Trace metals in Hong Kong waters     

J.P. Chan  M.T. Cheung  F.P. Li 《Marine pollution bulletin》1974,5(11):171-174

Hong Kong has a population of between four and five million and is becoming increasingly industrialized. Already there are some 19,000 factories concentrated in a few densely populated areas and most of the effluent and sewage is discharged untreated into the sea. Elevated heavy metal concentrations have been recorded in the receiving waters. Lead has 160 times and cadmium 180 times the concentration found in the open ocean.  相似文献   

Using FCMC, FVS, and PCA techniques for feature extraction of multispectral images   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Zhan-Li Sun De-Shuang Huang Yiu-Ming Cheung Jiming Liu Guang-Bin Huang 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2005,2(2):108-112

In this letter, a new nonlinear approach based on a combination of the fuzzy c-means clustering (FCMC), feature vector selection and principal component analysis (PCA) is proposed to extract features of multispectral images when a very large number of samples need to be processed. The main contribution of this letter is to provide a preprocessing method for classifying these images with higher accuracy compared to the single PCA and kernel PCA. Finally, some experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach is effective and efficient in analyzing multispectral images.  相似文献   

A transient model to predict the weekly temperatures of the ventilation air in a partially wetted airway     

J. Cheung 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》1988,6(4):343-352

Summary Most theoretical methods for the prediction of strata heat flow in an underground airway assume that the air temperature remains constant or that only small changes take place over the ventilated age of the airway. This assumption is clearly not correct; air temperature (especially those measured in British coal mines) display variation of up to 5° C during any one week at any one point. These variations are periodic in nature and relate to both the daily and weekly production cycle. In order to predict the transient heat flow from strata the Duhamel Theorem is used. Details of the theorem incorporating the air temperature history to calculate the surface temperature of a partially wetted airway are derived. An algorithm is presented for the calculation of surface temperatures and hence the heat flux from the rock. The algorithm is used in the computation of heat and moisture transfer rates from the rock to the ventilating air in the airway. Finally, the air temperatures at the end of the airway are predicted due to the heat flows from the strata and they are compared to the measured data supplied by British Coal, United Kingdom.  相似文献   

Effects of heavy metals on the survival and feeding behaviour of the sandy shore scavenging gastropod Nassarius festivus (Powys)     

S. G. Cheung  K. K. Tai  C. K. Leung  Y. M. Siu 《Marine pollution bulletin》2002,45(1-12)

The effects of Cu, Cd, Zn and Cr on the survival and feeding behaviour of the sandy shore scavenging gastropod Nassarius festivus were compared. The 96-h LC₅₀ for Cu, Cd, Zn and Cr were 0.36, 1.52, 1.76 and 36.9 mg l⁻¹, respectively. Four sublethal concentrations of each metal plus a control were prepared and the snails were exposed to experimental solutions for 96 h. Feeding behaviour was studied after the snails were starved for five days. As compared with the control, the number of individuals feeding was significantly reduced by exposure to 0.05 mg l⁻¹ Cu, 0.2 mg l⁻¹ Zn, 0.5 mg l⁻¹ Cd and 5 mg l⁻¹ Cr. The time spent feeding was greater for individuals exposed to greater concentrations of Zn and Cd but no effect was found for Cu and Cr. Chemoreception of food was studied by placing the snails at a fixed distance of 15 cm from the bait. The success rate of reaching the bait was less for individuals exposed to Cr but no effect was found for Zn, Cu or Cd. The time required for an individual to reach the bait decreased as the concentration of Zn increased. In contrast, a longer time was required for individuals exposed to Cr whereas the effect of Cd and Cu was insignificant. The potential of using feeding behaviour and chemoreception in contaminant evaluations is discussed.  相似文献   

Forecast of Tsunamis from the Japan–Kuril–Kamchatka Source Region     

Yoshiki Yamazaki  Yong Wei  Kwok Fai Cheung  George D. Curtis 《Natural Hazards》2006,38(3):411-435

This paper describes an investigation of the subfault distribution along the Japan–Kuril–Kamchatka subduction zone for the implementation of a far-field tsunami forecast algorithm. Analyses of seismic data from 1900 to 2000 define the subduction zone, which in turn is divided into 222 subfaults based on the fault characteristics. For unit slip of the subfaults, a linear long-wave model generates a database of mareograms at water-level stations along the subduction zone and at warning points in the North Pacific. When a tsunami occurs, an inverse algorithm determines the slip distribution from near-source water-level records and predicts the waveforms at the warning points using the pre-computed mareograms. A jackknife resampling scheme uses combinations of input water-level records to provide a series of waveform predictions for the computation of the confidence-interval bounds. The inverse algorithm is applied to hindcast two major tsunamis generated from the Japan–Kuril–Kamchatka source and the computed tsunami heights show good agreement with recorded water-level data.  相似文献   

