Polar motion from laser tracking of artificial satellites

Measurements of the range to the Beacon Explorer C spacecraft from a single laser tracking system at Goddard Space Flight Center have been used to determine the change in latitude of the station arising from polar motion. A precision of 0.03 arc second was obtained for the latitude during a 5-month period in 1970.     

Global positioning system measurements for crustal deformation: precision and accuracy

Analysis of 27 repeated observations of Global Positioning System (GPS) position-difference vectors, up to 11 kilometers in length, indicates that the standard deviation of the measurements is 4 millimeters for the north component, 6 millimeters for the east component, and 10 to 20 millimeters for the vertical component. The uncertainty grows slowly with increasing vector length. At 225 kilometers, the standard deviation of the measurement is 6, 11, and 40 millimeters for the north, east, and up components, respectively. Measurements with GPS and Geodolite, an electromagnetic distance-measuring system, over distances of 10 to 40 kilometers agree within 0.2 part per million. Measurements with GPS and very long baseline interferometry of the 225-kilometer vector agree within 0.05 part per million.     

养分限制因子试验对单季稻测土配方施肥方法的验证

通过多点单季稻养分限制因子试验验证得出，在实施测土配方施肥技术中采用“因土定产、因产定氮、因缺补缺”的方法来确定肥料用量基本可行，但用测定土壤养分的方法来确定氮、磷、钾肥用量更切合实际。建议用测定土壤有机质、碱解氮含量结合目标产量法来确定氮肥用量。     

Slip-rate measurements on the Karakorum Fault may imply secular variations in fault motion

Beryllium-10 surface exposure dating of offset moraines on one branch of the Karakorum Fault west of the Gar basin yields a long-term (140- to 20-thousand-year) right-lateral slip rate of approximately 10.7 +/- 0.7 millimeters per year. This rate is 10 times larger than that inferred from recent InSAR analyses ( approximately 1 +/- 3 millimeters per year) that span approximately 8 years and sample all branches of the fault. The difference in slip-rate determinations suggests that large rate fluctuations may exist over centennial or millennial time scales. Such fluctuations would be consistent with mechanical coupling between the seismogenic, brittle-creep, and ductile shear sections of faults that reach deep into the crust.     

Stellar motion survey by automation

The proper motion survey on plates taken with the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Mount Palomar Observatory has now progressed to the point where some 250,000 new motions for faint stars have been measured, and 5,000 new white dwarfs and degenerate stars and 3,000 stars of low luminosity have been added.     

应用配极对应绘制二次曲线在机构上的实现

本文阐述了用配极对主尖原理求作二次曲线及其主轴和中心，和求作直线与二次曲线的交点和切点，还应用此原理提出了绘制二次曲线的机构。     

PLANETARY SCIENCE: 'Spiders' Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap

Scientists studying the latest high-resolution photos of the martian south polar ice cap think they may have found additional clues to its ebb and flow. These hints of the planet's bizarre atmosphere come from a new class of dramatic-looking terrain features whose dark, multilimbed, vaguely radial designs have earned them the moniker "black spiders," and another group of dusky, spreading features called "dark fans." At a recent gathering here of Mars researchers, a planetary scientist proposed that the spiders might be subsurface gas channels, visible through an unusually transparent section of the martian ice.     

Swimming in spacetime: motion by cyclic changes in body shape

Cyclic changes in the shape of a quasi-rigid body on a curved manifold can lead to net translation and/or rotation of the body. The amount of translation depends on the intrinsic curvature of the manifold. Presuming spacetime is a curved manifold as portrayed by general relativity, translation in space can be accomplished simply by cyclic changes in the shape of a body, without any external forces.     

Polar orientation of dyes in robust multilayers by zirconium phosphate-phosphonate interlayers

Polar orientation of molecules in solids leads to materials with potentially useful properties such as nonlinear optical and electrooptical activity, electrochromism, and pyroelectricity. A simple self-assembly procedure for preparing such materials is introduced that yields multiple polar dye monolayers on solid surfaces joined by zirconium phosphate-phosphonate interlayers. Second harmonic generation (SHG) shows that the multilayers have polar order that does not decrease with increasing numbers (up to a large number) of monolayers in the film. The inorganic interlayers, as determined by SHG, impart excellent orientational stability to the dye molecules, with the onset of orientational randomization above 150 degrees C.     

