基于数量柔性契约的双源应急物资采购定价模型

针对灾害事件发生的不确定性以及灾害发生后应急物资需求量的爆发式增长，本文设计了一个政府主导的基于数量柔性契约的双源应急物资采购模型。在存在一个现货市场的情况下，政府除了常规采购外，还会与供应方签订一份数量柔性契约，用以建立政企联合储备应急物资的合作关系。通过数理推导，本文发现灾害事件发生概率，政府自身储备量，现货市场采购价格会对双方决策产生重要影响，并给出三个影响因素在满足不同条件时政企双方的最优决策，同时进一步分析了这三个因素对政府采购成本与供应方利润的影响。最后，通过数值模拟的方式对所得结论进行了验证。本文的研究为政府与企业构建联合储备应急物资的合作关系提供了指导与依据。     

The Never‐ending Shift: A feminist reflection on living and organizing academic lives during the coronavirus pandemic

This article offers a feminist reflection written as a nocturnal stream of consciousness exposing the embodied, emotional and professional experience of living and working during a pandemic outbreak. Framed within a feminist approach, this personal narrative provides an example of the effects of such unexpected and unprecedented circumstances on personal and professional academic lives. Developed during the first stage of the (inter)national coronavirus pandemic, my reflections address issues of privilege; emotional labour; the virtual invasion of the home space within the current increasingly ambiguous space of ‘the workplace'; workload; and wellbeing. Further, I consider how the newly enforced flexible work measures based on online tools have turned current work–life dynamics into a ‘Never‐ending Shift'.     

Efficient Bayesian inference in generalized inverse gamma processes for stochastic volatility

This paper develops a novel and efficient algorithm for Bayesian inference in inverse Gamma stochastic volatility models. It is shown that by conditioning on auxiliary variables, it is possible to sample all the volatilities jointly directly from their posterior conditional density, using simple and easy to draw from distributions. Furthermore, this paper develops a generalized inverse gamma process with more flexible tails in the distribution of volatilities, which still allows for simple and efficient calculations. Using several macroeconomic and financial datasets, it is shown that the inverse gamma and generalized inverse gamma processes can greatly outperform the commonly used log normal volatility processes with Student’s t errors or jumps in the mean equation.     

China’s flexible overseas food strategy: food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asia and China in 1990–2015

Using the UN Comtrade database and multiple sources of agricultural investment data, this paper outlines the emerging patterns of food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asian countries and China. The paper shows that China has adopted a flexible overseas food strategy. First, China has increased food export and shifted its food trade with Southeast Asia from a dependent relationship towards a complementary relationship at the regional level in recent years. Second, China tends to adapt to the existing conditions of food production and trade in Southeast Asian countries instead of fundamentally altering them. Finally, Chinese overseas agricultural investment is less driven by domestic food demand but more oriented for profit making, and this gives it flexibility in diversifying investment. An adequate understanding of China’s flexible food strategy in bilateral and multilateral relationships holds implications for global food security.     

Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry

ABSTRACT

The growing commercialisation of migration, often through a multiplicity of labour market intermediaries, is an issue of increasing academic interest. We seek to contribute to an emerging research agenda on the migration industries by exploring how one of the key actors that constitutes it, recruitment agencies, sits at the nexus between flexible labour market structures and migrant labour. Interviews with U.K. labour providers and low-wage employers form the evidence base for an analysis of the strategies developed by recruiters to derive commercial gain from connecting the so-called ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ sides of the flexible international labour market. We seek to contribute to understandings of the analytical categories within migration systems by illustrating how the migration industry interacts with other key stakeholders to structure international migration.     

基于扭转振动的多步态移动装置的运动学建模

为了实现移动机器人多步态稳定运动,提出一种新型的利用自身的结构特性来设计移动装置的方法。通过对其 倒立的U型结构的设计,再分别对该移动装置滑、走、跑和跳4个步态进行运动学建模,最后利用ADAMS仿真实现了该 移动装置稳定的多步态的运动。然后根据仿真结果给出了各运动相在每个步态周期中的足地接触距离以及横梁质心位 移的变化情况,最后讨论了影响该移动装置多步态运动的因素,如机体与两腿的长度之比r、共振频率和电机转速等。 结果表明该移动装置实现了多步态的运动,对未来研究多步态移动机器人提供了理论基础。     

管-管相贯线机器人焊接枪体姿态的拟合

针对管一管相贯线机器人焊接焊缝,提出了其具有不一致的角焊缝和焊接接头深度的特点,指出了管一管相贯线 的全位置焊接对焊接机器人的要求,通过MATLAB分段拟合的方法得到机器人坐标系下6个轴的坐标与工件坐标系坐 标的关系曲线,即焊接机器人的枪体姿态,为后续通过对焊接机器人焊枪姿态的合理设定和工艺参数的优化来保证相贯 线焊缝的成形质量的研究奠定基础。     

基于非线性偏最小二乘的操作臂逆解算法

操作臂逆运动学问题是机器人控制中的一项重要内容。目前使用较多的神经网络法大多为多输入多输出或者 多输入单输出方式,需要大量运算。非线性偏最小二乘法( NLPLS)建立的模型分为内部和外部模型,样本数据经外部模 型处理后才用于训练若干个单输入单输出的神经网络。对PUMA560操作臂的仿真试验表明,在相同隐层神经元数的情 况下,该算法比普通神经网络法具有更好的预测精度。这也表明,NLPLS只需较少的隐层神经元数就可以达到普通方法 的精度,从而减少运算量。     

Backward capacity-filtering for electronics Fabs

In electronics Fabs such as semiconductor Fabs and liquid crystal display (LCD) Fabs, which are capital-intensive, finite-capacity planning is critical to achieving full-capacity production and on-time production. However, existing finite-capacity planning methods do not adequately reflect the actual capacity profiles of an electronics Fab. In this paper, we propose a new Fab-level capacity-filtering procedure to generate finite-capacity plan: a backward capacity-filtering procedure for generating finite-capacity release plan. When developing the Fab-level filtering procedures, we use stage-level capacity-filtering algorithms as a key building block. In this study, we enhance the previous capacity-filtering algorithms proposed by one of the authors in order to facilitate the practical requirements of electronics Fabs. We apply the proposed capacity-filtering method to a modern LCD–TFT Fab in Korea. Performance analyses demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to existing methods.     

柔性管理在高校学报编辑中的应用

基于学报编辑工作的特殊性、编辑业绩的潜隐性、编辑需求的高层次性以及编辑的劳动难以量化的特点,对学报编辑实施柔性管理很有必要。组织管理者对学报编辑实施柔性管理,是在刚性管理的基础上渗透的,是以人为本的管理,其目的是更好地激发编辑的主动性、积极性以及内在潜能。学报编辑柔性管理的途径有:实行弹性坐班制、实施柔性的目标管理、制定动态的业绩考核机制、灵活运用多种激励措施。