Nuclear weapons,existential threats,and the stability–instability paradox

Recent scholarship has largely ignored systematic differences in the existential threats that nuclear-weapon possessors pose to other states. This study theorizes that the capacity to pose existential threats shapes nuclear-armed states’ willingness to use military force against one another. We explore three hypotheses regarding how nuclear-based existential threats can deter conflict or encourage it, including under the conditions proposed by the stability–instability paradox. We rely on a statistical analysis of nuclear-armed dyads from 1950 to 2001 and employ the Nuclear Annihilation Threat (NAT) Index to capture variation in the existential threats nuclear-armed states pose to one another. We find that being able to pose an existential threat to another state emboldens potential initiators to use military force but does not deter attacks. The emboldening effects are particularly strong under the hypothesized conditions of the stability–instability paradox. Our study provides unique contributions to ongoing debates over the political effects of nuclear weapons.     

Proportional use of force in asymmetric military operation

This paper studies a strategic conflict between a state and a non-state military organization. The non-state military organization decides whether to attack or not to attack the state, while the state decides on its counter-measure. If the state uses a high level of violence against the non-state organization, it may be accused by the international community of ‘non-proportional’ use of force, and both sides of the conflict take this possibility into account. The model predicts that it may be rational for the non-state organization to attack the state, even if as a reaction the state will militarily destroy this organization, due to a positive probability the state will be punished by the international community for non-proportional use of violence.     

线性相依风险下的超额赔款再保险

本文从保险人的角度研究对两类相依风险的超额赔款再保险的最优自留额问题。考虑指数效用函数的货币期望效用原则和自留累积损失的调节系数原则,得到关于这两个问题的最优解的方程。     

含黏砂土渗透系数的3种试验方法浅析

对含黏砂土进行3种试验方法的渗透试验,即变水头渗透试验、常水头渗透试验和一维垂直土柱积水入渗试验,探讨了含黏砂土的渗透系数与干密度之间的函数关系,试验结果表明渗透系数随干密度的增大而呈现指数函数形式的衰减。3种试验方法所得函数形式是一致的,说明3种方法测试含黏砂土的渗透特性都是可靠的。     

有理真分式积分方法探析

利用配方法,待定系数法等方法求解有理真分式的积极分问题.     

多源目标识别中冲突证据的融合策略研究

随着防空反导作战环境的日益复杂,快速准确地进行真假目标识别显得尤为重要。针对多源目标决策级识别中冲突证据融合问题,在综合分析现有改进证据理论方法的基础上,引入新的冲突度量系数,提出了一种通过在融合流程中增加智能判断环节,以冲突系数为判断依据,对具有不同冲突系数证据选择不同组合规则进行证据组合的融合方法,并给出了策略的流程图。最后进行了实例验证,结果表明新策略能对不同未知信度和不同识别框架冲突证据进行快速有效的融合。     

武警总队军用土地利用结构合理性分析

以武警某总队为例,引入经济学中的洛伦茨曲线和基尼系数两种方法,对其进行军用土地利用结构分析,研究军用土地利用类型的分散或集中程度,判断其下辖单位的军用土地利用专门化程度,进而分析其合理性,对不合理之处给出相应的措施。并得出结论认为,运用以上两种方法所分析的结果一致,都能对军用土地利用结构进行分析,且相互补充。     

水下航行体惯性类水动力系数的计算方法

为了系统地计算水下航行体全套惯性类水动力系数,提高计算效率和计算精度,通过基于无粘模型的计算方法对水下航行体的运动进行了预报;通过UDF及动网格技术,对匀速运动和匀加速运动的SUBOFF模型进行了分析.设计了单方向速度线性变化的匀加速直线运动和匀加速回转运动,并通过换算和数值拟合处理得到了潜艇所受的惯性力和惯性类水动力系数.该系数与试验误差保证在6％之内,验证了所提方法的可行性及准确性.     

两种解相关算法的DOA估计性能研究

MUSIC算法能对独立信号的波达方向（DOA）进行有效估计,但该算法对相干信号或强相关信号进行DOA估计时,算法性能会随着相关系数的增加而急剧恶化甚至失效．针对该问题,利用前后向空间平滑技术与修正MU—SIC算法进行去相关,研究了它们去相关的基本原理及优缺点;利用MUSIC算法通过实验仿真对相关信号的波达方向估计性能进行了研究,分析了信号间相关系数对前后向空间平滑算法与修正MUSIC算法的测向性能的影响,并验证了算法去相关的有效性．     

Traditional structures of crime control in Lagos,Nigeria

Notwithstanding the embrace of modern institutions of social control, traditional social control mechanisms still enjoy patronage in Nigeria. This paper examines the traditional structures of social control in Iraye-Oke, Lagos. In-depth interviews, key informant interviews and case studies were used to obtain data from participants. Findings established the functionality of traditional structures in checking crime and its preference over the use of modern social control structures. Traditional structures used include: traditional spiritualists who provide measures to reduce victimisation; the family courts where adjudication takes place involving elders and family chiefs; and the apex traditional court, presided over by the king, where cases like murder, land disputes, adultery and fornication are decided. Traditional extrajudicial measures involve the invocation of ancestral spirits at shrines.