High density neighborhoods: Who enjoys them?     

Michal?MitranyEmail author 《GeoJournal》2005,64(2):131-140

To date, research into the subjective aspects of high density has focused mainly on the negative consequences of overcrowding. This study, in contrast, outlines some of the positive aspects of high density in neighborhoods, exploring the physical–spatial environment of two neighborhoods in the city of Haifa, Israel. It was found that while the relatively high residential density was similar in both neighborhoods (40 housing units per acre), this was more positively evaluated in one neighborhood as compared to the other. This can be attributed to some specific environmental and planning features. In particular, where physical planning enabled the potential advantages of high density to be realized, this was positively perceived and evaluated by local residents. Such advantages mainly comprised accessibility to a variety of services, more frequent public transportation, and access to open spaces within walking distance. Particularly advantageous were the increased opportunities for social gathering. At the same time, however, high density did not foster social relationships on the neighborhood level. The study further identified the gender and age groups that benefited most from the high density. Thus, women evaluated high density more positively than men. Young families with children and senior citizens (over 65) were also more likely to benefit, and to evaluate the high density environment more positively than other social groups.  相似文献   

SHEBA flux–profile relationships in the stable atmospheric boundary layer     

Andrey A. Grachev  Edgar L Andreas  Christopher W. Fairall  Peter S. Guest  P. Ola G. Persson 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2007,124(3):315-333

Measurements of atmospheric turbulence made during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean Experiment (SHEBA) are used to examine the profile stability functions of momentum, φ _m , and sensible heat, φ _h , in the stably stratified boundary layer over the Arctic pack ice. Turbulent fluxes and mean meteorological data that cover different surface conditions and a wide range of stability conditions were continuously measured and reported hourly at five levels on a 20-m main tower for 11 months. The comprehensive dataset collected during SHEBA allows studying φ _m and φ _h in detail and includes ample data for the very stable case. New parameterizations for φ _m (ζ) and φ _h (ζ) in stable conditions are proposed to describe the SHEBA data; these cover the entire range of the stability parameter ζ = z/L from neutral to very stable conditions, where L is the Obukhov length and z is the measurement height. In the limit of very strong stability, φ _m follows a ζ ^1/3 dependence, whereas φ _h initially increases with increasing ζ, reaches a maximum at ζ ≈ 10, and then tends to level off with increasing ζ. The effects of self-correlation, which occur in plots of φ _m and φ _h versus ζ, are reduced by using an independent bin-averaging method instead of conventional averaging.  相似文献   

山西北部沙棘群落优势种种间关系   总被引：8，自引：2，他引：8  

李晶  上官铁梁 《山地学报》2006,24(2):222-227

用X2检验、Jaccard关联指数及Pearson相关和Spearman秩相关系数对山西北部地区沙棘群落20个优势种群进行种间关系研究。结果表明:1)X2检验共有8个种对为显著正关联,2个种对为显著负关联;Pearson相关系数有10个种对为显著正相关,3个种对为显著负相关;Spearman秩相关系数有14个种对为显著正相关,7个种对为显著负相关。Spearman秩相关检验用于表征种间关联具有较高的灵敏度;2)草本层呈显著和极显著相关的种对最多,灌木与草本间呈显著和极显著相关的种对次之;3)灌木种群间均呈现负相关,表明沙棘群落尚处于动态演替之中。根据Spearman秩相关星座图,将20个优势种划分为4个生态种组,各生态种组内的种具有相似的生态适应性,而组间则表现出明显的差异性;灰栒子、小叶鼠李、灌木铁线莲对特殊生境有较强适应性,呈现独立分布格局。  相似文献   

Vegetation and climate change since 14,810 C yr B.P. in southeastern Uruguay and implications for the rise of early Formative societies     

