A comprehensive approach to evaluating watershed models for predicting river flow regimes critical to downstream ecosystem services

Selection of strategies that help reduce riverine inputs requires numerical models that accurately quantify hydrologic processes. While numerous models exist, information on how to evaluate and select the most robust models is limited. Toward this end, we developed a comprehensive approach that helps evaluate watershed models in their ability to simulate flow regimes critical to downstream ecosystem services. We demonstrated the method using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), the Hydrological Simulation Program–FORTRAN (HSPF) model, and Distributed Large Basin Runoff Model (DLBRM) applied to the Maumee River Basin (USA). The approach helped in identifying that each model simulated flows within acceptable ranges. However, each was limited in its ability to simulate flows triggered by extreme weather events, owing to algorithms not being optimized for such events and mismatched physiographic watershed conditions. Ultimately, we found HSPF to best predict river flow, whereas SWAT offered the most flexibility for evaluating agricultural management practices.     

MORM: A Multi-objective Optimized Replication Management strategy for cloud storage cluster

Effective data management is an important issue for a large-scale distributed environment such as data cloud. This can be achieved by using file replication, which efficiently reduces file service time and access latency, increases file availability and improves system load balancing. However, replication entails various costs such as storage and energy consumption for holding replicas. This article proposes a multi-objective offline optimization approach for replica management, in which we view the various factors influencing replication decisions such as mean file unavailability, mean service time, load variance, energy consumption and mean access latency as five objectives. It makes decisions of replication factor and replication layout with an improved artificial immune algorithm that evolves a set of solution candidates through clone, mutation and selection processes. The proposed algorithm named Multi-objective Optimized Replication Management (MORM) seeks the near optimal solutions by balancing the trade-offs among the five optimization objectives. The article reports a series of experiments that show the effectiveness of the MORM. Experimental results conclusively demonstrate that our MORM is energy effective and outperforms default replication management of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and MOE (Multi-objective Evolutionary) algorithm in terms of performance and load balancing for large-scale cloud storage cluster.     

浅谈玻璃钢的加工

本文在实际研究和应用的基础上，对玻璃钢的传统加工方法和特种加工方法，如激光切割、纯水射流切割和磨料水射流切割作了简要论述。     

浅谈新形势下如何提高航道的竞争力

自2009-01-01起实行税费改革后,我国又推出了事业单位机构改革。面对改革后的严峻形势,作为航道管理部门,航道部门又该如何提升自身的竞争力？     

水蓄冷运行控制分析

随着空调蓄冷技术的不断发展,它已逐渐在节能效果、经济效益和社会效益等方面展现出强大的生命力和广阔的市场。主要探讨了自然分层蓄冷形式,该方式利用温度和密度不同的原理,通过斜温层分隔高、低温水。必须严格进行水蓄冷系统的运行控制,否则极易打破其自然分层的规律。     

小型农田水利规划设计要点

对农田水利规划设计的重要性进行了阐述,并分析、研究了小型农田水利规划设计的要点和标准,希望可以为我国水利工程建设提供一定的借鉴。     

Bauxite residue (red mud) increases phosphorus retention in sandy soil catchments in Western Australia

The Peel-Harvey estuary on the Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia has become eutrophic partly because of the leaching of fertiliser phosphorus from sandy soils. The acid, coarse textured sandy soils are predominantly quartz, have a low iron and aluminium content and do not retain phosphorus. Red mud, derived from bauxite, is a by-product of the alumina industry and has the ability to retain phosphorus. Retention of phosphorus is enhanced when the red mud is neutralised with gypsum. Red mud has been suggested as a soil amendment to reduce phosphorus leaching.To investigate the reduction in the leaching of phosphorus from soils amended with red mud, weirs were constructed at the outlets from a pair of catchments to quantify the amount of phosphorus in the streamflow. Both catchments were deep grey Bassendean sand. One of the catchments was treated with 80 t/ha of red mud which had been neutralised with waste gypsum from the phosphate industry. The red mud was applied to the soil surface using conventional fertiliser spreading equipment. The other catchment was untreated.The red mud reduced phosphorus loss by 70% from 13.8 kg/ha on the untreated catchment, to 4.2 kg/ha on the treated catchment. Both catchments were treated with 20.4 kg/ha of phosphorus as superphosphate. The catchment treated with red mud also received a further 41.5 kg/ha of phosphorus from the phosphogypsum that was used to neutralise the red mud.Our results show that red mud reduces phosphorus leaching and is potentially a nutrient management option in sandy soils. Red mud has the potential to reduce the impact of agriculture on the estuarine environment and has implications for the continued expansion and intensification of agriculture in the Peel-Harvey catchment.     

水煤浆添加剂及其研究进展

介绍了水煤浆添加剂结构特征对煤成浆性能影响的研究情况及新型高效添加剂的研究进展。目前制浆添加剂主要分为阴离子表面活性剂和非离子表面活性剂;我国与国外的水煤浆添加剂技术相比,还存在一定的差距,特别是分散降粘性质方面,高效、价廉、适用性广的添加剂为数并不多。     

试谈云储存在数字化图书馆中的实践应用

在数字化图书馆的发展建设过程中,云储存网络服务技术在当前受到越来越多工程技术人员的关注与支持。云储存服务平台通过将多种网络技术与服务有机结合,对数字图书馆中的知识资源进行整合,从而实现数字图书馆的创新发展。通过论述在数字化图书馆中云储存的实践应用状况,分析提高图书馆服务水平的技术方法,以切实推动数字化图书馆的发展进程。     

一种改进型离散Hopfield学习算法

针对离散Hopfield 神经网络(DHNN) 的权值设计问题, 提出一种改进型学习算法, 并在DHNN动力学分析的基础上设计该学习算法. 利用矩阵分解的方法(MD) 得到正交矩阵, 并采用得到的正交矩阵直接计算DHNN的权值矩阵. 通过该学习算法得到的权值矩阵, 可以很好地存储训练样本的信息, 使测试样本收敛到稳定点. 该学习算法不需要进行分块计算, 减少了计算步骤和计算量, 降低了网络的迭代次数, 从而提高了网络运行速度. 最后, 将该学习算法应用于水质评价, 验证了其有效性和可行性.