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Daisuke Kitazawa Shigeru Tabeta Masataka Fujino Takayoshi Kato 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2010,165(1-4):461-474
To assess the environmental impacts of large floating structures, various physical, chemical, and biological parameters were measured. The current and water quality were monitored around a prototype floating structure called the Phase-II Mega-Float model (MF-II model), which was moored off Yokosuka in Tokyo Bay during the period 1999–2000. The effects of the MF-II model on the condition of the physical environment, e.g., the direction and flow rate of water currents and the stratification structure, were negligible. Analysis of water quality showed that the concentrations of chlorophyll a and nutrients only varied just below the MF-II model. However, such variations were localized to within 5 m below the MF-II model since the waters were exchanged because of the tidal current. The minor changes in water quality are attributable to the impedance of photosynthesis due to the sea-covering effect and the activities of sessile organisms fouling the bottom surface of the MF-II model. 相似文献
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Optimal parental investment usually differs depending on the sex of the offspring. However, parents in most organisms cannot
discriminate the sex of their young until those young are energetically independent. In a species with physical male–male
competition, males are often larger and usually develop sexual ornaments, so male offspring are often more costly to produce.
However, Onthophagus dung beetles (Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae) are highly dimorphic in secondary sexual characters, but sexually monomorphic in
body size, despite strong male–male competition for mates. We demonstrate that because parents provide all resources required
by their offspring before adulthood, O.
atripennis exhibits no sexual size dimorphism irrespective of sexual selection pressure favoring sexual dimorphism. By constructing
a graphic model with three fitness curves (for sons, daughters, and expected fitness return for parents), we demonstrate that
natural selection favors parents that provide both sons and daughters with the optimal amount of investment for sons, which
is far greater than that for daughters. This is because the cost of producing small sons, that are unable to compete for mates,
is far greater than the cost of producing daughters that are larger than necessary. This theoretical prediction can explain
sexual dimorphism without sexual size dimorphism, widely observed in species with crucial parental care such as dung beetles
and leaf-rolling beetles, and may provide an insight into the enigmatic relationship between sexual size dimorphism and sexual
dimorphism. 相似文献
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Takayoshi Ueno Toru Shiino Hiroshi Onishi 《Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management》1999,1(1):25-32
Life cycle assessment (LCA), a quantitative method for evaluating the total environmental impact of a product, from the materials
in its manufacture to its final disposal, is playing an increasingly important role in manufacturing. When the LCA method
is applied to a product containing many kinds of electronic components, there is a need for life cycle inventory (LCI) data
on the components. This paper provides an original calculation of the LCI data for each electronic components industry. These
data show the amount of input energy and emissions into the atmosphere per yen of production yield. It is demonstrated that
the magnitude of the LCI data for each industry is essentially equal to that of the other industries. Furthermore, we conclude
that the LCI data for all electronic components are roughly equivalent, making it possible to calculate the LCI data of any
electronic component by simply multiplying the LCI data for the industry by the price of the component. Furthermore, after
comparing the materials production stages with the component manufacturing stage in the calculation, it became clear that
for several component industries the materials production stage could not be omitted from the calculation.
Received: April 10, 1998 / Accepted: February 8, 1999 相似文献
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In simple models, the cutoff grade has been shown to depend on the rate of growth of price net of the interest rate. But there is disagreement in the literature about whether the cutoff grade is positively or negatively related to this variable. In a model which involves two stages of production and a general grade distribution, we find that the rate of growth of price net of the interest rate has an influence, but that the sign of the effect is ambiguous because it depends on a complicated factor involving technical, mine-specific elasticities. This mine-specificity is consistent with the fact that engineering textbooks present the problem of optimal exploitation very simply, using a constant grade, and the fact that engineers use simulation in decision making. It also points to the possibility of moral hazard in exploitation, a possibility of potential concern to managers, shareholders and policy makers. 相似文献
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Takayoshi Yamaguchi Sonam Ngodup Mitsuhiro Nose Shinya Takeda 《Journal of Land Use Science》2016,11(4):401-416
Farmland abandonment has been a significant issue in mountain regions. Thus, many studies have attempted to uncover its driving factors. Most existing studies take a large- or meso-scale view of mountain regions, and there are a few studies that provide community-level analysis. Therefore, it is unclear how ecological and sociopolitical factors are actually combined to influence farmland abandonment at a community level. Thus, we conducted a field survey in the mountain village of Ladakh, northern India, beginning in 2009 and tried to understand the farmland abandonment occurrence process from the viewpoint of traditional altitudinal models of land use. Using data collected during the survey, a relationship between altitude and farmland abandonment was established. However, this relationship was complex, combining traditional forms of land use system in the village. The altitudinal model of land use was very common in mountain regions; thus, discussions of current land use issues should be based on an understanding of such traditional altitudinal systems. 相似文献
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Thomas C. Kinnaman Takayoshi Shinkuma Masashi Yamamoto 《Journal of Environmental Economics and Management》2014
This paper estimates the average social cost of municipal waste management as a function of the recycling rate. Social costs include all municipal costs and revenues, costs to recycling households to prepare materials estimated with an original method, external disposal costs, and external recycling benefits. Results suggest average social costs are minimized with recycling rates well below observed and mandated levels in Japan. Cost-minimizing municipalities are estimated to recycle less than the optimal rate. These results are robust to changes in the components of social costs, indicating that Japan and perhaps other developed countries may be setting inefficiently high recycling goals. 相似文献
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