Kinetic responses to global terrorism: Lessons from Africa

This essay recalls the immediate and longer-term responses of the US and its allies to the events of 9/11. It contends that the die for contemporary developments in transnational terrorism was cast in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 – in particular the launching of sustained ‘anti-terrorist’ military combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and more covert ‘kinetic’ operations elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa. The essay seeks specifically to expose the counter-productivity of using military operations as the primary antidote to transnational terrorism. Focusing on the African ‘laboratory’ and the spread of transnational terrorism and Islamic militancy, particularly in West and East Africa, the essay concludes that radical Islamists have mastered the ‘battle of the narrative’ and that the Western penchant for dispensing a kinetic brand of medication is feeding rather than fighting the virus of global terrorism.     

Terrorism,Radicalisation and Moral Panics: Media and Academic Analysis and Reporting of 2016 and 2017 ‘Terrorism’

Radicalism or radicalisation has become a serious political and academic theme in recent years and any incident involving Muslims now almost automatically acquires the cachet, as events in 2016 and 2017 have shown. However, despite vast sums and resources expended on the subject no one can define what they mean by ‘it’. This should make us pause and question what precisely it is that causes so much alarm and is it worth the resources, time and effort employed to respond to it?     

地/海杂波背景下机载火控雷达效能评估

战斗机在对地/海攻击时,地/海杂波对机载火控雷达的工作效能会产生较大影响。分别针对无干扰和压制干扰条件下两类典型体制的机载火控雷达,给出地/海杂波功率的确定方法,建立了地/海杂波背景下机载火控雷达效能评估模型。通过仿真,分析了无干扰与压制干扰条件下地/海杂波对机载火控雷达工作效能的影响,为机载火控雷达技术的研究提供了一定参考。     

宽带噪声环境中FH-FDM/TDMA信号性能分析

新一代高跳速、大带宽通信系统将跳频通信与频分复用、时分多址技术相结合,不仅增加了通信系统容量,形成了灵活的多址方案,同时FH-FDM/TDMA信号具有抗干扰、低截获的能力。为此,在分析FH-FDM/TDMA信号机理的基础上,就同步环路机制进行了深入研究,重点对宽带噪声下的同步捕获环路的相关峰值、跟踪环路的跟踪误差、解调环路的误码率进行了推导;进一步对宽带噪声干扰下的跳频接收环路进行了仿真。结果表明,FH-FDM/TDMA信号具有更强的抗干扰性。     

含运动副间隙舵机执行机构的动态特性研究

为了研究运动副间隙对空间4R机构动态特性的影响,间隙处的接触碰撞模型和摩擦的建立分别采用非线性弹簧阻尼模型和修正的库伦摩擦模型。在Solidworks中建立空间4R机构模型,导入ADAMS中进行动力学仿真分析。对比含间隙和不含间隙时系统动力学仿真结果的异同,分析间隙大小和最佳间隙量对空间4R机构动态特性的影响,为机构的设计提供了重要的参考依据,有利于工程实际应用。     

Priority queue with customer upgrades

This article is concerned with a general multi‐class multi‐server priority queueing system with customer priority upgrades. The queueing system has various applications in inventory control, call centers operations, and health care management. Through a novel design of Lyapunov functions, and using matrix‐analytic methods, sufficient conditions for the queueing system to be stable or instable are obtained. Bounds on the queue length process are obtained by a sample path method, with the help of an auxiliary queueing system. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

CAI课件开发中的数据库应用

本文在分析CAI课件开发中测试部分设计难点的基础上,结合实例阐述了使用多媒体课件制作工具Authorware开发CAI课件时,如何通过ODBC数据库接口和SQL语言,以外部数据库作为数据源,实现不同章节抽取测试题的方法。     

一种基于UML/OCL的软件测试方法

根据UML/OCL和建模环境提供的软件模型信息,以一个武器装备管理信息系统的装备入库顺序图为例,在分析UML/OCL顺序图的语法和对象间的交互信息的基础上产生测试场景,提供了一种基于UML/OCL的面向对象的软件测试方法,并提出测试自动化的设想,对软件测试有一定的借鉴作用。     

SINS/DR组合导航系统可观测性研究

对SINS/DR组合导航系统的误差方程进行了介绍。将陀螺漂移、加速度计零偏和里程仪刻度系数误差扩展为卡尔曼滤波器的状态,建立了19维状态的组合导航滤波模型。采用分段线性定常系统(PWCS)分析了载车在各个不同运动特性下SINS/DR组合导航系统的可观测矩阵;利用奇异值分解(SVD)分析法定量地分析了SINS/DR导航系统的可观测度。通过系统仿真预测了位置误差、姿态误差和速度误差的滤波效果,仿真结果表明,位置误差、姿态误差和速度误差的估计效果较好。     

基于UDVR的低压配电线路雷击电压跌落治理仿真

采用分相控制的UDVR主电路结构,利用瞬时波形比较法,基于三角波比较的delta增量逆变技术,建立了UDVR的PSCAD／EMTDC仿真模型,解决了低压配电网线路遭受雷击、绝缘子闪络等引发的单相接地故障在线路重合闸期间引发的电压跌落问题,保证了敏感负荷在此期间的持续供电的电能质量．仿真结果表明：模型建立正确,控制方法可行．