Police Corruption: Towards a Working Definition

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) publication Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law, all civilians (including child soldiers) lose their immunity from direct targeting ‘for so long as’ their actions amount to direct participation in hostilities. All civilians can, however, access the revolving door of protection and return to their civilian activities – complete with full immunity from direct targeting – provided the nature of their direct participation was spontaneous and disorganised. Once it can be ascertained that their participation in hostilities amounts to continuous combative functions, they relinquish their access to the revolving door of protection, and can be targeted at all times until they abandon their formal or functional membership of the belligerent group. This piece analyses how the revolving door phenomenon and the notion of continuous combative functions apply in instances where civilian child soldiers are directly participating in hostilities.     

Globalisation in the defence industry: An exploration of the paradigm for us and European defence firms and the implications for being global players

This paper explores some of the key issues associated with the restructuring of the defence industry. A comparison is made between the US and the European Defence Industrial Bases in terms of the drivers for change and the paradigms within which change has taken place. Having shown that some very important differences exist, the paper then explores the approaches that have been adopted for industry consolidation and references them to the academic literature on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and strategic alliances (SAs). Given that most of the key defence players recognise the need to be global players, the paper presents an argument that the European firms’ experience of operating with a wide range of forms of corporate alliance will serve them in good stead for operating on a global defence scale. US firms, in contrast, have focused largely on M&A activity.     

From elite consumption to popular opinion: framing of the US drone program in Pakistani newspapers

The United States has conducted armed drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. While there has been some recent work on Pakistani public opinion about drones, there is very little research on how Pakistan’s media characterize the US drone program. This is an important gap in understanding the determinants of Pakistani popular perceptions of this program. Decades of research has shown that “news framing”, a process by which certain aspects of a complex concept are emphasized in political communications with others played down, influences individual cognition while forming political opinions. In this essay, we address this lacuna by assembling an unprecedented sample of editorials about the drone program from three English newspapers and one Urdu newspaper and analyzing the news frames within them. We next compare the trends in these news frames to public opinion data collected by Pew between the spring of 2009 and 2014. Initially, most Pakistanis were unaware of the drone program, media coverage of the program expanded as drone strikes increased in frequency. While Pakistanis became more cognizant of the US drone strikes, even by 2014 large minorities remained unaware. Pakistani public opinion strongly reflected the top media frames, particularly those that are negative. This is an important finding suggesting that newspaper editorials are a good barometer of Pakistani opinions despite the fact that only information elites rely upon newspapers for political information.     

身管内弹道性能改变量的静态标定研究

目前国内外静态标定火炮身管内弹道性能改变量的方法,都存在着原理和精度不高的缺陷。采用多特征截面的标定方法可取得满意的精度,本文论述了其理论基础、精度及应用领域。     

一类参数激励与强迫激励并存的非线性振动系统的分叉

本文用Ｌｉａｐｕｎｏｖ—Ｓｃｈｍｉｄｔ方法研究了同时受参数激励与强迫激励作用的非线性振动系统的亚谐分叉问题,用奇异性理论确定了等价意义下的分叉方程的形式,导出了必需的分叉系数,求出并且分析了１／２—１／２亚谐共振分叉方程的普适开折,画出了各个结构稳定域及分叉集上的响应图。     

采用神经网络技术降低机电设备BIT虚警

机电设备 Ｂ Ｉ Ｔ 的突出问题是虚警率高，重要原因之一是 Ｂ Ｉ Ｔ 系统传感器通路故障。本文选取神经网络技术进行传感器通路故障诊断，剖析某大型船舶动力装置机电设备 Ｂ Ｉ Ｔ 系统中传感器通路的故障机理和类型，得到其故障样本数据，经过神经网络学习训练后对实际系统进行故障诊断和识别，实验结果表明该方法简洁、有效，能够有效地诊断故障并识别出故障类型，具有实用价值。     

多态的大功率可控硅开关功率放大器的仿真

为了满足远距离海底探测对发射信号大功率的需求,选用了一种大功率可控硅开关功率放大器。在临界换流、自然换流和强迫换流3种工作状态下,分析了该功率放大器的工作原理,并建立了等效电路模型。运用Or CAD仿真了临界换流状态时的等效电路模型;在自然换流状态和强迫换流状态下,为获得功放电流值和负载电流值,对其等效电路模型分别建立了非线性数学模型,并通过Matlab和VC++采用四阶Runge-Kutta法对非线性数学模型进行求解。以上方法能够求得该功率放大器电路在任意时刻、任意点处的电流电压值,能较客观、真实地反映电路的工作状况,对工程应用具有一定的参考价值。     

基于邻域灰度分布的IR弱小目标检测

图像中邻域内灰度起伏程度越大 ,各点灰度值占邻域内总灰度值的比率的平方和越大 ,由此提出了一种基于邻域灰度分布的弱小目标检测方法。同时考虑到复杂自然背景 ,特别是背景中含有大量边缘和高频点的情况 ,提出了目标检测的改进方法。最后 ,利用邻域判决法实现运动目标的进一步分离。实验表明该方法能够极大地减少候选目标点数 ,准确有效地检测复杂自然背景中的红外运动弱小目标 ,适合于实时和多目标的检测     

制氢过程中一氧化碳氧化反应速率控制的平滑切换方法

铂族金属催化剂CO氧化过程呈现较为复杂的本质非线性属性,如反应速率突变、双稳定性和迟滞,这些本质非线性属性取决于化学反应内在的稳定性和自组织机制,所产生的一个外在结果是CO氧化反应速率与控制参数之间呈现出路径依赖的输入输出关系。对这类系统采用传统的线性控制方法具有固有的不稳定机制,可以导致化学反应速率的震荡以及控制系统的失稳;而采用常规非线性切换控制则面临在切换初始时刻所具有的大干扰问题,较大地影响控制系统的动态性能甚至稳定性。针对研究所面临的这种大干扰问题,提出基于积分初值重置的平滑切换控制方法予以解决。结果表明,所提出的方法能够从原理上解决CO氧化反应控制过程的平滑切换问题,较好地提高控制系统的动态性能。     

高超声速滑翔飞行器滑翔段预测-校正制导研究

为了满足高超声速滑翔飞行器再入制导过程中的终端约束和过程约束,针对滑翔段具有不确定初值和气动干扰的滑翔再入问题,联合三维轨迹快速在线生成技术和模型预测静态规划（MPSP）技术提出了一种改进的MPSP预测-校正制导律。建立了基于能量的高超声速滑翔飞行器的运动学模型,详细推导了MPSP预测-校正制导理论。构建了基于三维快速轨迹规划的初值生成器,探讨了初始下降段对滑翔段的影响因素。针对滑翔段初值干扰和气动参数摄动问题,设计了预测-校正制导律,进行了数字仿真。仿真结果表明,改进的MPSP预测-校正制导方法能够有效利用精确的猜测值,对干扰初值和气动摄动具有较强的鲁棒性。