Why did Sudan Lose a small war in Southern Sudan?

ABSTRACT

When on the wrong end of an asymmetry in the projection of hard power, weaker sides countenance the grim arithmetic of avoiding direct and massed confrontations. Invariably, insurgents have over the ages tended to employ indirect tactical methods to render their stronger opponents ineffective. Ultimately – interest asymmetry, regime type, asymmetries of strategy, and external intervention – combine in a complex interplay and pattern, to militate against a strong side. In Sudan, these factors interacted throughout the civil wars to produce regional autonomy and finally an independent South Sudan in 2011. Similar strategic logic had confronted many large African states battling insurgencies in Ethiopia, Angola, Nigeria, Zaire, and apartheid-era South Africa. Oftentimes, weakening public resolve has caused these governments to accommodate, capitulate or withdraw even if they try not to blink. Notwithstanding the regime type, it can be concluded that the majority of strong actors are prone to fail in a protracted, asymmetric conflict. Hence, the notion of linking victory in counterinsurgency to the degree of openness (democratic polyarchies); or closeness (totalitarianism) – is still valid but highly contestable in the case of Africa’s large dysfunctional states.     

基于微分几何与李群的无人机编队会合方法

在领航-跟随编队模式下,设计了一种基于追缉策略的无人机编队会合方法。首先,基于微分几何曲线论和弗雷涅-塞雷标架建立了无人机非解耦三维运动模型,其中将曲率和挠率作为控制量;结合该模型给出了无人机三维编队会合问题的数学描述,它将导弹制导问题中的终端落角约束映射为编队会合问题中僚机的航迹倾角约束,同时引入额外的航迹方位角约束;然后使用特殊正交群的元素来度量长僚机方向偏差,并通过局部坐标映射将其映射为对应李代数空间中的旋量;接着,基于该旋量设计了编队会合几何导引律,并给出相应的曲率和挠率控制指令;最后,分别在长机稳定平飞和转弯机动条件下进行了多机编队会合数字仿真实验,仿真结果显示僚机能够有效地跟踪长机航向并收敛至指定位形,说明了方法的有效性。     

警卫部队资产管理中厉行节约思路探讨

国有资产管理工作是后勤工作中的一项重要内容,后勤部门必须进一步理清工作思路,创新和改革国有资产管理方法,科学规划固定资产经费使用项目,既保障好中心任务的圆满完成,又贯彻好厉行节约的精神.通过分析在资产管理工作中厉行节约的重要意义,探讨当前影响贯彻厉行节约传统的主要因素,并就加强厉行节约提出几点看法.     

面向混部云失败批处理作业的预测算法

为了降低混部云失败批处理作业的风险,使用K-means聚类算法将批处理作业分为四类,在分类的基础上提出了二层嵌套分类模型(two-layer nested classification model, TLNM),实现了基于TLNM的预测算法。基于Ali Trace 2018数据集上的实验结果表明,该算法的接受者操作特性(receiver operating characteristic, ROC)曲线明显优于其他常用分类器,ROC曲线下面积(即AUC)可以达到0.978,表明该算法具有良好的分类性能。同时召回率可以达到0.951,通过混淆矩阵可以看出TLNM算法能够准确预测出执行失败的批处理作业。     

基于云重心评判的装甲车辆驾驶技能评估方法

针对当前装甲车辆驾驶技能评估方法存在的问题和应用上的不足,将云理论引入装甲车辆驾驶技能评估,提出了基于云重心评判的装甲车辆驾驶技能评估方法。首先建立了云模型表示的指标体系,通过采集实车驾驶数据获取指标值;然后确定指标权重,计算其加权偏离度并将其输入评测的云发生器,最终得到评估结果。结果表明:基于云重心评判的装甲车辆驾驶技能评估方法能实现对装甲车辆驾驶过程的准确评估,为解决装甲车辆驾驶评估依赖经验教学的问题提供了技术路径。     

最低价中标情况下的施工管理研究

最低价中标法作为国际上通行的建筑工程招投标方法,随着我国建筑市场的 发展和工程量清单计价制度的推行,已经具备其实施的客观条件。针对目前实施最低价中 标法工程施工阶段存在的问题,提出结合工程量清单计价从合同管理、保证金制度、工程保 险、质量管理等方面提出了解决的思路。     

三方物流联盟运行与管理研究 --重庆邮政与港务集团联盟案例分析

三方物流联盟已成为现代物流发展的必由之路,通过研究重庆邮政和重庆港务集团所建立的三方物流联盟的运行和管理模式,提出了三方物流联盟的流程重组、信息衔接和组织管理模式等,研究了利用信息化集成手段对物流资源进行重组、形成具有多个核心竞争能力和更广泛用户的三方物流联盟方法.对于构筑和优化三方物流联盟、促进现代物流业深入发展具有一定借鉴作用.     

用不确定性度量作战效能的评估方法研究

本文把作战过程分解成多个节点,用不确定性自信息量度量各节点完成任务的程度,改造了信息熵函数,得出一种适合求解作战效能的评估方法,并研究了一具体实例。     

On estimating survival for reliability models based on age-related stochastic comparisons

A new class of nonparametric reliability models is introduced and studied. A distribution is said to be better at age s than at age t (sBt) if the residual lifetime at age s is stochastically greater than or equal to the residual lifetime at age t. Applications to various forms of replacement policies, including the cannibalization of failed systems, are noted. For fixed s < t, the problem of estimating a survival curve assumed to belong to the sBt class is addressed using recursive methods. An sBt estimator is derived in closed form, and its uniform strong consistency at an optimal rate of convergence is demonstrated. A simulation study strongly supports the claim that the sBt estimator tends to outperform the empirical survivor function in small- and moderate-size samples. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Optimal resource extraction with uncertain reserves

We consider the problem of finding a plan that maximizes the expected discounted return when extracting a nonrenewable resource having uncertain reserves. An extraction plan specifies the rate at which the resource is extracted as a function of time until the resource is exhausted or the time horizon is reached. The return per unit of resource extracted may depend on the rate of extraction, time, and the amount of resource previously extracted. We apply a new method called the generalized search optimization technique to find qualitative features of optimal plans and to devise algorithms for the numerical calculation of optimal plans.