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Data To Decisions For Cyberspace Operations, Steve Stone Dec 2015

Data To Decisions For Cyberspace Operations, Steve Stone

Military Cyber Affairs

In 2011, the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DOD) named cyberspace a new operational domain. The U.S. Cyber Command and the Military Services are working to make the cyberspace environment a suitable place for achieving national objectives and enabling military command and control (C2). To effectively conduct cyberspace operations, DOD requires data and analysis of the Mission, Network, and Adversary. However, the DOD’s current data processing and analysis capabilities do not meet mission needs within critical operational timelines. This paper presents a summary of the data processing and analytics necessary to effectively conduct cyberspace operations.


Cyberspace Operations Planning: Operating A Technical Military Force Beyond The Kinetic Domains, Don E. Barber, T. Alan Bobo, Kevin P. Sturm Dec 2015

Cyberspace Operations Planning: Operating A Technical Military Force Beyond The Kinetic Domains, Don E. Barber, T. Alan Bobo, Kevin P. Sturm

Military Cyber Affairs

Cyber operations can be very complex, and it is useful to conceptualize a deeper, fourth technical level of warfare in order to conduct effective planning. The technical details associated with cyberspace operations are not grasped as intuitively by planners and commanders as are the capabilities and limitations of tanks, ships, and aircraft. The complex and dynamic nature of cyberspace often drives technical analysis and planning to a level beyond those planning practices and procedures accommodated by traditional Joint doctrine.


A Challenge For The Military Cyber Workforce, Michael S. Rogers Dec 2015

A Challenge For The Military Cyber Workforce, Michael S. Rogers

Military Cyber Affairs

No abstract provided.


Coercive Diplomacy In The 21st Century: A New Framework For The "Carrot And Stick", Aida M. Perez Dec 2015

Coercive Diplomacy In The 21st Century: A New Framework For The "Carrot And Stick", Aida M. Perez

Open Access Dissertations

Coercive diplomacy has been utilized throughout history as a tool of foreign policy to present a peaceful alternative and means to curtail military intervention or escalation to warfare. It is a diplomatic method used by a country in which the application of economic sanctions or embargoes, as well as the use of force or military action, is threatened or hinted at in order to force another country to give in to a certain demand or not engage in a particular course of action. What has perplexed international theorists and policy makers is under what political circumstances or crisis conditions can …


Abq Free Press, December 16, 2015, Abq Free Press Dec 2015

Abq Free Press, December 16, 2015, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.


A General-Purpose Multiphase/Multispecies Model To Predict The Spread, Percutaneous Hazard, And Contact Dynamics For Nonporous And Porous Substrates And Membranes, Homayun K. Navaz, Ali R. Zand, Amir Gat, Theresa S. Atkinson Dec 2015

A General-Purpose Multiphase/Multispecies Model To Predict The Spread, Percutaneous Hazard, And Contact Dynamics For Nonporous And Porous Substrates And Membranes, Homayun K. Navaz, Ali R. Zand, Amir Gat, Theresa S. Atkinson

Mechanical Engineering Publications

A computational model to solve the coupled transport equations with chemical reaction and phase change for a liquid sessile droplet or the contact and spread of a sessile droplet between two approaching porous or non-porous surfaces, is developed. The model is general therefore it can be applied to toxic chemicals (contact hazard), drug delivery through porous organs and membranes, combustion processes within porous material, and liquid movements in the ground. The equation of motion and the spread of the incompressible liquid available on the primary surface for transfer into the contacting surface while reacting with other chemicals (or water) and/or …


Mons Maiorum: Roman Aristocracy And The Palatine Hill's Appropriated Memory, Charles T. Rainville Iii Dec 2015

Mons Maiorum: Roman Aristocracy And The Palatine Hill's Appropriated Memory, Charles T. Rainville Iii

History & Classics Undergraduate Theses

Mons Maiorum arguest against the all-to-common a line of thinking among some scholars of ancient Rome: that house exchange of “ancient families surviving in genetic and property continuity [is] not characteristic of Rome.” This belief relies fundamentally on evidence from Roman authors after the proscriptions of the first century BC, when long-established aristocratic families had been removed from the landscape of the Palatine, and Roman memory. It is thus short sighted not to consider the depth of myths, physical monuments, and Roman customs as evidence for a close association of generations of Romans living in family property with a special …


Where Is The Warfare? The Impact Of Sola Scriptura On Science And Religion Dialogue, William James Richardson Dec 2015

Where Is The Warfare? The Impact Of Sola Scriptura On Science And Religion Dialogue, William James Richardson

Senior Theses

I have two aims with the publication of this thesis. The first is to contribute to the recent scholarly work that seeks to discredit the popular, yet fallacious, warfare model of science and religion. A nuanced investigation shows that the warfare evident in popular discourse cannot easily be attributed to a conflict between the essence of science and religion. Rather “science” and “religion” are interpreted as something else entirely. The New Atheists equate science with scientism, and religion is often associated with the Biblical inerrantism of many Protestant Christians. Both ideologies are grounded in an empiricist epistemological framework founded by …


