关于塔式网络矢量量化中格点的标号

在格型矢量量化中,用格点作为量化矢量,构成码书。为了存储或传输量化输出,必须对格点进行标号。我们在数据压缩课题研究中,对塔式网格矢量量化中格点的标号进行了探索,给出了常用的几种网络诸如ZL、DL、E8、A16等格点的标号算法。     

一种支持高效并发访问的移动对象索引

针对移动对象当前及未来位置索引不能有效支持多用户并发访问的问题,提出了一种支持高效并发访问的移动对象索引CS2B-tree(Concurrent Space-filling curve enabled Cache Sensitive B+-tree)。该索引结合了Bx-tree和CSB+-tree的特点,因而能够支持对移动对象进行预测查询且具有缓存敏感特性。重点研究了一种针对CS2B-tree的两层锁并发访问机制,特别是设计了一种网格锁备忘录结构,使得索引能够支持多任务并发执行。基于并发访问机制,分别提出了CS2B-tree的并发更新算法及并发预测范围查询算法。实验表明,相对于Bx-tree,CS2B-tree的并发访问的吞吐量提高了15.1%,响应时间减少了14.9%。     

对象关系数据库中连接谓词索引技术的研究

讨论了一种适合于对象关系数据库的新型索引结构———连接谓词索引 ,在介绍了谓词索引之后 ,给出了基于该索引结构的连接算法 ,并分析了连接算法的性能 ,提出了根据性能计算来确定关系R和S中谁作为外关系 ,从而降低算法代价的方法 ,特别地 ,本文还把连接谓词索引推广到一般形式 ,可以用于多个关系表的连接     

Meeting the growing safeguards burden

ABSTRACT

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) faces challenges in fulfilling its safeguards mandate as a result of an expanding safeguards burden and a relatively static budget. This dilemma has been exacerbated by the additional burdens of implementing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Iran, but would not go away if implementation of the JCPOA were to end. There are three main areas of opportunity for the Agency: (1) budgetary expansion tied to changes in staffing policies, (2) changes in safeguards approaches, and (3) technological innovation. Barriers and limitations are associated with each approach, and advancing any of them will face a difficult political environment in Vienna.     

“The major prize”: apartheid South Africa’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1988–91

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the final years of South Africa’s nuclear-weapon program, particularly on the decision-making process leading up to the signature of the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) by the South African government in 1991. In August 1988, after two decades of defiance, negotiations between the apartheid government and the NPT depository powers (the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) ensued at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. Despite South Africa being the only state to give up its indigenously developed nuclear weapons and subsequently join the nonproliferation regime, little is known about how the national position on NPT accession and IAEA safeguards evolved. Research carried out in multiple archives using hitherto untapped primary sources and interviews with key actors from several countries show how domestic and regional political dynamics influenced Pretoria’s position on entering the nonproliferation regime. In the process, the F.W. de Klerk government managed to skillfully exploit international proliferation fears to advance its own agenda, thereby connecting South African NPT accession with that of the neighboring Frontline States coalition of Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.