Public perceptions of ecosystem services and preferences for design scenarios of the flooded bank along the Three Gorges Reservoir: Implications for sustainable management of novel ecosystems

The newly formed extensive flooded land associated with the Three Gorges Reservoir hold great potentials to provide ecosystem services (ESs) for surrounding cities and communities. Conflicting values and conventional management strategies may complicate and inhibit broad-scale decision-making for this novel ecosystem. Public attitudes are a crucial influence in the way this process plays out. This study was conducted to assess how the reservoir bank is perceived by the general public of Chongqing Municipality in terms of importance of riparian ESs, and preference for corresponding landscape design styles through photo-questionnaire interviewing. Although Chongqing citizens know little of the “ecosystem services” concept, they do recognise riparian environmental and ecological benefits especially the bank protection and pollution interception functions, while benefits of habitats for wildlife and flood attenuation were of less concern. Recreational values were least appreciated, which is inconsistent with other studies. This may be attributed to a wider, intensive environmental education in various social media in today’s China. But publicity has been dominated by toxic air, water and soil pollution control rather than the benefits of nature conservation and personal contact with nature. In line with recognition of ESs, there is quite strong preference for the forested design scenario and particularly vegetation components across the socio-demographic spectrum. Overall, socio-demographic variables have very low explanatory power for the perceptual responses. Our study also revealed misunderstandings around riparian functions and a gap between public expectations and special abiotic and biotic prerequisites in restoring novel ecosystems. Finally, we discuss the relevance of this research to urban novel ecosystems in general, and implications for raising public awareness, engaging appropriate public values in sustainable design and management of such ecosystems.     

双重关系——社会工作中专业关系的伦理困境

伦理是社会工作中的重要议题。在实务领域中，当社会上作者与案主不单是两者之间的专业关系，而产生了朋友、雇主、师生、商业伙伴甚至性伙伴等关系的时候，他就陷入了双重关系的困境。文章从美国社会工作伦理守则历次修订对此的限制入手。完整介绍双重关系的定义与分类，并提出处理双重关系的办法与建议。     

二元Hamming码Ham(r,2)及其对偶码的性质研究

Hamming码Ham(r,q)作为一种完备的线形分组码,具有许多良好的性质,并且其译码方法非常简洁有效。在此基础上,对二元Hamming码Ham(r,2)及对偶码进行了进一步的研究,讨论了其对偶码所具有的几个性质。     

Food intake and energy expenditure in growing cats with and without a predisposition to overweight

Overweight and obesity are multifactorial diseases caused by an imbalance in energy metabolism. An underlying genetic predisposition is often a factor in these conditions. In the cat breeding family of the Institute of Animal Nutrition at the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, a segregating overweight phenotype with a genetic contribution was observed. From this breeding family, 26 kittens were followed from birth up to 8 months of age. During this time, food intake was measured using an automatic feeding station, and energy expenditure was investigated using indirect calorimetry at the ages of 4 and 6 months. Dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DEXA) was performed and blood glucose, leptin and insulin were measured at the ages of 4, 6 and 8 months. The kittens were also weighed daily for the first 2 weeks of life, every second day until weaning and once per week until 8 months of age. The body condition score (BCS) was evaluated monthly between 2 and 8 months of age. The main finding of this study is that a predisposition to overweight is connected to a higher food intake early in life, with no significant alterations in energy expenditure. The leptin blood levels were related to body fat percentage, and insulin sensitivity did not seem to be affected.     

X波段双偏振多普勒雷达降水观测

以X波段双偏振雷达的多种参数为依据，综合使用雷达及相关雨量站的降水观测资料，从基本组成及雷达工作方式2 个方面简述了X波段双偏振多普勒雷达，并针对2014 年8 月9 日内蒙古地区的一次对流性降水天气过程，着重分析X波段双偏振多普勒雷达降水观测。结果表明：（1）在流性雷暴云降水过程中，大部分冰晶类将会在6~8 km融化为小雨滴，或以冻滴的形式存在；（2）强雷暴云天气发生时，在强雷暴云中上层的存在大部分的小粒子，并无大量的水成物粒子存在。该研究不仅能够探索雷达对降水进行定量估测的能力，还能够通过提升X波段双偏振雷达降水观测的适用性，以期为今后X波段双偏振多普勒雷达在降水观测中的应用提出一定的参考依据。     

K步稳定的鞋印花纹图像自动聚类

目的 鞋印是刑事侦查的重要物证之一,如何对积累的大量鞋印花纹图像进行自动归类管理是刑事技术迫切需要解决的问题之一。与其他类图像不同,鞋印花纹图像具有种类多但数目未知、同类花纹分布不均匀且同类花纹数目少的特点。基于鞋印花纹图像的这些特点,用目前典型的聚类算法对鞋印花纹图像集进行聚类,并不能取得很好的效果。在对鞋印花纹图像进行分析的基础上,提出一种K步稳定的鞋印花纹图像自动聚类算法。方法 对已标记的鞋印花纹图像进行统计发现,各类鞋印花纹之间在特征空间上存在互不相交的区域(本文称为隔离带)。算法的核心思想是寻找各类鞋印花纹之间的隔离带,来将各类分开。过程为:以单调递增或递减的方式调整特征空间中判定两点为一类的阈值,得到数据集的多次划分;若在连续K次划分的过程中,某一类的成员不发生变化,则说明这K次调整是在隔离带中进行的,即聚出一类,并从数据集中删除已标记的数据;选择下一个阈值对剩余的数据集进行划分,输出K步不变的类;依此类推,直到剩余数据集为空,聚类完成。结果 在两类公开测试数据集和实际鞋印花纹数据集上进行实验,本文算法的主要性能指标都超过典型算法,其中在包含5792枚实际鞋印花纹数据集上的聚类准确率和F-Measure值分别达到了99.68%和95.99%。结论 针对鞋印花纹图像特点,提出了一种通过寻找各类之间的隔离带进行自动聚类的算法,并在实际应用中取得了很好的效果。且算法性能受参数的变化以及类的形状影响较小。本文算法同样适用于具有类似特点的其他数据集的自动聚类。     

林业家庭承包与双层经营体制的探讨

通过对林业家庭承包与其他方式承包在立法概念、物权性质、条件设置、流转方式等诸方面的比较分析,阐明农村土地家庭承包赋予农民人均一份长期而有保障的完整永久的林地使用权,促进林业、农村经济发展和社会稳定;而其他方式承包是家庭承包的补充,虽承包经营,但承包期内村集体仍始终享有全部收益权和处置权。落实统分结合双层经营体制,家庭承包应占主导地位。并通过调研实例说明,农民专业合作组织克服了小农经济的弊端,是适应现代林业发展的一种统分结合双层经营体制。     

RESEARCH ON A KIND OF GREY LINEAR PROGRAMMING AND THEIR DUAL THEORIES

In this paper, a kind of grey linear programming with grey interval coefficients is discussed,the definitions of the first and second whitenized linear programmlngs and the grey dual linear programmings are presented, the relationships between the solutions of the above three kinds of programming and the solution of the primal programming are explored, and some new conclusions are obtained.