金融深化对绿色发展的门槛效应分析

在绿色发展的过程中,金融作为现代经济体系中必不可少的一环正扮演着越来越重要的角色。从一般的理论认知和实践而言,可从金融的深化和广化两个角度来看待金融发展。相对金融广化而言,金融深化更能体现金融对于资本的配置功能和金融体系不断完善的过程,它通过引导投资边际收益率促进绿色发展的效率,进而影响整个绿色经济系统的全要素生产率。本文通过构建一个经济内生增长模型来检验金融深化对绿色发展的影响效应,以2003—2014年中国280个地级单元的面板数据为样本,采用面板门槛模型分析其内在作用的非对称性。结果表明:(1)模型推导发现,金融深化作用在不同生产部门所占份额的配置未达到最优时,金融深化对绿色发展存在门槛效应,即金融深化对绿色发展作用存在可能的非对称性;否则,二者以近似对数函数的关系相互作用。(2)实证发现,金融深化对绿色发展在中国地级层面存在一重门槛效应,似然比检验结果表明该门槛效应在1%的临界值下显著,并且其门槛值大小为0.635 5,门限回归结果显示金融深化对绿色发展在门限值前后的偏效应系数分别为-0.056 8和0.129 9,说明中国金融深化与绿色发展的关系呈现库兹涅茨曲线的倒U形形状。(3)稳健性检验发现,控制变量对金融深化导致的绿色发展门槛效应的扰动仅体现在P值的变化范围之内且变化幅度较小,门限值的大小及置信区间不会发生明显变化,反映中国金融深化与绿色发展的关系结构依然稳健。显然,应当大力推进金融深化过程,突破"门槛效应"的制约,充分发挥金融深化对资本的配置效应,从而推动中国绿色发展进程。     

Robustness testing of a free-fall triboelectric separation process for plastic waste recovery

Among the separation techniques used in industries, the triboelectric separation of insulating particles using a rotary tube is an effective way employed in the waste recovery of plastic and mineral products. This process, also called free-fall triboelectric separation, is widely used for the sorting of granular mixtures resulting from industrial plastic wastes. Given that the robustness of such a separation process is an important issue, a standard procedure is used for determining the set point and for minimising the process sensitivity of sorting mixed particles of different polymers to changes in the values of some critical factors. The aim of this paper was to analyse the efficiency of the triboelectric separation process of polymers with respect to any slight variation in the values of the most significant factors. Experiments with a sample of high-density polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride plastic granules were carried out on a laboratory experimental bench. Several one-factor-at-a-time experiments, followed by two factorial designs (one composite and the other fractional), were performed based on the following experimental procedure: (1) determination of the variation limits of the input variables; (2) identification of the set point and (3) robustness testing of the process, i.e. testing whether the performance of the system remains high even when the factors vary slightly around the set point.     

A plea to implement robustness into a breeding goal: poultry as an example

The combination of breeding for increased production and the intensification of housing conditions have resulted in increased occurrence of behavioral, physiological, and immunological disorders. These disorders affect health and welfare of production animals negatively. For future livestock systems, it is important to consider how to manage and breed production animals. In this paper, we will focus on selective breeding of laying hens. Selective breeding should not only be defined in terms of production, but should also include traits related to animal health and welfare. For this we like to introduce the concept of robustness. The concept of robustness includes individual traits of an animal that are relevant for health and welfare. Improving robustness by selective breeding will increase (or restore) the ability of animals to interact successfully with the environment and thereby to make them more able to adapt to an appropriate husbandry system. Application of robustness into a breeding goal will result in animals with improved health and welfare without affecting their integrity. Therefore, in order to be ethically acceptable, selective breeding in animal production should accept robustness as a breeding goal. L. Star, E. D. Ellen contributed equally to this work. Star belongs to the Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University, and the rest of the authors belong to the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University.     

Search and rescue in collapsed structures: engineering and social science aspects

This paper discusses the social science and engineering dimensions of search and rescue (SAR) in collapsed buildings. First, existing information is presented on factors that influence the behaviour of trapped victims, particularly human, physical, socioeconomic and circumstantial factors. Trapped victims are most often discussed in the context of structural collapse and injuries sustained. Most studies in this area focus on earthquakes as the type of disaster that produces the most extensive structural damage. Second, information is set out on the engineering aspects of urban search and rescue (USAR) in the United States, including the role of structural engineers in USAR operations, training and certification of structural specialists, and safety and general procedures. The use of computational simulation to link the engineering and social science aspects of USAR is discussed. This could supplement training of local SAR groups and USAR teams, allowing them to understand better the collapse process and how voids form in a rubble pile. A preliminary simulation tool developed for this purpose is described.     

应用量子化学参数预测多氯有机物的分配性质

应用量子化学AM1算法求得多氯有机物的量化参数，以此来构建定量结构－性质相关（QSPR）模型。该模型能较好地预测多氯有机物的正辛醇／水分配系数（Kow)和沉积物吸附系数（Koc).Kow和Koc平均误差分别为0．31和0．33个对数单位。模型的稳健性检验结果表明：模型中自变量不存在相关关系；残差呈正态分布；对Koc来说，PCB和PCDD／F在构建模型中起核心作用，剔除该类化合物导致模型相关系数明显下降，农药类及氯硝基苯类化合物的存在降低了模型的精度。     

Detection of the toughest: Pedestrian injury risk as a smooth function of age

Objective: Though it is common to refer to age-specific groups (e.g., children, adults, elderly), smooth trends conditional on age are mainly ignored in the literature. The present study examines the pedestrian injury risk in full-frontal pedestrian-to–passenger car accidents and incorporates age—in addition to collision speed and injury severity—as a plug-in parameter.

