Using a weight-of-evidence approach for management of watersheds.

This research used a weight-of-evidence approach to evaluate sources of contaminants in a drinking water watershed that serves as part of the City of Boston's water supply. The approach incorporated land use analysis using GIS, sanitary surveys, traditional water quality monitoring and microbial source tracking (MST) tools. Case-study tributaries were selected based on elevated faecal coliform counts. Land use analysis and sanitary surveys were used to identify suspected microbial sources, including residential septic systems, agricultural animal operations, commercial/industrial operations and wildlife activity. Sampling sites were selected to hydrologically isolate potential contamination sources. Samples were collected seasonally over 1 year and analysed for traditional and MST parameters. Results demonstrated that both septic systems and a horse stable were contributing microbial loads in the first tributary. In the second tributary, septic systems from the townhouses were contributing microbial loads while a plant nursery was contributing organic matter. This evidence was used to evaluate best management practices to mitigate the contamination.     

Fivefold symmetry in real and reciprocal spaces

Tetrahedrally close-packed structures with juxtaposed pentagonal antiprisms, such as the μ, C14 Laves and the newly found C phases, were studied by means of HREM and SAD. It was found that each bright spot in the structural image corresponds to an antiprism. Differently oriented domains of these phases intergrow frequently with a fairly good match at the interphase boundary. All diffraction patterns of these phases show a fivefold distribution of spot-pairs, and it is shown that this fivefold symmetry comes from the pentagons and spot-pairs from two pentagonal prisms superposed in antisymmetrical positions.     

Feature Reduction via Generalized Uncorrelated Linear Discriminant Analysis

High-dimensional data appear in many applications of data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Feature reduction is commonly applied as a preprocessing step to overcome the curse of dimensionality. Uncorrelated Linear Discriminant Analysis (ULDA) was recently proposed for feature reduction. The extracted features via ULDA were shown to be statistically uncorrelated, which is desirable for many applications. In this paper, an algorithm called ULDA/QR is proposed to simplify the previous implementation of ULDA. Then, the ULDA/GSVD algorithm is proposed, based on a novel optimization criterion, to address the singularity problem which occurs in undersampled problems, where the data dimension is larger than the sample size. The criterion used is the regularized version of the one in ULDA/QR. Surprisingly, our theoretical result shows that the solution to ULDA/GSVD is independent of the value of the regularization parameter. Experimental results on various types of data sets are reported to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and to compare it with other commonly used feature reduction algorithms.     

Effect of hydrogen loading on temperature/electric-field poling ofSiO2-based thin films on Si

Waveguide stacks of GeSiO₂-based glass deposited on Si exhibit a permanent second-order nonlinearity following temperature electric-field poling. High temperature hydrogen loading increases the second harmonic signal under certain conditions     

图书馆的建筑设计格局与图书馆的管理思考

图书馆的建筑设计首要考虑的就是图书馆的管理。数字化图书馆的建设已经来临,我们从唐宋以前的宫廷藏书建筑、明代皇家藏书建筑、清代皇家藏书建筑、私人藏书楼及现代图书馆的藏书建筑格局来比较现在的高校图书馆的建筑设计格局。因而深入、系统地研究图书馆建筑功能、空间的组成及空间布局结构的变化和发展;归纳、总结高校图书馆建筑的设计理念和方法。通过这些研究,把从中得到的启发、经验运用于实践,图书馆建筑设计格局真正地服务于教学、科研,为中国高等教育事业的发展做出应有的贡献。     

新农村建设规划过程中的问题与对策探析——以都昌县新农村建设为例

建设社会主义新农村,要坚持规划先行,在当前新农村建设的过程中,合理地进行村庄建设规划具有重要的意义。本文就都昌县目前农村建设的现状及新农村建设规划过程中出现的相关问题进行探析,并对都昌县新农村建设提出了可行性的对策。     

水平切片解释方法在焦作井田构造复杂区的应用

河南焦作某矿地处焦作煤田东部,该矿东三盘区地质构造复杂,主采的2号煤层底板与L_8灰岩平均间距仅20m,与奥灰顶界面平均间距约100m,因此断层的存在极易导通奥灰水,形成较大的水患事故。故查明区内构造分布情况十分必要。本文重点介绍了用三维地震常规解释方法结合偏移及方差数据体水平切片解释方法在构造复杂区的应用情况,具有一定的推广意义。     

The effects of carbon content in steel on the diffusion rate of chromium

Conclusions Thermal diffusion chromizing in metallic chromium under vacuum promotes impregnation and produces a thicker layer than in chromizing by means of a powder mixture only in steel with a maximum content of 0.2% C at 1100°C and higher.