Ecological Environment Based on the Expo Architectural Design Project
Tao Shen, Yukari Nagai, Xin Chen
Issue: 106, Pages: 1-9, Article No: e106005, Year: 2018
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In order to realize the perfect combination of ecological environment and exposition building design, SWAT model is used to simulate the runoff and non-point source pollution of eco-wetland park in this experiment. The causes of the emergence of a large number of wetland parks in China’s current social construction environment are analyzed, and the basic composition of their functional framework is summarized. The results show that the SWAT model is basically good in runoff simulation of eco-wetland park, which can provide a reliable model basis for non-point source pollution simulation. Combined with the actual data of quality of imported and exported water in 2017, the degradation capacity of nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants can be calculated. Through the above discussion, analysis and summary of the characteristics and development trend of the eco-wetland-type exhibition building, theoretical research is used to guide the architectural design, to meet its comprehensive function of ecological protection and give full play to the important role of this new type of exhibition building in the urban and wetland environment.
Keywords: wetland, Expo building, coordination, ecotype, SWAT model
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Yuzhou Luo, Zhaoyan Hu, Ruiyi Gong, Kaijun Yu
Issue: 106, Pages: 11-15, Article No: e106001, Year: 2018
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Along with the civilization, people start to pay attention to the maintenance of the quality of life. The changing population age distribution stresses on improving humans’ quality of life through good interaction between people and society. The degree of urbanization is accelerating along with the changing era. Since medical resources are easily concentrated on areas with highly socioeconomic development and dense population, areas with low socioeconomic development are often lack of medical resources. Such unfair medical resource allocation would further influence the health of residents in such areas with inadequate medical resources. The public statistics provided by Shanghai Municipal Government are the sample sources for this study. According to the degree of urbanization and the medical expenditure in various areas announced by the government, the research results are concluded as followings. 1. Degree of urbanization presents significantly positive effects on “general administrative expenditure” in medical expenditure. 2. Degree of urbanization shows remarkably positive effects on “public health expenditure” in medical expenditure. 3. Degree of urbanization reveals notably positive effects on “personal medical expenditure” in medical expenditure. 4. Degree of urbanization appears significantly positive effects on “medical supplies expenditure” in medical expenditure. According to the results, suggestions are proposed to establish reasonable systems and improve medical resource allocation to diminish health inequalities as well as provide important directions for improving medical expenditure policies.
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Correlation Studies on Corporate Governance, Financial Structure, and Merger and Acquisition Premium in Ecological Enterprises
Yuheng Zhao, Joaquín López Pascual
Issue: 106, Pages: 17-23, Article No: e106073, Year: 2018
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Under the competitive era nowadays, mergers and acquisitions become frequent among enterprises globally. Enterprises start to expand the market size with mergers and acquisitions. Although mergers and acquisitions could help enterprises develop the synergy, enhance the adjustment according to the environment, and accelerate the business transformation, acquirers have to pay a large sum for it. An ecological enterprise overpaying for mergers and acquisitions might result in the acquirer hard to recovering the costs and cause merger and acquisition failure. Chinese ecological enterprises’ mergers and acquisitions of European ecological enterprises with equity transfer and assets agreement in 2012-2016 are selected as the initial samples in this study. The research results show 1. partially significant correlations between corporate governance and financial structure, 2. remarkable correlations between financial structure and merger and acquisition premium, and 3. notable correlations between corporate governance and merger and acquisition premium. Suggestions, according to the results, are eventually proposed, expecting to further help ecological enterprises, through factors, be close to the practical market for successful mergers and acquisitions.
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A DEA-Based Performance Evaluation of Ecological Land Development of Cities
Youn-Jien Lin, Sung-Lin Hsueh, Han-Yi Chen
Issue: 106, Pages: 25-30, Article No: e106002, Year: 2018
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Because of population clustering, the density of land use continues to increase in cities, which will drive up property prices and worsen the quality of living environments. Because of its natural environment, ecological land can provide a better environment for living and/or leisure. Moreover, with people paying more attention to leisure activities and more convenient urban-rural traffic, the development of ecological land has become an inevitable trend. In this study, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method is used to evaluate the ecological land development efficiency of nine cities (DMUs) in Fujian Province, mainland China. According to the analysis results, it is found that one DMU is a robustly strong unit in terms of the ecological land development, three DMUs are marginal inefficient units, and the remaining five DMUs are significantly inefficient units. Moreover, through the sensitivity analysis, key influence factors of ecological land development in the city are analyzed and found. By conducting the DEA analysis with the exclusion of the input and output factors, the sensitivity of each factor to the efficiency value is measured. Based on the analysis results, suggestions are made in this study in the hope of providing helpful references for reasonable land development and sustainable development of the environment in the city.
Keywords: urban ecology, ecological land, eco-management, performance evaluation
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An Empirical Research Based on STIRPAT Model: CO2 Emission Accounting and Influencing Factors of China’s Macro Infrastructure Life Cycle
Feiyu Chen, Weining Yang
Issue: 106, Pages: 31-45, Article No: e106012, Year: 2018
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With the development of modernization and industrialization in China, the infrastructure energy consumption increases, which shows the process of modernization in our country. Despite there are a lot of researches about the energy consumption in the field of construction, transportation and other infrastructure, in academia, there are less statistics about energy consumption for the infrastructure as a whole in the life cycle, and its proportion in total energy consumption in the whole country. Thus, this paper tries to characterize infrastructures of China, which include construction, transportation, energy, water supply and drainage, post and telecommunications communication system by establishing an estimation model of infrastructure system CO2 emissions in the life cycle through national official macro-level statistical data. The results show that CO2 emissions from the infrastructure have rapidly grown over the past decades. And based on the extension of STIRPAT model framework, we make an empirical analysis of the important factors on China’s macro infrastructure systematic CO2 emissions from the population, urbanization level, residents’ consumption level, the third industry development, and investment in fixed assets using dynamic panel data. Results show that in the above factors, the contribution rate of infrastructure investment is the highest, followed by family size, 30.9% and 22.6%, respectively, and the urbanization rate is the highest in the elasticity of all the factors affect the carbon emissions, whenever the urbanization rate increases by 1%, the macro infrastructure carbon emissions increase 1.624. In this paper, from the perspective of the overall environmental benefits, we provide a more comprehensive environmental assessment analysis method for the policy makers. And the infrastructure construction of China has periodic characteristic. We analyze the specific features of the infrastructure CO2 emissions in the life cycle, and put forward emission-reduction measures in consideration of the current conditions. In addition, the method of building the model of infrastructure CO2 emissions in the operation stage development is also important for future quantifications of CO2 emissions of other sectors in China and beyond.
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A Comprehensive Environment Modeling for Groundwater Flow for Assessing the Impact of Tunneling Works on Metro Rail Corridor in the Area of Chennai (India)
R. Lilly, G. Ravikumar
Issue: 106, Pages: 47-53, Article No: e106041, Year: 2018
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This paper presents the impact assessment of the tunneling works on aquifer’s hydrogeology in the area of Chennai metro rail corridor using groundwater numerical model (MODFLOW3D). The comprehensive environment model is used to estimate the groundwater flow system and the groundwater levels in the study area, during the tunneling period. The comprehensive environment modeling period was selected from 1995 to 2016. According to the available data and the project phasing. Three scenarios are chosen according to the time schedule of the progress of the tunneling work. The comprehensive environment model was calibrated, validated and predicted for the change in the rate and direction of movement of ground water before and after the construction of underground tunnel sections. The comprehensive environment model shows increase and decrease of water levels in the observation wells of the study area due to the obstruction created in the ground water flow regime.
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Issue: 106, Pages: 55-61, Article No: e106017, Year: 2018
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The deficiency of legalization of Deliberative Democracy restricts its further development, and it needs learning from experiences of other legislations. In fact, environmental protection, as the earliest and the most dynamic area of practices of Deliberative Democracy, has great progress in the legislation of public participation, with development in legal principles, contents and procedural guarantee. It can be examples for the other areas of Deliberative Democracy.
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Issue: 106, Pages: 63-69, Article No: e106011, Year: 2018
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Cytospora canker is a serious fungal disease attacking many types of fruit and ornamental trees in urban parks and gardens. This factor is important when it comes to identifying the disease, as well as to studying its distribution and determining the best methods for its control. The purpose of this article is to define the species composition, host plants, seasonal dynamics of Cytospora cankers on tree plants in major cities of Central and Northern Kazakhstan (Karaganda, Astana and Pavlodar). 5 Cytospora species were recorded on leaves and bark of the examined trees during the research: Cytospora leucosperma (Pers.) Fr. on Betula pendula L., Cytospora microspora (Corda) Rabenh. on Crataegus sanguinea Pall., Cytospora salicis on Salix fragilis L., Cytospora salicis (Cda.) Rad. on Populus nigra L. and Cytospora pseudoplatani Sacc. on Acer negundo L. Cytospora species development turned to be dependent on the amount of precipitations and was slightly affected by temperature. Cytospora salicis (Сda.) Rad on Populus nigra L. and Cytospora leucosperma (Pers.) Fr on Betula pendula L. were new species for Kazakhstan. Cytospora salicis (Cda.) Rad, that parasitizes on the Populus nigra L. appeared the most hazardous specie.
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A Study on Leisure Participation and Environmental Perception of Ecotourism towards Well-Being
Anxin Xu, Qiujin Zheng, Rongrong Zhao, Jingjing Wu, Manhua Zheng
Issue: 106, Pages: 71-77, Article No: e106007, Year: 2018
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Along with increasing national income and enhancing living standard, the changes of lifestyles also enhance the citizens’ emphasis on leisure activity. In face of the increasing demands for leisure and travel, people have to maintain good physical and mental conditions in the busy and diverse life. Leisure allows people escaping from environmental perception or surpassing selfhood in leisure to develop self-creativity and satisfy the sense of achievement and performance at work. Leisure and travel therefore become the primary elements in life. Aiming at visitors to Yongchun Niumulin Ecological Tourism Zone in Fujian Province, 380 copies of questionnaire are distributed with random sampling, and 262 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 69%. The retrieved data analysis is preceded with statistics software. The research results conclude significantly positive correlations between 1.environmental perception and leisure participation, 2.environmental perception and well-being, and 3.leisure participation and well-being. According to the results, suggestions are proposed in this study, expecting to grasp the future trend of domestic ecotourism and propose suggestions for the modification of ecotourism policies to create larger economic benefits.
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Qingying Duan, Mancang Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 79-85, Article No: e106008, Year: 2018
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The rapid development of global economy enhances national income and consumption capacity in various countries. Under the improvement of living conditions, the citizens’ leisure time is gradually increased to popularize leisure awareness and enhance the trend of tourism. Annually increasing traveling population results in economic benefits but heavy burden on the environment. Ecotourism integrates the mission to the natural environment and the management for social morality and positively develops the identity to such an idea to visitors. The issue of environmental education should allow the public directly contacting with the nature to better cultivate the environment attitudes and enhance the environmental management than having lectures in classrooms. Visitors of ecotourism in Fujian Province, as the research object, are distributed 360 copies of questionnaire. Total 232 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 64%. The research results show remarkably positive effects of 1.environmental management on place attachment, 2.place attachment on ecotourism cognition, and 3.environmental management on ecotourism cognition. Finally, suggestions are proposed according to the results, expecting to enhance local industry and develop ecotourism, provide visitors with quality recreation space, create quality ecotourism, and enhance existing facilities to promote the facility safety and comfort.
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Investigating the Performance of Indoor Environment and Energy Management Implementation System in Office Building
Siti Halipah Ibrahim, F. Julaihi, Azhaili Baharun, D. R. Koesmeri, Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi
Issue: 106, Pages: 87-94, Article No: e106044, Year: 2018
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One of the fastest growing trends in the field of innovations is energy efficiency. This area can contribute to the sustainability development of the country by reducing the energy intensity of the economy. Energy and environment plays a key role in achieving the desired economic growth for the country. Worldwide industries use 40 percent energy for material and consumption protection to fulfil human needs. One of the approach in order to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases to the environment is by conserving energy. This could be executed by implementing energy management especially in office buildings. Energy management can also increase the efficiency of energy in the building. This study focus on the performance indoor environment and energy management system implementation in office building. Energy management is one of the contemporary challenges, thus study adopts an exploratory approach by using a tool developed by UNIDO called EnMS or Energy Management System. Findings show that by implementing indoor environment and energy management can reduce electricity consumption up to 30%. However, the awareness on energy management in Malaysia is still very low. The lack of awareness towards energy conservation among users can be enhanced by implementing indoor environment and energy management. Therefore, serious initiatives by the organization are needed to promote the effectiveness of indoor environment and energy management.
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En-Hong Dong, Hua-Li Liu, Hong-Mei Tang, Hao Zhang, Tao Wang, Zhi-Wang Qian
Issue: 106, Pages: 95-101, Article No: e106009, Year: 2018
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To analyze stroke patients’ and the caregivers’ satisfaction with environmental management as well as the mutual influence mechanism. General hospitals and community medical institutions in Shanghai City were randomly sampled 600 pairs of stroke inpatients and the caregivers for the questionnaire survey during January – June, 2016, and 575 pairs were eventually received. The “Actor-Partner Interdependence” model (APIM) was constructed to study the mutual influence of two interdependence variables on the satisfaction with environmental management. Patients’ age and caregivers’ education level showed significant effects on patients’ and the caregivers’ satisfaction with environmental management (influence coefficients β=-0.10 and β=0.08, respectively). In other words, the higher patients’ age and the lower caregivers’ education level revealed the lower satisfaction with environmental management. Patients’ self-care degree at admission presented remarkably positive effects on their and the caregivers’ satisfaction with environmental management (influence coefficients β=0.11 and β=0.07, respectively). In other words, the higher patients’ self-care at admission would enhance the satisfaction with environmental management and caregivers’ satisfaction with environmental management. Besides, the influence coefficient of the former was higher than it of the latter (β=0.11>β=0.07). Patients’ length of stays merely appeared notably negative effects on the satisfaction with environmental management (influence coefficient β=-0.02). Both patients’ and the caregivers’ satisfaction with inpatient service showed significantly negative effects on the satisfaction with environmental management (β=-0.33 and β=-0.16, respectively). In this case, the higher patients’ and the caregivers’ satisfaction with inpatient service appeared the higher satisfaction with environmental management. Besides, the influence coefficient of the former is higher than it of the latter (β=0.33>β=0.16). Medical staff and health decision makers could apply correspondent measures, enhance individual satisfaction with inpatient service by taking the combination of individual characteristics and disease characteristics of the two into account, and eventually promote stroke patients’ satisfaction with environmental management.
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Growth Inhibition of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopercisi, the Causal Agent of Tomato Fusarium Wilt Disease by Nanoformulations Containing Talaromyces Flavus
Laleh Naraghi, Maryam Negahban, Asghar Heydari, Mohammad Razavi, Homayoun Afshari-Azad
Issue: 106, Pages: 103-112, Article No: e106006, Year: 2018
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Remarkable researches in Iran have shown the importance of the Talaromyces flavus antagonist fungus to inhibit the growth of some of the important plant pathogens such as Rhizoctonia solani, Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum. According to the results obtained from the previous researches, the commercialization of the bioformulations of this fungus is of particular importance. Since the marketing is considered to be important factor in order to commercialization, consideration of the type of bioformulation with easy application can greatly affect the attraction of relevant consumers and a successful marketing. Therefore, regarding the recent advances in the application of nanotechnology in different sciences, it seems necessary to study different nanoformulations of the mentioned biological agents with an emphasis on the ease of application and their efficacy in biological control of plant diseases. In this study, the preparation of nanoformulations including two types of nanocapsules (F1 and F3), a nano-emulsion (F2) and a powder form (F4) from T. flavus fungus was carried out. Three months after production, experimental evaluations of the effect of different nanoformulations and the formulation prepared based on former technical knowledge (rice bran and T. flavus) on sporulation, active population and efficiency in inhibiting colony growth of some important terrigenous disease agents including Verticillium dahliae, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp lycopersici and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp cucumerinum in a completely randomized design were conducted. These evaluations began three months after the production of nanoformulations and continued at intervals of three months for six months after production.
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N80 Oil Tube Steel Corrosion Behavior in Different CO2 Saturated Brine
Yun Ma, Qingbo Zhang, Haitao Bai
Issue: 106, Pages: 113-121, Article No: e106019, Year: 2018
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The experiment was carried out to illustrate the corrosion behavior of N80 exposed to CO2-saturated brine conditions through electrochemical experiments, corrosion mass loss methods and surface analysis. With the increase of the CO2 pressures and temperatures, the corrosion product films were gradually thicken but non-uniform. The corrosion products on the sample surface were crystalline and/or amorphous structures, mainly composed of FeCO3. With the increase of CO2 pressures at 50 °C, the corrosion rate would gradually experience three stages, and when the CO2 pressure was 2MPa, the corrosion rate was up to the maximum value and the surface of sample had the characteristics of pit erosion and mesa corrosion. With the rise of temperatures at 10 MPa, the corrosion rates of N80 pipeline steel increased slowly from 65°C to 80°C because of the thicker corrosion products, but the pitting corrosion increased because the FeCO3 and CaCO3 would be amorphous structures.
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A Study on the Correlation between Healthcare’s Ecology Utilization and National Health Condition
Yuzhuo Luo, Zhaoyan Hu, Kaijun Yu
Issue: 106, Pages: 123-128, Article No: e106003, Year: 2018
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The development of economy, the enhancement of national income, the improvement of environmental health, and the richness of nutrition acquisition have improved national health conditions. Since national health conditions are related to national development of economy, healthcare’s ecology utilization is a key investment in national health. Personal health could be maintained or enhanced through healthcare’s ecology utilization to further promote labor productivity and national competitiveness. Aiming at aged population in Shanghai, the elderly aged above 60 in Shanghai are proceeded the comprehensive survey, including elderly health and medical care, family and social support, work, economy, and psychological leisure. The research results conclude significantly positive effects of 1.predisposing component on health condition, 2.enabling component on health condition, and 3.need component on health condition. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to find out the factors in elderly health and healthcare’s ecology utilization for the reference of the government making elderly health care or welfare measures.
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Kuan‑Hung Chen, Hui-Ming Kuo, Jau-Shyong Wang, Tung-Ju Wu
Issue: 106, Pages: 129-134, Article No: e106036, Year: 2018
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In the era oriented by knowledge-based economy, the enhancement of large electronic information flowing speed is an important part in the promotion of knowledge-based economic society. By observing the development history of the Internet and high-tech industry, the development of industrial ecology apparently presents recession and then recovery and gets into growth. The emergence, growth, recession, and recovery time for high-tech industry is short, and high-tech industry is still regarded as the future star industry regionally or internationally. To deeply discuss the industrial ecology evolution and business vitality in the period, the academic research and practical application present proper conditions and research value. High-tech industry statistical data provided by Fujian Provincial Government are utilized in this study for secondary data analyses. The research results show significant correlations between 1.ecology evolution and regeneration capacity and 2.business strategy and regeneration capacity. Finally, suggestions are proposed according to the results, expecting to clarify the factors in constructing the regeneration capacity of a business and provide high-tech industry with reference for adjusting the business strategy when encountering industrial ecology changes.
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Issue: 106, Pages: 135-140, Article No: e106151, Year: 2018
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The relevance of the study is in the fact that the formation of lifestyles based on ecological values and their practical implementation in everyday affairs, is now an urgent task for all countries of the world. The formation of an ecologically-oriented lifestyle of the population is becoming not just desirable one, but absolutely necessary ecological imperatives of modern society. The purpose of the article by the authors’ opinion is analyzing social advertising videos in the context of the relevance of the problems revealed in them by Russian society and comparing these data with statistical and sociological research data, including global ones, as well as with expert opinions. The main method of the author’s sociological research is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of social advertising videos (the volume of the sample totality is 46 units). The study conducted made it possible to draw a conclusion about the clearly insufficient level of activity of social advertising in the promotion of ecological values in Russian society, which manifests itself in a small number of such videos, the narrowness of the coverage of the existing ecological problems of society, and in their low quality. The effectiveness of social advertising is enhanced if it reflects regional and local ecological problems. As measures contributing to the intensification of social advertising in creating Russians’ ecologically-oriented lifestyle, the article proposed to develop not only public but also non-commercial social advertising, which could, in particular, be contributed by various contests and other events of a similar nature.
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A Comparative Study on the Exterior Qualities of Blue Brick in Traditional Residences Based on Material Testing
Yansong Wang, Xue Liu
Issue: 106, Pages: 141-147, Article No: e106013, Year: 2018
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Jinxi County in Jiangxi Province and Yangxin County in Hubei Province enjoy similar physical geographic conditions, and boast existing traditional residences that primarily date back to the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, the structures’ external wall material primarily uses blue brick. However, the exterior quality of the blue brick used for traditional residences in both areas have distinct differences. By conducting electronic micro-analysis and x-ray diffraction analysis testing of samples of blue brick from both sites, comparative analysis of the differences in the blue bricks’ elemental composition and microstructure was carried out. The results showed that the samples have differences in fusion degree of the microstructure of crystalline grain, uniformity degree of the distribution of various element content, and contents of TiO2 and Ca0, leading discrepancies in the degree of smoothness of the surface, the uniformity of color, and the variation in color of the blue brick.
