An Analysis of the Threat of Malicious Chemical Use by Nonstate Actors: Questioning the State-based Approach to Chemical Nonproliferation

ABSTRACT

This study seeks to evaluate the threat of malicious chemical use by non-state actors. It finds that non-state actors have primarily turned to ready-to-use crude chemical weapons (CW) instead of traditional CW agents. Interestingly, the worst crude CW attacks have been more destructive than those employing traditional CW. Scenarios for catastrophic consequences exist, but chemical attacks have typically been used to accomplish tactical goals, which leverage psychological and economic impacts. Therefore, successful efforts to counter CW proliferation by non-state actors must be substantially different from those targeting states.     

四轮全向移动机器人的双闭环速度控制系统设计

设计了四轮全向移动机器人的传感器信息采集硬件电路,并通过分析四轮全向移动机器人的运动学模型,提出了基于TI公司最新研发的TMS320F28069为主控制器的直流电机双闭环速度控制方案.试验结果表明:所提控制方案能够满足四轮全向移动机器人速度控制的要求,且响应速度快、误差小.     

Review of the ordered and proportionate flow shop scheduling research

Ordered flow shop models have appeared in the literature since the mid‐1970s and proportionate flow shop models have appeared since the early 1980s. We provide a detailed review of these models along with some analysis and potential topics for future research. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2013     

Non-lethal weapons and the long tail of warfare

This paper examines whether non-lethal weapons (NLWs) enhance the capability of the US armed forces to conduct irregular warfare (IW) operations. With expectations that the operational environment will only continue to become more complex in the future, NLWs may reduce the level of violence received, as well as dispensed, by US forces while performing tasks in the IW spectrum. We argue that NLWs increase the ability of US forces to address the long tail of warfare and their deployment should be increased in the near term.     

冲激回波信号的双二重相关匹配滤波技术研究

超宽带冲激脉冲回波检测是超宽带雷达探测目标的关键,检测效能的高低将决定超宽带雷达的应用.在传统二重相关匹配滤波技术的基础上,提出了双二重相关匹配滤波技术.分析了双二重相关匹配滤波技术的检测原理,建立了超宽带冲激脉冲串回波信号模型,对比了不同信噪比下2种接收技术的仿真结果,仿真结果表明接收技术改进后能进一步抑制噪声,提高信噪比.研究对超宽带雷达接收机的设计有一定的借鉴和参考价值.