The automatic management of drivers and driving spaces

In this paper, we examine the development and implementation of new technical systems designed to more effectively manage and produce driving, drivers and driving spaces. These new systems change the governmentality of automobilities by altering the relationship between driver, vehicle and transport infrastructure and produce new subjects and spaces. They do this principally through the process of automation, creating a system of regulation that we term ‘automated management’. Automated management consists of two interlocking sets of regulatory technologies: automated surveillance that seeks to enforce more effective (self)disciplining and capture systems that actively reshape activity. We argue that these work together to alter the automobilities landscape creating new socio-spatial arrangements with respect to access, movement, flow, and behaviour. Some of these arrangements are benign and empowering to individuals, others enhance the power of state and corporations. We illustrate our argument with examples predominately drawn from the UK, though the technologies we discuss are increasingly being developed and implemented throughout Western countries and beyond.     

CoRoT pictures transiting exoplanets

The detection and characterization of exoplanets have made huge progresses since the first discoveries in the late 1990s. In particular, the independent measurement of the mass and radius of planets, by combining the transit and radial-velocity techniques, allowed exploring their density and hence, their internal structure. With CoRoT (2007–2012), the pioneering CNES space-based mission in this investigation, about thirty new planets were characterized. CoRoT has enhanced the diversity of giant exoplanets and discovered the first telluric exoplanet. Following CoRoT, the NASA Kepler mission has extended our knowledge to small size planets, multiple systems and planets orbiting binaries. Exploring these new worlds will continue with the NASA/TESS (2017) and ESA/PLATO (2024) missions.     

Space–time interaction of residential burglaries in Wuhan,China

Borrowing methods from epidemiology, studies of spatiotemporal regularities of crime have been booming in various industrialized countries. However, few such attempts are empirical studies using crime data in developing countries due to a lack of data availability. Utilizing a recent burglary dataset in Wuhan, the fourth largest city in China, current research applied the sequential kernel density estimation and the space–time K-function methods to analyze the spatiotemporal changes of hotspots of residential burglaries. The results show that, both spatial and spatiotemporal clustering exists. The hotspots were relatively stable over time. The space–time clustering, however, shows significant concentrations both in space and over time. In addition, analytic results show significant effects of distance decay in terms of occurrences of burglary incidents along the spatial and temporal dimensions. Moreover, findings from the research provide critical information on the space–time rhythm of crime, and therefore can be utilized in crime prevention practice. Finally, the implications of the findings and limitations are discussed.     

工程岩体结构面间距空间分布的ARIMA模型及应用

结构面间距是反映结构面分布特征的重要指标之一,也是工程岩体质量级别划分的重要指标之一。与传统的结构面间距定义不同,本文认为只需按组测量结构面之间的间距同样可以分析结构面分布特征,并给出了结构面类型的4类划分法,依此建立结构面序列,利用时间序列的自回归滑动平均模型建立节理间距的AR IMA模型,提出了间距序列建模和模型检验方法,并以实例印证了AR IMA模型表示间距序列是合适的。     

Research of Background Noise Characteristics of the Zhangzhou Seismic Array

The data recorded during the site survey in the Zhangzhou area in Fujian Province between October 23, 2007 and December 3, 2007 was analyzed. The main methods adopted for the noise level of this area are the noise root mean square (RMS), noise power spectrum density and noise coherency function. The results indicate that the noise levels of the survey sites are higher in the 1s-10s periods, which is the main frequency band of preliminary microseism, and also, two main noise sources were found in 1.5Hz and around 5Hz. According to arithmetic, the direction and frequency band of the noise source were analyzed and academic proofs were presented. At last, we found that the noise source in 1.5Hz was made by the water wave aroused by the wind in the reservoir region and the noise source around 5Hz was made by the power station in the northeast direction.     

星载粒子探测器中的偏转磁铁设计研究

在对空间带电粒子进行探测时,大量电子的混入会减少半导体探测器的寿命和工作效率,同时电子的噪声本底也是影响测量精度的重要因素.为了减少电子的影响,需要在离子探测器的探头中加上合适的偏转磁铁用来屏蔽电子的干扰.本文中,磁铁的结构设计借鉴了国外的成功经验,并通过有限元的方法来计算磁场的强度,选择合适的方案消除漏磁的影响以及模拟电子在磁场的轨迹来估计磁场对电子的偏转能力.并用理论计算的数据与实验结果进行了比对,得到了比较好的结果.最后针对空间粒子探测中的偏转磁铁设计提出了一些建议.加偏转磁场的技术也是我国在星载粒子探测器中的首次应用.     

主动空间试验中空间电荷波向电磁波的转换

本文理论分析了电子束沿地磁场穿越均匀、磁化等离子体密度跃变区域时,在弱磁场近似、哨声波激发、低频近似等几种典型情况下电子束流空间电荷波（Space charge wave）向电磁波的转换.先运用小信号假设求得电子束入射进均匀各向异性冷等离子体之后的色散关系和空间电荷波波数,然后借助于电磁波分量和电子束速度的边界条件,求解电子束在等离子浓度发生变化区域激发的波振幅,在几种典型情形下推导出空间电荷波转换为电磁波之间转换系数的近似解,给出了相应波辐射的坡印亭(Poynting)矢量表达式.结果表明,在渡越辐射（Transition radiation）情形下电子束可以在空间等离子体中激发出阿尔芬波（Alfven wave）和哨声波（Whistler wave）.所得结论可用于对主动空间试验结果的分析.     

New aspects of plasma sheet dynamics - MHD and kinetic theory

Magnetic reconnection is a process of fundamental importance for the dynamics of the Earth’s plasma sheet. In this context, the development of thin current sheets in the near-Earth plasma sheet is a topic of special interest because they could be a possible cause of microscopic fluctuations acting as collective non-idealness from a macroscopic point of view. Simulations of the near-Earth plasma sheet including boundary perturbations due to localized inflow through the northern (or southern) plasma sheet boundary show developing thin current sheets in the near-Earth plasma sheet about 8–10 R_E tailwards of the Earth. This location is largely independent from the localization of the perturbation. The second part of the paper deals with the problem of the macroscopic non-ideal consequences of microscopic fluctuations. A new model is presented that allows the quantitative calculation of macroscopic non-idealness without considering details of microscopic instabilities or turbulence. This model is only based on the assumption of a strongly fluctuating, mixing dynamics on microscopic scales in phase space. The result of this approach is an expression for anomalous non-idealness formally similar to the Krook resistivity but now describing the macroscopic consequences of collective microscopic fluctuations, not of collisions.     

Parametric decay of beam-driven Langmuir wave and enhanced ion-acoustic fluctuations in the ionosphere: a weak turbulence approach

We present a model that describes the decay of beam generated Langmuir waves into ion-acoustic waves in the topside ionosphere. This calculation is done within the frame of the weak turbulence approximation. We study the spectral signature of such a process as seen by a VHF incoherent scatter radar. An incoherent scatter (IS) spectrum is characterized by two maxima at k_radar and −k_radar, the right and left ion lines respectively. It is shown that, for reasonable beam parameters, the parametric decay of beam-generated Langmuir waves can enhance either the right, the left or both ion lines simultaneously. The shape of the spectrum can change drastically on time scale of about 0.1 to 1 s. The role of the beam parameter as well as the ionospheric parameters is also investigated. For a given beam number density, the beam energy or the background density are important to trigger either the left or the right ion line. A large energy spread of the beam or low electron collision frequencies can explain the simultaneous observations of the left and the right ion line. The importance of the electron collision frequency can explain the altitude distribution of the coherent echoes observed by incoherent scatter radars.