长距离隧道的通风选型问题浅析

笔者以新建兰渝铁路六标段花石隧道为例,对该隧道的应有的通风设计,结合现有通风方式的弊端和改进,进行浅要的比较分析,在此基础上对同类型隧道的通风选型进行总结。     

Creating Opportunities for Women in the Renewable Energy Sector: Findings from India

This paper identifies opportunities and constraints that low-income women face in accessing livelihoods in the renewable-energy sector in India through qualitative and quantitative research conducted in collaboration with The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in 2012–13. Whereas previous research has focused on women mostly as end users of solar and biomass technologies, this research attempts also to understand women's potential as entrepreneurs, facilitators, designers, and innovators. Findings reveal that although access to technology and employment in the energy sector is limited by inadequate purchasing power and low social status, there is tremendous potential to create livelihoods for women at all levels of the energy supply chain. Broader findings indicate that women can gain optimal traction from employment in the energy sector only if there are wider socially progressive policies in place, including state intervention to create a robust social welfare infrastructure and accessible, high-quality, public services.     

Maximizing benefits in project selection: a hybrid approach

Charitable foundations and government programmes should endeavour to allocate their limited resources to best serve their constituents. Yet, mathematical programming techniques are rarely used despite overwhelming evidence of their superiority in selecting projects that yield higher levels of total benefits. We present a novel ‘hybrid selection model’ that combines binary linear programming and heuristic rank-based models applied to two case studies. The first case focuses on providing services to women and shows a hybrid model would have selected the top three ‘signature’ projects and maintained an above-average overall project benefit while securing a 180% improvement in the number of projects funded, a 66% improvement in the number of women served and a 132% improvement in the total benefit achieved. In the second case, we apply the hybrid approach to data from the US government’s largest forest preservation programme and demonstrate that the hybrid approach could allow the programme to select up to 11 top-scoring projects while still achieving a 97% gain in the total overall benefit compared to their traditional method. These case studies show that the hybrid approach has the potential to be applied in a variety of settings and improve how foundations and programmes achieve their goals.     

Interplay between ethanol and electric vehicles as low carbon mobility options for passengers in the municipality of São Paulo

The Brazilian cities as well as many of the large urban centers in the world continue to expand, increasing the demand for mobility and transport, while, at the same time, the same cities are investing in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation to avoid climate change. Brazil's urbanization rate increased from 26% in 1940 to almost 70% in 1980. During this period, the Brazilian population tripled and the urban population multiplied by seven. In 2010, the transport sector in São Paulo accounted for 71% of the total emissions released by the energy sector. Ethanol has been considered a fuel with less greenhouse gas emissions, when compared with fossil fuels. However, ethanol production would have to double to meet the expected demand. Electric vehicles (EVs) market is expanding around the world, and is also an option to reduce the transport emissions, if powered by clean electricity. To assess whether the adoption of EVs might bring more benefits than the current ethanol, we develop prospective scenarios supported by the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) simulation tool, taking a bottom-up tank-to-wheel approach to consider the CO₂ emissions of car in São Paulo. The scenario considering a substitution of 25% of gasoline-powered cars by EV in 2030 showed a reduction in energy consumption and CO₂ emissions, around 15% and 26% respectively in that year in comparison with 2015. We discuss the interplay between ethanol and EV, also considering emission coefficients from life cycle analysis conducted in Brazil, and concluded EV will have higher positive impact on climate change mitigation than ethanol.     

Short-term scheduling of crude oil operations in refinery with high-fusion-point oil and two transportation pipelines

In some refineries, storage tanks are located at two different sites, one for low-fusion-point crude oil and the other for high one. Two pipelines are used to transport different oil types. Due to the constraints resulting from the high-fusion-point oil transportation, it is challenging to schedule such a system. This work studies the scheduling problem from a control-theoretic perspective. It proposes to use a hybrid Petri net method to model the system. It then finds the schedulability conditions by analysing the dynamic behaviour of the net model. Next, it proposes an efficient scheduling method to minimize the cost of high-fusion-point oil transportation. Finally, it gives a complex industrial case study to show its application.     

A decade of hybrid reporting and accountabilities of the Hanyeping Company (1909–1919)

Using a model of hybrid reporting and accountabilities, this article considers the reporting and accountability of the Hanyeping Company in the Beiyang era. The results of the study suggest that the Hanyeping Company attempted to provide comprehensive accounts of its activities to satisfy the needs of a plethora of domestic and foreign stakeholders through a combination of detailed Western and Chinese accounts. In keeping with Western and indigenous Chinese expectations of accounting, the Hanyeping Company prepared accounts that demonstrated characteristics of Auyeung’s demonstrated features of nineteenth-century Westernised reporting and the traditional reporting model. This suggests that the period between 1909 and 1919 experienced a decade of reporting hybridisation in direct contrast to the so-called period of accounting stagnation of the late Qing Dynasty.     

