Devising a method for improving the efficiency of artillery shooting based on the Markov model

This paper reports a method for improving the firing efficiency of an artillery unit that results in enhanced effectiveness. Given the modern use of artillery for counter-battery warfare, the effectiveness of shooting is not enough assessed by accuracy only. It is also necessary to take into consideration and minimize the time spent by the unit in the firing position and the consumption of shells to hit the target. It has been shown that in order to assess the effectiveness of an artillery shot due to the initial velocity of the projectile, the most rapid and simple means is to classify the quality of the shot by the acoustic field. A procedure for categorizing the shot has been improved by applying an automatic classifier with training based on a machine of support vectors with the least squares. It is established that the error in the classification of the effectiveness of the second shot does not exceed 0.05. The concept of the effectiveness of a single artillery shot was introduced. Under the conditions of intense shooting, there may be accidental disturbances in each shot due to the wear of the charging chamber of the gun, its barrel, and incomplete information about the powder charge. When firing involves disturbances, the firing of an artillery unit can be described by a model of a discrete Markov chain. Based on the Markov model, a method for improving the efficiency of artillery fire has been devised. The method is based on the identification of guns that produce ineffective shots. The fire control phase of the unit has been introduced. In the process of controlling the fire of the unit, such guns are excluded from further firing. A generalized criterion for the effectiveness of artillery firing of a unit, based on the convolution of criteria, has been introduced. It is shown that the devised method significantly improves the effectiveness of shooting according to the generalized criterion.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ВИТРАТИ СНАРЯДІВ І СПОСОБУ ОБСТРІЛУ КОЛОН ПРОТИВНИКА

Columns, which are highly maneuverable targets and any other targets, return the damage to the opponents. As a result of the shelling, the enemy column was informed about the systematic study and deployment of its reserves, management violations, and unfavorable conditions were created for the use of effective types of fire by other means of destruction. The result of artillery fire reveals a mathematical combination of irreversible damage and delay time of the enemy column or Woz, which is characterized by damage to the group counteracting due to the delayed columns and the adjustment of its irreversible damage.The article consists of the following sections:1. Indicators of effectiveness during the defeat of enemy columns;2. The dependence of the consumption of shells and the method of firing at the target on the conditions of the fire task;3. Dependence of projectile consumption on the required level of firing efficiency;4. The dependence of the consumption of shells on the method of determining the installations for firing on the defeat and the size of the group target;5. The dependence of the consumption of shells on the number of fire means used to hit the target, and the firing range;6. Dependence of projectile consumption on the characteristics of the impressive action of ammunition and the method of firing at the target;7. The dependence of the method of firing at the target from various factors.In the article mathematical dependences for definition of indicators of efficiency of defeat of columns, expense of shells, a way of firing of columns are considered. The probability of covering a column on the basis of the law of uniform scattering is considered. The sizes of zones of uniform scattering on the basis of a dispersion of the most favorable scattering are received.The article shows the dependences of the cost of shells and the method of firing at the target from the conditions of the fire task, based on the requirements of achieving a given degree of damage (the required level of efficiency). The issues of the dependence of projectile consumption on the required level of the rate of effectiveness of firing at the damage, and the method of determining the installations for firing at the damage and the size of the group target. The questions of dependence of shell consumption on the conditions of the fire task are considered.

Impact of Electrode Position on the Dynamic Range of a Human Auditory Nerve Fiber

Electrodes of a cochlear implant generate spikes in auditory nerve fibers. While the insertion depth of each of the electrodes is linked to a frequency section of the acoustic signal, the amplitude of the stimulating pulses controls the loudness of the related frequency band. The firing efficiency of an auditory nerve fiber, stimulated by a train of pulses varies between 0 and 100%. 100% firing efficiency means every pulse elicits a spike, 50% defines threshold. The dynamic range of an auditory nerve fiber is the range of stimulus intensities that causes a firing probability between 10 and 90%. This ‘electrical’ dynamic range is quite small in comparison to the variation of spiking rates measured during acoustic stimulation. Consequently, an increased dynamic range may improve the quality of auditory perception for cochlear implant users. Electrodes are often placed as close as possible to the center axis of the cochlea. Analysis of simulated auditory nerve firing showed that this placement is disadvantageous for the dynamic range. Five times larger dynamic ranges are expected for electrodes close to the terminal of the dendrite or at mid-dendritic placement.

