The definition and maintenance of a geodetic reference system by modern techniques requires systematic temporal changes of the position of the defining stations to be taken into account. Most of these drifts are accommodated by present day plate tectonics. If the lithospheric plate to which a given station belongs were perfectly rigid, then a simple plate model based upon rigid rotations about ...

The rapid development of instant logistics services has brought not only convenience to people's life but also a great challenge traffic management. Due the limited delivery range systems, customers are usually recommended meals nearby or pay much higher fees for long-distance delivery. This study proposes novel order splitting strategy based on transfer stations meal orders satisfy diverse cus...

quake was caused by left-lateral strike-slip motion along a vertical fault plane with dimensions of 20 by 10km striking in the N30°W direction. The strong-motion records from five JMA stations within a distance of 80km are compared with the synthetic seismograms computed from dynamic dislocation models. The comparison yields estimates for the seismic moment, average fault displacements, rise ti...

A methodology for the classification of railway passenger stations was developed in this study. Four groups of factors are defined to study the characteristics of the station: potential of the town, importance of the town, infrastructural factors, and characteristics of passengers. In the research we investigated 18 factors and studied 98 passenger stations of railway network in Bulgaria. The m...

We analyze surface air temperature data from available meteorological stations with principal focus on the period 1880-1985. The temperature changes at midand high latitude stations separated by less than 1000 km are shown to be highly correlated; at low latitudes the correlation falls off more rapidly with distance for nearby stations. We combine the station data in a way which is designed to ...

In August 2007 Australia experienced its first outbreak of equine influenza. The disease occurred first in a quarantine station for imported horses near Sydney and subsequently escaped into the general horse population. After an extensive campaign the disease was eradicated and Australia is again recognised as free of this disease. Equine influenza was then, and is now, recognised to be the maj...

Adjustments to data observed at pairs of climate stations have been recommended to remove the biases introduced by differences between the stations in time of observation, temperature instrumentation, latitude, and elevation. A new network of climate stations, located in rural settings, permits comparisons of temperatures for several pairs of stations without two of the biases (time of observat...