Social impact assessment of investment activities in the China–Pakistan economic corridor

In order to analyze potential social risks, and achieve smooth implementation of investment activities in the China–Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), we attempt to establish social impact and risk indicators. Both the impacts on the projects and the impacts of the projects are used to develop risk indicators in accordance with the literature review, reality and international standard principles. Using an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and average value to analyze questionnaires of both Chinese and Pakistani respondents, we identify the importance of various risk indicators. The primary social risks of the western high mountain region include tribal obstacles and religious extremism. The social risks to the southeast coastal plains include preserving the historical and cultural heritage of the area and international protection of national parks. The social risks in north Kashmir include disputes, extremist threats, religious and cultural differences, and the protection of natural reserves. The social risks of the Xinjiang region primarily involve social issues faced by ethnic minorities and environmental pressures.     

陕西田市镇及周边地质环境质量评价模型的构建及应用研究

鉴于地质环境质量在城市建设管理与规划中的重要性,文章从水文地质、工程地质和环境地质3个方面,确定了田市镇及周边地区地质环境质量评价指标体系,采用熵权法确定指标权重,构建了模糊加权模式评价模型,对田市镇及周边地区地质环境质量进行了评价与分区,并提出了针对性建议,以期为探索合适的评价方法及推进城镇建设的可持续发展提供地学依据。     

海洋天然气水合物储层拉削开采新方法及可行性分析

针对深水浅层非成岩天然气水合物借鉴刨煤机刨削采煤过程提出一种新的拉削开采方法，参照拉刀结构特点设计了一种集开采、收集和输送为一体的拉削管。建立了拉削开采三维模型，对其工作原理和工作步骤进行了说明。用有限元仿真对采空区和拉削管受力进行了分析。结果表明，岩土力学仿真下采空区开采半径和开采角度的增大都会引起剪切应力的增加，最大剪切应力发生在采空区上部的起始位置和终止位置；在不发生剪切破坏的采空区中选择体积较大者作为理想采空区，估算出拉削开采方法的日产气量为142000 m3，具有应用潜力；开采工况下，拉削管的最大等效应力小于管材的屈服极限，表明开采过程中拉削管处于弹性形变，满足方法需求。     

The relationship between oil prices and US economy revisited

The authors revisit the relationship between US economic growth and crude oil prices considering Industrial Production Index and West Texas Intermediate crude oil spot prices as respective proxies for a period spanning over January 1986 to June 2017. To capture the asymmetric and time-varying relationship, the authors employ maximum overlap discrete wavelet transform (MODWT)-based quantile regression (QR) analysis. Interestingly, MODWT-based QR analysis provides evidence of supply-driven link between crude oil prices and economic growth in the short run. However, in the medium to long run a demand-driven link is dominant. In addition, the QR results without MODWT also advocate a demand-driven link. Overall, the result of this study adds a new dimension to the literature on the relationship between crude oil prices and economic growth by focusing upon the time-frequency varying business cycle fluctuations.     

An energy‐dissipating approach for adjacent retrofitted structures

The approach of positioning energy dissipaters between adjacent structures can effectively prevent the collision of two adjacent buildings. For adjacent retrofitted structures, an effective strengthening approach that involves implementing energy‐dissipation measures both between and within buildings is proposed. This paper is based on the actual Shanghai ShiMao International Plaza. To avoid having to strengthen most of the structural members, the strengthening measure of energy dissipation is selected because of its construction cost and time constraints. This approach involves replacing several dampers between the adjacent structures and adding viscous damping walls in the retrofitted structure to reduce the seismic response of the retrofitted structure back to the original level. Additionally, a practical calculating method for the equivalent additional damping ratio for the adjacent structures connected by energy dissipaters is proposed. The results show that the effect of energy dissipation in the retrofitted structure is prominent and that the goal of indirect strengthening is achieved. The strengthening approach of energy dissipation and the calculating method of the equivalent additional damping ratio for adjacent structures provide a reference for similar engineering designs.     

