Optimal retail assortments for substitutable items purchased in sets

We consider the problem of optimizing assortments in a multi‐item retail inventory system. In addition to the usual holding and stockout costs, there is a fixed cost for including any item in the assortment. Customers' preferences for items include both probabilistic substitution patterns and the desire to purchase sets of complementary items. We develop a demand model to capture this behavior, and derive tractable approximations that allow us to formulate the optimization problem as a 0–1 mixed integer linear program. Numerical examples are solved to illustrate key insights into how both complementary and substitute items affect the optimal assortment and the expected profit. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 50: 793–822, 2003.     

Exact algorithms for scheduling multiple families of jobs on parallel machines

In many practical manufacturing environments, jobs to be processed can be divided into different families such that a setup is required whenever there is a switch from processing a job of one family to another job of a different family. The time for setup could be sequence independent or sequence dependent. We consider two particular scheduling problems relevant to such situations. In both problems, we are given a set of jobs to be processed on a set of identical parallel machines. The objective of the first problem is to minimize total weighted completion time of jobs, and that of the second problem is to minimize weighted number of tardy jobs. We propose column generation based branch and bound exact solution algorithms for the problems. Computational experiments show that the algorithms are capable of solving both problems of medium size to optimality within reasonable computational time. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 50: 823–840, 2003.     

四支板超声速引射器性能特性试验

对二维喷管构型的四支板超声速引射器进行冷流试验,分析启动、负载匹配方面的性能特性。试验结果表明:启动特性方面,四支板超声速引射系统的盲腔压力低于3 kPa,引射器入口腔压的迟滞压力比启动压力低15.9%。负载匹配特性方面,四支板引射器在小引射系数、大增压比状态下具有十分明显的优势,当引射系数为0.04时,增压比为11.21;当引射系数为0.10时,增压比为7.0。因此,二维喷管构型的多支板超声速引射器具有良好的启动、负载匹配性能,工程应用潜力较大。     

Coercive diplomacy and the Donbas: Explaining Russian strategy in Eastern Ukraine

What were Russia’s objectives in Eastern Ukraine, and why was it seemingly unable to achieve a successful or decisive outcome? In contrast to Russia’s seizure of Crimea, the uprising in Eastern Ukraine was marked by disorganization and chaos. Using proxy and surrogate actors, along with military exercises and the injection of Russian troops, Russia sought to institutionalize a political entity inside Ukraine to influence its domestic politics. In this article, I analyze the mechanisms by which Russia attempted to implement, and later salvage, its strategy. The article contributes to clearer theoretical and practical understanding of limited force in coercive diplomacy, signaling, and a more rigorous treatment of the role and uses of proxy actors.     

Deterrence Beyond Downunder: Australia and US Security Guarantees since 1955

ABSTRACT

From 1944 to 1973 Australia attempted to acquire atomic weaponry. This ambition was driven by the desire to contribute to defending British interests in Asia, fears of invasion by China, Indonesia, and Japan, great-power war, and the belief that nuclear weapons were merely bigger and better conventional weapons, that they would proliferate, and that US security assurances lacked credibility. Although the pursuit of the bomb was eventually abandoned, this was not the result of US assurances. Rather, geopolitical changes in Australia’s environment meant that a major attack on the continent was unlikely to occur outside the context of a confrontation between the US, China, and the Soviet Union. This article argues that Australia may soon have to rethink its policies towards US extended deterrence and instead focus on developing its own deterrent.     

Norms,Military Utility,and the Use/Non-use of Weapons: The Case of Anti-plant and Irritant Agents in the Vietnam War

The role of norms and military utility in the use of weapons is disputed by constructivist and realist scholars. Through an examination of US decision-making regarding anti-plant and irritant agents in the Vietnam War, I advance this debate in three key ways. First, I develop structural realism’s expectations regarding the role of military utility. Second, I demonstrate that social and material factors are at play in our understandings of both ‘norms’ and ‘military utility’, and that both played a role in US decisions. Third, I find that the dominant role – as structural realism expects – was played by military utility.     

热障涂层厚度及其涂敷下材料内部缺陷的红外定量识别

针对热障涂层结构材料红外定量检测存在的不足,提出基于脉冲相位的LM(LevenbergMarquardt)识别算法。针对研究问题,建立了轴对称圆柱坐标下热障涂层结构材料的瞬态导热模型,利用有限体积法计算出检测表面的温度场,经快速傅里叶变换得到检测表面的相位分布,分析待检测参数对检测表面相位差的影响。以相位为识别条件,采用LM反演算法对热障涂层厚度及其涂敷下材料内部缺陷位置大小进行定量识别,并采用数值实验方法验证了基于相位的LM识别方法的有效性。     

高一理科生化学自主学习现状的调查及对策研究——以石河子第一中学为例

“未来的文盲将不是目不识丁的人,而是不知道如何学习的人”.[1]学会学习是教育的重中之重,是每个人的必修课.本文分别从新课标的推动、社会的需要和学生的特点论述了高一理科生化学自主学习现状的现实意义,从学生自主学习意识和习惯、自主学习方法、影响自主学习因素和自我效能感找出高一理科生化学自主学习现状中存在的问题,并提出相应的对策.