城市区域风易损结构风灾损失分析研究

城市风易损结构在台风等强风灾害下的损坏及倒塌将严重影响城市社会的运行安全。以户外广告牌作为典型城市风易损结构物,提出基于结构参数的风易损结构抗风分析方法。针对城市广告牌分布具有的区域空间分布特征及局部风效应,以城市区域风灾为研究对象,结合区域数值风场模拟分析对城市区域风灾损失进行了分析研究。     

应急供水的启示——日本神户市应急供水系统简介

以日本神户市的水道耐震化项目考察为基础,对该市应急供水系统的建设方法进行梳理,归纳了系统建设目标、系统方案、应急水源储备、应急水源输送和应急供水管道抗震等重要环节的建设思路和技术方法,对我国城市应急供水系统建设以及解决灾后供水有一定的借鉴作用。     

木结构防火设计方法简介

木材是唯一可再生的主要工业材料,对环境最为友好,是人类历史中的一种重要的建筑材料;但作为一种生物材料,木材具有易燃性,要确保木结构安全,就得充分重视木结构的防火设计。我国传统建筑主要是木结构建筑,其防火问题在我国很早就引起了重视,首先回顾了传统的防火设计方法;然后介绍了1h火灾防护方法,并详细分析了国内外不同木结构体系防火的设计、研究和思路等;其次简要介绍了木材的化学阻燃方法;最后总结木结构各种防火设计方法,提出存在的问题和未来研究的方向。     

板锥网壳结构的风振响应分析

板锥网壳结构是一种受力性能合理,技术经济效益良好的新型空间结构形式。采用谐波法模拟了Daven-port脉动风谱;采用时程分析法对板锥网壳结构进行了风振响应时程分析,并对板锥网壳结构的风振响应特性进行了全面和深入的研究,为板锥网壳结构的抗风设计提供理论上的依据,得出了可应用于工程实践的重要结论。     

基于空间数据的土地抗震适宜性综合评价模型研究

对城市系统进行抗震减灾的前提,应为识别土地这一特殊的承灾体(同时又为整个城市系统的共同承载体)所潜在的地震灾害的风险,即为以地震危险性为输入,结合土地的基本属性,进行土地抗震适宜性评价。在界定土地抗震适宜性评价的定义、作用、以及范畴的基础上,研究基于空间数据的土地抗震适宜性综合评价模型。该模型综合考虑了地震危险性、液化态势、土地等效剪切波速和地面稳定性因素。     

火灾模型对钢交错桁架结构性能化抗火设计的适用性分析

对目前性能化防火设计中常用的4种火灾作用模型进行了分析和总结,并运用这4种模型对钢结构交错桁架在火灾时的热环境进行了模拟,分析不同火灾作用模型下该体系的结构响应,研究不同火灾作用模型对交错桁架结构性能化抗火设计的适用性。研究表明:火源功率、火灾载及火灾持续时间等因素对钢结构交错桁架的抗火分析具有重要影响。国际标准升温曲线和参数化室内升温曲线不考虑火源功率、建筑通风口等因素,缺乏针对性,分析结果偏于保守;区域模型所得温度偏低,不宜用于交错桁架结构的性能化抗火设计;场模型考虑了火源功率及环境温度分布的不均匀性,和实际火灾较接近,计算结果相对较为准确,可用于结构的性能化防火设计。     

Change in the antimicrobial resistance profile of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from soil after exposure to herbicides

The extensive use of pesticides represents a risk to human health and to the environment. This study aimed to investigate if the exposure to atrazine and diuron, two herbicides widely used in Brazil, could induce changes in the susceptibility profile to aztreonam, colistin and polymyxin B antimicrobials in isolates of P. aeruginosa obtained from soil samples by using the determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) test. Three isolates had an increase of MIC to aztreonam after exposure to both herbicides and one isolate did not show any MIC change. The MexAB-OprM efflux pump has already been upregulated in these isolates and the herbicides atrazine and diuron did not increase MexAB-OprM overexpression. Therefore, the decrease in aztreonam susceptibility was not directly related to this pump, suggesting that probably other mechanisms should be involved.     

多因素下开洞口煤仓风致积雪CFD模拟及拟合研究

为解决结构设计时开洞口圆形煤仓表面无法确定荷载分布系数问题,使用计算流体力学软件研究了开洞口煤仓不同跨度下风向角、积雪厚度及矢跨比变化下屋面积雪不均匀分布情况,提出了针对此种特殊结构的屋面积雪值拟合公式。研究结果表明:此公式拟合准确度高,屋面积雪值随风向角和积雪厚度增大而变大,风向角对积雪值影响极大,矢跨比影响下屋面积雪值变化较为复杂,且风向角和矢跨比2种参数相互影响,不应单一考虑矢跨比对球壳屋面积雪值的影响。     

Whose Discourse Is It Anyway? Understanding Resistance through the Rise of “Barstool Biology” in Nature Conservation

This study examines what happens when contentious lay citizens harness the technical-ecological repertoire of experts as means of challenging nature conservation policy. The causes, manifestations, and implications of this phenomenon are elucidated through a critical discourse analysis. The case study is based on the wolf reintroduction project in Europe, with particular focus on Sweden, using illegal hunting discussions as a point of entry within the hunting community. It reveals the deployment of three topoi, which are defined as stock arguments situated within a discourse. Analysis shows how while some topoi often incur short-term gains in the debate because of their scientific guise, they are fundamentally relegated as folk science (or “barstool biology”) by government experts and, in some cases, contribute to the further marginalization of other knowledges. Acquiescence to this discourse is shown to greatly impede the debate. Finally, the study shows how lack of trust in the public dialog, which hunters openly recognize to be colonized by ecological expertise, results in increasingly noncommunicative forms of resistance toward policy.     

Antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. isolates from fresh produce and the impact to food safety

Foodborne diseases associated with fresh produce consumption have escalated worldwide, causing microbial safety of produce of critical importance. Bacteria that have increasingly been detected in fresh produce are Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp., both of which have been shown to progressively display antimicrobial resistance. The study focused on the assessment of antimicrobial resistance of these enteric bacteria from different kinds of fresh produce from various open air markets and supermarkets in the Philippines. Using the disk diffusion assay on a total of 50 bacterial isolates obtained from 410 fresh produce surveyed, monoresistance to tetracycline was observed to be the most prevalent (38%), followed by multidrug resistance to tetracycline, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, and nalidixic acid (4%), and lastly by dual resistance to tetracycline and chloramphenicol (2%). Using multiplex and simplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays, tetA (75%) and tetB (9%) were found in tetracycline resistant isolates, whereas catI (67%) and catIII (33%) were detected in chloramphenicol resistant isolates. Sequence analysis of gyr and par genes from the ciprofloxacin and nalidixic acid resistant isolates revealed different mutations. Based on the results, fresh produce act as a reservoir of these antibiotic resistant bacteria which may pose health threat to consumers.