Colorado’s Millennial Generation: Youth Perceptions and Experiences of Nature

Abstract

This study uses survey and focus group methods to explore attitudes toward and experiences of nature among millennial-aged students in northern Colorado. First, results confirm that young people possess a strong interest in the outdoors yet time, transportation, and new technologies hamper their ability to visit public lands and outdoor spaces. Second, respondents experience nature in ways more mediated by new technologies such as cell phones and nature DVDs. Third, citizen science and active learning show promise as techniques for returning young people to the outdoors. The challenge lies in teaching young people to reimagine the outdoors not as elsewhere or out there but as a backyard geographic space.     

游憩环境、游憩体验对游客满意度和行为意向的影响——以海南东寨港红树林旅游区为例

以往对于旅游地的研究多关注"游憩体验-游客满意度-游客行为意向"的因果关系,却忽视了旅游地的游憩环境因素与其它变量间的关联机制,对于环境服务功能显著的生态旅游地尤为如此.以海南省东寨港红树林旅游区为案例地,从游客感知的视角,探讨游憩环境、游憩体验、游客满意度及其行为意向等多维变量之间的逻辑关系;建立了以游憩环境和游憩体...     

南极乔治王岛菲尔德斯半岛土壤矿物化学风化特征分析

本文在考察菲尔德斯半岛成土环境、土壤理化性状的基础上，分析了本区代表性土壤的粘土矿物组成，粘粒、粉粒和全土中土壤大量元素的含量。认为亚南极海洋性气候区（无冰区）土壤次生粘土矿物主要是蒙脱石、伊利石和绿泥石；土壤矿物风化过程包括脱盐基、周期性滞水氧化－还原脱铁锰和微弱的脱硅过程     

南极长城站至莫斯科和伊尔库茨克路径上时延的测量与传播路径研究

本文介绍了利用在南极长城站接收来自ＲＷＭ（莫斯科）和ＲＩＤ（伊尔库茨克）台的授时信号的无线电波时延的测量方法，并依据１９９１年４月至１９９１年９月所测量的传播时延数据分析了电波传播路径。说明了沿长、短大圆路径的传播时段。判定存在着非大圆路径传播并阐明了关于非大圆路径传播的一些变化规律。对非大圆路径发生的条件进行了探讨     

南极中山站固体潮观测分析

中国南极中山站位于南极拉斯曼丘陵地区（λ＝７６°２２′Ｅ，φ＝６９°２２′Ｓ），１９９１年３月至１９９３年２月，用ＬａｃｏｓｔｅＥＴ型重力仪，在这个地区进行了为期近两年的观测，取得了６００多天的有效资料，经调和分析和流变模型、海潮负荷改正后得到：δｏ１＝１．２２５３±０．００３１，Δφｏ１＝０．７３°±０．１４°；δｍ２＝１．０７８５±０．００４５，Δφｍ２＝－３．５５°±０．２９°从资料分析的精度来看，观测资料是比较好的；但由于海潮负荷改正缺少附近海域的资料，会对最终结果造成较大的影响     

“Protecting” street children? Urban revitalization and regulation in Lima,Peru

In this article, I develop a critical analysis of the relationship between urban “revitalization” campaigns and the regulation of street children in Lima, Peru. Scholars writing mostly in the Global North have drawn attention to increasingly punitive policies regarding public space. While in many regards Lima’s urban policy is reflective of such larger trends, I consider whether the regulation of street children is as punitive as might be assumed. I am particularly concerned with the role that children’s rights play as another logic structuring urban regulation. I first show how a language of children’s rights has been manipulated to justify the removal of street children from public space, as is most evident through Peru’s Law to Protect Minors from Situations of Begging. However, there is also something more ambiguous occurring. In the second part of this article, I examine the uneven implementation of policy: street children themselves resist and rework policies “on the ground,” and children’s rights frameworks may offer possibilities for rupture of formal regulation. I suggest that these overlapping and competing dynamics sustain an uneven and contingent geography of urban regulation.     

