Functional principal component analysis for the explorative analysis of multisite–multivariate air pollution time series with long gaps

The knowledge of the urban air quality represents the first step to face air pollution issues. For the last decades many cities can rely on a network of monitoring stations recording concentration values for the main pollutants. This paper focuses on functional principal component analysis (FPCA) to investigate multiple pollutant datasets measured over time at multiple sites within a given urban area. Our purpose is to extend what has been proposed in the literature to data that are multisite and multivariate at the same time. The approach results to be effective to highlight some relevant statistical features of the time series, giving the opportunity to identify significant pollutants and to know the evolution of their variability along time. The paper also deals with missing value issue. As it is known, very long gap sequences can often occur in air quality datasets, due to long time failures not easily solvable or to data coming from a mobile monitoring station. In the considered dataset, large and continuous gaps are imputed by empirical orthogonal function procedure, after denoising raw data by functional data analysis and before performing FPCA, in order to further improve the reconstruction.     

Application of a non-homogeneous Markov chain with seasonal transition probabilities to ozone data

In this work, we assume that the sequence recording whether or not an ozone exceedance of an environmental threshold has occurred in a given day is ruled by a non-homogeneous Markov chain of order one. In order to account for the possible presence of cycles in the empirical transition probabilities, a parametric form incorporating seasonal components is considered. Results show that even though some covariates (namely, relative humidity and temperature) are not included explicitly in the model, their influence is captured in the behavior of the transition probabilities. Parameters are estimated using the Bayesian point of view via Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. The model is applied to ozone data obtained from the monitoring network of Mexico City, Mexico. An analysis of how the methodology could be used as an aid in the decision-making is also given.     

基于FLOTRAN的燕尾形导轨气浮平台结构设计

闭式燕尾形导轨是常见的静压气浮导轨结构形式之一,其燕尾角度将直接影响导轨的承载能力,为保证设计的燕尾形导轨能满足工作要求,本文通过建立燕尾夹角在55°~70°范围变化的气膜有限元模型,以承载力和刚度作为主要性能指标,对导轨承载能力进行分析.通过分析发现:导轨垂直方向总承载力随着燕尾夹角θ的增大而增大.研究结果表明燕尾夹角θ=66°时,单边导轨垂直方向的承载力为87.26N,刚度为33.69N/μm,能较好地满足承载和工作要求.     

两岸航空区际法律适用制度比较论纲

航空直航是两岸经济文化交流的重要路径。两岸航空法律冲突的存在导致航空直航中当事人利益保护的不确定性。当事人在发生纠纷时无法确定准据法, 难以确定其权利义务分配的法律效力。两岸航空法律适用制度的冲突加剧了实体法冲突的消极影响。两岸航空直航运输合同法律适用制度、航空器权利法律适用制度、旅客权利能力与行为能力法律适用制度及侵权法律适用制度均存在一定程度的差异, 其准据法的连接点、法律选择方法与价值考量迥异。两岸航空私法冲突属于区际法律冲突, 与国际私法冲突存在一定差别。应当制定区际私法, 以解决两岸航空法律冲突问题。     

住宅用户终端配电箱的设计

就住宅发展的现状,结合当前人民的消费水平和家用电器市场发展情况,根据住宅电气设计的最新动态,就其中住宅用户终端配电箱设计中的一些问题──负荷划分、配电方式、入户电流的计算、户终端配电箱的安装进行阐述。     

冷库大门的空气幕结构设计计算模型

通过对冷库大门处的流场分析,用理论的方法建立流场。根据流线流量原理,导出冷库大门空气幕结构设计计算的数学模型。     

考虑空气阻力和地球自转的高次效应的落体运动

运用逐次逼近理论 ,通过反复迭代求得了在线性阻力和科氏力作用下落体运动的高次近似解     

热风干燥枸杞的试验研究

本文介绍了在自制试验台上,对我区产的枸杞进行热风烘干的试验研究,得出了其干燥特性典线,据此提出了烘干枸杞时热风的温度,风速及湿度合理选择的建议。     

三亚市河口厌氧沉积物硫化氢释放的研究

采用亚甲基兰分光光度法测定三亚市大气中硫化氢含量,结果表明,一日之内硫化氢浓度变化较大,大部分时间含量低于检出限;退潮时新风桥、红砂码头、临春河可检出硫化氢,其中临春河浓度最高,为0.034 mg/m3,但远低于国家卫生标准。     

Risk of Legionellosis in residential areas around farms irrigating with municipal wastewater

The conservation of freshwater is of both global and national importance, and in the United States, agriculture is one of the largest consumers of this resource. Reduction of the strain farming puts on local surface or groundwater is vital for ensuring resilience in the face of climate change, and one possible option is to irrigate with a combination of freshwater and reclaimed water from municipal wastewater treatment facilities. However, this wastewater can contain pathogens that are harmful to human health, such as Legionella pneumophila, which is a bacterium that can survive aerosolization and airborne transportation and cause severe pneumonia when inhaled. To assess an individual adult's risk of infection with L. pneumophila from a single exposure to agricultural spray irrigation, a quantitative microbial risk assessment was conducted for a scenario of spray irrigation in central Illinois, for the growing seasons in 2017, 2018, and 2019. The assessment found that the mean risk of infection for a single exposure exceeded the safety threshold of 10^–6 infections/exposure up to 1 km from a low-pressure irrigator and up to 2 km from a high-pressure irrigator, although no median risk exceeded the threshold for any distance or irrigator pressure. These findings suggest that spray irrigation with treated municipal wastewater could be a viable option for reducing freshwater consumption in Midwest farming, as long as irrigation on windy days is avoided and close proximity to the active irrigator is limited.