Fifty years of organisational change in container shipping: regional shift and the role of family firms

Spectacular growth has marked the industry initiated by Malcolm McLean with the sailing of the Ideal-X in 1956. While the growth of container shipping has been typically seen in terms of technological advances, increasing vessel capacity, traffic growth, financial performance and competitiveness, it has been shaped also by organisational transformations. This paper provides an overview of the major companies that make up the container shipping industry, tracing the rapid adoption of containerisation by American carriers to its diffusion to Europe and then Asia. While several carriers belong to business conglomerates, the most dynamic in recent years have been those that are those that possess a family structure. About 12 of the present top 20 carriers are largely family controlled, including 4 out of the top 5. Unlike other capital intensive industries, where the power has shifted towards corporate governance, the container shipping industry retains a strong individualistic entrepreneurial character. At a time when North American ownership in container shipping is no more, the spirit of innovation began 50 years ago by an American visionary is still evident in the entrepreneurial dynamism of many of the industry leaders.     

中药资源地理国情监测工具集设计与实现

目前第四次全国中药资源普查试点工作采集了大量的成果数据,并且成果数据与地理空间位置之间存在天然的联系。本文以中药资源数据的空间属性作为出发点,在中药资源普查成果数据和已有地理国情监测数据的基础上,建立了基础地理数据库、专题地理数据库和中药资源数据库,设计并实现了能够进行中药资源专题分析计算的地理工具集。最后,基于B/S架构完成了中药资源地理国情监测技术平台的构建,验证了地理工具集设计思路的正确性。     

高分辨率遥感影像主干道路提取的感知编组方法

针对高分辨率遥感影像的道路提取受"同物异谱、同谱异物"干扰的问题,该文提出一种基于感知编组的高分辨率遥感影像主干道路自动提取方法:首先,使用Line Segment Detector算法提取影像中直线段信息。然后,利用高分辨率遥感影像上的道路几何特征对直线段进行感知编组;最后,经过长度约束得到道路信息。使用两景影像进行了主干道路提取实验。实验结果表明,两个实验中主干道路提取的完整率、正确率和检测质量都在96%以上。     

Crossing Boundaries in a Collaborative Modeling Workspace

There is substantial literature on the importance of bridging across disciplinary and science–management boundaries. One of the ways commonly suggested to cross boundaries is for participants from both sides of the boundary to jointly produce information (i.e., knowledge co-production). But simply providing tools or bringing people together in the same room is not sufficient. Here we present a case study documenting the mechanisms by which managers and scientists collaborated to incorporate climate change projections into Colorado’s State Wildlife Action Plan. A critical component of the project was the use of a collaborative modeling and visualization workspace: the U.S. Geological Survey’s Resource for Advanced Modeling (RAM). Using video analysis and pre/post surveys from this case study, we examine how the RAM facilitated cognitive and social processes that co-produced a more salient and credible end product. This case provides practical suggestions to scientists and practitioners who want to implement actionable science.     

城市物质空间更新研究进展与展望

城市物质空间更新是城市发展的自然历史过程。转型期的中国城市,物质空间更新的速度与范围正在逐渐加大,且深度作用于社会经济空间重构过程。本文首先全面总结了国内外城市物质空间更新的相关理论与研究成果,凝练了在城市物质空间更新背景、演替脉络、更新模式及策略方面的核心思想与评判方法,总结了城市物质空间更新的成功做法和经验。其次,从城市物质空间更新的空间判定与时空组织模式、建筑资产拆损、更新模式与综合评估、影响因素与机制定量研究方面对中国未来的城市物质空间更新研究进行了展望。最后,本文认为在新型城镇化和资源节约型社会建设大背景下,有必要加强中国城市物质空间更新的系统研究、综合研究、动态研究和定量研究,进而为制定因地制宜的物质空间更新优化调控政策和方案提供依据。     

西部测图移动应急安全自救保障系统研究

移动应急安全自救保障系统是整个"西部测图工程"安全保障体系建设中的最重要组成部分。本文从"西部测图"移动应急安全自救保障建设实际需求出发,结合当前PDA硬件资源的特点,在分析测区作业特点的基础上探讨了系统建设的整体架构以及系统建设的需求特征,并详细阐述了系统的数据组织结构模型,最后给出了系统的相关功能实现和应用。     

绿洲型城镇体系的空间组织格局--以甘肃省酒泉地区为例

绿洲城镇体系表现出明显的地域个性。就酒泉地区而言,疏密相间、 反差极大的窨密度组织,“团块－轴各”的空间网络组织及松散的空间相互作用是绿洲区域城镇体系空间组织的基本特征。     

A wind tunnel investigation of particle segregation,ripple formation and armouring within sand beds of systematically varied texture

This paper reports on a wind tunnel investigation of particle segregation, ripple formation and surface armouring within sand beds of systematically varied particle size distribution, from coarsely skewed to bimodal. By design, the system was closed with no external inputs of mass from an external particle feed. Particles too coarse to travel in saltation for the given range in wind speed were dyed red in order to distinguish them in optical images from finer sand particles, which could be entrained into the unidirectional airflow. A 3D laser scanner measured the changing bed topography at regular time intervals during 18 experiments involving varied combinations of wind speed and bed texture. Image classification techniques were used to investigate the coincident self‐organization of the two populations of particles, as distinguished by their colour. As soon as saltation commenced, some of the red particles segregated into thin discontinuous patches. Particle trapping and sheltering on these rough patches was strongly favoured, causing them to grow preferentially. During the earliest stages of formation, bedform growth coincided with: (i) rapid coarsening of the surface texture; and (ii) the merging of proto‐ripple ‘crests’ to generate larger rhythmic bedforms of lower frequency. Consistent with previous work, ripple size was observed to increase under stronger winds when not exceeding the threshold for entrainment of the coarse‐mode or red particles from the crest. With declining rates of mass transport and particle segregation as the bed surface armoured, and the consequent deceleration of ripple propagation through to the end of each experiment, all surfaces eventually attained a steady‐state morphometry. At saturation, the largest ripples developed on beds having the lowest initial concentration of red particles. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于特征的空间数据模型研究

与传统的基于分层的数据组织方式相比,基于特征的空间数据组织方式更符合人们认识和分析现实世界的模式,有利于完整而精确地描述地理现象。本文详细论述了基于特征的空间数据组织的相关概念,对基于特征的空间数据模型进行了探讨。     

基于GML3.2的对象化空间数据组织与关系表达研究

数据组织是GIS系统建设的基础和前提,随着对地理世界认知的不断深入,逐渐形成了基于特征的空间数据模型。以基于特征的空间数据组织基本理论为基础,文章主要讨论基于GML3.2的空间数据组织与关系表达的关键问题。首先,简要介绍GML的基本概念,并详细阐述GML3.2的主要模式。在此基础上,讨论在GML应用模式设计中需要注意的相关原则。最后,总结探讨了实现基于GML3.2的对象化空间数据组织与关系表达的途径。