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Graduate School Academic Catalog 2009-2010, Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Air Force Institute Of Technology Jan 2009

Graduate School Academic Catalog 2009-2010, Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Air Force Institute Of Technology

AFIT Documents

The Graduate Catalog represents the offerings, programs, and requirements in effect at the time of publication.


High Octane? The Anatomy And Physiology Of Energy Crises, 2009, Don P. Diffine Ph.D. Jan 2009

High Octane? The Anatomy And Physiology Of Energy Crises, 2009, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

This is a true story (adjusted for inflation). In the late 1970's, the service station attendant implored me, “Fill it up?" Reluctantly, I replied, "Fill it up." He opened the cash drawer and said, "Fill it up." I filled it up, emptying my wallet. Then he filled my gas tank, seeming to double the value of my old, gas guzzling car. Was this an emotional issue? Without question.


Responsibility And Lethality For Unmanned Systems: Ethical Pre-Mission Responsibility Advisement, Ronald C. Arkin, Alan R. Wagner, Brittany Duncan Jan 2009

Responsibility And Lethality For Unmanned Systems: Ethical Pre-Mission Responsibility Advisement, Ronald C. Arkin, Alan R. Wagner, Brittany Duncan

School of Computing: Technical Reports

This paper provides an overview, rationale, design, and prototype implementation of a responsibility advisor for use in autonomous systems capable of lethal target engagement. The ramifications surrounding the potential use of operator overrides is also presented. The results of this research have been integrated into the MissionLab mission specification and demonstrated on a relevant military scenario.


The Tiger Career Fair Spring 2009, Clemson University Jan 2009

The Tiger Career Fair Spring 2009, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.


Joint Force Quarterly 52 (1st Quarter, January 2009), National Defense University Press Jan 2009

Joint Force Quarterly 52 (1st Quarter, January 2009), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.


The Logic Of Religious Studies And Kathleen Flake, Blair Dee Hodges Jan 2009

The Logic Of Religious Studies And Kathleen Flake, Blair Dee Hodges

Arrington Student Writing Award Winners

Kathleen Flake’s 2009 Arrington lecture gave a sneak preview of research she has been conducting on the topic of plural marriage and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Flake, associate professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University, brings a unique list of qualifications to her study by combining elements of law, religious studies, ritual, and the skills of an historian. Using these tools Flake explores what she calls the “priestly logic” of plural marriage, seeking to understand not only how 19th century outsiders viewed the peculiar institution, but how practicing Mormons themselves made sense of it. Flake …


Protecting Cultural Property Through Provenance, Christopher D. Cutting Jan 2009

Protecting Cultural Property Through Provenance, Christopher D. Cutting

Seattle University Law Review

This Comment recommends that Congress take action to bring consistency to the treatment of cultural property in two ways. First, ownership disputes should be settled based on the quality of provenance between competing claimants, a system similar to land title registration. Provenance is the history of a piece of cultural property that shows where it came from and where it has been. Second, to ensure provenance is a complete guide to title all cultural objects, both illegally exported and stolen cultural property should receive the same treatment. Part II of this Comment discusses the history of cultural property regulation. Next, …


Some Suggestions For The Uafa: A Bill For Same-Sex Binational Couples, Timothy R. Carraher Jan 2009

Some Suggestions For The Uafa: A Bill For Same-Sex Binational Couples, Timothy R. Carraher

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Biblical Perspectives On Torture: War Crime, The Limits Of Retaliation, And The Roman Cross, Bill T. Arnold Jan 2009

Biblical Perspectives On Torture: War Crime, The Limits Of Retaliation, And The Roman Cross, Bill T. Arnold

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.


An Examination Of The Causal Mechanisms Behind Latin America's Populist Revival And Corresponding Move To The Left, Andrea Lynch Jan 2009

An Examination Of The Causal Mechanisms Behind Latin America's Populist Revival And Corresponding Move To The Left, Andrea Lynch

Theses & ETDs

In the years since the turn of the 21st century Latin America has been experiencing an unprecedented rise of leftist, populist leaders. A 2006 article by Jorge Castaneda popularized the dichotomy between the "Bolivarian" left and the moderate, "reformist" left, and subsequent studies have often attempted to explain the emergence of leftist populism in each of its two different incarnations. This study seeks to examine four popular causal factors for the rise of the new populist left and demonstrate how these causal factors are linked. The four factors chosen for the study are: 1) the history of U.S. intervention and …


Women, Peace And (In)Security? Rape, Armed Conflict And United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 A Cross-Comparative Analysis, Tierney Elison Jan 2009

Women, Peace And (In)Security? Rape, Armed Conflict And United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 A Cross-Comparative Analysis, Tierney Elison

