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Endnotes Issue 19.3, Cisr Journal Dec 2015

Endnotes Issue 19.3, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Endnotes Issue 19.3

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Integrating Mre Into Humanitarian Responses In Iraq, Tammy Hall Dec 2015

Integrating Mre Into Humanitarian Responses In Iraq, Tammy Hall

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

As a result of conflict in Iraq, the safety and well-being of millions of refugees and internally displaced persons is at stake due to explosive remnants of war (ERW). In order to mitigate that threat, the Danish Refugee Council enlisted the help of the Danish Demining Group to incorporate mine and ERW risk education into existing humanitarian efforts in Iraq.

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Solutions For Increasing Physical Accessibility, Capacity Building And Psychological Support In Tajikistan, Reykhan Muminova Dec 2015

Solutions For Increasing Physical Accessibility, Capacity Building And Psychological Support In Tajikistan, Reykhan Muminova

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In order to fulfill requirements of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, modified the architecture of three public buildings and implemented a new psychological training process for medical centers in the area to provide awareness about disability rights and increase provision of psychological aid. The desired end goal is that advocacy will allow for increased public acceptance and understanding of disability while moving Tajikistan toward signing the CRPD.

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Caught In The Crossfire: Challenges To Providing Victim Assistance In Colombia, Michelle Miller Dec 2015

Caught In The Crossfire: Challenges To Providing Victim Assistance In Colombia, Michelle Miller

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Due to ongoing civil conflict, many Colombian civilians experience both financial and physical harm, but those living in rural areas have limited or no access to much-needed medical and economic assistance. In conjunction with governmental and nongovernmental organizations, as well as multi-national corporations, the Polus Center for Social and Economic Development assesses the needs of and provides rehabilitative services to residents in these remote areas.

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Humanitarian Mine Action In Afghanistan: A History, Ian Mansfield Dec 2015

Humanitarian Mine Action In Afghanistan: A History, Ian Mansfield

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

After a decade of Soviet occupation in Afghanistan and the resulting internal conflict, the removal of explosive remnants of war (ERW) became a complicated issue. Systematic clearance of ERW was difficult to establish due to the volatile security situation and an inability to regulate clearance work. However, due to collaboration between the United Nations and Afghan nongovernmental organizations, mine clearance operations were successfully established in Afghanistan in the 1990s.

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Risk Education In Northern Jordan, Lindsay Aldrich, Suzanne Fiederlein, Jessica Rosati Dec 2015

Risk Education In Northern Jordan, Lindsay Aldrich, Suzanne Fiederlein, Jessica Rosati

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In 2013 and 2014, the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery at James Madison University led a project funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM/WRA) to provide explosive remnants of war risk education to Syrian refugees living in urban areas of northern Jordan. At the time, it was unclear whether the hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing the civil conflict and seeking refuge in neighboring countries would be able to return home in the near future, but there was still significant hope this would happen.

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Remote Risk Education In Syria, Nikolaj Søndergaard Dec 2015

Remote Risk Education In Syria, Nikolaj Søndergaard

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Unable to be physically present in Syria due to ongoing conflict, DanChurchAid (DCA) is collaborating with a network of journalists and activists in order to assess the need for risk education in the country. By framing its risk education curriculum and strategies around this information, DCA’s mine action initiatives are tailor-fit for the hard-to-reach populations of war-ravaged Syria.

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Evolution Of Disability Rights In Iraq, Ken Rutherford, Megan Hinton Dec 2015

Evolution Of Disability Rights In Iraq, Ken Rutherford, Megan Hinton

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Due to the many years of conflict in Iraq, landmines and explosive remnants of war resulted in a large population of persons with disabilities. People with disabilities in Iraq lack adequate housing, medical care, educational opportunities and legislation protecting their rights. Now is the time to create the legal framework protecting the rights of persons with disabilities.

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Project Renew’S Prosthetics And Orthotics Mobile Outreach Program, Dang Quang Toan Dec 2015

Project Renew’S Prosthetics And Orthotics Mobile Outreach Program, Dang Quang Toan

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Project RENEW established a mobile outreach program to provide prostheses, orthotics and education to explosive remnants of war survivors in the remote communities of Vietnam.

