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From The Ground Up: The Importance Of Preserving Sof Capacity Building Skills, Whitney Grespin Jul 2014

From The Ground Up: The Importance Of Preserving Sof Capacity Building Skills, Whitney Grespin

Journal of Strategic Security

The last decade of international engagements marks a shift in the way that the American military fights wars and mitigates conflict overseas. Although America has long had an affinity for creative destruction and cycles of force buildup and tear down, it is increasingly apparent that such an approach is not a viable option for the U.S. military’s path ahead. After a decade of costly conflict with large conventional forces and an abundance of direct action operations, the American way of war is evolving towards less muscle, more mind.

To this end, the specialized training, mentoring, and capacity building skills that …


Biomaterial Testing Methodology For Long-Term In Vivo Applications: Silicon Carbide Corrosion Resistance, Biocompatibility And Hemocompatibility, Maysam Nezafati Jun 2014

Biomaterial Testing Methodology For Long-Term In Vivo Applications: Silicon Carbide Corrosion Resistance, Biocompatibility And Hemocompatibility, Maysam Nezafati

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Biomedical devices that function in-vivo offer a tremendous promise to improve the quality of life for many who suffer from disease and trauma. The most important consideration for these devices is that they interact with the physiological environment as designed without initiating a deleterious inflammatory response. ISO 10993 outlines the current international guideline for investigating the biocompatibility of such devices. Numerous groups report the use of ISO 10993 as the basis for their experimental evaluation of candidate materials for neuroprosthetics, as well as other biomedical devices, however most of these reports fail to completely comply with the standard. This leads …


The Murray Ledger And Times, June 25, 2014, The Murray Ledger And Times Jun 2014

The Murray Ledger And Times, June 25, 2014, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


Cognitive Mapping And The Adventures Of The Postmodern, Kellner Douglas Jun 2014

Cognitive Mapping And The Adventures Of The Postmodern, Kellner Douglas

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

During the 1980s and 1990s, debates about the differences between modernity and postmodernity as historical epochs; modernism and postmodernism in the arts; and wars between modern and postmodern theory defined key theoretical problematics in intellectualized spaces of the West, like the University. Fredric Jameson was one of the initiators of debates over the postmodern, and introduced the concept of cognitive mapping to describe theoretical accounts of the contemporary moment. I discuss conceptions of theory and mapping in the modern and postmodern debates and sort out appropriate uses of the discourse of the postmodern, and the usefulness of the postmodern turn …


Novel Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Arrays Using Engineered Metamaterials And Microfluidic Principles, Ahmad Gheethan Jun 2014

Novel Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Arrays Using Engineered Metamaterials And Microfluidic Principles, Ahmad Gheethan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation proposes novel solutions for important drawbacks of antenna arrays. One of the main contributions of the presented work is size reduction and nulling performance improvement of traditionally large anti-jam global positioning system (GPS) arrays using miniature antennas and electrically small resonators emulating an engineered metamaterial. Specifically, a miniaturized coupled double loop (CDL) dual band antenna is first introduced as a small antenna element of the compact GPS array. The loops that are capacitively coupled using lumped element capacitor, and employ metallic pins around their perimeter to improve the radiation efficiency by achieving a volumetric current distribution. This design …


Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert Jun 2014

Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert

USF Patents

The present invention concerns compositions and methods of extracting infectious pathogens from a volume of blood. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of creating a fibrin aggregate confining the pathogens and introducing a fibrin lysis reagent to expose the pathogens for analysis. The present invention also concerns materials and methods for removing aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) from a sample.


The Prospector, June 24, 2014, Utep Student Publications Jun 2014

The Prospector, June 24, 2014, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Better Business Ballpark


Word Travels, Alexander Sinn Jun 2014

Word Travels, Alexander Sinn

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

No abstract provided.


Finance Hell, Aj Nolte Jun 2014

Finance Hell, Aj Nolte

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

No abstract provided.


The Labor Injunction (Book Review), Morris Hillquit Jun 2014

The Labor Injunction (Book Review), Morris Hillquit

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.


Is Virtual Reality Changing The Nature Of War?, Robert J. Bunker Jun 2014

Is Virtual Reality Changing The Nature Of War?, Robert J. Bunker

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

In responding to the prompt “Does the rise of virtual reality change the nature of war?” the answer must be that it all depends on how you define the ‘nature of war’ and view the impact of ‘virtual reality.’


