Macrobenthic communities in a sub-tropical man-made mudflat     

Cheung KL  Liu CC  Xu WZ  Chueng SG  Shin PK 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(6):1226-1230

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Copper toxicity in the marine copepod Tigropus japonicus: Low variability and high reproducibility of repeated acute and life-cycle tests     

Kevin W.H. Kwok  Kenneth M.Y. Leung  Vivien W.W. Bao  Jae-Seong Lee 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,57(6-12):632

The intertidal copeopod Tigriopus japonicus, which is abundant and widely distributed along the coasts of Western Pacific, has been suggested to be a good marine ecotoxicity testing organism. In this study, a series of experiments were conducted to investigate the reproducibility and variability of copper (Cu) sensitivity of T. japonicus so as to evaluate its potential to serve as an appropriate test species. To understand the seasonal variation of Cu sensitivity, individuals of T. japonicus were collected from the field in summer and winter, and subjected to standard 96 h acute (static renewal) toxicity tests. 96 h-LC50 values of T. japonicus collected from the two seasons were marginally different (p = 0.05), with an overall coefficient of variation (CV) of 33%. Most importantly, our results indicated that chronic Cu sensitivity of T. japonicus was highly reproducible. The CVs of intrinsic rates of increase in the population of the control and Cu treatment (10 μg Cu l⁻¹) groups were only 10–11% between 10 runs of a standardised complete life-cycle test. Moreover, different Cu(II) salts generally resulted in a similar 96 h-LC50 value while Cu(I) chloride was consistently slightly less toxic than Cu(II) salts. Given such a high reproducibility of toxic responses, it is advocated to use T. japonicus as a routine testing organism.  相似文献   

Effects of Animal Size on Concentrations of Metallothionein and Metals in Periwinkles Littorina littorea Collected from the Firth of Clyde, Scotland     

K. M. Y. Leung  R. W. Furness 《Marine pollution bulletin》1999,39(1-12):126-136

Different sizes of Littorina littorea were collected from four areas in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. Their metallothionein (MT) and heavy metal concentrations were analysed using the Silver Saturation Method and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, respectively. Concentrations of MT, Cd and Zn (as μg g⁻¹ dry soft-body weight) generally decreased with an increase in size of L. littorea. MT concentrations were better correlated with Cd than with Zn or Cu concentrations. Nevertheless, MT and the metals in periwinkles (as μg individual⁻¹) increased significantly with increasing size. Concentrations of MT and the metals among the sampling areas were compared at a standardised soft-body weight (10 mg). The results from Discriminant Analysis based on all metal concentrations indicate that Largs is different from the other areas and characterised by high Fe concentrations in L. littorea. The problems and differences in using either soft-body weight or shell length as independent variable for size-standardisation are discussed.  相似文献   

Low-angle radar tracking in a naval environment using aforward-backward nonlinear prediction method     

Lo  T. Leung  H. Litva  J. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》1994,19(3):468-475

A low-angle tracking technique based on a novel high-resolution algorithm is presented. The new high-resolution algorithm, which is called the forward-backward nonlinear prediction (FBNLP) method, replaces the linear predictor in the conventional forward-backward linear prediction (FBLP) method with a nonlinear one to try to improve the tracking in a realistic naval environment, Real radar tracking data over the sea, which were recorded with a 32-element sampled aperture antenna on an “over-water” path, were used in this study. They were recorded in a multipath environment, i.e., one where, in addition to the customary direct signal, an indirect signal was also received by the antenna system, and separation of these two signals was less than one standard beamwidth. The performance of the FBNLP method is shown to be better than that of the modified FBLP algorithm for the data sets used in this paper  相似文献   

Thermal periodicities in the Venus atmosphere     

Jerome Apt  Johnny Leung 《Icarus》1982,49(3):427-437

A search was made for periodic fluctuations in the thermal brightness temperatures recorded by the Pioneer Venus orbiter's infrared radiometer. Data were averaged in 10 × 10° latitude-longitude bins for each of the 72 days the instrument was in operation. This time series of thermal brightness temperatures was then analyzed to determine the amplitude of fluctuations at periods from 2 to 64 days at four levels in the atmosphere (at the cloud tops and at approximately 70, 80, and 90 km). The amplitude of such fluctuations is small at equatorial latitudes and increases to a maximum at 60–70° latitude at most altitudes. The period of the highest amplitude fluctuation is 5.3±0.4 days (at all altitudes) except at 70–80°, where a 2.9-day period which appears to correspond to the polar dipole dominates the cloud-top channel. The amplitude of the periodic fluctuations is a maximum at the cloud tops, decreasing to a minimum at the 80-km channel, and increasing again at the 90-km channel.  相似文献   

The photometric solution of W UMa-type star BW draconis     

Hong-Nan Zhou  Kam-Ching Leung 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1988,148(2):289-295

The photometric solutions of W UMa-type binary BW Dra have been determined by applying the Wilson and Devinney Code toUBV observations of Rucinski and Kaluzny.It is shown that BW Dra is corresponding to a system with an overcontact configuration and smaller mass ratioq=0.392 andUBV light curves give the converging solutions with non-zero third light.It is proved that the components of BW Dra are older stars (the spectral types are G0 and G3, respectively). They could come into contact later stage of evolution. The photometric solution is similar to the results of Kaluzny and Rucinski. According to the photometric solution and spectroscopic results of Batten and Lu, the absolute parameters are presented too.  相似文献   

Response of pile groups subjected to lateral loads     

C. F. Leung  Y. K. Chow 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》1987,11(3):307-314

An approach is presented for the prediction of linear and nonlinear load–deformation behaviour of laterally loaded pile groups. The individual pile response is obtained by the conventional p–y curve technique, while group interaction is modelled using the Mindlin's solution. Good agreement is observed when comparing the present method of analysis with the commonly used interaction factor approach for the computation of response of pile groups embedded in a homogenous, isotropic elastic half-space. The predicted pile group behaviour also compares favourably with existing field data on laterally loaded pile groups in soft clay.  相似文献   

Petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in tissues of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins from south China waters     

Leung CC  Jefferson TA  Hung SK  Zheng GJ  Yeung LW  Richardson BJ  Lam PK 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,50(12):33-1719

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Uncertainty and feasibility of dynamical downscaling for modeling tropical cyclones for storm surge simulation     

Zhaoqing Yang  Sourav Taraphdar  Taiping Wang  L. Ruby Leung  Molly Grear 《Natural Hazards》2016,81(2):1161-1175

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Čerenkov radiation in anisotropic plasmas     

P. C. W. Fung  P. L. Leung 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1989,153(2):229-251

Following our series of works on anisotropic radiation, we analyze the erenkov condition in magnetized plasmas in this paper. We have discovered that the usual erenkov condition cos =1/n isnot satisfied at a far field point in anisotropic media, implying that when a charge is moving in a magnetized plasma, a linear shock wave front does not form. Thus we can calculate the power received at a far field per unit time in such a medium — this quantity could not be evaluated according to previous theory. Numerical examples are presented to show various relevant characteristics of erenkov radiation in model plasmas.  相似文献