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Effectiveness Of Gis In Mine Action, Hansie Heymans, Arie Claassens Dec 2015

Effectiveness Of Gis In Mine Action, Hansie Heymans, Arie Claassens

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

According to a survey conducted by Geometric Solutions, Ltd., the usage of a geographic information system (GIS) stands to benefit the mine action community within the context of strategic planning and operational decision-making. Furthermore, web-based GIS can provide mobile spatial data for operations and lead to an overall improvement of mine action operations.

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Roots Of Peace: Cluster Munitions To Crops, Tucker Kuhn, Heidi Kuhn Dec 2015

Roots Of Peace: Cluster Munitions To Crops, Tucker Kuhn, Heidi Kuhn

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

By facilitating the removal of explosive remnants of war in rural Vietnam, Roots of Peace (ROP) aims to restore contaminated farmland to a safe, productive state. ROP encourages economic empowerment by training farmers in the production of cash crops, such as black pepper and taro.

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Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository (Cord), Dionysia Kontotasiou, Olivier Cottray Dec 2015

Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository (Cord), Dionysia Kontotasiou, Olivier Cottray

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Until recently, the mine action and broader humanitarian disarmament community have relied on ORDATA for ordnance information. However, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, James Madison University and software-development company Ripple Design developed a novel aid to using ORDATA: the Collaborative ORDnance data repository (CORD). Representing a significant update to the data set, CORD is an ordnance-identification system featuring Web 2.0 concepts that allow individual users to contribute updates to the data.

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Landmines In Croatia Pose Threat To Incoming Refugees, News Brief Dec 2015

Landmines In Croatia Pose Threat To Incoming Refugees, News Brief

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

After Hungary formally closed its border with Serbia on 15 September 2015, refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East, Central Asia and Northern Africa have turned next to Croatia as a gateway to reach countries such as Sweden and Germany. The influx of refugees traversing the areas near the Croatia-Serbia border has raised concerns that refugees will encounter residual landmine contamination in Croatia as they make their way to Slovenia and Hungary. The contamination dates back to the four-year conflict which followed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995. The Croatian Mine Action Centre (CROMAC) estimates that …

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The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 19.3 (2015), Cisr Journal Dec 2015

The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 19.3 (2015), Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Focus: The Middle East | Feature: Victim Assistance | Special Report | Notes from the Field | Research and Development

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Lower Bound For Ranks Of Invariant Forms, Harm Derksen, Zach Teitler Dec 2015

Lower Bound For Ranks Of Invariant Forms, Harm Derksen, Zach Teitler

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We give a lower bound for the Waring rank and cactus rank of forms that are invariant under an action of a connected algebraic group. We use this to improve the Ranestad-Schreyer-Shafiei lower bounds for the Waring ranks and cactus ranks of determinants of generic matrices, Pfaffians of generic skew-symmetric matrices, and determinants of generic symmetric matrices.

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Northwest Houston Academic Center Newsletter- December 2015, Elizabeth Jean Brumfield Dec 2015

Northwest Houston Academic Center Newsletter- December 2015, Elizabeth Jean Brumfield

Newsletter Collections

No abstract provided.

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Take A Bow - 12/2015, Department Of Theatre Dec 2015

Take A Bow - 12/2015, Department Of Theatre

Theatre Newsletter

WMU Theatre News

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Research Synthesis: Effective Practices For Improving The Reading Comprehension Of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Amy L. Accardo Dec 2015

Research Synthesis: Effective Practices For Improving The Reading Comprehension Of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Amy L. Accardo

College of Education Departmental Research

The incidences of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) continue to rise steadily increasing the need for research-based strategies to support this population in the core academic content area of reading comprehension. A research synthesis was conducted with the purpose of (1) reviewing existing research to determine effective practices for teaching reading comprehension to students with ASD, (2) identifying the features of effective practices that appear to influence comprehension outcomes, and (3) assessing the quality of the research related to comprehension strategies and students with ASD. A functional relation was identified between the increased reading comprehension of students with ASD and each …

