Health Risk,Inequality Indexes,and Environmental Justice

Inequality indexes have long been used to analyze distributions of income. Studies have recently begun to use these tools to evaluate the equity of distributions of environmental harm. In response, issues have been raised regarding the appropriateness of using income-based measures in the context of undesirable outcomes. We begin from first principles, identifying a theoretical preference structure under which income-based tools can be appropriate for ranking distributions of “bads.” While some critiques of existing applications are valid, they are not a justification for rejecting the approach altogether. Instead, we show how standard income-based measures can be adjusted to accommodate bad outcomes. Rather than inequality indexes, we argue that equally distributed equivalents (EDEs) are well-suited for this purpose since they account for levels and dispersion of outcome distributions. The Kolm–Pollak EDE is particularly useful, having the advantage of consistently evaluating both bads and their complementary goods (e.g., mortality risk and survival probability). As an illustration, we show how these tools can inform an environmental justice analysis of a proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule addressing indoor air pollution.     

多相感应电机任意非正弦气隙磁密的磁动势分析与应用

多相感应电机转矩密度的提高依赖于非正弦气隙磁密行波的合理构建,由于传统的电流相位、幅值控制策略无 法给出期望的非正弦磁密行波,因此文章研究了控制多相感应电机定子相电流中基波和谐波幅值、相位、频率的大小来 构建期望的气隙磁密波形的方法、首先基于单根载流导体产生的气隙磁动势波形,推导了任意相数、不对称、包含任意 高次谐波电流波形激励的具有典型绕组结构的多相感应电机的磁动势分布表达式。根据以上磁动势分析结论,多相电 机可通过变电流相序变极。针对气隙磁密行波逼近方波波形的案例,根据所提出的磁动势分析方法分析和预测了理想 空载励磁电流的波形。将预测波形和方波供电下的励磁电流波形进行了比较,从FFT分析结果来看,仍需微调各次谐波 电压相位,从而实现各次电流相位完全一致。     

ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN AIR POLLUTION AND HOSPITAL VISITS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES IN THE ELDERLY IN SYDNEY USING BAYESIAN STATISTICAL METHODS

Using generalized linear models (GLMs), Jalaludin  et al. (2006;  J. Exposure Analysis and Epidemiology   16 , 225–237) studied the association between the daily number of visits to emergency departments for cardiovascular disease by the elderly (65+) and five measures of ambient air pollution. Bayesian methods provide an alternative approach to classical time series modelling and are starting to be more widely used. This paper considers Bayesian methods using the dataset used by Jalaludin  et al.  (2006) , and compares the results from Bayesian methods with those obtained by Jalaludin  et al.  (2006) using GLM methods.     

基于素质的空中交通管制生源选拔和培养研究

本文介绍了民航空中交通管制工作对从业人员的素质要求,分析了国内外在管制专业生源选拔和培养方面的不同做法,提出了适合我国国情的空管专业学生培养方法。     

类矩形双肢钝体涡致振动和气动抑振机理

针对具有类矩形双肢钝体断面拱肋的大跨度拱桥在风洞试验过程易出现大幅涡激振动问题，沿拱肋模型表面进行动态风压同步测量及基于POD算法的本征气动力荷载分布模式分解，获得了涡振发生时对于周期性涡激力具有最大贡献的气动力荷载作用位置，初步揭示出此类断面涡激动发生时的局部气动力荷载作用机制。以上海卢浦大桥和肇庆西江特大桥此类具有双肢钝体断面拱桥为工程实例，结合涡激气动力沿拱肋周向时空气分布特征，提出并以二维悬吊节段模型风洞试验验证了拱肋断面多种有针对性的气动控制措施；结合实际桥梁拱肋的三维空间效应，利用全桥气弹模型     

A Fiasco of Volcanic Proportions? Eyjafjallajökull and the Closure of European Airspace

Abstract

The unprecedented and recurrent closure of much of UK and northern European airspace from 14 April 2010, following the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, caused the cancellation of 108,000 flights, disrupted the travel plans of 10.5 million passengers, and cost the airline industry in excess of $1.7 billion in lost revenue. The airspace closures highlighted the inherent riskiness of aviation and destabilised dominant cultural discourses of the ‘superiority’ and capability of aviation technology. It also brought issues of risk acceptability and our socio‐economic reliance on air travel into sharp relief. This paper explores how the political and media framing of the response to the airspace closures as a human ‘policy fiasco’ served to obfuscate the inherent dangers of aviation and ‘get Europe flying’ again. Thus, this paper contends that this particular fiasco was ‘necessary’ in that it served to highlight the fragility of air travel and the vulnerabilities of the mobile citizen.     

气浮综合改进设施处理高浓度造纸废水

本文报道了气浮综合改进设施处理高浓度造纸废水的流程和改革，结果表明：改进后的气浮设施COD去除率由60％提高到75％，SS去除率由51％提高到71％，气浮出水河直接回用于造纸的主要过程，处理效果明显优于单纯的气浮处理。而且改进部分投资少，动力消耗少，是处理高浓度造纸废水的简便易行、值得推广的方法。     

抗战时期西部的航空运输业建设

抗战爆发后,为打破日军封锁和开展大后方正常对外贸易,国民政府采取了一系列措施以重庆为中心发展西部航空运输业.西部航空运输业在发展中呈现出航线变动频繁、航空运输建设服从军事需要为主等特点.西部航空运输业经过三个阶段的发展,在一定程度上支持了抗战,并推动了整个中国民航运输业的发展.但由于航空人才缺乏、航空制造技术落后等原因,西部航空运输业的发展又难尽人意.