MISSIONS IN CHINESE TURKESTAN

Mainland Chinese Students’ Shifting Perceptions of Chinese-English Code-Mixing in Macao

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...

NEPHROPATHY CAUSED BY CHINESE HERBS IN IRAN

Military Medicine in Humanitarian Missions

THE CHANGING CONCEPT OF NATION BUILDING (1975–2000) The Aftermath of the Vietnam War Nation Building in Central America: The Background The Beginning of the DoD Humanitarian Mission in Central America Formalizing the Role of the Department of Defense Honduras: Military Medicine in Civic Action Programs—The SOUTHCOM Model El Salvador: Military Medicine in Security Assistance Training Programs Pr...

Self-* Properties in NASA Missions

The four key objective properties of a system that are required for it to qualify as “autonomic” are now wellaccepted––self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, and self-optimizing––together with the attribute properties––viz. self-aware, environment-aware, selfmonitoring and self-adjusting. This paper describes these self-* properties as exhibited in NASA missions, and in particular wit...

Autonomy in Future Space Missions

NASA missions are becoming more complicated due to the decreasing cost of spacecraft; the increased sensitivity and data gather capability of onboard instruments, and the need to use multiple spacecraft to accomplish new science. To accommodate these new missions current ground and space operations will need to use new paradigms to implement these new missions while keeping costs and logistics ...