Science And Nature In The Medieval Ecological Imagination, Jessica Rezunyk Dec 2015

Science And Nature In The Medieval Ecological Imagination, Jessica Rezunyk

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores the intersections between nature and culture in medieval literature and art with particular focus on Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame, the thirteenth-century French Bible Moralisée (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Codex Vindobonensis 2554), and William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Current academic paradigms tend to place the study of nature firmly within the sciences and the study of culture firmly within the humanities, creating a gap between the fields that effectively isolates their respective methodologies and vocabularies from one another. This dissertation seeks to bridge that gap between the sciences and the humanities by approaching medieval literature through the lens of …


Understanding The Pxs Aspect Of Within-Person Variation: A Variance Partitioning Approach, Brian Lakey Dec 2015

Understanding The Pxs Aspect Of Within-Person Variation: A Variance Partitioning Approach, Brian Lakey

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

This article reviews a variance partitioning approach to within-person variation based on Generalizability (G) Theory and the Social Relations Model (SRM). The approach conceptualizes an important part of within-person variation as Person x Situation (PxS) interactions: differences among persons in their profiles of responses across the same situations. The approach provided the first quantitative method for capturing within-person variation and demonstrated very large PxS effects for a wide range of constructs. These include anxiety, five-factor personality traits, perceived social support, leadership, and task performance. Although PxS effects are commonly very large, conceptual and analytic obstacles have thwarted consistent progress. For …


Genocide In German South West Africa & The Herero Reparations Movement, Melanie Bracht Dec 2015

Genocide In German South West Africa & The Herero Reparations Movement, Melanie Bracht

Senior Theses

During my spring 2015 Semester at Sea voyage, the ship docked in Walvis Bay, Namibia for five days. Prior to the voyage, I knew nothing about Namibia’s history. I was surprised to learn of its treacherous past and the role Germany played in shaping its political and economic condition. I took a tour of the Himba settlement, driving hours across the barren, dry land to a small circle of huts. Women cover their skin with red clay and continue the tradition of sauna bathes, never bathing in water in their entire lives. The Himba culture was captivating and it was …


Support For Comprehensive Sexuality Education And Adolescent Access To Condoms And Contraceptions In South Carolina, Sarah H. Kershner Dec 2015

Support For Comprehensive Sexuality Education And Adolescent Access To Condoms And Contraceptions In South Carolina, Sarah H. Kershner

Theses and Dissertations

A statewide random-digit dialed telephone survey was administered to residents of a historically conservative southern state to 1) assess the level of support for comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in public schools, 2) assess the support for availability to condoms and contraception as an effective strategy for reducing unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted (STIs) among adolescents and 3) assess the perceived view of reproductive health as a moral or public health issue. Survey data were obtained from 841 South Carolina residents May through June 2013. Findings from the study revealed that the majority (90%) of South Carolina residents support CSE in …


Plague And Perception: The English Interpretation Of Plague In Massachusetts, Sarah Peck Dec 2015

Plague And Perception: The English Interpretation Of Plague In Massachusetts, Sarah Peck

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Evidence suggests that the early economic and political success of the English in Plimoth Colony is due to the introduction of European diseases into coastal Massachusetts during the late sixteenth century. Building upon Alfred Crosby’s 1972 publication The Columbian Exchange, modern environmental historians and cultural historians recognize the important interconnection between parasitism, disease, and historic trends. It is now fairly well recognized in both the science and humanities disciplines that any study of the political and economic development of European settlements and colonization of the Americas correlates with studies and research about the introduction of foreign diseases, as well as …


Commencement Convocation Exercises - December 2015, Prairie View A&M University Dec 2015

Commencement Convocation Exercises - December 2015, Prairie View A&M University

Commencement and Convocation Exercises

No abstract provided.


Sr-15-16-21 Cc, Marshall University Dec 2015

Sr-15-16-21 Cc, Marshall University

Recommendations

No abstract provided.


Oral History Project/ Jerry Lafave, Heidi M. Perez Dec 2015

Oral History Project/ Jerry Lafave, Heidi M. Perez

Vietnam

No abstract provided.


A Mixed-Integer Programming Approach For Jammer Placement Problems For Flow-Jamming Attacks On Wireless Communication Networks, Satish Vadlamani Dec 2015

A Mixed-Integer Programming Approach For Jammer Placement Problems For Flow-Jamming Attacks On Wireless Communication Networks, Satish Vadlamani

Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, we study an important problem of security in wireless networks. We study different attacks and defense strategies in general and more specifically jamming attacks. We begin the dissertation by providing a tutorial introducing the operations research community to the various types of attacks and defense strategies in wireless networks. In this tutorial, we give examples of mathematical programming models to model jamming attacks and defense against jamming attacks in wireless networks. Later we provide a comprehensive taxonomic classification of the various types of jamming attacks and defense against jamming attacks. The classification scheme will provide a one …


Evaluation Of A Cultural Practice And 2,4-D-Based Herbicide Programs For Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer Amaranth Management, Benjamin Haynes Lawrence Dec 2015

