中国冬夏季气温和降水异常耦合关系的SVD与MEOF分析对比

以揭示中国冬、夏季气温、降水之间的同期耦合时空特征为例,比较了SVD与MEOF分析所得主要正交模的相关关系及均衡性,论证了SVD方法在揭示两个要素场序列互相关关系上的优越性。结果表明:1) SVD的分解对象仅包含反映两种要素场相关关系的信息,而MEOF还包含了两个要素场各自的自相关信息,前者分解对象更纯粹。2) MEOF和SVD揭示的气温和降水空间耦合模态正负异常分布大致相似,但相较SVD所揭示的耦合模态,MEOF分析的冬、夏季气温、降水主要正交模存在不均衡现象,即一个主要MEOF正交模往往侧重描述两种异常要素场中的一种,这种差异在冬季尤为突出。SVD方法揭示了中国冬、夏季同期气温、降水间局域高温少降水或低温多降水是二者主要异常配置,且相关性夏强冬弱。3)比较SVD、MEOF方法同序正交模的相关系数和均衡度发现,SVD多数正交模的相关系数较MEOF的更大、更稳定,且均通过显著性检验,MEOF的冬季部分正交模相关系数未通过显著性检验; SVD主要正交模的均衡性冬季优于MEOF分析、夏季优于(第一模态)或者接近于(第二、三模态) MEOF分析。故SVD方法是揭示两要素之间耦合关系的更好方法。     

全球贫困国家旅游竞争力与经济发展的耦合协调度及时空变化

基于联合国多维贫困指数、世界经济论坛旅游竞争力报告及国际货币基金组织提供的贫困国家经济数据,构建了旅游竞争力与经济发展评价指标体系,通过信息熵值法确定指标权重,再运用耦合协调度模型测度2008-2017年间贫困国家旅游竞争力与经济发展之间的耦合协调度,研究其时空演变规律及成因机制。研究发现：①贫困国家旅游竞争力与经济发展的的耦合协调现状不容乐观,基本都处于失调或接近失调状态,但从时间发展来看,有向协调方向缓慢发展的趋势,且耦合协调度的区域差异正在缓慢缩小;②从耦合协调类型上看,大部分贫困国家为经济滞后型,其余为旅游—经济同步型,尚无旅游滞后型;③贫困国家旅游竞争力与经济发展的耦合协调度等级分布呈现较明显的空间集聚特征,非洲地区耦合协调度等级相对最低,南美洲及加勒比地区耦合协调状态相对较好,东南亚地区则呈现局部异质性。     

Dynamic changes of habitats in China’s typical national nature reserves on spatial and temporal scales

Until 2015, China had established 2740 nature reserves with a total area of 1.47 million km², covering 14.8% of China’s terrestrial land surface. Based on remote sensing inversion, ecological model simulation and spatial analysis methods, we analyzed the spatial and temporal variations of fractional vegetation coverage (FVC), net primary production (NPP), and human disturbance (HD) in habitats of typical national nature reserves (NNRs) during the first 15 years of the 21st century from 2000 to 2015. And then the three indicators were compared between different NNR types and varied climate zones. The results showed that (1) the average 5-year FVC of NNRs increased from 36.3% to 37.1%, and it improved in all types of NNRs to some extent. The annual average FVC increased by 0.11%, 0.84%, 0.21%, 0.09%, 0.11% and 0.08% in NNRs of forest ecosystem, plain meadow, inland wetland, desert ecosystem, wild animal and wild plant, respectively. (2) The NPP annually increased by 2.06 g·m^-2, 1.23 g·m^-2, 0.28 g·m^-2 and 0.4 g·m^-2 in NNRs of plain meadow, inland wetland, desert ecosystem and wild animal, respectively. However, it decreased by 3.45 g·m^-2 and 2.35 g·m^-2 in NNRs of forest ecosystem and wild plant respectively. (3) In the past 15 years, besides the slight decreases in the NNRs located at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the south subtropical zone, HD enhanced in most of NNRs, especially HD in the warm temperate humid zone increased from 4.7% to 5.35%.     

The influence of an excavation damaged zone on the thermal-mechanical and hydro-mechanical behaviors of an underground excavation

In Korea, a reference disposal system, KRS, was proposed in 2006 after 10 years of research and development. In the KRS, the high-level radioactive waste repository is considered to be located in a crystalline rock likes granite. For a validation of the feasibility, safety, and stability of the KRS, an underground research tunnel, KURT was constructed in Nov. 2006. During the construction of KURT by a controlled blasting, the size and characteristics of an excavation damaged zone(EDZ) were investigated by in situ as well as laboratory tests. The possible influences of an EDZ around a tunnel on the thermal, hydraulic and mechanical behaviors of the near field were investigated by using hydro-mechanical and thermo-mechanical coupling analyses. From this study, it was found that the existence of an EDZ can influence the thermal, hydraulic, and mechanical behaviors of the near field and it was recommended that an EDZ should be considered as an important parameter during the design of underground repositories.     