Methods: Recent work introduced a model for pedestrian injury risk functions using explicit formulae with easily interpretable model parameters. This model is expanded by pedestrian age as another model parameter. Using the German In-Depth Accident Study (GIDAS) to obtain age-specific risk proportions, the model parameters are fitted to the raw data and then smoothed by broken-line regression.

Results: The approach supplies explicit probabilities for pedestrian injury risk conditional on pedestrian age, collision speed, and injury severity under investigation. All results yield consistency to each other in the sense that risks for more severe injuries are less probable than those for less severe injuries. As a side product, the approach indicates specific ages at which the risk behavior fundamentally changes. These threshold values can be interpreted as the most robust ages for pedestrians.

Conclusions: The obtained age-wise risk functions can be aggregated and adapted to any population. The presented approach is formulated in such general terms that in can be directly used for other data sets or additional parameters; for example, the pedestrian's sex. Thus far, no other study using age as a plug-in parameter can be found.     

流域负荷削减的主观深度不确定性分析及稳健决策

深度不确定性影响着流域负荷削减及其决策.针对决策过程中主观层面产生的深度不确定性,本文提出了包含3个部分的稳健性决策方法:(1)确定衡量主观因素的权重的合理范围,采取适当采样方法确定每组合理权重下的最优决策;(2)稳健性指标计算;(3)以稳健性指标为目标结合进化算法求出稳健决策.将上述方法应用到江西八里湖的总氮(TN)负荷削减决策之中,该决策问题的相关模型考虑到了污染负荷与水质的响应关系及客观不确定性.以此为基础,在八里湖流域TN 277~297 t的年负荷削减水平下分析主观深度不确定性的影响.结果显示,即便结构相似的权重,细微的改变也能导致不同权重下的最优决策发生比较大的变化,而通过上述方法可以识别出污染负荷削减的稳健决策,该决策以点源及特定子流域的面源控制为主.在削减率上下波动5%(2.5%)的范围内,上述方案能够在83.5%(40.3%)的合理权重情况下保持最优,说明该决策能够满足绝大部分情况下对于不同站点之间的权衡考虑,可以为最终决策提供支持.     

城市危机管理系统鲁棒性评价研究——以上海市危机管理系统为例

为提高城市危机管理系统的鲁棒性,探究影响系统鲁棒性的主要因素,建立城市危机管理系统的鲁棒性评价体系。采用因子分析中的主成分分析法,分析评价上海市2004—2009年危机管理系统鲁棒性评价指标的数据,并根据数据分析结果找出影响城市危机管理系统鲁棒性的主成分和因子。结果表明,上海危机管理系统的鲁棒性呈现日趋增强的趋势,企业亏损程度、犯罪率、离婚率、对外界公共卫生事件的防御程度、自然灾害因素对上海危机管理系统的影响较大。提高企业盈利能力、降低犯罪率和离婚率、提高公共卫生防御能力、完善自然灾害预防措施有助于增强城市危机管理系统的鲁棒性。     

多源遥感数据支持下的县域尺度生态效率测算及稳健性检验——以长江中游城市群为例

生态效率是评价区域生态文明水平的重要依据,也是地理学与经济学开展资源环境综合研究的常用指标和变量,县域尺度生态效率测度的研究匮乏,制约了上述问题在县域层面上开展。在长江经济带生态优先和绿色发展国家战略下,以长江中游城市群为研究区域,依托多源遥感数据构建县域尺度生态效率测算指标体系,应用非合意产出超效率EBM模型测算2000-2015年县域生态效率,利用GIS空间分析工具揭示其时空分异规律和空间关联特征。并设计稳健性检验方案,对县域尺度生态效率测度路径科学性及稳健性进行检验。结果表明：（1）各年份长株潭城市群和环鄱阳湖城市群所辖县域的生态效率均优于武汉城市圈所辖县域;（2）研究期内生态效率维持高位区域包括武汉市辖区等12个县市,生态效率持续低值区域包括瑞昌市等7个县市;（3）县域生态效率H-H集聚区由衡阳市、株洲市及其周边至2015年成片消失,L-L集聚区则按照顺时针走向,逐步形成围绕武汉市的闭合环形区域;（4）基于市域生态效率排名对比的稳健性检验表明,县域生态效率测度路径和结果具有较高可信度。     

基于D优化方法的CSADT设计

考虑到试验设计人员更关注模型参数的估计精度,而传统试验优化方法以产品可靠性与寿命相关参数的预测精度为目标,提出将D优化方法引入恒定应力加速退化试验(CSADT)设计中。首先,用随机过程描述CSADT中产品性能退化的过程,通过对数似然函数,推导Fisher信息矩阵,基于D优化方法建立优化目标,以试验费用为约束条件,明确优化问题,给出最优试验变量:各应力水平、各应力下样本分配和试验时间分配。然后,应用该方法给出仿真实例。最后,通过模型参数偏差的敏感性分析,说明在一定偏差范围内,优化结果具有良好的稳健性。