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Effects and Drawbacks of Environmental Impact Assessment in Avoiding NIMBY
Dimin Zhu
Issue: 106, Pages: 149-154, Article No: e106014, Year: 2018
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With the development of urbanization, a number of public service facilities are needed to meet the demand of urban residents’ livelihood. However, some of these facilities, such as kitchen waste treatment station and waste incineration power plant, can cause negative effects on the surrounding environment, and harm the health of the residents. Therefore, resistance and conflicts are generated during the establishment of these public facilities between the surrounding residents and local authorities. Based on several NIMBY cases (Xi’erqi kitchen waste treatment station, Taiyuan waste incineration power plant and the Keystone XL pipeline) this paper focus on the effects and relevant issues of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in avoiding “Not in my back yard” (NIMBY). Through analyzing the causes, process of environmental NIMBY conflicts and the measures taken by the local government, we found that EIA can promote the freedom of the project related information and public participation. By this way, local authority can safe guard the legal rights of citizens, maintain the justness and promote higher scientific level of planning during the construction of polluting NIMBY facilities. However, the EIA system in China is not yet mature, there still exist several issues in the practice: the low level of public participation, the low citizen confidence in government, the weak system and standards, and the technical imperfections. The drawbacks above that EIA can offer against NIMBY have attenuated greatly. In this paper, we put forward some suggestions to perfecting EIA system in avoiding NIMBY: increase government supervision over the work of information disclosure, improve the effectiveness of public participation, perfect the laws and institutions system, advance the research of the relevant technologies, and establish the demonstrating project.
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Factors Affecting Job Characteristics on Emotional Labor toward Work Adjustment in Environmental Protection Industry: An Empirical Study
Kuang-Chin Chen, Yu-Jing Chiu
Issue: 106, Pages: 155-161, Article No: e106031, Year: 2018
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The introduction, development, maintenance, or promotion of technologies in Environmental protection industry depend on “talents”, who are the asset not being copied by competitors. The importance of “talents” for Environmental protection industry is apparent. Environmental protection industry should realize that the more industries depending on professional knowledge and technologies should emphasize more on internal employees, as those with professional competence are the source of core competitiveness of an enterprise. It shows the important role of employees in Environmental protection industry. Different job characteristics would generally result in distinct emotional labor and work adjustment; meanwhile, long-term emotional labor would result in work adjustment that the relations among job characteristics, emotional labor, and work adjustment of employees in Environmental protection industry have become a primary issue in human resource management. Research subject on Environmental protection industry is rare that this study intends to research the correlation among job characteristics, emotional labor, and work adjustment in Environmental protection industry. With questionnaire survey, the retrieved copies are analyzed with statistics. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to provide reference for managers of Environmental protection industry making human resource management strategies and for researchers on the successive research.
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Research on the Development Environment of the Extraction Enterprises of Sweet Osmanthus Essential Oil
Wang Shaoguang, Feng Xi, Li Genchang
Issue: 106, Pages: 163-171, Article No: e106015, Year: 2018
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With the trend of consumption upgrade becoming increasingly obvious, the demand for high-end consumer goods has shown explosive growth. As Osmanthus fragrans product industry, we should not only keep the traditional advantages, such as ecology, catering and tourism, but also constantly expand new development space, such as osmanthus essential oil in Osmanthus fragrans products. Osmanthus fragrans essential oil as an important raw material for high-grade cosmetics, the development process is quite long, and the results are late. How to adapt to the current market environment and seize the market opportunities is a strategic issue that must be attached great importance to in the future development of Osmanthus fragrans essential oil production enterprises. From this point of view, this paper studies the development environment of Osmanthus fragrans essential oil production enterprises, hoping to provide theoretical and practical basis for the development of related enterprises, and also provide certain information for relevant researchers.
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Long-term Energy Sustainability Development Analysis to Reducing Carbon Emissions and Air Pollutions of China Based on LEAP Simulation Model
Jianjun Wang, Cai Hua, Li Li
Issue: 106, Pages: 173-179, Article No: e106053, Year: 2018
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The energy demand of China is gradually increasing with the rapid economic development, according to the new low-carbon energy development strategy, China will enhance the renewable energy proportion and reduce the fossil energy, the energy demand forecasting has the important significance for the future energy development planning of China. This study built an energy forecasting model based on the Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) computer software in order to analyze the future energy development of China. The LEAP model was used to estimate the total energy demand, electricity demand and the energy demand structure by 2030 of four sectors of industries in BAU, BAL and BAH three different scenarios. As the forecasting results shown, the energy demand will reach 4,800-5100 Mtce in 2020 and 5,300-5,700 Mtce in 2030, and although the coal will dominate the energy, it will peak by 2030, the renewable energy will enhance its proportion in the energy structure, especially the wind and solar energy. The electricity will increasing stably increase near 10,000 Billion kWh by 2030. The prime objective was to give some reference of the long-term energy development planning policy, which help reducing the carbon emissions and air pollution to the environment.
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Ziba Talaeizadeh, Mozhgan Zaeimdar, Morteza Kashefi Alasl, Reza Marandi, Seyed Ali Jozi
Issue: 106, Pages: 181-192, Article No: e106047, Year: 2018
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Air pollution is considered as a destructive toxin of the nerves and ecosystems. Many schools are located in high-traffic streets in Tehran metropolitan, Iran. This study aimed at determining air pollution critical areas and impacts of this pollution on ecosystem and mental function of children at sensitive period of brain development. This was a descriptive-applied research in terms of methodology. According to data obtained from 22 stations for air quality monitoring in Tehran and average annual concentration of AQI pollutants, Tehran air pollution zoning has done in 2017 using Spline interpolation method through Arc GIS-10 and map of critical and healthy areas was drawn. Second step was undertaken using Wechsler test for 90 female students at age of 8-10 living in two areas. In the first area, air pollution was critical and the second area had a healthy air. Cognitive and depression disorders scored based on Wechsler and N-Back tests, respectively. Personal health indices obtained from health record of students to analyse their relation with cognitive disorder using ANOVA tests. Regions 22 and 20 were the most healthy and polluted areas, respectively. Girl children had different verbal, functional and general intelligence in these areas; there was a significant relationship between pollution or cleanness of each area and children’s IQ. In addition, there was a direct and significant relation between air pollution and ecological effects. Thus, required actions should be taken to prevent the pollution of air and the impairment complications in cognitive functions.
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Issues of Industrial Production Environmental Safety in Modern Economy
Alena N. Dyrdonova, Alexey I. Shinkevich, Farida F. Galimulina, Tatyana V. Malysheva, Irina A. Zaraychenko, Vladimir I. Petrov, Marina V. Shinkevich
Issue: 106, Pages: 193-201, Article No: e106152, Year: 2018
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The modern world is characterized by the problem high urgency of production ecological safety and reducing the anthropogenic influence on the natural environment. Aggravation of the environmental situation and increasing ecological requirements to the entities of the economy has led to the strengthening of environmental functions. The economic mechanism of environmental sustainability is expressed through the greening of production. Environmental safety is based on the concept of sustainable development. Actual and perspective trend in this case is the achievement of competitive superiority, increase of business efficiency at the expense of achievement of productions’ ecological stability, growth of investments in innovative development of the industry and formation of the new companies. The goal of the article is to study the peculiarities of the process of industries’ greening and the assessment of the expenditures’ level for environmental purposes, depending on the degree of market orientation and financial sustainability of petrochemical plants. The leading method for the study of this problem is the method of system economic analysis, which allows identifying the essence, patterns, and trends in the processes of production greening. An economic approach to the concept of sustainable development using the Hicks-Lindahl theory of total income is considered. Five principal factors of process of greening of industrial production are allocated. The conceptual model of monitoring of indicators’ system allowing to diagnose technical parameters’ change of production’s greening and to estimate economic effect in the cost – effect dimension is offered. The materials of the study are of scientific and practical value in the design of environmental management system, the development of financial policy of environmental investment, the formation of environmental legislation, and ecological certification of production.
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“DEPSIR-LM” Model-based Study on Shaping of the Eco-security Pattern for Biodiversity — A Case Study of Guangzhou
Ya-Nan Xiang, Huang-Gen Gao, He Huang, Bo Yue, Dan Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 203-216, Article No: e106016, Year: 2018
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High-intensity human socio-economic activities pose a great threat to the ecological environment, thus resulting in the decline of biodiversity in ecologically fragile areas and serious problems over regional eco-security. The regional scale provides a reasonable spatial context for exploring the eco-security of mega-cities or metropolitan areas. However, the existing research lacks a comprehensive understanding of the influencing factors for biodiversity at a regional scale. Therefore, the study on landscape ecological planning represented by the theory of eco-security patterns has become increasingly significant. In this study, the “DPSIR-LM” model at a regional scale is adopted to analyze the positive and negative factors that affect the eco-security of Guangzhou’s biodiversity, and obtain the spatial differentiation result of the eco-security assessment on Guangzhou’s biodiversity. In terms of the conservation of Guangzhou’s biodiversity, an innovative approach is taken to integrate ecological assessment into the construction of the eco-security pattern, so as to propose a novel method to construct the eco-security pattern. First, a holistic study on the urban eco-security pattern is conducted and the eco-security pattern of Guangzhou’s biodiversity is established from the perspectives of government decision-making, socio-economic indicators and data, as well as the science and technology level. Then, the main geographical distribution and its causes are further analyzed to provide a corresponding protection strategy for each security pattern, contributing to the ecological space planning of Guangzhou’s biodiversity conservation. The “DPSIR-LM” model given in this paper enhances the assessment of the positive and negative influences on biodiversity by quantifying the inner differences of the region, and it is more accurate and scientific in source selection, resistance evaluation and result optimization for the pattern construction. The research provides a valuable reference for the study and construction of eco-security patterns at a regional scale.
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Critical Success Factors of the Urban Environmental Quality
Sung-Lin Hsueh, Youn-Jien Lin
Issue: 106, Pages: 217-222, Article No: e106004, Year: 2018
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Application of technologies can improve our urban environmental quality and enhance the quality of our lives. However, the use of technologies and the development of economy can also pollute and damage our urban environmental quality. Living in poor environments mean more expenses of unrenewable resources and more environmental burdens for future generations. It can also cause profound negative influences on individuals, businesses, and the country as a whole. Therefore, when pursuing wealth growth and economic development, both governments and businesses must invest more in improving the urban environmental qualitys in the neighborhoods and in the country as well. In this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted on residents in Fujian Province. Totally 1,000 questionnaires were distributed and 873 valid samples were returned with a return rate of 87.3%. According to the findings of this study, it is found that (1) the most important dimension of urban environmental quality is the “external environment” dimension (with a weight value of 0.378), followed by the “management” dimension (with a weight value of 0.354) and the “internal environment” (with a weight value of 0.268); and (2) among the 13 CSFs of urban environmental quality, the top five with the highest weight values are: health, sustainability, security, awareness, and convenience. Hopefully, this study can provide helpful references for the development planning and improvement of urban environmental quality in the city.
Keywords: city environment, urban environmental quality, critical success factor (CSF)
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Ecological Study on Phosphorylated Amberlite IRA 400 Resin for the Removal of Cd (II) from Aqueous Solutions
N. Kasthuri, K. Muthukumaran, S. Vairam, A. Arulanantham
Issue: 106, Pages: 223-231, Article No: e106048, Year: 2018
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According to aquatic ecology, the modified resin prepared from Amberlite IRA 400, acts as an adsorbent for the removal of cadmium(II) from aqueous solutions. In batch ecological studies, the optimization of pH, contact time and resin dose on removal of metal were studied. P=O functional groups that exist on the resin material were used to remove the metal in the aqueous solution environment. The isotherm patterns of Langmuir and Freundlich were analyzed from the experimental data. The feasible, spontaneous and exothermic nature of adsorption was confirmed in this ecological study. The adsorption kinetics study follows the pseudo-second-order model and film diffusion process.
Keywords: aquatic ecology, Cadmium (II), adsorption, film diffusion process, pH optimization, isotherm
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Correlation Analysis of Urban Environment Quality and Medical & Health Service
Zhi-Wang Qian, Guang-Sheng Wan, Yu-Feng Shi, Ying Yu
Issue: 106, Pages: 233-239, Article No: e106018, Year: 2018
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The rapid expansion of human beings and the excessive abuse of resources have gradually appeared great impact on the environment on the Earth, such as climate warming, thinning ozone layer, air pollution, water pollution, sea level rise (melting glacier caused by increasing surface temperature), rapidly decreasing tropical rain forest, and constantly reducing biodiversity. Concerning about the environment damage resulted from the economic development in various countries, the relationship between economic development and environment becomes an important issue. Correlations Analysis of urban environment quality and medical & health service is therefore preceded in this study. Total 289 cities (municipal districts) in China are taken as the research objects; basically, all cities in the nation are covered. The data source is the statistical communique and statistical yearbook of the cities. The research results are summarized as below. 1. Urban ecological management presents positive correlations with medical resource. 2. Urban pollution management shows positive correlations with medical resource. 3. Urban ecological management reveals positive correlations with medical investment. 4. Urban pollution management appears positive correlations with medical investment. Suggestions according to the results are proposed at the end, expecting to explain the promotion of urban environment quality and medical & health service in China.
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Kuang-Chin Chen, Yu-Jing Chiu
Issue: 106, Pages: 241-247, Article No: e106035, Year: 2018
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The promotion of “global village” due to the advance of information has the interaction among nations become more frequent. Along with globally borderless era, a lot of environmental services industry work hard to develop overseas markets and expand the environmental services corporations. When environmental services industry gradually develop toward internationalization, demands for personnel with management ability of overseas environmental services industry are increasing. Expatriates are strictly selected by the parent company, presenting proper performance at work, agreeing with the organizational goals, adapting to working environment with distinct culture, and successfully achieving the tasks. For environmental services industry, it is absolutely necessary to understand different cultural characteristics to further apply managerial adjustment measures. The effect of cross-cultural training on expatriates’ organizational commitment and work adjustment in environmental services industry is discussed in this study. Expatriates in environmental services industry are proceeded questionnaire survey, and the statistical analyses are summarized the following results. 1. Cross-cultural training reveals significantly positive effects on organizational commitment. 2. Organizational commitment shows remarkably positive effects on work adjustment. 3. Cross-cultural training presents notably positive effects on work adjustment. Suggestions are eventually proposed, expecting to construct effective cross-cultural training for the reference of practice and to reduce the cost waste caused by the failure of expatriates.
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Implementation of New Approaches to Zoology and Ecology Teaching Based on the Bioecology of Snakes and Sarcosporidia Course
Akbope T. Yermekbayeva, Gulsana Z. Shaimerdenova, Gulnar Ziyaeva, Anar K. Kaliyeva, Bolat K. Yessimov, Jumadil B. Childibayev, Murat B. Zhaxybayev, Zhaxybay Tuleubaye, Botakoz A. Akhmet, Moldir S. Sergazynova
Issue: 106, Pages: 249-255, Article No: e106042, Year: 2018
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This study is devoted to one of directions in education system development – ecologization of teaching and student training, focused on practical significance of acquired knowledge and skills. The authors have analyzed how the regional component of the state educational standards has developed in various territorial entities. The paper presents the strategy of ecological education and differentiated system approach to zoology and ecology teaching based on studying bioecology of snakes and sarcosporidia. Research results showed that the differentiated system approach has significantly improved the performance and stimulated the student’s desire to learn and self-develop. It is shown that the differentiated system approach is the most efficient in combination with an individual one. This combination provides the possibility to develop training programs on ecological and biological issues with regard to personal characteristics of each student and modern environmental challenges.
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Key Success Factors in Using Virtual Reality for Ecological Education
Ruiyi Gong, Kaijun Yu
Issue: 106, Pages: 257-262, Article No: e106010, Year: 2018
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The advance of computer technology, the popularity of Internet, and the rapid development of information technology provide richer options for instructors’ selection of teaching media. With new teaching media, contents which could hardly be presented in teaching could be changed from traditional static, planar, and one-way presentation into dynamic, stereoscopic, and interactive presentation to enhance teaching and learning effects. Along with the rapid advance of information technology, the application of computers to ecology becomes popular, and about all levels of Universities have established various Ecological information management systems. Ecological professionals being able to properly apply modern information network technology could apply computers to ecological information management as well as effectively apply to Ecological education. Taking teachers and students of departments of medicine in Shanghai as the research samples, total 200 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 167 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 84％. By organizing the overall weight of evaluation indicators of key success factors in using virtual reality for Ecological education, top five indicators, among 13, are ordered (1) communication protocol, about 0.129 of overall weight, (2) database system, about 0.115 of overall weight, (3) multimedia data, about 0.104 of overall weight, (4) interface integration, about 0.096 of overall weight, and (5) synchronization technology, about 0.087 of overall weight. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting that students could play a more active role in the virtual reality learning environment and fully develop personal ability to achieve the effect of Ecological education.
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Modeling Factors of Environmental Tourism Development in Innovation Economy
Tatyana I. Klimenko, Alexey I. Shinkevich, Svetlana S. Kudryavtseva, Marina V. Shinkevich, Naira V. Barsegyan, Angelika A. Farrakhova, Izida I Ishmuradova
Issue: 106, Pages: 263-269, Article No: e106153, Year: 2018
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The factors’ modeling of ecological tourism development in innovative economy is carried out in the article. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that the issues of the services industry’s development, especially in the field of ecological tourism, have not yet been fully resolved and require additional study and systematization of the factors determining them, which is especially important in the conditions of formation and development of the service economy in Russia. The purpose of the article is to systematize the factors of ecological tourism sector development from the position of cluster development of territories and evaluation of entrepreneurial potential in this area. The main research methods used in the article are description, comparison, generalization, analysis and synthesis, descriptive and cluster analysis. The clustering of Russia’s regions in five groups with similar socio-economic characteristics was carried out on the basis of cluster analysis in terms of paid services’ volume in the ecotourism market, real incomes of the population, per capita income of the population, profitability of goods sold in the industrial sector, innovative activity of organizations. The article systematizes the data of organizations’ business activity in the sphere of services in the field of ecological tourism, identifies the key drivers and inhibitors of entrepreneur confidence of business entities in the sector of the economy specializing in the provision of services in the field of ecological tourism. The materials of the article can be used in the development of measures to improve the efficiency of the service sector of the economy and eco-tourism, taking into account socio-economic trends in the innovation economy.
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Can Farmer Adapt to Climate Change — An Evidence from Shandong in China
Guangping Cao, Chengjun Wang, Ligui Zhu, Ximin Fei
Issue: 106, Pages: 271-280, Article No: e106020, Year: 2018
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Given the field survey data about 524 peasant households in 64 villages of 32 counties in Shandong Province, this article applies Ricardian Model to make an empirical analysis of influences of climate change on peasant households. It is indicated by the research that, climate warming has obvious negative effects on peasant households’ net income of unit land area, which may continue to exist in the long run and might be aggravated. In the contextual model of future climate change, peasant households’ net income of unit land area will be greatly reduced. Except that temperature rise in autumn has positive effects on peasant households’ net income of unit land area, temperature rise in winter, spring and summer all reduces peasant households’ income. When the temperature rises 1℃, peasant households’ net income per Mu land reduces 28.50 Yuan; when the precipitation rises 1mm, net income per Mu land reduces 16.47 Yuan. Estimated according to the HADcm3 context, the temperature in 2100 will rise 4.01℃ more than that in 2000, the precipitation will rise 7.69% and the net income of peasant households per Mu land will reduce 282.39 Yuan. The following measures can obviously increase net income of peasant households per unit land area: peasant households participating in agricultural training, constructing farmers’ market that is close to peasant households, setting up water conservancy ficilities to increase irrigable acre, participating in agricultural insurance and adjusting planting structure, etc.
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Xue-Song Xu, Sheng-Jie Yang
Issue: 106, Pages: 281-292, Article No: e106021, Year: 2018
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Because of the rapid advance of urbanization in China, a serious contradiction has been aroused between city garbage and environmental protection. “Urban mineral” is an industry and the urbanization process of electronic, metal, rubber, plastic and other waste resources recycling. China has approved to construct 49 Urban Mines industry demonstration bases from 2010 to 2015, which indicated that China’s urban mines industry has been transferred into social circulation patterns process after experiencing a micro-pattern and park-pattern. With the rapidly progress of industrial process, the urban mineral industry presents some features, for example, the coupling of industrial chain is increasingly close, technology integration and innovation accelerate, affecting factors are more complex, and policy response is more sensitive. All these changes have made the research of industry stability more complicated. In this paper, firstly, we divide the urban mineral system into “marketization, supply, recovery, recycling” sub-systems and analyze the industry relationship by using complex system theory. Secondly, we establish a mutation progression model to describe the key factors and indexes of qualitative change. Thirdly, we introduce both-branch fuzzy set as a kissing subordinate function, which expands the space of value selection and be more comprehensive. We conduct an empirical analysis of the statistical data of the Miluo City Minerals Demonstration Base in Hunan Province from 2009 to 2015.
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The Effect of Long Transportation Stress on Young Calves Born from Cows and Animal Ecology
Natalia Kukharenko, Anastasia Fedorovа
Issue: 106, Pages: 293-299, Article No: e106043, Year: 2018
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This article deals with the stress effect of long transportation, experienced by young calves born from cows on arrival to animal ecology located in the Amur Region. The stress effect is associated specifically with the duration of transport. This article analyses the newborn calves from the perspective of different ecological factors; their general condition, stillbirth, and patterns of body weight change. As it was revealed, long-term effect of transport stress in pregnant cattle causes negative response of not only female adults, but also the fetuses. By negative, one should understand abortions (7%), stillbirth (9.3%) and birth of hypotrophic baby calves (10.3%). With abortions and stillbirths (13.3%), only 86.7% of calves were born alive. The growth pattern of newly born calves was found to be linked to the effect of transport duration on their mothers, which causes the adults to give birth to lightweight calves, and baby calves to gain less in average daily weight.
