Country survey XII: South Africa

This article examines the relationship between defence expenditure and economic performance in South Africa, both prior to and after that country's first fully democratic election in 1994. Prior to 1994 defence expenditure decisions were largely dominated by non‐economic factors; since then defence spending has declined in reaction to, inter alia, the need to address a number of socio‐economic inequities.

After 1975 in particular, military industrialisation in South Africa placed a disproportionately high burden on the country's industrial resources and natural economic and technical capabilities. However, although this suggests that the opportunity cost of domestic arms production has been fairly high, the country's poor economic and development performance since the mid‐1970s is a function of underlying structural deficiencies and institutional constraints rather than the consequence of inordinately high defence spending levels.     

中学生数学教学中问题意识的培养途径探析

问题意识是人们对客观事物做出自觉反映的心理过程,对提高中学生数学教学课堂效果具有积极的意义。本文首先指出了数学教学中学生问题意识的培养意义,在深入分析存在的问题的基础上,重点提出了中学生数学教学问题意识培养的多种途径:教师要秉持积极的鼓励姿态,让学生敢问;创设良好的问题环境,让学生爱问;提供合适的思考时空,让学生能问;把握必要的"五度六要",让学生会问。     

西北农村地区幼儿教育存在的主要问题及对策

西北地区自然环境恶劣,经济发展落后,严重制约了学前教育的发展。中央和地方政府对农村学前教育不够重视,财政投入城乡差距大,同时,农村幼儿园管理者学历不高,专业教师所占比例过小,教师社会地位低且生存压力大,呈流动性大特征。加之,西北农村幼儿教育小学化严重,家长重视幼儿的教育,但没有掌握科学、正确的教育幼儿的方法。此外,西北农村幼儿园硬件设施较差,很少有符合办园条件,存在较大安全隐患。     

一种利用GPS载波相位姿态测量的方法

GPS初始整周模糊度的求解是利用载波相位进行测量时的关键问题.采用了对系数矩阵进行QR分解的方法,用以降低矩阵的维数.模糊度搜索时,针对Z变换可能会引入多余误差,采用了对称三角分解法对协方差矩阵进行去相关处理.实验与仿真结果表明,定位误差在0.5 cm以内,方位角和仰角误差在0.1°以内.     

基于传输方程空化模型的定常自然空化流场数值计算

采用基于传输方程的空化模型,应用自主开发的软件对水翼和水下回转体定常自然空化流场进行了数值计算。采用基于压力修正和多块结构化网格的有限体积方法数值求解Favre平均的NS方程,运用k-ε两方程加壁函数的湍流模式封闭雷诺应力。计算结果与已有实验结果符合较好。     

Performance evaluation of a production/inventory system with periodic review and endogenous lead times

This paper considers a discrete time, single item production/inventory system with random period demands. Inventory levels are reviewed periodically and managed using a base‐stock policy. Replenishment orders are placed with the production system which is capacitated in the sense that there is a single server that sequentially processes the items one at a time with stochastic unit processing times. In this setting the variability in demand determines the arrival pattern of production orders at the queue, influencing supply lead times. In addition, the inventory behavior is impacted by the correlation between demand and lead times: a large demand size corresponds to a long lead time, depleting the inventory longer. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we present an exact procedure based on matrix‐analytic techniques for computing the replenishment lead time distribution given an arbitrary discrete demand distribution. Second, we numerically characterize the distribution of inventory levels, and various other performance measures such as fill rate, base‐stock levels and optimal safety stocks, taking the correlation between demand and lead times into account. Third, we develop an algorithm to fit the first two moments of the demand and service time distribution to a discrete phase‐type distribution with a minimal number of phases. This provides a practical tool to analyze the effect of demand variability, as measured by its coefficient of variation, on system performance. We also show that our model is more appropriate than some existing models of capacitated systems in discrete time. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

海警部队执勤训练中官兵心理问题探析

公安边防海警部队官兵在海上训练、执勤、执法实践中,由于种种因素诱发出多种心理问题。着重探析海警部队海上执勤训练中官兵心理问题的主要表现及其主要原因,旨在探讨解决官兵心理问题的主要途径。     

毛泽东对抗日战争进程和结局的科学分析与预测——纪念七七卢沟桥事变70周年

今年是七七卢沟桥事变70周年。70年前,在国难当头,民族危亡之时,中国共产党带领全国人民浴血奋战。毛泽东以他伟大的军事家的远见卓识,在延安窑洞的灯光下运筹帷幄,奋笔疾书,谱写了一篇篇闪光的抗战军事著作。在这些著作中,毛泽东深刻地分析、科学地预测了抗日战争的进程和最终的战局。正是这些英明正确的军事理论指引着中国人民夺取了抗日战争的伟大胜利。今天,处在和平发展时期的每一位中国人都应重温历史,勿忘国耻,珍爱和平,开创未来。     

基于改进PLOW算法的干涉相位滤波

针对合成孔径雷达干涉相位滤波问题,提出了一种改进的分块局部最佳维纳滤波算法（Patch-based Locally Optimal Wiener, PLOW）。该算法是加性高斯白噪声下的线性最小均方误差估计（Linear Minimum Mean Square Estimation, LMMSE）,利用目前图像滤波最前沿的技术——非局部技术,来联合估计图像的一、二阶矩。针对干涉相位中噪声的空变性,在应用中提出了两点改进：首先,估计噪声的标准差时,用均值代替中值;其次,根据噪声标准差的最大值和均值的比值,自适应的确定类的数量。经过仿真和实测数据验证,改进后的PLOW算法是有效的,并优于其他三种算法。     

科氏流量计信号相位差测量新算法

对科氏流量计信号进行处理时,传统相位差测量算法存在较大误差。为更好地抑制频谱泄露,提高相位差测量精度,在传统DTFT算法的基础上,通过矩形窗和汉宁窗卷积运算构造出一种新窗——RHC窗。计及负频率成分的影响,提出了一种基于RHC窗的DTFT相位差测量新算法。详细阐述了新算法的原理,并与传统DTFT算法进行了对比仿真,验证了新算法的有效性。