Meteorological service for civil defense tasks

Nuclear attack and civil defense : a review

Subsequent events seem to indicate that, when President Kennedy, in July of 1961, made his appeal for family fallout shelters, he was not doing so because he thought the shelters would protect a large part of the public from a likely nuclear attack. Rather, it seems, his intent in the shelter program, as in the call-up of reserves that took place at about the same time, was to enhance the credi...

In Defense of Regulated Fee-for-Service Payment: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Object Recognition Tasks for Service Robots

In the last years service robots have moved into the focus of researchers around the world. In this paper we present our service robots Lisa and GiGo who successfully participate in the RoboCup@Home competition. The software and hardware design of our robots is explained. Further, we examine grasping, one typical task in service robotic that highly depends on object detection. We explain how ob...

Modelling User Tasks and Intentions for Service

Ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) increases in proliferation. Multiple and ever growing in numbers, computational devices are now at the users' disposal throughout the physical environment, while simultaneously being effectively invisible. Consequently, a significant challenge is service discovery. Services may for instance be physical, such as printing a document, or virtual, such as communicatin...

Civil Service and Patronage in Bureaucracies∗

We develop a model of government personnel policy with electoral competition in an effort to understand when high quality bureaucracies will be created and sustained. In the model, two parties compete for office over an infinite horizon, and politicians in office choose a mix between civil servants (who produce public goods in a good bureaucracy) and patronage appointees (who produce private go...