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Conflict, Technology, And Integrative Thinking: The Past And Future Of Geopolitical Conflict, Paul L. Johnson

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

Conflict is constantly evolving, and it is evolving even faster now that the world finds itself in an age where information travels at the speed of light. Scholars of military doctrine and generational warfare are currently pondering the effects of cyber warfare on the already hectic and confusing fourth generation battlespace. Invariably, generals, pundits and politicians alike in countries across the world vie to acquire these “capabilities” for their benefit and the benefit of their nation. The last time a cutting-edge advance in kinetic weaponry was made in the form of the atomic bomb, hundreds of thousands of civilian lives …

Smokejumper Magazine, October 2022, National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines

Alex Coolidge Wrestling Champ; Remembering Francis B. "Pappy" Lufkin; Forest Fires and National Defense Policy (2021); "Ve get too soon old, und too late schmart." Letter from Ron Pond; A View of the Largest Wildfi re in the History of New Mexico; Odds and Ends; Wheels Off; Mitch’s Last Jump; Seventy-Seven Years Ago in Smokejumper History; Recording Smokejumper History; 1947 Rookies—The Post WWII Era; NSA History Preservation Project; The Four Texan Fire; Not Forgotten; Final Request; Farewell to "Animal" Ed Weissenback; Getting Old; Sounding Off from the Editor; Doug Houston Memorial; The Jump List, Men of 1955; Mess Hall Crisis—Fairbanks …

Dipl 2120 International Conflict And Security, R. Joseph Huddleston Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course serves as a general introduction to the study of international security, a field primarily concerned with the threat and uses of force by state and non-state actors for political ends. Topics examined include the origins of major power wars, regional conflicts, civil wars, and international intervention, as well as terrorism, cyber, and information warfare.

By the end of the semester, students should have acquired knowledge and understanding of key concepts, theories, and debates involved in the study of contemporary international security. Students should also have developed the skills to: analyze complex international systems; find and synthesize empirical information; …

Strategic Organizing, Dangerous Rhetoric, And Philanthropic Decision-Making In The U.S. New Right, Alexandra Jane Dibranco

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

While rightist politics have drawn increased scholarly attention in recent years, the study of movements on the right lacks the depth and nuance afforded to movements on the left. This dissertation investigates organizing, communication, and funding strategy by the New Right in the United States. The papers in this dissertation address misconceptions about rightist movements that limit scholarship, including calling attention to their heterogeneity, historical embeddedness, and leadership dynamics. The first paper in the dissertation addresses the perception of the Christian Right as monolithic, demonstrating the strategic organizing and ideological/theological work involved since the 1960s in bringing disparate and hostile …

The Atomic Distributed Object Model For Distributed System Verification, Wolf Honore

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Distributed systems are at the heart of most web-based applications and are responsible for replicating and maintaining critical data. Unfortunately, their inherent concurrency combined with an asynchronous and unreliable network makes them prone to implementation bugs that can have serious real-world consequences. Formal verification can offer strong assurances of correctness; however, despite recent advances, reasoning directly about a system's implementation remains prohibitively complex. The key is to find the right abstraction that faithfully models a system's behaviors, while avoiding irrelevant implementation details. This dissertation presents such an abstraction called the atomic distributed object (ADO) model, which hides the existence of …

The Ambassadors: Indigenous Democracy And American Monarchy After The War Of 1812, Zachary Conn

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation investigates sites of state activity in the early United States which have received far less attention from historians than executive mansions, legislative halls, courtrooms, military outposts, or overseas embassies: the numerous embassies the federal government maintained on, or adjacent to, lands belonging to North America’s sovereign Indigenous polities. At the helm of each of these embassies, known as Indian agencies, sat a presidentially appointed ambassador known as the Indian agent. I argue that Indian agents were monarchical officers within a republican system, compelled to follow diplomatic scripts originating in the centuries of contact between European monarchies and Indigenous …

Sooting Tendencies And Soot Formation Pathways Of Alternative Fuels And Compounds, Junqing Zhu

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

In the modern age, human activities depend more and more on energy. Fossil fuels and the related combustion process play important roles in supplying global energy. However, fossil fuels emit CO2 and pollutants into the atmosphere when they combust. CO2 leads to global warming with a single half-life of more than hundreds of years in the atmosphere. In order to contain the rise of the average global temperature, net emissions of CO2 must approach zero. However, given the high energy density of liquid fuels relative to other energy carriers, such as batteries, liquid fuels are likely to remain the dominant …

Ancient Andean Archipelagos: Human Interaction And Social Innovation At Chawin Punta And Kunturay In The East-Central Highlands Of Pasco, Peru, Nicholas E. Brown

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation studies the dynamic relationship between interaction and innovation in ancient Peru, where archipelagos of social movement developed among groups of people living in distant regions of the Central Andes and Amazon. The earliest development of these archipelagic societies can be traced to the rise of the Chavín phenomenon in the 2nd and 1st millennia B.C.E., when monumental platforms and plazas were built across the Andes to accommodate large gatherings of people for new kinds of civic and ceremonial events. Although the people who gathered at Chavin monuments had different cultural backgrounds and geographic origins, their collective experiences forged …

