TERRORISM AND TOURISM: THE CASE OF TURKEY

Using a time series method called ‘transfer function’, this paper examines the effect of terrorism on tourism in Turkey. The results indicate that there exists a negative but small impact of terrorism, which is observed within approximately one year. However, terrorist attacks in Turkey have accounted for a reduction of six million foreign tourists over the last nine years. Moreover, the economic cost of terrorism in the tourism industry was more than $700 million in 2006. However, terrorist attacks in continental Europe and America, and an active war involving a neighboring country, had no effects on tourism in Turkey.     

9/11: WHAT DID WE KNOW AND WHEN DID WE KNOW IT?

In February 1998, Osama Bin Laden published a signed statement calling for a fatwa against the United States for its having ‘declared war against God’. As we now know, the fatwa resulted in the unprecedented attack of 9/11. The issue of whether or not 9/11 was in any way predictable culminated in the public debate between Richard Clarke, former CIA Director George Tenet and the White House. This paper examines whether there was any evidence of a structural change in the terrorism data at or after February 1998 but prior to June 2001, controlling for the possibility of other breaks in earlier periods. In doing so, we use the standard Bai–Perron procedure and our sequential importance sampling (SIS) Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for identifying an unknown number of breaks at unknown dates. We conclude that sophisticated statistical time‐series analysis would not have predicted 9/11.     

Remaking the military industrial relationship: A French‐American comparison

Defense industrial complexes in leading Cold War nations have downsized and reallocated resources to other productive activities in the 1990s. In this paper, we analyze the experience of two key countries ‐ the US and France. Comparing the two countries, we find similar outcomes in budgetary retrenchment and large firm restructuring but marked differences in the pace of downsizing and diversification among small and medium‐sized firms. We hypothesize that three sets of contextual differences may explain these differences: 1) institutional differences in the way that the State bureaucracies ‐ the Pentagon and the French Délégation générale pour l'armement (DGA) ‐ oversee defense industrial matters, 2) differences in military industry ownership and firm size patterns, and 3) differences in the regional distribution of defense industrial capacity and associated regional policies. In closing, we note that the two countries’ defense industrial complexes are becoming more alike and speculate on the significance of invidious competition and interactions between them. We address briefly the future of French/American arms industrial competition and cooperation, given the trend towards transnational security arrangements and defense industry globalization     

一类具有阶段结构和潜伏期时滞的SEI模型的全局动力学性态

研究一类具有潜伏期时滞、阶段结构和标准发生率的SEI模型,利用比较定理和单调迭代的方法,分别得到无病平衡点和地方病平衡点全局吸引的充分条件．     

钢质油罐罐底腐蚀预测模型研究与评价

钢质油罐在储存油料时不可避免地会受到严重腐蚀.为能够掌握罐底的腐蚀程度,提出了一种由灰色系统理论和BP人工神经网络相结合的方法建立预测模型,对钢质油罐罐底腐蚀情况进行了预测,并通过实例计算给出了评价.计算结果表明,预测值与实测值相差很小,尤其对油料腐蚀这种涉及较多因素的复杂过程,该方法具有明显的优越性;该模型克服了传统预测模型需建立函数的难题,且预测精度较高,具有较高理论与实际应用价值.     

Notes on Cataneo's Scale,Some Gunners' Daggers and a Gunners' Rule

Abstract

Cataneo's scale, published in 1571, relates the weight of shot to the internal muzzle diameter of guns ranging between 0.04–0.21 m. Plots of calculated shot density versus muzzle diameter suggest that diameters of 0.10 m and above apply to iron shot and those below apply to lead and lead/iron composite shot. Similar plots are used to compare Cataneo's scale with other contemporary scales and with scales engraved on the blades of five Italian gunners' daggers dating to around 1650. Variations and errors in the daggers' scales might suggest a symbolic rather than a practical role; nevertheless there is remarkable consistency with Cataneo's scale in the shape of the plots in spite of the considerable length of time after its publication. A simple wooden scale from the Spanish Armada ship La Trinidad Valencera also confirms to Cataneo's general pattern although there appears to be a fundamental error in its mathematical construction.     

再生冷却通道结构参数对碳氢燃料流量分配影响

以液体火箭发动机再生冷却技术为背景,采用数值模拟方法对Z-type型并联通道流量分配特性进行研究,分析了通道数、通道截面形状及入口汇流结构对流量分配特性的影响。研究结果表明:在冷却通道总流通面积相同的情况下,随着再生冷却系统通道数的增加,流量分配不均匀度系数从2.59%降低至0.5%,相同流通面积下增加通道数可以有效提高流量分配的均匀程度。通道截面形状对流量分配不均匀度系数影响不大,其影响主要表现在通道内部流体速度分布及换热面积上。从换热效果看,梯形截面构型要优于矩形构型。入口汇流结构倾斜角有利于流量的均匀性分布。该研究对于再生冷却通道结构设计具有一定参考价值。     

界面热阻对金刚石/银复合材料导热率的影响

研究了金刚石／银复合材料的导热率与金刚石的含量、粒度等之间的关系,着重讨论了界面热阻对复合材料导热率的影响。并阐述了金刚石表面镀钛,能有效改善金刚石对银的润湿性,降低界面热阻,从而提高金刚石／银复合材料的导热率。     

优化教员系统年龄结构的系统动力学模型

为了加强高等院校师资队伍建设,本文用系统动力学(System Dynamic,简称SD)的方法建立了某校师资队伍分析、预测模型,对其年龄结构进行了模拟分析,提出了今后几十年中师资队伍出现的问题及应采取的策略.     

基于VFD滤波器的导航信道模拟器动态时延模拟方法*

针对卫星导航信道模拟器信号仿真中,传统伪距多普勒模拟方法瞬时控制精度差、滤波器资源占用较大的不足,提出了基于拉格朗日插值延迟滤波器及Farrow结构实现的伪距多普勒模拟方法。在分析信道模拟器系统架构的基础上,建立了多普勒模拟方法的模型,包括延时计算模块和可变延迟滤波器两部分。与多速率采样数字延迟滤波器方法比较,该方法滤波器系数个数约为后者的0.2%,并且改变时延特性时,仅需更新1个参数。信道模拟器实测数据结果表明使用该方法伪码多普勒模拟精度可以达到0.1mHz。