“It would be impossible to estimate the value of these works...” Mass Production at Springfield Armory during the American Civil War

The U.S. Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, rarely appears in Civil War histories except perhaps as an unexplained statistical wonder. By late 1863, the Armory was the largest single supplier of rifles to Union forces. Springfield Armory workers out-produced over thirty American contractors, making more Army rifles at less cost while providing contractors with gauges, inspectors, and models, even though there were significant wartime private-sector mechanical innovations. This article identifies and explains the factors in the Armory’s success, provides context on contemporary American arms production and rifle models, and argues that the Armory’s methods and performance were among the first if not the first example of mass production in American small arms manufacture. The relative brevity of the Civil War episode, and the fact that it was not repeated in any comparable way at the Armory until World War II, has obscured its significance in American manufacturing history.     

The essence of war: French armies and small war in the Low Countries (1672–1697)

In the late seventeenth century during the Dutch War (1672–1678) and the Nine Years War (1688–1697), French armies relied on small war for the accomplishment of essential tasks and as part of an overall strategy of exhausting their opponents in the Low Countries. The purposes of small war included the imposition of contributions on enemy populations, the destruction of the enemy base of operations, blockades of fortresses, and the general support of campaign armies. The expression ‘small war’ in the French language appeared with growing frequency in the 1690s. Small war can be viewed as both a cause and consequence of the characteristics of these wars. The limited policy goals of Louis XIV the king of France required a strategy that minimised risk and accomplished the goal of reducing if not eliminating the Spanish presence in the Low Countries that bordered the north of France. As French armies increased in size during this period, the demand for specialists at small increased in order to provide security and ensure supply. Small war in the late seventeenth century was thus not ideologically motivated insurgency, but in the minds of French commanders an essential component of strategy and the nature of war.     

小子样条件下导弹靶场试验综合评定方法

针对导弹靶场试验中的小子样问题,分析了自助法和随机加权法,并对自助法中再生子样较为集中的不足进行了改进。通过仿真比较得出,改进后的自助法具有更好的评定特性。     

融合图嵌入的光滑主成分分析网络图像识别算法

主成分分析网络(principal component analysis network, PCANet)是一种简单的深度学习算法,在图像识别领域具有优秀的性能。将图嵌入思想融入PCANet,提出一种新的图像识别算法光滑主成分分析网络(Smooth-PCANet)。为了验证Smooth-PCANet算法的有效性,在人脸、手写体字符以及图片等不同数据集上构建实验,并将Smooth-PCANet与多种基于深度学习的图像识别算法作了对比。实验结果证明,Smooth-PCANet算法比PCANet获得了更高的识别性能,并且更有效地避免了过拟合,在小样本训练时具有显著优势。     

小型旅馆消防安全现状及管理对策探讨

近年来,各地小型旅馆发展迅速,但由于其小而散使消防安全监管难度增大,从业人员消防安全意识淡薄,自身消防安全隐患较多,极易发生群死群伤火灾事故.介绍了小型旅馆的特点,分析了小型旅馆存在的消防安全隐患及消防监督管理工作存在的问题,探讨了加强小型旅馆消防安全管理的措施.     

考虑地磁场空间梯度的飞行器磁干扰建模与求解方法

首先,在研究飞行器背景磁干扰模型与小信号模型的基础上,分析了地磁梯度沿纬度与高度的变化规律,分析可知由于飞行器的机动,地磁梯度会对测量结果造成影响;然后,考虑地磁梯度因素,对原有小信号模型求解方法进行了改进：飞行器在四个航向上做小角度的机动飞行,将地磁场沿纬度与高度的梯度作为未知量,与飞行器磁干扰模型中的剩磁参数、感磁参数和涡磁参数一起求解;最后,利用实测试验数据进行了验证,结果表明：考虑地磁梯度的影响与不考虑地磁梯度的影响相比,求解的模型参数可以在细节上进一步提高飞行器背景磁干扰的补偿效果。     

基于随机加权法的BAYES精度评定

从工程应用的角度出发 ,在极小现场子样条件下 ,讨论了如何利用验前信息与现场子样来对导弹的命中精度进行评定 ,将随机加权法与BAYES方法结合起来 ,提出了基于随机加权法的BAYES精度评定方法 ,并通过算例证实了方法的正确性     

基于红外图像的小目标检测与跟踪方法

为了能在强杂波、低信噪比的情况下检测小目标,人们提出了许多针对小目标检测与跟踪的方法。介绍了基于红外图像的小目标检测和跟踪的各种方法和最新进展,重点讨论了灰度形态法、小波变换法、最优时空非线性滤波法用于小目标检测与跟踪的原理,并指出了今后的发展和研究方向。     

地缘缺陷是制约大国崛起的重要因素：以印度为例

历史上，地缘因素对大国崛起起过重要的作用。地缘优势有利于大国的崛起，而地缘缺陷则制约着大国的崛起，导致其崛起失败或难以崛起。印度是正在崛起的新兴大国。然而，印度所处的地缘环境存在明显缺陷，这是制约印度崛起的重要因素。印度只有对自身的地缘缺陷进行合理改造，扬长避短，才能顺利实现崛起目标。     

小水线面四体船的阻力特点分析

从粘性阻力、兴波阻力和旋涡阻力3个方面分析小水线面四体船(以SLICE为代表)的阻力特点,讨论了浮体横向错位、支柱和潜体形状、航速和吃水对兴波阻力的影响.结果表明,在浅水中一定航速范围内,与等排水量的小水线面双体船(SWATH)相比,SLICE有一定优势.