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Research on Business Model Innovation of Ecotourism Enterprises
Qianying Gao, Yulin Deng
Issue: 106, Pages: 301-306, Article No: e106022, Year: 2018
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Ecotourism embodies the emphasis on ecology and ecotourism enterprises are the components of modern tourism market. To study the business model innovation of ecotourism enterprises based on different value models, this paper was based on three different forms of value formation of value chain, value ring and value network in the reality. This paper mainly discussed the basic characteristics of different value forming models, and the different effects and constraints analysis on the factors of business model. Under the background of value model, the direction and characteristics of business model innovation of ecotourism enterprises were discussed. The research showed that ecotourism enterprises can have various alternatives.
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Wenkui Tang, Quanzhou Gao, Xiongbo Zheng, Qianzhu Zhang, Zanwen Ma, Chao Zhang, Lifei Ye, Yuan Li, Wei Zheng
Issue: 106, Pages: 307-318, Article No: e106023, Year: 2018
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The seasonal and spatial characterization of dissolved CO2 and its control mechanism in the Modaomen Estuary of the Pearl River (China) were determined by the four underway surveys in April, July, October 2013 and January 2014, respectively. The partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) was various among different seasons, which may be attributed to the variational runoff among wet and dry seasons. The pCO2 is wet season (April and July) was greatly higher than that of dry season (October and January). The runoff may be regarded as the mainly source of CO2 in the estuary, while the contribution of in situ biologic respiration in the estuary may be limited. The outgassing fluxes of CO2 in the Modaomen Estuary were approximately 30.80 mol C m-2 yr-1. Approximately 2% dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the runoff was emitted into atmosphere during transportation processes in the estuary. The runoff was the key factor for the seasonal variation of CO2 outgassing fluxes in the Modaomen Estuary.
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The Role of Multiple Social Body in the Environmental Governance: The Case of Jiaxing Model
Dimin Zhu
Issue: 106, Pages: 319-328, Article No: e106024, Year: 2018
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Promoting the participation of multiple social entities in environmental governance is an important topic in the research of public governance. Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province has carried out many explorations in promoting public participation in environmental governance, forming some practical and innovative experiences. This paper studies and elucidates these experiences from the perspective of social governance, examines the “partnership” of establishing mutual cooperation between government and non-governmental organizations, fostering social organizations and promoting the practice of deliberative democracy to explore the implications of achieving effective governance of environmental affairs. This research advocates the realization of the change from “management” to “governance” and believes that Jiaxing experience shows the development direction of China’s environmental governance from a specific perspective.
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Kuan-Hung Chen, Jau-Shyong Wang, Ming-Hung Lin, Wan-Yu Chang
Issue: 106, Pages: 329-335, Article No: e106080, Year: 2018
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Organizational learning could enhance organizational innovation to become the persistent source of competitive advantages in ecology industry. Continuous innovation could result in good organizational performance, and a successful enterprise would be a learning enterprise. For this reason, learning organization is a strategy of corporate competitive advantages in ecology industry. With literature review, the contents and evaluation of learning organization, organizational innovation, and organizational performance are discussed in this study to establish the conceptual research structure and explain the operational definitions of dimensions and variables. Taking supervisors and employees of ecology industry in Kaohsiung Taiwan as the research object, the questionnaire survey is used for collecting data to analyze the effect of learning organization on organizational innovation and organizational performance. The research conclusions are summarized as below. 1. Learning organization shows significantly positive effects on organizational innovation. 2. Organizational innovation reveals remarkably positive effects on organizational performance. 3. Learning organization appears notably positive effects on organizational performance.
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Change Yi, Aimin Yan
Issue: 106, Pages: 337-349, Article No: e106025, Year: 2018
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The rise of the environmental company has made knowledge workers more and more important in contemporary organizations. In the contemporary era, establishing the innovation-oriented country is vigorously advocated, which makes more people try the best to exert innovative capabilities for this goal, and therefore how to improve employee’s innovation performance in the environmental company has gained more and more attentions. Staff’s innovation performance is the source of organizational innovation, which is vital to organization’s sustainable competitive advantage. Meanwhile, the innovation performance is affected by many factors, for example, the high-performance work system can make a great influence on it. However, in the past study, the relationship between the employee work behavior and the high performance work systematic influence in the environmental company is not figured out, and the mechanism of action is also not clear. In this study, the high performance work system would be used as the antecedent variable to explore its relationship with the employee innovation performance, and the relationship between the employees’ psychological capital and the employee’s innovation performance in the environmental company from the perspective of psychological capital is explored, where the employee psychological capital is considered as intermediary variables.
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Key Success Factors in Healthcare Ecology Integrated Tourism Development
Kaijun Yu, Ruiyi Gong, Fang Xu, Chunguo Jiang, Yuzhou Luo
Issue: 106, Pages: 351-355, Article No: e106026, Year: 2018
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Along with the rising medical expenses, reducing public healthcare service quality, and population aging in various countries in the world, the development of healthcare ecology is largely changed. The demands for medical outsourcing has overseas medical tourism market with lower medical expenses, high-quality healthcare service, and vacation rapidly emerge. The output value of medical tourism presents great contribution to a country that the combination and cooperation of medical industry and tourism industry becomes the key development of healthcare ecology. Aiming at supervisors and employees of healthcare ecology members, as the research objects, 250 copies of questionnaire are distributed. Total 204 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 82%. The research results reveal that 1. “ecological competition” is mostly emphasized in Hierarchy 2, followed by “ecological characteristics” and “ecological stage” and 2. top 5 the most emphasized indicators, among 13 evaluation indicators, are ranked healthcare quality, cross-industry cooperation, government certification, marketing awareness, and key leader. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to provide essential assistance in the tourism development for domestic healthcare ecology.
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Study of Dominant Type of Student Ecological Focus
Evgenii A. Alisov, Elena I. Cherdymova, Galina F. Trubina, Alexander N. Yakushev, Sergey P. Zhdanov, Olga V. Popova, Margarita N. Kobzar-Frolova
Issue: 106, Pages: 357-362, Article No: e106154, Year: 2018
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The problem of effective development of ecological attitude with the use of educational technologies aimed at the formation of structural components of ecological consciousness becomes more and more urgent: ecological focus and ecological perceptive abilities of students. The study objectives: to study of main characteristics and structural components of environmental attitudes which are dominant in student age, using projective techniques; to identify within the theoretical and experimental study the types of environmental attitudes and level of environmental perceptual abilities of students. The leading methods for the study of this problem are the methods of questioning and testing, allowing to do a qualitative analysis of the characteristics of the student leading type of environmental attitude. The article presents a thorough and detailed analysis of the concept of environmental attitude, highlights the structural components of environmental focus. Special attention is paid to the methods studying the type of ecological attitude and the level of ecological perceptive abilities. It is revealed that the aesthetic type of attitude prevails among the first-year students. The data obtained in the work can be used in social psychology, pedagogy, practical psychology, environmental psychology, sociology, as well as for the further theoretical development of this issue.
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C. W. Zhou, L. B. Yan, P. Qin, R. Yang
Issue: 106, Pages: 363-369, Article No: e106054, Year: 2018
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Studying the niche of urban agglomerations, we can discover that the process of urban agglomeration can also reflect the impact of ecological factors on the development of a city. The analysis of the Central Plains urban agglomeration in this paper shows that the niche breadth of the Central Plains urban agglomerations is increasing. The Zhengzhou City as the central city has driven the formal development trend around the cities significantly. The hot cities are mainly concentrated near the city of Zhengzhou. However, the level of development is uneven, especially in Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Sanmenxia, where urbanization is higher than in other urban areas of the Central Plains.
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Along with the economic development and the advance of time, people emphasize more on health and health care. Demands for medical care are satisfied by local medical resources, while general medical environment could not satisfy consumers’ demands. It often appears on the news about patients in remote areas not being cared in time or the tragedy caused by inadequate local healthcare workers. It reveals the obvious difference in the density of medical resources among various regions. Taking medical environment in Shanghai City as the research object, medical environment statistics provided by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government is utilized for the secondary data analysis. The research results reveal significantly positive effects of 1.medical environment on total health care, 2.medical environment on healthcare expenditure, 3.medical environment on outpatient fee, and 4.medical environment on medicine fee. Finally, suggestions are proposed according to the results, expecting to contribute to the development of the overall medical environment.
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Issue: 106, Pages: 377-382, Article No: e106155, Year: 2018
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The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the perception of the natural and cultural landscape by tourists and sightseers in the process of passing tourist routes along special ecological paths on the territory of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – the Kizhi Museum Reserve. In the focus of this research is the study of spatial behavior on the route and the feedback of tourists, taken from popular and specialized information sources. As a method of studying tourist behavior, the method of observing and recording the real behavior of tourists was used, taking into account the trajectory of their moving through the reserve with the determination of the most popular points of overview and areas of visitation, which allowed us to identify the most visited objects. To identify the attitude of tourists to the objects of display on the route, a method of content analysis of electronic resources containing feedback from tourists about the objects visited in the Kizhi Museum Reserve was applied. Preferences identified in the course of studying the behavior of tourists can become an objective basis for the formation of a balanced route line that allows to combine the interests of tourists and the optimal anthropogenic load on a specially protected natural area.
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Rong Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 383-393, Article No: e106058, Year: 2018
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The paper selects China’s statistical data from 2004 to 2016. From the perspective of Third- Country Effects, it uses DEA and spatial measurement analysis methods to study the impact of FDI on China’s regional eco-efficiency. The results show that compared with the Third- Country Effects, the impact of FDI on eco-efficiency has a significant change considering the Third- Country Effects. FDI inflows in the eastern region and adjacent regions will have a significant positive impact on the eco-efficiency of the region. In the western region, the impact of FDI accumulation in its adjacent regions on the ecological efficiency of the region also shows a significant positive change, but the level of significance is smaller than that of non-Third- Country Effects and its elasticity coefficient also becomes smaller. Then, based on the empirical analysis results, the suggestions for improving the regional ecological efficiency are put forward, which has certain practical significance for the sustainable development of the regional economy.
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Study on the Relationship between Blueberry Soil and Leaf in Southern China—Based on MLR-PCA Prediction Model
Jian Li, Ming-Yue Wang, Guang Chen, Lin Wu, Min Zhang
Issue: 106, Pages: 395-404, Article No: e106030, Year: 2018
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This paper selects six blueberry varieties from Miluo City as the sample, constructs MLR-Principal Component Prediction Model for Soil and Leaf Nutrients, studies deeply the correlation and predictive function between different blueberry varieties’ soil and leaf nutrient contents. Compared with several prediction methods, the principal component prediction function combined with multiple regression is more systematic and has a better effect on the prediction of blueberry nutrition status. The results show that the nutrient content of the leaves is highly correlated with the elements of the soil, the nutritional status of different blueberry varieties’ leaves can be fully expressed with predictive functions, and uses the MLR regression equation and regression prediction model to guide the technicians for matching the fertilization programs, positively guides the blueberry planting industry in practical applications.
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Discussion with Regression Analysis about Effects of Urban Social Capital and Family Structure on Medical Ecology Use
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Aging population structure gradually enhances the elderly dependence on the family and the government. To solve the dependency problem, it is primary to improve the elderly health conditions. The fundamental solution is the elderly, whose emotional and psychological health conditions and physical activity functions are the keys in the adaptation to role change and physical degeneration after the retirement. Aiming at aged population in Shanghai as the analysis object, total 320 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 251 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 78％. The research results reveal remarkably positive effects of 1.social capital on use expenditure, 2.social capital on activity function, 3.family structure on use expenditure, and 4.family structure on activity function. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to effectively improve medical ecology use conditions.
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Hotel’s Consumer Attitude about Ecology and Perception of the Green Hotel
Mohd Firdaus Zainuddin, Salman Riazi Mehdi Riazi, Zul Zakiyuddin Ahmad Rashid, Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi
Issue: 106, Pages: 411-417, Article No: e106045, Year: 2018
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Worsening environmental issues combined with incessant global warmings has given rise to environmental awareness as well as “green-trends” within the construction industry worldwide, including Malaysia. As people become more concerned of the state of global atmosphere; their attitude towards the ecology also starts to show positive inclination. Within Malaysia, Green Hotels are among sustainable initiatives that have started to grow and are becoming a trend. Nevertheless, considering the infancy of such initiatives in the country motivates this paper to have deeper insight into the subject matter by investigating the environmental attitudes of the Malaysian hotel consumers as well as their perception towards Green Hotels. A total of 115 questionnaire survey forms were distributed and 51 of them were returned in proper manner for analysis thus yielding a satisfying 44.35% response rate. Frequency and descriptive analysis mere undertaken using the 21st Version of SPSS software and in the end, it was found that Malaysian hotel consumers are generally positive towards the ecology and that the Green Hotel concept is very much welcomed by them.
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Measuring and Evaluating the Efficiency of Urban Ecology and Environment in Jiangsu Province
Zhiqiang Sun, Tao Sun
Issue: 106, Pages: 419-427, Article No: e106059, Year: 2018
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Eco-efficiency is related to the dual issues between economy and ecology. It must be ensured that the environmental impact is kept to a minimum while realizing the normal development of social economy. Taking 13 cities in Jiangsu Province as examples, the paper evaluates the efficiency of urban Ecology and environment and its influencing factors of each city in Jiangsu Province from 2009 to 2015 through the super-efficient DEA model and Tobit regression analysis. The research shows that: The eco-efficiency of each city is in the middle and upper level, and the regional differences are obvious. It is the highest in central Jiangsu and the worst in northern Jiangsu; the urbanization rate has a positive impact on the urban efficiency of urban Ecology and environment in Jiangsu, and the industrial structure has an inhibitory effect on the urban efficiency of urban Ecology and environment in Jiangsu. The impact on urban efficiency of urban Ecology and environment is not obvious.
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Ecological and Financial Evaluation of China’s New Energy and Environment Industry Listed Companies
Haiyan Sun
Issue: 106, Pages: 429-439, Article No: e106057, Year: 2018
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The new energy and environment industry is one of the seven strategic emerging industries in China. Its development is of great significance to the advancement of other strategic ecological industries. As the core content of business performance, financial performance can reflect the operating efficiency and performance of the business during a certain period of operation. How to scientifically and ecologically evaluate the financial performance of an enterprise has become an important topic in the field of financial research. This article selects the financial indicators of new energy listed companies from the four aspects of solvency, profitability, operational capacity and development capacity, and ecologically studies the financial performance of 103 selected new energy listed companies, and obtains the financial performance of new energy listed companies and propose solutions to existing problems.
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Development Perspectives of “Last Chance Tourism” as One of the Directions of Ecological Tourism
Oleg A. Bunakov, Natalia A. Zaitseva, Anna A. Larionova, Nataliia V. Zigern-Korn, Marina A. Zhukova, Vadim A. Zhukov, Alexey D. Chudnovskiy
Issue: 106, Pages: 441-447, Article No: e106156, Year: 2018
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The relevance of researching the problems and prospects for the development of this tourism type as “Last Chance Tourism” as well as within the framework of ecological tourism, is explained by the importance of preserving tourist territories and objects of display in order to achieve the goals of an effective combination of ecological and economic components for the benefit of the general territory development. The purpose of this study is to determine the development prospects of the Last Chance Tourism, as one of the directions of ecological tourism. To implement this study, the authors of the article used the methods of data systematization, content analysis, expert assessments and other scientific approaches, which allow to comprehensively consider the problem under study. The authors propose a refined definition of “eco-tourism” by referring to the results of the analysis of existing research. We give the characteristics of tourists, who are attracted by the objects of “Last Chance Tourism”. According to the results of the study, the necessity of creating a Russian analogue of the list of endangered objects that can be used for tourism purposes is justified - the atlas “Last Chance Tourism”. The article summarizes the experience and offers recommendations for the development of ecological tourism, including the example of the Republic of Tatarstan. The article will be useful for regional and federal authorities, universities, training students in the direction of “tourism”, as well as for all those interested in the development of ecological tourism.
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Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process to Discuss Key Factors in High-tech Industrial Ecology Development
Kaijun Yu, Ruiyi Gong, Shanshan Hu, Yuzhou Luo
Issue: 106, Pages: 449-454, Article No: e106037, Year: 2018
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The excellent performance of high-tech industry in past years maintains the continuous growth of national economy; and, the strong profitability potential attracts the investment of more businesses. The development of high-tech industry has various countries and regions expand the research & development and capital investment so that high-tech industry gradually becomes the head of the industry. Nonetheless, in the era with diverse products, product life cycle is shortened and the expansion of new production lines is accelerated to result in unprecedented opportunities and new challenges for high-tech industry. In addition to the distribution of production capacity and technology development at current stage, the extension of competitiveness to cope with the rapid change in industry is worth considerations. Aiming at supervisors and employees of high-tech industry in Hubei Province, 250 copies of questionnaire are distributed and 211 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 84%. The research results show 1. “technological change” as the most emphasized dimension in Hierarchy 2, followed by “capital motivation”, “personnel growth”, and “business growth” and 2.top five indices, among 14 evaluation indices, as product innovation, cost & exchange rate, knowledge dissemination, industry structure, and experience accumulation. Finally, suggestions are proposed according to the results, expecting to extend the competitiveness of domestic high-tech industrial ecology development and achieve the goal of sustainable management.
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Deep Eutectic Solvent-Assisted Washing of Nickel from Polluted Mine Soil
Q. S. Guo, M. Su, H. B. Xiong, J. C. Mo, X. F. Li, Y. S. Gao, Y. T. Gao
Issue: 106, Pages: 455-460, Article No: e106060, Year: 2018
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Recently, nickel pollution in soil has become a hot topic in research. Therefore, the key solution for washing remediation is to find effective, inexpensive and ecology friendly washing agents to remove nickel from polluted soils. In this paper, diethylene glycol-choline chloride ionic liquids (DCILs) combined with composite acid was used as an eluting agent to remove nickel in contaminated mine soils. The nickel removal rates when using the composite acid or the DCILs were 48.77% and 4.5%, respectively. The removal rate increased to 57.60% when using the composite acid combined with 3% (v/v) DCILs as an optimum eluant; this experimental result indicated that the optimum eluant based on the composite acid and DCILs was successfully determined, and it had a significant effect on the extraction process. The BCR speciation analysis showed that the removal rates ranked as follows: oxidisable fraction (92.18%)>acid extractable fraction (85.41%)>reducible fraction (79.07%)>>residual fraction (23.34%) after extraction under optical conditions, which implied that the optimal eluant played a critical role in the mobility of the nickel removal rate and effectively reduced the bioavailability and environmental risk of the nickel. To sum up, DESs-assisted washing is a promising method in the field of removing heavy metals from contaminated soil.
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Information System for Monitoring the State of the Natural Environment According to the Russian Satellite
Svetlana V. Veretekhina, Tatyana V. Karyagina, Valery F. Kornyushko, Elena V. Burlyaeva, Kirill Y. Kolybanov, Elena V. Potekhina, Elena G. Shmakova
Issue: 106, Pages: 461-469, Article No: e106159, Year: 2018
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The relevance of the study is due to the need to control the ecology of the region. A modern method of control is the use of satellite data. The authors used methods of measurement, description, and modeling. Zones of air, water and soil pollution are revealed. In the first part of the work all types of pollution are classified. The authors describe the negative effects of the environment on humans. The authors describe the negative effects of the environment on humans. It is revealed that an important aspect of human resource conservation is the presence of a clean environment in the region. The sources of infection were identified and grouped. The project of the Government program “Digital economy” on space monitoring is described. The main purpose – the analysis of ecology on photos from space is defined. Mail pollution is shown by the example of monitoring the ecological status of Lake Baikal. According to the satellite images, the time of cleaning the contaminated area was determined. The authors’ research solved the socio-economic problem. The research methods describe the sources of information (NASA). The processes of automated information processing are described. The work of the atmospheric monitoring Service “Copernicus” is described. The use of big data is justified. In conclusion, the authors determined that environmental information is required promptly. To receive such information a person can only at the expense of data from the satellite. Humanity is increasingly putting at the service of remote sensing data of the Earth. The discussion is held, the constant control of air, water and soil purity is necessary. The materials are of practical importance. The study identified countries that invest in space monitoring.
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Qingfeng Bu, E Xie
Issue: 106, Pages: 471-476, Article No: e106039, Year: 2018
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The advance of health technology and reducing fatality rate increase aged population annually. Along with the changes in population structure and the public lifestyles, suffering from chronic illnesses become a primary factor in national health. Chronic illnesses are the major cause of death and suffering from illness of the aged. Health-related behavior of the aged, along with the concept of health promotion being gradually accepted by the public, is also emphasized by the public because of the huge effects on health. Aiming at the aged group in Shanghai, total 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed in this study, and 396 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 79%. The research results show 1. significantly negative effects of health promotion behavior on outpatient visits, 2. remarkably negative effects of health promotion behavior on hospitalization days, 3. notably positive effects of health hazard behavior on outpatient visits, and 4. significantly negative effects of health hazard behavior on hospitalization days. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting that the public could be healthily aging and healthily live as well as to create healthy environment and promote the public health.
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Lina Xu, Chunyuan Fan, Shunzen Chen, Xiaofeng Yang, Shaopeng Yang, Yandong Zhang
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In this paper, authors analyzed the dynamic relationship between energy consumption and urbanization using PVAR model with panel data unit root tests, co-integration tests and panel VAR estimate based on provincial panel data from the year of 1990 to 2010 in China. The results show that: (1) there is a long-run co-integration relationship between Urbanization and energy consumption in the eastern, middle and western regions of China. (2) The impact of urbanization on energy consumption is significantly different in the three regions. The strongest effect is in the eastern area, followed by western area and middle area. In order to promote the harmonious development of Urbanization and energy consumption, China should improve the energy use efficiency and develop energy consumption policies according to the different relationships between urbanization and energy consumption in the eastern, middle and western areas.
