The Impact of Recreation on Barrier Islands: A Case Study on Masonboro Island

Since 1992, coastal researchers at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington have been documenting the impacts of human recreational use on Masonboro Island, a component of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the subsequent natural processes that mitigate these impacts. Both short-term and long-term natural mitigational processes were identified. The effects of these processes were found to be much more rapid than similar impacts on typical terrestrial settings. However, careful examination of the data suggests that both physical location of the impact site and natural variability of weather patterns and events play a role. Management implications of these findings are proposed.     

Legal and institutional factors affecting mariculture in texas

Abstract

Aquaculture and its specialized cousin, mariculture, provide some potential additional food sources and economic revenues. Technological barriers to increased mariculture production are being removed, but many legal and institutional barriers remain. Examples of the current and potential regulation of mariculture in Texas by state and federal authorities are examined. The effect of various state and federal regulations on the development of mariculture is discussed from a legal and institutional viewpoint. The potential for growth of mariculture is considered questionable without regulatory reforms, particularly at the federal level.     

双燃料发动机电力推进LNG船可燃气体探测系统设计简介

详细介绍了双燃料发动机电力推进LNG船可燃气体探测系统设计的基本要求,包括可燃气体探头及取样管在不同区域的布置情况及数量要求。所述内容不仅涉及LNG船本身的要求,也覆盖了其他类型的液化气体运输船的相关要求。     

更高速度条件下铁路简支箱梁关键参数研究

针对梁体基频、竖向刚度等参数,概述我国高速铁路桥梁参数的研究思路及成果、参数设计及运营现状,采用车桥竖向相互作用程序分析铁路简支箱梁动力响应规律。结果表明,梁体基频为设计参数的控制因素,梁体实测梁体基频高于设计值和规范限值,梁体刚度存在一定的储备;时速350 km的高速铁路简支箱梁可适应更高速度420 km/h的运营要求;420 km/h速度等级高速铁路简支箱梁关键参数可参考350 km/h速度等级相关参数;40 m跨度车桥动力响应明显降低,梁体基频等动力参数不再控制梁体设计,建议开展高速铁路更大跨度简支箱梁应用研究。     

From Twitter to detector: Real-time traffic incident detection using social media data

The effectiveness of traditional incident detection is often limited by sparse sensor coverage, and reporting incidents to emergency response systems is labor-intensive. We propose to mine tweet texts to extract incident information on both highways and arterials as an efficient and cost-effective alternative to existing data sources. This paper presents a methodology to crawl, process and filter tweets that are accessible by the public for free. Tweets are acquired from Twitter using the REST API in real time. The process of adaptive data acquisition establishes a dictionary of important keywords and their combinations that can imply traffic incidents (TI). A tweet is then mapped into a high dimensional binary vector in a feature space formed by the dictionary, and classified into either TI related or not. All the TI tweets are then geocoded to determine their locations, and further classified into one of the five incident categories.We apply the methodology in two regions, the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Metropolitan Areas. Overall, mining tweets holds great potentials to complement existing traffic incident data in a very cheap way. A small sample of tweets acquired from the Twitter API cover most of the incidents reported in the existing data set, and additional incidents can be identified through analyzing tweets text. Twitter also provides ample additional information with a reasonable coverage on arterials. A tweet that is related to TI and geocodable accounts for approximately 5% of all the acquired tweets. Of those geocodable TI tweets, 60–70% are posted by influential users (IU), namely public Twitter accounts mostly owned by public agencies and media, while the rest is contributed by individual users. There is more incident information provided by Twitter on weekends than on weekdays. Within the same day, both individuals and IUs tend to report incidents more frequently during the day time than at night, especially during traffic peak hours. Individual tweets are more likely to report incidents near the center of a city, and the volume of information significantly decays outwards from the center.     

Automotive structure vibration with component mode synthesis on a multi-level

The recursive component mode synthesis method (RCMS) has been implemented for the finite element analysis model of an automobile structure as an efficient free vibration analysis tool. The RCMS method is intended to obtain a better performance relative to the block Lanczos method, which is a traditional method in the industry of obtaining eigenvalues, while obtaining the acceptable accuracy. A numerical example of the automobile finite element model demonstrates the outstanding performance of RCMS compared to the block Lanczos method.     

三维编织复合材料板的自由振动

基于Reddy高阶剪切变形板理论,用双重Fourier级数法求得了四边简支的三维四向编织复合材料剪切板自由振动的解析解,并讨论了纤维的体积含量和编织角对剪切板固有频率的影响。     

液化天然气（LNG）拖头在盐田国际码头的应用

为建设绿色港口,进一步节能减排,盐田国际集装箱码头使用液化天然气（LNG）拖头。从技术成熟性、设备的市场供应情况以及安全和成本等几方面综合考虑,制定选用LNG集装箱拖头替代传统的柴油拖头的方案。详细介绍实施这一方案的方法。盐田国际（YICT）是全国第一个采用LNG拖头的码头公司。取得显著成效,可供借鉴。     

Optimal development of alternative fuel station networks considering node capacity restrictions

A potential solution to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transport sector is the use of alternative fuel vehicles (AFV). As global GHG emission standards have been in place for passenger cars for several years, infrastructure modelling for new AFV is an established topic. However, as the regulatory focus shifts towards heavy-duty vehicles (HDV), the market diffusion of AFV-HDV will increase as will planning the relevant AFV infrastructure for HDV. Existing modelling approaches need to be adapted, because the energy demand per individual refill increases significantly for HDV and there are regulatory as well as technical limitations for alternative fuel station (AFS) capacities at the same time. While the current research takes capacity restrictions for single stations into account, capacity limits for locations (i.e. nodes) – the places where refuelling stations are built such as highway entries, exits or intersections – are not yet considered. We extend existing models in this respect and introduce an optimal development for AFS considering (station) location capacity restrictions. The proposed method is applied to a case study of a potential fuel cell heavy-duty vehicle AFS network. We find that the location capacity limit has a major impact on the number of stations required, station utilization and station portfolio variety.     

自然保护区科普旅游开发模式研究——以广西花坪自然保护区为例

随着旅游者的产品多样化需求以及求知欲的增强,科普旅游产品在今后的旅游市场会越来越受欢迎。本文以广西花坪自然保护区为例,对于该地区开展科普旅游的优势和科普旅游产品的设计进行了探讨。