Climatic regionalization mapping of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area,Australia

In this study,spatial analysis techniques were used to generate climatic zoning maps of the East Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA),Australia.Long term climate data were used to analyze and assess regional climatic variation by cluster analysis in a GIS environment.Based on thermal and moisture factors,four variables were chosen to develop climate zones.These variables include annual average rainfalls,annual average ETc,annual average Growing Day Degree (GDD) and daily average temperature generated from daily climate data of 36 years (1971-2006) on 12 local weather stations as the fundamental elements of regional climate characteristics.GIS-based spatial analysis models are used to map climate sub-regions from sets of climatic parameters derived from regional climate data sources.Two climate zoning schemes are presented by integration of spatial interpolation,spatial cluster analysis and climate indices methods.One scheme comes with the two climate zones of the West and the East based on spatial cluster analysis according to selected climatic variables,and the other comes with the three comprehensive hydro-thermal zones and the six hydro-thermal balance zones.     

以EMME／2为平台估测温室气体的研究成果

京都协议已确认并应用战略战术措施来减少温室气的排放,因此,城市交通系统规划人员不得不寻求一种革新的方法来满足京都协议的要求。本文包括四部分：第一部分简要介绍了环境可持续的城市交通的概念,油耗,温室气体排放和京都协议的要求;第二部分描述了温室气体排放估测所需的方法,并指出了在实践中存在的缺陷,第三部分阐述了如何应用ＥＭＭＥ／２作为平台来估测室气体的排放;最后第四部分作了总结。     

Factors influencing the distribution of 99m-technetium methylene diphosphonate in bone and soft tissues

Summary The influences of dilution, storage and pH on the distribution of 99m-technetium methylene diphosphonate (99m-Tc-MDP) in bone and various soft tissues have been investigated in the rat. The results show a marked departure from normality when large dilution factors and very acidic or basic preparations are used.     

An anatomical study of the microcirculation in the rabbit femur

Summary A technique is described which will allow a study of the microcirculation to a long bone such as the femur. It involves use of a silicone rubber compound (Microfil) in combination with the Spalteholz clearing technique. Preliminary results in the normal rabbit skeleton suggest that this technique can be used to study the changes in vascularity which occur under various pathological conditions.     

A histochemical study of denervated marsupial hemidiaphragm

Summary The marsupial (quokka) hemidiaphragm showed postdenervation hypertrophy and subsequent atrophy. The type II muscle fibres hypertrophied up to 20 days postoperation and then regressed. However, the type I fibres hypertrophied throughout the experimental period (100 days) studied. Unlike denervated eutherian hemidiaphragm, fibre-splitting was absent in the denervated marsupial muscle. An enhancement of the ATPase reaction in the denervated type I fibres may be due to dedifferentiation. Presumably innervation exerts a negative control and prevents increase of type I fibre size in the normal hemidiaphragm.I am grateful to Dr O.M. Sola and Professor B.A. Kakulas for their help and encouragement.     

Neighborhood topological effect on grain topology-size relationship in three-dimensional polycrystalline microstructures

A new grain topology-size relationship in three-dimensional(3D)polycrystalline microstructures has recently been established by considering the effects of non-random first nearest neighbor grains.In this contribution,a generalized form for this relationship is presented by considering the interactions of kth(k=1,2,3…)nearest neighbor grains,and large scale Monte Carlo-Potts model simulation is used to investigate the general neighborhood topological effect on the topology-size relationship.The results show that,unlike their first nearest neighbors(k=1),the topological correlations of 3D grains with their kth layers(k 2)of nearest-neighbors may have trivial effect on the topology-size relationship.