Metabolic Abnormalities In Post-9/11 Veterans Of The United States And The Role Of Blast Exposure, Psychological And Somatic Conditions, Dora Lendvai

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Metabolic abnormalities – including overweight/obesity, glucose dysregulation and insulin resistance (IR) – are an emerging health concern in military Veterans of the United States (US) who served since the 2001 terrorist attacks (post-9/11 Veterans). There are unique risk factors for overweight/obesity in this young Veteran population, including military-service related exposures (such as blast exposure [BE] and combat trauma), changes in lifestyle after military service, and the presence of psychological (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and mood disorders) or somatic (e.g., sleep disorders and pain) conditions that can impact metabolic health overtime. The aims of this dissertation study were: 1) to …

Gas-Phase Control Of Heteroatom Placement And Structure In Carbon Nanotube Synthesis, Eric Phillip Johnson

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have exceptional electronic properties that give rise to promising use as sensors, interconnects, and semiconductor materials. However, functionalizing carbon nanotubes with covalent modifications to enable sensing applications, or selecting desirable semiconductive tubes via liquid treatment, both dominates the environmental impact of CNTs and suffers limitations in control and product quality. In this thesis, I explored alternative approaches to functionalization and chirality direction that leverage exotic gas-phase precursors or vapor-phase treatments. In the first part of this work, I leveraged oxygen-bearing, short-chained alkynes. Briefly, terminal alkyne precursors polymerize on a metal nanoparticle catalyst to form carbon nanotubes, and …

Joint Force Quarterly 107 (4th Quarter, October 2022), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.

Discerning The Ontology Of Dream Characters From The Standpoint Of Co-Creative Dream Theory, Gregory Scott Sparrow

Counseling Faculty Publications

It is not uncommon to have dreams with familiar characters who appear to exhibit independent agency and personhood, whether the actual persons are alive or dead. Discerning the ontological nature of dream characters presents a challenge in contemporary dreamwork, especially if one wishes to adopt an inclusive approach that allows for dream characters to be derived from intrapsychic or transpersonal sources. An inclusive model avoids two possible errors inherent in an either-or approach: 1) Believing that a dream character is a “real” person, a dreamer may disavow ownership over unacknowledged or rejected aspects of self; or, 2) Believing that the …

All Is Fair In Love And War: But What About War Trials?, Bronwyn Tuff

The International Law Review Association Student Forum

The right to a fair trial is not just protected by a state’s domestic statute but also by international law under the 1949 Geneva Convention. In the most basic sense, a fair trial theoretically requires competent courts, penalty proportionality, proper notification, right of defense, right of appeal, and restrictions on the issuance of the death penalty. However, the requirements set by international law often fail to account for the desire of justice that may diminish the true fairness of a trial even though all requirements are present. This note examines the recent domestic war crime trials conducted by Ukraine during …

The Russia-Ukraine War And The Seeds Of A New Liberal Plurilateral Order, David L. Sloss

Transformative Agreement Works

Since about 2008, the rise of autocracy and the decline of democracy has threatened the modern liberal international order. To counter the threat of authoritarian international law, the United States should collaborate with liberal democracies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to develop new plurilateral institutions and treaties to create a “liberal plurilateral order.” This Essay shows that states are planting the seeds of a future liberal plurilateral order in their response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The Shawnee, Sally Brown, Joe Stahlman, Bonnie M. Brown, Beth Toren, Michael Sherwin, Richard Anderson, Maryam Marne Zafar

Indigenous Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Multi-Label Prediction For Political Text-As-Data, Aaron Erlich, Stefano G. Dantas, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Daniel Berliner, Brian Palmer-Rubin

Political Science Faculty Research and Publications

Political scientists increasingly use supervised machine learning to code multiple relevant labels from a single set of texts. The current “best practice” of individually applying supervised machine learning to each label ignores information on inter-label association(s), and is likely to under-perform as a result. We introduce multi-label prediction as a solution to this problem. After reviewing the multi-label prediction framework, we apply it to code multiple features of (i) access to information requests made to the Mexican government and (ii) country-year human rights reports. We find that multi-label prediction outperforms standard supervised learning approaches, even in instances where the correlations …

Lives In The Balance: Targeting And Civilian Comparative Value, Christopher F. Melling

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

When United States commanders want to attack lawful targets, they must decide if the attack is proportional under the Law of Armed Conflict ("LOAC'). The attack cannot cause excessive harm to civilians compared to the strike's military benefit. To help commanders decide if the strike is proportional, intelligence analysts forecast the number of men, women, and children who may be injured or killed as collateral damage. Yet because civilians are not equal for the purpose of targeting, commanders have no viable standard for evaluating the limited, homogenous data they receive on civilians. Commanders should have more information to help them …

Panther Press, Fall 2022, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Military Science.

