How important are local inventive milieus: The role of birthplace,high school and university education

Using data on the entire population in combination with data on almost all individuals in Sweden listed as inventors, we study how the probability of being listed on a patent as inventor is influenced by the density of other future inventors residing in the same region. In this process, we control for demographic and sector effects along with the educational characteristics of parents. This approach allows us to trace how location history influences individuals’ inventive capacity. We focus on three types of influences: (a) future inventors in the municipality around the time of birth, (b) future inventors around the time of graduation from high school and (c) future inventors at graduation from higher education. We find suggestive evidence that co-locating with future inventors may impact the probability of becoming an inventor. The most consistent effect is found for place of higher education; some positive effects are also evident from birthplace, whereas no consistent positive effect can be derived from individuals’ high school location. Therefore, the formative influences mainly deriving from family upbringing, birth region and from local milieu effects arising from a conscious choice to attend a higher education affect the choice of becoming an inventor.     

Point-to-point connectivity,an abstract concept or a key issue for risk assessment studies?

Connectivity of high/low-permeability areas has been recognized to significantly impact groundwater flow and solute transport. The task of defining a rigorous quantitative measure of connectivity for continuous variables has failed so far, and thus there exist a suite of connectivity indicators which are dependent on the specific hydrodynamic processes and the interpretation method. Amongst the many existing indicators, we concentrate on those characterizing connectivity between the points involved in a hydraulic or tracer test. The flow connectivity indicator used here is based on the time elapsed for hydraulic response in a pumping test (e.g., the storage coefficient estimated by the Cooper–Jacob method, S_est). Regarding transport, we select the estimated porosity from the breakthrough curve (_est). According to Knudby and Carrera [Knudby C, Carrera J. On the relationship between indicators of geostatistical, flow and transport connectivity. Adv Water Resour 2005;28(4):405–21] these two indicators measure connectivity differently, and are poorly correlated. Here, we use perturbation theory to analytically investigate the intrinsic relationship between S_est and _est. We find that _est can be expressed as a weighted line integral along the particle trajectory involving two parameters: the transmissivity point values, T, and the estimated values of S_est along the particle path. The weighting function is linear with the distance from the pumping well, thus the influence of the weighting function is maximum at the injection area, whereas the hydraulic information close to the pumping well becomes redundant (null weight). The relative importance of these two factors is explored using numerical simulations in a given synthetic aquifer and tested against intermediate-scale laboratory tracer experiments. We conclude that the degree of connectivity between two points of an aquifer (point-to-point connectivity) is a key issue for risk assessment studies aimed at predicting the travel time of a potential contaminant.     

IPCC AR6 WGI报告的背景、 架构和方法

IPCC第六次评估报告(AR6)第一工作组报告(简称报告)中提供了对气候系统和气候变化的最新物理解释,整合了来自古气候和仪器观测的多项证据、过程理解以及全球和区域的气候模拟,记录了气候科学的最新进展.报告旨在提供有关过去气候如何变化的事实,揭示人类活动在这些变化中所起的作用,并根据不同社会经济路径的排放情景对未来气候进...     

Experimental Study on Conversion Efficiency of A Floating OWC Pentagonal Backward Bent Duct Buoy Wave Energy Converter

Wave tank tests were carried out to evaluate the total efficiency of a floating OWC Pentagonal Backward Bent Duct Buoy (PBBDB). Two kinds of turbine generators were used in tests. The incident wave power, pneumatic power and electricity were measured. The test results show that the primary efficiency can reach up to 185.98% in regular waves and 85.86% in irregular waves. The total efficiency from wave to wire with Wells turbine-generator set is 33.43% in regular waves and 15.82% in irregular waves. The peak total efficiency of the PBBDB with check valves equipped with the impulse turbine-generator set is 41.68% in regular waves and 27.10% in irregular waves. The efficiency of the turbine-generator set is about 30% in the tests. Obviously, the total efficiency can be further improved with the increasing of turbine efficiency.     

基于Context模型的Shearlet变换地面微地震随机噪声压制

地面微地震监测采集到的微地震信号通常能量微弱,信噪比低,如何提高微震数据的信噪比是数据处理的难题.Shearlet变换是一种新型的多尺度几何分析方法,具有敏感的方向性和较强的稀疏表示特性,能起到很好的随机噪声压制效果.由于地面微震数据的有效信号大多被淹没在噪声中,基于传统阈值的Shearlet变换（the traditional threshold-based Shearlet transform TST）只考虑到尺度或方向的阈值,在去噪过程中会过度扼制有效信号系数,造成有效信号能量损失.因而,本文建立Context模型,得到基于Context模型的Shearlet变换（the Context-model-based Shearlet transform CMST）方法,改进传统Shearlet阈值方法的不足.我们通过所建立的Context模型将能量相近的各方向系数划分为同一组,并分组估计阈值,分别处理各部分系数,达到微弱同相轴有效恢复的目的.通过TST及CMST的模拟实验与实际地面微震记录处理结果对比可知,本文方法在低信噪比条件下比对比方法更加有效地恢复地面微震数据的微弱信号,随机噪声压制效果明显,在-10 dB条件下,提升信噪比18.3741 dB.     

