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Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military Cohesion
Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In Endurance and War, Jasen Castillo presents a new unifying theory—cohesion theory—to explain why national militaries differ in their staying p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Striking First
RAND Project AIR FORCE studied the post-9/11 shift in U.S. defense policy emphasis toward preemptive and preventive attack, asking under what conditions preemptive or preventive attack is worth considering as a response to perceived threats. It considered the role such first-strike strategies are li... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Assessing the Value of U.S. Army International Activities
by Anny Wong • Jefferson P. Marquis • Cathryn Quantic Thurston • Jasen J. Castillo • Richard E. DarilekThis report presents a framework for assessing U.S. Army International Activities (AIA). It also provides a matrix of eight AIA "ends," derived from top-level national and Army guidance, and eight AIA "ways," which summarize the various capabilities inherent in AIA programs. In addition, the report ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Intelligent Control and Computer Engineering
A large international conference on Advances in Intelligent Control and Computer Engineering was held in Hong Kong, March 17-19, 2010, under the auspices of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2010). The IMECS is organized by the International Association of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Intelligent Control and Innovative Computing (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #110)
A large international conference on Advances in Intelligent Control and Innovative Computing was held in Hong Kong, March March 16-18, 2011, under the auspices of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2010). The IMECS is organized by the International Associat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies
This volume contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conference. Topics covered include engineering physics, communications systems, control theory, automation, engineering mathematics, scientific computing, industrial engineering, and ind... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Transactions on Engineering Technologies
This volume comprises selected extended papers written by prominent researchers participating in the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2015, Hong Kong, 18-20 March 2015. The conference served as a platform for discussion of frontier topics in theoretical and applied... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective
Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective is the first book to define an ecologically rational, conceptual framework that unifies and integrates the many sub-disciplines that comprise the science of forest health and protection. This new global approach applies to boreal, temperate, tropical, natural... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Transactions on Engineering Technologies: International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2017 (Lecture Notes In Electrical Engineering #275)
This volume contains a selection of revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the 25th International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2017) which was held in Hong Kong, 15-17 March, 2017. Topics covered include electrical engi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Transactions on Engineering Technologies: International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2018 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #275)
This book contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers, selected from presentations at the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2018) held in Hong Kong, 14-16 March, 2018. Topics covered include engineering physics, communicati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
U.S. Power in International Higher Education
by Roopa Desai Trilokekar • Ellen Hazelkorn • Brendan Cantwell • Jenny J. Lee • Gerardo L. Blanco • John P. Haupt • Chrystal A. Mwangi • Sean Jung-Hau Chen • Pempho Chinkondenji • Dale LaFleur • Christina W. Yao • Chris R. Glass • Sharon Stein • Santiago Castiello-GutiérrezU.S. Power in International Higher Education explores how internationalization in higher education is not just an educational endeavor, but also a geopolitical one. By centering and making explicit the role of power, the book demonstrates the United States’s advantage in international education as w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Pomegranate: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Jorge Medina • Dong Wang • Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza • Daniel Valero • Gary Vallad • Lluís Palou • Nahla Abdel-Fattah Awd • Shinsuke Agehara • Hamid Ahmadpourmir • Mehdi Alizadeh • Mahdi Asgari • Sedigheh Asgary • James Ayars • Zohreh Azadeh • Farhad Azarmi-Atajan • Dhinesh Babu • Julián Bartual • Maria Cano-Lamadrid • Ángle A. Carbonell-Barrachina • Salvador Castillo • John M Chater • Ferdinando Cossio • Morteza Djamali • Sadegh Dodman • Mohammad Hosein Farzaei • Giuseppe Ferrara • Nilesh N Gaikwad • María E. García-Pastor • G A Geetha • Angelica Giancaspro • Seyed Hossein Goldansaz • Fabián Guillén • Mallikarjun M. Harsur • Mohammad Hassani • Fatemeh Hoseinzadeh-Chahkandak • Lefeng Hou • Soroush Hozeifi • Diego S Intrigliolo • Eghbal Jasemi • Mahtab Keshvari • Zhenyu Jia • Hamid R. Karimi • Mehdi Khayyat • Jiyu Li • Chunyan Liu • Zahra Lorigooini • Mahshid Sedaghat • Ashish Maity • Girigowda Manjunath • Domingo Martínez-Romero • Andrea Mazzeo • Donald J Merhaut • Mohammad H Mirjalili • Jeff Moersfelder • Saeideh Momtaz • Ziyafet Mustafayeva • Diganta Narzary • Marino Palasciano • Shilpa Parashuram • Nita B. Patil • Prakash G Patil • María B Pérez-Gag • Ali Mohammad Pourbagher-Shahri • John Preece • Herminia Puerto • Gaihua Qin • Roja Rahimi • Mehdi Rezaei • Muhammaad A Saeedi • Sara Saeidi Ghavi • Steven A. Sargent • Yahya Selahvarzi • María Serrano • Jyotsana Sharma • Rouhollah Shirazi • Zohreh Shirazi • K. S Shivashankara • Zeinab Shokoohi • Tikam S. Rana • Nripendra V Singh • Asiye Soleymani • Federica Spagnoli • Feryal Varasteh • Katia V Xavier • Nima Yazdanbakhsh • Cenap Yilmaz • Pedro J. Zapata • Abdolkarim ZareiThe pomegranate, Punica granatum L., is one of the oldest known edible fruits and is associated with the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive book covering the botany, production, processing, health and industrial uses of the pomegranate. The cultivation of this ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021