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.     

浅谈成人应用文写作教学的基本原则

成人应用文写作教学应结合成人特点，认真贯彻科学性与思想性相结合、理论与实际相结合、智力因素与非智力因素相结合、统一要求与因材施教相结合等基本教学原则，切实提高教学效果。     

SiC-W层状复合材料增韧机理分析

为分析SiC－W层状复合材料增韧性机理，对以SiC陶瓷胶片为基体层，金属W为夹层的SiC－W层状复合材料进行了力学性能测试，并用电镜法得到其断面显微结构照片。试验结果表明：1）与SiC单材料断裂韧性相比，SiC－W层状复合材料的断韧性增大；2）在基体层厚度不变，夹层厚度为10－50μm时，SiC－W层状复合材料的断裂韧性随夹层厚度的增加而增大，而抗弯强度随之下降；3）材料在不同方向断裂韧性不同。SiC－W层状复合材料裂韧性增大的原因是：1）夹层晶体颗粒大于基体体层的，其沿晶断裂形式延长了裂纹扩展路径；2）断裂过程中有晶片拨出消耗了能量；3）二级层状结构中片层间的微裂阻止了断裂裂纹的扩展。     

农业产业化运行机制的现实分析

农业产业化是一项涉及多部门、多产业、多主体的系统工程，这一系统能否高效的运作.是实施农业产业化发展战略的关键。木文通过对农业产业化运行模式和运行机制的现实分析.阐述了在新形势下如何有效建立起农业产业化的运行机制。     

振动深松鼠道犁的试验分析

石河子及周围垦区的土壤粘重且呈盐碱性,由于犁底层的存在,土质很难得到改善。而深松作业则是打破犁底层的主要农业技术措施之一。为此,论述了IZSS-600-3型振动深松鼠道犁的构造和工作原理,分析了试验因素对试验指标的影响,为机具今后在农业生产中的应用和推广提供了依据和参考。     

高校图书馆消防安全系统的新木桶模型

从历次惨痛的图书馆火灾事故中,探究图书馆火灾发生的原因。在此基础上,引入新木桶理论,探索建立适合图书馆消防安全的安全木桶模型,从安全系统的人、物、环境这3个安全指标,人力、技术、财力的保障,安全管理和安全责任几个方面讨论了安全木桶的适用性,并针对所在图书馆的安全系统提出了相应的建议。     

长距离输油气管道的工作压力

工作压力是油气管道设计中的一个重要部分,它对管道的技术经济条件影响很大,如何确定它非常重要.列出世界上一些陆上油气管道的主要技术参数,进一步阐明了油气管道工作压力的特点,即输油管道工作压力决定着管道的建设投资;一般情况下,输油管道的工作压力不宜太高;输气管道的最佳工作压力与管道建设投资及输气经营费用有关;一般情况下,最佳工作压力趋向高值.     

城市园林绿化现存问题、对策及其绿化植物配置原则

随着国民经济的不断发展，城市园林绿化已成为现代建设的重要内容。在归结上前城市园林绿化所存共性问题的基础上，针对城市园林绿化普遍存在的4方面问题，提出5点对策。     

论信用证单据不符对买卖双方权利义务的影响

由于信用证结算方式的特点，在现今的国际贸易活动中，大部分结算都是通过信用证方式完成的。但是，由于我国信用证实践的起步较晚，国内理论界和实务界存在很多对信用证结算方式的误解。本文从分析最高人民法院1996年的一则案例入手，结合英美法对信用证的理论和判例实践，对信用证项下卖方因提供了不符合信用证规定的单据从而遭到开证行拒付后，买卖双方的权利义务关系作一分析和评述。     

绿地养护的原则及方法和途径

绿地养护是绿化得以存续、发展的根本保证,应遵循及时、适度和系统5条原则,采用现场观测法、理论指导法和经验操作法;从灌溉(排涝)、有害生物防治、施肥、整形修剪、清除杂草和垃圾、更新补植、维护设施、协调及创新9个途径开展工作.