Executive flight simulator as a learning tool in new companies’ resource planning based on the balanced scorecard

In many cases, a deficient strategic planning in new companies has led entrepreneurs to take inadequate initial decisions that, in the long term, reflect consequences in the failure of many new businesses. The objective of this article is to propose an executive flight simulator, which will help to identify and evaluate the different development strategies for resources of a new manufacturing company, under the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard, educating the user on the impact that these would have in the main performance indicators. The simulator is designed utilizing the focus of system dynamics to be used didactically in master's degree programs in administration, by entrepreneurs or in executive development programs.     

Dynamics of female labour force participation in France

This article formulates and estimates a structural intertemporal model of labour force participation. Relying on theoretical characterizations derived from an economic model of lifetime behaviour, we estimate a dynamic probit model with correlated random effects using longitudinal data to allow for a dynamic structure. The model is applied to a panel of married women drawn from the 1997–2002 French Labour Force surveys in order to represent their participation behaviour. It is estimated by maximum simulated likelihood. Our results show that women’s decisions to go out to work are characterized by significant state dependence, unobserved heterogeneity and negative serial correlation in the transitory error component. In addition, we find that the presence of young children in a woman’s household reduces her labour participation, but unequally according to their age and number. As expected, educational level has a positive impact on women’s participation. Last, a rise in the husband’s wage is found to raise female participation initially and to lower it subsequently. This empirical finding suggests that leisure may not systematically be a normal good, contrary to what is frequently assumed in the literature.     

数字中频GPS信号软件模拟器设计

在对中频GPS信号理论建模与分析的基础上,采用Matlab/Simulink构建了一种精确的数字中频GPS信号软件模拟器,考虑了噪声、欠采样以及接收机时钟误差等的影响.软件模拟器的实现采用Matlab代码编程与Simulink模型混合的方式,方便了不同算法的实现.与传统的GPS信号模拟器相比,文中设计的软件模拟器具备设计灵活、可扩展、易于使用等诸多优点.     

船载雷达目标模拟器的航路设计

针对船载雷达的特殊性，分动态和静态两种情况对目标模拟器的各种航路进行了设计，并对一些特殊航路的设计作了详细介绍。     

汽车驾驶模拟器中数据采集系统的设计

通过对汽车驾驶模拟器信号采集特点的研究,设计了一个多传感器数据采集实验系统。介绍了该系统信号检测电路的工作原理和系统的工作过程,给出了数据采集系统的组成框图。该数据采集系统方案检测结果准确,运行稳定可靠。     

基于人机工程学的汽车驾驶模拟器座椅布置设计

根据人机工程学对汽车驾驶模拟器驾驶员座椅布置的要求,提出H点高度、方向盘、座椅靠背角,视野之间约束关系,应用计算机辅助设计方法,得到H点取值范围,选择合适的位置进行汽车驾驶模拟器驾驶员座椅布置设计.     

基于STM32的太阳模拟器控制系统设计

聚焦型太阳模拟器应用于光热发电相关试验,主要由风冷系统、光学系统、机械系统、控制系统组成。为了消除系统的人工安装误差、减小光斑调整误差,设计了基于STM32处理单元,结合PID算法,采用RS485通信标准,以液晶触摸屏为输入输出单元的太阳模拟器控制系统。该系统主要包括氙灯光强度控制、氙灯阴极温度控制、氙灯单元俯仰、平移控制等模块。通过对控制系统的搭建,实现了光斑面积与焦平面的位置调整,以及氙灯阴极温度的检测与控制,有效解决了多光源系统焦点光斑汇聚重合的问题。     

Exchange Rate Choices of Microstates

In this paper I first explain why most microstates (countries with less than two million inhabitants) have gained independence only in the last 30 years. Despite the higher costs and risks microstates face, their ability to better accommodate local preferences, combined with a more integrated world economy, probably explains why there are now more benefits to independence. I explain why microstates at independence have chosen either dollarization, currency board arrangements, or fixed exchange rates rather than more flexible forms of exchange rate systems. I then, using the Geweke‐Hajivassiliou‐Keane multivariate normal simulator, model empirically the determinants of each of the different fixed exchange rate regimes in microstates and analyze the policy implications.     

面向卫星导航信号的外辐射源雷达软件化模拟器设计

面向全球导航卫星系统(Global Navigation Satellite System,GNSS)信号的外辐射源雷达,是一种利用环境中GNSS信号作为非合作照射源进行探测的雷达。为满足基于GNSS信号的外辐射源雷达系统仿真和信号处理算法设计评估的需要,通过对该雷达系统组成与工作原理的分析,完成了面向GNSS信号的外辐射源雷达软件化信号模拟器的设计与实现。给定仿真场景下软件化模拟器输出信号处理和分析的结果验证了该模拟器可根据输入参数与模型正确完成信号仿真。     

The young and the reckless: Social and physical warning messages reduce dangerous driving behavior in a simulator

Road accidents are mostly avoidable and young males seem to be the group most prone to adopt dangerous driving behavior. Many efforts have been made to specifically target this group using two different kinds of warning messages: social and physical warnings. The relative effectiveness of these warning messages has never been compared directly, and their direct effectiveness has never been assessed in a realistic driving simulator to observe possible immediate changes in behavior while driving. Fifty young Israeli drivers (27 women) performed a driving task in a life-size driving simulator before and after watching either a physical or a social warning message. We compared the subject's driving behavior in terms of collisions, speed excesses, and non-compliance with traffic lights before and after watching the warning videos. We show that physical and social warning messages both had an immediate positive influence on reckless driving behavior in a realistic driving scenario, and that viewing the social video had a greater impact on men than on women. Our results indicate that both kinds of warning messages are effective in immediately reducing reckless driving behavior, but that publicity campaigns targeting specifically young males would benefit from developing social warning messages.