用极坐标研究点的复合运动

对点的复杂运动，通常把它视为两种简单运动的复合。建立静、动两个坐标系，先求出动点对这两个不同参考系的运动特征量，然后用点的速度、加速度合成定理获得其运动规律，本文别开蹊径，利用极坐标来研究点的复合运动，这种方法在理论和实践上都有一定的意义，特别是对动点沿矢径运动的问题，显得更为简捷和方便。     

GA32: A Polar Gibberellin with High Biological Potency

A new gibberellin, GA(32), purified from Prunus seed, has three interesting properties: (i) it is the most polar of the 34 gibberellins presently known, (ii) it is the most potent of all gibberellins tested in the barley endosperm bioassay, and (iii) it is very active in promoting the growth of unpollinated apricot ovaries with a normal ratio of length to diameter.     

高效液相色谱法分析黄瓜子叶极性脂

通过HPLC的二次操作,可将黄瓜子叶极性脂快速、经济地分离成各脂成分,并进一步分离成各分子种。通过第1次操作,黄瓜子叶极性脂被分离成各脂组分:单半乳糖二甘油脂(MGDG),双半乳糖二甘油酯(DGDG),磷脂酰乙醇胺(PE),磷脂酰胆碱(PC),磷脂酰甘油(PG),磷脂酰肌醇(PI)和磷脂酸(PA)等;第2次经HPLC系统后,各脂组分被分离成C18∶3/C18∶3、C18∶2/C18∶3、C18∶2/C18∶2、C16∶0/C18∶3、C16∶0/C18∶2等分子种。     

Electrical breakdown caused by dust motion in low-pressure atmospheres: considerations for Mars

Electrification of agitated dust can cause visible breakdown in a carbon dioxide atmosphere at low pressure in a laboratory experiment. Dust storms on earth become electrified, with accompanying breakdown phenomena. Martian dust storms may reduce the atmospheric conductivity by capturing fast ions on particles, and, by electrifying, may cause discharges in the relatively low pressure atmosphere.     

Auditory membrane vibrations: measurements at sub-angstrom levels by optical heterodyne spectroscopy

We describe an optical technique for measurement of mechanical vibrations in the auditory organs of living animals. The technique uses light scattered from the vibrating structure and offers several new advantages. Better than 1 angstrom sensitivity, 10 micrometers spatial resolution, and > 70 decibels dynamic range are achieved. Illustrative measurements of the mechanical response of the tympanic membrane of crickets (Gryllidae) are reported.     

Primary sulfates in atmospheric sulfates: estimation by oxygen isotope ratio measurements

The relative amounts of primary and secondary sulfates in atmospheric aerosols and precipitation can be estimated from measurements of the stable oxygen isotope ratios. The oxygen-18 content of sulfates formed in power plant stack gases before emission into the atmosphere is significantly higher than that of sulfates formed from sulfur dioxide after emission. Results show that 20 to 30 percent of the sulfates in rain and snow at Argonne, Illinois, are of primary origin.     

The Drift of Saturn's North Polar Spot Observed by the Hubble Space Telescope

Polar projections of 50 images of Saturn at 889 nanometers and 25 images at 718 nanometers taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in November 1990, as well as 3 images at each wavelength taken in June 1991, have been examined. Among them, 31 show the north polar spot, which is associated with Saturn's polar hexagon, in locations suitable for measurement. In each image, planetocentric coordinates of the polar spot were determined, and the movement of the spot with respect to Saturn's system III rotation rate was studied. During the period of observation, the polar spot had first a short-term westward movement and then a long-term eastward drift. The rate of the long-term drift was -0.060 +/- 0.008 degrees per day with respect to system III, approximately 50 percent greater than previously determined from Voyager. The original 1980 and 1981 Voyager data were combined with the new Hubble images to form an 11-year base line. The eastward drift over the longer period was -0.0569 degrees per day. The long-term drift could be due to uncertainty in the standard value of the internal rotation period, which is 810.7939 +/- 0.148 degrees per 24-hour day. The short-term movement in November 1990 has a rate that is greater in magnitude but opposite in sign and probably represents a real, transient motion of the spot relative to the internal rotation system.