rial and tERROR

Indust Rial Engineering

We discuss in this paper the application of the methods ofoperation research (OR) to tackling various design problems ofAutomated Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVS). We present aselective review of the literature on applying OR to aid AGVSplanning and design. This study can make engineers aware of theproblems commonly encountered in AGVS design and the potentialuse of OR ...

Veto players and terror

Democratic regimes have been linked to terrorism for contending reasons, with some scholars claiming democracy increases terrorism and others claiming it decreases terror. Corroborating evidence has been used for both relationships leading to the following puzzle: why do some democratic regimes seem to foster terrorism while others do not? We offer an explanation based on Tsbelis’s veto players...

Liberty and Terror

Globalization, Poverty, and Terror

Terror firmer

stopped immediately. " Even the broadsheet newspapers purveyed elements of sensationalism, while demolishing it in the same article. The Daily Telegraph, for example, highlighted " designer babies " in a report and headline on the Newcastle work, based on the idea of preventing the transmission of defective mitochondrial genes. Yet the article then used helpful comparisons to repudiate the nigh...