基于Fiducial推断的Bayes验前分布的表示

先验分布的确定与表示是Bayes统计推断的出发点和关键点。提出了一种基于信仰推断 (FiducialInfer ence)观点确定Bayes先验分布的设想 ,有助于解决无验前信息或验前历史信息较少时先验分布的确定问题 ,文中给出了一个实例说明了该方法的应用     

Poisson分布与正态分布参数的Γ—极小极大估计

对于Poisson分布及正态分布,本文在其参数θ的先验一阶矩和二阶矩的部分信息已知的情况下,给出了θ的极小极大估计,同时也给出了最不利先验分布。     

基于隐Markov树的序贯故障诊断模型

为了充分利用先验信息和实测信号,提高故障识别率,根据Bayes方法和序贯决策的思想,将实测信号分段,将前一段信号的诊断后验信息作为后一段信号的先验信息,提出了一种基于隐Markov树(hidden Markov tree,HMT)的序贯故障诊断模型.给出了诊断模型的建模步骤、HMT模型的建立方法和Bayes后验概率的计算方法.将模型应用于某型减速器故障诊断的结果表明,对于有先验信息和无先验情况,该序贯模型都可以有效地提高故障识别率.     

潜射反舰导弹靶场试验先验信息融合方法仿真

在基于Bayes理论的潜射反舰导弹靶场试验综合评定中,先验分布的获取和表示是一个关键问题,尤其在先验信息多源型的情况下,更需要合理客观地综合利用这些信息。针对此问题,建立了Bayes融合法、DS融合法和加权融合法等先验信息融合模型。通过仿真,比较分析了这3种方法的特点,并给出一些有益的工程应用建议。     

双边定数截尾试验下广义指数分布的可靠性分析

基于双边定数截尾试验,在无信息先验和共轭先验下,给出了广义指数分布参数的Bayes估计。同时在熵损失和加权平方损失函数下,给出可靠度函数的贝叶斯估计。最后运用Monte Carlo方法对估计结果进行了模拟比较。     

无信息先验下几种不同Bayes估计的比较

讨论了在二项分布场合关于成功率的不同无信息先验分布下的Bayes估计 ,并从Bayse风险的角度对它们进行了比较     

基于Dirichlet先验分布的模糊可靠性增长模型研究

将模糊理论应用于基于Dirichlet先验分布的Bayes可靠性增长模型,提出了可靠性增长的模糊模型。在对Dirichlet先验分布函数研究的基础上,分析了先验参数的获取方法。针对某水冲压发动机可靠性增长试验使用Dirichlet先验分布模型进行了分析,给出了试验各阶段的先验分布和后验分布,并分析了与先验信息方差有关的参数对后验可靠度的影响。在此基础上,通过引入模糊变量,发展了模糊可靠性增长模型,得到了试验各阶段模糊可靠度。     

双边定时截尾下广义Pareto分布的可靠性分析

基于双边定时截尾样本,研究广义Pareto分布的形状参数和可靠性指标的估计问题。在进行极大似然估计时,由于似然方程无解析解,故采用EM算法。对形状参数选取,4信息先验,在平方损失下,研究给出广义Pareto分布的形状参数和可靠性指标的Bayes估计。通过Monte-Carlo模拟对形状参数和可靠度函数的极大似然估计、EM估计和Bayes估计的效果进行比较。模拟结果说明,Bayes方法和EM算法适合在小样本场合下对形状参数进行估计,Bayes方法和极大似然估计法适合在大样本场合下对形状参数估计,极大似然估计方法和EM算法适合对可靠度进行估计。     

对数正态分布加速因子的Bayes估计

基于对数正态分布形式以及分布对数标准差不变的条件,运用Bayes方法对对数正态分布加速寿命试验条件下的加速因子进行分析。首先基于全寿命试验数据和随机变量函数分布的理论推导出加速因子的先验分布;然后由Bayes公式结合少量的现场截尾试验数据,得出加速因子的Bayes估计模型;最后给出实例进行说明。     

指数寿命产品可靠性增长试验的Bayes分析

针对指数寿命产品的定时、定数截尾试验方案,推广了Mazzuchi-Soyer模型的应用范围。首先引入模型假设,以狄氏分布作为先验分布,综合利用产品研制的历史信息和专家信息,结合产品研制各阶段试验数据,给出了各阶段可靠性的联合后验分布。然后利用Gibbs抽样算法解决后验推断计算问题,得到各阶段产品可靠性的Bayes点估计和区间估计。最后给出产品可靠性增长分析实例,表明了模型的优越性。     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.