Theses & ETDs

Sexual and gender-based violence has been used as a systematic weapon of war, political violence, terror, and even genocide across geography and time. Yet, only recently have rape and other forms of sexual violence been addressed as deliberate strategies of war and repression in international humanitarian and human rights law. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, passed in 2000, was hailed as a watershed achievement in the incorporation of gender analysis into the emergent human security paradigm. This thesis examines the resolution's ability to redress the gender-specific insecurities of women and girls in armed conflict, particularly mass rape and sexual …


The Political Economy Of Development In South Korea, Geoffrey Gordon Jan 2009

The Political Economy Of Development In South Korea, Geoffrey Gordon

Theses & ETDs

A common explanation for South Korea's vulnerability to contagion in the East Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-98 has been the close relationship between business elites and the government – so-called “crony capitalism.” Since the crisis, a number of scholars have sought to revise the history of development in South Korea, attempting to explain how corruption could exist alongside development. They attribute the success of the developmental state to systemic vulnerabilities that forced politicians to enact development-friendly policies, or to private initiative in the face of self-seeking behavior by politicians. This thesis re-examines both the history of the developmental state in …


America's Agricultural Industry: Chemical Consequences And Sustainable Alternatives, Jillian Walker Jan 2009

America's Agricultural Industry: Chemical Consequences And Sustainable Alternatives, Jillian Walker

Theses & ETDs

Due to a number of historical factors such as a constant influx of immigrants, new technology, and sociopolitical and environmental circumstances, America faced a number of agricultural challenges from the 18th to the 20th century. These problems were met with innovative technological and scientific solutions, which, while producing initial bountiful yields, ultimately resulted in the simplification of land management. This simplification was largely centered on chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. The environmental and anthropogenic consequences resulting from widespread use of these substances has resulted in an economically and ecologically unsustainable method of food production in the United States. This thesis …


Killing Pearl: When Hester Chooses Infanticide--Confronting Motherhood And The Redemptive Fantasy Of The Scarlet Letter In Suzan-Lori Parks's The Red Letter Plays, Alison Reid Jan 2009

Killing Pearl: When Hester Chooses Infanticide--Confronting Motherhood And The Redemptive Fantasy Of The Scarlet Letter In Suzan-Lori Parks's The Red Letter Plays, Alison Reid

Theses & ETDs

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne enforces the faulty notion of the good mother and the redemptive fantasy when she chooses not to kill Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. Socially and culturally, infanticide invokes a highly emotional response. The media deals with this response by constructing models of the "murderous mother" to rationalize the actions of women such as Andrea Yates and Casey Anthony. These models depend on a specific model of motherhood in which only the unnatural mother kills her child. Within the slave narrative, there are examples of empathetic infanticide in which a mother kills her child due to the …


"Soldiers Of Paper And Ink": American Intellectual Interpretations Of The Spanish Civil War, Adam D. Schafer Jan 2009

"Soldiers Of Paper And Ink": American Intellectual Interpretations Of The Spanish Civil War, Adam D. Schafer

Theses & ETDs

This thesis, concentrating on History and Spanish Language and Culture, analyzes the works of four intellectuals who matured between the World Wars: two North Americans, Langston Hughes and Edwin Rolfe; and two Latin Americans Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo. These men viewed the Spanish Civil War as the defining moment of their era. A close fascism in Spain. Rolfe portrayed American volunteers as the descendants of an American revolutionary tradition that had a crucial part in liberating the working class, starting in Spain. For Neruda, the egalitarianism of the Spanish peasantry took the moral high ground against the subhuman, foreign …


2008 Major Sponsored Programs And Faculty Awards For Research And Creative Activity, Office Of Research, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Jan 2009

2008 Major Sponsored Programs And Faculty Awards For Research And Creative Activity, Office Of Research, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

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Patents Issued
Intellectual Property Licences
Creative Works in Fine and Performing Arts
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Recognitions and Honors
Glossary of Federal Agency Abbreviations


Tense Theology In A Holy Hierarchy: Liberation Theology Versus The Vatican, Sarah Fisher Jan 2009

Tense Theology In A Holy Hierarchy: Liberation Theology Versus The Vatican, Sarah Fisher

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Remasculating The Emasculated: Railroad As The Means Of Regaining Chinese Man's Masculinity In Frank Chin's "Railroad Standard Time" And "The Eat And Run Midnight People", Sabiha Sorgun Jan 2009

Remasculating The Emasculated: Railroad As The Means Of Regaining Chinese Man's Masculinity In Frank Chin's "Railroad Standard Time" And "The Eat And Run Midnight People", Sabiha Sorgun

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Harding Magazine Winter 2009 (Vol. 17, No. 1), Harding University Jan 2009

Harding Magazine Winter 2009 (Vol. 17, No. 1), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.


