Unmasking silence and impunity: the Zimbabwe Peace Project’s e-activism in a polarised political dispensation

This study is an exploration of the use of technology-mediated interventions by the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) in checkmating the country’s insidious culture of political violence and impunity. It disentangles the ZPP’s strategies and the composite reactions they triggered from state functionaries and the aligned security apparatus. The ZPP exploited and deployed an Internet-circulated monthly newsletter, bulk short message service (SMS) alerts, smartphones, radio and Facebook to shine a spotlight on injustice. It is argued that the ZPP’s whistle-blowing strategies used against human rights violators were not necessarily intended to secure immediate perpetrator conviction; rather, they were a partial but exigent attempt at using perpetrator exposure to reveal extralegal activities and checkmate the country’s culture of impunity. The ZPP’s cybernetic naming and shaming strategies embarrassed some offenders, as evidenced by the intelligence operatives and the police’s constant harassment and arrests of ZPP-affiliated activists. The state-controlled media compounded this pressure by casting aspersions on the ZPP’s bona fides, labelling it a foreign-funded organisation that was attempting to destabilise the country. Finally, this study is informed by a broad evidentiary base that includes ZPP reports on its e-archive, oral interviews, policy documents and newspaper accounts.     

中间件构件技术在反潜火控设备上的应用

从现代反潜战的需求出发,通过对比不同反潜火控设备的软硬件平台,论证了新型反潜火控设备能更好地适应现代反潜战。重点对新型火控设备所采用的软件中间件构件技术进行了详细介绍,并对未来反潜火控设备的软硬件平台发展进行了展望。     

高功率微波武器发展构想

目前国外高功率微波武器技术发展已达到实用水平。分析了高功率微波武器的原理及特点,详细介绍了其组成及关键技术,根据高功率微波武器的功用及作战性能,提出了对未来陆基、海基、空基和天基微波武器的应用发展趋势和构想。     

高校科研团队科技创新能力评价研究

科技创新能力是体现高校综合办学实力的核心指标。以科研团队为视角对高校科技创新能力的评价问题进行了研究,分析了高校团队科技创新能力的要素构成、结构特征,在此基础上从人员队伍、条件基础、文化环境、科技投入、科技产出5个方面出发定义了一个可扩展的团队科技创新能力评价指标模型;提出了基于多属性决策的科技创新能力评价方法,为科研团队绩效管理提供了方法支撑。     

古建筑防火新技术研究

阐述了古建筑火灾的危险性,并从本质安全的角度研究了古建筑中木材、纤维织物的阻燃措施。指出木材的阻燃处理方法通常采用物理和化学方法,而化学方法可采用表面涂覆、浸渍处理、化学改性三种方法;纤维织物阻燃处理采用共聚阻燃改性、共混阻燃改性、阻燃后整理、接枝共聚、皮芯型复合纺丝等方法。可以根据具体情况选用合适的阻燃处理方法,从而达到降低材料可燃性的目的,大大提高古建筑的火灾风险等级。     

《现代教育技术》课程多元评价的实践探索

以往的《现代教育技术》课程教学效果评价存在诸多问题,本文针对《现代教育技术》课程特点,结合本校实际情况制定教学效果多元评价方案,并在教学中进行实践探索,结果表明教学效果多元评价方案能客观评价学生的学习绩效,充分调动学生的学习兴趣,提高学生的教育技术应用能力。     

“学科-专业-实践”三维结构下的现代教育技术课程教学模式研究

现代教育技术课程是一门理论与实验并重的课程。针对目前课程实验教学中存在的问题,我们进行了“学科一专业一实践”三维结构下的现代教育技术课程实验教学改革,从目标、内容、策略、评价等4个方面进行了系统设计,并对实验教学改革的结果进行了简要的分析。     

高师生现代教育技术能力的创新培养模式研究

研究高校师范生的教育技术能力培养模式,是师范教育新一轮教学改革的突破口。本文以石河子大学师范生为研究对象,以《现代教育技术》公共课的教学为依托,总结并分析当前师范生现代教育技术能力培养中所存在的问题,以此为基础,从公共课的课程设置、理论与实践的课时分配、教学环境创设、教学技能训练和教学评价等方面做出系统设计,形成具有可操作性的创新培养模式。     

Chalk vs Guns: Some economic consequences of an announced French scenario 1

This paper explores whether defense contractors' manufacturing technology advantages over purely commercial firms might be associated with differences in their workforce and organizational practices. It uses unique original data collected specifically to test workforce and organizational complementarities in implementation of advanced manufacturing technology in small manufacturers. Findings are that defense contractors: (1) have higher and deeper rates of advanced manufacturing technology use; (2) have greater perceived success in achieving manufacturing goals; (3) are more likely practitioners across a diverse spectrum of advanced workforce and organizational practices. Then, (4) econometrically, the defense contractors' higher reported levels of achievement in implementing advanced manufacturing technologies are positively associated with those organizational and workforce practice differences.     

Specialization in defence forces

The choice between balanced and specialized defence forces depends on the technology of defence output (e.g. whether a force scope multiplier is present), the existence of scope and scale economies, the platform customization costs and, of course, the level of defence budgets. Minimum force element levels (thresholds), and scale economies facilitate specialization as opposed to scope economies (e.g. platform‐sharing), scale diseconomies and the force scope multiplier (e.g. defence weakest‐link technology). When a balanced force is not optimal, the option value of a non‐optimally maintained force element must also include the opportunity cost arising from suboptimal force elements. Shrinking defence budgets may produce two surprising phenomena. If some force elements are shut down as a result of thresholds, the surviving ones may increase in platform numbers as well as enjoying closer‐to‐most‐desirable platforms. Furthermore, if heritage force elements are shut down within the budget contraction environment, overall defence capability might rise.