About Face: A Perspective On Civilian Military Relations Through The Lens Of The Principal-Agent Theory, Randall Swain Jun 2014

About Face: A Perspective On Civilian Military Relations Through The Lens Of The Principal-Agent Theory, Randall Swain

Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs

- 55 - About Face: A Perspective of Civil-Military Relations through the Lens of Principal-Agent Theory Randall D. Swain Eastern Kentucky University This essay uses the principal-agent theory to offer a framework for explaining shirking tendencies by the U.S. military in civil-military relations. Through the lens of the framework presented here, the principal-agent theory explains why shirking tendencies by the U.S. military is more likely to occur when a Republican occupies the White House, than when it is occupied by a Democrat. Besides providing a framework for conceptualizing civil-military relations, the importance of this work lies in the manner in …


Internet Governance: A Developing Country Perspective, Ramesh Subramanian Jun 2014

Internet Governance: A Developing Country Perspective, Ramesh Subramanian

Communications of the IIMA

As the Internet gains an almost ubiquitous status in much of today’s world, the governance of the Internet has become an important subject of study. Internet governance affects various critical issues such as open access, freedom of expression, innovation and new applications, commerce, development, and security. To date much of the discourse on Internet governance has been within the ranks of politicians, political analysts, as well as I-School and Communications School researchers. Internet governance discussions are often dictated by geopolitical issues. The perceived hegemony of the developed West regarding the governance of the Internet is increasingly facing challenges from developing …


Air Force Inspection System: An Application For System-Of-Systems (Sos) Engineering, Joseph R. Lay Jun 2014

Air Force Inspection System: An Application For System-Of-Systems (Sos) Engineering, Joseph R. Lay

Theses and Dissertations

The Air Combat Command (ACC) Inspector General (IG) assesses the operational readiness and combat effectiveness of units by evaluating individual wings. Today's conflicts; however, are waged as a joint force. The Joint Forces Commander (JFC) leverages the resources of the entire military complex to achieve strategic objectives. The synergistic effects, created by the integration of individual weapon systems, produce greater results than the individual components. Evaluating wings outside the joint System of Systems (SoS) architecture does not provide a true assessment of combat readiness. Using a case study method, this research examines the idea of integrating a joint SoS architecture …


Different Formulations Of The Orthogonal Array Problem And Their Symmetries, Andrew J. Geyer Jun 2014

Different Formulations Of The Orthogonal Array Problem And Their Symmetries, Andrew J. Geyer

Theses and Dissertations

Modern statistical experiments routinely feature a large number of input variables that can each be set to a variety of different levels. In these experiments, output response changes as a result of changes in the individual factor level settings. Often, an individual experimental run can be costly in time, money or both. Therefore, experimenters generally want to gain the desired information on factor effects from the smallest possible number of experimental runs. Orthogonal arrays provide the most desirable designs. However, finding orthogonal arrays is a very challenging problem. There are numerous integer linear programming formulations (ILP) in the literature whose …


Going To China Girls, The Agit-Prop Train V.I. Lenin No. 1, Not Everybody Loves A Uniform, Page Dougherty Delano Jun 2014

Going To China Girls, The Agit-Prop Train V.I. Lenin No. 1, Not Everybody Loves A Uniform, Page Dougherty Delano

Ontario Review

Page Dougherty Delano's poems have appeared recently in The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Thirteenth Moon. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems, Victory Girls, about women in World War II. She teaches at Hunter College, and lives in New York City.


The Prospector, June 17, 2014, Utep Student Publications Jun 2014

The Prospector, June 17, 2014, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: El Paso Needs to Become Bike-Friendly


Scholar-Activist To Promote Peace, Justice And Human Rights, Natalie Wade Jun 2014

Scholar-Activist To Promote Peace, Justice And Human Rights, Natalie Wade

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


Design Prospects: Investigating Design Fiction Via A Rogue Urban Drone, Andrew Morrison Jun 2014

Design Prospects: Investigating Design Fiction Via A Rogue Urban Drone, Andrew Morrison

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design fiction is garnering attention as a mode of inquiry on the prospective in design practice and inquiry. This paper addresses design fiction as a potential area for design research to explore communicatively. The paper does so through a performative essayistic research text. Presented are extracts from an online visual-verbal hypernarrative and expository research writing. The performative exploration includes views from the persona of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone policing a near future city. Her perspectives are prospective. However, the urban ‘drone-gone-rogue’ is crafted as a design fictional rhetorical device to comment on topical issues in the hereand- …


Arthur A. Dugoni School Of Dentistry 120th Commencement, University Of The Pacific Jun 2014

Arthur A. Dugoni School Of Dentistry 120th Commencement, University Of The Pacific

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Countering Radicalization And Recruitment To Al-Qaeda: Fighting The War Of Deeds, Paul Kamolnick Jun 2014

Countering Radicalization And Recruitment To Al-Qaeda: Fighting The War Of Deeds, Paul Kamolnick

ETSU Authors Bookshelf

This Letort Paper proposes that actions, policies, and deeds—those of the U.S. Government and al-Qaeda—be leveraged as a means of delegitimizing al-Qaeda terrorist propaganda. Two chief fronts—changing deeds and challenging deeds—is proposed. Changing deeds requires that the United States carefully and systematically examine its own foreign and military policies and their specific consequences for the Arab and Muslim world. Challenging deeds comprises systematically countering with evidence and fact al-Qaeda’s two greatest propagandistic fabrications: that the United States is a crusader at war with Islam, and that al-Qaeda is the vanguard defender of a besieged and oppressed Muslim Umma. Provocative at …


