Evaluating the trade‐off between military spending and investment in the United States

Using tests of a single equation model and cointegration techniques, this paper finds no evidence of a long run trade‐off, and some evidence of a short‐run trade‐off, between military spending and investment in post‐World War II United States data. The short‐run trade‐off is confined to the 1949–1971 period, and may be the result of the sharp expansion and contraction of military outlays in connection with the Korean and Vietnam Wars. In addition, cointegration techniques are used to identify a possible long‐run trade‐off between military spending and consumption.     

The Demand for Turkish Defence Expenditure

Although a number of studies concerning Turkish defence-growth relation have been published in recent years, little attention is given the demand for Turkish defence expenditure. This is an important issue for understanding which variables contribute to the determination of the demand for military expenditure. However, it is difficult to develop a general theory or a standard empirical approach for the determination of the demand military expenditure. This study models and estimates the demand for Turkish defence expenditure for the period 1951-1998 using autoregressive distributed lag approach to cointegration (ARDL) following the methodology outlined in Pesaran and Shin (1999). This procedure can be applied regardless of the stationary properties of the variables in the sample and allows for inferences on long-run estimates, which is not possible under alternative cointegration procedures. The findings suggest that Turkish defence spending is determined by NATO's defence spending, Greece's defence spending and some security considerations.     

Defense spending and economic growth: Extended empirical analysis for the European Union

Previous empirical studies on the defense spending-economic growth nexus such as Kollias et al. (2007 Kollias, C., N. Mylonidis, and S. Paleologou. 2007. “A panel data analysis of the nexus between defense spending and growth in the European Union.” Defense and Peace Economics 18 (1): 75–85.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Mylonidis (2008 Mylonidis, N. 2008. “Revisiting the nexus between military spending and growth in the European Union.” Defense and Peace Economics 19 (4): 265–272.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Dunne and Nikolaidou (2012 Dunne, J. P., and E. Nikolaidou. 2012. “Defense spending and economic growth in the EU15.” Defense and Peace Economics 23 (6): 537–548.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) analyzed this relationship in the case of the EU15. This study extends the analysis with the inclusion of more EU members and investigates the long run causal ordering between the two variables. Findings reported herein are not uniformed across all EU members. It is also found that end of Cold War has significant negative impact on defense expenditures of former east-European countries.     

THE EFFECT OF 9/11 ON US EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF TOURISM

Several studies have investigated whether the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have had an ongoing or merely transitory effect on US trade in tourism. All conclude in favor of the latter. However, limitations in either the data and/or methodology employed by these studies give cause to query their findings. The present study avoids these limitations and finds strong evidence that, once other factors are held constant, real US exports and imports of tourism have both remained significantly below their pre‐2001 level.     

Institutional Analysis and Irregular Warfare: A Case Study of the French Army in Algeria 1954–1960

This article proposes a case study to illustrate the usefulness of sociological institutional analysis as a method to uncover ‘blue force’ challenges to deal with irregular warfare. The French Army's adaptation to revolutionary warfare in Algeria, starting in 1954, is used to illustrate both the application of the methodology and how institutional forces can hinder as well as overwhelm transformation for irregular warfare. The analysis emphasizes three key dimensions of the French Army's institutional adaptation: the regulative, normative and cognitive. These empirical elements are used to show how they interacted and influenced the institutional implementation of the French COIN structures.     

主成分分析在铁谱磨粒识别中的应用研究

介绍了主成分分析(PCA)基本原理与算法,提出了主成分分析用于铁谱磨粒识别的基本思路和方法,给出了具体的应用步骤,并通过实例对基于主成分分析的铁谱磨粒识别方法有效性进行了分析和验证,结果表明,该方法在减少铁谱磨粒识别工作量和提高识别准确率方面效果良好。     

基于功能角色模型的反馈系统故障模式影响分析

从系统功能设计过程出发,在分析反馈系统工作原理及其功能角色模型构造特点的基础上,认为反馈信号在输入端可等效为正、负、零三种误差信号。以此为基础,提出了反馈系统基于该理论的故障传播分析方法和技术。最后以飞机发动机燃料计量系统为例,阐述该方法在反馈系统中应用的可行性。经案例分析表明,该方法可以比较有效地解决一类带反馈环的故障分析问题,大大提高了功能角色模型的应用范围。     

FLAMES仿真系统中目标毁伤仿真的实现

为了构建FLAMES中的目标毁伤仿真系统,在对FLAMES仿真系统体系结构分析的基础上,通过研究FLAMES中目标毁伤仿真的相关模型、函数及计算方法,归纳出目标毁伤仿真的实现流程。最后以飞机轰炸停机坪目标的毁伤计算为例,具体实现了FLAMES中的目标毁伤仿真。     

一种基于混合概率PCA模型的高光谱图像非监督分类方法

提出了一种在期望最大化(EM)算法框架下同时实现混合概率主成分分析(PPCA)降维和聚类的高光谱图像非监督分类方法。它根据不同类别应各有自己代表性的特征集,将通常意义下的特征抽取和模式分类合并在一步内完成,尽可能地保留了可分性;同时该方法具有概率模型的优点,更适合高维数据处理。采用仿真数据和真实数据进行的比较实验表明,该算法较一般不加区分地对所有原始数据进行PCA降维再分类的方法能得到更好的分类结果。     

压水堆蒸汽发生器传热管腐蚀破裂分析及预防

本文首先概述了压水堆蒸汽发生器的传热管破裂事故,接着分析了影响传热管腐蚀破裂的主要因素,最后从材料、结构设计、制造工艺和水质方面提出了防止传热管破裂的途径。