长江干线中下游溢油应急设备点选址优化

为优化长江干线中下游溢油应急设备点选址,建立溢油应急需求水域风险评价体系,采用云模型对其评价,进而构建以加权距离最小为目标的溢油应急设备点选址模型。采用自适应差分进化算法(Adaptive Differential Evolution,ADE)对其求解。将模型应用于九江港的溢油应急设备点选址,最终解算选址于瑞昌港区及彭泽港区,此评估结果与九江港实际规划相符。     

基于容量损失的交叉航路高度层分配

我国空中交通网络越来越复杂,航路交叉点附近的冲突日益增多,调配冲突时需令航空器改变高度层,这却会导致航路容量损失。计算了航空器改变高度层时对其他高度层造成的容量损失系数,并在此基础上以最小化容量损失为目标建立模型,设计了启发式算法,以航路交叉点附近的4架有冲突的航空器为例进行仿真计算。仿真结果表明,该模型可以根据航路各高度层实时飞行流密集情况,求出使航路总容量损失系数达到最小的航空器避让方案,从而减少航路上的容量损失,提高空域资源利用率。     

疏散路径受阻情况下的人员疏散模型及算法

建筑火灾中,随着火势的不断增大和烟气的不断增多,随时会有某条疏散路径因被火势或烟气封堵而不能正常通行的情况发生。针对此情况下的应急疏散问题,以待疏散人员全部完成疏散所需时间最短为目标,以结合疏散路径的通行能力合理分配待疏散人员为原则,运用Dijkstra算法对网络中的最短路径进行求解,并结合网络流控制的方法实现疏散人员的合理分配,建立了疏散路径受阻情况下的人员疏散模型,并提出了该模型的算法思想及算法步骤,最后结合算例进行了验证。验证结果表明,该模型及算法可行、有效,既可较好地避免因大量人员选择相同疏散路线而造成的拥堵,还提高了疏散网络的整体使用率,又有效缩短了人员的疏散所需时间。     

Combining motions into complex displays: playbacks with a robotic lizard

Complex displays composed of multiple, seemingly independent, units can result from sexual selection for increasingly variable, but redundant, displays and from potentially opposing selective pressures imposed by use of the display in multiple contexts. Our playback results support the latter, multireceiver hypothesis by confirming that two aspects of the sagebrush lizard headbob display (number of headbobs and use of display-specific body postures) are independently-meaningful components that are interpreted differently by different receivers. Male receivers use species-typical body postures to distinguish between aggressive and broadcast forms of the display, whereas female receivers are more attentive to the number of headbob motions, using these to distinguish male courtship from a challenge from a female competitor. Thus, display components are likely subject to different selective pressures and the display as a whole is evolving in response to a complex selective regime. Our example differs from other complex signals that have been considered in that both display elements involve dynamic motions (turned on and off by the display producer) as opposed to static signal elements (e.g., color, size). In addition, we found evidence that display structure is highly malleable, and that lizards both produce and respond to artificial displays that violate syntactic rules identified from field observations. Finally, our experiments demonstrate that a robotic lizard can be used effectively in playback studies of visual display behavior in lizards.Electronic Supplementary Material: S1. Movie clip of the robotic lizard producing a species-typical headbob display as in Fig. 1a.     

Size-based predation by kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae) on lizards (Eulamprus tympanum: Scincidae): what determines prey vulnerability?