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Pearls Of Meaning: Preschool Children Respond To Multicultural Picturebooks, Xiufang Chen, Susan Browne Dec 2015

Pearls Of Meaning: Preschool Children Respond To Multicultural Picturebooks, Xiufang Chen, Susan Browne

College of Education Departmental Research

Employing a qualitative practitioner research method, this study examined pre-school children's responses to multicultural picture books and gained insight into how pre-school children make meaning about illustrations and textual features that include aspects of culture. The authors explored how multicultural literature can be used to develop cultural awareness and sensitivity among young children. Mem Fox's, Sophie (1994) emerged as a salient text that evoked personal connections and response to complex issues such as cycle of birth, life, and death. We contend that early exposure to multicultural literature contributes to ongoing processes of meaning making and serves as a rich reservoir …

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Monitoring Reading Progress : Towards A Global Approach, Ross Turner, Juliette Mendelovits, Prue Anderson, Ray J. Adams Dec 2015

Monitoring Reading Progress : Towards A Global Approach, Ross Turner, Juliette Mendelovits, Prue Anderson, Ray J. Adams

Assessment GEMS

This paper explores some of the opportunities and challenges confronted by researchers and service agencies seeking to support the international community to monitor progress against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The paper’s main focus is on measuring children’s progress in learning to read. The paper discusses some of the characteristics of an effective approach to measuring outcomes in a globally consistent way; describes progress in beginning to implement an approach to achieve this; and mentions some of the ways current assessment and measurement activities might relate to this approach.

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Sb 10990: A Ray Of Hope For Bridgeport? The Effects Of A Casino Establishment In The City And Peoposed Policy Decisions, Christopher E. Auray Dec 2015

Sb 10990: A Ray Of Hope For Bridgeport? The Effects Of A Casino Establishment In The City And Peoposed Policy Decisions, Christopher E. Auray

Washington Semester Program

No abstract provided.

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The Student Loan Debt Crisis Rising Borrower Default Rates For Graduates Of Both Traditional And Non-Traditional Universities, Meaghan Elizabeth Body Dec 2015

The Student Loan Debt Crisis Rising Borrower Default Rates For Graduates Of Both Traditional And Non-Traditional Universities, Meaghan Elizabeth Body

Washington Semester Program

No abstract provided.

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Game-Theoretic Models For Interdependent Security: Modeling, Computing, And Learning, Hau Chan Dec 2015

Game-Theoretic Models For Interdependent Security: Modeling, Computing, And Learning, Hau Chan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Due to an increase number of attacks by hackers and terrorists, there has been quite a bit of recent research activity in the general area of game-theoretic models for terrorism settings that aim to understand the behavior of the attackers and the attackers' targets. My thesis is centered on introducing, studying, and applying several game-theoretic models to security. In particular, my doctoral thesis consists of the following components: (1) designing increasingly more realistic variants of defense games; (2) studying computational questions in defense games such as equilibria computation and computational implications of equilibria characterizations, (3) designing efficient algorithms and effective …

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Knowledge Extraction From Diverse Biomedical Corpora With Applications In Healthcare: Bridging The Translational Gap, Ritwik Banerjee Dec 2015

Knowledge Extraction From Diverse Biomedical Corpora With Applications In Healthcare: Bridging The Translational Gap, Ritwik Banerjee

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

A wealth of knowledge in the biomedical domain is available in unstructured or semi-structured data repositories as natural language narratives. Much of this knowledge can provide immediate and tangible benefits in patient welfare and the healthcare industry. Extracting relevant knowledge from these natural language sources and providing them as structured information suitable for immediate real-time consumption in clinical settings is, however, a manual process restricted to human domain experts. As a result, it is expensive and time-consuming. A very real consequence of this is that the journey made by medical " knowledge nuggets" from research publications to patient care settings …

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Planning With Transaction Logic, Reza Basseda Dec 2015