Evaluation Of A Cultural Practice And 2,4-D-Based Herbicide Programs For Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer Amaranth Management, Benjamin Haynes Lawrence

Theses and Dissertations

Glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri [S.] Wats) is an economically troublesome weed to southeastern United States soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) growers. Palmer amaranth is troublesome due to its evolution of resistance to multiple herbicide modes of action, competiveness, and prolific seed production. Greenhouse studies were conducted at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, MS to evaluate different rates of 2,4- dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) for control of Palmer amaranth. Field experiments were conducted at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, MS in 2013 and 2014 to evaluate Palmer amaranth emergence using a cultural practice and a …


Defeat And Re-Playing Renaissance Civic Identity: The Academy Of The Intronati In Siena, Carolyn Zimmerman Dec 2015

Defeat And Re-Playing Renaissance Civic Identity: The Academy Of The Intronati In Siena, Carolyn Zimmerman

Open Access Dissertations

The study of how a literary academy shaped the transition of a sixteenth-century Italian republic into a subject city and defined the subsequent evolution of civic life. This transition involved a complete reimagining of what constituted a meaningful life, placing new importance on intellectual activities, cultural innovation, and rhetorical fluency. In this shift, the Intronati attempted to relegate traditional political activities to a secondary position, implicitly arguing that it was cultural leadership that should determine elite status in any society, rather than traditional political positions. This new vision of civic identity required the active participation of women, who were expected …


Oral History Project/ Renaldo Rivera, Candra M. Ravariere Dec 2015

Oral History Project/ Renaldo Rivera, Candra M. Ravariere

Vietnam

No abstract provided.


The Weekly Challenger, December 10, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Dec 2015

The Weekly Challenger, December 10, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 10, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.


The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Dec 2015

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.


From Warfare To Welfare: Veterans, Military Charities And The Blurred Spatiality Of Post-Service Welfare In The United Kingdom, Agatha Herman, Richard Yarwood Dec 2015

From Warfare To Welfare: Veterans, Military Charities And The Blurred Spatiality Of Post-Service Welfare In The United Kingdom, Agatha Herman, Richard Yarwood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The military offers a form of welfare-for-work but when personnel leave they lose this safety net, a loss exacerbated by the rollback neoliberalism of the contemporary welfare state. Increasingly the third sector has stepped in to address veterans’ welfare needs through operating within and across military/civilian and state/market/community spaces and cultures. In this paper we use both veterans’ and military charities’ experiences to analyse the complex politics that govern the liminal boundary zone of post-military welfare. Through exploring ‘crossing’ and ‘bridging’ we conceptualise military charities as ‘boundary subjects’, active yet dependent on the continuation of the civilian-military binary, and argue …


Design And Testing Of Novel Anthrax Vaccines Utilizing A Tobacco Mosaic Virus Expression System, Ryan C. Mccomb Dec 2015

Design And Testing Of Novel Anthrax Vaccines Utilizing A Tobacco Mosaic Virus Expression System, Ryan C. Mccomb

KGI Theses and Dissertations

Anthrax is a potentially fatal disease caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis. Infection and disease occur after spores gain entry into the body, germinate into vegetative bacteria, and produce toxin. Bacillus anthracis spores have been engineered as bioweapons and have been used repeatedly in warfare and terrorism to inflict casualties in military and civilian populations. Currently, only one vaccine has been approved for prevention of anthrax in the United States. This vaccine is an undefined product that is difficult to produce, requires a long vaccination schedule, and is reactogenic. Efforts to make an improved anthrax vaccine are being pursued. …


Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Constributions, Practices, And The Future, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey Meares Dec 2015

Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Constributions, Practices, And The Future, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey Meares

University of Chicago Legal Forum

No abstract provided.


Class Actions: Aggregation, Amplification, And Distortion, Richard A. Epstein Dec 2015

Class Actions: Aggregation, Amplification, And Distortion, Richard A. Epstein

University of Chicago Legal Forum

No abstract provided.


Conflicting Mandates Of Fre 412 And Frcp 26: Should Courts Allow Discovery Of A Sexual Harassment Plantiff's Sexual History?, Ethan A. Heinz Dec 2015

Conflicting Mandates Of Fre 412 And Frcp 26: Should Courts Allow Discovery Of A Sexual Harassment Plantiff's Sexual History?, Ethan A. Heinz

University of Chicago Legal Forum

No abstract provided.


Our Separatism - Voting Rights As An American Nationalities Policy, Pamela S. Karlan Dec 2015

Our Separatism - Voting Rights As An American Nationalities Policy, Pamela S. Karlan

University of Chicago Legal Forum

No abstract provided.


An Equal Protection Analysis Of Public And Private All-Male Military Schools, Marcia Berman Dec 2015

An Equal Protection Analysis Of Public And Private All-Male Military Schools, Marcia Berman

University of Chicago Legal Forum

No abstract provided.


Education And Politics: Lessons From The American Founding, Charles R. Kesler Dec 2015

Education And Politics: Lessons From The American Founding, Charles R. Kesler

University of Chicago Legal Forum

No abstract provided.