茄子苗对镉积累和耐性的品种间差异

通过盆栽实验方法研究了13种茄子幼苗对镉(Cd)积累与耐性的品种间差异。结果表明,这些茄子幼苗根及地上部Cd含量均随土壤中外加Cd的量的增加而提高。品种间存在着显著差异(P<0.05),其中Cd含量最高品种根部和地上部的Cd含量分别为Cd含量最低品种的2.1、2.4倍(2mg·kg-1Cd处理组)和1.5、1.6倍(4mg·kg-1Cd处理组)。不同品种幼苗对Cd的富集系数均大于1,表现出较强的富集能力。但转运系数均小于1,Cd从根部向地上部转移能力较弱,大多数品种间差异不大。当Cd添加量为2mg·kg-1时,只有绿龙长茄地上部生物量显著下降(P<0.05)。当Cd添加量提高到4mg·kg-1时,6个品种地上部生物量显著下降(P<0.05),这些品种对Cd的耐性较弱。综合评价,辽茄三号对Cd积累的含量最低,富集系数和转移系数也较低,对Cd具有较强的耐性,具有Cd低积累特征。     

基于可拓模式识别的煤与瓦斯突出危险性分析

为了有效识别煤与瓦斯突出的危险性,运用可拓理论和熵理论建立了基于熵权的可拓模式识别模型。熵权和关联函数的建立避免了权系数和综合隶属度确定的主观性。利用该模型对某能源有限公司3个工作面的突出危险性进行识别分析,不仅得出了各工作面的突出危险性程度,还得出了各工作面突出危险性大小的排序。结果表明,基于可拓模式识别的方法既可以确定单一对象的隶属模式,又可以对多个识别对象进行排序,而且识别过程宜于编制计算机程序求解,计算简单,易于在现场推广应用。     

海外石油工程项目社会安全应急资源管理实践与思考

随着国际形势的变化,海外社会安全突发事件在全球日益频繁的爆发,应急资源的合理配置和科学管理,成为海外石油工程项目应急管理的重中之重。本文以南苏丹独立为例,重点阐述中国石油天然气集团公司(以下简称集团公司)苏丹石油工程项目应急资源管理的需求分析、资源准备、优化配置和后续管理4个关键环节,总结了相关实践经验,剖析了存在的问题,并提出了社会安全应急资源管理的几点思考。     

基于属性识别模型的建筑物火灾危险性评价

建筑物是一个集人员与财产于一体的系统,一旦发生火灾,后果不堪设想.利用层次分析法并结合属性识别理论,建立了建筑物火灾危险性的层次-属性识别模型.聘请10位专家对建筑物火灾危险性的评价指标体系的24项指标进行评价,利用层次分析法确定各评价指标的权重以计算综合属性测度区间,应用置信度准则和评分准则对建筑物火灾危险性进行属性识别.并对某大学3#教学楼的火灾危险性进行了评价,得出火灾危险性等级为危险性较小,安全性较好,也说明了该建筑物需要进一步采取安全措施,加强安全管理,提高其安全程度,避免火灾事故的发生.     

混凝沉淀-两段接触氧化法处理制革废水工程实践

采用混凝沉淀-两段接触氧化法处理制革区综合制革废水,经过半年多稳定运行,系统COD去除率达到96%,硫化物去除率达到99.5%,处理后出水的各项指标完全达到了国家《污水综合排放标准》(GB8978-1996)制革行业废水二级标准。对废水处理系统的工艺作了简单介绍,对系统调试、运行结果进行了分析与总结。     

构筑可持续发展的循环型社会体系

可持续发展社会的形成并不仅指单纯的物质循环,而是用生态学原理来调和社会和经济的发展,使社会·经济·环境都达成持续的生态平衡。通过论述日本循环型社会形成基本法等相关法律体系,分析了面向循环型经济社会建设的产业体系的发展方向,通过区域性循环社会的实践阐述了从循环型经济社会向可持续发展社会转变的重要意义。     

天然气汽车加气站压缩机房火灾爆炸事故故障树分析

压缩天然气汽车加气站压缩机房具有高压、易泄漏、易爆炸等危险性特点。根据其运行的实际情况,对压缩机房火灾爆炸事故原因运用故障树进行了深入分析,提出了压缩机房火灾爆炸事故预防对策。     

Trophic field overlap: A new approach to quantify keystone species

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.     

Atypical homing or self-odour avoidance? Blue petrels (Halobaena caerulea) are attracted to their mate’s odour but avoid their own

Among procellariiform seabirds, many burrowing petrels show good olfactory abilities especially in recognising their nest. In particular, it has been reported that Antarctic prions (Pachyptila desolata) discriminate their own and their mate’s odours and, in Y-maze experiments, prefer the odour of a conspecific bird to their own. While traditionally examined from the perspective of homing mechanisms, these recent results have drawn attention to the possible use of chemical signals in birds’ social behaviours. Indeed, the life history of petrels suggests that a mate choice mediated by olfactory mechanisms may have evolved in this group to ensure genetic compatibility. This study was undertaken to validate and extend results obtained on petrels’ olfactory discrimination capabilities. Following the Y-maze experiment protocol, blue petrels (Halobaena caerulea) were offered three different choices: (1) mate versus conspecific’s odour, (2) own versus mate’s odour and (3) own versus conspecific’s odour. We discovered that birds prefer the odour of their mate not only when presented against conspecific’s odour but also against their own. We further verified that blue petrels also avoid their own odour when presented against conspecific’s odour. Our results confirm that olfactory discrimination in burrowing petrels goes beyond self-recognition and that self-odour avoidance may be widespread. We use two mutually non-exclusive behavioural frameworks for the interpretation of our results, homing and mate choice, and explain why homing mechanisms cannot account for all of our observations. This study opens the door to further research on olfactory mechanisms that, in petrels, might mediate individual recognition and mate choice.     

Utilization of a new host in the screaming cowbird <Emphasis Type="Italic">Molothrus rufoaxillaris</Emphasis>, a host specialist brood parasite: host switch or host acquisition?

The screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris has been long known as a host specialist brood parasite. However, in the past years, the utilization of two new hosts has been documented. We examined the variation in mitochondrial control region sequences from screaming cowbird chicks found in the nests of two hosts, the bay-winged cowbird (Agelaioides badius), which is its regular host, and the chopi blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi), which is a new host, in Formosa Province, Argentina. If a group of females switched to this new host, we expected to find an association between host use and haplotype frequency distribution, indicating the presence of host-specific female lineages, whereas we expected no such association if the cowbird population incorporated this new host and females use both hosts simultaneously. Haplotype frequency distributions differed between cowbird chicks from the nests of both hosts. This indicates that nest choice by females of this brood parasite is not random and that they preferentially parasitize the nests of the same host species.