无人机倾斜摄影结合激光扫描仪三维逆向建模

近年来随着科学技术水平的不断提高,城市三维数字化成为数字城市建设的重点应用方向.无人机遥感技术、三维激光扫描技术的发展,使数字城市建设逐渐开始向全面自动化、智能化转变.本文利用拓普康猎鹰8号多旋翼无人机,并结合拓普康GLS-2000L三维激光扫描仪对建筑物进行数据采集,然后利用Context Capture自动建模后处...     

碳捕获和存储技术综述及对我国的影响

近十多年来,气候变化问题已被列为全球环境问题之首,并且日益成为国际社会关注的热门话题。其重要的焦点就是如何控制温室气体的浓度稳定在防止气候系统受到危险的人为干扰的水平上。为此,国际上提出了许多新观点和新技术以达到上述目标。其中的碳捕获和存储就是一项关注于研究和开发CO2的分离、捕获、运输和存储的技术方法。分析了碳捕获和存储所涉及的科学和方法学问题,包括概念、技术流程、技术潜力以及涵盖的环境、经济和社会因素。在此基础上,分析评价了其对我国能源和经济的影响。最后提出了我国今后在开展碳捕获和存储研究、能力建设等方面的建议。     

从语义三角理论谈翻译的跨文化对等

从语义学中语义三角理论研究出发 ,分析了词义的选择、不同语言文化对概念的表达差异以及语义三角理论对翻译的指导意义 ,探讨了跨文化语境下对等翻译的可行性。     

Time and temperature dependency of carbon dioxide triggered metal(loid) mobilization in soil

Assessing the influence of CO₂ on soil and aquifer geochemistry is a task of increasing interest when considering risk assessment for geologic carbon sequestration. Leakage and CO₂ ascent can lead to soil acidification and mobilization of potentially toxic metals and metalloids due to desorption or dissolution reactions. We studied the CO₂ influence on an Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxide rich, gleyic Fluvisol sampled in close vicinity to a Czech mofette site and compared the short-term CO₂ influence in laboratory experiments with observations on long-term influence at the natural site. Six week batch experiments with/without CO₂ gas flow at 3 different temperatures and monitoring of liquid phase metal(loid) concentrations revealed two main short-term mobilization processes. Within 1 h to 1 d after CO₂ addition, mobilization of weakly adsorbed metal cations occurred due to surface protonation, most pronounced for Mn (2.5–3.3 fold concentration increase, mobilization rates up to 278 ± 18 μg Mn kg_soil⁻¹ d⁻¹) and strongest at low temperatures. However, total metal(loid) mobilization by abiotic desorption was low. After 1–3 d significant Fe mobilization due to microbially-triggered Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxide dissolution began and continued throughout the experiment (up to 111 ± 24 fold increase or up to 1.9 ± 0.6 mg Fe kg_soil⁻¹ d⁻¹). Rates increased at higher temperature and with a higher content of organic matter. The Fe(III) mineral dissolution was coupled to co-release of incorporated metal(loid)s, shown for As (up to 16 ± 7 fold, 11 ± 8 μg As kg_soil⁻¹ d⁻¹). At high organic matter content, re-immobilization due to resorption reactions could be observed for Cu. The already low pH (4.5–5.0) did not change significantly during Fe(III) reduction due to buffering from sorption and dissolution reactions, but a drop in redox potential (from > +500 mV to minimum +340 ± 20 mV) occurred due to oxygen depletion. We conclude that microbial processes following CO₂ induction into a soil can contribute significantly to metal(loid) mobilization, especially at optimal microbial growth conditions (moderate temperature, high organic carbon content) and should be considered for carbon sequestration monitoring and risk assessment.     

Can farmed salmon production keep growing?

Time series data was used to compute 5-year moving average rates of growth in salmon aquaculture production over time for four of the world's leading salmon farming countries, and globally. This analysis reveals a decline of 1.2% per year in global farmed salmon production since it peaked in 1966. Analysis of production data for all farmed finfish, both marine and freshwater, shows a decline of 0.34% per year in the growth rate from the peak year. These results have implications for global fisheries policy because it means that it is unlikely that aquaculture alone can meet the fish protein needs of humans.