Casualty Rates of US Military Personnel During the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Abstract

In Operation Iraqi Freedom, which ended in August 2010, nearly 3500 hostile deaths occurred among US military personnel and 32,000 more were wounded in action (WIA). More than 1800 hostile deaths occurred during Operation Enduring Freedom (in and around Afghanistan) through 2014 and about 20,000 were WIA. A larger proportion of wounded personnel survived in Iraq and Afghanistan than during the Vietnam War, but the increased survival rates were not as high as some studies have asserted. The survival rates were 90.2% in Iraq and 91.6% in Afghanistan, compared with 86.5% in Vietnam. The casualty rates varied between the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and before, during, and after the respective surges. Amputation rates are difficult to measure consistently, but I estimate that 2.6% of all WIA and 9.0% of medically evacuated WIA from the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters combined resulted in the major loss of a limb. Elevated non-hostile death rates (including deaths due to accidents, illnesses, homicides, or suicides) resulted in about 220 more deaths in Iraq and about 200 more deaths in Afghanistan than would have been expected in peacetime among populations of the size deployed to those two conflicts.     

海量公交数据的人群画像算法

面向海量公交数据的人群画像对分析城市群体出行特点、交通态势等极具价值,但对数据的处理存在耗时高、质量低、解释难等问题。提出一种海量公交数据人群画像的系统化解决策略,基于PageRank算法筛选出经过重要站点的人群轨迹,极大减少目标人群的轨迹数据;提出轨迹文本化分析方法来提高人群画像的可解释性;分析确定基于余弦距离的K-means算法作为人群画像分类的聚类算法。该算法在3 000万乘客公交出行数据上的实验表明:提出的解决策略能够较为系统性地解决海量公交数据的人群画像问题,同时基于余弦距离的K-means算法的聚类效果最好且准确率约达80%。将人群画像及其轨迹使用Flow Map进行可视化展示,结果符合真实世界的人群行为特征。     

一种新的并行多通道数据采集系统时序偏差校正技术

介绍了多通道并行采样技术在高速数据采集系统的应用和其局限性 ,然后给出了一种测量多通道系统各通道间时序偏差的方法 ;接着提出了一种在数字域校正通道间时序偏差的新方法 ,可以大大提高多通道并行采样技术的性能 ;最后对该方法进行了仿真以验证其可行性和性能。     

用线性规划法设计复系数FIR滤波器

讨论了在复Chebyshev逼近意义下设计复系数FIR滤波器问题。直接把复Chebyshev逼近问题离散化成有限维线性规划问题 ,再用单纯形法求解这种方法一直被认为只能设计实系数滤波器 ,而且计算量大、收敛速度慢。本文从直接离散化出发 ,推导出一种求解此问题的改进的单纯形算法 ,适用于设计复系数滤波器 ,极大地减小了计算量 ,提高了收敛速度。并证明了它与通过求解半无限线性规划的对偶问题而得到的改进的单纯形法是等价的。最后给出了算法的仿真结果     

基于高性能DSP实现的多普勒波束锐化实时成像处理

在简要介绍多普勒波束锐化 (DBS)成像原理和TMS32 0C6 2 0 1芯片特点的基础上 ,着重讨论了DBS成像算法基于DSP的实现。在实现过程中充分考虑了通用DSP完成非线性运算、除法运算耗时大以及存贮I/O操作耗时不能忽略等特点。最后分析了算法性能并给出了实验结果     

舰船建造费随批量变化的成长模型分析

应用微分方程、回归分析及生长曲线３段估算法,建立批量生产条件下舰船单价变化模型,这一模型可与其他模型综合应用以取得更理想的结果．     

What is the global landpower network and what value might it provide?

US national security guidance, as well as the US Army’s operational experiences since 2001, emphasizes the importance of working closely with partner countries to achieve US strategic objectives. The US Army has introduced the global landpower network (GLN) concept as a means to integrate, sustain and advance the Army’s considerable ongoing efforts to meet US national security guidance. This study develops the GLN concept further, and addresses three questions. What benefits can the GLN provide the Army? What are the essential components of the GLN? What options exist for implementing the GLN concept? By developing the GLN concept, the Army has the opportunity to transition the GLN from an often ad hoc and reactive set of relationships to one that the Army more self-consciously prioritizes and leverages as a resource to meet US strategic objectives.     

建构学习理论在教学中的应用

在教学中运用建构学习理论,针对“基于经验的知识建构活动”进行有益尝试。在此理论背景下,教师最重要的任务是利用三个层次的建构性经验源为学生提供知识建构的良好条件,并探讨这一理念在教学中的具体应用及其效果。     

Optimal sample size allocation for tests with multiple levels of stress with extreme value regression

In this article, we discuss the optimal allocation problem in a multiple stress levels life‐testing experiment when an extreme value regression model is used for statistical analysis. We derive the maximum likelihood estimators, the Fisher information, and the asymptotic variance–covariance matrix of the maximum likelihood estimators. Three optimality criteria are defined and the optimal allocation of units for two‐ and k‐stress level situations are determined. We demonstrate the efficiency of the optimal allocation of units in a multiple stress levels life‐testing experiment by using real experimental situations discussed earlier by McCool and Nelson and Meeker. Monte Carlo simulations are used to show that the optimality results hold for small sample sizes as well. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

India's Tortuous Road to Defence-Industrial Self-Reliance

…Rapid indigenisation is the cornerstone of our policy of self-reliance

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