The Unknown Blakelock, Sharon L. Kennedy Jan 2009

The Unknown Blakelock, Sharon L. Kennedy

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Understanding the work of nineteenth-century American painter Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) has proven elusive despite several exhibitions and publications about his life and art. As Sheldon Director Emeritus, author, and founder of the Nebraska Blakelock Inventory Project Norman Geske observes, "Essentially self-taught, Blakelock proceeded with an imagination that was singularly free of any allegiance to established procedures, allowing him ... to address subjects as diverse as Jamaica, upper Manhattan Island, and the ocean shore - to find new solutions to differing pictorial problems. In some instances, it is clear he was cognizant of stylistic innovations in the higher artistic community. …


Vulcan Historical Review 13 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2009

Vulcan Historical Review 13 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.


The Medical And Social Impact Of Cholera In The 19th Century And Beyond, Heather Guy Jan 2009

The Medical And Social Impact Of Cholera In The 19th Century And Beyond, Heather Guy

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 71-84


2009 Intersession Catalog, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy Jan 2009

2009 Intersession Catalog, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Intersession Catalogs

No abstract provided.


States Of War: Defensive Force Among Nations (Reviewing George P. Fletcher & Jens David Ohlin, Defending Humanity: When Force Is Justified And Why (2008)), Guyora Binder Jan 2009

States Of War: Defensive Force Among Nations (Reviewing George P. Fletcher & Jens David Ohlin, Defending Humanity: When Force Is Justified And Why (2008)), Guyora Binder

Book Reviews

In "Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why," George Fletcher and Jens Ohlin analogize international defensive force to individual self-defense. Based on this analogy, Fletcher and Ohlin justify a presumptive right on the part of every state to intervene against aggression, and a right of humanitarian intervention in support of national groups but not populations. They oppose reprisals, preemptive defense, and resistance to invading armies by irregular troops. This review essay argues that the relative weakness of the Security Council, the unequal power of states, and the contingency of international recognition on effective force all undermine the analogy between …


Free Speech And National Security, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2009

Free Speech And National Security, Geoffrey R. Stone

Articles

No abstract provided.


U.S. Policy Recommendation: Ottawa Convention On Anti-Personnel Landmines, Trevor Holbrook Jan 2009

U.S. Policy Recommendation: Ottawa Convention On Anti-Personnel Landmines, Trevor Holbrook

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Gender, Status And Shellfish In Precontact Hawaii, Robin Helene Connors Jan 2009

Gender, Status And Shellfish In Precontact Hawaii, Robin Helene Connors

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Ethnic Politics, Political Corruption And Poverty: Perspectives On Contending Issues And Nigeria's Democratization Process, Dewale Adewale Yagboyaju Jan 2009

Ethnic Politics, Political Corruption And Poverty: Perspectives On Contending Issues And Nigeria's Democratization Process, Dewale Adewale Yagboyaju

Ethnic Studies Review

It is common to interpret African politics in tribal or ethnic terms. In the case of Nigeria, the dominant political behaviour can be defined, on the one hand, in terms of "incessant pressures on the state and the consequent fragmentation or prebendalizing of state-power" (Joseph, 1991:5). On the other hand, such practices can also be related to "a certain articulation of the factors of class and ethnicity" (ibid). For a better understanding of the essentials of Nigerian politics and its dynamics, it is necessary to develop a clearer perspective on the relationship between the two social categories mentioned above and …


Heller, Citizenship, And The Right To Serve In The Military, Elizabeth L. Hillman Jan 2009

Heller, Citizenship, And The Right To Serve In The Military, Elizabeth L. Hillman

UC Law Journal

District of Columbia v. Heller could prove a turning point not in the law governing the right to keep and bear arms, but governing the right to serve in the military. Heller's reasoning, notwithstanding the Court's efforts to constrain its analysis from reaching a right to serve, should lead to a reconsideration of military service as a broadly-held and long-recognized constitutional right. Because of the political meaning of military service and the changes that have altered the role and make-up of the military in the United States, the Second Amendment ought to be read, in the wake of Heller, as …


Supply Restrictions At The Margins Of Heller And The Abortion Analogue: Stenberg Principles, Assault Weapons, And The Attitudinalist Critique, Nicholas J. Johnson Jan 2009

Supply Restrictions At The Margins Of Heller And The Abortion Analogue: Stenberg Principles, Assault Weapons, And The Attitudinalist Critique, Nicholas J. Johnson

UC Law Journal

Through a consideration of the assault weapons question, this Article engages the criticism that District of Columbia v. Heller provides an insufficient standard for resolving many questions that emerge under the newly-clarified Second Amendment. After arguing that assault weapons might enjoy threshold protection under Heller's common-use test, the Article shows how the principles grounding the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence are especially suited for resolving aspects of the question that Heller does not explicitly answer. Particularly, this Article shows how constitutional protection of the best methodology for preserving life or health-advanced by the liberal wing of the Court in abortion jurisprudence-is …