Black holes in 4 nearby radio galaxies     

Jeremy Mould  Tony Readhead  Garret Cotter  David Batt  Mark Durré 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2015,356(2):347-351

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Crystal Geyser – Utah's cold one     

Tony Waltham 《Geology Today》2001,17(1):22-24

A cold geyser appears to be a contradiction in terms. But a combination of carbon dioxide, effervescing groundwater and a fortuitous oil exploration well can create a very spectacular water fountain.  相似文献   

Spectroscopic follow-up of a cluster candidate at z= 1.45     

Caroline van Breukelen  Garret Cotter  Steve Rawlings  Tony Readhead  David Bonfield  Lee Clewley  Rob Ivison  Matt Jarvis  Chris Simpson  Mike Watson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,382(3):971-984

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Resources of discontent     

Tony Loftas 《Marine Policy》1978,2(1):2

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The dynamics of a high-speed Jovian jet     

Tony Maxworthy 《Planetary and Space Science》1984,32(8):1053-1058

We present new measurements of the velocity field in the neighborhood of the high-speed jet located at approx. 24° N latitude in the Jovian atmosphere. The maximum zonal velocity is found to be 182 ± 10 m s^?1 located at 23.7 ±0.2° N and representing the largest velocity measured on the planet. The distinctive cloud markings found close to this latitude are discussed and possible dynamical consequences presented.  相似文献   

Law of the sea: neglected issues     

Tony Loftas 《Marine Policy》1979,3(3):243-245

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Sources and sinks of nutrients in a New Zealand hill pasture catchment I. Stormflow generation     

James G. Cooke  Tony Dons 《水文研究》1988,2(2):109-122

The processes of stormflow generation were studied in a hill pasture catchment near Hamilton, New Zealand. Although rainfall was relatively evenly distributed throughout the year, stormflow was highly seasonal and over 65 per cent occurred during the winter. Three main processes contributing to stormflow were identified which could be related to soil type and physiographic position. On gleyed soils derived from rhyolitic colluvium, saturation overland flow was the dominant process. Hydrographs from ‘Whipkey’ throughflow troughs also indicated that there was a subsurface response (saturated wedge) from this soil type. On steeper convex slopes, more permeable soils were derived from weathered greywacke. The presence of ephemeral springs on the hillslopes and direct observation during storm events indicated that storm runoff was generated as return flow from this soil. It was noted that nitrate concentrations from subsurface sources were 5–10 times higher than surface runoff. This difference in concentration was utilized in a chemical mixing equation which partitioned stormflow sources. This was compared with the stormflow predicted from rain falling on to saturated areas. There was good agreement between the two models for winter-spring events with respect to the volumes of surface runoff predicted, however the saturated areas model underestimated total stormflow. The results of the study are briefly discussed in terms of the potential for water quality management.  相似文献   

Temporary labour migration and sustainable post-conflict return in Sierra Leone     

Roy Maconachie  Tony Binns  Paul Tengbe  Reynold Johnson 《GeoJournal》2006,67(3):223-240

Economic and social development indicators suggest that the small West African state of Sierra Leone is among the poorest countries in the world. Sierra Leone’s economy and quality of life deteriorated rapidly during a decade of political instability and civil war in the 1990s, when many people fled their homes and abandoned their livelihoods due to the rebel insurgency. This paper examines the post-war reconstruction scenario in Sierra Leone and presents recent evidence from two rural communities in the Eastern Province that were badly affected by the conflict. The paper considers the links between the farming and diamond mining sectors, which, despite severe dislocation during the conflict period, have proved to be remarkably resilient. It is argued that seasonal labour mobility associated with this dual economy has not only continued to be a key ingredient in sustaining livelihood portfolios, but is actually an essential pre-condition for the creation of an enabling environment for sustainable post-conflict return.

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The effects of spatial autoregressive dependencies on inference in ordinary least squares: a geometric approach   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Tony E. Smith  Ka Lok Lee 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2012,14(1):91-124

There is a common belief that the presence of residual spatial autocorrelation in ordinary least squares (OLS) regression leads to inflated significance levels in beta coefficients and, in particular, inflated levels relative to the more efficient spatial error model (SEM). However, our simulations show that this is not always the case. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to examine this question from a geometric viewpoint. The key idea is to characterize the OLS test statistic in terms of angle cosines and examine the geometric implications of this characterization. Our first result is to show that if the explanatory variables in the regression exhibit no spatial autocorrelation, then the distribution of test statistics for individual beta coefficients in OLS is independent of any spatial autocorrelation in the error term. Hence, inferences about betas exhibit all the optimality properties of the classic uncorrelated error case. However, a second more important series of results show that if spatial autocorrelation is present in both the dependent and explanatory variables, then the conventional wisdom is correct. In particular, even when an explanatory variable is statistically independent of the dependent variable, such joint spatial dependencies tend to produce “spurious correlation” that results in over-rejection of the null hypothesis. The underlying geometric nature of this problem is clarified by illustrative examples. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of some possible remedies for this problem.  相似文献   

Old stellar population synthesis： new age and mass estimates for Mayall Ⅱ = G1     

Jun Ma  ;Richard de Grijs  ;Zhou Fan  ;Soo-Chang Rey  ;Zhen-Yu Wu  ;Xu Zhou  ;Jiang-Hua Wu  ;Zhao-Ji Jiang  ;Jian-Sheng Chen  ;Kyungsook Lee  ;Sangmo Tony Sohn 《天体物理学报》2009,(6):641-652

Mayall Ⅱ = G1 is one of the most luminous globular clusters （GCs） in M31. Here, we determine its age and mass by comparing multicolor photometry with theoretical stellar population synthesis models. Based on far- and near-ultraviolet GALEX photometry, broad-band UBVRI, and infrared JHKs 2MASS data, we construct the most extensive spectral energy distribution of G 1 to date, spanning the wavelength range from 1538 to 20 000A. A quantitative comparison with a variety of simple stellar population （SSP） models yields a mean age which is consistent with G1 being among the oldest building blocks of M31 and having formed within ～1.7 Gyr after the Big Bang. Irrespective of the SSP model or stellar initial mass function adopted, the resulting mass estimates （of order 10^7M⊙） indicate that GI is one of the most massive GCs in the Local Group. However, we speculate that the cluster＇s exceptionally high mass suggests that it may not be a genuine GC. Our results also suggest that G1 may contain, on average, （1.65±0.63） × 10^2L⊙ far-ultraviolet-bright, hot, extreme horizontal-branch stars, depending on the adopted SSP model. In addition, we demonstrate that extensive multi-passband photometry coupled with SSP analysis enables one to obtain age estimates for old SSPs that have similar accuracies as those from integrated spectroscopy or resolved stellar photometry, provided that some of the free parameters can be constrained independently.  相似文献