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In this paper tectonic evolution of the South of the South China Sea and its Peripheral and its control factors of hydrocarbon accumulation are put forward. The study area has suffered from 5 strong tectonic activities and developed twelve major basins developed. Four geological division presents different features: Western strike-slip shear zone generally underwent three-phase movements, including stretching, squeezing and thermal subsidence; Southern foreland compressive belt experienced three-phase evolutions, including foreland depression, strike-slip and regional subsidence; Southeast back-arc subsidence belt experienced tension, passive sedimentation and extrusion deformation; Southeast fore-arc subduction belt is chartered by a typical groove depression. Twelve basins contain remaining 2P reserves of 37.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent, undiscovered resources of 45.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Hydrocarbon mainly enriches in 4 basins. Controlling factors of hydrocarbon accumulation include the following: Extensional structures promoted rapid hydrocarbon generation from organic matter; Tectonic cycles controlled high-quality Neogene reservoirs; Hydrocarbon accumulations are easy to take place in anticlines and faulted anticlines associated to syngenetic faults; Well combination of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion with traps created large oil and gas fields. The result would be of great significance for hydrocarbon exploration.
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In modern conditions, when more and more countries build their national policies in the field of socio-economic long-term development on the principles of sustainable development, the problem of evidence-based assessment of natural resource potential of regional is extremely important. Methodological support to the processes of calculation and evaluation of all components of the natural-resource potential is a prerequisite for the development of effective management decisions made at both national and regional levels. The purpose of this study was to substantiate the list of criteria that will help to be used both for assessing the natural resource potential of territorial ecosystems of regions and for evaluating their effectiveness, as well as defining a set of promising measures to improve the natural resource potential of regional territorial ecosystems. For the study, the methods of content analysis, factor analysis, data systematization, method of expert assessment, the method of expert assessment coordination, SWOT analysis, and other scientific approaches were used, allowing to comprehensively consider the problem under study. As a result of the study, scientific approaches to the definition of the concepts of “natural resource potential” and “ecosystem” were clarified, as well as to determine the main groups of factors influencing the natural resource potential of territorial ecosystems of the region. “Natural resource potential” and “ecosystem”. In addition, based on a study of existing research in this area, the main groups of factors that influence the natural resource potential of the region’s territorial ecosystems were identified. The materials of the article can be used in the development of an environmental-oriented strategy for the development of regions, as well as a set of environmental measures to preserve territorial ecosystems.
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The Threshold Effect of Environmental Regulation on Green Technology Innovation Capability: An Empirical Test of Chinese Manufacturing Industries
Zhangsheng Liu, Yuanyuan Gong
Issue: 106, Pages: 503-516, Article No: e106050, Year: 2018
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By constructing panel data on green technology innovation input and output for 28 Chinese manufacturing industries over a 12-year time span from 2003 to 2014, the global slack-based measure directional distance function and the global Malmquist–Luenberger index were used to measure the green technology innovation capability of each industry during the period. The intensity of environmental regulation was used as a threshold when constructing the panel threshold model, to empirically test the non-linear relationship between environmental regulation and the capability for green technological innovation. The results show that: (1) From the perspective of the mechanism of action, environmental regulation has two effects on green technology innovation in two different directions: innovation offset and compliance cost. There is also an asymmetric effect between innovation input and technological progress. (2) As indicated by analysis based on the GML index, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental regulation and green innovation capability. As the intensity of environmental regulation grows from medium to high, the direction of environmental regulation’s effect on green innovation changes from positive to negative. (3) As shown by index decomposition, the relationship between environmental regulation and the green technology progress index is a significantly inverted N-shaped relationship. (4) Comparative analysis shows that environmental regulation’s promotion of green technology innovation is strongest when regulation intensity is in the medium range. Therefore, improving the green technology innovation capability of Chinese manufacturing would be helped by promoting environmental regulation reform, rationally formulating the regulatory intensity, and optimizing the quality of environmental regulation.
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Describing the Dynamic Evolution of Tourism Ecology Efficiency Based on Super-efficiency DEA
Qiaoqiao Shen, Tao Sun, Kangming Luo
Issue: 106, Pages: 517-524, Article No: e106056, Year: 2018
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With the progress of society and the improvement of people’s living standards, people’s demand for leisure tourism is getting higher and higher. In recent years, the tourism industry has achieved rapid development and has become a pillar industry with rapid growth of the national economy. The environmental changes caused by the rapid development have attracted the attention of scholars at home and abroad. This paper builds a super-efficient DEA model that focuses on describing the dynamic evolution of tourism ecology efficiency in Jiangsu Province from 2002 to 2016, and conducts a regional comparative study. The results of the study show that: from 2002 to 2016, the tourism ecology efficiency of all regions in Jiangsu showed an upward trend, but the regional differences were large, the inter-regional development was unbalanced, and the ecology efficiency of tourism in southern Jiangsu, Central Jiangsu, and northern Jiangsu declined in turn, but between regions. The difference gradually decreases. Finally, on the basis of empirical analysis, the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are put forward in light of Jiangsu’s actual situation. It is hoped that this will provide reference for the promotion of tourism ecology efficiency in Jiangsu.
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Effect of Rare Earth Ions on Regular of Nitride Migration in Soil
Z. W. Liu, J. Zhang, C. B. Lu, C. H. Wen, F. J. Hu, X. Y. Yang
Issue: 106, Pages: 525-534, Article No: e106052, Year: 2018
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Ion-adsorption rare earth ore mining with ammonium sulfate as leaching agent in situ leaching is not perfect, due to seepage and other technical measure, which easily results in serious nitride pollution of soil and water in mining and surrounding areas. In this paper, the effect of rare earth ions of different species and different concentration on the migration of nitride in the soil was studied by using soil column simulation experiment. The results showed that the leaching loss of ammonium nitrogen in the school soil was higher than that in the mining soil under the action of leaching. The low concentration of exogenous rare earth could promote the accumulation of ammonium nitrogen in the soil, while the high concentration was inhibited. When the concentration of yttrium, lanthanum and mixed rare earth were 5-10 g/kg, 0-1 g/kg, 0-1 g/kg, the concentration of ammonium nitrogen reached the maximum. The trend of available nitrogen concentration was consistent with that of ammonium nitrogen. The effect of yttrium on the contents of nitrate nitrogen in the soil was not significant, but the lanthanum showed some inhibitory effect, and the mixed rare earth showed the characteristics of "low concentration-promoting and high concentration-inhibiting" in the soil. The conclusion will lay a theoretical foundation for the control of nitrification in soil and water body of ionic rare earth mine.
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Based on Outpatient Fee to Discuss the Correlation between Competition of Medical Ecology and Number of Outpatients
Kaijun Yu, Ruiyi Gong, Ruijuan Ren, Longjie Sun, Yuzhou Luo
Issue: 106, Pages: 535-540, Article No: e106027, Year: 2018
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Current Medical ecology is highly competitive that institutional managers in the Medical ecology are gradually increasing the percentage in striving for market advantages for the long-term development and sustained-yield management of the organization. In the Medical ecology, patients for medical care are always the minority of information, not being able to decide the quality, quantity, and even model of medical resources. Normally, physicians are the agents to make the medical decisions. In this case, physicians’ behaviors present the most debate in Medical ecology. Medical institution statistics provided by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, as the research sample data, are proceeded secondary data analyses. The research results show that 1.competition in Medical ecology presents significantly positive effects on outpatient fee, 2.competition in Medical ecology reveals remarkably positive effects on number of outpatients, 3.aging index would affect number of outpatients, 4.education would influence number of outpatients, 5.income level would affect number of outpatients, and 6.number of hospitals would influence number of outpatients. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to assist the medical ecology in the long-term development and sustained-yield management.
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Projective Techniques for Student Environmental Attitudes Study
Elena I. Cherdymova, Lyubov I. Ukolova, Olga V. Gribkova, Elena P. Kabkova, Larisa I. Tararina, Rashad A. Kurbanov, Asiya M. Belyalova, Irina V. Kudrinskaya
Issue: 106, Pages: 541-546, Article No: e106180, Year: 2018
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The relevance of the problem under study is due to the need to study ecological attitudes through projective techniques. The problem of the effective development of ecological attitudes with the use of educational technologies aimed at the formation of the structural components of ecological consciousness which includes ecological attitudes, ecological perceptive abilities of students, is becoming more and more urgent one. The main purpose of the paper is to study the main characteristics and structural components of the dominant ecological attitudes, using projective techniques; to identify in theoretical and experimental research the types of ecological attitudes and the level of ecological perceptual abilities. The leading method for the study of this problem is the author’s projective techniques, the questionnaire method, which allows for a qualitative analysis of the characteristics of ecological attitude’s leading type. The article presents a thorough and detailed analysis of the ecological attitude concept; the structural components of ecological attitudes are highlighted. The authors pay special attention to projective techniques that study the type of ecological attitudes and the level of environmental perceptual abilities. It is revealed that, taking into account the leading activities, it is possible to effectively develop ecological attitudes, especially its cognitive component. Using the projective technique, it is revealed that the first-year students are dominated by the aesthetic attitudes. The data obtained in the work can be used in social psychology, pedagogy, practical psychology, ecological psychology, sociology, as well as for further theoretical development of this issue.
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Variation of Nutrients and Selected Soil Properties in Reclaimed Soil of Different Ages at a Coal-mining Subsidence Area on the Loess Plateau, China
Tingliang Li, Jiwei Gao, Jianping Hong, Yinghe Xie, Zhiqiang Gao, Huisheng Meng, Li Li, Lixia Meng
Issue: 106, Pages: 547-554, Article No: e106055, Year: 2018
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Reclaiming the subsidence area that results from coal-mining could alleviate the shortage of arable land in China. This study examined the effects of fertilization and reclamation age on soil nutrients and other properties in the 0–100 cm profile at an underground coal mine site on the Loess Plateau of China. Soil samples were collected representing three successive reclamation ages (1, 3 and 7 years) and an undisturbed reference farmland soil. Treatments included chemical fertilizers only (CF), organic fertilizers only (OF), a combination of 50% chemical fertilizers and 50% organic fertilizers (COF) and a no-fertilizer control (CK). The study showed that Soil pH and electrical conductivity ranged from 8.03 to 8.43 and 0.11 to 0.25 dS/m, respectively, and no significant differences were found due to any soil depths, fertilizer treatments, reclamation ages. Nutrient contents tended to increase over time as a whole. Additionally, applying manure had a better effect on increasing, available phosphorus and potassium, organic matter and cation exchange capacity in the 0-20 cm soil layer (topsoil) than did applying only chemical fertilizer or a combination of chemical and organic fertilizer; however, no obvious change was found in the properties of the 20–100 cm soil layers for any treatments. Given the above, it is feasible for coal-mining subsidence areas to be reclaimed and returned to farmland on the Loess Plateau of China.
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The Coordinated Development About Eco-environment and Economy: A Case Study of Guanzhong Area
Xiaohua Wang, Liqiang Cao, Lin Shen, Qingshan Bai
Issue: 106, Pages: 555-562, Article No: e106066, Year: 2018
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With high pollution, high emissions of extensive economy development mode, resources and environment are facing the serious situation of deteriorating, which don’t make human allow to ignore the contradictions eco-environment and economic development. This study aim to the research of coupling relationship between eco-environment and economic development in Guanzhong area, by establishing evaluation of index system between eco-environment system and economic system, using principal component analysis and mathematical model method. The results show that the relations mainly manifested three characteristics of coupling coordination from the time sequence. First, the coupling coordination degree of evolution kept rising trend in fluctuation. Second, the study area had obvious characteristics in every-stage, which show developing slowly, fast developing of falling speed and rapidly rising speed of development. Third, the coupling of systems as a whole and all parts showed a trend of “V” type in the direction of coordinated development. The space angle mainly had two characteristics: first, there were mainly three types regions in the Guanzhong area. The first kind of coupling development level is high but not stable. The second type of coupling is coordination development and keep stable. The third class coupling level is low and stable development. Second, the differences of regional internal gradually were narrow towards a coordination trend. Therefore, this study puts forward some effective suggestions from the macro-perspective and micro-perspective, which is theoretical basis for the sustainable development path.
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Choline Chloride-Urea Deep Eutectic Solvent Enhanced Removal of Lead from Mining Area Soil in the Presence of Oxalic Acid
Min Su, Huabin Xiong, Qiushuang Guo, Jingchi Mo, Zhi Yang, Xiaofen Li, Jianhui Dai, Yuntao Gao
Issue: 106, Pages: 563-569, Article No: e106061, Year: 2018
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Choline chloride-urea deep eutectic solvent (ChCl-urea DES) is a potential soil heavy metal eluent due to its advantages of low cost and simple synthesis, easy to biodegrade, and non-toxic. In this paper, the effect of ChCl-urea DES on the removal of lead from soil in the presence of oxalic acid was investigated. The experimental results indicate that ChCl-urea DES has a significantly enhanced effect on lead removal, the lead removal rate obviously increase from 49.8% to 71.1% as 3% of ChCl-urea DES was added to 0.2 mol/L oxalic acid under the condition of shaking time of 4 h and liquid/solid ratio of 10:1, the results suggest that ChCl-urea DES play a synergistic role with oxalic acid in the removal of lead from soil. Speciation analysis of lead was conducted using BCR sequential extraction method before and after washing. The result of speciation analysis indicates that oxalic acid-ChCl-urea DES was more effective in reducing the content of lead in each fraction than oxalic acid alone, particularly for acid-soluble fraction, followed by oxidation fraction and reducible fraction. The increased removal percentage is ranked in descending order: acid extracted fraction (36.2%) > reducible fraction (28.0%) > oxidizable fraction (22.6%) > residual fraction (18.0%). ChCl-urea DES can effectively remove most of mobile and bioavailable lead in contaminated soils in the presence of oxalic acid. The results are helpful to develop ChCl-urea DES based environment-friendly soil heavy metal washing system.
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The level of plastic production is growing rapidly - more than half of plastic waste and plastic products have been manufactured in the last 25 years. In the future, the situation will only worsen, and therefore scientists urge both industrialists and the authorities of all states to reconsider strategies for using and processing plastics. The uncontrolled handling of polymer wastes of consumption and production causes serious damage to the environment and forms not only the environmental, but also the economic problems of future generations, violating the fundamental principle of sustainable development. This article discusses innovative technologies for processing polymer waste consumption and production. Production and biotechnological methods for processing foam plastic, PET and some other types of plastic are considered, including the five most common production methods for handling polymer waste. The study notes that the need to return production and consumption wastes is obvious both in terms of environmental safety and economic feasibility. The authors of the article emphasize that in the conditions of the increasing role of the environmental factor, the problems of managing the processing of plastic products and packaging should be solved in a complex of economic, administrative and social mechanisms. At the same time, it should be understood that the problems of managing the processing of plastic products and packaging are very dynamic and it is necessary to conduct further research in this direction, primarily in the development and improvement of biotechnologies.
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Study on Mechanism of Air-Floating Separation for Residual Film and Seed Cotton
Gaili Gao, Yinhui Feng, Yongxian He
Issue: 106, Pages: 579-589, Article No: e106062, Year: 2018
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Xinjiang is the main planting area of cotton in China. The frost-free period in this area is short and the annual rainfall is less-than 200 mm. Wide-film cotton planting technology is widely used. The filming rate of cotton field is almost 100%, about 60000 to 80000 tons of broken residual films are newly produced every year, and has caused serious pollution in farmland. Mechanized harvesting has a large amount of residual films in seed cotton, which affects not only the quality of seed cotton, but that of ginned cotton. In this paper, aiming at the key technical problem of removing cotton contaminant, i.e., residual film, a novel model is created. It is the first time to propose that the seed cotton is tore into a movable ‘wave-pattern’ thin layer by blowing air so that the residual film is fully exposed and then cleared by a suction-cleaner. To acquire such a seed cotton layer, upward airflows that flow in the ‘wave-pattern’ are added to a separation chamber transversely in the model, and airflows that can carry the seed cotton forward are added to the chamber longitudinally. First, the airflow distribution characteristics in the separation chamber are analyzed within a 2D model. The experiment shows that the airflow field is divided into three areas, the bottom area is diffusion zone of the airflow from airflow-holes on a hole-plate, where the airflow velocity is high, unstable and attenuate quickly, and the airflow field is mainly influenced by the airflow velocities at airflow-holes and its dip angle; the airflow field in the middle area is more stable and the airflow velocity is obviously lower than that in the bottom area, and the airflow direction is mainly affected by the dip angles of walls of cotton-inlet and cotton-outlet; and the airflow in the upper area has relatively high velocity due to the suction-cleaner. Therefore, the seed cotton should run in the middle area of airflow field. By further analyzing the orthogonal experiment results, the optimized values of three key geometric parameters are gained, that is, the height of separation chamber is 1.40m, the dip angle of walls of cotton-inlet and cotton-outlet is 80.00°, and that of airflow-holes on the hole-plate is 8.00°. Second, the airflow field characteristics are analyzed in the 3D flow field to acquire the velocities of ‘wave-pattern’ airflow. The results show that in order for the airflow velocity to stay in the range of 1.20-3.00m/s in the middle area of airflow field, the range of airflow velocity at the inlet of each row of airflow-hole on the hole-plate should be 8.00-14.00 m/s.
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Kuo-Min Ko, Chih-Hung Pai, Xing-Yu Mao
Issue: 106, Pages: 591-597, Article No: e106063, Year: 2018
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In the busy society, the public has increased the needs for the participation in recreation to acquire distinct leisure experience and perception as well as satisfy demands for life. The participation in recreation could relax and release pressure, balance work, as well as acquire other benefits, such as the enhancement of physical health and interpersonal relationship. It therefore drives the boom of tourism industry to become a global economic activity. With the rising ecological conservation awareness and the emergence of sustainable development idea in past years, the sustainable development emphasized ecotourism, different form mass tourism, is developed. Aiming at ecotourism, ecotourism visitors to Fujian Province, as the research objects, are distributed 480 copies of questionnaire. Total 406 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 85%. The research results reveal significantly positive effects of 1. environmental experience on leisure coping, 2. leisure coping on leisure benefits, and 3. environmental experience on leisure benefits. According to the results, suggestions are further proposed, expecting to assist domestic ecotourism in the development to achieve the sustainable development.
Keywords: ecotourism, environmental experience, leisure coping, leisure benefits
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Shuisheng Fan, Youcheng Chen, Xiaofeng Su, Qiuwang Cheng
Issue: 106, Pages: 599-604, Article No: e106065, Year: 2018
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After being satisfied with material life, the citizens have ample economic ability and time to stress on leisure life and participate in recreation activity. To cope with such demands, ecotourism naturally becomes an alternative choice of tourism for many people. Under the sustained-yield management, a lot more of ecotourism issues are discussed. In face of the competitive tourism market, it becomes primary for tourism industry effectively developing regional tourism resources, enhance the construction of ecotourism environment image, and deliver necessary information for more attractive environment image to drive customers’ “intention” to visit. Taking ecotourism visitors in Fujian Province as the research samples, the questionnaire are distributed on-site. Total 322 valid copies of questionnaire are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 77%. The research results show significantly positive correlations between 1.environment image and word of mouth, 2.word of mouth and tourism intention, and 3.environment image and tourism intention. According to the results, suggestions are proposed in this study, expecting to effectively enhance the competitiveness of domestic ecotourism in the competitive tourism market and achieve sustained-yield management.
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Lin Shen, Hongshu Wang, Xiaohua Wang, Qiuyan Liu
Issue: 106, Pages: 605-611, Article No: e106064, Year: 2018
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Ecological regional agricultural products processing industry is the bridge connecting agriculture and industry, and the shift from agricultural resources to industrial products can be achieved by ecological regional agricultural products processing industry. In Heilongjiang Province, aiming at rising conversion rate of ecological regional agricultural products processing, guiding principles like “put agriculture as the head, and industry as the tail” and “put agriculture as the head, and products as the tail” had been raised up. According to the statistics of gross product of ecological regional agricultural products processing industry, GDP and gross product of agriculture from 2001 to 2016, in this essay, the interlinked relation of gross products of ecological regional agricultural products processing industry to GDP and gross product of agriculture was analyzed by grey model (0, 2), which was based on the analysis of the rising of influence that ecological regional agricultural products processing industry did to GDP and gross products of agriculture. Also, the analysis showed that the gross products of ecological regional agricultural products processing industry can increase the speed of growth of GDP and gross products of agriculture, and in this way, appropriate suggestions were given in this essay about developing ecological regional agricultural products processing industry and increasing the proportion of gross products of ecological regional agricultural products processing industry in Heilongjiang Province.
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A Study on the Effect of the Operating Mechanism in Environmental Protection Industry
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Issue: 106, Pages: 613-618, Article No: e106067, Year: 2018
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Environmental protection industry is the general term for the technical product development, commercial circulation, resource utilization, information service and project contracting in the economic structure for the purpose of preventing and controlling environmental pollution, improving the ecological environment and protecting natural resources. The operating mechanism in Environmental protection industry is very important. Under the rapid growth of technology, human capital and intelligence capital are the key success factors in the fierce competition. A leader should create high learning effectiveness and high-performance teams with proper leadership in the changeable environment so that the employees’ personal knowledge could be constantly copied, spread, accumulated, and innovated to enhance the organizational products and service being continuously innovated, exceed the competitors, develop the competitiveness, and further be glad to devote to the organization. An organizational leader’s leadership styles would deeply affect the interaction in the organization, and good organizational climate could result in employees’ job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intention to stay. Accordingly, developing the environment and corporate culture to induce learning is the primary task of a leader. Support of a leader to employees’ learning development and the creation of corporate culture and organizational climate with knowledge acquisition and sharing are the keys in the smooth operation of an organization. Taking ecological environmental protection industry as the research object for the questionnaire survey, the data are analyzed with statistics, and suggestions for management practice and future research, according to the research results, are proposed for the reference of enterprises and academia.