José Iriarte 《Quaternary Research》2006,65(1):20-32

This article presents a combined pollen and phytolith record of a 1.70-m sediment core from the wetlands of India Muerta (33° 42′ S, 53° 57′ W) in the lowland Pampa (grasslands) of southeastern Uruguay. Six ¹⁴C dates and the pollen and phytolith content of the samples permitted the recognition of four distinct climatic periods between 14,850 ¹⁴C yr B.P. and the present. The Late Pleistocene period (between ca. 14,810 and ca. 10,000 ¹⁴C yr B.P.) was characterized by drier and cooler conditions indicated by the presence of a C3-dominated grassland. These conditions prevailed until the onset of the warmer and more humid climate of the Holocene around 9450 ¹⁴C yr B.P. The early Holocene (between around 10,000 and 6620 ¹⁴C yr B.P.) was characterized by the establishment of wetlands in the region as evidenced by the formation of black peat, the increase in wetland taxa, and the replacement of C3 Pooideae by C4 Panicoideae grasses. During the mid-Holocene, around 6620 ¹⁴C yr B.P., began a period of environmental change characterized by drier climatic conditions, which resulted in the expansion of halophytic communities in the flat, low-lying areas of the wetlands of India Muerta. About 4020 ¹⁴C yr B.P. a massive spike of Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae coupled with a radical drop in wetland species indicates another major and more severe period of dryness. After ca. 4000 ¹⁴C yr B.P., a decrease of halophytic species indicates the onset of more humid and stable climatic conditions, which characterized the late Holocene.The findings reported in this article substantially improve our knowledge of the late Glacial and Holocene climate and vegetation in the region. The data provide a detailed record of the timing and severity of mid-Holocene environmental changes in southeastern South America. Significantly, the mid-Holocene drying trend coincided with major organizational changes in settlement, subsistence, and technology of the pre-Hispanic populations in the region, which gave rise to early Formative societies. This study also represents the first combined pollen and phytolith record for southeastern South America reinforcing the utility of phytoliths as significant indicators of long-term grassland dynamics.  相似文献   

伊利石结晶度Kbler,Weaver和Weber指数关系式常数的确定与应用     

王河锦  陶晓风  Rahn Meinert 《高校地质学报》2007,(3)

根据衍射峰具有的不同分布特点推导出了14个伊利石结晶度Kbler指数,Weaver指数和Weber指数关系式中常数项C1-C14的数值,提出了PearsonVII分布中形态参数μ与C5,C6,C11,C12的4个定量方程。由此,14个伊利石结晶度指数关系式可直接用于实际计算。根据阿尔卑斯复理石伊利石形态特征Sc=0.731,由这些关系式进行近变质带上下界线的转换得出与Kbler指数0.42～0.25。△2θ界线对应的Weaver指数和Weber指数的界线值分别为5.8～17.6和300～179。讨论了在自然干燥状态下直接进行伊蒙混层鉴定的基本原理。  相似文献   

Pc3–4 ULF waves at polar latitudes     

V.A. Pilipenko  O.M. Chugunova  M.J. Engebretson 《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2008,70(18):2262-2274

