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International And Regional Measures Against Somali Piracy: Genuine But Misguided, Essam Mahmoud Badran Jun 2010

International And Regional Measures Against Somali Piracy: Genuine But Misguided, Essam Mahmoud Badran

Theses and Dissertations

The increasing piracy in the Gulf of Aden has captured the attention of the international community. Somali pirates have proven their ability to attack all types of vessels from small yachts to giant oil supertankers. As a result, series of serious efforts by international community have been undertaken to put an end to this emerging phenomenon. These include, deploying the biggest anti-piracy fleet in modern history, permitting warships to purse pirates in Somali territorial waters under special conditions, and the new approach toward establishing international tribunals to prosecute pirates. However, there is a growing need to re-examine Somali piracy counter-measures …


The Observer, Central Washington University May 2010

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 27-June 2, 2010. Vol 85, No. 8.


On Greek Religion And Mythology., Paul Carus May 2010

On Greek Religion And Mythology., Paul Carus

The Open Court

No abstract provided.


The Language Of Business: Organizing Language Instruction For The Citizens In The International Marketplace Of The Twenty-First Century, T. Bruce Fryer May 2010

The Language Of Business: Organizing Language Instruction For The Citizens In The International Marketplace Of The Twenty-First Century, T. Bruce Fryer

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Platform Effects On Optical Variability And Prediction Of Underwater Visibility, Grace Chang, Michael S. Twardowski, Yu You, Mark A. Moline, Peng-Wang Zhai, Scott Freeman, Matthew Slivkoff, Francesco Nencioli, George W. Kattawar May 2010

Platform Effects On Optical Variability And Prediction Of Underwater Visibility, Grace Chang, Michael S. Twardowski, Yu You, Mark A. Moline, Peng-Wang Zhai, Scott Freeman, Matthew Slivkoff, Francesco Nencioli, George W. Kattawar

Biological Sciences

We present hydrographic and optical data collected concurrently from two different platforms, the R/P FLoating Instrument Platform and the R/V Kilo Moana, located about 2km apart in the Santa Barbara Channel in California. We show that optical variability between the two platforms was due primarily to platform effects, specifically the breakdown of stratification from mixing by the hull of R/P FLIP. Modeled underwater radiance distribution differed by as much as 50% between the two platforms during stratified conditions. We determine that the observed optical variability resulted in up to 57% differences in predicted horizontal visibility of a black target.


The Murray Ledger And Times, May 20, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times May 2010

The Murray Ledger And Times, May 20, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


The Nexus Between The Ballot And Bullet: Popular Support For The Pkk And Post-Election Violence In Turkey, Nadir Gergin May 2010

The Nexus Between The Ballot And Bullet: Popular Support For The Pkk And Post-Election Violence In Turkey, Nadir Gergin

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the relationship between popular support for the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), which is an ethnic insurgent and terrorist organization mainly operating in Turkey, and its terrorist activities during the pre-and post-election periods in Turkey . Popular support has been measured through popular votes for the political party affiliated with the PKK in 1999 general, 2004 local and 2007 general elections. Two leading theories of social movements, Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) and Relative Deprivation Theory (RD), were used as theoretical approach. The study uses secondary data and constructs a longitudinal design. An advanced statistical analysis technique, a generalized …


The Murray Ledger And Times, May 17, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times May 2010

The Murray Ledger And Times, May 17, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


Mcgeorge School Of Law Commencement, University Of The Pacific May 2010

Mcgeorge School Of Law Commencement, University Of The Pacific

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


University Of The Pacific 2010 Commencement, University Of The Pacific May 2010

University Of The Pacific 2010 Commencement, University Of The Pacific

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Shadow War, John Conner May 2010

Shadow War, John Conner

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Environmental And Statistical Performance Mapping Model For Underwater Acoustic Detection Systems, Pamela Mcdowell May 2010

Environmental And Statistical Performance Mapping Model For Underwater Acoustic Detection Systems, Pamela Mcdowell

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This manuscript describes a methodology to combine environmental models, acoustic signal predictions, statistical detection models and operations research to form a framework for calculating and communicating performance. This methodology has been applied to undersea target detection systems and has come to be known as Performance Surface modeling. The term Performance Surface refers to a geo-spatial representation of the predicted performance of one or more sensors constrained by all-source forecasts for a geophysical area of operations. Recent improvements in ocean, atmospheric and underwater acoustic models, along with advances in parallel computing provide an opportunity to forecast the effects of a complex …