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Economic globalization is a law of economic development, and talent is the first resource. In the context of globalization, enterprises are the only way to achieve export-oriented development. For China’s environmental protection enterprises, the lack of comprehensive talents and the lack of international experience are important reasons for restricting enterprises to go further. Therefore, this paper focuses on the development status of China’s environmental protection industry and the favorable conditions for export-oriented development, focusing on the indispensable role of foreign language ability. The results show that there is a serious shortage of comprehensive talents with strong foreign language quality. Finally, from the perspective of corporate culture, several suggestions for promoting the outward-oriented development of environmental protection enterprises in China are proposed.
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To Study the Relationship between Environmental Education and Environmental Behavior Based on Environmental Attitude
Yifang Gao
Issue: 106, Pages: 627-634, Article No: e106075, Year: 2018
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During the development of economy and the acceleration of industrialization, natural environment is also seriously destroyed to result in various environmental problems. To reduce such complicated and annoying environmental problems, it relies on the enhancement of humans’ environmental awareness and the adoption of self-aware environmental protection action. In this case, environmental education is necessary for changing people’s opinions about the world and daily action through delivery of knowledge, cultivation of attitude, and development of action to fundamentally solve the problem of environmental degradation. With quasi-experimental research, total 214 students of a university in Shanghai are preceded the 16-week (3 hours per week for total 48 hours) environmental education. The research results reveal the significantly positive correlations between 1.environmental education and environmental attitude, 2.environmental attitude and environmental behavior, and 3.environmental education and environmental behavior. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to enhance the citizens’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and value of environmental protection through environmental education curricula or activities to emphasize the environment and take actions in order to achieve the sustainably developed civil education.
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State Management of Plastic Production Based on the Implementation of UN Decisions on Environmental Protection
Vladimir V. Filatov, Natalia A. Zaitseva, Anna A. Larionova, Viacheslav N. Zhenzhebir, Irina V. Polozhentseva, Oksana V. Takhumova, Galina M. Kolosova
Issue: 106, Pages: 635-642, Article No: e106157, Year: 2018
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This article presents the results of the research on environmental the problems associated with the accumulation of polymer waste, the UN’s decision in these destinations, as well as measures of state regulation of the production and disposal of plastic products. European countries, in particular, England, France, Germany and Denmark, took the path of phasing out plastic, introducing limits and additional duties on the use of plastic packaging. Such solutions in these countries stimulate a smooth transition to more environmentally friendly materials. However, not all implemented measures are effective. Based on usage of the desk’s research methods, expert assessments and opinion, analysis of official statistical data and materials of analytical reviews, the authors of the article has given the current state of state regulation measures reducing environmental contamination. They grounded the role of the World Environment Day initiated in UN in 1972, in solving the problems of recycling plastic waste consumption and production. The authors described the measures of state regulation of the production and utilization of plastic products, identified controversial aspects of existing measures to fight against plastics. The Russian experience of state regulation of activities for the disposal of polymer wastes of consumption and production is summarized, as well as the global practice of applying the most promising solutions for the production and disposal of plastic products. The materials of the article can be used both for further research in the field of state regulation of production and recycling of plastic products, as well as for training specialists in the production of plastic products, ecologists’, as well as for recycling polymer waste from consumption and production.
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Interaction between the Different Leadership Styles on Innovative Behavior based on Organizational Culture in Ecological Industry: Empirical Research from China
Jin Wu, Yi Lin
Issue: 106, Pages: 643-649, Article No: e106076, Year: 2018
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Owing to the accelerating of globalization in past years and the changeable technologies, a lot of companies positively promote innovation or personal creativity, expecting to achieve the sustainable management in the changeable environment. An enterprise has to constantly create new products, services, and processes to stand on the top. For this reason, innovation is regarded as a method of enterprise survival. There are certain risks for innovation. However, it would be dangerous for an enterprise remain the same, as the competitors might outperform with the development of more competitive innovation technology and the application of novel thinking. Innovation is inevitable in technology, service, and manufacturing industries, as an enterprise would not achieve the sustainable management without innovation. In the globally competitive environment, the size of an enterprise and the departments or staff in an enterprise should be innovated to maintain certain competitiveness and keep the leading status in the market. It is worth noticing that, among various factors in employees’ innovation or creativity, leadership might be the essential factor in employees’ creativity. In other words, a leader could establish situations and conditions to facilitate the subordinates’ performance on creativity and further achieve the goal. Nonetheless, several studies on innovation focused on organizational innovation, but seldom studied employees’ creativity and innovation capabilities. Since employees’ creativity and innovation are the sources of organizational innovation, it is considered essential to study employee innovation. Aiming at the effect of leadership style on organizational culture and innovative behavior, ecological industry in Guangdong Province are sampled for the questionnaire survey. According to the statistical analyses, conclusions and suggestions are proposed, expecting to help ecological industry induce more innovative behaviors and performance of the employees.
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The Application of Quantum Computing and Quantum Information in Ecology
Siyi Chen, Sai Ji
Issue: 106, Pages: 651-658, Article No: e106077, Year: 2018
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With the development of technology, the quantum era is coming. There are many experts in various industries that have tried to practice the application of quantum computing and quantum information. In ecology, the timely, efficient and accurate ecological data processing is the prerequisite for analyzing the ecological protection mechanism, obtaining the greatest ecological economic benefits and making the ecological environment benign. While quantum computing and quantum information have the advantages of automation and real-time when storing and analyzing ecosystem data, people can improve work efficiency and save money to cope with ecological problems.
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Ecological Study of Deterioration Performance for Concrete in Saline Soil Environment
Si-Yuan Li, Dula Man, Guo-Dong Li
Issue: 106, Pages: 659-666, Article No: e106122, Year: 2018
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According to the principles of terrestrial ecology, the deterioration of concrete used in highway engineering in saline soil environment of Inner Mongolia was studied, and simulated in the laboratory compound salt solution (NaCl, Na2SO4, NaHCO3 and Na2CO3), single salt solution (Na2SO4) and test pieces for mix proportion of three kinds of concrete for datum, mixing 20% fly ash and mixing 20% metakaolin etc. Prediction model of deterioration in concrete was established. It is shown that ecological capacity of anti-wetting-drying cycle in concrete mixing metakaolin is the strongest in compound salt-freeze-thaw cycle test and single salt-freeze-thaw cycle test, freeze-thaw resistance of concrete mixing fly ash is the strongest. Measured values for deterioration prediction model of compressive strength of compound salt-wetting-drying cycle and deterioration prediction model for relative dynamic elastic modulus of compound salt-freeze-thaw cycle were respectively verified in the test, and fitting degrees were respectively 0.880 and 0.929. Resources such as Metakaolin and fly ash in the environment were utilized to improve concrete durability in the environment, which had practical guidance meaning to performance deterioration prediction of concrete material under working condition and environment.
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Leaching Ecological Behavior of Indium from Lead-Containing Copper Matte Using Oxidation Roasting - Leaching Process
Dafang Liu, Xingxiang Fan, Yifeng Shi, Kunbin Yang
Issue: 106, Pages: 667-676, Article No: e106123, Year: 2018
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Lead-containing copper matte (LCCM) is an ecologically intermediate product from blast furnace smelting. In this paper, the thermodynamics of lead matte direct oxidation roasting and adding ferrous sulfate oxidation roasting have been ecologically discussed and the effect of roasting temperature, FeSO4·7H2O ratio, roasting time, thickness of material layer on the leaching of indium by using oxidation roasting are investigated. The material is characterized by XRD, SEM and XRF before and after leaching. In the course of roasting, the optimum ecological conditions of roasting temperature, FeSO4·7H2O/LCCM mass ratio, roasting time and thickness of material layer are 600℃, 100%, 2.0 h and 10 mm, respectively. Above 93.10%of indium can be dissolved into the sulphuric acid solution under the optimum environment. The results show that addition of FeSO4·7H2O in the roasting process is helpful for leaching and recovery of indium from the LCCM.
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Study on Ecological Characteristics of Regional Urbanization in Hubei Province of China
Liyuan Li, Mengting Ren, Jianian Liang
Issue: 106, Pages: 677-686, Article No: e106124, Year: 2018
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The research is designed to emphasize the importance of reserving local ecology in the urbanization of Hubei. Field study and statistics analysis are applied to the study of potential problems existing in the process of urbanization in Hubei, including insufficient motive force, over-emphasis of economical development in the cost of environmental pollution, faulty ecological infrastructure, neglect and damage of vernacular landscape heritage, insufficient exploitation of natural and human resources and the lack of unique feature among cities. Based on the analysis of these problems, the study proposes that to make sure the smooth progress of urbanization Hubei government should work out appropriate strategy to carry out urbanization in accordance with its local characteristics, strengthen ecological infrastructure, form landscape network for vernacular landscape heritages, strengthen the sustainability of overall landscape, and accelerate the Practice of City Betterment and Ecological Restoration.
Keywords: urbanization, ecological civilization, regional characteristics
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Research on Risk and Prevention Mechanism of Commercial Banks by Assets Securitization of Eco-Environmental Industry
Xiao Liang
Issue: 106, Pages: 687-695, Article No: e106193, Year: 2018
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Asset securitization directly links with commercial banks, and its link is asset rights. At present, the practice of credit asset securitization has been relatively rich, but there are not many practices related to eco-environmental industry consulting including securitization. Taking this as a perspective, this paper analyzes the possibility of securitization of environmental protection industry assets and the impact on commercial banks, and finally proposes recommended measures.
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Discussing the Effect of Urban Economic Development on Medical Environment with LISREL Model
Kaijun Yu, Ruiyi Gong, Xiaochun Qiu, Xiaotao Wang, Yuzhou Luo
Issue: 106, Pages: 697-702, Article No: e106029, Year: 2018
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Rapid economic development and enhancing life and education standards along with the advance of society, change of lifestyles, and advance of health and medical technology have largely changed medical environment. To actually achieve the goal of promoting national health, the government devotes to developing healthy medical environment, expecting to establish the medical environment with lifelong health care. Taking Shanghai City as the empirical object, the economic development and medical environment statistics provided by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government are used for secondary data analyses. The research results conclude the significant correlations between 1.urban economic development and number of physicians, 2.urban economic development and number of beds, 3.urban economic development and number of discharged patients, and 4.urban economic development and number of doctor visits. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to resolve the correlation between economic development and medical environment to provide policy makers with definite directions for making policies and achieve the coexistence of medical environment and economic growth.
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Integrated Modeling and Calculation of Urban Surface and Underground Flooding
Yongzhi Liu, Shuai Niu, Wenting Zhang, Jian Xu
Issue: 106, Pages: 703-711, Article No: e106125, Year: 2018
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Due to the rapid urbanization and heavy rainfall, urban flooding on ground surface and in underground spaces is increasing. Based on the formation mechanism of urban rainstorm waterlogging, an integrated model and calculation method for urban surface flood and underground spaces is built. The method integrated coupling hydrodynamic model and underground space flood generalized calculation model. Coupling hydrodynamic model integrates one dimensional (1D) storm water management model (SWMM) and two dimensional (2D) flood routing model. The overflows at the manhole due to exceeding pipe capacity were calculated through rainfall–runoff analysis with SWMM, which is a 1D dynamic urban storm water system analysis model. Then, an urban flood analysis was built by utilizing the manhole overflows as boundary conditions in the 2D overland flood model. The linkage process between 1D SWMM and 2D overland flood model was linked by boundary condition. Generalized calculation method to account for Maximum hazard frequency of rainfall, flood flow entered into underground space, and floodwater level rising velocity in underground space. The process of waterlogging in the urban area is simulated by using the observed rainstorm process, the results prove the effectiveness of the integrated model.
Keywords: underground space, flood analysis, hydrodynamic model, coupling model
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Ecological Research on Flos Sophorae Dregs Fermentation for Animal Feed
Xiao Wu, Tong Li, Fengyun Tao, Zhenwen Zhao, Zhenpeng Wang, Qian Zhang, Tuo Zhou, Junpu Cui, Meng Liu, Qing Huo
Issue: 106, Pages: 713-720, Article No: e106126, Year: 2018
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In this ecological study, we produce biodiverse animal feed from Flos Sophorae dregs using solid state fermentation process with Rhizopus oryzae and Aspergillus niger. By the orthogonal design method, we analyze the content of crude fiber, crude protein, crude ash from the product, and by multiple regression analysis, we get the result that when the solid state fermentation process with Rhizopus oryzae, the ratio of Flos Sophorae dregs and bran is 2:1 with temperature at 28℃ for 72 hours and the inoculation quantity of Rhizopus oryzae is 15 %, the content of crude fiber is 11.31%, the content of crude protein is 42.7%, the content of crude ash is 5.62%, has reached the third-class standard feed; when the solid state fermentation process with Aspergillus niger, the ratio of Flos Sophorae dregs and bran is 2:1 with temperature at 30℃ for 96 hours and the inoculation quantity of Rhizopus oryzae is 15 %, the content of crude fiber is 9.77%, the content of crude protein is 34.6%, the content of crude ash is 5.21%, has reachedthe secondary standard feed.
Keywords: ecology, Flos Sophorae, Chinese medicine dregs, Rhizopus oryzae, Aspergillus niger
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Ecological Study on Sintering of Fuel Blending in Guisha Limonite
Xiaolei Zhou, Guofeng Gao, Zhe Shi, Bangfu Huang, Jinlin Lu, Weisai Liu, Lei Liu, Yingtao Meng, Jie Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 721-726, Article No: e106127, Year: 2018
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As China’s ore resources have “poor, fine, mixed, scattered” environmental characteristics, with the rising price of imported iron ore, the cost of iron making production remains high. In order to withstand market risks, an ecological engineering laboratory sintered cup test was conducted on the ecological blending and fuel use of Guisha Mine. The results of the study show that, to a certain extent, Guishan Limonite can be environmentally and effectively used for sintering. And sum up the objective laws of the sintering process in ecosystem. With the increase of limonite, the regularity of the deterioration of the abiotic main properties of sintering was found. A method of improving the main properties of sintering after increasing the amount of fuel used can be found.
Keywords: ecological engineering, abiotic factors, sintering, fuel, oxidation
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Gravity Flow Sedimentary Characteristics of Chang 6 in Panke Area, Ordos Basin
Shasha Yang, Xuri Huang, Cheng Yin, Yongqiang Xu, Juan Song, Runrong Cao
Issue: 106, Pages: 727-734, Article No: e106128, Year: 2018
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The Panke area is located in the southern Ordos Basin with an area of 4910km2. And the sedimentary characteristics are not clear. The sedimentary characteristics of Chang 6 reservoir in the Panke area are studied through the detailed observation of the core and adequate analysis of logging data. It is considered that there are 6 types of lithofacies in Chang 6 reservoir of the study area, they are flat-shaped mudstone facies, high amplitude box-shaped massive sandstone facies, medium-amphibious box-shaped sandstone facies, bell-shaped sandstone facies, funnel-shaped sandstone facies and finger-like sandstone facies. The high-amplitude box-shaped massive sandstone facies and funnel-shaped sandstone facies are formed by sandy debris flow, while the slump sandstone is the genesis of medium-amplitude box-shaped massive sandstone facies. The bell-shaped sandstone facies and the finger-like sandstone facies are formed in turbid currents. According to the vertical combination, the phase sequence types in the study area are divided into 4 species. They are the combination of multi-layered sandy debris flow, the combination of sandy debris flow and turbidity flow, the combination of sandy debris flow and sandy slump and multi- layer turbidity flow combination. And the first two types of phase sequence are the most important type of phase sequence combination in the study area. Based on this study, a gravity flow deposition model was established in Panke area. From the point of view of sedimentary model, due to the differences in the fluid conversion process and the final conversion results during the deposition process, the most prospective sand debris flow thick block sand bodies in the study area are distributed along the gullies in the direction of the delta front water channel. This study can provide new ideas for the next step in reservoir prediction in the southern Ordos Basin.
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Environmental Risk Management System Projecting Of Industrial Enterprises
Julia A. Krokhina, Tatyana Vinogradova, Elena Ye. Grishnova, Sergey P. Zhdanov, Oksana V. Borisova, Leonid M. Ostanin, Olga V. Popova, Nikolay G. Kutlin
Issue: 106, Pages: 735-744, Article No: e106181, Year: 2018
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Modern urbanization and more and more increasing man-made impact on the environment inevitably lead to an increase in environmental risk for the population of industrial cities, increasing the probability of emergencies occurrence. The purpose of the article is to study the environmental risks and practical approaches to its quantitative assessment to justify the socio-economic efficiency of enterprises’ production activities in the interests of system management of human security. The article identifies the main factors (technological, economic, etc.) that affect the environmental risk of industrial enterprises. A model of a two-level environmental risk management system aimed at full control of the enterprise environmental risk is presented. The method of trees allowing calculating probability of emergence and development of ecological risks is offered. Organizational and methodical guidance for the implementation of a two-level system of enterprises’ environmental risk management have been developed. The article is intended for researchers, employees, management of industrial enterprises and Supervisory bodies dealing with environmental problems of industrial enterprises.
Keywords: environmental risk, design, environmental risk management system, organizational and methodological recommendations, environmental risk factors, scenario tree
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Ecological Research on Moisture Content of Clay Soil Affecting Failure Behavior of the CEP Pile under Vertical Load
Yongmei Qian, Jiayu Sun, Yujie Jin, Ruozhu Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 745-751, Article No: e106129, Year: 2018
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In environmental engineering the concrete expanded-plate pile (The CEP pile) is a new type pile, which is different from the ordinary cast-in-place concrete pile, through the special device, the bearing plate is set in the specific position of the pile, so the bearing capacity of the pile can be improved ecologically. Clay soil is the main soil layer used for burring the bearing plate, because the moisture content of clay soil layer has a certain influence on bearing capacity, in this paper, the changes of uplift bearing capacity of the CEP pile and soil failure behavior in the case of different moisture content are studied by environmental engineering model test of undisturbed soil, and it will be simulated and analyzed by using ANSYS finite element software, the analysis results are compared and come to a conclusion, and then the existing design theory of the CEP pile can be perfected, which can provide reliable theory basis for the popularization and application of this type of pile and develop solutions to environmental problems.
Keywords: environmental engineering, moisture content, clay soil, the concrete expanded-plate pile (The CEP pile), vertical load
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Ecological Study on Sound Field Characteristics and Sound Propagation Law in Environment of Fully Mechanized Mining Face based on Finite Element Method
Guoxun Jing, Yuansheng Wang, Fei Zhou, Shaoshuai Guo, Shengqi Zhang
Issue: 106, Pages: 753-759, Article No: e106131, Year: 2018
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Based on the finite element method (FEM), the microelement mesh model of sound energy density and sound pressure level in the environment of fully mechanized mining face is established, and the ecological simulation of the noise field characteristics in the long space of the fully mechanized roadway is carried out by using COMSOL Multiphysics. The influence of the distance of the receiving point, the shape of the section and the area of the section on the sound field of the roadway is analyzed on the basis of soundscape ecology. The results show that: (1) In the whole tunnel space, when the receiving point is close to the sound source, the attenuation is very fast and close to linear attenuation. When the receiving point is located at a certain distance from the outlet of the roadway, the sound energy basically remains unchanged in the environment. When the receiving point is close to the exit position of the end face, the attenuation of small amplitude appears again; (2) If the cross-sectional geophysical area of the fully mechanized mining work is constant, when the cross-sectional shape is trapezoidal or rectangular. The attenuation trend of acoustic energy along the distance is basically the same. And the change rate of the cross-sectional shape to the sound pressure level is not much different, but when the cross-sectional shape is trapezoidal, the noise attenuation is faster; (3) The section area of fully mechanized coal mining has great ecological influence on the sound pressure level, and the larger the section area, the faster the decline.
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Comparative Study on the Technology of Seasonal Solar Energy Storage
Kun-Ru Ma, Rui-Jiao Yu
Issue: 106, Pages: 761-770, Article No: e106132, Year: 2018
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Seasonal solar energy storage means that the solar energy is stored when it is sufficient and used when the weather is getting cold. It is not only conducive to the application of green energy, but also to the saving of primary energy. The technology studied in this paper is the soil heat storage. First, use the Gambit to establish cases with different buried pipes intervals; then, use the Fluent to simulate the soil heat storage under different heat taken conditions; and finally, analyze the data that make the system achieve balance. In this way, we can obtain the amount of heat storage and heat taken and the difference of the area of the solar collectors that are applied in the direct and indirect systems. After matching, we can know the final soil temperature, the amount of heat storage and heat taken, and the ratio between heat storage and heat taken under different temperatures of return water and intervals of buried pipe. With the conclusion, we can provide reference for future projects with regard to the area of solar collector and the total length of buried pipe.
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A Study of the Effects of Leadership Styles on Innovation Management and Organizational Innovation in Environmental Protection Industry
Yi Lin, Jin Wu
Issue: 106, Pages: 771-777, Article No: e106078, Year: 2018
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Environmental protection industry covers prevent environmental pollution, improve the ecological environment, and protect natural resources to diversify the business marketing channels. It is necessary to utilize teamwork as the management model for sharing and fully using resources. Under the cross-industry business, traditional marketing is impacted and the market becomes more competitive. Salespeople in traditional Environmental protection industry could maintain the market by learning and enhancing personal service quality. The competence of a business supervisor is the key in the excellence of the team. The major characteristic of Environmental protection industry is talent oriented, unlike traditional manufacturing with plenty of production machines and production lines. The major issue for Environmental protection industry therefore is to enrich industrial talents. As the example of environmental protection industry in Guangdong, the effect of leadership styles on innovation management and organizational innovation is discussed. With quantitative questionnaire survey, data required for this study are collected and analyzed with statistics for the conclusion and suggestion. The research results reveal that leadership styles could coherence to the unit and induce employees involving in the work with continuous innovative ability to achieve organizational innovation; and, leadership styles could affect the operation of innovation management, which could induce employees to work hard.
