PLS-based EWMA fault detection strategy for process monitoring

Fault detection (FD) and diagnosis in industrial processes is essential to ensure process safety and maintain product quality. Partial least squares (PLS) has been used successfully in process monitoring because it can effectively deal with highly correlated process variables. However, the conventional PLS-based detection metrics, such as the Hotelling's T² and the Q statistics are ill suited to detect small faults because they only use information from the most recent observations. Other univariate statistical monitoring methods, such as the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control scheme, has shown better abilities to detect small faults. However, EWMA can only be used to monitor single variables. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to combine the advantages of the univariate EWMA and PLS methods to enhance their performances and widen their applicability in practice. The performance of the proposed PLS-based EWMA FD method was compared with that of the conventional PLS FD method through two simulated examples, one using synthetic data and the other using simulated distillation column data. The simulation results clearly show the effectiveness of the proposed method over the conventional PLS, especially in the presence of faults with small magnitudes.     

Food aid and food crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Statistical trends and implications*

This paper documents the rapid expansion and changes in food aid flows to Sub-Saharan Africa up to mid-1985. Trends for Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole and for the more seriously affected countries are examined, as are the comparative experiences of food aid of individual countries in the region. Table 11 lists the Sub-Saharan African countries and indicates the most seriously affected food-short countries, as defined by the WFP/FAO task force. It should be borne in mind that some practical problems exist in compiling data on food aid. These include lack of availability of reliable data, especially of most recent data; lack of common terminology and definitions; and different accounting systems. These data problems are sometimes a source of confusion. However, the basic facts are clear: food aid gradually emerged during the early 1980s as a resource too often of considerable significance to many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. These trends were only accelerated with the crisis of 1984-1985. These facts provide a point of reference for further analysis of the sources of the crisis, its actual dimensions and consequences.     

上海地区二氧化硫浓度和风速的统计关系

应用上海市1986年6月至1987年5月间5个自动监测站的全年每日逐时SO_2浓度平均值和同步的风速平均值资料,按季进行比较、归纳,得到风速—SO_2浓度的诊断判据,并利用1984年全年的相应资料进行验证,准确率达85％;得到了各季浓度—风速的回归方程,和浓度—风速、温差的二元回归方程、复相关系数。     

甘肃寒山金矿区黄钾铁矾的形成机制及其地质意义

在分析寒山金矿区原生矿物和氧化矿物组合的基础上，通过对黄钾铁钒的热力学计算分析得出：在常温条件下，黄铁矿要形成黄钾铁钒，所需的氧逸度较低，但需要有一个较高的碱性、富钾、富Fe2＋以及富水的环境，这一条件暗示了围岩为富铁的基性火山岩在湿润的气候条件下有利于形成黄钾铁钒，同时也表明寒山金矿区氧化带的形成过程中，其气侯环境不是现在的沙漠干旱气候，而是湿润动植物繁盛的大陆性气候。结合区域地质特征，可以得出寒山金矿的氧化带可能形成于早侏罗世-中侏罗世。     

论环境参与权

环境参与权是公民享有的一项重要环境权利。它包括参与环境立法权、环境行政听证权、参与环境决策权和环境监督权，确立环境参与权具有重要意义，但我国现行立法很不完备，需要进一步完善。     

社会主义荣辱观的意义与启示

本文对胡锦涛总书记提出的“八荣八耻”社会主义荣辱观的重大现实意义与启示全面进行了论述，并从内在联系上阐明了社会主义荣辱观八个方面的辩证统一，论证了践行社会主义荣辱观，实质上是实现党的宗旨、保持党的先进性的迫切需要。     

我国环境行政执法之探析

目前 ,关于环境保护方面的执法手段有很多 ,但作为环保部门重要职能和环境保护重要法律手段之一的环境行政执法是不能忽视的。主要介绍了环境行政执法的意义、我国环境行政执法存在的诸多问题 ,并提出了针对性的完善措施。     

西鄂尔多斯国家级自然保护区旅游开发的战略意义及可行性分析

西鄂尔多斯自然保护区是一个以保护古老残遗植物及草原向荒漠过渡的植被带和多样的生态系统为主要对象的综合性自然保护区。受传统资源开发模式的影响，生态环境十分脆弱，保护难度极大。西部大开发为这一区域旅游开发提供了机遇，通过旅游开发，建立新的经济开发模式，促使区域生态环境好转，以促进保护区的建设和发展。本文就该区域旅游开发的战略意义和可行性进行了探讨。     

ANALYZING CORRELATIONS BETWEEN STREAM AND WATERSHED ATTRIBUTES1

ABSTRACT: Bivariate correlation analysis has been widely used to explore relationships between stream and watershed attributes that have all been measured on the same set of watersheds or sampling locations. Researchers routinely test H₀: ρ= 0 for each correlation in a large table and then go on to discuss only those that are declared “significant.” Such test results are inaccurate because no allowance is made for multiple testing, and also because the tests are not mutually independent. This paper reviews the Bonferroni approach to controlling the overall error rate in multiple testing and shows how the approach becomes impractical for large correlation tables. The Hotelling/Williams test is introduced for comparing two dependent correlations that share a variable, and numerical constraints for two such correlations are illustrated. References are also given for testing other hypothesized patterns among dependent correlations, and links to dependent correlation software are provided. The methods are illustrated for watershed and stream variables sampled in 23 small agricultural watersheds of the Willamette Valley, Oregon.     

清洁生产纳入环境影响评价的意义

当前的环境影响评价在某种程度上更侧重于环境的末端治理,无法将污染控制与生产过程控制密切结合,资源和能源不能在生产过程中得到充分利用.而清洁生产在这方面却有着独特的特点和优势.根据清洁生产与环境影响评价的内在联系,尽快地将清洁生产纳入环境影响评价是具有重要意义的,清洁生产应该成为环境影响评价报告撰写中的重要内容.