Impact of recirculation on the East Greenland Current in Fram Strait: Results from moored current meter measurements between 1997 and 2009     

《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2014

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Constructed peer groups and path dependence in international organizations: The case of the international climate change negotiations     

《Global Environmental Change》2014

International organizations sometimes institutionalize country groupings by specifying differentiated commitments that may, in turn, affect negotiation dynamics. Drawing on incentive-based and socialization arguments, we develop a “constructed peer group” hypothesis suggesting that by creating these groups those organizations may actually construct new lines of confrontation over and above the substance-based disagreements existing between countries. This generates a particular type of path dependence, rendering broad-based international agreements more difficult in the future.We analyze this question at the example of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's increasingly politicized split between Annex I and non-Annex I countries. Using a self-coded dataset of country oral statements during the negotiations between December 2007 and December 2009 we assess whether Annex I membership influences a country's stance toward other countries’ arguments, while controlling for country characteristics that may drive their preferences and the affiliation to Annex I. We find that the split between Annex I and non-Annex I has indeed influenced negotiation behavior and amplified the divide between developing and industrialized countries in the climate negotiations.  相似文献   

Parametric study for optimal design of large piled raft foundations on sand     

《Computers and Geotechnics》2014

In designing piled raft foundations, controlling the total and differential settlements as well as the induced bending moments of the raft is crucial. The majority of piled raft foundations have been designed by placing piles uniformly. In such a design method, the settlements of the piled rafts are likely to be large, which leads to an increase of the pile length and/or number of piles required to reduce the settlements. However, this increase does not satisfy the requirement for economical design. On the basis of a parametric study, this paper contributes a framework for considering an economical design methodology in which piles are placed more densely beneath the column positions when the piled raft is subjected to column loads. The analysis uses PLAXIS 3D software, and the validity of the parametric study is examined through the results of centrifuge model tests conducted by the authors. The study shows that the concentrated pile arrangement method can help to considerably reduce the total and differential settlements as well as the induced bending moments of the raft. Moreover, the effects of parameters, such as pile length, pile number, raft thickness and load types, on the piled raft behavior are investigated. This study can help practicing engineers choose pile and raft parameters in combination with the concentrated pile arrangement method to produce an economical design.  相似文献   

常加速度模型的简化自协方差最小二乘法     

林旭  罗志才  姚朝龙 《测绘学报》2014,43(11):1144-1150

“当前”统计模型自适应算法并非真正意义上的自适应目标跟踪算法,其性能与其中关键参数的选择有着直接的关系。本文以常加速度模型对机动载体进行建模,顾及其状态噪声协方差矩阵满足特定结构,提出了简化的自协方差最小二乘噪声协方差估计方法,该方法通过建立新息的相关函数序列与未知噪声协方差矩阵间的函数模型,并结合最小二乘法进行噪声协方差估计。数值仿真结果表明,当载体进行阶跃加速度运动或变加速度运动时,本文所提方法的目标跟踪精度均优于“当前”统计模型自适应算法。  相似文献   

Regular and chaotic dynamics in 3D reconnecting current sheets     

C. Gontikakis  C. Efthymiopoulos  A. Anastasiadis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,368(1):293-304

We consider the possibility of particles being injected at the interior of a reconnecting current sheet (RCS), and study their orbits by dynamical systems methods. As an example we consider orbits in a 3D Harris type RCS. We find that, despite the presence of a strong electric field, a 'mirror' trapping effect persists, to a certain extent, for orbits with appropriate initial conditions within the sheet. The mirror effect is stronger for electrons than for protons. In summary, three types of orbits are distinguished: (i) chaotic orbits leading to escape by stochastic acceleration, (ii) regular orbits leading to escape along the field lines of the reconnecting magnetic component, and (iii) mirror-type regular orbits that are trapped in the sheet, making mirror oscillations. Dynamically, the latter orbits lie on a set of invariant KAM tori that occupy a considerable amount of the phase space of the motion of the particles. We also observe the phenomenon of 'stickiness', namely chaotic orbits that remain trapped in the sheet for a considerable time. A trapping domain, related to the boundary of mirror motions in velocity space, is calculated analytically. Analytical formulae are derived for the kinetic energy gain in regular or chaotic escaping orbits. The analytical results are compared with numerical simulations.  相似文献   

On the cosmic ray spectrum from type II supernovae expanding in their red giant presupernova wind     

《Astroparticle Physics》2015

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On the acceleration of solar-flare charged particles in a collapsing magnetic trap with an electric potential     

V. A. Kovalev  B. V. Somov 《Astronomy Letters》2002,28(7):488-493

We consider the kinetic problem of charged-particle acceleration in a magnetic trap with converging magnetic mirrors. We show that for a positive electrostatic potential of the trap plasma relative to the mirrors, the efficiency of confinement and acceleration increases for electrons and decreases for ions.  相似文献   

Pair emission from bare magnetized strange stars     

D. B. Melrose  R. Fok †  D. P. Menezes ‡ 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,371(1):204-210

The dominant emission from bare strange stars is thought to be electron–positron pairs, produced through spontaneous pair creation (SPC) in a surface layer of electrons tied to the star by a superstrong electric field. The positrons escape freely, but the electrons are directed towards the star and quickly fill all available states, such that their degeneracy suppresses further SPC. An electron must be reflected and gain energy in order to escape, along with the positron. Each escaping electron leaves a hole that is immediately filled by another electron through SPC. We discuss the collisional processes that produce escaping electrons. When the Landau quantization of the motion perpendicular to the magnetic field is taken into account, electron–electron collisions can lead to an escaping electron only through a multistage process involving higher Landau levels. Although the available estimates of the collision rate are deficient in several ways, it appears that the rate is too low for electron–electron collisions to be effective. A simple kinetic model for electron–quark collisions leads to an estimate of the rate of pair production that is analogous to thermionic emission, but the work function is poorly determined.  相似文献   

The Influence of Ion-Acoustic Turbulence on the Electron Acceleration in the Reconnecting Current Sheet     

Gui-Ping Wu  Guang-Li Huang  Yu-Hua TangDepartment of Physics  Southeast University  Nanjing  Purple Mountain Observatory  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Nanjing Department of Astronomy  Nanjing University  Nanjing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2005,5(1):99-109

Through solving the single electron equation of motion and the Fokker-Planck equation including the terms of electric field strength and ion-acoustic turbulence, we study the influence of the ion-acoustic wave on the electron acceleration in turbulent reconnecting current sheets. It is shown that the ion-acoustic turbulence which causes plasma heating rather than particle acceleration should be considered. With typical parameter values, the acceleration time scale is around the order of 10^-6 s, the accelerated electrons may have approximately a power-law distribution in the energy range 20 ～100 keV and the spectral index is about 3～10, which is basically consistent with the observed hard X-ray spectra in solar flares.  相似文献   

Magnetic jets from swirling discs     

D. Lynden-Bell 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,369(3):1167-1188

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