Effects of Sand-Stabilization on Plant Abundance of Interdune Lowlands in the Active Sand Dune Fields

2014 ◽  
Vol 587-589 ◽  
pp. 873-876
Author(s):  
Shou Gang Yan ◽  
Qing Tao Xu

Sand-stabilization may exert enormous effects on plant abundance in interdune lowlands in the active sand dune fields. We investigated the plant abundance of 11 interdune lowlands in stabilized and active dunes, respectively, and analyzed the relationship of plant abundance and lowland area. 1) With the enlargement of lowland area, plant abundance of interdune lowlands in stabilized and active dune increased following logarithmic and power functions, respectively. When the area was the same, abundance of stabilized dunes was more than that of active dunes. 2) With the increasing of lowland area in stabilized and active dunes, psammophytes plant abundance relative to the overall plant abundance decreased exponentially. When the area was the same, the percentage in lowlands of active dunes was more than that of stabilized dunes. We concluded that the practice of sand-stabilization could improve plant abundance in interdune lowlands, however, which is at the cost of loss of psammophytes.

2014 ◽  
Vol 945-949 ◽  
pp. 3518-3521
Author(s):  
Shou Gang Yan ◽  
Qing Tao Xu

Considering each interdune lowland as a self-contained unit, we investigated species composition of 15 interdune lowlands in stabilized and active dunes, respectively, and identified the relationship of species richness and lowland area. The results showed that 1) with the enlargement of lowland area, the overall species richness of interdune lowlands in stabilized and active dunes increased logarithmically. When the area was the same, richness of stabilized dunes was more than that of active dunes. 2) with the increasing of lowland area in stabilized and active dunes, psammophytes richness relative to the overall species richness decreased logarithmically. When the area was the same, the percentage in lowlands of active dunes was more than that of stabilized dunes. Therefore, We concluded that dune stabilization, on one hand, raises species richness and on the other, leads to the loss of endemic or rare psammophytes in interdune lowlands.


2022 ◽  
pp. 150-172
Author(s):  
Carlos Raul Navarro Gonzalez ◽  
Juan Ceballos-Corral ◽  
Olivia Yessenia Vargas-Bernal ◽  
Gustavo Lopez Badilla ◽  
Judith M. Paz-Delgadillo

This investigation was made to evaluate the health and well-being of workers who made activities in the manufacturing processes of an aerospace industry installed in the city of Mexicali and based on the evidence presented in certain stages of a production line. The cost-benefit of applying ergonomic methods was analyzed, developing a descriptive model, which involved important aspects. Said aspects analyzed were (1) work methods, (2) training of employees in the operational area, (3) evaluation of times and movements of industrial operations, and (4) working conditions as the relationship of workers with supervisors and managers.


Author(s):  
Jingbo Wang ◽  
Ping Lou ◽  
Xuemei Jiang ◽  
Qin Wei ◽  
YongZhi Qu

In a service-oriented networked manufacturing (SONM) environment, geographically distributed manufacturing resources are encapsulated as various manufacturing services. These manufacturing services release via the Internet and can provide services on the demand of manufacturing tasks. Usually one manufacturing task needs several different services belonged to different organizers to work together. Hence, effective cooperation among services is the foundation of the efficient operation of SONM. In this paper, a bipartite network model is presented to describe the relationship of two different kinds of nodes in SONM, and also is projected as a weighed network for further exploring the behaviors of service nodes. Furthermore, an agent-based model is built for modeling the interactive behaviors of service nodes in a cooperative network and an agent-based simulating system is developed with Repast. The simulation results show that the emergence of cooperative behaviors among service nodes is related to both the cost of cooperation and initial trust of services in the SONM environment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1510-1517
Author(s):  
M. Ardhy Erwanda ◽  
Henri Agustin ◽  
Erly Mulyani

This study aims to determine the effect of applying e-filing and knowledge of taxation on taxpayer compliance. Compliance costs as moderating variable that moderate relations between application e-filing and knowledge taxation on the taxpayer compliance. The population in this study is taxpayers in Padang city. The number off samples used was 100 respondents with the sampling method using purposive sampling. The data used in this study are primary data. Data collection techniques are done by questionnaire. The data analysis technique used is multiple regression and moderated regression analysis. The results obtained are the application of e-filing has a significant positive effect on taxpayer compliance, knowledge of taxation does not affect taxpayer compliance, compliance costs proved to moderate the relationship between the implementation of e-filing and taxpayer compliance, and the cost of compliance was not proven to moderate the knowledge relationship of taxation with taxpayer compliance


2019 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 03016
Author(s):  
Serafima Sokova ◽  
Vladimir Kalinin

the main issue of the study is the problem of improving the efficiency of the housing sector. The current state system does not ensure the proper efficiency of the housing stock, which is increasingly manifested in the growing gap between the cost of operation of apartment buildings, aimed at ensuring the quality of their functioning and the real state of this quality. In recent years, numerous regulatory documents have been adopted to ensure the normal maintenance of buildings, but a comprehensive understanding of the relationship of various activities with technical and economic solutions, in most cases, has an empirical nature, not confirmed by a strict analytical justification. The purpose of the study is a systematic integrated approach to solving problems to improve the efficiency of maintenance of housing using the proposed mathematical apparatus, which allows you to objectively, fully and accurately assess the relationship of economic and technical indicators. All total socially significant economic indicators of operational measures can be the basis of legislative regulation in the industry. Conclusions: criteria for assessing the effective and safe operation of buildings, optimal for residents of apartment buildings and management companies serving these houses.


Author(s):  
Razia Begum ◽  
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba

Globalization has placed modern organizations in tremendous competition locally and regionally across borders; thus, the ultimate goal of every organization is the same which is profitable survival. In order to make sure that this profitable survival goal does not come at the cost of harming others, guiding principles are needed to bring goodness and fairness for the stakeholders' interests. This paves the way for designing, implementing and adopting ethical principles in the organization to keep competition fair and just. This study has been carried out in three big cities (Peshawar, Lahore and Islamabad) of Pakistan to identify and assess the relationship of workplace ethics with age, qualification, management experience, government work experience and on-the-job ethics training. Collected data from 380 male and female Pakistani respondents were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical measures. The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between ethical maturity of employees and such demographic variables as age, qualification, on-the-job ethics training, having had an ethics course, and years of management experience. However, government work experience did not demonstrate any significant results with ethical maturity. Implications and suggestions for management development and training are provided.


1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
James F. Masterson

An attempt has been made to describe the contribution of maternal libidinal availability and withdrawal to the etiology of the borderline syndrome. The mother's vital contribution to normal ego development has been emphasized, and the effects of deficiencies in that contribution to the development of the intrapsychic structure of the borderline — the split ego and the split object relations unit. The latter develops from the internalization of the two major themes of interaction with the mother, produces the lietmotif of the borderline's intrapsychic structure — the rewarding and withdrawing object relations part units. The rewarding part unit becomes allied with the pathological ego to defend against the withdrawing unit, but at the cost of failure to cope with reality. The relationship of these borderline intrapsychic structures to each other and to the therapist's intrapsychic structures, as developed in the therapeutic transference and resistance, is described and illustrated in a clinical example.


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