整修老街古貌、弘扬徽派特色

屯溪老街是一条闻名、古老而又充满活力的商业步行街。传统的砖木结构,保留着浓厚的徽派建筑特色。为了保护好这条具有历史文物价值的老街,根据“整旧如旧”的原则,整修好老街的古建筑,要明确整修老街的指导思想,制定整修老街的修缮原则,落实整修老街的措施。屯溪老街通过改造已恢复了古街风貌。     

Coping with COPA II: Actions to Improve Effluent Quality

The paper outlines some of the actions taken by Severn Trent Water to achieve compliance with consent limits since the implementation of the Control of Pollution Act (Part II) in 1985.
Prior to and since 1985, Severn Trent Water has undertaken an extensive programme to analyse the reasons for failure and carry out remedial work. A major feature of this programme, which has been further stimulated by privatization, has been the need to reduce the lead time for carrying out improvements.
The paper discusses the means by which this has been achieved, including the introduction of the 'fast-track'initiative and the 'process matrix'.
Other aspects are outlined including initiatives to develop more robust processes, computerized work scheduling, extensive training programmes and best practice studies.     

Upgrading of Sewerage Assets to Comply with New Legislation: A Lothian Regional Viewpoint

The EC bathing water Directive and the recent EC urban waste water treatment Directive have provided, and will continue to provide, a strong stimulus for the provision of environmental improvement through the upgrading of sewerage assets. The positive response by Lothian Regional Council to necessary improvements in the last fifteen years, and the proposed improvements in the next fifteen years, are reviewed against the background of financial constraints. It is suggested that parts of the urban waste water treatment Directive relating to estuarial and coastal discharges are not appropriate or necessary in the context of conditions in Lothian Region.     

金鼎大厦结构设计中方案的比较及优化

金鼎大厦地上由2幢21层塔楼组成,地下共四层。设计中从结构合理、专业协调、便于施工并满足业主需求等角度全面进行了基础、地下室楼面、塔楼等的结构方案比较及优化,对塔楼标准层楼面进深梁、悬挑钢梯等构件也进行了优化。塔楼采用了钢框架-钢筋混凝土筒体结构体系,地下室楼面非预应力空心板采用了旋转布置形式,受力合理,对于其他工程结构设计的方案选择具有参考价值。     

某排污工程软土地基处理方案的优化

从技术、安全、经济等方面，通过对深圳市某排污工程软土地基处理的四种方案的综合对比，说明了在大型工程中合理选择方案的重要性。仅在该工程中的W133-W143采用格栅状双头喷浆搅拌方案代替原设计的单头喷粉方案就为国家节约大量投资。     

邻近开巷卸压法维护软岩大断面峒室的研究与实践

本文基于兖州矿务局鲍店煤矿一软岩大断面峒室的具体条件,提出了四种邻近开巷的卸压法方案,并借助有限元法对各种卸压法的机理、合理参数及适用条件进行了研究。在此基础上,将顶部卸压法实施于井下,详细介绍了其施工方案与爆破参数。最后,通过实测数据分析,论证了顶部卸压法维护峒室的效果。实践表明:顶部卸压法无论在技术上还是在经济上都优于加固法,它为软岩大断面峒室的维护开辟了一条新的途径。本文为今后顶部卸压法的实施提供了一套完整的实践经验。     

How do normalization schemes affect net spillovers? A replication of the Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) study

This paper replicates the Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) study on the connectedness of the commodity market and three other financial markets: the stock market, the bond market, and the FX market, based on the Generalized Forecast Error Variance Decomposition, GEFVD. We show that the net spillover indices (of directional connectedness), used to assess the net contribution of one market to overall risk in the system, are sensitive to the normalization scheme applied to the GEFVD. We show that, considering data generating processes characterized by different degrees of persistence and covariance, a scalar-based normalization of the Generalized Forecast Error Variance Decomposition is preferable to the row normalization suggested by Diebold and Yilmaz since it yields net spillovers free of sign and ranking errors.     

Developing benefit schemes and financial compensation measures for fishermen impacted by marine renewable energy projects

Commercial fishermen are arguably the stakeholder group most likely to be directly impacted by the expansion of the marine renewable energy (MRE) sector. The potential opposition of fishermen may hinder the development of MRE projects and the provision of benefit schemes could to enhance acceptance. Benefit schemes refer to additional voluntary measures that are provided by a developer to local stakeholders. The aim of this study is to explore the issue of the provision of benefit packages to local fishing communities and financial compensation measures for fishermen who may be impacted by MRE projects. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fourteen fishermen from three separate case study sites around the island of Ireland where MRE projects were being developed. In addition, ten company fisheries liaison officers (CFLOs) who have worked on MRE projects in the UK and Ireland were also interviewed. The interviews were analysed under the headings of local employment, benefits in kind, compensation and community funds and ownership of projects. Analysis shows that there is uncertainty among fishermen over whether they would benefit or gain employment from MRE. Provision of re-training schemes and preferential hiring practices could be used by MRE developers to reduce this uncertainty. There was also agreement between fishermen and CFLOs on the need for the provision of an evidence-base and a standard approach for the calculation of disruption payments. A formal structure for the provision of benefit schemes for fishermen would be useful. Furthermore, schemes that provide a range of benefits to fishermen and other stakeholders over the lifetime of a MRE project are more likely to be successful at enhancing acceptance.     

Two-Phase Bidirectional Dual-Relay Selection Strategy for Wireless Relay Networks

In this article, we introduce a new bi-directional dual-relay selection strategy with its bit error rate (BER) performance analysis. During the first step of the proposed strategy, two relays out of a set of N relay-nodes are selected in a way to optimize the system performance in terms of BER, based on the suggested algorithm which checks if the selected relays using the max-min criterion are the best ones. In the second step, the chosen relay-nodes perform an orthogonal space-time coding scheme using the two-phase relaying protocol to establish a bi-directional communication between the communicating terminals, leading to a significant improvement in the achievable coding and diversity gain. To further improve the overall system performance, the selected relay-nodes apply also a digital network coding scheme. Furthermore, this paper discusses the analytical approximation of the BER performance of the proposed strategy, where we prove that the analytical results match almost perfectly the simulated ones. Finally, our simulation results show that the proposed strategy outperforms the current state-of-the-art ones.