Major Power Relationship in the Aisa-Pacific:Its Impact on the Regional Security Cooperation

In recent years, the gradual deepening of the Asia-Pacific regional security co-operation led quite a few regional countries to ponder, when facing suddenshocks of the financial crisis and various incidents in the region, ways of quickeningthe regional multilateral security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific while further ex-panding bilateral cooperation. However, the recent repercussions between the bigpowers have made regional countries give second thoughts about the process of theregional security cooperation.

Transitivity System and Power Relationship-Analysis of William Faulkner＇ s A Rose for Emily

This paper explores how transitivity system functions in the novel A Rose for Emily, especially how it builds up and reflects the suppression on Emily by Emily's father, who represents the patriarchal value system and by the citizens who represents the southern traditional value system. This paper also elaborates how Emily appeared to be powerless and was dominated by the two groups of power, and how her humanity and emotions were suppressed in the conflict of the two categories of power.

Model Associated with the Study of the Degradation Based on the Accelerated Test: A Literature Review

Most manufacturers of solar modules guarantee the minimum performance of their modules for 20 to 25 years, and 30-year warranties have been introduced. The warranty typically guarantees that the modules will perform to at least 90% capacity in the first 10 years and to at least 80% in the following 10 - 15 years. Early degradation resulting from design flaws, materials or processing issues is often apparent from startup to the first few years in service. Importantly, many module failures and performance losses are the result of gradual accumulated damage resulting from long-term outdoor exposure in harsh environments, referred. Many of these processes occur on relatively long time scales and the various degradation processes may be chemical, electrical, thermal or mechanical in nature. These are either initiated or accelerated by the combined stresses of the service environment, in particular solar radiation, temperature and moisture, and other stresses such as salt air, wind and snow. Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) test methodology is normally predicated on first being able to reproduce a specific degradation or failure mode without altering it (correlation);and, second, to produce that result in less than real-time acceleration. Degradation and failure may result when an applied stress exceeds material or product strength. This may be a one-time catastrophic event, the result of cyclic fatigue, or a gradual decline in requisite properties due to ageing mechanisms. Engineers in the manufacturing industries have used accelerated test (AT) experiments for many decades. The purpose of AT experiments is to acquire reliability information quickly. Test units of a material, component, subsystem or entire systems are subjected to higher-than-usual levels of one or more accelerating variables such as temperature or stress. Then the AT results are used to predict life of the units at use conditions. The extrapolation is typically justified (correctly or incorrectly) on the basis of physically motivated models or a combination of empirical model fitting with a sufficient amount of previous experience in testing similar units. The need to extrapolate in both time and the accelerating variables generally necessitates the use of fully parametric models. Statisticians have made important contributions in the development of appropriate stochastic models for AT data [typically a distribution for the response and regression relationships between the parameters of this distribution and the accelerating variable(s)], statistical methods for AT planning (choice of accelerating variable levels and allocation of available test units to those levels) and methods of estimation of suitable reliability metrics. This paper provides a review of many of the AT models that have been used successfully in this area.

Formation Mechanism of the Cluster Space of Wuhan Metropolitan Area amid Evolution of Power Relationship

With the urban regionalization and regional urbanization, the spatial structure of cluster appears in some metropolitan areas, among which Wuhan can be taken as a typical case. This paper analyzes the formation of Wuhan metropolitan cluster space from the perspective of power relationship. A "twin-city" approach is developed in the peripheral area of Wuhan caused by the game between local governments at different levels. With the equal development opportunities in all directions and the alliances between different district governments and capital, the balancedly embedded cluster space is formed in Wuhan metropolitan area. And if there are no huge internal and external changes, the cluster space in Wuhan will continue to develop.