战时装备维修保障力量运用的系统工程方法

战时装备维修保障力量运用是战时装备维修保障的重要组成部分,贯穿部队战前准备、作战过程和作战结束整个流程。为反映战时装备维修保障力量运用的特征,探讨解决研究战时装备维修保障力量运用没有系统方法可循的问题,在对霍尔三维结构模型改进的基础上,分别从作业维、逻辑维、知识维和时间维4个维度构建战时装备维修保障力量,运用体系结构模型,提出战时装备维修保障力量运用的3个关键模型和求解模型的思路方法,为战时装备维修保障力量运用提供理论与方法的指导。     

柔石《二月》:因着诚挚深入而丰富

柔石是“左联五烈士”中最具艺术潜质的作家。一般认为,他的代表作中篇小说《二月》纯熟地表现了青年知识者的追求,揭示了中国封建传统强大惯性重压下个人奋斗、人道主义理想的碰壁。但对于以主人公萧涧秋为代表的一代青年知识分子固有的人格缺失,以及由此造成的不必要的生存处境的尴尬、环境恶化,分析仍欠深人,因而遮蔽了《二月》这部作品主题意蕴应有的丰富性,也在客观上影响了对于柔石这位作家杰出艺术才能的认识。     

Markovian approximation for manufacturing systems of unreliable machines in tandem

This paper studies production planning of manufacturing systems of unreliable machines in tandem. The manufacturing system considered here produces one type of product. The demand is assumed to be a Poisson process and the processing time for one unit of product in each machine is exponentially distributed. A broken machine is subject to a sequence of repairing processes. The up time and the repairing time in each phase are assumed to be exponentially distributed. We study the manufacturing system by considering each machine as an individual system with stochastic supply and demand. The Markov Modulated Poisson Process (MMPP) is applied to model the process of supply. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method. We employ (s, S) policy as production control. Fast algorithms are presented to solve the average running costs of the machine system for a given (s, S) policy and hence the approximated optimal (s, S) policy. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 65–78, 2001     

Memory,magic and militias: Cora Indian participation in Mexico’s wars,from the reforma to the revolution (1854-1920)

ABSTRACT

Mexico’s Cora Indians have played an outsized role in national history, thanks to their skilful use of guerrilla tactics and success in forging strategic alliances with outside forces in defence of their cultural, territorial and political autonomy. Cora participation in elite struggles between Liberals and Conservatives (1850–73), and subsequently in the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), helped to shape the way that both conflicts played out in Western Mexico. Such participation also allowed Cora communities to keep hold of traditional landholdings in the face of political and economic reform, while sowing the seeds for the foundation of the Mexican state of Nayarit.     

Was World War Two a Completely Just War?

ABSTRACT

According to Brian Orend’s binary political model, minimally just states possess a robust set of moral rights, while other states essentially exist in a moral vacuum in which they possess no moral rights. I argue that a more plausible comparative model would allow for a state to acquire (or lose) discrete moral rights as it improves (or damages) its moral record. This would generate a more accurate portrayal of both domestic policy within states and military conflict between states; including, in particular, the role of the Allied forces during World War Two.     

Morts pour la France: Demographic or Economic Factors?

This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the database ‘Mémoire des hommes’, which is a record of more than 1 million French soldiers officially recognized as dead during the World War I (WWI). Integrating this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by French regional department. From this, a model identifies the factors affecting the number of deaths. While demographic factors are the principal determinants, adding significant economic, political and spatial factors reduces the unexplained variance between regions and significantly improves the explanation of the disparity in the number of deaths by region.