Ducking for cover in the ‘blame game’: news framing of the findings of two reports into the 2010–11 Queensland floods

After a disaster, the media typically focus on who is to blame. However, relatively little is known about how the narrative of blame plays out in media coverage of the release of official disaster reports. This paper examines coverage by two Australian newspapers (The Courier‐Mail and The Australian) of the release of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry's Interim Report and its Final Report to identify whether and how the news frame of blame was used. Given the absence of blame in the Final Report, the newspapers resorted to the frame of ‘failure’ in news and feature articles, while continuing to raise questions in editorials and opinion pieces about who was to blame. This study argues that situating coverage of the report within the news frame of failure and questioning who was to blame for the disaster limited the media's ability to facilitate a discussion about the prevention of similar disasters in the future.     

Transport of antibiotic resistance plasmids in porous media and the influence of surfactants

Transport of engineered antibiotic resistance plasmids in porous media has been reported to potentially cause significant spreading of antibiotic resistance in the environment. In this work, transport of an indigenous resistance plasmid pK5 in porous media was investigated through packed column experiments. At identical ionic strengths in CaCl₂ solutions, the breakthroughs of pK5 from soil columns were very close to those from quartz sand columns, indicating that transport of pK5 in quartz sand and soil was similar. A similarity in transport behavior was also found between pK5 and an engineered plasmid pBR322 that has approximately the same number of base pairs as pK5. The influence of surfactants, a major group of constituents in soil solutions, was examined using an engineered plasmid pcDNA3.1(+)/myc-His A. The impact of an anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), was negligible at concentrations up to 200 mg·L^–1. Cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB), a cationic surfactant, was found to significantly enhance plasmid adsorption at high concentrations. However, at environmentally relevant concentrations (<1 mg·L^–1), the effect of this surfactant was also minimal. The negligible impact of surfactants and the similarity between the transport of engineered and indigenous plasmids indicate that under environmentally relevant conditions, indigenous plasmids in soil also have the potential to transport over long distances and lead to the spreading of antibiotic resistance.

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Media coverage of the ‘UK flooding crisis’: a social panorama

A disaster referred to by the press as the ‘UK flooding crisis’ occurred between December 2015 and January 2016. This study employed three different levels of analysis to identify a multidimensional perspective adopted in the disaster reporting of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). These levels revealed details about the social actors and their interactions. The set of news exposed diverse viewpoints on the crisis, from loss and damage to distinct affected subgroups to the various social engagement actions of aid and the multiplicity of technical response measures. The conclusions highlight considerable social amplitude in the BBC's coverage; however, owing to the reductionist approach of this media communicator, the field of action involving different social actors was not very clear in the content of the news, particularly with regard to cohesion, conflict/obstruction, and concernthe concept of crisis in its essence. In addition, the paper suggests new questions for future reports. 1     

Analysing news media coverage of the 2015 Nepal earthquake using a community capitals lens: implications for disaster resilience

South Asia is one of the regions of the world most vulnerable to natural disasters. Although news media analyses of disasters have been conducted frequently in various settings globally, there is little research on populous South Asia. This paper begins to fill this gap by evaluating local and foreign news media coverage of the earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015. It broadens the examination of news media coverage of disaster response beyond traditional framing theory, utilising community capitals (built, cultural, financial, human, natural, political, and social) lens to perform a thematic content analysis of 405 news items. Overall, financial and natural capital received the most and the least emphasis respectively. Statistically significant differences between local and foreign news media were detected vis‐à‐vis built, financial, and political capital. The paper concludes with a discussion of the social utility of news media analysis using the community capitals framework to inform disaster resilience.     

基于社交媒体建构的旅游演艺品牌符号研究--以《长恨歌》为例

运用内容分析法对《长恨歌》社交媒体的营销话语进行了梳理,并基于皮尔斯符号三元论,探究了旅游演艺在社交媒体平台中的品牌符号建构模式。结果发现:建构过程主要分为表征、传播和感知3个阶段,《长恨歌》品牌符号表征可划分为历史文化、知识信息、价值感知、环境服务和互动仪式5大主题,传播呈现时间同步性和空间异质性规律,旅游演艺品牌符号在激发受众多维感知的过程中,塑造出《长恨歌》深入人心、历久弥新的品牌形象,为社交媒体语境下旅游演艺品牌营销带来启示。     

