Constitutionally, apartheid divided South Africa into “white” and “black” South Africa. White South Africa consisted mainly of the urban areas, while black South Africa was mainly rural. Black South Africa was largely comprised of the homeland areas. However, urban areas have subsequently developed in most of the former homelands. At the same time, a number of dormitory towns were developed, ei...

„ Protecting Critical Bases of Operations (U.S. homeland, forces deployed, allies, and friends) from CBRNE weapons and their means of delivery. „ Projecting and sustaining U.S. forces in distant anti-access and area-denial environments and defeating anti-access and area-denial threats. „ Denying enemies sanctuary by providing persistent surveillance, tracking and rapid engagement with high-volu...

the writer and professor abdulaziz almaqaleh is considered one of the most contemporary writers of and outside yemen and especially in the field of poetry and literary criticism and teaching university but he also has other literary works and intellectual and political writings and has columns in newspapers and magazines in yemen and other arab countries. he also sang a verse of poetry in vario...

The advantages of speed, security and connectivity, which Information Technology brings to businesses and government, are increasingly empowering international terrorist groups. Tools previously only available to national security agencies are increasingly at the disposal of terrorist cells and rogue nations. Powerful encryption methods are now widely available. Anonymizers, which remove the co...

Dr. James E. Doyle is a technical staff member in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His professional focus is on systems analysis, strategic planning, and policy development. Dr. Doyle holds a Ph.D in International Security Studies from the University of Virginia. Previously, Dr. Doyle was a senior policy analyst at Science Applications ...

This paper presents an overview of Intelligent Video work currently under development at the GE Global Research Center and other research institutes. The image formation process is discussed in terms of illumination, methods for automatic camera calibration and lessons learned from machine vision. A variety of approaches for person detection are presented. Crowd segmentation methods enabling th...

I magine a software assistant agent (AA) that proactively provides relevant concise personalized information to an analyst or first responder and collaborates with other AAs to share knowledge and arrange person-to-person contact. The following descriptive scenario provides an example application of this concept. A report of an explosion at a chemical plant is received by a homeland security (H...

charged with protecting us from lurking outside dangers. What ensues is either smoldering conflict to attrition or large-scale open warfare. Treatments have generally been disappointing. Autoimmune phenomena are sometimes consequences of both autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). So, why would one consider treating autoimmune diseases with HCT? Serendipity can fuel...

Governmental institutions all over the world are trying to increase the level of security of their countries emphasizing the usage Information Technology solutions. We believe that Cloud Computing may strongly help Homeland Security, since it offers a very flexible support for organizing and managing heterogeneous systems, providing huge amount of processing, storing and sensing resources. In t...

With the scientific community suffering through a continuing funding crisis, the Bush administration issued a pledge that “salvation is just around the corner.” D. Allen Bromley, presidential science advisor, issued the pledge to a group of presidential scientists attending the Forum on Supporting Biomedical Research held at the National Academy of Sciences. Bromley promised the President would...