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Study on Solidification Characteristics of Heavy Metal Contaminated Sludge
Xiaoqiang Liu, Yanhua Yang, Wenbin Pei, Long Wang, Jiandong Li
Issue: 106, Pages: 779-785, Article No: e106133, Year: 2018
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The laboratory test study takes the heavy metal contaminated sludge such as chromium and zinc as the research object, uses cement, mineral powder and sludge as the solidified materials, and uses orthogonal design and other means to study the strength and concentration after solidification of heavy metal contaminated sludge. The research results show that, the solidifying agent prepared according to a certain percentage by using cement, mineral powder and sludge as the main solidified materials can effectively control the heavy metal ion concentration leaching in the contaminated sludge and greatly improve the unconfined compression strength of contaminated sludge. The test results show that, 15% amount of sludge solidifying agent can increase the unconfined compression strength of contaminated sludge to more than 1MPa, and the strength can be increased to 1.5 times of the original strength by incorporating a certain amount of activator. The leaching concentration of heavy metal ion can reach the limit required by the existing standards, so it can provide scientific data support and reference basis for the resource utilization and harmless treatment of heavy metal contaminated sludge.
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Effect of Environmental Pollutants on Taste Composition Based on Electroencephalography Signal Analysis in an Indoor Environment
Kalyana Sundaram Chandran, Marichamy Perumalsamy
Issue: 106, Pages: 787-792, Article No: e106209, Year: 2018
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Various man-made and naturally occurring chemicals and substances can modify the chemosensory systems of animals and man. This article provides an overview of research studies that investigate the impact of pollution on taste perception using an electroencephalography signal analysis in an indoor environment. Acute and chronic alterations in taste are discussed for solvents, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, disinfectants, germicides, soil fumigants, dyes, pharmaceuticals, textile wastes, smog, tobacco smoke, perfumes, flavors, plastics, synthetic rubber, and other industrial substances. The mechanisms by which pollutants may cause physiologic and biologic changes are highlighted. Natural detoxification systems are discussed, as well as treatments for chemosensory deficits. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a powerful tool for creating communication between wired brain and an external device. In this non–Invasive BCI, Electroencephalography (EEG) reads the scalp electrical activities for the taste stimuli through 10–20 electrode system. Taste sensation is one of the five natural senses used to diagnose disease present in our body. It is a life giving force and tongue is the physician of our body. Features like Mean, Standard Deviation and Kurtosis are extracted from the acquired EEG signals to analyze the signal in an indoor environment.
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Kaijun Yu, Ruiyi Gong, Ruoyang Li, Shanshan Hu, Yuzhou Luo
Issue: 106, Pages: 793-798, Article No: e106038, Year: 2018
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Under the trend of globalization and medical globalization, the popularity and circulation of medical information enhance the competition in medical industry that the cross-national-border medical behavior pattern is emerged. In comparison with high medical expenses and long waiting time in European and American countries, healthy medical service and quality and lower medical expenses in Asian countries facilitate the citizens in European and American countries seeking medical care in Asian countries. Medical tourism is therefore generated. The performance evaluation of medical ecology system in tourism development is therefore studied. With the computation of Modified Delphi Method, the geometric mean is regarded as the expert consensus about the evaluation of inputs and outputs to select the factors being able to evaluate the performance of medical ecology system in tourism development. Moreover, DEA is applied to measure the performance of medical ecology system in tourism development. With strict selection, total 16 Shanghai city-governed districts are selected as the samples. The research results show 1 DMU presenting strong efficiency on medical ecology system in tourism development, 5 DMUs revealing the efficiency between 0.9 and 1 on medical ecology system in tourism development, and 10 DMUs appearing the efficiency lower than 0.9 on medical ecology system in tourism development. According to the results, suggestions are proposed in this study, expecting to make real contributions to domestic medical ecology system in tourism development.
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Aijun Shao, Yimei Liu, Shiwen Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 799-802, Article No: e106134, Year: 2018
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A new experiment method for determining parameters of soil water movement is put forward, which is that two parameters are determined in the same one experiment. According to the principle of determining undisturbed soil sample parameters, a new device is designed and introduced. Through successive correction of the assumed soil water characteristic curve by iteration method, unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of the undisturbed soil sample is obtained. At the same time, the soil sample is also obtained.
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Xina Ma, Jingyuan Zhao
Issue: 106, Pages: 803-815, Article No: e106135, Year: 2018
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This paper investigates the regulation of the interior turbulent flow of adjacent buildings in residential groups that influence of suspended particulate matter distribution. Residential space plan design’ model using three-dimensional numerical simulation method based on Autodesk Simulation CFD software. From the perspective of urban design, a comparable index, the height ratio of adjacent buildings in residential group, was put forward in the present research. The model of the turbulent flow field between the adjacent buildings of residential group in Xi’an, China as an example was established to study the turbulent flow regulation of the Characteristics of suspended particulate matter diffusion. Field text and CFD simulation were performed to obtain a reasonable numerical model, thus the simulation research of different height ratios of adjacent buildings could be realized. The numerical investigation was carried out in residential group with different height ratio of adjacent buildings, i.e., 1:3, 2:3, 1:1, 4:3, 5:3 and 2:1. Considering the turbulent flow characteristics in vertical direction and the pollutant concentration distribution under micro climate, the distribution rules of the concentration of PM2.5, the absolute velocity and the velocity path lines in the turbulent flow field were studied. The results show that regulation of adjacent buildings have various different action mechanism and different degree of influence on the concentration of PM2.5, absolute velocity distribution and velocity path lines, which could provide a theoretical guide for the quantitative design of urban planning.
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Ming Yang, Jingcang Bi, YaPeng Liu, Xiaomin Jin
Issue: 106, Pages: 817-825, Article No: e106136, Year: 2018
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Ecologically, the pore fissure system of a coal reservoir is the accumulation place and migration channel of coalbed methane. Pore fissure distribution and environmental characteristics play important roles in enrichment and osmosis migration of coalbed methane. Surrounding stress of coal reservoir is important to internal pore fissure system development in environment. The ecological variation law of pore fissure characteristics of coal samples with and without 1–9 MPa of confining pressure was analyzed through low-field nuclear magnetic resonance experiments to reveal the influence of confining pressure changes on pore fissure characteristics of high-rank coal. Results demonstrated that with the increase of confining pressure, pore volume in coal samples decreases and pore size distribution changes. A few small pores will be converted into large pores, and porosity gradually decreases in the power function form. The proportion of small pores increases, whereas those of middle and large pores decrease. The internal pore connectivity of ecological coal samples is enhanced accompanied with different variation trends of permeability. Corresponding environmental causes were further analyzed.
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Xiaoyu Su, Xiaona Cai, Dazhuang Huang
Issue: 106, Pages: 827-835, Article No: e106137, Year: 2018
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The aim of the study was to explore the feasibility of a geometric morphometric method for the ecological classification and identification of moths according to taxonomic ecology. Ten species of Sphingidae were used as examples in this paper. The right forewings from the ten species were used as the research object, and seventeen landmarks in environment were selected for analysis. Two related steps including geometric morphometric analysis and multivariate statistical analysis were carried out. In the first step, Procrustes superimposition was applied to the data of the seventeen environmental landmarks by removing nonshape variation from the landmark coordinates. Using relative warp analysis, relative warp figures and a matrix of relative warp scores were obtained. In the second step, ecological component analysis of the Procrustes-transformed data set was implemented, and three dimensional distribution figures for the ten species of Sphingidae were described on the basis of the first three components. Discriminant analysis was carried out on the relative warp scores matrix, and accuracy of original and cross-validation tests achieved 100% and 99.7%, respectively. The results indicate that geometric morphometric analysis may be used to accurately identify the ten species of Sphingidae, and their taxonomy can be achieved using relative warp figures.
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The Environmental Study on Causality Relationship among Energy Consumption, CO2 Emissions, the Value Added of Development Sectors and Household Final Consumption Expenditure in Indonesia
Andhyka Tyaz Nugraha, Nor Hasni Osman
Issue: 106, Pages: 837-852, Article No: e106212, Year: 2018
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The long-run estimates indicate that there is a statistically significant positive association between electricity consumption and emissions and a non-linear relationship between emissions and real output, consistent with the Environmental Kuznets Curve. The present study investigate the causal relationship between CO2 emissions, energy consumption, the value added of three development sectors and household final consumption expenditure in Indonesia using annual time series data from 1971 to 2014. We applied Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method and granger causality test in order to explore the direction of relationships among the variables. Our study revealed that the growth of energy consumption and an increases the value added of industry sector and services sector will causes a rise of CO2 emissions, while a rise of the value added of agriculture sector potentially reduced CO2 emission and increases energy consumption. The growth of value added on three development sectors, respectively, have a mutual relationship with household final consumption expenditure and a unidirectional relationship to energy consumption and CO2 emission in Indonesia. Furthermore, we also discovered that the value added of services sector has a mutual relationship with the value added of industry sector and agriculture sector, while the growth of value added on industry sector has a negative effect to the value added of agriculture sector. Based on these results, we concluded that the energy conservation policies can be applied to all energy user groups in Indonesia. In addition we also suggest that policy makers can implement economic policies that can encourage increased the value added of agriculture sector in Indonesia.
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Jianjun Liu, Yingjie Wang, Jiannan Yue, Xiang He
Issue: 106, Pages: 853-858, Article No: e106138, Year: 2018
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The aim of this study was to ecologically analyze the flow field and fluid pressure on the interlayer in the construction of salt-cavern gas storage in terms of terrestrial ecology. With the help of CFD software Fluent, the cavity numerical models in different working environments had been built and the influence of water injection rate, height of the central tube and inter-medium tube, height and length of interlayer had been analyzed. The results show that the existence of interlayer breaks up the continuity of cavity boundary and causes many ecological eddies in the storage, and the changes of factors have a great impact on the strength and scope of eddy in the small space of environment. The fluid pressure on the upper surface of interlayer is significantly less than the fluid pressure on the lower surface in most cases while the pressure equal to each other when the inter-medium tube goes down, so that it can be slump the interlayer easily through reducing the height of the inter-medium tube.
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The Ecological Regulating Effect of Exopolysaccharides Produced by Bifidobacterium on Intestinal Microecological Imbalance
Xiaotong Wu, Pinglan Li, Qian Shen, Guo Rong Liu, Rihua Xu
Issue: 106, Pages: 859-865, Article No: e106139, Year: 2018
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The paper investigates the ecological effect of exopolysaccharides (EPS) produced by Bifidobacterium animalis RH on mice intestinal flora in terms of behavioral ecology. The Bifidobacterium produced two kinds of EPS, named as EPSa and EPSb. Five intestinal floras were detected to explore what role EPS plays in regulating intestinal floral and fighting against intestinal flora disturbance. After 14-days gavage, in comparison with control group, EPSa and EPSb remarkably increased the quantity of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus (P<0.05), reduced Clostridium perfringens quantity (P<0.05), while there was no significant ecological change in the quantity of Enterobacteriaceae and Enterococcus (P>0.05). That indicates that Bifidobacterium EPS is capable of regulate the intestinal flora of normal mice. On the 15th day, cyclophosphamide (CTX) is intraperitoneally injected to build mucous-injured mice models. EPSa and EPSb also significantly antagonized the decreasing numbers of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus (P<0.05) and increasing amounts of Clostridium perfringens, Enterococcus and Enterobacteriaceae (P<0.05) to resist the intestinal dysbacteriosis induced by large dose of CTX and maintain intestinal flora balance.
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Empirical Study of Performance Evaluation for the Implementation of Learning Organizations in the Ecology Industry with Data Envelopment Analysis
Kaijun Yu, Ruiyi Gong, Longjie Sun, Shanshan Hu, Yuzhou Luo
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At the moment, the Eco-Industry around the world has gradually formed a society for learning together. Each Eco-Industry is trying to find an optimal approach as the model for an enterprise to change. Therefore, the concept of a learning organization emerged because of this opportunity. There are already many scholars who investigated the constituent elements of a learning organization. However, there is still no relevant research on the achievement of applications in practice to this day. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate the performance of introducing learning organizations into the Eco-Industry in China via the analysis of qualitative research in combination with quantitative data. The modified Delphi method was used in this study to screen out the input and output factors. Data envelopment analysis was also used as a tool for assessing the efficiency. The variables and data used in this study came from the statistical data published by companies. The results of this study indicated that it is known from the efficiencies obtained by DEA and the information gathered from various variables that, the operating efficiency of a chemical enterprise’s learning organization for 1 DMU belongs to strong form efficiency. The operating efficiencies of a chemical enterprise’s learning organization for 5 DMUs are in the range of 0.9 and 1, which are marginal inefficient units. The operating efficiencies of a chemical enterprise’s learning organization for 4 DMUs are lower than 0.9, which are distinctly inefficient units. The key factors that affect the implementation of learning organizations for the Eco-Industry in China were determined by sensitivity analyses. At the final stage of this study, conclusions and recommendations were proposed based on the results we obtained with the expectation to be beneficial for the Eco-Industry in China to implement learning organizations.
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Jianjun Li, Jingxiao Ma, Xiaoya Lian, Jun Wang, Wenxi Ma
Issue: 106, Pages: 875-880, Article No: e106140, Year: 2018
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Objective: To set up the fingerprint of Huaqui Radix Rehmannia by FT-IR in terms of evolutionary ecology. Methods: FT-IR combined with comparative analysis software was used to analyze the 18 Radix Rehmannia samples of different variety, producing area and processing method. Results: (1) The fingerprint of Huaiqu Radix Rehmannia by FT-IR was established, and 13common characteristic peaks were obtained, laying the foundation for the identification of Radix Rehmanniain genuine producing environment. (2) The ecological similarity of Radix Rehmanniain Gansu and Sichuan had significant difference from that in Huaiqu, Indicating that the quality of Radix Rehmanni in Gansu and Sichuan was inferior to that in Huaiqu. (3) The cluster ecological analysis showed that the Radix Rehmannia in Huaiqu clustered, indicating that producing area can distinguish the similarity of Radix Rehmannia; No.3 (produced in Gansu), No.4and No.13, all of which adopted steam drying, clustered, indicating that processing method had influence on the quality of Radix Rehmannia. The Radix Rehmannia of same variety in Huaiqu clustered, but Jinjiu and Huaifeng also clustered, indicating that variety had certain influence on the quality of Radix Rehmannia. Conclusion: The constructed fingerprint of Huaiqu Radix Rehmannia by FT-IR had good stability and reproducibility in terms of evolutionary ecology, which was suitable for the quality control of Radix Rehmannia, thus providing theoretical and technical support for further rational development and utilization of Radix Rehmannia.
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Prevention of Environmental Crimes as Overcoming the Disbalance of Natural and Positive Human Rights
Elena G. Bagreeva, Salikh Kh. Shamsunov
Issue: 106, Pages: 881-885, Article No: e106182, Year: 2018
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The article is devoted to the anthropogenic environmental criminal impact leads to the destruction of the ecosystem. The number of crimes committed in the sphere of ecology last time has tendency of steadily increasing. It is urgently needed to create a system of crime prevention in the sphere of ecology including the achievement of the necessary balance between natural and positive law and ecological education and upbringing, changing the minds and approach of people to Nature. Humanity for long years of existence has developed the understanding of conditions for stable functioning of the state only in the presence of legal regulation. In the process of state development such factors are legal norms that are binding on all citizens: understanding the law as a system of norms it is in use to divide it into a natural law and a positive one. Long-lasting, dynamic and fruitful evolution of the philosophy of a natural law, (prominent representatives of which were Aristotle, the Greek Stoics, Cicero, the Roman Stoics and the medieval scholastics), led to the understanding of the need for consideration of socio-cultural norms and rules of conduct prevailing in a natural way, coming from the needs and interests of the individual. In this way the natural law was formed as a list of freedoms and duties of man, provided he was born by nature.
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Evaluating the Influence of Work Attitudes on Work Stress and Turnover Intention in Ecology Industry: Empirical Study
Shunteng Jiang, Xue Jiang, Changsheng Huang
Issue: 106, Pages: 887-892, Article No: e106072, Year: 2018
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Along with the transformation from traditional labor intensive to ecology industry centered capital and technology intensive industries, individuals, groups, and even enterprises have to enhance the competitiveness in the international and global competition. For personal achievement, an individual has to constantly search for better stages. “People” are the major assets of a company. An enterprise has to recruit excellent talents to create larger value and stabilize the status. The competitive advantages of an organization in ecology industry is not the promotion of new products, the pursuit of excellent service, or excellent information technology, but the competition of human resource management. However, a lot of enterprises have to face the employee turnover. Although employee turnover could provide new vitality and technology, increase promotion opportunities, and offer shift opportunity for dissatisfactory workers, frequent employee turnover would enhance personnel reallocation costs, strike existing employees’ morale and climate, and increase workload. Frequent labor turnover would lose and waste work resources and result in vicious cycle in practice to weight workload burden. Stable labors allow workers developing the work profession as well as stabilizing and promoting the expertise. The correlations among work attitudes, working pressure, and turnover intention of employees in ecology industry are therefore discussed in this study. Employees of ecology industry in Fujian Province are proceeded the questionnaire survey, and the statistical analysis are used for testing the research hypotheses.
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Ju Xue
Issue: 106, Pages: 893-898, Article No: e106146, Year: 2018
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In order to comply with the trend of intelligence, greenization, servitization and internationalization, it’s extremely important to actively promote the use of intelligent systems in garden to create a comfortable, healthy garden environment in the context of “made in China 2025”. This paper makes a conception of the application of intelligent system from the aspects of construction, management, operation and maintenance of the garden ecology.
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Yongyin Qu, Cheng Liu, Yanming Cheng, Ilkyoo Lee
Issue: 106, Pages: 899-904, Article No: e106147, Year: 2018
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Copper is a very common substance that occurs naturally in the environment and spreads through the environment through natural phenomena. Humans widely use copper. For instance it is applied in the industries and in agriculture. The production of copper has lifted over the last decades. Due to this, copper quantities in the environment have increased. This metal, the tea-coloured organic material found in soil and rivers and coastal waters, is not ecologically toxic to humans but it is somewhat toxic to fish and very toxic to phytoplankton” -- a fundamental link in the food chain. Natural humic substances and other copper-binding compounds may also greatly affect the toxicity and bioavailability of metals in rivers and coastal waters. When organic matter binds with metals, noted Professor Voelker, the metals often become less toxic. However, in environments such as groundwater, they may also become more mobile. Among widely used heavy metals, Cu(II) ions have received special attention due to its eco-toxic effect (i.e., negative impacts on ecology and environment), bioaccumulation in food chain and its persistent in nature. Additionally, copper is most valuable substance, which is mostly washed away in wastewater and dissipate to environment resulting in economic loss. Cu(II) ions have major contribution, cause several adverse effects even at very low concentration such as an extreme mucosal bothering, hypertension, hepatic and renal harm, far reaching slender harm, gastrointestinal irritation, vomiting, irritation of the focal sensory system took after by dejection, and conceivable necrotic changes in the liver and kidneys. But human beings needs copper in the life circle, so for improving on the quality of copper cathode and saving energy, the analysis of the whole process of electrolytic copper production is needed. It indicates that the copper ion and acid ion concentration are the most important factors affecting the quality of copper cathode, however, the copper ion and acid ion concentration as major variables of objective function determined by accurate electrolyte temperature control. Therefore, in this paper, an improved differential evolution algorithm is proposed to optimize the multi-objective function, and the optimal solution set of the multi-objective problem is determined. Then, a new improved ideal point method is proposed based on the ideal point method. Finally, the optimal temperature and copper ion concentration are determined to optimize the electrolysis process. The optimal value of temperature is taken as the given value of the control system. The fuzzy adaptive PID algorithm is used for simulation analysis and experimental verification. The results show the correctness and feasibility of the algorithm under the background of low carbon energy saving appeal.
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Ecological Study of Moisture Content of Clay Soil Affecting Compressive Failure of the CEP Pile
Yongmei Qian, Xue Feng, Wei Tian, Ruozhu Wang
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In environmental engineering because of the special structure of the CEP pile, the factors influencing the failure state and bearing capacity of the soils surrounding the pile are more complex ecologically. The moisture content of the soil-layer embedded the bearing plate will have a great influence on the resistance to compression of the CEP pile, and it needs to be further studied in ecological terms. Through the environmental engineering model test of undisturbed soil, the article studies the effect of different moisture content of soil on the compressive properties of the CEP pile, and through the finite element analysis by ANSYS software, the results of test regarding resource recovery are verified, and improve the calculation formula of the bearing capacity of the CEP pile. Through the study of this paper, it will be provided that an ecological basis for the design of the CEP pile, which contributes to the promotion of the technology, and further expands the social benefits and environmental benefits of the CEP pile.
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Analyse the Environmental Combine Effect of Graphene Oxide and Rice Husk Ash in Concrete Properties
S. Gopinathan, G. Venkatesan
Issue: 106, Pages: 913-924, Article No: e106210, Year: 2018
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Rice husk ash is environmentally hazardous if not dispose properly. Rice Husk Ash with graphene oxide as 50% cement replacement in concrete were used and analysed for their fresh and hardened properties. Also, this samples were mould as reinforced concrete beam specimens and tested for their flexural behaviour. Eleven cube samples were made with 4.9% RHA-0.1%GO, 9.8%RHA-0.2%GO, 14.7%RHA-0.3%GO, 19.6%RHA-0.4%GO,24.55%RHA-0.5%GO, 29.4%RHA-0.6%GO, 34.3%RHA-0.7%GO, 39.2%RHA-0.8%GO, 44.1%RHA-0.9%GO and 49%RHA-1%GO. Control concrete mix with 100% OPC were used to compare the results after 7,14 and 28 days for compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, flexural strength etc. Fresh concrete properties such as slump, bulk density and entrained air content were tested for eleven concrete mixes and SEM images for materials and cured concrete were presented in this paper. Seven concrete mixes were used for beam specimens that is up to 30% RHA-GO replacement and tested for deflection, load carrying capacity and crack pattern. As a result 25 to 30% RHA-GO mix can be used as cement replacement in concrete.