浑善达克沙地南缘黄柳林地不同水体氢氧同位素特征

本文选取浑善达克沙地南缘正蓝旗的黄柳林地为研究对象,通过2020年5月至10月野外采集降水、土壤、地下水、植物茎干分析各水体的稳定氢氧同位素特征,比较各水体之间同位素关系。研究发现：(1)土壤水线和植物茎干水线的斜率均小于当地大气降水线,各水体同位素富集程度为地下水<降水<土壤水<植物茎干水,降水的稳定性最差,变异性较大;(2)由于蒸发和降水入渗,浅层土壤δ¹⁸O值和土壤含水量变化显著,而中深层水分受影响较小。降水中的δ¹⁸O值相对于浅层土壤水偏正,并且土壤水的δ¹⁸O值从浅层到深层逐渐呈偏负趋势,雨后各层土壤水波动的峰值出现有一定的时间推迟。(3)黄柳在生长季节主要利用浅层土壤水,各月对其利用率分别为96.20%、90.60%、84.90%、95.50%、86.70%和86.50%,随降水的减少也利用了中深层水;论文通过对黄柳林地内各水体的同位素变化特征的研究,摸清了土壤-植物-大气连续体中不同水体的同位素组成及其相互关系,对于揭示区域水循环的过程和机制至关重要,为浑善达克沙地防护林生态系统的生态水文...     

多孔介质内H2S贫氧燃烧制氢数值模拟

为探索H2S在多孔介质内超绝热缺氧燃烧裂解制氢的机理,采用流体力学数值模拟与化学动力学研究相结合的方法,使用一个17组分、57步的复杂化学反应机理,模拟了H2S在直径为3 mm的Al2O3圆球堆积的多孔燃烧反应器内的缺氧燃烧制氢过程,模拟结果与试验数据基本吻合.模拟结果显示:富燃条件下,多孔介质内H2S的燃烧温度超过了绝热燃烧温度,为H2S的裂解制硫、制氢提供了高温环境,H2S部分裂解生成单质硫和氢气,从而实现了对硫化氢中的硫和氢同时利用的目的.     

基于Fluent软件的尾矿坝体渗流污染模拟研究

简要分析尾矿渗流污染过程,尾矿坝体是主要渗流治理对象,运用传质原理,引入尾矿废水与污染物之间的曳力系数,提出污染物传质速度与废水速度计算公式,进而改进浸润线计算公式,利用Gambit软件建立了尾矿坝渗流的二维几何模拟模型,将尾矿坝内部的尾粉砂和尾粉土理化特性常数输入Fluent模拟多孔介质模式,模拟废水在其中的流动状态,对比分析污染物在尾矿坝的污染情况.依据模拟结果,分析了尾矿坝废水速度场和压力场,结合公式推测污染情况和浸润线变化.     

多孔介质表面化学异质性对胶体运移的影响

研究胶体在饱和多孔介质中的迁移行为在污染物迁移、环境修复等领域具有重要意义.本文通过对比胶体在未酸洗和酸洗过的玻璃珠中的迁移行为来探究多孔介质表面异质性对胶体迁移的影响,并通过扩展DLVO理论来计算每一组中胶体与多孔介质的相互作用能.结果表明,不论在有利环境还是在不利环境下,多孔介质表面的化学杂质均会提高胶体的吸附能力,这主要归因于胶体在初级势阱中的吸附.不利环境下,多孔介质表面的化学杂质能够将不利环境转化为有利环境,而在有利环境下,化学杂质的存在可能提高胶体的单一拦截效率(η_0).此外,研究发现,高pH溶液仍然能使胶体从多孔介质表面解吸下来,并且沥滤作用仍被低估.本研究对化学杂质在胶体迁移过程中所扮演的角色有了进一步的认识,可为胶体迁移行为研究提供实验依据.     

沙地退化植被恢复过程中植被的空间异质性

通过野外取样和室内分析,应用地统计学分析方法研究了科尔沁沙地退化植被恢复过程中不同封育年限（0、11和20年）的流动沙丘的植被盖度和丰富度特征及其空间异质性规律。结果表明,随着流动沙丘的固定和封育年限的增加,植被盖度和丰富度逐渐增加。在流动沙丘植被恢复过程中,植被盖度和丰富度具有明显的空间自相关性,其空间自相关范围从封育0年的流动沙丘（46.05m和33.63m）、封育11的流动沙丘（21.63m和17.25m）到封育20年的流动沙丘（26.12m和24.18m）先减小后增加,但均未超出我们的研究尺度50m,表现出不同大小的斑块形式分布的小尺度分布格局。由半方差函数及其参数和空间分布格局图分析得出,随着沙丘植被的恢复,植被特征的空间异质性在所研究的尺度上表现出先增大（封育0年到封育11年）后减小（封育11年到封育20年）的变化特点。