Planning With Transaction Logic, Reza Basseda

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Automated planning has been the subject of intensive research and is at the core of several areas of AI, including intelligent agents and robotics. In this dissertation, we argue that Transaction Logic is a natural specification, experimentation, prototyping, and potentially implementation language for planning algorithms. This enables one to see further afield and thus discover better and more general solutions than using one-of-a-kind formalisms that have been traditionally dominating this field. Specifically, we take the well-known STRIPS planning strategy and show that Transaction Logic lets one specify this strategy and several of its far-reaching extensions easily and concisely. In addition, …

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Algorithms And Applications In Genome Assembly Using Long Read Sequencing Technology, Hayan Lee Dec 2015

Algorithms And Applications In Genome Assembly Using Long Read Sequencing Technology, Hayan Lee

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The first generation sequencing technology represented by Sanger sequencing opened the era of de novo genome assembly. The assembled genome had good quality as a reference but it was very costly. The second generation, so called Next-Gen sequencing, produced tons of short reads in a day with economic cost. However de novo genome projects and other downstream research confronted limited quality. Now third generation begins with long reads sequencing technology and related algorithms with reasonable cost. The quality of reference genomes and downstream research has been recovered. Here we introduce third generation read sequencing technology and span sequencing technology, related …

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Measuring Routing Policies On The Internet, Mohammad Haseeb Niaz Dec 2015

Measuring Routing Policies On The Internet, Mohammad Haseeb Niaz

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Models of Internet routing are critical for studies of Internet security, reliability and evolution, which often rely on simulations of the Internet’s routing system. Accurate models are difficult to build and suffer from a dearth of ground truth data, as ISPs often treat their connectivity and routing policies as trade secrets. In this environment, researchers rely on a number of simplifying assumptions and models proposed over a decade ago, which are widely criticized for their inability to capture routing policies employed in practice. This thesis makes the following two contributions: Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies. First we put Internet topologies and …

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Finding The Right Balance: Security Vs. Performance With Network Storage Systems, Arun Olappamanna Vasudevan Dec 2015

Finding The Right Balance: Security Vs. Performance With Network Storage Systems, Arun Olappamanna Vasudevan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As cloud storage in particular and networked storage in general gain widespread adoption, the biggest concern for customers is security. The concern is well warranted for two reasons. First, the surface area of exploitation and vulnerability is greatly increased with the communication channel and a possibly shared remote server, in addition to multiple clients. Second, when the networked storage server is maintained by a third party, such as a cloud provider, there is a lack of trust on the way data is managed at the server side. In order to minimize the risks while out-sourcing the data management, networked storage …

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Engineering High-Performance Parallel Algorithms With Applications To Bioinformatics, Jesmin Jahan Tithi Dec 2015

Engineering High-Performance Parallel Algorithms With Applications To Bioinformatics, Jesmin Jahan Tithi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Since the beginning of the last decade, plateauing of the clock speed of computer processors has forced us to invest more in parallelism — for both hardware and software. This resulted in improvements in computing technologies that have favored parallelism over increased clock speed. Taking advantage of these improvements requires designing algorithms that can leverage parallelism well. In this dissertation, we show how to take advantage of several algorithm design techniques to harness modern heterogeneous parallel architectures for solving problems in bioinformatics efficiently. Our main goal while designing algorithms is to achieve high-performance in terms of running time and scalability. …

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Understanding And Improving Performance In Next-Generation Wlans And Cellular Networks, Fatima Zarinni Dec 2015

Understanding And Improving Performance In Next-Generation Wlans And Cellular Networks, Fatima Zarinni

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Over the past decade wireless devices, such as smart phones, tablets and laptops have gained tremendous popularity and proliferation worldwide. Additionally, both the WiFi technology and Cellular networks have observed signicant advancements from dierent aspects, with the aim of achieving better network throughput and user experience. Hence, it becomes vital to conduct new, principled studies in such state-of-the-art networks, quantify the true benets attained, identify previously unknown problems, and propose, develop and evaluate solutions to these problems, that could further improve performance. To this end, in the rst part of this dissertation, we focus on Next- Generation WLANs. The key …

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