At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters - by Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, and Ian Davis     

Norman Kin  -Wai Cheung 《The Geographical journal》2007,173(2):189-190

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Improving debris flow monitoring in Taiwan by using high-resolution rainfall products from QPESUMS   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：2  

Chien-Yuan Chen  Lee-Yao Lin  Fan-Chieh Yu  Ching-Sheng Lee  Chun-Chieh Tseng  An-Hsiang Wang  Kei-Wai Cheung 《Natural Hazards》2007,40(2):447-461

Debris flow is commonly initiated by torrential rain and its triggering is correlated to the hydrological, geological, and geomorphic conditions on site. In spite of the important effects of geology and topography, rainfall characteristic is the main external triggering factor to debris flow and is a predominant parameter for real-time monitoring. Due to the scarcity of sufficient spatial ground-based rainfall data in hill areas, quantitative precipitation estimation using remote-sensing techniques such as radar and satellite is needed for debris flow pre-warning. The QPESUMS (Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Segregation Using Multiple Sensors) system was acquired to retrieve spatial rainfall data during the rainfall period from June 30 to July 6 in 2004 when Typhoon Mindulle and southwesterly flow struck Taiwan. The retrieved data were used for setting up the debris flow monitoring algorithm. With the aid of multiple platforms of meteorological observations, a rainfall threshold isohyet in a pilot area was mapped for debris flow monitoring. The rainfall monitoring algorithm based on QPESUMS provides more detailed information than the limited number of ground-based rainfall stations for interpreting the spatial distributions of rainfall events, and therefore is more suitable for debris-flow monitoring.  相似文献   

Drawing metro maps in concentric circles: A designer-in-the-loop approach with visual examples     

Ho-Yin Chan  Yingying Xu  Anthony Chen  Xintao Liu  Kason Ka Ching Cheung 《Transactions in GIS》2023,27(3):703-729

This article presents a proof-of-concept designer-in-the-loop schematic map drawing tool, based on the marriage of two approaches—manual and automated, which provides the technical interactivity of drawing tools between the user and the computer. We focus on concentric circle maps as opposed to the commonly used orthogonal mode representation, which is suggested by previous studies that it could promote better network learning. In comparison with existing methods, the proposed method is more compatible with the framework of effective map design from psychological and aesthetic perspectives, and a range of options can be provided in conjunction with users' preferences. We evaluated our approach on a set of iterations with case studies of Hong Kong metro with a group of three co-authors from the fields of geography, transport engineering, and education.  相似文献   

Sensitivity analysis of climatic parameters for sky classification     

D. H. W. Li  H. L. Tang  K. L. Cheung  E. W. M. Lee  C. C. K. Cheng 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2011,105(3-4):297-309

Climatic variables are frequently used as weighting factors to indicate the degree of clearness for interpreting sky patterns. However, such important parameters are not always widely available and their criteria to define a sky condition are not clear-cut. In addition, certain variables may be more effective than the others in terms of sky identification. This paper studies the capability of various daylight parameters, namely zenith luminance, global, direct-beam and sky-diffuse illuminance, and solar altitude for categorizing the 15 International Commission on Illumination (CIE) standard skies. A new form of artificial neural networks called probabilistic neural network (PNN) which is a powerful technique for pattern recognition was used for the analysis. The findings suggested that the PNN is an appropriate tool when a number of climatic parameters of various criteria for differentiating sky standards are employed, and the ratio of zenith luminance to diffuse illuminance (L _z/D _v) and solar altitude (?? _s) are respectively the most and the least significant input parameters for discriminating between the 15 CIE skies.  相似文献   

Immune responses to combined effect of hypoxia and high temperature in the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis     

Wang Y  Hu M  Shin PK  Cheung SG 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,63(5-12):201-208

Flow cytometry was used to examine immune responses in haemocytes of the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis under six combinations of oxygen level (1.5 mg O2 l(-1), 6.0 mg O2 l(-1)) and temperature (20 °C, 25 °C and 30 °C) at 24 h, 48 h, 96 h and 168 h. The mussels were then transferred to normoxic condition (6.0 mg O2 l(-1)) at 20 °C for further 24 h to study their recovery from the combined hypoxic and temperature stress. Esterase (Est), reactive oxygen species (ROS), lysosome content (Lyso) and phagocytosis (Pha) were reduced at high temperatures, whereas hypoxia resulted in higher haemocyte mortality (HM) and reduced phagocytosis. For HM and Pha, changes were observed after being exposed to the stresses for 96 h, whereas only a 24 h period was required for ROS and Lyso, and a 48 h one for Est. Recovery from the stresses was observed for HM and Pha but not other immune responses.  相似文献