TALIBAN AND ISIS: AN ANALYTICAL COMPARISON

Understanding the Taliban and Insurgency in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is in danger of capsizing in a perfect storm of insurgency that mimics operations and tactics witnessed in Iraq. This article assesses this insurgency and the re-emergent Taliban. The common view of the Taliban as simply a radical Afghan Islamist movement is overly simple, for that organization has been able to build on tribal kinship networks and a charismatic mullah phenomenon to ...

An Analytical and Experimental Comparison of CSP Extensions and Tools

Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) has been widely applied to modeling and analyzing concurrent systems. There have been considerable efforts on enhancing CSP by taking data and other system aspects into account. For instance, CSPM combines CSP with a functional programming language whereas CSP# integrates high-level CSP-like process operators with low-level procedure code. Little work ha...

Taliban rulers curtail women's freedom, health care.

Isis, an Alternative Approach to sound waves

ISIS, for ‘Intra-Samplar Interpolating Sinusoids’, is a means of mathematically interpolating sine wave segments between the samples of a sound wave recording (the word “sample” is here used as in “sample rate”). The sound wave is thus representable as a sequence of sine-tone pitches in extremely small time windows in the microsecond domain, rendering the wave audible as a rapid sine-tone ‘melo...

An Analytical Comparison between Software Inspection and Pair Development

Peer review is one of the essential activities in software quality assurance to remove defects at the early stages of development. Peer review can be performed to verify almost all software artifacts in every phase of the software development life cycle such as requirement, design, code and test. According to [Fagan, 1976], software inspection, the most formal structure of peer review, can remo...