As the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan continues in its tenth year, it is important to evaluate not only the short-term effectiveness, but also the long-term implications of lethal targeting – specifically the use of armed drone strikes – against high-value individuals. This paper e…
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I will discuss well-posedness and long-time behavior of Mindlin-Timoshenko plate equa- tions that describe vibrations of thin plates. This system of partial differential equations was derived by R. Mindlin in 1951 (though E. Reissner also considered an analogous model ear- lier …
Over the last 9 years, the United States Government spent approximately 300 billion on the war in Afghanistan. Despite the employment of these resources, the goal of creating stability in the country has not been achieved. This is especially the case at the village, town, and di…
The Hunter Creek sandstone near Mogul, Nevada, is a Neogene sedimentary unit in the Verdi basin consisting of fluvial, deltaic, and lacustrine facies. Numerous slope failures have occurred in the unit mostly along streams, canals, and the Truckee River. Field mapping showed that…
Rhodococcus has diverse metabolic capabilities, such as delaying ripening of certain climacteric fruit. Nitrile hydratase (NHase), amidase, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase (ACC deaminase), cyanidase, and β-cyanoalanine synthase-like enzyme (βCAS-like) are possibly in…
Despite a modern agricultural surplus relative to humanity's food needs and established means of transport, famine remains a threat for several states around the world. It would seem obvious that famine would be a strong destabilizing force, but this has not always been the case…
What are the conditions under which democracies remain stable when there is inter-group conflict both over income redistribution and ethnic identity-based policies? I answer this question by constructing a game-theoretic model of two-dimensional electoral competition in which th…
Recently the polyacrylamide chromium(III) gel system has been used as a flow control agent to improve the water oil ratio(WOR) in water flooding operations and wells plagued by water conning. Gel divert the movements of water from high permeability thin zones and fractures to th…
Although stability is one of the most important ideas of international relations theory, it remains one of the least carefully studied and least well-understood terms in the disciplinary lexicon. The leading theories of Cold War stability have emphasized bipolarity, nuclear weap…
One of the most important aspects of food stability to be monitored is the potential to support microbial growth and/or toxin production. Many researches have shown that water activity (a {w}) cannot adequately account for the observed stability behavior of many food systems. We…
This study aims to investigate the determinants of efficiency, profitability and stability in the banking sector across the world over the period 2005-2012. In this study, efficiency is measured using data envelopment analysis (DEA), which is divided into technical efficiency (T…
Perovskite solar cell (PSC) is one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic technologies that can provide low-cost, alternative renewable energy. The main hindrances to the deployment of PSC panels are instability issues. Deterioration in the power conversion efficienc…
This thesis contributes via the concept of efficiency in four distinct fields of the fi nancial economics and banking literature: technological heterogeneity, liquidity creation, profitability, and stability of banks. In Chapter 1 we motivate the analysis by presenting the main …
This thesis examines how novel invariants called the "stability index" as proposed by Podvigina and Ashwin can be used to characterize the local geometry of riddled basins of attraction for both skew and non-skew product systems. In particular, it would be interesting to underst…
The work presented in this thesis is dedicated to the study of vehicle rollover and the tyre and suspension characteristics influencing it. Recent data shows that 35.4% of recorded fatal crashes in Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) included vehicle rollover. The effect of rollover …
Typically, multi-model ensemble studies show mixed responses of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) under global warming, so it is currently unknown how, or even if, global warming will impact ENSO and its teleconnections. ENSO is governed by various ocean-atmosphere interaction…
Active Queue Management (AQM) aims to achieve high link utilization, low queuing delay and low loss rate in routers. However, it is difficult to adapt AQM parameters to constantly provide desirable transient and steady-state performance under highly dynamic network scenarios. Th…
The stability of growing uni-lamellar vesicles is investigated using the formalism of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The vesicles, which are assumed to be in an otherwise aqueous solution, are growing due to the accretion of lipids to the bilayer which forms the vesicle membrane…
Lipids such as omega-3 fatty acids and citrus oils are important food components due to their nutritional and flavor benefits, respectively. Both of these food lipids are susceptible to chemical degradation resulting in formation of unacceptable off-flavors, nutrient and flavor …