Multi-scale use of lands providing anthropogenic resources by American Crows in an urbanizing landscape

The conversion of forests and farmlands to human settlements has negative impacts on many native species, but also provides resources that some species are able to exploit. American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), one such exploiter, create concern due to their impact as nest predators, disease hosts, and cultural harbingers of evil. We used various measures of crow abundance and resource use to determine crows’ response to features of anthropogenic landscapes in the Puget Sound region of the United States. We examined land cover and land use composition at three spatial scales: study sites (up to 208 ha), crow home ranges within sites (18.1 ha), and local land cover (400 m²). At the study site and within-site scales crow abundance was strongly correlated with land cover providing anthropogenic resources. In particular, crows were associated with the amount of ‘maintained forest’ cover, and were more likely to use grass and shrub cover than forest or bare soil cover. Although crows did not show a generalized response to an edge variable, they exhibited greater use of patchy habitat created by human settlements than of native forests. Radio-tagged territorial adults used resources within their home ranges relatively evenly, suggesting resource selection had occurred at a larger spatial scale. The land conversion pattern of new suburban and exurban settlements creates the mix of impervious surfaces and maintained vegetation that crows use, and in our study area crow populations are expected to continue to increase. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

Antioxidant properties of blackberry and blueberry fruits grown in the Black Sea Region of Turkey

Seven wild and ten cultivated blackberries (Arapaho, Bartin, Black Satin, Bursa 1, Bursa 2, Cherokee, Chester, Jumbo, Navaho, and Ness), and six lowbush (Vaccinium arctostaphylos) and four highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) blueberries fruits (Ivanhoe, Jersey, Northland, and Rekord) were analyzed for total anthocyanins, total phenolics, and antioxidant activity as ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) in this study. The respective ranges of total anthocyanin and total phenolic contents of the tested samples were: blackberries, 0.95–1.97 and 1.73–3.79 mg g⁻¹ and blueberries, 0.18–2.94 and 0.77–5.42 mg g⁻¹. FRAP values varied from 35.05 to 70.41 μmol g⁻¹ for blackberries, 7.41 to 57.92 μmol g⁻¹ for blueberries. Wild blackberries had the highest FRAP values while wild blueberries had the highest total phenolic and total anthocyanin contents. A linear relationship was observed between FRAP values and total phenolics for blueberries (r = 0.981). The anthocyanin pigments in samples were isolated and characterized by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV–visible detection. Cyn-3-glu was the predominant anthocyanin in all blackberry fruits.     

制动器耗散功率原理在ABS标定匹配中的应用

为解决ABS逻辑门限值方法匹配成本高、周期长的问题,将制动器耗散功率原理应用于匹配中.结合逻辑门限值与制动器耗散功率的各自优点,将制动器耗散功率原理能自适应识别各种路面状况的特点应用于匹配中;根据制动器耗散功率极大值对应的滑移率略小于临界滑移率且相差不大的原理,采用制动器耗散功率极大值对应的滑移率代替峰值附着系数对应的滑移率对ABS进行控制;滑移率与制动器耗散功率曲线获得较为简单,因此可以大大提高匹配效率.经过实车匹配验证,本方法提高了匹配效率和控制质量,节约了匹配成本.     

电液伺服遥操纵机器人主-从位置控制器

针对电液伺服遥操纵机器人主-从双向伺服位置控制中存在的非线性和不确定性,提出主-从侧分别使用带干扰观测器的最优控制和有鲁棒补偿的PD反馈控制算法,以克服主动侧各液压缸因动态特性差异造成的位置跟随误差和从动侧外界环境的随机干扰对系统稳定性的影响.分别设计了观测器跟踪扰动的二次型控制器和有动态鲁棒补偿的位置控制器,通过仿真和试验验证了所设计控制器的有效性.试验结果表明,所设计的位置控制器,既提高了主-从位置跟随精度,又具有较强的自适应性和鲁棒性;提高了力反馈电液伺服遥操纵机器人系统的操作性.     

风水光互补发电系统多目标优化设计

为了贯彻国家大力发展小水电的政策,满足偏远地区的农村用电需求,可以利用当地的新能源建立风水光互补发电系统,就地发电.为此,在充分考虑互补系统环境价值的基础上,采用了多目标优化策略的模式和模糊线形加权的算法,以确定户用风水光发电系统优化设计的方法,建立互补系统设计的数学模型,并对某村的具体情况进行计算,得出符合实际情况的最优配置.     

农用柴油发动机噪声污染分析

柴油发动机广泛应用于各类农业机械中,由其带来的噪声污染也日益严重.为研究柴油机的整机噪声,利用声强测试技术中的p-p法,对某型农用六缸柴油发动机进行实测.通过对发动机各包络面上声强分布和声功率测试结果的分析,确定了其噪声源的位置、声功率的大小、主要噪声频率及整机辐射强度,为控制柴油发动机噪声污染提供了理论依据.     

农村电力负荷管理系统的研究与开发

随着我国农村经济的发展,造成了农村地区电力的持续紧缺,给农业生产带来了不利影响,要求电力部门加强对农村电力负荷的管理,以确保农业生产的电力需求.为此,介绍了一种集多种功能于一体的农村电力负荷管理系统,阐述了该系统的主要功能、终端的硬件设计和主控站软件的设计.本系统支持230M无线专网和GPRS/CDMA无线公网两种通讯方式.     

环境温度与柴油机功率关系的试验研究

选择一台柴油机,在一年四季进行若干次试验,记录环境温度和发动机的功率及其他参数,用数学方法进行处理,分析环境温度与柴油机功率变化之间的数学关系,为柴油机的使用和维护提供参考。     

东方红-YZDZ80C液压自行式移动电站

介绍东方红-YZDZ80C液压自行式移动电站的主要技术参数和主要部件结构性能特点。     

我国各地区经济实力综合评价研究

介绍了主成分与聚类分析方法原理,以8项经济指标构建了综合反映各地区经济实力的评价体系,分析了经济指标间的关系和影响经济发展的主要因素,并对2006年我国大陆31个省(直辖市、自治区)的经济数据,利用多元统计中的主成分和聚类分析方法,对各地区综合经济实力进行了排序和分类.