基于多源数据融合的地表覆盖数据重建研究进展综述

地表覆盖数据对于全球环境变化、生物多样性和发展政策制定有着重要意义。遥感已成为获取地表覆盖数据的重要手段。而目前的地表覆盖数据产品,如Globe Land30、FROM-GLC、MODIS Collection5、MODIS Cropland、Glob Cover、GLC2000等,存在数据精度不高、数据间一致性较差、与统计数据差异较大等问题。因此,基于多源数据融合的数据重建方法成为目前研究中的热点问题。文章检索了近10年关于多源数据融合在地表覆盖数据重建中的应用的相关文献,概括了多源数据在数据重建中的应用现状,并对基于多源数据融合的地表覆盖数据重建方法进行了归纳总结,重点评述了不同方法的特点及应用情况,阐明了各种方法的优势与不足,同时对存在的问题进行探讨并展望了未来基于多源数据融合的地表覆盖数据重建研究的发展方向。基于多源数据融合的数据重建方法包括基于多源遥感数据融合法以及基于多源遥感和非遥感数据融合法。该文在对基于多源遥感数据融合的数据重建方法进行论述时,主要讨论了其中应用最广泛的两种融合方法:基于数据一致性的融合法和基于回归分析的融合法。对于其他基于多源遥感数据融合的数据重建方法,如基于D-S证据理论融合法、基于数据集成融合法、基于统计模型融合法,也列举了最具代表性的相关文献进行论述。在对基于遥感数据和非遥感数据融合的数据重建方法进行论述时,主要讨论了其3种空间分配方法:完全依赖法、部分依赖法、动态依赖法。在对目前研究进行探讨的过程中,该文对其研究区域、数据源、地表覆盖类型、空间分辨率、融合方法和文献来源进行总结分析,并重点就融合方法展开讨论。围绕各种融合方法在数据重建中的运用,该文归纳出目前研究中存在的主要问题:研究对象和区域上的不足,研究区多为全球及欧美,其他区域的研究过少,研究对象多为所有地表覆盖类型和森林,对耕地和草地的研究过少;融合算法上的不足、重建结果精度上的不足。最后,指出基于多源数据融合的数据重建方法未来的发展方向,即综合运用两类方法,得到具有详细完整空间信息的长时间序列的地表覆盖数据集。     

聚丙烯物理改性的研究探讨

综述了聚丙烯物理改性的方法,并对共混改性、填充改性、混杂复合改性进行了比较。共混改性与填充改性虽可以改善聚丙烯的某一性能,如强度、韧性等,但对其他方面的提升有限,甚至使其他性能急剧下降。混杂复合改性中,聚丙烯与多种无机填料粒子、有机物复合,可以在明显提升某些性能的同时,维持其他性能稳定,甚至得到一定程度的提升,拓宽了聚丙烯的应用范围。     

How do consumers categorize new hybrid products?

This article investigates how consumers categorize new hybrid products (NHPs). Given the limitations of the classical theories of categorization in the specific case of NHP, affordance, mobilized infrequently in marketing, turned out to be a useful categorization concept. Five types of NHP categorizations by consumers, based on the degree of affordance (low vs. high) and type of innovation (incremental vs. radical), have been detected and filled a gap in the literature on the subject.     

Attitudes,norms and difficulties underlying road sharing intentions as drivers and cyclists: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Cycling-inclusive urban planning is attracting attention worldwide because of the environmental, health, economic, and transport benefits inherent to cycling from the individual and the societal perspectives. The Czech Republic is one of the emerging cycling countries that are trying to promote and support cycling, but cycling mode shares are low because of the poor quality of the scarce infrastructure and the psychological barrier of the perceived lack of safety when cycling in mixed traffic. This study takes a multimodal approach based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour and focuses on the factors underlying the willingness to share the road from the perspective of cyclists and drivers: positive attitudes toward cycling, positive attitudes toward cyclists’ behavior, social norms toward cycling and anxiety to share the road. A web-based questionnaire was tailor-designed and administered in the Czech Republic via social networks, web forums, and the Civinet network, and a hybrid bivariate-ordered model tested the behavioral framework. Results show that the willingness to share the road as a cyclist or as a driver relates positively to positive attitudes towards cycling and cyclists’ behavior, and negatively to the anxiety of sharing the road. Moreover, mediator effects are observed and a clear relation emerges between the experience on the road as both a cyclist and a driver on the willingness to share the road as a cyclist. Lastly, results show that the factors underlying road sharing intentions are related significantly to gender, travel habits, and perceived personal and infrastructure-related barriers to cycling.