Panther Press

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The Artemis Theory Of Warfare, Mark J. Sundahl

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Outer space, long the province of peaceful competition and international cooperation, is being rapidly militarized. We stand today at a rare inflection point in history that deserves careful thought as humanity moves forward. In short, we face the following choice: we can either protect and build on the special nature of space norms and customs to preserve space as a “laboratory of peace,” or we can militarize space as the new “highest ground” under largely the same rules that govern terrestrial warfare. The sad reality is that our history, being inextricably linked to warfare, predicts that the dream of a …

Fall 2022 Catalog, Lsu Press

LSU Press Seasonal Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Jugaad Auteurism: Alankrita Shrivastava And Feminist Bollywood, Gohar Siddiqui

Visual and Performing Arts

Alankrita Shrivastava is a filmmaker in Bollywood whose sensibilities as a feminist auteur have been prominent in her work since her very first film. Her oeuvre consists of three feature films (Turning 30, 2011; Lipstick Under My Burkha, 2017; Dolly, Kitty Aur Who Chamakte Sitaare, 2020), a short anthology film (My Beautiful Wrinkles, 2020), the Amazon Prime series Made in Heaven (2019), and the Netflix Series, Bombay Begums (2021). She wrote and directed all her films and collaborated with other female writers and directors for the Amazon Prime and Netflix series.

The American Soldier: The Contested Existence Of The Continental Army, Alexander M. Remington

Student Publications

In the modern United States, the military is respected and honored by the public and military leaders alike. However, during the American Revolution, society was not yet convinced that having a standing army was necessary or beneficial to the Republic. The Continental Army was heavily contested during the war and conflicted with the civilians and its commanders alike. This paper follows the trend of other social histories by investigating just how these conflicts played out and how the common soldier navigated them.

Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence Methods For Cybersecurity Data Within The Aviation Ecosystem, Anna Baron Garcia

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Aviation cybersecurity research has proven to be a complex topic due to the intricate nature of the aviation ecosystem. Over the last two decades, research has been centered on isolated modules of the entire aviation systems, and it has lacked the state-of-the-art tools (e.g. ML/AI methods) that other cybersecurity disciplines have leveraged in their fields. Security research in aviation in the last two decades has mainly focused on: (i) reverse engineering avionics and software certification; (ii) communications due to the rising new technologies of Software Defined Radios (SDRs); (iii) networking cybersecurity concerns such as the inter and intra connections of …

Machine Learning To Predict Warhead Fragmentation In-Flight Behavior From Static Data, Katharine Larsen

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Accurate characterization of fragment fly-out properties from high-speed warhead detonations is essential for estimation of collateral damage and lethality for a given weapon. Real warhead dynamic detonation tests are rare, costly, and often unrealizable with current technology, leaving fragmentation experiments limited to static arena tests and numerical simulations. Stereoscopic imaging techniques can now provide static arena tests with time-dependent tracks of individual fragments, each with characteristics such as fragment IDs and their respective position vector. Simulation methods can account for the dynamic case but can exclude relevant dynamics experienced in real-life warhead detonations. This research leverages machine learning methodologies to …

Armed Violence In The Llanos Orientales Region Following The Signing Of The Peace Agreement With The Farc-Ep In Colombia, David Gómez Triana, Jerónimo Ríos

Journal of Strategic Security

A fundamental aspect in the study of the Colombian armed conflict is related to the violence produced in the country after the signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP guerrillas in November 2016. To this end, we attempt to analyze the transformation of the relationship between the perpetrators of violence and their territory, taking as a case study a region particularly affected by the conflict, as is Llanos Orientales (known in English as the Eastern Plains). Starting with a preliminary characterization of the most relevant armed groups – post-paramilitary groups, FARC-EP dissidents and ELN guerrillas – we attempt to …

Digital Influence Warfare In The Age Of Social Media. By James J. F. Forest. Santa Barbara, Ca: Praeger, An Imprint Of Abc-Clio, 2021., James J. Torrence

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, And The Bold Future Of News. By Elliot Higgins, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021., John P. Sullivan, Ph.D.

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Selected Pieces Influenced By Taiwanese Aboriginal Music For Solo Violin And String Quartet, Isabel Hsin-Yi Ong

Theses and Dissertations

This is an analysis of three pieces that contribute to solo violin and string quartet repertoire through the lens of intervallic relationships, rhythmic and gestural motifs, and instrumental technique. Briefly delving into the Aboriginal history of Taiwan and illuminating aural concepts inherent within each tribe, the research blends musicological research, theoretical analysis, and intuitive performance-based interpretations to meld and expand the technical and musical possibilities of the violin with the essence and impact of these songs.

Case Global: International Impact, Case Western Reserve University School Of Law

Case Global Newsletter

Vol. 14, No. 1 (2022)

• International Impact: From the Hague to the United Nations, the Cox Center influences justice around the world (cover)
• CWRU law students excel in global moot court competitions
• Supreme Court follows reasoning of CWRU amicus brief
• Invaluable international experience
• Learning the law through classic TV: Star Trek and international law
• Alumni spotlight (Kevin G. Nealer (LAW ‘78)

A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, And Indian Removal Mission Sites In The Great Lakes And The South, Sean Thomas Jacobson

Dissertations

American Indians, cemeteries, Christianity, historic preservation, memory, public history