Comprehensive reliability evaluation of multistate complex electromechanical systems based on similarity of cloud models

High reliability and security have become the hallmarks of complex electromechanical systems. Owing to the difficulties in fault data collection, ambiguity and uncertainty have been inevitably associated with complex electromechanical systems. Thus, the ability to perform reliability evaluation using scarce fault data is of immense significance to these machines and is the focus of this study. A similarity based cloud model is proposed to evaluate the running state of complex electromechanical systems. By combining objective and subjective factors, the reliability of complex electromechanical systems is evaluated by calculating the similarity between the cloud models of actual and standardised states. Next, the inverter of an offshore wind turbine is used to verify the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed approach. The cloud model based framework for reliability evaluation inherits the preponderance of the uncertainty problem, overcomes the drawbacks of the current reliability approaches, and provides a theoretical basis, as well as a practical approach for the maintenance and repair of complex electromechanical systems with missing fault data. Additionally, it also provides a new methodology for solving the uncertainty problems caused by paucity of data.     

A comprehensive appraisal of perceptual visual complexity analysis methods in GUI design

Graphical or Visual User Interface (GUI) is recognized as one of the most important application components for safety critical and business oriented software systems. It is highly advantageous for GUI designers and application developers to analyze the visual complexity of a GUI and predict users’ perception and judgment during the design phase. Although in recent years, various methods have been developed for visual complexity analysis, these have not been widely used due to applicability, practicality and validity issues. In this respect, we have conducted a comprehensive review of studies and methods in visual complexity analysis. After identifying and analyzing 85 research studies, we grouped the visual complexity analysis methods and accordingly a taxonomy is presented. Furthermore, conceptual comparison of the methods is given and gap analysis as well as possible future directions are provided. According to the our findings, major gaps for each visual complexity analysis method may be stated as follows: 1) In metric-model based methods, there is a lack of information about the suitability of the metric-model created for analysis, since the extent to which each metric contributes to visual complexity analysis is still not known exactly. 2) In heuristic- based methods, the extracted rule set is not yet extendable enough beyond the use for specific GUIs. 3) While the visual complexity analysis could be considered as a kind of computer vision task, there exist limited studies that does so. Therefore, generalizable solutions based on machine learning techniques seem to be a promising research direction to develop efficient approaches.     

香肠整体营养价值评价与包装正面标签应用研究进展

为促进我国消费者对香肠的合理消费与饮食健康，引导企业生产营养健康的香肠，利用《中国食物成分表》（第1册第2版）的16 种香肠及其营养素数据，构建富含营养素食物（nutrient-rich foods，NRF9.3）模型，评价香肠整体营养价值，并借鉴瑞典的锁孔（Keyhole）标识和英国的多交通灯信号标签进行相应的包装正面（front of package，FOP）标签应用探索。结果表明：除了儿童肠、火腿肠外，14 种香肠的NRF9.3＜0，每100 kcal的推荐性营养素含量均低于限制性营养素，对人体的营养价值较低，适合采用总结指示体系和特定营养素体系的FOP标签进行标示；因此，居民日常应限制香肠摄入，建议对脂肪、盐含量超标的香肠采用红色交通灯信号标签提醒消费者，对NRF9.3＞0的香肠实施单一的健康选择标识推荐消费者选购。     

某大机动无人机基于飞行任务的敏捷性评估飞行科目设计与仿真

由于现代空战的特点，根据时间量级分类的单维度的敏捷性评估已经不能满足空战的需求。为了优化控制系统的设计，最大限度地发挥飞机的飞行性能，需要对大机动无人机进行基于飞行任务的敏捷性评估。针对大机动无人机敏捷性评估的特点，从20个标准评估机动任务集中选取了3种与某无人机实际使用相关性较强的飞行任务作为其评估机动，展开了无人机基于飞行任务的敏捷性评估和仿真验证。对选取的3种飞行任务进行了详细的敏捷性评估方法描述，在通用的无人机敏捷性评估仿真环境中对加入非线性飞行控制律的某大机动无人机进行了基于3种飞行任务的敏捷性评估仿真验证，根据评估结果对控制律进行调参，为控制律设计提供指南和优化依据。