Baixa do Cassang: Ending the abuse of Portuguese Africans

On 4 January 1961 in Baixa do Cassange, in the north of Angola, the blacks who worked in the cotton fields began a strike. The army with air support was called to quell the rebellion, and the article emphasizes the importance of air support tethered to the ground forces, particularly in a remote and vast area of operations in the tropical rainy season. In this case, the support originally came in the form a squadron of Lockheed PV-2 Harpoons from Luanda, some 300 kilometers away. These open-ocean reconnaissance aircraft and their crews were ill-suited for the task. When this became apparent, four small Auster D5/160s were relocated from Negage to Malange, among the ground forces. The Austers flew reconnaissance missions over the troubled zones, dropped provisions and messages to the advancing ground forces, and served as a backup communications link. When the strike ceased after three weeks, the Austers assumed a humanitarian role in support of the starving population. The conclusion is that air support to ground forces is indispensable, must be properly tailored to the job, and must operate as an integral part of the ground forces.     

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.     

从王安石变法看政策执行的必备要素

政策的执行是一项系统性工作,其中领导者的综合素质、直达基层的领导骨干、及时高效的反馈机制、牢靠的群众基础以及周密配套的实施方案,都是政策执行的必备要素。讨论政策执行的必备要素,对于政策的执行乃至当前的改革,都具有非常重要的现实意义。     

Steady-state analysis of load balancing with Coxian-2 distributed service times

This paper studies load balancing for many-server (N servers) systems. Each server has a buffer of size b ? 1, and can have at most one job in service and b ? 1 jobs in the buffer. The service time of a job follows the Coxian-2 distribution. We focus on steady-state performance of load balancing policies in the heavy traffic regime such that the normalized load of system is λ = 1 ? N^?α for 0 < α < 0.5. We identify a set of policies that achieve asymptotic zero waiting. The set of policies include several classical policies such as join-the-shortest-queue (JSQ), join-the-idle-queue (JIQ), idle-one-first (I1F) and power-of-d-choices (Po d) with d = O(N^α log N). The proof of the main result is based on Stein's method and state space collapse. A key technical contribution of this paper is the iterative state space collapse approach that leads to a simple generator approximation when applying Stein's method.     

给定降质约束下一类DCT域图像水印算法的拉伸系数估计

数字水印是数字作品版权保护的重要技术手段。与噪声污染类似,数字水印的嵌入必然会损失原作品的质量。数字图像的质量直接关系其商业价值,在给定降质约束下自适应地调节嵌入深度是符合产业化标准的数字水印关键技术之一。根据DCT交流系数的拉普拉斯分布模型,推导了DCT域典型水印算法中拉伸系数与信噪比和峰值信噪比之间的理论关系。依据该理论关系,得到了在给定降质约束下一类典型图像水印算法的拉伸系数估计方法,实验结果表明该估计方法具有较高的精度。     

What you should know about simulation and derivatives

Derivatives (or gradients) are important for both sensitivity analysis and optimization, and in simulation models, these can often be estimated efficiently using various methods other than brute‐force finite differences. This article briefly summarizes the main approaches and discusses areas in which the approaches can most fruitfully be applied: queueing, inventory, and finance. In finance, the focus is on derivatives of another sort. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

论武警法律体系构建与完善

武警法律体系是以武警法为核心，由现行的各种军事法律规范和武警规章为基础，以武警基本法、武警组织法、武警行为法、武警保障与监督检查法等武警法分支为主体而组成的内容协调一致的有机整体。本文是从武警法律体系的角度讨论贯彻实施《人民武装警察法》。从理论的层面讨论有关武警法律体系的内容。     

特征信号检测法

本文以信号极点的不变性为基础,构造了一种用于可自设计的主动式系统在强噪声背景下的极微弱信号检测的检测器——特征信号检测器。文章在分析经典检测方法对极弱信号检测存在的问题的基础上,提出了特征信号检测的思想。讨论了该方法的基本原理及仿真实验结果。Monte carlo实验表明,这种特征信号检测器的性能对信噪比不敏感,可以在极低信噪比下检测出微弱信号。     

模型三组元喷嘴雾化SMD变化规律

为了充分研究新型三组元喷嘴的内混腔雾化特性 ,设计了模型喷嘴进行多工况试验。试验发现 ,维持气体或液体压降不变 ,改变另一种介质的压降 ,会得到不同的雾化平均直径随气体压降或液体压降 ,以及气液比ALR的变化曲线 ,这些曲线有着明显的规律。大量试验表明 ,虽然平均直径SMD随气体压降或液体压降的变化曲线明显不同 ,但其随气液比的变化规律却趋于相同     

汇编语言动态分析工具中的程序插装技术

根据8086/8088语言的结构化特点,提出了程序插装的概念及其实现方法,并基于插装研制出一种动态分析工具,从而实现了对程序分支及语句的自动测试功能.