Assessing adaptive capacity of water management organizations. The case study of the municipality of Tomave (Bolivia)

Climate change is only one of several pressure and drivers, such as natural disasters, improvements in technologies and changing customers’ behaviors that water organizations have to relate and adapt to. This places new challenges (e.g. dealing with increased exposure, vulnerability, and uncertainty) to water management and require water organizations to change their perspective on how to deal with water issues. This paper builds on a literature review to identify dimensions and criteria of adaptive capacity and presents a conceptual framework to assess organizational adaptive capacity. The developed framework has been tested within the Municipality of Tomave (Bolivia). The paper results emphasize the incapacity to transform routines as the context is changing leads to the construction of barriers and to the inability of an organization to support the process of change of the society. In addition, the study emphasis that the development of a working system based on cooperation requires first that an organization acquires skills and adapt its routines to the new working system. Furthermore, the development of a participatory process of planning and implementation of policies would help to reduce the trade-offs and conflicts related to water management. Linked to this, the development of a system for monitoring and evaluation of policies implemented organization can contribute to build an iterative mechanism so to allow a redefinition and improvement of such policies.     

糖脂消对胰岛素抵抗高血压大鼠基因表达谱的影响

目的:利用基因芯片技术探讨糖脂消对胰岛素抵抗高血压大鼠基因表达谱的变化,研究糖脂消治疗胰岛素抵抗高血压的作用机制。方法:用高果糖饲料诱发SD大鼠胰岛素抵抗模型,给予糖脂消口服后,用基因芯片分别检测高果糖组、治疗组,计算机软件分析后,观察基因表达的变化。结果:治疗组表达差异的基因有95条,新基因有23条,已知基因34条。结论:糖脂消可以改变其基因表达谱,为进一步探讨糖脂消治疗作用创造了条件。     

沿黄高扬程电力提灌泵站水泵焊接式叶轮试验研究

本文为逐步解决沿黄地区大中型高扬程电力提水泵站以24SH-19型单级双吸式离心泵为重点对象,研究其叶轮焊接工艺可行性来解决影响着水泵的扬程、出水量、效率、抗汽蚀与抗磨性等问题所做的一项试验研究。     

Public accountability: reforms and resistance in social housing

The paper illustrates and discusses the changing nature of public accountability relations in public services that are transferred to a mutual organization. The paper contributes to the literature that studies resistance to the neo-liberal restructuring process, highlighting civil society campaigns as important actors. A social housing case study in Britain is developed, combining a critical realist and dialogical influenced analysis. The case study identifies the role of private finance, illustrating tensions between democratic-styled and NGO-styled public accountability relations. A conclusion that housing mutuals are in danger of being apologia for private capitalism is established.     

Dischord and Dissonance in the Leisure Studies Polyphony: A Response to Fox and Klaiber

This study examines females' participation in the male-dominated sport of motorcycling. Group interviews with female motorcyclists explore the meaning of this leisure activity in their lives and various factors that facilitate their participation. A grounded-theory approach reveals five sources of empowerment that women gain by participating in motorcycling. This study demonstrates the role facilitators play in creating and cultivating sources of empowerment. It also exposes how feelings of guilt, vulnerability, and concern about societal images can undermine women's feelings of empowerment. “Girl power” represents women's attempts to redefine femininity in a way that embraces the positive aspects of both femininity and masculinity and resists negative stereotypes that restrict women's choices of leisure pursuits.     

Model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of different antibiotics in the management of acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis in Germany

Summary

This study investigated the primary cost-drivers and determinants of the cost-effectiveness of antibacterial treatment of acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (ABECB) in Germany. It assessed the health care costs and consequences related to treatment initiated in the community using macrolides, fluoroquinolones, penicillins, and cephalosporins. Patients were categorised according to disease severity. Decision analysis was used to consider the clinical and economic consequences of various treatment options from first-line treatment initiated by a primary care physician in the community until success or failure after third-line treatment in hospital.

The key cost drivers were the clinical success/failure rates of first-line treatment and the cost per day of hospitalisation. Antibiotics with the cheapest purchase price are not necessarily the most cost-effective first-line treatment. In more severe ABECB, drug acquisition costs are only a small proportion of the total healthcare costs because the extra costs associated with treatment failure are much greater than the acquisition costs of the first-line antibiotics. Thus the most cost-effective first-line treatment is one which results in consistently high clinical effectiveness due to its broad spectrum of activity, low rate of bacterial resistance, and high patient compliance. Of the antibiotics considered, none was consistently found to be the most cost-effective treatment across the full range of scenarios investigated. However, the fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins were generally more cost-effective than the macrolides and penicillins.     

试论殷墟卜辞中的“虹”——殷人农业中的旱神

甲骨文"虹"象双首蛇拱躯之形。从各种史料判断,"虹"在殷墟卜辞中疑为雌雄肥遗合体拱躯之形。虹是殷人农业生产中的旱神,受到古人的普遍重视。     

水泥混凝土路面的抗裂措施综述

从水泥混凝土路面开裂破坏过程及其影响因素进行了研究分析,并根据原因分析从各方面提出抗裂防治措施。     

我国水资源存在的问题及其防治措施

鉴于水资源服务于人类的各行各业,是人类不可或缺的自然资源,由此研究了我国水资源存在的水多,水少,水脏,水浑四大问题,并根据我国水资源的现状提出了改善四大水问题的措施。     

电源电子滤波电阻作用的定量分析

通过定量分析分析电源电子滤波电阻的作用，得到了该电阻应选定在最佳值上才能获得最好综合滤波效果的结论，从而为电源电子滤波电路的设计等提供了又一指导依据。