Lizards and birds are both popular ”model organisms” in behavioural ecology, but the interactions between them have attracted little study. Given the putative importance of birds as predators of diurnal lizards, it is of considerable interest to know which traits (of lizards as well as birds) influence the outcome of a predatory attempt. We studied predation by giant terrestrial kingfishers (kookaburras, Dacelo novaeguineae: Alcedinidae) on heliothermic diurnal lizards (highland water skinks, Eulamprus tympanum: Scincidae), with particular reference to the role of prey (lizard) size. Our approach was twofold: to gather direct evidence (sizes of lizards consumed in the field, compared to those available) and indirect evidence (size-related shifts in lizard behaviour). We quantified the size structure of a natural population of skinks (determined by an extensive mark-recapture program), and compared it to the sizes of wild lizards taken by kookaburras (determined by analysis of prey remains left at the birds’ nests). Kookaburras showed size-based predation: they preyed mainly on small and medium-sized rather than large lizards in the field. However, the mechanism producing this bias remains elusive. It is not due to any distinctive behavioural attributes (locomotor ability, activity level, habitat usage) of the lizards of the size class disproportionately taken by the kookaburras. The greater vulnerability of subadult lizards may reflect subtle ontogenetic shifts in ecological and behavioural traits, but our data suggest that great caution is needed in inferring patterns of vulnerability to predation from indirect measures based on either the prey or the predator alone. Instead, we need direct observations on the interaction between the two. Received: 30 May 2000 / Revised: 29 July 2000 / Accepted: 26 August 2000     

Understanding the opposition

Current debates about sex selection start from a paradox: on the one hand, the ‘liberal’ argument in favour of sex selection is often thought to be sound; but on the other hand there is widespread public opposition to sex selection. So it is worth spending some time examining the arguments against sex selection. Four different types of argument are identified: (i) religious arguments; (ii) consequentialist arguments, mainly concerning disturbance to the sex ratio; (iii) arguments to the effect that sex selection involves a failure to respect the autonomy of a child; (iv) arguments to the effect that the motivation for sex selection brings with it an instrumental attitude to children not compatible with a child's need for unconditional acceptance and love. In the end the conclusion is reached that none of these arguments provide decisive arguments against the liberal thesis that sex selection ought to be permitted, especially where 'family balancing' is envisaged. In the light of this conclusion the issue of fetal sexing followed by selective feticide as a method of sex selection is discussed. It is argued that sex selection is not in general a good reason for abortion, but that this practice may become unstoppable. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Comparative Analysis of Foraging Behavior in Aquatic and Semiaquatic Spiders of the Genera Argyroneta,Dolomedes, Pirata,and Pardosa

A group of sympatric aquatic and semiaquatic spiders inhabiting Western Siberia (Argyroneta, Dolomedes, Pirata, and Pardosa) has been studied with respect to specific ethological features. The results provide a basis for the conclusion that these spiders differ in a number of behavioral adaptations related to prey catching and the use of common biotopic space. Experiments with the predator–prey system have shown that spiders have different effects on the abundance of bloodsucking mosquito larvae and on the age and genetic structure (at the chromosomal level) of their populations. The functional role of spiders in communities is discussed.     

安全监控系统评价方法的选择

新的国际标准要求对安全监控系统进行安全整体水平评价。通过对适用评价方法的比较和分析，认为扩展的马尔克夫分析方法具有系统评价完整，适用性强的明显优点。     

聚合物辅助成型法制备纳米Co3O4/CeO2催化剂及其对CO低温氧化性能研究

采用聚合物辅助成型法,以乙二胺四乙酸(EDTA)和聚乙烯亚胺(PEI)为配位体制备了Co_3O_4/CeO_2催化剂,对其进行了氮气吸附、XRD、XPS、SEM、TEM、H2-TPR和CO-TPR等表征,并考察了材料的CO低温催化性能.结果表明,采用聚合物辅助成型法能够合成出具有三维空间网络结构的纳米Co_3O_4/CeO_2催化剂,Ce的加入有利于获得具有更小尺寸的Co_3O_4颗粒,并提高Co3+的相对含量,从而有利于CO低温催化性能的提高;Ce/Co的摩尔比为1时,样品具有最佳的CO催化性能,在催化温度为30℃时,可使初始浓度为100 ppm的CO完全转化;同时,纯氧气加热吹扫有利于催化剂的稳定再生.本研究可为CO低温催化剂的制备提供重要参考.