Religious narratives and their implications for disaster risk reduction

The role of religious factors in the disaster experience has been under‐investigated. This is despite evidence of their influence throughout the disaster cycle, including: the way in which the event is interpreted; how the community recovers; and the strategies implemented to reduce future risk. This qualitative study examined the role of faith in the disaster experience of four faith communities in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States. Twenty‐six individuals from the Bahá'í, Buddhist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (LDS), and United Methodist Church communities participated, including 10 faith leaders and 16 laypersons. The results suggest that religious narratives provide a framework for interpretation of, preparedness for, and responses to disasters. Preparedness varied widely across faith communities, with the LDS community reporting greater levels of preparedness than other communities. Recommendations include the development of collaborative efforts between disaster managers and faith leaders to increase preparedness within faith communities, which may facilitate community‐wide disaster risk reduction.     

Untangling the proximate causes and underlying drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Myanmar

Political transitions often trigger substantial environmental changes. In particular, deforestation can result from the complex interplay among the components of a system—actors, institutions, and existing policies—adapting to new opportunities. A dynamic conceptual map of system components is particularly useful for systems in which multiple actors, each with different worldviews and motivations, may be simultaneously trying to alter different facets of the system, unaware of the impacts on other components. In Myanmar, a global biodiversity hotspot with the largest forest area in mainland Southeast Asia, ongoing political and economic reforms are likely to change the dynamics of deforestation drivers. A fundamental conceptual map of these dynamics is therefore a prerequisite for interventions to reduce deforestation. We used a system‐dynamics approach and causal‐network analysis to determine the proximate causes and underlying drivers of forest loss and degradation in Myanmar from 1995 to 2016 and to articulate the linkages among them. Proximate causes included infrastructure development, timber extraction, and agricultural expansion. These were stimulated primarily by formal agricultural, logging, mining, and hydropower concessions and economic investment and social issues relating to civil war and land tenure. Reform of land laws, the link between natural resource extraction and civil war, and the allocation of agricultural concessions will influence the extent of future forest loss and degradation in Myanmar. The causal‐network analysis identified priority areas for policy interventions, for example, creating a public registry of land‐concession holders to deter corruption in concession allocation. We recommend application of this analytical approach to other countries, particularly those undergoing political transition, to inform policy interventions to reduce forest loss and degradation.     

用HL离心萃取器处理含对硝基酚废水的研究

溶剂萃取法是目前回收处理含高浓度对硝基酚废水的有效方法.选用QH-1为萃取剂,采用HL离心萃取器对含对硝基酚废水的处理进行了实验研究.实验结果表明,对于对硝基酚硝酸溶液-QH-1体系,对硝基酚的分配比是1103.4,用Φ20 mm HL离心萃取器处理对硝基酚废水时,在合适的操作条件下,单级传质级效率E和三级串联萃取率ρ都可达99%以上,三级串联的反萃率也可达98%以上.     

儿童肺功能指标测量方法比较及异常值的探讨

比较了儿童肺功能机读数据与人工手测数据 ,并应用统计学原理探讨了适合于研究空气污染暴露与儿童肺功能健康关系的 FVC实测值 /预计值 (% )、FEV1 实测值 /预计值 (% )、FEV1 /FVC(% )这三种肺功能指标的异常值分界线。得出 FVC或 FEV1 实测值 /预计值 (% )的异常值范围为 <85% ,FEV1 /FVC(% )的异常值范围为 <80 %     

环境预测中灰色模型的EXCEL解法

提出了利用EXCEL应用软件建立GM（1,N）预测模型的建模方法,并结合实例介绍了建立河流高锰酸盐指数GM（1,3）模型的操作过程。     

气相色谱法测定环境空气中1,2-环氧丙烷

以活性炭吸附环境空气中 1,2 -环氧丙烷 ,用二硫化碳洗脱 ,OV - 10 1:30m× 0 32mm× 0 2 5 μm毛细管柱低温分流进样分离 ,氢火焰离子化检测器测定 ,保留时间定性 ,峰高定量 ,采样吸附率达 99%。方法有较宽的线性范围 ,较高的灵敏度和精密度。当采样体积为 30L时 ,1,2 -环氧丙烷的检测限为 0 0 0 5mg/m3     

灰霾天气不同粒径的颗粒物污染特征分析

利用宁波市北仑区PM10、PM2.5和PM1的监测数据及与之对应的能见度监测结果,对影响灰霾天的颗粒物的污染特征进行了系统研究,结果表明,颗粒物粒径对灰霾天的形成和能见度的影响程度差异明显,且3种粒径的颗粒物质量浓度与能见度之间线性关系密切。     

辛硫磷降解菌XSP-1的分离、鉴定及其降解特性研究

从农药厂污泥中分离到1株能以辛硫磷为唯一碳源生长的细菌, 命名为XSP-1.根据其生理生化特征和16S rRNA基因序列相似性分析, 将该菌株初步鉴定为戴尔福特菌属(Delftia sp.). 该菌株能在7 h内完全降解100　mg/L的辛硫磷. XSP-1降解辛硫磷的最适pH为7.0, 最适温度为35℃, 降解速率与初始接种量呈正相关, 该菌株对甲基对硫磷、毒死蜱、杀螟硫磷也有较好的降解能力. 根据已报道有机磷农药降解基因mpd的保守序列设计引物, 未从该菌株中扩增到目标条带, 但是该菌株是否带有新的有机磷农药降解基因仍需要进一步研究.     

转座子挽救法克隆鞘氨醇单胞菌CDS-1中呋喃丹水解酶相关基因

用含Tn5转座子的自杀性质粒pSC123诱变呋喃丹降解菌Sphingomonas agrestis CDS-1,获得失去呋喃丹降解功能的突变株CDS-M1.以pMD18-T为载体在E.coli DH5α中构建了CDS-M1的基因组文库,采用转座子挽救法对Tn5插入位点两侧翼的序列进行克隆与测序,根据测序结果(共4 551个碱基)设计引物,从CDS-1的基因组中扩增到同样大小的片段,把该片断克隆到广宿主载体pPZP201上,得到重组质粒pCDZ1,通过三亲接合的方法把pCDZ1导入CDS-M1中进行功能互补实验,结果显示CDS-M1的呋喃丹水解功能得到了恢复,表明该片断中包含呋喃丹水解酶相关基因.图7表1参14     

α-二羰基化合物的结构-致突活性关系

采用ＡＭ１方法计算了６个α－二羰基化合物与ＤＮＡ碱基岛嘌呤环外Ｎ＾２发生紊电加成反应的速率控制步骤的活化能及分子结构和电子结构。研究其结构－知必凶线性回归结果表明;可用烷化反应活化能、ＬＵＭＯ能量、分子量表面积比和羰基面原子的正电性表示化合物的致突活性指数,获得很好的回归效果（Ｌ顺归系数Ｒ＝０．９９９８）。以本文提出的方程对这些化合物的估性进行计算,秘得到的结果与实验结果吻合得很好。