Retailer's rationale to refuse consumer returns in supply chains

While accepting consumer returns has long been proposed as a solution to resolve the consumer valuation uncertainty problem, there are still a sizable portion of retailers who insist on a “no return” policy. In this article, we offer an economic rationale for these seemingly unreasonable strategies in a supply chain context. We demonstrate when and why the retailer may benefit from refusing consumer returns, even though offering consumer returns allows the supply chain to implement the expostmarket segmentation. Granting the retailer the right to refuse consumer returns may sometimes improve supply chain efficiency: it eliminates the manufacturer's attempt to induce inefficient consumer returns and bring the equilibrium back to that in the vertically integrated benchmark. We also find that the refund and the retail price can move in the opposite directions when product reliability varies, and consumer returns have a nontrivial impact on the quality choice. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 62: 686–701, 2015     

无人机测控系统Turbo-MAP译码方法

无人机测控数据链系统与地面控制站进行的是遥测数据、侦察图像及遥控指令的传输,因此,高质量的通信是确保无人机数据链发挥效能的关键技术之一。针对无人机信道的特点和要求,研究了无人机信道的Turbo-MAP译码模型,提出一种无人机测控系统Turbo-MAP译码方法,并针对各种参数条件进行了Matlab仿真。实验结果证明,该方法能够保证在发送数据的时候尽量使用长度较长的数据包且增加交织深度,并显著提升译码BER性能。     

航天快速发射现状与发展

研究了国内外航天快速发射现状,总结了发展趋势;分析了制约我国航天快速发射发展的因素,并对我国航天快速发射发展的能力要素和部分关键技术进行了梳理;最后,给出了我国开展航天快速发射建设的几点建议。     

某型坦克炮常规弹药高原环境下打击效能试验

根据某型坦克炮所配备的制式常规弹药在高原的适应性试验情况,分析了该型坦克炮作战使用的主要弹种穿甲弹和杀伤爆破弹在高海拔条件下的外弹道状态,将平原地区与高原地区的测试数据进行了对比计算,对该型坦克炮配备的穿甲弹和杀伤爆破弹在高海拔条件下的打击效能加以分析和评估,为其在高原环境下作战和使用的打击效能提供参考依据。     

智能化战争形态及其支撑技术体系

智能化战争以全维信息感知为基础,以先进信息技术为纽带,以海量信息的高效处理与认知进化为核心,以提升综合指挥决策、高效自组织协同、灵活自主作战等能力为目的,有效适应威胁演进、作战任务、作战样式、作战地域、以及潜在对手的复杂性、多样性、不确定性,进而达到设计战争的目的。本文对智能化战争演变形态进行了分析,并对其支撑技术体系进行了探讨。     

"双一流"建设对高等教育学学科发展的机遇与挑战

"双一流"建设为高等教育学科发展提供了机遇和挑战.高校应根据高等教育学科发展的历史和文化,采用不同战略定位和建设路径,紧抓机遇、突出特色、引入竞争机制、服务国家战略,直面高等教育学科独立学科地位的困境、自身发展规律与社会需求逻辑间的权衡等"双一流"建设带来的挑战,通过完善治理体系、加强人才培养、助力智库建设、实现科学评估、释放服务功能等方面把握"双一流"建设中高等教育学科发展的方向,推进中国高等教育学科的内涵式发展.     

滑模控制的新型双幂次组合函数趋近律

提出一种基于双幂次组合函数趋近律的新型滑模控制方案。与现有的快速幂次或双幂次趋近律相比,具有更快的收敛速度,同时还保持了全局固定时间收敛特性,收敛时间上界与滑模初值无关。当系统存在有界扰动时,能够使滑模变量在有限时间内收敛到稳态误差界内,同时其稳态误差要小于现有方法的。仿真实验验证了该方法的有效性及理论分析的正确性。     

Does defence expenditure have a spillover effect on income inequality? A cross-regional analysis in China

China’s defence expenditure has been growing rapidly along with GDP growth during the past two decades. Meanwhile, the income gap has continued to increase. There are conflicting views regarding whether the defence expenditure is capable of reducing income inequality. Therefore, this paper investigates the existence of any spillover effect of defence expenditure on income inequality, with a special focus on the regional differences among 31 provinces and 7 military regions in China. We extend panel cointegration and the impulse response function by using panel data during the period of 1997–2012. The empirical results show that the defence expenditure has an impact on income inequality, and the effect varies over different regions in China. The defence expenditure has a spillover effect on income inequality in the full sample panel and the southeastern panel. An increase in the defence expenditure does not crowd out social welfare spending due to the high level of economic development and government expenditure. On the contrary, in the northern panel, the effect is opposite because of the unbalanced economic development levels within the panel. Beijing as the capital of China, benefits more from the expansion of defence expenditure thus widening the income gap. In addition, the impulse response analyses further confirm a stronger effect of the defence expenditure on income inequality in the northern and the southeastern panels over a short period.     

基于广义非线性变换的特征谱线增强方法

为提高强背景噪声下频谱分析的特征提取能力,突出所关心的特征谱线,在非线性变换方法的基础上,提出了广义非线性变换方法。对比分析结果表明:广义非线性变换方法将固定的放大阈值改为可变值,提高了该方法实际应用的灵活性和适用性,易于获得最佳的特征谱线增强效果。     

一种自启动偏置电路芯片的设计

针对集成电路中对高精度基准电流源的需求,设计了一种具有自启动功能的偏置电流源电路,输出电流值为10μA、2μA。仿真结果表明该电路在保持高电源抑制比的同时,提供了合适的静态工作点,解决了芯片自启动问题。