱模拟试验能力之间的关系,通过典型夹具的有限元分析和试验验证的方式说明夹具连接方式对冲击响应谱模拟能力影响效应。结果表明,利用振动夹具进行冲击试验时,可以通过减少连接螺钉数量,提供冲击响应谱模拟能力。该方法可以为作为试验人员进行冲击响应谱试验的操作指导。     

基于谱特征的数字信号调制方式识别

根据谱相关函数理论和对常见的数字信号的谱相关函数及特征平面图分析,提出了几种可用于调制方式识别的特征参数,讨论了利用这些特征参数进行调制识别的方法和过程。仿真表明,这种方法有很好的识别效果。     

振动时间—温度谱的编制

本文阐述了振动时间—温度谱的统计计算方法和实施情况。 飞机结构和机载设备的高、低、室温正弦扫频振动时间谱,是运用“状态归纳法”对战斗机在使用寿命期内的训练使用和战斗使用进行编谱的一种方法。该法考虑了飞行大纲中全部飞行状态,如实地反映了战斗机的实际使用情况。 按照上述时间—温度谱编制的正弦扫频振动试验大纲,在实验室里对飞机试件进行试验,在实践中证明了它的可行性。     

对MIL-STD-810D/E中冲击与振动等效的说明

本文提供了扩大应用MIL-STD-810D/E(以下简称810D/E)中,方法516.3/516.4I-3.3节程序I(功能冲击)规定的冲击与振动等效分析的方法。程序I规定的等效仅适用于在规定频率范围内振动响应谱(VRS)超过冲击响应谱(SRS)的情况。本文用冲击响应谱超过振动响应谱时估计等效可能性的分析程序对810D/E进行了补充。使用Miner假设,将3σ极限以上的振动循环的潜在疲劳损伤与每个轴向冲击脉冲的潜在疲劳损伤进行了比较。文中还提供了一个例子。     

冲击响应谱时域合成算法研究

为利用电动振动台进行模拟冲击环境试验给出了一种时域冲击波形合成方法.依据冲击响应谱时域合成的一般原则,选择合成小波中的正弦窗波作为基本波形,给出了确定各基本波形的波形参数的方法.计算结果表明本文所提算法是有效的,所合成的时域冲击波形能够满足参考冲击响应谱的精度要求,为开发冲击谱试验的控制软件研究者提供了一种思路.     

某机载雷达多自由度振动参考谱制定研究

本文阐述了一种基于实测振动数据的机载雷达多自由度振动参考谱制定方法。采用坐标变换法,在时域内从结构的加速度响应中提取出结构的刚体自由度振动。通过对结构刚体自由度振动的信号分析,得到各自由度的自功率谱密度(PSD)和各自由度之间的相干函数γ2(f)和相位θ(f),形成多自由度振动试验参考谱矩阵。用此参考谱进行多轴振动环境试验,可真实地模拟机载雷达的实际振动环境。     

炼油化工机械设备耐腐蚀的动态可靠性分析

研究炼油化工机械设备耐腐蚀锈层动态可靠性特征,获得炼油化工机械的耐腐蚀性规律是至关重要的。提出一种基于交流阻抗谱特征提取的动态可靠性分析方法,采用X射线衍射仪和扫描电镜进行炼油化工机械设备的腐蚀行为和锈层特征信息采集,并用交流阻抗谱的差异性检测方法进行参数辨识,扫描电镜观测腐蚀的动态特征,实现炼油化工机械设备耐腐蚀的动态可靠性分析。该方法能动态模拟炼油化工机械设备耐腐蚀规律性,分析结果可靠稳定。     

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.     

