Partition of Failed States: Impediments and Impulses

Failing failed states

On the eve of a trip to West Africa in February of 2002, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, compared the intense international interest in helping Afghanistan rebuild a new state with the lack of interest in getting involved in helping the Congo. ” If you allow a series of failed states to rise, then sooner or later you end up having to deal with them” (Reuters 11/2/02). He went on to comp...

Impulses and Physiological States in Theoretical Models of Nerve Membrane.

Van der Pol's equation for a relaxation oscillator is generalized by the addition of terms to produce a pair of non-linear differential equations with either a stable singular point or a limit cycle. The resulting "BVP model" has two variables of state, representing excitability and refractoriness, and qualitatively resembles Bonhoeffer's theoretical model for the iron wire model of nerve. This...

Bad Neighbors: Failed States and Their Consequences

Ahmad Rashid Jamal research regarding Failed states

Executable Requirements: Oppotunities and Impediments Executable Requirements: Opportunities and Impediments

In a top-down, language-based design methodology, requirements can be specified in an executable format, reducing the ambiguity typically encountered with written requirements, and serving as the starting point for the evolution of more detailed requirements and design specifications. As part of the Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program, a VHDL executable r...