The impact of animal welfare regulations on firms' product offerings: Humane or organic product?

Increased public concerns about animal welfare have spurred new regulations to improve animals' treatment and living conditions. We study how these regulations affect firms' product offerings, prices, and profits. We consider two competing animal agriculture supply chains, each consisting of a supplier and a buyer. New regulations require firms to choose between offering humane or organic products, which are differentiated by animals' living conditions. We find that consumers' growing awareness of animal welfare encourages firms to offer organic products, which require the highest standards for animals' living conditions. We also show that tightening humane product standards and loosening organic product standards encourage firms to offer organic products—but with distinct pricing implications. The former leads to higher retail prices whereas the latter may lower retail prices. Depending on costs and consumers' awareness of animal welfare, a humane product may be priced higher or lower than an organic product. Furthermore, we provide conditions under which a regulator should offer a unit-cost or an investment cost subsidy to improve social welfare. We show that subsidies can encourage firms to change from offering humane to organic products, or vice versa, to enhance total social welfare.     

智能反射面辅助的无线网络加权和速率优化设计

针对智能反射面(intelligent reflecting surface, IRS)辅助的无线网络传输设计的目标是通过联合设计基站处的发送波束形成向量和IRS的反射系数,在满足基站发射功率和IRS单位模约束的条件下,使多个地面用户的加权和速率最大化。为了求解非凸的目标函数,提出一种交替优化方法,其中采用黎曼流形梯度(Riemannian manifold gradient, RMG)方法来优化反射系数,使用二分搜索法优化发送波束形成向量。此外,为了降低RMG方法的复杂度,设计了一种智能元素块坐标下降方法。仿真结果验证了所提算法的有效性,并且表明通过优化设计反射系数,IRS可显著提高无线网络的频谱效率。     

旋成体射弹倾斜入水运动仿真

为了研究运动参数和弹头外形对弹体斜入水过程的影响规律,采用气液两相流体积分数和水汽空化模型,通过嵌套网格实现刚体三自由度运动学和动力学耦合,模拟了弹体以80～100 m/s速度倾斜入水开空泡阶段的运动过程。经文献实验验证,入水弹体速度与位移的误差为0～6%和-8%～0,转动角度误差为-6%～0。通过对入水速度和入水角度的多工况模拟研究,发现入水速度增大,弹体轴向冲击载荷增大,最大载荷与速度的平方呈线性关系,弹体速度非线性衰减率大;入水角增大,弹体转动角速率减小,运动稳定性强,速度衰减率不受入水角影响。与圆锥头部弹体相比,采用头部阶梯状修型后的弹体的平均速度衰减率、转动角速率和最大轴向冲击载荷分别降低到66.7%、40%和77.2%,显著提高了运动稳定性。     

区块链在车联网中的应用综述

针对当前车联网系统面临的网络安全与可信以及数据大规模同步共享挑战,提出利用区块链技术提升车联网系统的安全性水平与协同共享能力.首先从概念特征与技术架构两个层面对区块链技术进行了整体概述,并结合区块链去中心化存储、共识安全防护、数据不可篡改等特点,探讨了区块链与边缘计算协同应用的互补优势与研究现状.进而从协作同步、安全信...     

现代坦克火控系统体系结构发展的轨迹

对现代坦克火控系统体系结构发展的轨迹进行了较为详尽的论述,分析了几种主要类型的火控系统体系结构.对于在战车火控系统的发展历程中起重要作用的指挥仪式火控系统,从上反射式系统和下反射式系统两方面进行了比较分析.最后指出了用控制主线的观点来分析和预测火控系统发展所具有的优点.     

基于Bayes估计的高炮虚拟校射理论

给出了脱靶量的定义,建立了小口径高炮虚拟校射脱靶量的一维数学模型,分析了脱耙量的统计性质,在此基础上运用贝叶斯估计理论,推导出校正量的最优估计量方程,并进行了相应分析.脱靶量可以作为一种离散的随机序列,任何一种特定的脱靶量序列均可表示为某种蜕化的广义马尔柯夫序列;脱靶量状态的最优估计问题是:基于观测输出{x(k);k=0,1,2,…}先验信息求取状态X(k)的最优滤波估计^X(k/k),使估计误差的方差最小,从而大大提高小高炮的射击精度.     

基于小波分析的子带特征提取与选择方法

在研究了目标图像多尺度小波分解特性的基础上,提出了基于小波多尺度分解子带主成分的特征提取的算法。该算法利用图像在不同尺度的小波变换域中能量局部集中性,选择各子带能量较集中的局部小波系数构成图像目标特征向量。这种特征包含图像目标的主要边缘、纹理、灰度、结构等多种信息。由于对图像目标的特征信息的分布没有任何限制,因而适用于多种类型的图像的特征提取,可以解决单一特征提取方法中必须面对的所提取特征不明显的难点。这种特征向量对噪声有较好的鲁棒性。     

参数化滤波器逼近问题的全局最优算法

基于Lipschitz下界估值和分枝定界技术,给出了一维参数化小波滤波器逼近问题的全局最优算法。由于充分利用了滤波器逼近问题的特点,本方法将原来的Lipschitz算法的线性收敛速率提高为二次收敛速率。     

Integrating decisions with advance supply information in an assemble-to-order system

We study a periodic-review assemble-to-order (ATO) system with multiple components and multiple products, in which the inventory replenishment for each component follows an independent base-stock policy and stochastic product demands are satisfied according to a First-Come-First-Served rule. We assume that the replenishment for various component suffers from lead time uncertainty. However, the decision maker has the so-called advance supply information (ASI) associated with the lead times and thus can take advantage of the information for system optimization. We propose a multistage stochastic integer program that incorporates ASI to address the joint optimization of inventory replenishment and component allocation. The optimal base-stock policy for the inventory replenishment is determined using the sample average approximation algorithm. Also, we provide a modified order-based component allocation (MOBCA) heuristic for the component allocation. We additionally consider a special case of the variable lead times where the resulting two-stage stochastic programming model can be characterized as a single-scenario case of the proposed multistage model. We carry out extensive computational studies to quantify the benefits of integrating ASI into joint optimization and to explore the possibility of employing the two-stage model as a relatively efficient approximation scheme for the multistage model.     

金属靶体材料动力硬度测试及动态阻力分析

以高速侵彻下45钢靶体侵彻阻力为研究对象,开展了弹体高速侵彻45钢靶体试验,获取了典型弹体对45钢靶体的成坑参数。基于高速侵彻阻力模型对靶体侵彻阻力及影响因素进行分析。结合流体动力学侵彻模型对不同弹体材料侵彻45钢靶体侵彻深度规律进行研究。研究结果表明:随着撞击速度的增大,45钢的靶体阻力从5. 13 GPa减小到3. 7 GPa;基于材料动力硬度测试方法的靶体动态阻力测试结果和理论计算结果吻合较好;随着靶体动态屈服强度的增大,靶体阻力呈线性增大的趋势;侵彻深度及靶体动态阻力理论计算结果和试验数据吻合较好,说明所提动态阻力确定方法可行,可为高速侵彻动力学研究提供参考。