A search for Pc3–4 wave activity was performed using data from a trans-Antarctic profile of search-coil magnetometers extending from the auroral zone through cusp latitudes and deep into the polar cap. Pc3–4 pulsations were found to be a ubiquitous element of ULF wave activity in all these regions. The diurnal variations of Pc3 and Pc4 pulsations at different latitudes have been statistically examined using discrimination between wave packets (pulsations) and noise. Daily variations of the Pc3–4 wave power differ for the stations at the polar cap, cusp, and auroral latitudes, which suggests the occurrence of several channels of propagation of upstream wave energy to the ground: via the equatorial magnetosphere, cusp, and lobe/mantle. An additional maximum of Pc3 pulsations during early-morning hours in the polar cap has been detected. This maximum, possibly, is due to the proximity of the geomagnetic field lines at these hours to the exterior cusp. The statistical relation between the occurrence of Pc3–4 pulsations and interplanetary parameters has been examined by analyzing normalized distributions of wave occurrence probability. The dependences of the occurrence probability of Pc3–4 pulsations on the IMF and solar wind parameters are nearly the same at all latitudes, but remarkably different for the Pc3 and Pc4 bands. We conclude that the mechanisms of high-latitude Pc3 and Pc4 pulsations are different: Pc3 waves are generated in the foreshock upstream of the quasi-parallel bow shock, whereas the source of the Pc4 activity is related to magnetospheric activity. Hourly Pc3 power has been found to be strongly dependent on the season: the power ratio between the polar summer and winter seasons is 8. The effect of substantial suppression of the Pc3 amplitudes during the polar night is reasonably well explained by the features of Alfven wave transmission through the ionosphere. Spectral analysis of the daily energy of Pc3 and Pc4 pulsations in the polar cap revealed the occurrence of several periodicities. Periodic modulations with periods 26, 13 and 8–9 days are caused by similar periodicities in the solar wind and IMF parameters, whereas the 18-day periodicity, observed during the polar winter only, is caused, probably, by modulation of the ionospheric conductance by atmospheric planetary waves. The occurrence of the narrow-band Pc3 waves in the polar cap is a challenge to modelers, because so far no band-pass filtering mechanism on open field lines has been identified.  相似文献   

Embodiment and sexuality in cross-cultural research     

Linda Malam 《The Australian geographer》2004,35(2):177-183

In this paper, I reflect on the impact that my embodiment and the sexed subject positions that I took up at various moments in the field had on my research on cross-cultural sexual encounters between Thai men and tourist women. I explore the negotiation of sexed subjectivity and positionality and the implications that these negotiations had for research ethics in the project. The issue of research ethics is bound up in the conceptualisation of power relationships between researcher and researched. Here I argue that power is not necessarily already distributed between researcher and researched; rather, that power can shift in different contexts.  相似文献   

3-D density model of the crust of southern and central Finland obtained from joint interpretation of the SVEKALAPKO crustal P-wave velocity models and gravity data   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

E. Kozlovskaya  S. Elo  S.-E. Hjelt  J. Yliniemi  M. Pirttijärvi  SVEKALAPKO Seismic Tomography Working Group 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,158(3):827-848

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Local relationships between the disturbing density, the disturbing potential and the disturbing gravity of the Earth's gravity field     

Z. L. Fei  M. G. Sideris 《Journal of Geodesy》1999,73(10):534-542

A function having some properties of a wavelet and being harmonic around a given point in R ³ is defined, and three models showing the local relationships between the disturbing density, the disturbing potential and the disturbing gravity are established by using the function as the kernel function of the integrals in the models. The local relationship has two meanings. One is that we can evaluate with a high accuracy the integrals in the models by using mainly high-accuracy and high-resolution data in a local area. The other is that we can obtain a stable solution with high resolution when we invert the integrals in the models because of the rapid decrease of the kernel function of the integrals. As a result, with these models we evaluate one quantity with high resolution, in a band limited by the maximum degree of a set of geopotential coefficients or by the resolution (spacing) of the local data, from another quantity (or quantities) in a local area, and the resulting solution is stable. Received: 6 April 1998 / Accepted: 16 June 1999  相似文献   

RADIAL GROWTH OF HUASHAN PINE AND ITS RESPONSE TO CLIMATE   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Shao Xuemei  Wu Xiangding 《地理学报(英文版)》1994,(Z2)

Intr0ducti0nltiswell-knownthattl1eannualringSoftreeprovideuniqueinformationfOrdeductionofpastclimaticchange.ProPertiesoftreeringrsuchaswooddensityandringwidthvaryinresPOnsetoclimaticc0nditionsthatlimittreegrowth[7,l4].ByunderstandingtherelationsllipsbetweentreegroWthandclimatevariables,PaStclimaticvariationscanbederivedfromtree-ringdata.InChina,mostdendroclimaticstudieshavebeenconductedonclimaicallyextremesites[l2,l8,l9].TreesgrOwingonsuchsiteshavestrongandstraightfO~relationshipswithclim…  相似文献