抛体运动的轨迹长度与所围面积研究

空气阻力对抛体的运动可以产生显著的影响.运用近似的方法处理超越方程,给出了考虑空气阻力时抛体运动轨迹的长度和轨迹所包围的面积的近似解析解.数值计算表明：（1）当kt/m越小时轨迹长度与所围面积的近似解析解与真实值越接近;（2）抛体运动轨迹的长度取最大值时,抛射角随空气阻力系数的增大而减小：（3）抛体运动轨迹所围面积取最大值时,抛射角随空气阻力系数的增大而增加.     

条件价值评估法在森林生态旅游非使用价值评估中范围效应的研究

条件价值评估法(CVM)是目前最受欢迎的环境资源价值评估方法之一,但同时也是争议最多的方法,争议的焦点围绕该方法的有效性和可靠性。影响CVM结果有效性的因素很多,其中范围效应是最重要因素。笔者归纳了研究CVM范围效应有关理论,并通过1个实际案例来验证CVM评估环境资源非使用价值时范围效应是否存在。研究结果表明:范围效应不是CVM普遍现象,并非由CVM方法本身的缺陷造成。     

Selective Smoothed Finite Element Method

The paper examines three selective schemes for the smoothed finite element method (SFEM) which was formulated by incorporating a cell-wise strain smoothing operation into the standard compatible finite element method (FEM). These selective SFEM schemes were formulated based on three selective integration FEM schemes with similar properties found between the number of smoothing cells in the SFEM and the number of Gaussian integration points in the FEM. Both scheme 1 and scheme 2 are free of nearly incompressible locking, but scheme 2 is more general and gives better results than scheme 1. In addition, scheme 2 can be applied to anisotropic and nonlinear situations, while scheme 1 can only be applied to isotropic and linear situations. Scheme 3 is free of shear locking. This scheme can be applied to plate and shell problems. Results of the numerical study show that the selective SFEM schemes give more accurate results than the FEM schemes.     

Systemic Research Practices Towards the Development of an Eco-Community in Vietnam: some Joint Post-Facto Reflections

In this article we discuss how an interdisciplinary research team partnered with a variety of stakeholders concerned with and/or affected by the impacts of climate change in the Red River Delta of Vietnam. The research, undertaken from 2016 to 2018, drew upon a wide range of methods to investigate systemically these impacts – with a view to the research inputting into the development of (more) sustainable ways of living. The research solicited various accounts of the experience of climate change in the community, set up learning processes in community meetings, and created an interface with government officials positioned at commune, district, provincial, and national levels. The intention was to offer support towards developing a learning process (broadly defined as including learnings/systemic inquiry across organizational levels of the society) to pursue options for sustainable living. The article offers our post-facto reflections which render more explicit (to ourselves and for the benefit of audiences) how the research team, with Hoang as lead researcher, facilitated the inquiry process towards developing a synthesis which underscored the assets for resilience to climate change and supported interventions to strengthen such (defined) assets.

     

蜡梅热激蛋白基因 Cp HSP70-1的克隆、亚细胞定位与表达分析

在已构建的蜡梅花转录组数据库EST序列分析的基础上,采用 RACE技术克隆获得蜡梅热激蛋白 HSP70的cDNA序列,命名为CpHSP70‐1（GenBank登录号：KR071130）．该序列全长2520 bp ,包括1962 bp的完整开放阅读框,编码653个氨基酸蛋白序列,含有3个 HSP70家族典型基序．CpHS P70‐1蛋白与其他真核生物的HSP70蛋白具有较高的同源性,聚类分析显示其属于定位于细胞核／细胞质的蛋白．亚细胞定位结果支持该蛋白分布于细胞核的预测．利用实时荧光定量PCR对 CpHS P70‐1基因的表达特性进行分析,其在各组织中均有不同程度的表达,其中在成熟叶片中表达量最高;在不同花发育阶段呈现持续稳定的表达模式;该基因在低温和高温诱导下表达量提高,而且对高温的响应更为敏感．     

Complete genome sequence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2.

Salmonella enterica subspecies I, serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium), is a leading cause of human gastroenteritis, and is used as a mouse model of human typhoid fever. The incidence of non-typhoid salmonellosis is increasing worldwide, causing millions of infections and many deaths in the human population each year. Here we sequenced the 4,857-kilobase (kb) chromosome and 94-kb virulence plasmid of S. typhimurium strain LT2. The distribution of close homologues of S. typhimurium LT2 genes in eight related enterobacteria was determined using previously completed genomes of three related bacteria, sample sequencing of both S. enterica serovar Paratyphi A (S. paratyphi A) and Klebsiella pneumoniae, and hybridization of three unsequenced genomes to a microarray of S. typhimurium LT2 genes. Lateral transfer of genes is frequent, with 11% of the S. typhimurium LT2 genes missing from S. enterica serovar Typhi (S. typhi), and 29% missing from Escherichia coli K12. The 352 gene homologues of S. typhimurium LT2 confined to subspecies I of S. enterica-containing most mammalian and bird pathogens-are useful for studies of epidemiology, host specificity and pathogenesis. Most of these homologues were previously unknown, and 50 may be exported to the periplasm or outer membrane, rendering them accessible as therapeutic or vaccine targets.     

An electrochemical and microstructural characterization of steel-mortar admixed with corrosion inhibitors

The present research brings new insights on the role of admixed corrosion inhibitors in the processes of cement hydration and rebar corrosion.The admixing of NaCl and the corrosion inhibitors in fresh mortar was found to alter the morphology and microstructure of the hardened mortar at the steel-mortar interfacial region.The admixing of the inhibitors increased the risk of carbonation of cement hydrates at the steel-mortar interfacial region,but partially displaced chloride ions. Chloride and the admixed in...     

Modeling and forecasting commodity market volatility with long-term economic and financial variables

This paper investigates the time-varying volatility patterns of some major commodities as well as the potential factors that drive their long-term volatility component. For this purpose, we make use of a recently proposed generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity–mixed data sampling approach, which typically allows us to examine the role of economic and financial variables of different frequencies. Using commodity futures for Crude Oil (WTI and Brent), Gold, Silver and Platinum, as well as a commodity index, our results show the necessity for disentangling the short-term and long-term components in modeling and forecasting commodity volatility. They also indicate that the long-term volatility of most commodity futures is significantly driven by the level of global real economic activity as well as changes in consumer sentiment, industrial production, and economic policy uncertainty. However, the forecasting results are not alike across commodity futures as no single model fits all commodities.     

Novel Criteria for Exponential Stability of Linear Non-Autonomous Functional Differential Equations

General linear non-autonomous functional differential equations are considered. Explicit criteria for exponential stability are given. Furthermore, the authors present an explicit robust stability bound for systems subject to time-varying perturbations. Two examples are given to illustrate the obtained results.