Preventing wildlife crime with a focus on orangutans: Applying social influence techniques to public education efforts

Orangutans are projected to become critically endangered or extinct this century if humans continue to destroy their habitat. Threats include legal and illegal clearcutting of rain forests to establish palm oil plantations, climate change, and transnational organized crime. This study examines how self-benefit and other benefit appeals, knowledge of threats, concern about habitat loss, and liking orangutans are associated with (a) intent to protect habitat due to licit threats and crimes against wildlife, and (b) seeking information to save habitat. Upon entry to a zoo, 251 (118 men, 128 women, and 5 unknown) persons viewed posters highlighting the benefits of habitat conservation to self or others and completed a survey. Concern, threat knowledge, liking, and self-benefit and other benefit appeals accounted for 28% of the variance associated with intent to take action to protect the habitat. Integrating social influence principles into zoo displays and addressing barriers that prevent conservation behavior are discussed. The ideas in this paper are relevant to many primates and endangered species.     

油田井下作业事故分析及应对措施探讨

石油行业是我国工业发展的命脉,能够为国家创造更高的经济价值。但是,这个行业也同样伴随着较高的安全风险。石油井下作业过程往往复杂多变,具有极高的危险性。本文首先列举了石油井下作业事故的类型,接着详细分析了安全事故的发生原因,最后针对发现的问题,提出了相应的应对措施,希望可以对油田井下作业安全防治问题有所帮助。     

PLC液压控制系统在桥梁整体同步顶升中的应用

新建桥梁与原有旧桥梁的对接如何进行,尤其是对刚投入使用不久的桥梁改造,应从经济、环保、交通、使用价值安全等多方面考虑。桥梁整体可靠程度将直接影响桥梁结构的安全度和耐久性,PLC液压控制系统能够有效解决桥梁上部结构在顶升、降落过程中同步位移的难题,保证桥梁的整体性。     

构架加工通用液压自动夹紧工装的研制与应用

针对目前构架加工工装缺乏通用性以及人工夹紧带来的夹紧力不均衡等问题,研制出适用于构架加工通用的液压自动夹紧工装,介绍了该工装的整体结构设计、工作原理和具体应用,该工装可应用于公司所有类型转向架构架的加工,同时具有装夹过程简单、夹紧力稳定等优点,具有较高的应用和推广价值。     

高酸值原油脱酸装置腐蚀防护措施及改进建议

本文根据高酸值原油腐蚀机理,分析了加工高酸值原油对常减压(高酸值原油脱酸装置)装置的腐蚀特点和重点腐蚀部位,并在此基础上提出了具体的防护措施:电脱盐、塔顶"三注"、高温缓蚀剂、腐蚀监测等,并重点介绍了本公司50万吨/年常减压装置的具体防腐措施,实践证明这些措施取得了较好的防腐效果,最后根据实践提出了可行的改进建议。     

一种多功能液压试验台控制系统设计

本文介绍了一种多功能液压试验台控制系统设计,液压控制模块的设计采用了模块化设计方式,可以缩短产品设计开发周期减少开发成本。液压系统采用LUDV负载反馈控制技术能实现对不同负载压力的多个执行元件同时系统流量自动按比例分配。     

某黄河大桥薄壁空心墩液压爬模施工技术研究

本文结合某高速公路黄河特大桥X#墩的施工,介绍了液压爬模系统及爬模施工工艺在薄壁高墩建设中的应用,为今后高墩的施工积累经验。     

The effect of oil price shocks on asset markets: Evidence from oil inventory news

We quantify the reaction of U.S. equity, bond futures, and exchange rate returns to oil price shocks driven by oil inventory news. Across most sectors, equity prices decrease in response to higher oil prices before the 2007/2008 crisis but increase after it. Positive oil price shocks cause a depreciation of the U.S. dollar against a broad range of currencies but have only a modest effect on bond futures returns. The evidence suggests that changes in risk premia help to explain the time-varying effect of oil price shocks on U.S. equity returns.     

悬臂式掘进机回转机构的分析与建模

基于悬臂式掘进机回转机构的结构特点,对其液压控制系统的运行原理展开分析,并结合假设条件建立液压元件的基本方程,通过机理建模最后得到了系统的传递函数,为实现掘进机自动控制提供了实用的简化模型。     

Discouraging Rainforest Transformation: An Ex-ante Policy Impact Analysis

Despite extensive efforts made by national and international certification agencies, Indonesian smallholder farmers’ participation in palm oil certification schemes adoption remains low. A fundamental obstacle is the smallholder practice of rainforest transformation into oil palm plantation which is forbidden by the agencies. In this context, we investigate three policies that could lead to a reduction in rainforest deforestation by smallholders: price premium on certified palm oil; the provision of environmental information; contributor recognition. In order to evaluate the influence of the policies ex-ante, we conduct a social dilemma experiment involving rubber and oil palm smallholders in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The findings indicate that the price premium and provision of context-specific environmental information could reduce rainforest transformation. However, a statistically significant effect of contributor recognition was not found.