Real Geographies,Real Economies and Soft Spatial Imaginaries: Creating a ‘More than Manchester’ Region

This article develops a framework for analysing region‐building processes as spatiotemporal constructs, involving competing spatial imaginaries and attempts at consolidating these through institution building. Central here is the performative role of what we refer to as ‘soft space imaginaries’ in the ‘phased’ building of regions for planning and economic development over time. We demonstrate how this understanding can be used to examine the phased enactment of successive waves of region‐building by tracing the evolution of multiple soft spatial imaginaries in north‐west England. The analysis exposes the variable logics, alliances of actors, and tactics used to build momentum and secure legitimacy around preferred imaginaries which advocates often promoted on the grounds that they somehow reflected ‘real geographies’ or ‘real economies’. In this context, soft space imaginaries are seen to play an integral role in intellectual case making about the contemporaneous form and purpose of subnational governance. Yet our analysis also exposes the durability of past soft space imaginaries and their continued impact on efforts to build new soft spaces. What emerges is an understanding of soft space imaginaries as more than just superficial representations. They can help determine where government investment is channelled and into what kinds of policies.     

Existence of Lévy term structure models

Lévy driven term structure models have become an important subject in the mathematical finance literature. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lévy driven Heath–Jarrow–Morton type term structure equation. This includes a full proof of existence and uniqueness in particular, which seems to have been lacking in the finance literature so far.      

Understanding the Social Role of Entrepreneurship

There is a need to rethink and redefine the social value added of entrepreneurial activities to society. In this paper we develop five pillars on which the evolving social role of entrepreneurship can rest and have its impact: (1) connecting entrepreneurial activities to other societal efforts aimed at improving the quality of life, achieving progress, and enriching human existence, (2) identifying ways to reduce the dysfunctional effects of entrepreneurial activities on stakeholders, (3) redefining the scope of entrepreneurial activities as a scholarly arena, (4) recognizing entrepreneurship's social multiplier, and (5) pursuing blended value at the organizational level, centring on balancing the creation of financial, social and environmental wealth. In a final section we discuss implications for practices and for further research.     

Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization?

Critics of entrepreneurial capitalism have argued that entrepreneurship creates dysfunction in individuals, families, communities, and society because entrepreneurs neglect social and environmental dimensions of value in favour of financial value creation. By way of contrast, hybrid organizations, such as Benefit Corporations, are created explicitly to address social and environmental objectives in addition to their financial objective. Therefore, in this paper we explore the consequences of a world of blended value in which every new venture is required to be a hybrid organization. In doing so, we reveal the boundary conditions of current social criticism levied against entrepreneurship and suggest that blended value may best be relegated to the role of ideal or guideline as opposed to normative or legal obligation.     

流水工序调度与生产效率的关系模型分析

提出一种基于粒子群算法的流水工序调度任务优化模型。利用流水工序调度任务的特点得到流水工序时间约束条件,利用粒子群算法的原理建立流水工序调度任务优化模型,利用粒子群算法对模型进行求解。仿真实验表明,利用该算法能够得到流水工序调度问题的最优解,提高生产效率。     

天地一体化超视距雷达的激励源设计

针对单通道天地一体化超视距雷达不能多站组网的问题,设计了一种新型的激励源系统。系统利用现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）和通用串行总线（USB）实现多路发射通道控制,并通过直接数字式频率合成器（DDS）产生初始相位周期变化的线性调频波。理论分析表明,回波信号经过两次频谱变换能产生特定的多普勒频移,从而在多普勒频谱上被展开,实现信号多发一收。实验结果验证了激励源设计的可行性,可用于多站同步观测。     

中国金融业混业经营的路径选择

20世纪90年代以来,全球金融体系从严格的分业经营逐渐走向混业经营,由金融机构间跨行业、跨国界收购与合并而形成的金融机构集团化经营逐步成为一种趋势。中国金融业也只有顺应国际金融业发展的潮流,加大金融改革的力度,实现国内外金融市场的接轨,打造世界一流的金融控股公司,才能在国际金融的激烈竞争中立于不败。     

基于LINGO的快递企业物流节点布局规划方法

研究快递企业物流节点布局问题,首先分析快递业务流程,然后在此基础上建立了混合非线性0-1规划模型,即在确定的业务网点备选地点中选出恰当的网点,使系统总费用最低。最后,结合武汉某快递公司实例,使用Lingo软件具体分析了建模、求解过程,结果显示其是一种有效的求解物流节点布局最优化的方法,对快递企业物流节点布局规划过程有一定的帮助。     

供应链计划国内外研究现状及发展趋势

通过对国内外大量相关文献的分析对比和分类,总结了供应链计划研究的各个方面,提出混杂供应链系统一体化物流计划的研究是供应链计划领域最新的发展趋势,以期对供应链计划领域的研究者提供参考价值。     

视频流应用层组播系统的设计与实现

文章设计了一个用于视频流分发的应用层组播系统,系统由视频采集、视频编解码、组播传输和服务器4个模块构成。视频捕获采用Video for Windows(VFW)技术实现,编解码基于H.263标准。网络结构上提出使用混合P2P树形结构,降低了中心服务器的压力,服务器负责会议成员信息的管理,为组播树的建立与维护提供支持,组播传输使用基于度约束的构造算法,考虑了节点带宽和计算能力。该系统已投入运行,基本达到设计目标。