A progressive line simplification algorithm

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面向对象三维有限元分析程序的研究和实现

计算分析在岩土工程应用和研究中占有相当大的比重。传统的结构化编程方式需花费大量工时 ,而且在可扩充性和代码可重用性方面也受到许多约束。因此 ,将面向对象编程技术应用于有限元程序编制正成为岩土工程计算程序设计的主流。将面向对象有限元方法引入三维有限元程序 ,用C ++语言编制了一个筏板基础与地基共同作用有限元分析程序 ,作为对有限元新方法的一次有益尝试     

广东人对外省人群体文化态度的调查与分析

根据研究的目的和任务，基于定性研究与定量研究相结合的原则，建立了由5个一级指标，21个二级指标及其相应权重组成的指标体系，同时，结合所建立的相关数据运算模型对问卷调查所获得的基本数据资料进行赋值和计算，利用数据处理后的结果就广东本地人对外省人群体文化的态度进行分析研究，研究结果表明：广东人对外省人群体文化的态度从总体上看属于基本融合性，但在具体指标方面仍存在一定的差异，具体体现为语言，社会交往，现实生活方面较高的融合性和生活习俗方面较强的冲突性，造成这一结果的主要原因是由于在文化交流日益频繁的今天，广东文化不仅是中华民族文化的有机组成部分，而且具有鲜明的个性特征，并深深的影响着广东人的行为和思想。     

Imagining difference: the experiences of 'transnational' Indian IT professionals in Germany

In this paper we explore the motivations to migrate and the migration experiences of 22 Indian IT professionals in Germany. When studying skilled migration, Germany is an interesting case as it struggled with waves of extreme right activities whilst trying to attract IT professionals from outside the European Union at the same time. In this context, we are interested in the conflicts that the migrants may experience as a result of their desire or obligation to move, their specific cultural baggage and the way in which they encounter the different sides of German society.     

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Books reviewed:
Bjørn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the real state of the world
B. Dalal–Clayton and D. Dent, Knowledge of the Land: Land resources information and its use in rural development
Krishna B. Ghimrie, The Native Tourist: Mass tourism within developing countries     

Patterns of Growth and Change: Depicting the Impacts of Restructuring in Idaho

Geographers and other social scientists investigating the impact of economic and demographic restructuring have tended to focus on urban metropolitan areas. There has been much less exploration of the local impacts of such change in largely nonmetropolitan locales. Many of these nonmetropolitan regions, however, are some of the fastest growing in the U.S. This article addresses this issue by examining, at the county level, economic and population trends in the state of Idaho. Generally recognized for its agricultural outputs (such as potatoes), Idaho experienced a population growth rate of 18.1 percent during the 1990s, making it one of the fastest growing states in the U.S. However, population growth and the associated changes in the local economy were unevenly distributed across the state. This article develops a typology of growth and change, indicating patterns of growth related to two predominant trends: high–tech footloose capital investment and amenity– and tourism–related residential development. Implications of this analysis for future research are discussed.     

南昌市土地利用的空间冲突风险评估及分区优化研究

以土地利用的导向功能为基础,将南昌市1995、2005和2015三期20种土地利用类型划分为生态生产空间、生产生态空间、生态空间和生活生产空间。利用空间复杂性指数、空间脆弱性指数和空间稳定性指数3个因子构建冲突模型,借鉴倒“U”型模型,将空间冲突分为4类：稳定可控、基本可控、基本失控和严重失控,在冲突级别的基础上利用优化产业结构、生态系统修复等措施,建立10个亚功能区,优化土地资源,缓解空间冲突,实现可持续发展。研究结果表明：①1995—2015年中南昌市三生空间格局以生产生态空间为主,其次是生态空间、生态生产空间以及生活生产空间,生活生产空间所占比例在上升,其余均在减少,呈现“一升三降”特点;②1995—2015年南昌市三生空间空间冲突愈演愈烈,严重失控单元持续增长,但2005—2015年的增长速度较1995—2005年稍慢,南昌市三生空间冲突失控态势严峻;③不同空间类型冲突存在较大差异,均以可控级别为主,其中失控级别占比由大到小：生活生产空间?生产生态空间?生态生产空间?生态空间;④利用10个亚功能区优化南昌市70%以上的区域,其中以城镇用地等为主的两个亚功能区,70%以上属于允许建设区,以滩地、湖泊、林地等为主亚功能区65%以上属于禁止建设区,符合土地利用总体规划。     

南极地区大陆架划界引发的法律制度碰撞

自《南极条约》1961年生效以来,南极地区一直处于以《南极条约》为核心的南极条约体系的约束之下.1982年《联合国海洋法公约》(以下简称《公约》)建立了大陆架制度,要求沿海国应在批准《公约》生效10年内完成200海里以外大陆架外部界限的划定①.1994年《公约》生效后,澳大利亚、挪威、阿根廷和英国在提交各国200海里以...     

War landform mapping and classification on the Verdun battlefield (France) using airborne LiDAR and multivariate analysis

Acting as efficient earth-movers, soldiers can be viewed as significant geomorphological drivers of landscape change when replaced in the recent debates on Anthropocene Geomorphology. ‘Polemoforms’, generated by military activities, correspond with a set of human-made landforms of various sizes and geometries. They are particularly common on the World War One battlefield of Verdun (France) which ranks among the largest battles of attrition along the Western Front. The artillery bombardments and building of defensive positions in that battle significantly altered the landscape, resulting in thousands of shell craters, dugouts, and gun positions that have altered both the meso and microtopography. This paper proposes an innovative methodology to make an exhaustive inventory of these small-scale conflict-induced landforms (excluding linear features such as trenches) using a digital terrain model (DTM) acquired by airborne LiDAR on the whole battlefield. Morphometric analysis was conducted using Kohonen's self-organizing maps (SOMs) and hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) in order to quantify and classify the high number of war landforms. This combined approach allowed for mapping more than one million landforms which can be classified into eight different shapes including shell craters and various soldier-made landforms (i.e. shelters, gun positions, etc.). Detection quality evaluation using field observations revealed the algorithm successfully classified 93% of shell craters and 74% of anthropologically constructed landforms. Finally, the iconographic database and map series produced will help archaeologists and foresters to better manage the historic site of Verdun, today covered by a large forest of ~10 000 ha. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.