Differences in firing efficiency, chromatin and transcription underlie the developmental plasticity of the Arabidopsis originome

Eukaryotic genome replication depends on thousands of DNA replication origins (ORIs) that constitute the originome. A major challenge is to learn ORI biology in multicellular organisms in the context of growing organs to understand their developmental plasticity. We have determined the originome and chromatin landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana at two stages of postembryonic development. ORIs associate with multiple chromatin signatures including TSS but also regulatory regions and heterochromatin, where ORIs colocalize with retrotransposons. In addition, quantitative analysis of ORI activity led us to conclude that strong ORIs have high GC content and clusters of GGN trinucleotides. Development primarily influences ORI firing strength rather than ORI location. ORIs that preferentially fire at early developmental stages colocalize with GC-rich heterochromatin whereas at later stages with transcribed genes, perhaps as a consequence of changes in chromatin features associated with developmental processes. Our study provides the originome of an organism at the postembryo stage that should allow us to study ORI biology in response to development, environment and mutations with a quantitative approach. In a wider scope, the computational strategies developed here can be transferred to other eukaryotic systems.

The evolution of the temporal program of genome replication

Comparative analyses of temporal programs of genome replication revealed either a nearly complete conservation between closely related species or a comprehensive reprogramming between distantly related species. Therefore, many important questions on the evolutionary remodeling of replication timing programs remain unanswered. To address this issue, we generated genome-wide replication timing profiles for ten yeast species from the genus Lachancea, covering a continuous evolutionary range from closely related to more divergent species. The comparative analysis of these profiles revealed that the replication program linearly evolves with increasing evolutionary divergence between these species. We found that the evolution of the timing program mainly results from a high evolutionary turnover rate of the cohort of active replication origins. We detected about one thousand evolutionary events of losses of active replication origins and gains of newborn origins since the species diverged from their last common ancestor about 80 million years ago. We show that the relocation of active replication origins is independent from synteny breakpoints, suggesting that chromosome rearrangements did not drive the evolution of the replication programs. Rather, origin gains and losses are linked both in space, along chromosomes, and in time, along the same branches of the phylogenetic tree. New origins continuously arise with on average low to medium firing efficiencies and increase in efficiency and earliness as they evolutionarily age. Yet, a subset of newborn origins emerges with high firing efficiency and origin losses occur concomitantly to their emergence and preferentially in their direct chromosomal vicinity. These key findings on the evolutionary birth, death and conservation of active replication origins provide the first description of how the temporal program of genome replication has evolved in eukaryotes.

Design of Artillery Recoil Distance Automatic Recording and Limit Distance Alarm Device

Recoil distance is an important evaluation index to reflect the performance of gun recoil mechanism. It can not allow to fire of artillery if recoil distance exceeding the prescribed distance. So it played an important role to ensure the normal firing of artillery. Previous artillery recoil distance is read by artificial indicator through the recoil, which affects the firing efficiency and has no conducive to the implementation of fast attack. This paper designed the gun recoil distance memory and alarm device by using the sensor technology and SCM programming. The device not only can record the recoil distance of each firing projectile and the total number of it but also can alarm if the recoil distance exceeds the specified maximum. The device effectively solves the problem that the recoil indicator artificial read and record. It has practical significance to improve the efficiency of the shooting.

Shore-Based Air-Defence Unit Shooting Mode Optimization Model Research

This paper analyzes the relationship between firing way and firing command way. Using the theory of probability and air defense combat strategy, it describes the concept, characteristics, and its mutual relations between concentration, dispersion, and mixing command in shooting mode, analyzes the influence of different ways of command on group firing efficiency.

Stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley Equations with Colored Noise Terms in the Conductances

The excitability of cells is facilitated by voltage-gated ion channels. These channels accommodate a multiple number of gates individually. The possible impact of that gate multiplicity on the cell's function, specifically when the membrane area is of limited size, was investigated in the author's prior work (Güler, 2011 ). There, it was found that a nontrivially persistent correlation takes place between the transmembrane voltage fluctuations (also between the fluctuations in the gating variables) and the component of open channel fluctuations attributed to the gate multiplicity. This nontrivial phenomenon was found to be playing a major augmentative role for the elevation of excitability and spontaneous firing in small cells. In addition, the same phenomenon was found to be enhancing spike coherence significantly. Here we extend Fox and Lu's ( 1994 ) stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley equations by incorporating colored noise terms into the conductances there to obtain a formalism capable of capturing the addressed cross-correlations. Statistics of spike generation, spike coherence, firing efficiency, latency, and jitter from the articulated set of equations are found to be highly accurate in comparison with the corresponding statistics from the exact microscopic Markov simulations. This way, it is demonstrated vividly that our formulation overcomes the inherent inadequacy of the Fox and Lu equations. Finally, a recently proposed diffusion approximation method (Linaro, Storace, & Giugliano, 2011 ) is taken into consideration, and a discussion on its character is pursued.