An Evaluation of Public Concerns About Water Management in the Palestinian Territory Pre,During, and Post the National Uprising

We have evaluated the extent of public concerns about water management in the Palestinian Territory (PT) through a survey of the main Palestinian newspaper over the last thirteen years divided in three periods: pre (1984–1987), during (1988–1991), and post national uprising period (1992–1996). The public concern in the PT about various water management aspects was clear and influenced by the prevailing political conditions indicating (1) poor concerns in the first and second period where full Israeli military control of the PT and harsh practices prevailed with relatively more emphasis on regional water issues and (2) extensive-strong concerns in the third period when the peace process started and a partial lift of some of the Israeli water practices took place, along with an increased freedom in expressing public concerns which was granted with more emphasis on local issues and problems. Lack and limitation of water available to Palestinians, alternative solutions, and water quality and pollution control constituted the overwhelming majority of the topics of concern to the public for the three periods studied. Palestinian concerns were always greater than regional ones for the three periods and all of the topics considered. Public concern in the PT about all other water management aspects was poor and negligible especially in the first two periods. A massive increase in public concern has been observed in the third period in which the public expressed their concern over most water management aspects, indicating a possible change in public attitude toward water and water management and reflecting the change of the political status by the start of the peace process and the signing of the peace agreements.     

Geometric features of the flame propagation process for an SI engine having dual‐ignition system

Flame front surface area and enflamed volume (the volume enclosed with flame front) is theoretically analysed for a spark‐ignition engine, having cylindrical disc‐shaped combustion chamber with two spark plugs located axisymmetrically on cylinder head, between cylinder axis and cylinder wall. Spherical flame front assumption is used. A computer code is developed based on purely geometric consideration of the flame development process in combustion chamber, and is used to investigate the effects of variations of spark plugs' locations on geometric features of the flame front. A comparison has also been made with a spark‐ignition engine having one spark plug at the same location. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MICROSTRUCTURE AND FATIGUE PROPERTIES OF A WELDED DUPLEX STAINLESS STEEL

Abstract— In response to the increasing structural applications in duplex steels for welded structures, fatigue behaviour of a SAF 2304 grade duplex stainless steel was investigated, considering both the base metal and GTAW welded joints. Fatigue curves and fatigue limits under rotary bending fatigue were obtained. The study focused attention on the microstructural features of fatigue crack propagation of the two series of experiments, thereby permitting an evaluation of the tortuous crack path of welded joints and the mechanisms related to threshold microstructural barriers.     

地面立体摄影测量在露天矿山的应用

本文针对露天矿验收测量的特点，论述了露天矿验收地面立体摄影测量方法及其内业处理系统，并将地面立体摄影测量结果与ＥＤＭ解析法测量结果进行了比较。     

黄土塬区天然气地震技术和综合解释

黄土塬区复杂的地表条件难以获得可供解释的物探资料,本文给出了勘探天然气的地震技术,在野外弯线地震数据采集中,冲沟区运用了弯线高分辨率技术;塬上区采用非纵测线和地震测深观测系统,大药量、深井和强化组合法的接收条件。初步解决了弯线地震资料处理中二维滤波、静校正、速度分析等技术难题。摸索出一套以地震为骨架,构造解释与岩性解释相结合,重力-电法-地震联合解释落实古生界天然气构造圈闭的综合物探解释技术,并以实例展示方法的有效性。     

氢/空气火焰在半开口有障碍管道中的传播特性

针对氢／空气混合物，通过实验研究了其预混火焰在半开口管道中的火焰传播加速现象。结果表明，火焰传播状态随着氢气当量比的变化而发生改变。当氢／空气混合物被点燃后，由于障碍物的扰动，火焰在管道中不断加速传播，并最终到达一准稳态传播。在氢气当量比0．34附近时，火焰速度发生跃变。当氢气当量比足够大时，火焰传播由爆燃态转变为爆轰态。在本实验条件下，爆燃转准爆轰的临界条件是d/λ=2.6(d是圆环形障碍物内径，λ是爆轰格胞尺度）。障碍物阻塞比的变化对最大火焰速度和压力提升的影响不明显。     

黄河下游滩区居民心理研究的设计及信息获取

特殊的自然环境，必将塑造滩区居民特有的心理状况，进而影响滩区社会经济的发展。黄河下游滩区居民心理研究从研究对象、技术路线与方法、数据来源等方面进行了调查设计；整群随机抽取河南、山东2个省6个县22个村作为调查对象，调查问卷分为“搬迁居民卷”和“未搬迁居民卷”，涉及题项分另？为82个和91个；采取入户调查填写问卷、座谈、个案访谈等方式，共获得相关资料1021份。     

拉盖尔-高斯光束通过有硬边光阑光学系统的传输

采用将硬边光阑展为有限个复高斯函数之和的方法,得到了拉盖尔-高斯光束通过有硬边光阑近轴ABCD光学系统中传输的近似解析公式,作了数值计算以说明传输公式的应用,并对使用该式的误差作了讨论。     

CDMA时变色散信道的两级盲辨识算法

本文通过对时变信道的扩展函数在时频域进行正则采样，得到了CDMA时变系统的离散正则模型。针对该模型提出了一种具有较低运算量的两级盲辨识算法。为避免两级算法产生的误差传播效应，文章将理想SIMO模型等效为加性噪声模型来处理。与基展开模型方法相比，该算法具有不需利用观测数据的高阶统计量估计展开基频率的优点。文章通过仿真验证了该算法是可行的。