Terror, Counter-Terror

Counter Terror And Counter Measures Dive Team Leader Los Alamos

Gas exchange, bubble formation and elimination, and compression-decompression in blood and tissues are governed by many factors, such as diffusion, perfusion, phase separation and equilibration, nucleation and cavitation, local fluid shifts, and combinations thereof. Owing to the complexity of biological systems, multiplicity of tissues and media, diversity of interfaces and boundary conditions...

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...

Terror Queues

This article presents the first models developed specifically for understanding the infiltration and interdiction of ongoing terror plots by undercover intelligence agents, and does so via novel application of ideas from queueing theory and Markov population processes. The resulting “terror queue” models predict the number of undetected terror threats in an area from agent activity/utilization ...

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