In common with many rapidly growing nations, Qatar was experiencing a traffic fatality rate (in population terms) of about five times that experienced by many Western nations, including Australia. Like other Gulf states, Qatar had undergone rapid economic and social growth in the past several decades, but had not benefited from an evolved road safety culture which had existed in the US, Western...

Are sectorally dependent states destined to regime instability as a result of chronic fiscal crisis? Literature emphasizing the importance of a country’s sectoral endowment suggests that oil exporters in particular should exhibit similar policy stagnation and regime decay as a result of fiscal crisis. The cases of Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain in the 1980s and 1990s demonstrate that fiscal crisis ...

Strategic planning is an essential part of establishing the Air Force’s direction. Using a group support system for strategic planning is one avenue to make effective use of technology and improve the strategic planning process. This research implements a group support system (GSS) as a facilitation tool to improve the strategic planning process at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho with the...

Multi-component Seismic Data Gas producers across the Gulf of Mexico are targeting deeper and deeper drilling objectives. Most operators in the Gulf consider 30,000ft to be the deepest target depth that will be drilled for the next few years. To image geology at those depths, seismic reflection data must be acquired with offsets of at least 30,000ft. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS IN NATURAL GAS EXPLO...

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