Measuring trail users’ perception of crowding in a peri-urban nature park: A best-worst scaling experiment

This paper evaluates the perception of crowding, its determinants and relationship with trail users’ experience in a peri-urban nature park. Existing crowding surveys rely heavily on a single-item 9-point crowding scale which was originally developed for backcountry areas. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to test the validity and reliability of this measure in detecting crowding issues and formulating visitor capacity limits. Low validity and reliability raised concerns about the applicability of this scale in similar frontcountry areas. Inability of this simple crowding measure to detect a visitor threshold brings to the fore its another important limitation – ignorance of the complexity of crowding phenomenon. The perception of crowding varies with various social, psychological and situational factors, and a best-worst scaling (BWS) experiment was designed to simultaneously evaluate different aspects of crowding in the Medvednica Nature Park, a peri-urban nature park near Zagreb, Croatia. The findings of BWS experiment revealed that occupancy of mountain huts, number of other hikers on the trail and amount of litter along the trail on average contributed most to the trail users’ sense of crowding. A latent class analysis identified a large heterogeneity in the perception of crowding; while one group of trail users (63%) was more disturbed by the direct social impacts, the others (37%) were more disturbed by the secondary impacts of other visitors, especially by the negative externalities from road traffic in the park. Older visitors had a greater tendency to primarily associate crowding with the environmental conditions. A higher impact of trail use level in the perception of crowding, younger age and more frequent use were associated with a more negative evaluation of crowding. The park management should closely monitor road traffic in the park and visitor activity on highly used trails, especially on those popular among younger trail users.     

Influence of soil phosphorus status,texture, pH and metal content on the efficacy of amendments to pig slurry in reducing phosphorus losses

Cost‐effective strategies for using chemically amended organic fertilizers need to be developed to minimize nutrient losses in surface and groundwater. Coupling specific soil physical and chemical characteristics with amendment type could increase their effectiveness. This study investigated how water‐extractable phosphorus (P) was affected by chemical amendments added to pig slurry and how this effect varied with soil properties. A 3‐month incubation study was conducted on 18 different mineral soils, stored at 10 °C and 75% humidity and treated with unamended and amended slurry which was incorporated at a rate equivalent to 19 kg total P (TP )/ha. The amendments examined were commercial‐grade liquid alum, applied at a rate of 0.88:1 [Al:TP ], and commercial‐grade liquid poly‐aluminium chloride (PAC ), applied at a rate of 0.72:1 [Al:TP ]. These amendments were previously identified by the authors as being effective in reducing incidental losses of P. The efficacy of the amendments varied with the soil test P, the degree of P saturation (DPS ) and the Mehlich aluminium, iron and calcium, but not soil texture. Chemical amendments were most effective in soils with DPS over approximately 20%. Due to their high cost, the incorporation of amendments into existing management practices can only be justified as part of a holistic management plan where soils have high DPS .     

秀珍菇原基形成相关基因PpFBD1的克隆与表达研究

前期研究中通过对秀珍菇经低温诱导后不同发育阶段样本进行转录组测序及差异表达基因分析发现,ID为Cluster-6377.64510的基因(命名为PpFBD1)在原基形成前期的样本中高表达。为进一步了解分析其表达特性及功能,根据转录组测序结果设计特异性引物,利用RT-PCR技术从秀珍菇中克隆获得了该基因的cDNA全长。该基因由342个核苷酸组成,编码一个由113个氨基酸组成的蛋白,蛋白相对分子质量约11 ku。进化树分析显示,PpFBD1编码蛋白与糙皮侧耳hydrophobin1编码的疏水蛋白亲缘关系最近。Gene Ontology功能分析表明,PpFBD1主要参与真菌类细胞壁的合成。荧光定量RT-PCR检测显示,该基因在菌丝体经低温诱导后恢复至室温阶段(原基形成前期)表达量最高,这表明其可能参与调控秀珍菇原基形成过程。本研究结果为阐明秀珍菇原基形成机制提供参考。     

猎豹与虎猫杯状病毒的分离及其超变区基因比较研究

用F81细胞从上海某动物园患口腔溃疡的猎豹和虎的唾液病料中分离获得两株杯状病毒，经形态学、理化学、生物学鉴定和病毒核酸超变区基因RT-PCR扩增与序列测定证明两株病毒均为猫杯状病毒(FCV)，分别命名为FCV/cheetah/Shanghai/02/2002与FCV／tiger/Shanghai／03/2002。人工感染猫可引起体温升高，口腔溃疡，食欲下降等症状。两株病毒的超变区序列520bp长片段问的同源性为99.2％，与国内桂林虎分离株(TFCV9710)的同源性为74．0％，与国外分离株的总体同源性为58．1％，说明不同宿主或同种不同个体间杯状病毒分离株超变区核酸差异十分显著，符合猫杯状病毒的分子生物学特征。     

6株牛传染性鼻气管炎病毒BICP4基因序列的同源性分析

牛传染性鼻气管炎病毒的立即早期启动基因IER4.2编码感染细胞蛋白BICP4基因。各种疱疹病毒的BICP4基因的Ⅰ，Ⅲ，Ⅴ区变异性较大，并为其特征区。为了比较分离自不同牛种，不同部位的5种病毒株BICP4蛋白I区基因的差异性，本文根据已发表的IBBV K22毒株重复序列IRs中BICP4的基因序列设计了一特异性引物，对各毒株进行PCR扩增，均得到约540bp的片段，将其克隆，测序并连同K22株进行同源性比较。结果表明，6株病毒的核苷酸序列及氨基酸序列同源性均在98%以上，说明这些毒株重复序列中的早期基因高度保守，在一定程度上也显示出IBRV的高度保守性。     

海南岛昌江县昌化镇草地及其利用途径

海南岛昌江县昌化镇草地,用点样法取得数据,应用spss软件聚类分析,可划分为五类。以和它草——三芒草群落面积最大,最有代表性;金须茅——蔓荆子——绢毛飘拂草则局限于滨海沙地上。文章末尾就利用问题作了讨论。     

书报编排中存在的问题及其分析

书报编排的标准化和规范化，有利于书报所载信息的正确传递，存贮以至国际化。做好书报编排的标准化和规范化工作是时代赋予编辑工作者的职责。本文就我国目前书报编排中存在的主要问题人为６类，并作分析讨论。     

L波段低噪声放大器的电路设计与性能分析

闸述了L波段低噪声晶体管放大器中各种降低噪声措施的基本原理,给出了低噪声电路设计的一般原则,以及L波段卫星地面接收系统前端低噪声高频放大器输入级中噪声匹配电路的设计举例.     

小鼠H-Y单克隆抗体ELISA检测方法的建立

以纯系 BAL B/ c雄性小鼠脾细胞腹腔注射免疫同系雌性小鼠 9次 ,获得的抗血清经雌、雄鼠脾细胞吸收后用于精子细胞毒性试验 ,测得 H- Y抗血清效价为 1/ 16 0。选取免疫应答最好的雌鼠脾细胞与 SP2 / 0骨髓瘤细胞融合 ,用精子细胞毒性方法筛选效价较高的细胞株制备腹水 ,建立优化的 EL ISA反应条件。优化后的 EL ISA反应条件为 :抗原4℃过夜 ,加 H- Y抗血清 37℃反应 12 0 m in,加 HRP- Ig G 37℃反应 30 min,加 TMB 2 5℃ 30 min。优化后的 EL ISA与常规 EL ISA比较 ,可以明显降低阴性吸光值 ,检测灵敏度从 1/ 32 0上升为 1/ 12 80