AN APPLICATION RUNOFF MODEL STRATEGY FOR UNGAGED WATERSHEDS1

ABSTRACT: Mathematical models for predicting watershed surface flow responses are available, most of which are elaborate nonlinear numerical surface and channel flow models linked with infiltration models. Such models may be used to make predictions for ungaged areas, assuming an acceptable fitting of the model to the topography and roughness of the real system. For some application purposes, these models are impractical because of their complexity and expensive computer solutions. A procedure is developed that uses a complex model of an ungaged area to derive a simpler parametric nonlinear system model for repetitious simulation with input sequences. The predicted flow outputs are obtained with the simpler model at significant savings of money and time. The procedures for constructing a complex kinematic model of a 40 acre (161,880 m²) reference watershed and deriving the simpler system model are outlined. The results of predictions from both models are compared with a selected set of measured events, all having essentially the same initial conditions. Peak discharges ranged from 3 to 118 ft³/sec (0.085 to 3.34 m³/sec), which includes the largest event of record. The inherent limitations of lumped systems models are demonstrated, including the bias caused by their inability to model infiltration losses after rainfall ceases. Computer costs and times for the models were compared. The derived simple model has a cost advantage when repeated use of a model is required. Such an applications hydrologic model has an engineering tradeoff of reduced accuracy, and lumping bias, but is more economical for certain design purposes.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Biodiversity and biotechnology

The maintenance of biodiversity is urged from many quarters and on grounds ranging from aesthetic considerations to its usefulness, particularly for biotechnology. But regardless of the grounds for preserving biodiversity, writers are generally in agreement that it should be preserved. But, in examining the various references biodiversity, such as species diversity, genetic diversity, and habitat diversity, it is apparent that we cannot aim to preserve biodiversityas such, since there are a number of conflicts in any such undertaking. In preserving one aspect of biodiversity, we damage another aspect. Five arguments which attempt to ground our moral concern for biodiversity are reviewed and critiqued, not only for their consistency but also for their power to move us to action. The final section of the paper shows how conflicts in the values of personal and environmental health can impair ethical action and especially policy formation.An earlier version of this paper was read at the conference on Agriculture, Food, and Human Values: Tradition and Change, Orlando, Florida, October 7–9, 1987.     

Surface applied water treatment residuals affect bioavailable phosphorus losses in Florida sands

Water treatment residuals (WTR) can reduce runoff P loss and surface co-application of P-sources and WTR is a practical way of land applying the residuals. In a rainfall simulation study, we evaluated the effects of surface co-applied P-sources and an Al-WTR on runoff and leacheate bioavailable P (BAP) losses from a Florida sand. Four P-sources, namely poultry manure, Boca Raton biosolids (high water-soluble P), Pompano biosolids (moderate water-soluble P), and triple super phosphate (TSP) were surface applied at 56 and 224kgPha(-1) (by weight) to represent low and high soil P loads typical of P- and N-based amendments rates. The treatments further received surface applied WTR at 0 or 10gWTRkg(-1) soil. BAP loss masses were greater in leachate (16.4-536mg) than in runoff (0.91-46mg), but were reduced in runoff and leachate by surface applied WTR. Masses of total BAP lost in the presence of surface applied WTR were less than approximately 75% of BAP losses in the absence of WTR. Total BAP losses from each of the organic sources applied at N-based rates were not greater than P loss from TSP applied at a P-based rate. The BAP loss at the N-based rate of moderate water-soluble P-source (Pompano biosolids) was not greater than BAP losses at the P-based rates of other organic sources tested. The hazards of excess P from applying organic P-sources at N-based rates are not greater than observed at P-based rates of mineral fertilizer. Results suggest that management of the environmental P hazards associated with N-based rates of organic materials in Florida sands is possible by either applying P-sources with WTR or using a moderate water-soluble P-source.     

Sources and Transport of Phosphorus to Rivers in California and Adjacent States,U.S., as Determined by SPARROW Modeling

The SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regression on Watershed attributes) model was used to simulate annual phosphorus loads and concentrations in unmonitored stream reaches in California, U.S., and portions of Nevada and Oregon. The model was calibrated using de‐trended streamflow and phosphorus concentration data at 80 locations. The model explained 91% of the variability in loads and 51% of the variability in yields for a base year of 2002. Point sources, geological background, and cultivated land were significant sources. Variables used to explain delivery of phosphorus from land to water were precipitation and soil clay content. Aquatic loss of phosphorus was significant in streams of all sizes, with the greatest decay predicted in small‐ and intermediate‐sized streams. Geological sources, including volcanic rocks and shales, were the principal control on concentrations and loads in many regions. Some localized formations such as the Monterey shale of southern California are important sources of phosphorus and may contribute to elevated stream concentrations. Many of the larger point source facilities were located in downstream areas, near the ocean, and do not affect inland streams except for a few locations. Large areas of cultivated land result in phosphorus load increases, but do not necessarily increase the loads above those of geological background in some cases because of local hydrology, which limits the potential of phosphorus transport from land to streams.