The variation of soil temperature and water content of seasonal frozen soil with different vegetation coverage in the headwater region of the Yellow River, China

The variation and distribution of temperature and water moisture in the seasonal frozen soil is an important factor in the study of both the soil water cycle and heat balance within the source region of the Yellow River, especially under the different conditions of vegetation coverage. In this study, the impact of various degrees of vegetation coverage on soil water content and temperature was assessed. Soil moisture (θ _v) and soil temperature (T _s) were monitored on a daily basis. Measurements were made under different vegetation coverage (95, 70–80, 40–50 and 10%) and on both thawed and frozen soils. Contour charts of T _s and θ _v as well as a θ _v–T _s coupling model were developed in order to account for the influence of vegetation cover and the interaction between T _s and θ _v. It was observed that soil water content affected both the overall range and trend in the soil temperature. The regression analysis of θ _v versus T _s plots indicated that the soil freezing and thawing processes were significantly affected by vegetation cover changes. Vegetation coverage changes also caused variations in the θ _v–T _s interaction. The effect of soil water content on soil temperature during the freezing period was larger than during the thawing period. Moreover, the soil with higher vegetation coverage retained more water than that with lower coverage. In the process of freezing, the higher vegetation coverage reduced the rate of the reduction in the soil temperature because the thermal capacity of water is higher than that of soil. Areas with higher vegetation coverage also functioned better for the purpose of heat-insulating. This phenomenon may thus play an important role in the environmental protection and effective uses of frozen soil.     

Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing

In this article I make use of a combination of actor-network-theory, governmentality studies and feminist studies of science to show how nature is done or enacted within politics and administration. In particular I show how it relates to the theories and practices of economics and accounting. I explore the process by which the ‘critical limits’ of nature under the impact of acidification was created as a part of the politics and negotiations about acid rain. I demonstrate that even though the outcome was not ‘Nature’ as such, understood as a form of moral high-ground, the effect of this process was to produce ‘a nature as a whole’, in a process of unification. This I argue can only be understood relationally: ‘Nature’ is taken into account by way of accounting. In doing this I engage with Latour’s work on the politics of Nature and argue that nature is not necessarily such a deadly tool to politics as is sometimes taken for granted. Before we throw Nature out with our empirical studies of sciences, natures and politics, in the plural, we need to look first at how Nature-wholes emerge, are enacted, and take part in politics.     

岩体冻融过程中水热耦合非线性分析

针对工程地质和岩土工程中所涉及到的冻害问题,在质能平衡的基础上,充分考虑冻结岩体的热传导、水和岩体存在的热交换以及水热梯度共同作用下水分的迁移与转化,建立了水热耦合的非线性控制方程;对寒区大阪山隧道围岩的温度场和水分场进行数值模拟,并分析其水热耦合迁移规律.模拟结果表明:隧道围岩水分受冻结抽吸力和温度梯度的作用发生迁移,在隧道边墙处渗流速度最大;在考虑水分场时,隧道围岩的冻结圈将变薄,而且随着水分场中渗流系数的增大将更加变薄,水分场在很大程度上影响温度场的分布;为了减少冻害对寒区工程的破坏,应采取良好的保温措施.模拟结果与现有研究成果和工程经验类似.     

基于3S技术的自然保护区监管系统设计与实现

针对自然保护区监管需求,综合利用3S技术,通过遥感监测数据、地理国情监测成果和天地图地理信息公共服务平台的应用,设计了系统的总体架构和功能,研究了基于WEB端和移动端交互的监管核查和在线数据导入与核查关键技术,实现了自然保护区的监测管理、开发保护和在线核查。     

盘锦海岸带开发与生态耦合性分析

针对海岸带开发强度与生态环境交互影响研究的不足,该文以盘锦海岸带为研究对象,借鉴物理学耦合度理论,建立开发强度与生态环境动态耦合综合评价指标体系,并定量分析2003-2013年二者间耦合过程与演进趋势。结果表明,盘锦海岸带开发强度与生态环境耦合协调度随时间呈上升趋势,协调类型由不协调发展过渡为协调发展,由开发强度受阻转变成生态环境滞后,符合盘锦实际情况。该研究方法结合地理国情监测数据,分析海岸带开发与生态环境动态耦合关系,对深入开展海岸带地理国情监测有重要参考价值。     

On Resurrected Nuggets and Sphincter Windows: Cultured Meat,Art, and the Discursive Subsumption of Nature

ABSTRACT

In this article, I scrutinize three art, design, and architecture projects engaging with “cultured,” or “in vitro,” meat (primarily muscle cells cultured outside of bodies) to illuminate the entanglements of academic and extra-academic environments that have characterized cultured meat’s history to date, and the conversations that this technology has spurred. In envisioning new ways of eating, and living, these projects (a book of hypothetical recipes, The In Vitro Meat Cookbook, Catts and Zurr’s bioartistic engagements with tissue engineering, and Terreform1’s tissue-house prototype “The In Vitro Meat Habitat”) illustrate cultural practices thought to be enabled by cell culturing’s new applications. Emphasizing such visions and conversations allows me to highlight an inattention to discursive dynamics within research on natures subsumed to industrial production processes (Boyd, Prudham, and Schurman 2001 Boyd, W., W. S. Prudham, and R. A. Schurman. 2001. Industrial dynamics and the problem of nature. Society and Natural Resources 14 (7):555–70. doi:10.1080/089419201750341862[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). But engaging with the “subsumption of nature” framework simultaneously allows me to problematize artistic visions presenting nature as fully malleable.