The Subjection Of Authority And Death Through Humor: Carnivalesque, Incongruity, And Absurdism In Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian And No Country For Old Men, Ruth Ellen Covington Jun 2014

The Subjection Of Authority And Death Through Humor: Carnivalesque, Incongruity, And Absurdism In Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian And No Country For Old Men, Ruth Ellen Covington

Theses and Dissertations

Cormac McCarthy's representation of the comic theories of the carnivalesque, incongruity, and absurdism by the antagonists of Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men demonstrates the unique and ostensible power of humor over (or at least, its awareness of and reconciliation to the absurdity of) death; it also emphasizes the supreme power and influence of humor as a means for destroying other institutions and philosophies which claim knowledge or authority but fail to sustain individuals in times of crisis. This makes humor a formidable factor in determining and justifying the outcome of human interactions and in defining the strengths …


Emotions Are Contagious, Lori Desautels Jun 2014

Emotions Are Contagious, Lori Desautels

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Through millions of pairs of lenses, we each see ourselves, others, and relationships from a variety of views. Each brings his or her inner world, unmet needs, emotional baggage, culture, and belief system into the human connection. So perhaps I shouldn't have been stunned a few weeks ago while reading the resiliency research associated with troubled youth inside our schools, when I encountered these words from Dr. Nicholas Long: "The number one reason for the increase in student violence in schools is staff counteraggression." Yet I was stunned.


A Neural Network Structure For Prediction Of Chemical Agent Fate, Homayun K. Navaz, N. Kehtarnavaz, Zoran Jovic Jun 2014

A Neural Network Structure For Prediction Of Chemical Agent Fate, Homayun K. Navaz, N. Kehtarnavaz, Zoran Jovic

Mechanical Engineering Presentations And Conference Materials

This work presents the development of a multi-input, multi-output neural network structure to predict the time dependent concentration of chemical agents as they participate in chemical reaction with environmental substrates or moisture content within these substrates. The neural network prediction is based on a computationally or experimentally produced database that includes the concentration of all chemicals presents (reactants and products) as a function of the chemical agent droplet size, wind speed, temperature, and turbulence. The utilization of this prediction structure is made userfriendly via an easy-to-use graphical user interface. Furthermore, upon the knowledge of the time-varying environmental parameters (wind speed …


The Prospector, June 10, 2014, Utep Student Publications Jun 2014

The Prospector, June 10, 2014, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: SGA President Sworn In


Civilian Casualties In Modern Warfare: The Death Of The Collateral Damage Rule, Valerie C. Epps Jun 2014

Civilian Casualties In Modern Warfare: The Death Of The Collateral Damage Rule, Valerie C. Epps

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law Jun 2014

Table Of Contents, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Does Conscription Affect War Duration? A Study Of Military Manpower Systems, Regime Type, And Interstate Wars, Alan W. Duff Jun 2014

Does Conscription Affect War Duration? A Study Of Military Manpower Systems, Regime Type, And Interstate Wars, Alan W. Duff

Lawrence University Honors Projects

While the causes of war have long been studied, the same scrutiny has not been applied to war duration. Recent empirical studies have found that similar variables correlate with both war outbreak and duration, thereby hinting at new areas for war research that can be conducted with a fresh perspective. One variable that stands out for this type of interrogation is conscription (especially when considered alongside regime type), as research on the subject has generated contradicting and inconclusive results. Given that many states around the world are replacing conscription with all volunteer forces, asking if conscription increases or decreases the …


On Self-Declared Caliph Ibrahim’S May 2015 Message To Muslims: Key Problems Of Motivation, Marginalization, Illogic, And Empirical Delusion In The Caliphate Project, Paul Kamolnick Jun 2014

On Self-Declared Caliph Ibrahim’S May 2015 Message To Muslims: Key Problems Of Motivation, Marginalization, Illogic, And Empirical Delusion In The Caliphate Project, Paul Kamolnick

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: On May 14, 2015 a 34-minute audio message was released by the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s media arm al-Furqan.


A Framework For Improving Information Assurance Education, Daniel P. Manson, Steven S. Curl, Javier Torner Jun 2014

A Framework For Improving Information Assurance Education, Daniel P. Manson, Steven S. Curl, Javier Torner

Communications of the IIMA

As a field of growing importance, information assurance is dedicated to protecting our information systems and related assets. In order for this field to deliver on its promise, effective information assurance education, both in the classroom and beyond, is essential. However, relatively little empirical research has been done on the effectiveness of information assurance education in the classroom. Faculty developing and teaching information assurance curricula can choose from differing industry and government standards as well as a range of methods for delivering this education. As a first step toward building a research framework for better assessing the effectiveness of information …