Spatial fisheries ecology: Recent progress and future prospects

We review recent progresses made in the study of fish distribution and survival over space — i.e., fisheries spatial ecology. This is achieved by first surveying the most common statistical approaches and relative challenges associated with the analysis of fisheries spatial data, loosely grouped in geostatistical and regression approaches. Then we review a selected number of case-studies implementing the discussed techniques. We conclude by proposing new areas of statistical and ecological research to further our understanding of how fish distribute and survive in space. This review serves a dual purpose by emphasizing the scientific importance of studying spatial interactions to better understand the temporal dynamics of fish abundance, and by promoting the development of new analytical and ecological approaches for the analysis of spatial data. Through our survey we cover different statistical techniques, marine ecosystems and life stages. This analytical, geographic and ontogenetic variety is also purposely selected to highlight the importance of comparative and multidisciplinary studies across diverging ecological disciplines, ecosystems and life stages. Besides having a general ecological relevance this review also bears a more applied significance, owing to the increasing need for protecting renewable marine resources along with their primary habitat.     

Robust optimization for the correlated MIMO downlink with imperfect channel state information

To reduce the performance deterioration induced by imperfect channel state information (CSI) in cor-related multiple input multiple output(MIMO) downlink, the linear transmit/receive filters should be optimized to be robust to imperfect CSI. A sub-optimization algorithm based on minimizing sum MSE conditional on available imperfect CSI estimates subject to a per-user power constraint is proposed. The algorithm adapts the existing MMSE algorithm from uncorrelated single-user MIMO system with perfect CSI to correlated MIMO downlink with imperfect CSI. Simulation shows that the suboptimal algorithm can effectively mitigate the performance loss induced by imperfect CSI and has a good convergence performance. In addition, the effect of spatial correlation on the performance of the proposed algorithm is also simulated.     

重庆朝天门长江大桥主桥上部结构设计

随着我国经济实力的增强和桥梁技术水平的提高,特大型桥梁日益增多,桥型也越加丰富,桥梁结构更加合理.文章以重庆朝天门长江大桥为例,就如何选址桥位、确定桥型及在确定的技术标准及荷载条件下如何开展结构设计、考虑施工因素提出设计思路.     

Stakeholder Perspectives on the Value of Marine Spatial Planning Towards Advancing Offshore Wind in the U.S.

The United States contributes only 0.2% of the 18,814?MW of global installed offshore wind capacity. Lack of development has been attributed in part to a cumbersome regulatory process that includes the evaluation of environmental impacts. Assessments are based on biological, social, and technical data that are often incomplete. Marine spatial planning (MSP) may help fill data gaps. We conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants to understand (1) whether a lack of biological data impedes offshore wind environmental assessments, (2) whether MSP could mitigate these impediments, and (3) whether MSP could advance offshore wind development in the U.S. in other ways. Most informants stated that a lack of biological data in offshore wind environmental assessments was problematic due to incomplete data, uncertainty of data, and mismatched scales. Data issues may be mitigated by creation of data products and increased communication, outcomes of MSP that may benefit the regulatory process by increasing data availability, resolving conflicts among users, and providing a common operating picture. Challenges remain in integrating MSP into the processes of siting and permitting offshore wind, but it provides a strategic framework for the systematic identification, collection, collation, analyses, application, and management of data in the offshore wind environmental regulatory process.     

信江界牌枢纽船闸改建方案

界牌船闸位于信江航道上,为满足信江通航条件变化,船闸改建或扩建是必须的。针对闸位平面布置方案的选定问题,分析比较不同方案,包括征地、施工断航影响、对已有建筑物的影响、施工难度、投资、水流条件等方面。经过分析比较,最终确定改建船闸方案,改建船闸中心线较原船闸轴线向河侧偏移22. 7 m。针对引航道口门区水流条件进行数值模拟及物理模型试验研究,对不利的水流条件进行调整,并根据水流试验条件提出挂板的布置要求。此研究方法对改建船闸工程闸位方案选择确定具有借鉴意义。     

圆形盾构隧道断面自动化检测系统研究与开发

该文首先,分析了研究和开发圆形盾构隧道断面自动化检测系统的必要性。接着,研究了系统整体设计和软件功能设计,提出了新的更加适用和易于软件实现的平面拟合方法和空间圆拟合方法。在一个工程实例中应用了所开发的系统,并且和其他算法得到的结果进行了比较。结果表明了所开发的系统的可行性和实用性。     

基于频域滤波的噪声识别去噪算法

在频域滤波的基础上,对图像的高频部分进行噪声识别,区分边缘与噪声,进而通过改进的空间滤波算法实施去噪,使图像边缘细节部分得到保护,再将处理后的高频图像与其对应的低频图像进行融合,以获得完整的高质量图像.实验结果表明通过新算法处理后的图像可以达到较好的降噪效果.     

一种高效的舰船磁性定位方法

为有效解决现有磁性定位方法定位精度不高的问题,提出了基于磁偶极子阵列模型的磁定位方法.为求解模型参数,根据磁场测量数据建立了定位参数反演模型.针对实际舰船磁性检测中所得磁场信息的局部性而引起反演模型病态不适定问题,应用Tikhonov正则化方法优化求解模型参数.船模实验证明,该方法对船模进行定位计算,定位精度高,结果稳...     

Reliable sensor deployment for network traffic surveillance

New sensor technologies enable synthesis of disaggregated vehicle information from multiple locations. This paper proposes a reliable facility location model to optimize traffic surveillance benefit from synthesized sensor pairs (e.g., for travel time estimation) in addition to individual sensor flow coverage (e.g., for traffic volume statistics), while considering probabilistic sensor failures. Customized greedy and Lagrangian relaxation algorithms are proposed to solve this problem, and their performance is discussed. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms solve the problem efficiently. We also discuss managerial insights on how optimal sensor deployment and surveillance benefits vary with surveillance objective and system parameters (such as sensor failure probabilities).     

城市公路客运站选址与班线分配方法研究

以旅客出行的时间消耗降最低为目标,兼顾客运站的建设成本和经营效益,建立公路客运站的选址与班线分配模型。通过遗传算法求解,并请专家对最好的几组计算结果予以评估和修正,得到客运站的最优选址和班线分配方案。