编辑与选题策划

选题策划作为出版工作的基础,对编辑素质和编辑工作,包括专业知识造诣、准确的市场定位、计算机运用、成本核算、市场策划在内的整个出版过程的策划等多方面的能力素质都有很高的要求。一名出色的编辑应该在进行选题策划时科学地把握相关的原则和要求,不断提高自身素质,不断为选题策划引入新思想、新方法。     

基于场景的C2系统的模拟与评价方法

为适应一体化联合作战指挥控制系统快速决策与实时性能评价的要求,提出一种基于场景的系统快速模拟与评价模型.其优点在于①根据系统需求实现系统的建模、仿真代码自动生成及性能评价.②模型自适应能力强,系统场景设计中的冲突、不完整、安全、性能及行为错误等问题都可以通过仿真过程中不同方面的动态分析检测出来.     

热真空条件下工作的电气电缆载流量计算与试验

高空制导飞行器从母舱释放后,制导舱与仪器舱之间部分电气电缆处于热真空条件下工作。对此种特定条件下的电缆进行了载流量计算。理论计算表明,给定的电缆设计满足在热真空条件下正常工作要求。最后简略介绍了载流量试验。     

利用数形结合方法求解几类代数问题

数学研究的对象是现实世界的数量关系(数)和空间形式(形)。“数”和“形”常按照一定的条件相互转化。数形结合思想是数学的重要的思想方法之一,并蕴于数学基础知识和基本技能之中,在数学解题中应用十分广泛。其实质是将抽象的数学语言与直观图形结合起来,发挥“数”与“形”两种信息的转化及其优势互补与整合,使逻辑思维与形象思维完美统一起来。对于培养学生的创新意识和创造思维具有积极的促进作用。     

基于"联合指数"的联合作战编组集团能力量化分析

随着科学技术的发展,以信息技术作为联结手段、由各军兵种部队参加的一种新的作战方式———联合作战,已经正式登上人类战争的舞台.而对于联合作战编组集团的作战力量的量化分析,是摆在联合作战模拟人员面前的一个重要而紧迫的任务.文中以“联合指数”方法为基础,就联合作战编组集团能力量化问题特别是对不同武器装备作战单元的能力量化进行了探讨.     

The comparison of military budgets of the eastern and central European countries

The evolutions of military expenditures in Eastern and Central European countries are difficult to estimate and to compare, due to the lack of available data for these states. Some results of the extent of cuts in defence spending since 1990 are interesting to interpret, but it is difficult for econometricians to use these figures even carefully. The structures of national military expenditure have been modified to the detriment of arms equipment. Thus, the disarmament process needs a special analysis of the arms industry.     

AN ENDOGENOUS GROWTH MODEL OF CAPITAL AND ARMS ACCUMULATION

This paper attempts to examine the effect of an anticipated foreign military threat on the steady‐state growth rate and the transitional behavior of the economy. The modeling strategy follows the Sandler and Hartley (1995 Sandler, T. and Hartley, K. 1995. The Economics of Defense, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  [Google Scholar]) and Dunne et al. (2005 Dunne, J.P., Smith, R.P. and Willenbockel, D. 2005. Models of military expenditure and growth: a critical review. Defence and Peace Economics, 16: 449–461. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) viewpoints to emphasize the role of national defense in affecting growth from the perspective of both the demand and the supply sides. We thus combine the public capital version of endogenous growth with a framework of competitive arms accumulation. It is found that the key factor determining the steady state and the transitional effects of a rise in the foreign military threat on the home weapon–capital ratio, the consumption–capital ratio, and the rate of economic growth, is the degree of relative risk aversion.     

ARMED NON-STATE ACTORS IN AFRICA AND THE BAN ON ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES

A truly universal ban on anti-personnel mines cannot be realized without engagement of armed non-state actors and armed groups operating outside state control, including rebels and national liberation movements. Events after 9/11 have complicated engagement with organizations that can be classified as ‘terrorists’. Yet, the use of anti-personnel landmines itself can be viewed as an act of terrorism and African leaders have, on various occasions, classified the use of landmines and the presence of unexploded ordnance as engendering insecurity and a serious impediment to development. The success of a total ban ultimately depends upon ensuring that armed non-state actors act in accordance with international humanitarian law. The Geneva Call Deed of Commitment for Adherence to a Total Ban on Anti-Personnel Mines and for Cooperation in Mine Action (DoC) might be described as an alternative instrument to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention and can serve an important and impartial channel of communication with non-state actors. Already 18 armed groups in Africa have signed the Geneva Call DoC.     

From combat to non-combat action

This paper examines the rationale and centrality of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in humanitarian assistance operations in Sudan, asking why PMSCs are involved in humanitarian assistance operations in Sudan and what the principles underlying their activities are. To answer this question, the paper draws attention to the link between humanitarian crises and PMSC interventions. Where there is no meaningful alternative intervention, undergirded by humanitarian concerns that are also profit driven, PMSCs come in to provide the needed services. The protracted and complicated internal armed conflicts in Sudan, which have lasted for over two decades, have produced as many as 4,8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) – the single largest number in the world. The kind of humanitarian assistance operations provided by PMSCs in Sudan have become critical to the provision of much-needed services which were inadequately provided by governmental authorities at both unilateral and multilateral levels. This paper argues that the humanitarian crises in Sudan created a regime that permits humanitarian assistance operations by both state and non-state actors.     

Models of scientific and technological review for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

ABSTRACT

Science and technology (S&T) review is key to anticipating developments in the life sciences that may benefit or run contrary to the aims of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. It serves as a mechanism for both preparing against novel biological threats and identifying the best opportunities for developing and sharing the life sciences to the fullest extent. In the age of rapidly advancing biotechnology, S&T review needs to be wide ranging, involve a diverse set of inputs, and be transparent about its methods and data. This viewpoint considers four models of S&T review and their capacity to respond to the challenge of the life sciences: standing advisory boards; ad hoc working groups; peer review; and wikis. It then identifies a hybrid model that is suitably broad, diverse, and transparent.