旅游网站信息流距离衰减集中性的差异及其检验

在"旅游网站信息流距离衰减形态描述与集中度计算"[1]一文的基础上,从旅游网站性质的角度对旅游网站信息流距离衰减形态与集中性的差异进行指数衰减模型的拟合分析,并应用Zipf定律检验其特征,发现:1)不同性质的旅游网站信息流距离衰减形态存在差异,旅游主管部门网站、旅游企业网站、旅游目的地网站的信息流距离衰减形态分别表现出非常符合指数衰减模型、基本符合指数衰减模型、不符合指数衰减模型特征。2)不同性质的旅游网站信息流距离衰减的集中性存在差异,分别表现出具有明显的本地集中性特征、兼有本地集中性和经济集中性特征、具有明显的经济集中性特征。3)分维值多在0.5左右说明了旅游网站信息流距离衰减集中性较强,分维值的差异说明了不同性质旅游网站信息流距离衰减集中性存在差异。旅游网站信息流的位序-规模均符合Zipf定律,其首位省市均存在于网站所在地或者周边省市,其位序-规模的前四位总体为经济发达省市,说明了旅游网站信息流距离衰减具有本地和经济集中性。4)对旅游网站信息流距离衰减集中性的Zipf检验,证实了空间距离集中性特征的普遍意义。     

The validity of generic trends on multiple scales in rock-physical and rock-mechanical properties of the Whitby Mudstone,United Kingdom

Finding generic trends in mechanical and physical rock properties will help to make predictions of the rock-mechanical behaviour of shales. Understanding the rock-mechanical behaviour of shales is important for the successful development of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs.This paper presents the effect of heterogeneities in mineralogy and petrophysical properties on the validity of generic trends on multiple scales in rock-mechanical and rock-physical properties of the Whitby Mudstone. Rock-mechanical laboratory experiments have been performed on Whitby Mudstone samples from multiple outcrops within five kilometres laterally in order to investigate the heterogeneity and possible trends on an outcrop scale. Unconfined compression tests and acoustic measurements have been conducted to obtain the rock-mechanical properties, including rock strength, Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, and velocity anisotropy. The rock-physical properties, including mineralogy, porosity, and matrix density, were measured using X-ray fluorescence and helium pycnometry. Various methodologies have been applied to the resultant data in order to derive different brittleness indices.Significant heterogeneity in rock-mechanical and rock-physical properties is present on an outcrop scale. There is no obvious correlation between mineral content and rock-mechanical properties on an outcrop scale in the Whitby Mudstone. Comparison with shales from different basins show, however, correlations between composition and elastic properties. The presence of significant heterogeneities on an outcrop scale and between shales from different basins make it difficult to find generic trends in rock-physical and rock-mechanical properties.     

An analytical solution to multi-component NAPL dissolution equations

This note presents a novel method for determining the changing composition of a multi-component NAPL body dissolving into moving groundwater, and the consequent changes in the aqueous phase solute concentrations in the surrounding pore water. A canonical system of coupled non-linear governing equations is derived which is suitable for representation of both pooled and residual configurations, and this is solved. Whereas previous authors have handled such problems numerically, it is shown that these governing equations succumb to analytical solution. By a suitable substitution, the equations become decoupled, and the problem collapses to a single first-order equation. The final result is expressed implicitly, with time as a function of the number of moles of the least soluble component, m₁. The number of moles of each other component is expressed explicitly in terms of m₁. It is shown that the time-m₁ relationship has a well behaved inverse. An example is given in which the analytic solution is verified against traditional finite difference analysis, and its computational efficiency is shown.     

The topographic bias by analytical continuation in physical geodesy

This study emphasizes that the harmonic downward continuation of an external representation of the Earth’s gravity potential to sea level through the topographic masses implies a topographic bias. It is shown that the bias is only dependent on the topographic density along the geocentric radius at the computation point. The bias corresponds to the combined topographic geoid effect, i.e., the sum of the direct and indirect topographic effects. For a laterally variable topographic density function, the combined geoid effect is proportional to terms of powers two and three of the topographic height, while all higher order terms vanish. The result is useful in geoid determination by analytical continuation, e.g., from an Earth gravity model, Stokes’s formula or a combination thereof.