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The Study of Chinese Coastal Chemical Tankers Forward Time Charter Freight Index and the Volatility
Da-Shan Wang, Wen-Bai Liu
Issue: 106, Pages: 925-934, Article No: e106184, Year: 2018
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By the tracking and analysis of Chinese coastal chemical tankers freight tendency in shipping market in category of 3 sizes, the dynamic marketing forecasting model was established. Based on the marketing performance circles and econometrics the time charter equivalent tendency of each size chemical tankers was studied and the market performance was illustrated, and correlation between variables were introduced into the regression model for the establishment of the forecasting model, then the sensitivity analysis and model optimization were conducted for the accuracy coefficient between market time charter freight level and relevant marketing variables, and the systematical tendency in market was proved. The Chinese coastal chemical tankers time charter freight index was put forward, and the basic study of relevant trading and hedging operations was conducted.
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Analysis of Behavior Choice Willingness of Rural Land Transfer and Ecological Farming in the Perspective of Farmer Cognition
Bin Guo, Dongliang He
Issue: 106, Pages: 935-943, Article No: e106148, Year: 2018
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Under the macro environment of raising farmers’ income, rural land transfer and part-time farming is not only the inevitable trend of the development of China’s agricultural modernization, but also the inevitable choice to promote farmers ‘welfare based on the household survey data,. From the perspective of farmer cognition in ecological farming, this paper depicts that the farmer needs to consider certain principles unique to ecological farming: a) food production should be ecological in both origin and destiny; b) integration of species that maintain ecosystem services whilst providing a selection of alternative products; c) minimize food miles, packaging, energy consumption and waste; d) define a new ecosystem to suit human needs using lessons from existing ecosystems from around the world; e) apply the value of a knowledge-base (advanced data base) about soil microorganisms so that discoveries of the ecological benefits of having various kinds of microorganisms encouraged in productive systems such as Forest Gardens can be assessed and optimized; for example in the case of naturally occurring microorganisms called denitrifies. The results showed that the factors of sex, age, education, professional skills, land area, household agricultural income, non-agricultural income, consumer spending, difficulty of obtaining employment information and channel, professional training (reeducation) opportunities have a significant impact on the behavior choice willingness of the rural land transfer and part-time farming. But the other factors are not significant. On the other hand, it illustrated that ecological farming includes organic methods which regenerate ecosystem services like prevention of soil erosion, water infiltration and retention, carbon sequestration in the form of humus, and increased biodiversity.
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An Empirical Study of the Impact of China’s Foreign Trade on the Ecological Environment
Jie Huo, Yongchao Tao
Issue: 106, Pages: 945-950, Article No: e106192, Year: 2018
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In order to study the impact of China’s foreign trade on the ecological environment, qualitative research methods are used to make a descriptive analysis of the current situation of China’s export trade and environmental pollution, and the correlation between the two is specifically studied. Secondly, the ACT model is used to quantitatively study the environmental effects of export trade, and the comprehensive effects of scale, structure and technology effects of free trade on the environment are obtained by the ordinary least square method. The research results show that, without considering the endogenous nature of environmental regulation and the spill-over of foreign direct investment, the expansion of export scale and higher degree of opening-up have negative effects on the environment, and the environmental pollution effects of foreign direct investment exceed the positive effects of technological progress. It is found that export trade is the Granger cause of environmental pollution, but pollution does not have an important impact on the development of trade. To solve the environmental pollution, the government must implement the concept of green development, start from the source, combine prevention and control, comprehensively use economic and legal means to internalize pollution into the cost of polluting enterprises, and force polluting enterprises to improve energy utilization rate and consciously reduce pollution.
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Measurement and Analysis on the Law of Spatial Distribution of Particles at the Intersection of Urban Roads in Beijing and Ecological Concerns
Yu Quan, Liang Rui, Guo Zengzeng, Zhu Xiaofei, Yao Zonghan
Issue: 106, Pages: 951-957, Article No: e106150, Year: 2018
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Roads are one of the most important factors affecting the environmental life within an urban area. Roads physically replace wildlife habitat and often reduce life’s quality nearby, fragment the remaining habitat, and cause increased mortality through vehicle collisions. Although road ecology is a growing field of study, relatively little of this research, and relatively few mitigation projects, has been done in urban landscapes. Road projects are generally intended to improve the economic and social welfare of people. But for all the positive aspects of road projects, they may also have significant negative impacts on nearby communities and the natural environment. Road ecology is the study of the ecological effects (both positive and negative) of roads and highways (public roads). These effects may include local effects, such as on noise, water pollution, habitat destruction/disturbance and local air quality; and wider effects such as habitat fragmentation, ecosystem degradation, and climate change from vehicle emissions. The design, construction and management of roads, parking, spatial distribution of the intersections and other related facilities as well as the design and regulation of vehicles can change their effect. Roads can have both negative and positive effects on air quality: a) Negative effects - Air pollution from fossil (and some biofuel) powered vehicles can occur wherever vehicles are used and are of particular concern in congested city street conditions and other low speed circumstances. Emissions include particulate emissions from diesel engines, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide and various other hazardous air pollutants including benzene. Concentrations of air pollutants and adverse respiratory health effects are greater near the road than at some distance away from the road. Road dust kicked up by vehicles may trigger allergic reactions. Carbon dioxide is non-toxic to humans but is a major greenhouse gas and motor vehicle emissions are an important contributor to the growth of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and therefore to global warming; b) Positive effects - The construction of new roads which divert traffic from built-up areas can deliver improved air quality to the areas relieved of a significant amount of traffic. The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Study carried out for the development of the roads estimated that it would result in improved air quality in Beijing city centre. In this study, Combing the traffic characteristics at the intersection of urban road and the use of environmental protection facilities to set up an environmental data collection scheme at the intersection of urban road in Beijing, then combining the conditions of the facilities and the surrounding to determine the point of monitoring, frequency of monitoring, monitoring index and monitoring method environment was necessary. By analysing the concentration of particles at different monitoring points, the mean value and variance of the hourly concentration were compared and analysed. By further analysing, the correlation between particle concentration and traffic characteristics and fitting estimation of data，the spatial diffusion model of particulates at the intersection was established. Finally the distribution of particles at the intersection of urban roads is obtained. That is the distribution of particulate matter on the cross section of intersection was higher in the centre and then decreased to the two sides. The higher the concentration of particulate matter at the point near the intersection parking line, the greater the fluctuation. The fluctuation of particle concentration on the sidewalk is higher than that on the driveway. The regularity of PM2.5 in particulate matter is consistent with that of PM10 in particulate matter.
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An Environmental Study on Persian Direct Reduction (PERED®) Technology: Comparing Capital Cost and Energy Saving With MIDREX® Technology
Fatemeh Mahnaz Mohsenzadeh, Hassan Payab, Mohammad Ali Abdoli, Zahra Abedi
Issue: 106, Pages: 959-967, Article No: e106216, Year: 2018
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The Midrex office space has been designed for a collaborative environmental work, with an open floor plan and numerous meeting rooms and areas for discussion. PERED® Direct reduction technology is the new technology in the world. Iran developed PERED® direct reduction technology for decreasing capital cost and energy saving. Iron oxide pellets are reduced in the shaft furnace. Top gas return from furnace after cleaning in scrubber is divided into fuel and process gas. Process and natural gas are mixed together (feed gas) after preheat in heat recovery system. Reducing gas is generated in the reformer by reacting methane (CH4) with water vapor (H2O) and recycled carbon dioxide (CO2) in reformer tube. Flue gas is produced due to combustion of gases in the reformer box. Some changes and improvement in equipment have been done. Reformer tubes changed from 8 to 10 inch and reformer box volume is decreased. Process and seal gas compressors are changed from Aerzen rotary lobe type to centrifugal Siemens type. Shaft furnace has a new design and internal furnace diameter is variable in terms of furnace diameter. China hat equipment replaced upper cluster breaker. Elimination of upper cluster breaker is done without any problem for movement of material in the furnace. It is affirm that it does not create any cluster in PERED® technology. Tube bundles arrangement is developed and one steam tube bundle is increased.
Keywords: PERED®, MIDREX®, heat recovery system, reformer
Agroecological Study: Environmental Effect of Scientific Technology and Education Input on Agricultural Economic Growth
Mo-Li Xu
Issue: 106, Pages: 969-974, Article No: e106171, Year: 2018
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According to generalized C-D production function, this paper analyzes the environmental effect of scientific technology and education input on agricultural economic growth based on the panel data from the year of 2004-2015 in Zhejiang province, by using the modern econometric methods of panel unit root and cointegration test. The result shows that agricultural scientific technology and education input play an active role on agricultural economic growth and the research funding and cultivable acres in particular weight most. Based on this conclusion, some relevant proposals are put forward which can provide references for the adjustment and management of agricultural scientific input and education in Zhejiang province.
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Effect of Ridges and Furrows Plant of Wolfberry on Alkalized Solonchak
Wang Xu, Sun Zhaojun, Sameh El-Sway, Wang Fang
Issue: 106, Pages: 975-983, Article No: e106187, Year: 2018
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Aiming at the bottleneck problems of high salinity of surface soil, poor physical and chemical properties of soil and difficult growth of plants in alkalized solonchak of Jingyuan, Gansu Province, field experiments were carried out on the basis of uniform application of desulfurized gypsum 22 t/hm2. Three irrigation quotas: 8,625m3/hm2, 9,375m3/hm2 and 10,125 m3/hm2, were set up under the two planting modes of ridge and furrow planting and non-ridge planting, and effects of two planting methods and irrigation quota on soil pH, degree of alkalisation, total salt content and wolfberry growth were studied. The results showed that: (1) The pH value, degree of alkalisation and total salt content of the soil were significantly reduced by all treatments, and the irrigation water and rainfall could be collected in the furrows, so as to increase the soil water content. The soil salinity of ridging treatment was 14.2% lower than that of non-ridge treatment in 0~40 cm soil layer, and the growth index of wolfberry was higher than that of non-ridge treatment. Under the two planting methods, the desalting effect increased with the increase of the irrigation volume. The survival rate, plant height, crown width and yield indexes of wolfberry increased with the increase of irrigation amount. There was no significant difference in growth indexes of wolfberry when the irrigation quotas were 9,375 m3/hm2 and 10,125 m3/hm2. Considering that the study area is located in arid area and water resources are limited, excessive irrigation will not only waste water resources but also increase the risk of secondary salinization, therefore, ridge and furrow planting is suitable for wolfberry planting in alkalized solonchak of Baiyin, Gansu, and the appropriate irrigation quota is 9,375 m3/hm2.
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Relationship between Urban Health-related Quality of Life and Utilization of Medical Ecology
Kaijun Yu, Ruoyang Li, Ruiyi Gong, Saifeng Fang, Yuzhuo Luo
Issue: 106, Pages: 985-989, Article No: e106040, Year: 2018
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The advance of medical technology allows people extending the life, and the promotion of material life standards allows people thinking of a better life. Accordingly, general public or medical institutions gradually emphasize health-related quality of life. Moreover, the increasing medical expenses in past years result in unbalance medical finance that effectively controlling the increasing utilization of medical ecology becomes a critical issue. Selecting the general public in Shanghai as the research samples for the questionnaire survey, total 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed, from which invalid and incomplete ones are deducted for 421 valid copies of questionnaire, with the retrieval rate 84%. The research results show remarkably negative correlations between 1.health-related quality of life and medical expenses, 2.health-related quality of life and number of medical visits, as well as 3.health-related quality of life and number of hospitalization. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to achieve the goal of promoting the citizens’ health-related quality of life.
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Based on Environmental Experience to Discuss the Effect of Environmental Education on Environmental Value
Shubo Liu, Qing Hou, Liqing Guo
Issue: 106, Pages: 991-997, Article No: e106188, Year: 2018
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In the technology advance commercial and industrial society, the damage of environment for convenient life and private desire has resulted in related environmental issues. The issue of environmental conservation is expanded locally to globally and regionally to internationally. Education and promotion are important ways to change environmental problems that including the idea of environmental education into formal education systems is a primary issue. With experimental design, 256 elementary school students in Hebei Province precede the 16-week (3 hours per week for total 48 hours) environmental teaching. The research results show remarkable correlations between 1.environmental education and environmental experience, 2.environmental education and environmental value, and 3.environmental experience and environmental value. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to enrich students’ knowledge related to environmental sustainability and environmental law through various teaching activities in environmental education, have students present correct value of the interaction between people and environment as well as cognition and skills to improve or solve environmental problems when facing environmental issues, and establish learners’ environmental experience to become citizens with environmental literacy.
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Issue: 106, Pages: 999-1006, Article No: e106183, Year: 2018
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The need for public participation in solving environmental problems determines the increasing role of the ecologist, acting both as a specialist and as a representative of the public during the public environmental assessment. The purpose of the article is to determine the features of the professional activity of the ecologist during the public environmental assessment and to develop appropriate recommendations for their activities. The authors studied in detail the features and working conditions of public environmental experts. The attitudes and motives of environmental experts are revealed; the importance of professionally significant qualities of specialists for their activities is established. The obtained results allowed us to develop practical recommendations for improving the professional activity of the ecologist during the public environmental assessment. The article is intended for environmental specialists, employees of environmental expertise centers, researchers dealing with environmental issues, psychologists and teachers involved in training and retraining of environmental specialists.
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Analysis of the Impact of Natural Forest Protection Project Forestry Investment on the Development of Forestry Industry in China from the Perspective of Ecological Civilization Construction
Qingshan Bai, Jingfang Zheng
Issue: 106, Pages: 1007-1012, Article No: e106189, Year: 2018
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The 19th Plenary Session of the Party proposed to vigorously promote the building of ecological civilization, strive to build a beautiful new China, and promote the construction of ecological civilization to a more prominent strategic position. Based on such construction needs, our country should strengthen the construction of ecological forestry in forestry and increase Natural Forest Protection Project in the investment in forestry. At the same time, in order to explore the impact of forestry investment on China’s forestry industry, this paper takes the afforestation investment and management and investment as an example. By using the long-panel data model with fixed effect, this paper analyzes the impacts of the forestry investment on the forestry industry in China in 2009, 2011 and 2015 Finally, the author concludes that afforestation investment in the natural forest protection project has a significant growth effect on the output value of forestry-related industries in China’s three major forestry industries. With the implementation of the natural forest protection project, the output value of forestry industry will also play a Positive effect. Therefore, our country should continue to carry out the natural forest protection project, which not only can make outstanding contributions to the construction of forestry ecological civilization, but also can promote the increase of output value of forestry-related industries in the three primary industries of forestry in our country.
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Analysis on the Role and Effect of Inclusive Finance in the Development of Green Ecological Industry under the Background of Poverty Alleviation
Ji Liu, Wenxi Ruan
Issue: 106, Pages: 1013-1020, Article No: e106190, Year: 2018
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Poverty reduction involves both balanced development and human rights protection. Poverty reduction is a world-class challenge. With the development of economy, China has done a lot of work to alleviate poverty and accumulated rich experience, making a worldwide contribution to eradicate poverty. Although countries are different, the goals and approaches to poverty reduction are consistent. When a country’s economic aggregate grows to a certain extent, it is inevitable to promote a more balanced development, and China has just arrived at this stage. In recent years, China has made great efforts in poverty reduction, and has put forward some experience of world reference in terms of regional connection, mechanism construction and accountability assessment. Especially since poverty alleviation became an important national strategy, China has invested a lot of people, money and goods and made great efforts to realize common prosperity. There are many ways to reduce poverty, and the use of financial instruments in poverty reduction is a universal tool and method throughout the world. Since the United Nations put forward the concept of inclusive finance, the role of inclusive finance in China’s poverty reduction has been playing more and more fully. The application mode of financial tools is also of vital importance. According to the characteristics of highly consistent between poverty-stricken areas and severe ecological environment areas in China, this paper proposes that financial tools play a better role in industries, especially the green ecological industry, which has a substantial role in poverty reduction. Therefore, this paper chooses the role and effect of inclusive finance in China’s poverty reduction work as the entry point, and analyzes its practical application effect. The purpose is to provide Suggestions for the further development of inclusive finance through analysis.
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A Study on Place Branding Strategy of Characteristic Agricultural Products in Xinjiang Based on Brand Ecosystem
He Yang, Kefei Liu
Issue: 106, Pages: 1021-1028, Article No: e106191, Year: 2018
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In the “the rural vitalization” strategy and the “Internet+Agriculture” background, basing on the regional characteristics of Xinjiang, implementing the regional branding strategy for specialty agricultural products is an important way to promote the transformation of Xinjiang’s agricultural supply from “scale and quantity” to “quality and taste” and achieve “accurate poverty alleviation” and “rejuvenation of rural areas” in the population of ethnic minority areas. Based on the analysis of the status quo of place brand construction of characteristic agricultural products in Xinjiang, this paper uses the methods of data collection and field research to analyze the evolution of regional branding of specialty agricultural products in Xinjiang based on the perspective of the brand ecosystem. And then, from the two aspects of the micro-management of enterprises and government’s macro management, the paper puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions for strengthening place brand construction of characteristic agricultural products inXinjiang.
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Study on Ecosystem Services and Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Water Resources Development and Utilization in Gansu Province
Jifei Fan, Xiaojun Liu, Daopeng Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 1029-1039, Article No: e106149, Year: 2018
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The in-depth study on the rule of temporal and spatial variation of water resources system in Gansu Province is the scientific basis for alleviating the contradiction between human, ecology, and water and will provide scientific basis for optimizing the relationship between social economic development, environmental improvement and water resources, planning reasonable water structure and sustainable development of water resources. Global climate and environmental changes are endangering global water resources; and several approaches have been tested to manage and reduce the pressure on these decreasing resources. Ehrlich and Ehrlich proposed the concept of “ecosystem services” as a way to assess the impact and effectiveness of ecosystems on human society. Ecosystem services are “the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfill human life”. On the basis of the unique perspective analysis of the inter-annual and regional changes of water resources in Gansu Province from 2010 to 2016, the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient statistical method are used to quantitatively describe the change process and evolution characteristics in temporal and spatial distribution of total water consumption and water consumption structure in Gansu Province. The results show that 1, the spatial distribution of water resources in Gansu Province is quite uneven, the water resources are mainly concentrated in Gannan and Longnan, and the most serious water scarcity area is Hexi area, 2, the overall regional difference of total water consumption in Gansu Province from 2010 to 2016 is higher, and 3, water resource shortages are becoming an increasingly common and serious global problem. The special distribution of water consumption in the three major industries is relatively balanced.
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Environmental Study on Methods of Handling Construction Waste for Achieving Sustainability in Malaysian Construction Projects
Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi, Nur Najihah Osman, Wan Nadzri Osman, Faisal Zulhumadi, Salman Riazi Mehdi Riazi
Issue: 106, Pages: 1041-1046, Article No: e106213, Year: 2018
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All stakeholders should participate in striving towards sustainable construction in order to embark upon the environmental impact issues. Construction industry has been recognised as a major contributor of economic growth and sustainability of a country, however, it could have a negative impact for the economy, quality of environment as well as social contexts, if this industry is not managed properly. This research would like to address the issue of the increasing use of natural resources that leads to increasing construction waste. This subject is not only a major issue debated in Malaysia, but it has also become a major issue globally. It occurs due to the lack of awareness of good construction waste management practices among stakeholders. Accordingly, this research paper will discuss the issue of waste management in more detail that including stakeholders’ awareness, future’s impact and also the best practices of waste management in improving the sustainability of construction.
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Based on Environmental Value to Discuss the Effect of Product Design Attitude on Purchase Intention
Meng-Dar Shieh, Chien-Nan Chen
Issue: 106, Pages: 1047-1053, Article No: e106069, Year: 2018
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The overuse of global energy and resources as well as improper handling of environment result in worsening ecological environment and accelerating the exhaustion of resources on which humans rely for survival. Along with the enhancement of people’s environmental awareness, humans start to concern about the environment with various environmental protection activities. The regulations and requirements of international organizations and the government have green consumption become a trend. Domestic businesses also design various green products conforming to international environmental protection regulations to respond to consumers’ attitudes towards environmental value. Aiming at the public in northern, central, and southern Taiwan, as the research objects, total 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed and 373 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 75%. The research results show significantly positive effects of 1.environmental value on product design attitude, 2.product design attitude on purchase intention, and 3.environmental value on purchase intention. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to do the best for the natural environment and promote green consumption to become the national movement.
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Research on the Financial Impact of Ecological Environment Information Disclosure on Heavy Polluting Enterprises
Desheng Huang, Tianqi Zhang, Caihong Zhao
Issue: 106, Pages: 1055-1063, Article No: e106074, Year: 2018
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In order to study the relationship between financial and ecological environmental information disclosure of heavily polluting enterprises, a combination of theory and empirical methods was applied. In terms of the theoretical part, relevant literatures at home and abroad were reviewed, and the corresponding theoretical basis was outlined. Subsequently, the basic characteristics of the enterprise environment were discussed. The financial impact of the disclosure of eco-environmental information on heavily polluting enterprises was analyzed. In terms of the empirical test, the key was to conduct an empirical study of the proposed hypothesis. The results showed that among the influencing factors of environmental information disclosure, the asset size of the enterprise, the establishment of the environmental protection department, the financial leverage and the level of environmental information disclosure were significantly positively correlated. The growth rate of operating income was significantly negatively correlated with the level of environmental information disclosure. Therefore, with the increase of the degree of environmental information disclosure, the corresponding enterprise value and return on net assets show an upward trend. The disclosure of eco-environmental information has a positive impact on enterprise finance.
