Telegraph Messenger Boys: Crossing the Borders between History of Technology and Human Geography*

Historians of telegraphy have traditionally focused on the system‐builders who invented wire communications technologies and incorporated them into profit‐making enterprises. Geographers of communications have traditionally traced the changes that the telegraph network wrought on the rank‐size of cities and the speed of business. Both have ignored the history of the telegraph messenger boys and the “lived geography” of the telegraph network. This article summarizes a study of telegraph messengers as both active components of technological systems and laboring agents within produced urban spaces, bringing together the fields of both history of technology and human geography.     

Velocity of small-scale auroral ionospheric current systems over Indian Antarctic station Maitri

The Indian Antarctic station Maitri (geog. 70‡45’S, 11‡45’E, geom. 66‡.03S, 53‡.21E) occupies a sub-auroral location during magnetically quiet conditions(Σκρ < 10), but attains an auroral position when the auroral oval shifts equatorwards with increasing strength of magnetic disturbance. At the latter times, triangulation with 3 fluxgate magnetometers located at the vertices of a suitable triangle provides a means of monitoring mobile auroral ionospheric current systems over Maitri. The spacing between the magnetometers is typically kept at 75–200 km, keeping in mind the scale-sizes of ∼ 100 km for these mobile current systems. This work reports the results of two triangulation experiments carried out around Maitri in January 1992 and January 1995, both during Antarctic summer. The velocities estimated for pulsations of the Pc4 and Pc5 type were about 0.59 km/sec in the direction 102‡.7 east of due north, in the first case, and about 1–3 km/sec in the second case in the east-west direction. While several magnetometer arrays exist in the northern auroral regions (e.g., the Alberta array in Canada, the Alaskan array in the U.S. and the IMS Scandinavian array), there is no report in literature of triangulation through arrays in Antarctica, except for a one-day study by Neudegget al 1995 for ULF pulsations of the Pc1 and Pc2 type. The velocities obtained for the Pi3 type of irregular pulsations over Antarctica in the present study tally well with those obtained for northern auroral locations.     

基于移动通信网络无线定位技术的原理及应用

无线电定位技术有着广泛的应用前景 ,也是未来第三代移动通信的一个支撑技术。本文介绍了基于移动通信网络无线定位的原理和技术 ,分析了在移动通信系统内实现移动台精确定位的主要技术难点和提高精度的对策     

姚安地震序列的震源参数研究

利用昆明区域数字遥测台网记录的姚安地震序列资料，结合姚安震区流动数字化台网的近震源观测资料，使用波谱分析法测算婉安地震序列的震源力学参数，给出S波的计算结果，并进行讨论。同时，对区域数字遥测台网和震区流动为流动数字化台网同时记录的39个地震采用同一模式计算出的震源参数进行了对比讨论。     

关于发展我国地下流体前兆流动观测问题的建议

介绍了地下流体前兆流动观测及其目的与意义、国内外地下流体前兆流动观测的历史与现状、我国目前存在的主要问题；针对现状与问题，提出了建议我国地下流体前兆流动观测系统的建议，其中包括指导思想、发展目标、观测网的类型与布设、观测点的建议、观测项目与观测仪器的选择、观测工作的组织与实施、观测数据的产出与共享等科学与技术问题。     

昆明站流动VLBI观测数据处理初步结果

对我国自行研制的流动VLBI首次长距离观测数据进行处理 ,得到了初步结果 ,并对流动VLBI今后的观测提出了一些建议。     

甘肃张掖盆地含水层岩性,电性及富水性关系研究

本文依据水文地质和测井资料,研究了甘肃张掖盆地含水层岩性、电性及富水性关系和钻孔涌水量分布规律。它为合理利用和开发该盆地地下水资源,提供了新的科学依据。     

网格编码调制在水下无线通信中的应用

详细阐述了网格编码调制(TCM)的原理及其在水下无线通信中的应用。同时用System View对系统进行仿真，仿真结果显示，该方案使水下无线通信系统的性能得到明显改善。     

重力资料对2008年汶川Ms 8．0地震的中期预测

介绍了利用中国地壳运动观测网络工程的重力复测资料对四川地区震情分析研究的基本依据、方法,对2008年5月12日发生的汶川MS8.0地震提出了较好的中期预测意见。     

采空区地表移动变形的时间影响参数

多层采空区多次复杂开采造成的累积沉降不能简单地用单一采空区地表移动变形模型作参照。对采空区的研究,时间影响参数是工程稳定性重点研究和考虑的问题。通过变形观测数据,得到一系列的时间影响参数C的数据点。C是随时间动态变化的,是相应的诸多条件综合影响的结果,拟合得到现时段的时间影响参数经验式。这对采空区今后的残余沉降的预测具有重要的实际意义。