CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IN UTILIZING A COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE

Noncooperative games are used to demonstrate that, while free riding is always an option, the “tragedy of the commons” is not inevitable. When the decision to cooperate or free ride is considered in a dynamic setting, there is no intermediate case where some cooperate and others free ride. The game is only stabilized in either full cooperation or full defection. The important factor in obtaining a cooperative outcome is the critical number of players that decide to cooperate. The concept of commitment is used to demonstrate the necessary and sufficient conditions for full cooperation. Although the analysis is based on a shared water resource, it can be extended to other natural resources with common costs and private benefits, especially in the cases where there are no international authorities or treaties that internalize the externalities involved in privatizing the resource.     

Solving multiple-objective problems in the objective space

Projection and relaxation techniques are employed to decompose a multiobjective problem into a two-level structure. The basic manipulation consists in projecting the decision variables onto the space of the implicit tradeoffs, allowing the definition of a relaxed multiobjective master problem directly in the objective space. An additional subproblem tests the feasibility of the solution encountered by the relaxed problem. Some properties of the relaxed problem (linearity, small number of variables, etc.) render its solution efficient by a number of methods. Representatives of two different classes of multiobjective methods [the Geoffrion, Dyer, Feinberg (GDF) method and the fuzzy method of Baptistella and Ollero] are implemented and applied within this context to a water resources allocation problem. The results attest the computational viability of the overall procedure and its usefulness for the solution of multiobjective problems.This work was partially sponsored by grants from CNP_q and FAPESP, Brazil. The authors are indebted to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.     

Pressure and temperature effects on the excess deuteron and proton conductance

The limiting molar conductances ° of deuterium chloride DCl in D₂O were determined as a function of pressure and temperature in order to examine the proton-jump mechanism in detail. The excess deuteron conductances °_E(D ⁺), as estimated by the equation [°_E(D ⁺) = °(DCl/D ₂ O) – °(KCl/D ₂ O)], increases with an increase in the pressure and temperature as well as the excess proton conductance [°_E(H ⁺) = °(HCl/H ₂ O) – °(KCl/H ₂ O)]. The isotope effect on the excess conductances, however, depends on the pressure and temperature contrary to the model proposed by Conway et al.: °_E(H ⁺)/°_E(D ⁺) decreases with increasing pressure and temperature. The magnitude of the decrease with pressure becomes more prominent at lower temperature. These results are discussed in terms of the pre-rotation of adjacent water molecules, the bending of hydrogen bonds with pressure, and the difference in strength of hydrogen bonds between D₂O and H₂O.     

水溶性席夫碱型锰配合物的合成、表征及其模拟超氧化物歧化酶活性研究

以水杨醛为母体, 与胺类化合物缩合形成席夫碱配体, 用分子自组装法合成了一系列水溶性席夫碱型金属锰单核、双核配合物. 通过元素分析、红外光谱对配合物进行了表征, 采用邻苯三酚自氧化法测定了配合物的超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)活性. 结果表明, 这些水溶性锰配合物具有良好的SOD活性.     

合成丙交酯中微量水分分析

合成丙交酯中微量水分分析徐溢，柳胜春（重庆大学化工学院分析教研室６３００４４）关键词丙交酯，微量水，定量分析丙交酯是人工合成骨材料聚乳酸的合成中间体，其性能决定着合成产品的品质，要获得高质量的合成材料，对中间体的分析和监测十分重要。一般要求丙交酯中间...     

稀土富勒烯生成的影响因素初探

采用某些特殊的放电和提取方法，如反向放电和甲苯高温高压提取等可以有效地提高稀土富勒烯的生成效率［‘，‘’，并已先后成功高效地合成了许多含稀土富勒烯「‘’．对其提纯、表征、衍生和应用也进行了研究［‘－’j．但对影响稀土富勒烯生成的因素研究较少．在石墨律中同时填入La，Y，Sc的稀土氧化物，对其稀土富勒烯生成效率的情况进行了研究，认为稀土元素的第一电离能是影响稀土富勒烯生成的主要因素‘’，’‘．Moro等采用激光和热解吸质谱对稀土富勒烯的研究结果表明，稀土元素的氧化态是影响稀土富勒烯生成的决定性因素”’．本…     

外加无机电解质对煤浆性质调控作用的研究

考察了数种无机电解质对煤浆分散体系流变特性的影响。结果发现，煤浆的流变特性不仅与电解质种类有关，还取决于煤质特征。某些煤适，适量的无机电解质可使浆体的屈报胀塑料转化为屈服假塑性。     

水浸对含钕熔铁氨合成催化剂的影响

已有熔铁氨合成催化剂中添加稀土的报道.我们通过添加稀土得到了几种活性较高的催化剂,经进一步改进制备工艺(水浸处理后),活性又有所提高.本文利用XRD和AES等,对经水浸前后的含稀土催化剂的结构进行了测试,探讨了水浸后活性提高的原因.