Environmental Policies Can Buttress Conservation Norms

In an attempt to solve large-scale environmental problems, government agencies often resort to formal sanctioning systems: market-based incentives or command-and-control regulations, to promote cooperation. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the presence of these formal sanctioning systems impacts informal sanctioning systems for environmental protection. Study 1 used an experimental game to explore the influence of market-based and regulatory programs on informal sanctioning in a laboratory setting. Study 2 was a quasi-experimental field survey that compared informal sanctioning among Massachusetts residents living in towns with voluntary, mandatory, and pay-as-you-throw recycling programs. Results showed that in the presence of a formal sanctioning system, individuals felt guiltier for not engaging in the cooperative behavior and expressed more disapproval for non-cooperators. Combined, these results show that environmental policies can buttress conservation norms.     

Personalized sightseeing tours: a model for visits in art museums

This article describes a method to provide adapted visit tours in art museums according to the preferences expressed by the visitor and exhibits prestige. It is based on a dual approach with, on the one hand an automatic textual analysis of the official information available online (labels of exhibits) that allows to rank the exhibit attractiveness for a standard museum visitor. On the other hand, individual preferences are also taken into account to adapt the visit according to the personal cultural awareness of the visitor. We use operations research to solve a routing optimization problem, aiming at finding a visit tour with time constraints and maximization of the visitor satisfaction. Depending on the instance size and the problem scale, an integer linear programming (ILP) model and a greedy algorithm are proposed to recommend personalized visit tours and applied on two museums: ‘Musée de l’Orangerie’ in Paris and ‘National Gallery’ in London. The obtained results show that it is possible to recommend a good tour to visitors of an art museum by taking into account the common prestige of the exhibits and the individual interests, joining automatic text summarization and routing optimization in a limited geographical space.     

Optimization of simulation and visualization analysis of dam-failure flood disaster for diverse computing systems

Simulation and subsequent visualization in a network environment are important to glean insights into spatiotemporal processes. As computing systems become increasingly diverse in hardware architectures, operating systems, screen sizes, human–computer interactions and network capabilities, effective simulation and visualization must become adaptive to a wide range of diverse devices. This paper focuses on the optimization of simulation and visualization analysis of the dam-failure flood spatiotemporal process for diverse computing systems. First, an adaptive browser/server architecture of the dam-failure simulation application was designed to fill the hardware performance and visualization context gap that exists within diverse computing systems. Second, a data flow and an optimization method for multilevel time-series flood data were given to provide more support to network simulation, visualization and analysis on diversified terminals. Finally, a user interaction friendly and plugin-free prototype system was developed. The experiment results demonstrate that the methods addressed in this paper can cope with the challenge in simulation, visualization and interaction of a dam-failure simulation application on diversified terminals.     

A note on Earth's rotation angular velocity in the general-relativity framework

 The value of the Earth's rotational angular velocity determined from observations is given in the GCRS (geocentric celestial reference system) defined by Resolution B1 of the 2000 IAU General Assembly. The same quantity derived from dynamical theories of the Earth's rotation, such as SMART97, is referred to the␣DGRSC (dynamically non-rotating ecliptical reference system). The relativistic theory of reference systems (RSs) enables unambiguous general-relativity relations between these quantities to be derived. Received: 9 November 2000 / Accepted: 9 July 2001     

工业测量系统最新进展及应用

主要介绍了四种工业测量系统，即经纬仪、全站仪、激光跟踪以及数字近景摄影测量系统的原理及最新进展，还介绍了工业测量系统在天线检测、顶管施工、大坝变形监测及水库闸门检测等领域的实际应用情况。     

LTD500激光跟踪测量系统原理及应用

激光跟踪测量系统是瑞士徕卡公司生产的高精度工业测量仪器，它具有测量精度高，实时快速，动态测量，便于移动等优点。在航空航天，汽车制造，电子工业，高能粒子加速器工程以及大尺寸计算等行业中，均有广泛应用，随着我国上述行业测试计算的迅速发展，这类仪器已开始大量引进，如在沈飞，西飞，上飞及一些研究所已应用于生产实践，本文主要介绍激光跟踪仪的原理，校准方法及应用情况。     

潍北凹陷中新生代层序地层的沉积模式

潍北凹陷是受郯庐断裂带直接控制而发育起来的一个小型中新生代富含油气沉积盆地。根据财震反射界面特征，在凹陷孔店组和沙四段（沙河街组四段）内鉴别出6个地震层序界面，进而划分为5个三级层序。在分析初始湖泛面和最大湖泛面的基础上，对层序内体系域和沉积特征进行了划分与分析。盆地沉积演化可划分为开裂期，早期沉降，再沉降，早期萎缩和晚期沉降五个阶段，并对凹陷内两种层地层的沉积模式进行了总结。     

区域水环境经济系统DSS的设计

从区域水环境与经济协调发展出发,建立了区域水环境的决策支持系统。介绍了区域水环境经济系统决策支持系统的设计原则、系统结构、系统组成及系统功能。系统由数据库、模型库及其管理系统三部分组成,具有预测、优化、模拟和管理等功能。模型库包括宏观经济模型、环境经济多目标优化模型、需水模型、水环境容量模型和水环境分析模型等5个基本模型。在求解水环境经济多目标优化模型时,使用了约束法,把多目标化为单目标进行求解。在决策过程中,使用逐步法,在迭代过程中输入经验与偏好获取满意的决策信息     

论海平面变化与层控矿床成因

桂北及桂中大瑶山西侧泥盆纪层控型站矿床成因研究表明，矿床形成赋矿盆地的海平面变化密切相关，它们是“层、系、相、位”四位一体主因素地质场作用的结果，这一新的矿床成因新模式可以概括为：区域赋矿层位与层序边界面关系密切，研究区内共划分出７个 序边界面，其中ＳＢ１（Ｉ），ＳＢ３（Ⅲ）及ＳＢ７（Ｉ）是主要的区域性赋 层位；矿体一般产于Ｉ型层序边界面之上，或产于Ⅱ，Ⅲ层序边界面之下；容矿主岩与一定的沉积体系域     

Support for,and Impacts of Publishing in the Annals of the AAG: The Authors and and Editor Speak

A survey of 176 authors who published in the Annals between 1988 and 1993 provides insights into why authors submitted their research to the journal, what support they received, and the impacts of the publication on their careers. Most decided themselves to submit their work, and one-third received support from research grants; cartographic assistance and graduate assistants were less important. The major benefits of publishing in the Annals were visibility in one's department, contact with other geographers, and requests for reprints. Most authors presented their ideas at professional meetings prior to submission. Promotion and salary Inc.reases were benefits for women, assistant professors, associate professors, and physical geographers. Authors considered their articles as original examinations that yielded new results, contributed to theory, stimulated debate, and helped bridge gaps inside and outside of geography. These results are useful in helping individual authors and for administrators in identifying the kinds of research support needed by authors publishing in the Annals.