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Issue: 106, Pages: 1065-1075, Article No: e106071, Year: 2018
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Public services of urban health life affect not only urban residents’ life quality, but also the regional economic development. This study evaluated the public services of urban health life in the Pearl River Delta in China (hereinafter referred to as PRD), aiming at providing decision-making basis for governments’ public services construction. Based on the constructed evaluation indicator system of urban health life public services, Entropy Weight TOPSIS was used to evaluate nine prefecture-level cities in PRD. The results showed that the public service level of urban health life in PRD presented a multi-level state, and the regional differences were large. Shenzhen had the highest level of health life public services. Guangzhou and Dongguan were at the second level. Foshan, Zhuhai and Zhongshan were at the third level. Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing were at the fourth level. In terms of geographical distribution of public service, it featured that Shenzhen was the center, and it gradually decreased outward. The in-depth analysis of the indicators showed that there were still many regional development imbalances in many indicators in PRD. The findings provided some suggestions for local governments to carry out public services construction.
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Zhen-Rong Jia, Ti Hu
Issue: 106, Pages: 1077-1085, Article No: e106079, Year: 2018
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“Coach-athlete” guanxi, being one of the most important contents in the ecology sport, would significantly affect athletic performance. Based on the spirit of cultural consciousness, ecology sports are regarded as the object to discuss the effect of “coach-athlete” guanxi on organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior as well as the mediation of perceived organizational support by applying supervisor-subordinate guanxi (SSG) under ecology sport. Proper “coach-athlete” guanxi could effectively enhance athletes’ organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior, and “coach-athlete” guanxi normally appears effects on organizational citizenship behavior through perceived organizational support, which presents complete mediation. However, perceived organizational support merely shows partial mediation on guanxi and organization organizational commitment.
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Kulzipa Zh. Dakieva, Zhazgul B. Tusupova, Saule B. Zhautikova, Irina V. Loseva, Dolores N. Dzhangozina, Roza S. Beysembaeva, Zhanat K. Idrisheva, Manira K. Zhamanbaeva
Issue: 106, Pages: 1087-1097, Article No: e106214, Year: 2018
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This study is performed to study the positive effects and benefits of going green and creating green physical environments of work on health promotion and stressors reduction on workers in Sympathoadrenal and Kallikrein-Kinin Systems. It also evaluates environmental conditions of work-place, as well as sympathoadrenal and kallikrein-kinin systems for early (prenosological) sings of de-adaptation to work-related stressors in workers engaged in non-ferrous metallurgy. Workplace health promotion (WHP) has been proposed as a preventive intervention for stress, possibly operating by promoting positive organizational culture or via programs promoting healthy lifestyles. In order to do this a trial experiment was done on animals (white rats). Adrenaline and noradrenaline (AD and NAD) levels in the liver, adrenal glands and hearts of rats were measured throughout 2, 4 and 12 trial weeks. Changes in sympathoadrenal system, detected in workers, who were working at the main workshops for a long time, reflect all the stages of non-specific adaptation process to work-place environment, defined as a standard activation of stress-realizing system. At the last stages of stress, the KKS, which represents a cascade, promotes body resistance to work-related stressors and negative environmental conditions. Signs of early de-adaptation were found in healthy workers to identify who of them are at risk of adaptive breakdown. Our tests were used at five times as part of health examination, and some related guidelines were published.
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Empirical Study of Supervisor Support on Organizational Innovation based on Employee Creativity in Ecological Industry – Case Study
Jingyi Zhang, Xiaohua Wang
Issue: 106, Pages: 1099-1104, Article No: e106082, Year: 2018
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In face of the fiercely competitive ecological environment, the stable survival, competitiveness, and innovation capability of an organization are closely related to the organizational innovation climate with failure allowance and innovation award. It could induce the infinite “creativity” of human resources in the organization to establish the competitive advantage in ecological industry. Aiming at supervisors and employees of ecological industry in Henan Province for the questionnaire survey, 251 valid copies of questionnaires are retrieved. With qualitative research, three hypotheses proposed in this study are verified. 1. Supervisor support appears positive correlations with employee creativity. 2. Employee creativity presents positive correlations with organizational innovation. 3. Supervisor support shows positive correlations with organizational innovation. The research findings show significantly positive correlations between supervisor support and employee creativity, revealing the effect of supervisors’ attitudes on employees’ creativity. For this reason, supervisors’ attitudes of positive encouragement, appreciation, and concerns would enhance employees’ creativity and induce the potential creativity and creation to constantly break through and innovate the business development.
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Exploration of Poverty Alleviation Based on Ecotourism in Minority Areas of Yunnan Province
Gao Suwei, Zhou Changchun
Issue: 106, Pages: 1105-1113, Article No: e106083, Year: 2018
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The exploitation and utilization of Yunnan’s unique natural and cultural resources has made the tourism industry of Yunnan achieve substantial development; however, Yunnan province is the province with the largest poverty area and the highest poverty rate in China. Its poverty degree is very deep, especially the national poverty of minority nationality, which is the important reason that restricts the development of Yunnan. Mountainous areas, ethnic minorities, border areas, poverty, rich and unique tourism resources are basically overlapped in Yunnan. Therefore, Yunnan should take developing tourism as an important strategic choice for poverty alleviation. Based on the theoretical and practical results of sustainable tourism and ecotourism at home and abroad, the favorable factors for the development of ecotourism in Yunnan are analyzed. It is pointed out that ecotourism is an effective way for sustainable development of tourism in Yunnan, which has positive economic, ecological and social benefits. In a word, it should guide the development of ecotourism in Yunnan with a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable scientific view of development, and take it as an important strategic choice of poverty alleviation in Yunnan.
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Analysis of the Influence of BOT Mode on the Financing of Sewage Treatment Enterprises in China
Guangtong Wang, Guoqiang Sun
Issue: 106, Pages: 1115-1122, Article No: e106087, Year: 2018
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Environmental protection is now a hot topic. The international community has also signed many international documents in different fields to strengthen the synergy of environmental issues. After years of capacity, China’s environmental problems have improved. This is due to the country’s efforts to solve this problem. On the other hand, we continue to learn from the practices of some advanced countries and apply it to our country’s environmental protection practices. A typical example of absorbing advanced experience and practices is the exploration of financing. It breaks the original single investment and financing system and adopts financing methods such as stock financing and BOT mode. This is also an innovation of our country in exploring the environmental protection system. As far as the current situation is concerned, BOT has been relatively mature due to its wide range of applications, and it has also accumulated some mature practices. As far as the actual situation is concerned, the BOT model has its own characteristics, and its application in the field of sewage treatment is relatively concentrated and extensive. After introducing the role of the BOT model in China’s environmental protection field, this paper focuses on the role of the BOT model in wastewater treatment enterprises and some issues that should be noted, and finally proposes countermeasures.
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Evaluating the Coordinated Development of Regional Innovation Ecosystem in China
Bin-Qing Cai, Xin-Huan Huang
Issue: 106, Pages: 1123-1132, Article No: e106088, Year: 2018
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According to the thought of system theory, regional innovation ecosystem consists of four subsystems: the subsystem of regional innovation resources, the subsystem of innovation resources flow, the subsystem of basic environment for innovation, the subsystem of policy environment for innovation. The evaluation index system is established to reflect the diversity of innovation agents, the flow of innovation resource, and the complexity of innovation environmental that highlighting the policy environment for innovation. Improved G1 method based on grey relational degree, the coordination degree model based on bull’s-eye distance and the contribution algorithm of grey target are jointly applied to analyze coordinated development degree of innovation ecosystem for China’s 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in 2016, and identify the key influencing factors of coordinated development. The results show that the coordinated development level of regional innovation ecosystem is not so high, and presents the obviously spatial pattern of east highest and west lowest. Nationwide, the subsystem of regional innovation resources is the most weak and unbalanced-development subsystem, the subsystem of innovation resources flow is the last but one subsystem. Talent resources, technology flow, fund flow, firm agglomeration condition, legal policy are the important influencing factors of coordination development.
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An Environmental Study on Forecasting Rainfall Using Data Mining Technique and ARIMA Model: An Integrated Approach
M. Mallika, M. Nirmala
Issue: 106, Pages: 1133-1141, Article No: e106215, Year: 2018
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Neural networks and fuzzy logic have been used as effective modelling tools in different environmental processes such as waste water treatment, water treatment and air pollution. Water is a very basic necessity in every day’s and everyone’s life. Rain is considered as one of the precious nature’s gift. Chennai, one of the metro cities in India, highly rely on The Nature’s gift to replenish its water reservoirs as the rivers flowing through Chennai are polluted with sewage. Hence prediction of rainfall is very essential for Chennai city. In this research article, smoothing techniques Moving Average (MA), Exponential Smoothing (ES), classical statistical method AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and the data mining technique K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) have been used for prediction. Hybrid models involving the above-mentioned methods have also been applied for the same purpose. The performance evaluation of the above-mentioned models is carried out using the error measure Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). Analysis show that the classical model ARIMA and the hybrid model ES-KNN have performed equally well.
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Human Capital Utility of Ecological Enterprises Based on the Difference between Urban and Rural Workers’ Human Capital
Zhouyu Tian, Guangsheng Zhang
Issue: 106, Pages: 1143-1152, Article No: e106084, Year: 2018
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In order to narrow the income gap between urban and rural areas, the three effects of human capital differences between urban and rural areas on the income gap are discussed, including the threshold effect caused by the difference in human capital stock between urban and rural areas, the cumulative effect caused by the difference in flow, and the strengthening effect caused by the one-way flow of human capital between urban and rural areas. The results show that the difference of human capital stock and flow between urban and rural areas and the one-way flow of human capital between urban and rural areas lead to the widening of income gap between urban and rural areas. It can be seen that increasing investment in rural human capital, improving the level of rural human capital, optimizing the rural soft environment, attracting human capital back home, and actively improving the supporting reform can narrow the income gap between urban and rural areas.
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Discussion of Correlations between Green Advertising Design and Purchase Intention based on Consumers’ Environmental Attitude
Meng-Dar Shieh, Chien-Nan Chen, Ming-Chyuan Lin
Issue: 106, Pages: 1153-1159, Article No: e106101, Year: 2018
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Environmental problems have been the globally emphasized issue in past years, and green movement has been regarded as an important social movement. The production and consumption model therefore should take the future development of environment into account. In face of humans’ environmental problems, it is essential to establish green marketing. It is generally considered that advertisement could effectively highlight product attributes and attract consumers’ interests to have consumers agree with the profits appealed to advertisement. To benefit the sustainable development of the entire environment, consumers’ attitudes towards and behaviors on green products should be comprehended to have consumers agree with the appeal to advertisement and achieve the marketing objective. Unintended audience in Taiwan, as the research objects, is randomly sampled in northern, central, and southern areas. Total 360 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 241 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 67%. The research results show 1.positive and significant effects of green advertising design on purchase intention, 2.positive and remarkable effects of environmental attitude on green advertising design, and 3.positive effects of environmental attitude on purchase intention. Suggestions are further proposed according to the results, expecting to enhance the marketing performance of green advertising design, allow consumers agreeing with the profits appealed to advertisement, and benefit the sustainable development of the entire environment.
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Analysis of Image and Molding of Sharing Bicycle Frame in Urban Traffic Efficiency based on Fuzzy Theory
Xing-Min Lin, Chun-Heng Ho, Lu-Ting Xia
Issue: 106, Pages: 1161-1166, Article No: e106102, Year: 2018
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Shared bicycle has played an important role in improving urban traffic efficiency and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the visual imagery of a variety of shared bicycle frames, by using the semantic difference Method (SD method), factor analysis method, factor renaming and triangular fuzzy numerical calculation, the author takes the top 12 market share bikes as samples; finally, it is concluded that there is something in common on the image evaluation of the bicycle frame with different shapes about simple and labor-saving, graceful and practical respects. While there are great differences in these images of vigor, modern technology and magnificent quality. It also shows that shared bicycles have similarities in modelling imagery, we take the use of shared bicycles in Hangzhou, China as an example. According to the urban landscapes, three cycling areas are set out. Bicycles with the good-quality, soft and elegant images were applied to cycling belt along the river; bicycle with simple and energy-saving, dynamic and novel ideals to cycling belt in mountain forest area; the ones with strong and modern technology to cycling belt in the urban community. At last, the result of the test is consistent with the hypothesis conclusion. The aim of this study is to distribute and use the shared bicycles rationally, and take full advantage of them, so that the government can optimize the allocation of resources and create a better public service system. At the same time, regional management of bicycles helps save human resources and maintenance costs. Thanks to the common characteristics of urban geomorphology, this research system can be piloted in major cities all around the world, and the concept of environmental sharing will be used in more countries and known to more people all over the world.
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Air Pollution, State Ownership and Firm Value Loss
Bin Li, Muze Peng, Yating Zeng
Issue: 106, Pages: 1167-1174, Article No: e106103, Year: 2018
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Air pollution has become a serious environmental problem in China and drawn worldwide attention. As a kind of air pollution of much concern in recent years, smog can negatively influence companies through their employees, the public/government, and investors. Based on CSMAR financial reports data and air quality monitoring data for the period from 2013 to 2017, we examine the firm-value effect of air pollution using smog as proxy variable in 74 cities in China. The empirical results show that smog can cause a loss of firm value in Chinese-listed companies. We also examine the moderating effect of state ownership on the influence of air pollution on firm value and find that compared to non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs), state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are more likely to suffer less from the value loss caused by smog for more government supports they could achieve. The results show that unregulated development of Chinese companies at the expense of the environment has a negative effect on economic development.
Keywords: smog, air pollution, firm value, state ownership
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An Environmental Study on Reorganizing the Reservoir Pressure Maintenance System for Western Siberia Oil Fields
Darya V. Sun, Dmitry S. Tananykhin, Liliya A. Saychenko
Issue: 106, Pages: 1175-1180, Article No: e106217, Year: 2018
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This study includes an environmental and social baseline of the oil sector in the region, an analysis of the potential key environmental and social issues, with which an assessment of impacts was made. The authors studied the key geological and physical parameters of productive formations. The authors found out that one of the main problems of the development system of the considered oil field is associated with the AV1-3 formation, which is characterized by worsened energy state and low recovery factor. The authors designed the reorganization of the reservoir pressure maintenance (RPM) system at the pilot site of the facility AV1-3 as a solution to the problem. This decision will allow increasing the sweep efficiency of the reservoir by waterflooding, and as a result – it will increase the oil recovery factor and remaining recoverable reserves.
Keywords: field development, water flooding, reservoir pressure maintenance, injection profile, environmental impact
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Light Pollution Effects of Illuminance on Yellowish Green Forsterite Color under CIE Standard Light Source D65
Jun Tang, Ying Guo, Chang Xu
Issue: 106, Pages: 1181-1190, Article No: e106105, Year: 2018
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Ecological light pollution is the effect of artificial light on individual organisms and on the structure of ecosystems as a whole. This research investigates the light pollution effects of illuminance and color genesis in forsterite. The color of 11 forsterite was measured using colorimeter under D65 with different illuminance levels based on CIE1976 L*a*b* uniform color space system. With illuminance increasing from 500lx to 3000lx, the ecological impact of light pollution soars but the hue angle keeps reducing until 2500lx before stable, while the chroma reaches its peak at 2500lx. It suggests Hunt effect, Stevens effect as well as Bezold-Brücke hue shift also fits in forsterite and the illuminance 2500lx performs best for displaying. For further feasibility, six Fisher linear discriminant functions were produced for color data acquired under six levels of illuminance, respectively. The accuracy proves to be up to 80.3%. And a notable linear relation was found between chroma and colorimetry index b*(R2 = 0.98271) instead of a*, which indicates that light pollution effects of illuminance on forsterite decreases unded CIE standard light source. Combined with chemical compositions, it shows that Fe2+ in forsterite is the root of yellow hue. The effects of illuminance are caused by the spectral power distribution of D65 and the selective absorption of Fe2+ and should be considered during color evaluation of forsterite.
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Study on Green Supply Chain Management Application in the Sluice and Dam Ecological Scheduling of River
Gang-Fu Song, Zheng-Yang E
Issue: 106, Pages: 1191-1201, Article No: e106106, Year: 2018
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Sluice and dam ecological scheduling is a complex management system. To realize the goal of ecological scheduling, we must adopt the advanced management mode as a guarantee. Green supply chain management is built on supply chain management and the sustainable development of the modern enterprise management mode. It is commonly used in enterprise management. Through comparative analysis, it is found that the green supply chain management mode and sluice and dam ecological scheduling management system in structure, connotation, management goal, and management theories all have a lot in common. And it is very feasible to apply green supply chain management system in sluice and dam ecological scheduling, and it can be observed obviously superiority in the allocation of water resources, environmental protection, and information sharing and technology promotion. The author tries to construct a sluice and dam ecological scheduling framework of green supply chain management structure and makes a brief description of the management mode. The paper shows that the management model will be beneficial to the efficient allocation of water resources and river ecological environment protection, and will have wide application prospect.
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Ecological Protection of Anti-aging Pharmacological Action and Purity Identification of Polysaccharides of Radix Polygoni Multiflori Praeparata
X.Y. Chen, T. Wang, Y. Qi, S.M. Wang, S.W. Liang
Issue: 106, Pages: 1203-1210, Article No: e106107, Year: 2018
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This paper discusses some of the links between biodiversity and traditional medicine, and addresses their implications to public health. We explore the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services to global and human health, the risks which human impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity present to human health and welfare. The “protection” of traditional medicine may also aim at its preservation, requiring actions of very different nature, such as avoiding uses that may erode traditional medicine, addressing problems that negatively affect the life or culture of the communities that hold it, and documenting the relevant knowledge. Polysaccharides from different preparations of Radix Polygoni Multiflori Praeparata (PRPMA, PRPMB, PRPMC) were administered to D-galactose aging model mice. These treatments were able to significantly increase the activity of SOD and GSH-PX, and decrease MDA content, suggesting that the polysaccharides of Radix Polygoni Multiflori Praeparata, a traditional medicine, may have an anti-aging effect. Our results also strongly suggest that PRPMB is the main active polysaccharide preparation.
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User Satisfaction and System Environment Convenience for Interface Design of Mobile Games
Fang-Chen Hsu
Issue: 106, Pages: 1211-1215, Article No: e106104, Year: 2018
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The convenience and multi-functionality of mobile devices have made mobile gaming an increasingly popular recreation but the industry competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Therefore, making research into the design flow facilitated by the user-interface a worthwhile endeavor. The five of the most popular tower defense game titles in recent years were adopted to be the cases in this study. This study was conducted using an empirical research methodology with semi-structured surveys. The missions or tasks undertaken by participants in these games serve as the bulk of the research on the interface flow. Each participant was assigned four tasks for each game, and then each participant was asked to complete a user satisfaction survey and system environment convenience scale survey. The results show that the interface’s easily recognizable icons and effective tutorials were the reasons for the higher user satisfaction and system environment convenience scale ratings from participants. In addition, the three interface designs, which are (1) unrestricted areas for building, (2) tutorial explanations on the tasks, and (3) options to undo or cancel actions, provide players with a positive experience. Therefore, interface design provides intuitive control, easy-to-identify icons, simple and clear building and upgrading tasks, and well-designed task hints among other features which would help players get through the games more smoothly.
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Management of Ecologization of Professional Education
Gaini K. Dlimbetova, Kulzhanat N. Bulatbayeva, Saulet U. Abenova, Guzaliya Zh. Fahrutdinova, Anvar N. Khuziakhmetov
Issue: 106, Pages: 1217-1225, Article No: e106089, Year: 2018
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The relevance of the topic is due to the significance of the transfer of the entire university system to a “green mode” of activity. The aim of the article is to discover ways of organizing conditions for modernizing the consciousness of young people through an appeal to the environmental way of life of the Kazakhs, expanding the concept of the university’s environmental passport and including the environmental component in the content of educational programs and educational work based on the developed principles of training and education that directly depends from the correct management greening of vocational education. The leading method in the study of this problem is the modeling of the content of the activities of the university’s departments, taking into account their typical activities, disclosure of the relationship between the components of this model, that ensures consistency, regularity, continuity, the universal coverage of subjects, the effectiveness of environmentally oriented activities and determines the management greening of vocational education and also description of the methodological basis for the implementation of the developed content. For the greening of vocational education in the context of an expanded understanding of the ecological university passport and the creation of a “green university”, the content of each university’s structural unit — the administration and academic council, the department for supporting research projects, the department for scientific activities of the department for working with students, research centers, deans of faculties, departments, scientific and methodological council of the faculty, bachelor one master’s, doctorate is defined; the importance of the single approved work plan as the implementation of the management of greening vocational education is proved based on interrelated activities, the result of the implementation of such a plan is the formation of environmental awareness of students who are actively involved in the university’s “green mode” and volunteering to solve existing environmental problems of the region. Management greening of vocational education is necessary for each educational institution in order to ensure that young specialists of all spheres of society’s activities in the regions of Kazakhstan are greening, searching for and implementing effective ways to solve environmental problems, sharing positive experience between regions on this issue, organizing joint activities of universities on environmental problems and identifying issues for discussion on the national and international levels in conducting scientific forums.
Keywords: ecologization of professional education, ecological passport of university, “green” university, green mode of the university, management of ecologization of professional education
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