Transformation of South African industrial fisheries

South African industrial fisheries have been dominated by a few large companies. The Marine Living Resources Act (MLRA) of 1998 emphasised that equity was to be achieved by redistribution through co-operative strategies among stakeholders. Instead, the reallocation of fishing rights has been treated as a resource management issue rather than a socio-economic challenge. Further, the institutional structures for transformation have been inappropriate. This paper investigates the institutional dynamics and discrepancies associated with transformation and concludes that the process became locked in a path dependency, which will eventually undermine the intentions of transformation.     

Developing soil indices based on brightness,darkness, and greenness to improve land surface mapping accuracy

Soil, as one of the three basic biophysical components, has been understudied using remote sensing techniques compared to vegetation and impervious surface areas (ISA). This study characterized land surfaces based on the brightness–darkness–greenness model. These three dimensions, brightness, darkness, and greenness, were represented by the first Tasseled Cap Transformation (TC1), Normalize Difference Snow Index (NDSI), and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), respectively. The Ratio Index for Bright Soil (RIBS) was developed based on TC1 and NDSI, and the Product Index for Dark Soil (PIDS) was established by TC1 and NDVI. Their applications to the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager images and 500 m 8-day composite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in China revealed the efficiency. The two soil indices proficiently highlighted soil covers with consistently the smallest values, due to larger TC1 and smaller NDSI values in bright soil, and smaller NDVI and TC1 values in dark soil. The RIBS is capable of distinguishing bright soil from ISA without masking vegetation and water body. The spectral separability bright soil and ISA were perfect, with a Jeffries–Matusita distance of 1.916. And the PIDS was the only soil index that could discriminate dark soil from other land covers including ISA. The soil areas in China were classified using a simple threshold method based on MODIS images. An overall accuracy of 94.00% was obtained, with the kappa index of 0.8789. This study provided valuable insights into developing indices for characterizing land surfaces from different perspectives.     

Employment in Cape Town’s lodging sector: opportunities, skills requirements, employee aspirations and transformation

Since the attainment of democracy in 1994 one of the major concerns of the South African government has been to address the social and economic injustices that characterised the apartheid regime. With tourism on the rise in South Africa and international arrivals growing at a rate almost triple the global rate, the tourism industry has been identified as one of the important industries to drive the transformation agenda. This study sought to assess the employment situation in Cape Town’s lodging sector, identify the existing types of jobs and skills requirements of the sector, determine career aspirations of and skills development needs for lodging sector employees as well as asses the state of transformation. Study findings showed that the lodging sector is labour intensive, requires low academic skill, and offers low paying employment following the findings that about a quarter of the respondents indicated that their jobs didn’t require any formal qualification, the average working day was 9.2 h and 52% earned below R3,500 a month. The study showed significant differences in income based on race. White employees earned significantly more than their black and coloured counterparts. However, white employees working as general labour were also significantly more qualified than their black and coloured counterparts. There was a significant positive relationship between income and length of service for white employees, but the same wasn’t true for black and coloured employees. There was a significant negative relationship between length of service and academic qualifications for black employees implying that black people’s length of service for one employer decreases as they become more academically qualified. Also significant was skills development opportunities based on gender. Significantly more females than males had attended on-the-job training programs.     

Vector methods to compute azimuth, elevation, ellipsoidal normal, and the Cartesian ( X , Y , Z ) to geodetic ( φ , λ , h ) transformation

Vector-based algorithms for the computation of azimuth, elevation and the ellipsoidal normal unit vector from 3D Cartesian coordinates are presented. As a by-product, the formulae for the ellipsoidal normal vector can also be used to iteratively transform rectangular Cartesian coordinates (X, Y, Z) into geodetic coordinates (φ, λ, h) for a height range from −5600 km to 10⁸ km. Comparisons with existing methods indicate that the new transformation can compete with them.     

Spatial correlation for transformation uncertainty and its applications

This paper shows that the transformation uncertainty varies in space and can be decomposed into (a) a slowly fluctuating component contributed by the systematic bias for a local site and (b) a rapidly fluctuating component partly contributed by the measurement error. Based on a piezocone database, the slowly fluctuating component is found to have a vertical scale of fluctuation (SOF) of 17–60 m, larger than the vertical SOFs for most soil properties and characteristic dimensions for many geotechnical structures. This paper provides an empirical basis to justify the assumption that the transformation uncertainty is fully correlated in space.     

医学图像配准综述

医学领域,医生需要比较不同的解剖影像信息和功能影像信息。将对应于同一物体的不同影像的像素点对应起来就是医学图像配准的主要任务。鉴于需要配准的图像的采集的方法和时间等方面不同,配准所采用的方法也不同。本文介绍了医学图像配准的新近方法。首先从图像配准的任务出发,介绍了配准过程的主要涉及的方面和配准流程。然后从配准时变换的参数角度考虑,将图像的配准分成两大类考虑:参数配准和非参数配准。每一类中给出基本的配准方法,并讨论其用法和特点。对参数配准,主要讨论它们各自不同的方法和适合处理的图像对;对非参数配准,侧重于考虑控制方程的由来和整体外力的计算。     

再论全球变网格多层原始方程差分模式的设计

在修正的MM4和一个有限域变网格差分模式的基础上,设计了全球变网格多层原始方程差分模式。可以证明:设计的模式具有质量、能量守恒等整体性质,并具有正确的动、位能转换关系。为了克服高纬地区经线辐合带来的时间步长须取得很小的问题,给出了不进行滤波处理并仍能保持整体性质的解决办法。     

广西各地的雨季开始与汛期雨量分布型的分析

统计分析了广西各地雨季开始日的时空分布特点,指出江南极锋雨带南移使广西雨季自北向南相继开始,NE季风与SE季风共同作用使广西雨季东部先于西部,地处云贵高原余脉、右江上游的百色,雨季的开始与南海热带季风爆发有关.分析了广西各地主汛期雨量分布的"单峰型"和"双峰型"形成原因以及单双峰型的转换机理,指出影响广西的热带气旋频数大小的变化,是后汛期峰值时隐时现的主要原因.对全区性雨季偏早或偏迟年份的雨量和雨量分布型也作了对比分析,所揭示的相关事实,对天气预测有一定参考意义.     

1nm锰矿相结构稳定性的研究

对在潮湿状态和经室温干燥后的人工合成Slnm锰矿相进行X衍射测定结果显示:1nm锰矿相与0.7nm锰矿相之间存在某种相变关系,那些结构不稳定的S1nm锰矿相,由于干燥等原因而失去层间-OH-H₂O层,而使原先的1nm相“崩塌”成为0.7nm锰矿相.1nm锰矿相结构稳定性主要是由被结合进层间的Cu、Co、Ni等二价金属阳离子的特性与数量所决定的,其所含的金属阳离子的数量与其锰矿相的结构稳定性呈正相关,而不同的金属阳离子在稳定1nm锰矿相的结构的能力的大小可排列为:Ni>Cu>Co>Zn>Ca≥Mg>Na.     

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