First Results from Viper: Detection of Small-scale Anisotropy at 40 GHz

Using all available major samples of Seyfert galaxies and their corresponding closely matched control samples of nonactive galaxies, we find that the bar ellipticities (or axial ratios) in Seyfert galaxies are systematically different from those in nonactive galaxies. Overall, there is a deficiency of bars with large ellipticities (i.e., "thin" or "strong" bars) in Seyfert galaxies compared to nonactive galaxies. Accompanied with a large dispersion due to small number statistics, this effect is strictly speaking at the 2 sigma level. To obtain this result, the active galaxy samples of near-infrared surface photometry were matched to those of normal galaxies in type, host galaxy ellipticity, absolute magnitude, and, to some extent, redshift. We discuss possible theoretical explanations of this phenomenon within the framework of galactic evolution, and, in particular, of radial gas redistribution in barred galaxies. Our conclusions provide further evidence that Seyfert hosts differ systematically from their nonactive counterparts on scales of a few kiloparsecs.     

基于城市地理学视角的社区居民满意度研究——以乌鲁木齐市为例

城市是一个复杂的自组织巨系统,具有一定的层次结构和功能。社区是组建社会的微观单位,是城市的细胞,在中国城市转型的过程中,社区成为城市空间重要构件和城市内部社会空间结构研究的基本单位,当前社区居民满意度研究是社会学者和城市地理学者关注的重点,居民满意度成为评价社区建设与管理的重要标准之一。基于城市地理学视角,采用层次分析法和因子分析法建立满意度评价模型,以乌鲁木齐市6种类型7个案例社区中的743户居民为调查对象,对城市社区居民满意度进行实证研究,深入探讨了社区居民满意度的影响因素和作用机理。研究表明:影响居民满意度的内在因素中社区类型差别是关键,社区周边环境对居民做出判断具有决策效应,社区居民个体差异,包括年龄结构差异、文化水平差异、收入状况差异对居民满意度评价具有重要影响。通过问卷调查和半结构式访谈相结合的方式,对调查对象所反馈的信息进行一种客观描述和重现,期望对后续学者进行社区其他领域的研究提供参考。居民满意度研究有利于提高居民对社区建设的支持度,为城市社区的建设、管理和可持续发展提供科学依据和政策指引。     

洋山深水港区码头导流堤工程对附近海域流场的影响

为了研究上海国际航运中心洋山深水港区四期工程导流堤工程对周边海域流场的影响,采用MIKE21里面的HD模块构建杭州湾及长江口海域整体潮流数值模型,分别对导流堤建成前后附近海域流场进行数值模拟,分析导流堤建成后工程附近海域流场特征。研究表明:导流堤建成后,四期码头前沿较大范围的回流区和缓流区基本消失,导流堤和四期码头前沿海流流向基本与码头走向保持一致,流速有所增大,导流堤的建设使码头前沿海流得到很好的改善,起到了归顺潮流的作用,有利于码头前沿水深的维持及船舶靠离港的安全。     

The Southwest Indian Ridge: Remelting the Gondwanan Mantle

<正>The Southwest Indian Ridge is an ultraslow spreading ridge(~14-mm/yr)that formed~150 Ma with the breakup of Gondwana.It extends 7700 km from the Bouvet to the Rodriguez Triple Junction,crossing over the flank of the large southern Geoid high centered over Marion and Crozet islands and the Conrad Rise.There is a     

Use of composite data sets for source-tracking enterococci in the water column and shoreline interstitial waters on Pensacola Beach, Florida

Sources of Enterococcus faecalis isolates from Pensacola Beach, FL. were identified using a library-based approach by applying the statistical method of average similarity to single and composite data sets generated from separate analyses. Data sets included antibiotic resistance analysis (ARA), rep-fingerprints, and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles. Use of a composite data set composed of ARA and rep-fingerprints, added to the confidence of the identifications. The addition of FAME data to composite data sets did not add to the confidence of identifications. Source identification was performed to better understand risk associated with higher densities of enterococci found in swash zone interstitial water (SZIW) as compared to adjacent bathing water on Pensacola Beach, FL. The "swash zone" is that area of the beach continually washed over by waves. As the potential sources of enterococci were limited in this environment, only two library units, sea gull and human, were constructed. Identification of the beach isolates using a composite data set indicated a sea gull origin. The clonality of the beach isolates suggested that the beach environment selects certain subspecies of E. faecalis.     

斜坡稳定：方法论

据斜坡及滑这科领域国内外研究现状及工程实践,总结归纳了斜坡稳定研究了应遵循的若干原则,其中包括了工程地质建模,动态系统,稳定性评价的相对性和绝对性,以及模型的精确性与可行性等问题。     

Groundwater biofilm dynamics grown in situ along a nutrient gradient

This paper describes the in situ response of groundwater biofilms in an alluvial gravel aquifer system on the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand. Biofilms were developed on aquifer gravel, encased in fine mesh bags and suspended in protective columns in monitoring wells for at least 20 weeks. Four sites were selected in the same groundwater system where previous analyses indicated a gradient of increasing nitrate down the hydraulic gradient from Sites 1 to 4. Measurements during the current study classified the groundwater as oligotrophic. Biofilm responses to the nutrient gradients were assessed using bioassays, with biomass determined using protein and cellular and nucleic acid staining and biofilm activity using enzyme assays for lipid, carbohydrate, phosphate metabolism, and cell viability. In general, biofilm activity decreased as nitrate levels increased from Sites 1 to 4, with the opposite relationship for carbon and phosphorus concentrations. These results showed that the groundwater system supported biofilm growth and that the upper catchment supported efficient and productive biofilms (high ratio of activity per unit biomass).