保定军校与旧中国陆军“保定系”

“保定系”是民国时期军队派系中一支影响较大的派系，其成员均毕业于著名的保定军校。

民国陆军“三大系”

从民国初年到全国解放的近40年里，在北洋政府和国民党政府的军队里，派系繁多，山头林立。其中，有三个因军校而得名的著名派系：“士官系”、“保定系”、“黄博系”，号称“陆军三大系”。这三个派系的成员分别毕业于三所著名军校：日本士官学校、保定军官学校、黄埔军官学校。

Introduction to Enhanced Protective Film Systems

An explosive blast mitigation alternative has increased the safety of structures by using " catcher" systems. These systems " catch" or repel the failure of the window or in-fill wall pro-tecting life and property from ballistic shards or fragments. They can be designed to be stand-alone in new construction and structural retrofits or used to augment structural hardening tech-niques. Cables, fabrics, and thin gauge sheet steel are examples of catcher systems used in the past. A new and evolving category of catcher systems are based on polymeric materials that can be used for both wall and window upgrades. These products are a proven blast mitigation concept and K&C Protective Technologies Pte Ltd (KCPT) together with Sherwin-Williams(SW) use KCPT′s blast engineering capacity and SW′s material engineering principles to create engineered systems for even greater in-use performance.

Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Stability of Insulin on Graphene

The adsorption dynamics of a model protein （the human insulin） onto graphene surfaces with different sizes was investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. During the adsorption, it has different effect on the stability of the model protein in the fixed and non-fixed graphene systems. The tertiary structure of the protein was destroyed or partially destroyed, and graphene surfaces shows the selective protection for some α-helices in non-fixed Systems but not in fixed systems by reason of the flexibility of graphene. As indicated by the interaction energy curve and trajectory animation, the conformation and orientation selection of the protein were induced by the properties and the texture of graphene surfaces. The knowledge of protein adsorption on graphene surfaces would be helpful to better understand stability of protein on graphene surfaces and facilitate potential applications of graphene in biotechnology.

Costing and Pricing in Healthcare Private Firms

This article analyzes the development of an activity-based costing （ABC） system in a private Italian healthcare firm. Findings shed light on the role of the cost accounting system in price assessment： It outlines new opportunities for the identification of the service mix offered as well as for price optimization. Because private companies provide services both within the public system--where the National Health System （NHS） provides fixed reimbursement fees--and within the private system--where prices are defined by each company. Accurate cost information is extremely important to support managers in the analysis of the service mix profitability offered in each system. For the business segment in which companies do not have flexibility in setting prices, cost information enables managers to identify services which may present profitability problems. For the business segment where price flexibility exists, cost information supports the identification of pricing errors so that charges can be better defined.

Measurement of Emissions from Passenger-Picking-up Vehicles at Airport Terminals

Rather than parking at nearby hourly parking lots, many passenger-picking-up vehicles prefer to idle at terminals and/or drive cycling around terminal facilities. As a result, extra vehicle emissions may be produced in an airport area. Even though there are limited studies on such emissions at airports, these estimations were normally based on the date emission models, which might cause bias in emission estimations. This paper proposes an approach to employ the floating car method and Global Positioning System （GPS） to record speeds and acceleration rates of idling and cycling vehicles at airport terminals. The tests were conducted under different time periods and traffic demands with different waiting time. The speeds and acceleration rates are synthesized to yield Vehicle Specific Power＇s （VSP） and Operational Mode （OM） distributions. Utilizing the Environmental Protection Agency （EPA） emission estimation model Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator （MOVES）, pollutants and green house gas emission indexes （e.g. NOx, CO, CO2 and HC） and fuel consumptions can be easily estimated. As an illustration of the proposed approach, the research team collected GPS data at a terminal in Houston William Hobby Airport （HOU）, and calculated the VSP distributions and OM distributions. Emissions of passenger-picking-up vehicles around these congested airport terminals.

Power System Dynamical Simulation Application for Out-of-Step Relay Testing

OOS （out-of-step） condition prevention becomes an imperative task to avoid possible power system blackout and collapses. To be confident in correct OOS relaying, the OOS protection device behavior under the vast majority of power system abnormal regimes should be tested. Comprehensive testing procedure becomes especially important for complex power systems when power system parameters and consequently device settings are not clearly defined or may vary in time. For such complex systems the real OOS protection device testing may become a problem because of specific waveforms of signals persisting during OOS condition. The goal of the methodology, presented in the paper, is to achieve the possibility of out-of-step protection device testing under close-to-real power system operation conditions. The power system stability modelling software is used as a source of test signals. The accurate model of power system in conjunction with dynamical modelling features allows to verify the reliability of OOS protection scheme under consideration as also allows the device settings correction, if necessary. The methodology allows to test the real device with signals waveforms which are hardly obtainable using traditional testing technique.

Stochastic stability analysis of networked control systems with random cryptographic protection under random zero-measurement attacks

Security issues in networked control systems（NCSs） have received increasing attention in recent years.However, security protection often requires extra energy consumption, computational overhead, and time delays,which could adversely affect the real-time and energy-limited system. In this paper, random cryptographic protection is implemented. It is less expensive with respect to computational overhead, time, and energy consumption,compared with persistent cryptographic protection. Under the consideration of weak attackers who have little system knowledge, ungenerous attacking capability and the desire for stealthiness and random zero-measurement attacks are introduced as the malicious modification of measurements into zero signals. NCS is modeled as a stochastic system with two correlated Bernoulli distributed stochastic variables for implementation of random cryptographic protection and occurrence of random zero-measurement attacks; the stochastic stability can be analyzed using a linear matrix inequality（LMI） approach. The proposed stochastic stability analysis can help determine the proper probability of running random cryptographic protection against random zero-measurement attacks with a certain probability. Finally, a simulation example is presented based on a vertical take-off and landing（VTOL） system. The results show the effectiveness, robustness, and application of the proposed method, and are helpful in choosing the proper protection mechanism taking into account the time delay and in determining the system sampling period to increase the resistance against such attacks.