Representative Environments For Reduced Estimation Time Of Wide Area Acoustic Performance, Josette Fabre May 2010

Representative Environments For Reduced Estimation Time Of Wide Area Acoustic Performance, Josette Fabre

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Advances in ocean modeling (Barron et al., 2006) have improved such that ocean forecasts and even ensembles (e.g., Coelho et al., 2009) representing ocean uncertainty are becoming more widely available. This facilitates nowcasts (current time ocean fields / analyses) and forecasts (predicted ocean fields) of acoustic propagation conditions in the ocean which can greatly improve the planning of acoustic experiments. Modeling of acoustic transmission loss (TL) provides information about how the environment impacts acoustic performance for various systems and system configurations of interest. It is, however, very time consuming to compute acoustic propagation to and from many potential source and …


Florida Sentinel Bulletin, May 11, 2010, Gwen Hayes May 2010

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, May 11, 2010, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The May 11, 2010, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.


A History Of Violence: Testing The ‘Culture Of Honor’ In The Us South, Pauline Grosjean May 2010

A History Of Violence: Testing The ‘Culture Of Honor’ In The Us South, Pauline Grosjean

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact that it was a frontier region settled by people whose economy was based on herding: the Scotch-Irish. Herding societies develop cultures of honors for reasons having to do with their precariousness: violence is a necessary condition to preserve a reputation for toughness and deter animal theft. Using historical census data on waves of settlers …


Covert Or Overt Intervention? The Reagan Administration In Latin America, Marika S. David May 2010

Covert Or Overt Intervention? The Reagan Administration In Latin America, Marika S. David

Honors Scholar Theses

In my thesis I looked at Cold War interventionism by America. In the Post WWII period, many countries were searching for freedom from colonial rule, and many were attracted to the idea of communism or socialism. In this context of a destabilized world and power struggle between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R., revolutions often became points of interests and parts of this larger power play. Any type of revolution was a destabilization, in a system that was unstable at best, and peace between the powers rested precariously on the idea of “Mutually Assured Destruction.” I would like to look more …


Text As Resistance In Holocaust Literature: Struggles For Personhood In Wiesel, Levi, And Delbo, Gillian M. Mozer May 2010

Text As Resistance In Holocaust Literature: Struggles For Personhood In Wiesel, Levi, And Delbo, Gillian M. Mozer

Honors Scholar Theses

This thesis is an examination of the memoirs of three core Holocaust writers, Elie Wiesel (Night and Day), Primo Levi (If This is A Man), and Charlotte Delbo (Auschwitz and After), exploring the ways in which each of the three authors uses his or her memoir to simultaneously document and resist the dehumanizing influence of the concentration camp experience.


Sholund Scholarship Concert: Sacred Music Of The Great Italian Opera Composers, Chapman University May 2010

Sholund Scholarship Concert: Sacred Music Of The Great Italian Opera Composers, Chapman University

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.


University Of Mississippi Commencement, 2010, University Of Mississippi, Daniel W. Jones, Morris H. Stocks, Ray Mabus May 2010

University Of Mississippi Commencement, 2010, University Of Mississippi, Daniel W. Jones, Morris H. Stocks, Ray Mabus

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


"Freedom Wears A Cap": The Law, Liberty, And Opportunity For British Convict Servants In Virginia, 1718-1788, Daniel Brown May 2010

"Freedom Wears A Cap": The Law, Liberty, And Opportunity For British Convict Servants In Virginia, 1718-1788, Daniel Brown

Theses and Dissertations

Great Britain’s passage of the Transportation Act of 1718 was intended to relieve Great Britain of an unwanted criminal element while at the same time providing much needed labor for her North American colonies. This thesis argues that the legislative body of Virginia initially responded by passing legislation intended to limit the dangers presented by the introduction of convict servants into the colony. However, the significant demand for labor in Virginia resulted in the colony receiving a substantial share of those convicts transported to North America. Contemporaries argued that the importation of convict servants led to an increase in crime. …


Compulsory Death: A Historiographic Study Of The Eugenics And Euthanasia Movements In Nazi Germany., Michael Creed Hawkins May 2010

Compulsory Death: A Historiographic Study Of The Eugenics And Euthanasia Movements In Nazi Germany., Michael Creed Hawkins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a historiographical study of the eugenics and euthanasia programs of Nazi Germany. It traces there development from the end of World War One to the fall of Hitler's Third Reich. There are three stages in this study. First, I examine eugenics after World War One and the effect the era had on society. Then I study the Nazi transition from eugenics measures to "euthanasia", and last I analyze the transferring of the killing methods from the "euthanasia" centers to the concentration camps. The questions of how did the idea for eugenics develop in Germany society, what role …


Critical-Incident Response: A Study Of Training, Management, And Mitigation In North Carolina Sheriffs' Offices., Gregory Alan Minton May 2010

Critical-Incident Response: A Study Of Training, Management, And Mitigation In North Carolina Sheriffs' Offices., Gregory Alan Minton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of training each sheriff's office requires in North Carolina and if that training includes multiagency exercises designed to mitigate a critical-incident response and identify any concerns from those training events. The study also compared departmental strength (number of sworn officers per agency) with county populations and geographic area of the state the agency is located in with the number of hours required annually by each agency. Finally, each agency was asked if it had participated in a multiagency exercise and a multiagency incident and to identify any issues that occurred …


European Views On Ottomans: Beyond Religious And Military Polemics, Kurt F. Vossler May 2010

European Views On Ottomans: Beyond Religious And Military Polemics, Kurt F. Vossler

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

This thesis examines the writings of European diplomats, travelers and merchants in the Ottoman Empire in order to demonstrate that the historiographical tradition of the Ottomans as enemy to all Europeans was not the only opinion expressed in the early modern sources. Instead, the thesis will show that while the polemical voices were an important part of early modern European thought, they were responses to specific events in the course of European and Ottoman history, and they were not the only views held by diplomats and travelers familiar with the Ottoman Empire. In fact, the source material spans a wide …


The Murray Ledger And Times, May 7, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times May 2010

The Murray Ledger And Times, May 7, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


A Ditch By Any Other Name Is Still A Ditch: An Archaeological Assessment Of Ditch Earthworks On The Middle Missouri In The Dakotas, Albert M. Lebeau May 2010

A Ditch By Any Other Name Is Still A Ditch: An Archaeological Assessment Of Ditch Earthworks On The Middle Missouri In The Dakotas, Albert M. Lebeau

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

A Ditch by any other Names is Still a Ditch: An Archaeological Assessment of Ditch Earthworks on the Middle Missouri of South Dakota Albert M. LeBeau III, M.A. University of Nebraska , 2010 Advisor: Peter Bleed Abstract: This thesis is an archaeological assessment of ditch earth works on the Middle Missouri sub-area in North and South Dakota. This master’s thesis considers previously publically published materials from fifteen archaeological sites along the northern tier of Missouri River in the Dakotas. The paper questions the use of the terms “fortified” and “fortification” when describing ditch earthworks that surround some Plains Village archaeological …


Change Management In A Dynamic Information Technology Environment: Inquiries Into The Adkar Model For Change Management Results, Michael S. Lowery May 2010

Change Management In A Dynamic Information Technology Environment: Inquiries Into The Adkar Model For Change Management Results, Michael S. Lowery

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Change in our lives is an ongoing, complex, and difficult process that cannot be avoided, and in order for any organization comprised of people to be successful, change must be managed. There are many documented instances of organizations failing in their change efforts, and it is not always the technology that causes change failures, but it is the people aspect towards change that is neglected. This paper focuses on the ADKAR model which is a sequential and cumulative goal-oriented change management model with targeted results and consists of the elements Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement, and how the model …


The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney May 2010

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.


Under The Volcano: Emergency Management And The Eyjafjallajokull Eruptions, Ibpp Editor May 2010

Under The Volcano: Emergency Management And The Eyjafjallajokull Eruptions, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull eruptions that began on April 14th, 2010 have exemplified challenges for transportation in a world of globalization, and ever-present need for preparation for emergencies.


The Daily Egyptian, May 04, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff May 2010

The Daily Egyptian, May 04, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

May 2010

No abstract provided.


05-04-2010 (The Liberty Champion Volume 27, Issue 22) May 2010

05-04-2010 (The Liberty Champion Volume 27, Issue 22)

2009 -- 2010

No abstract provided.