1. Rapid deployment and employment. In addition to maintaining a modestly sized but potent force in the theater on a routine basis, the United States requires assets to ensure that forces essential to the halt campaign can arrive in the theater within days and conduct high tempo operations. Strategic airlift constitutes the backbone of this early deployment capability. It should be supplemented...

“Oh weh nun ist das Licht aus! Wie komme ich jetzt bloß hier heraus? War vielleicht doch keine gute Idee, allein in das Tunnelsystem unter den Kaiserthermen einzusteigen. Halt! Da war doch neulich was im Internet, wie man aus einem Labyrinth entkommt: Tiefensuche. Aber dazu brauchte man Licht und Kreide für Markierungen. Geht also nicht, bei dieser Finsternis. Muß ich etwa die Nacht hier verbri...

While the term sports law has been used as a catch-all phrase to describe the increasing number of sports-related disputes being submitted to the courts for resolution, no substantive defmition of this phenomenon has been forthcoming. This paper suggests categorical parameters for the field through a descriptive case analysis of four types of sports disputes frequently litigated: traditional ne...

High-cycle fatigue (HCF), involving the premature initiation and/or rapid propagation of cracks to failure due to high-frequency cyclic loading, remains a principal cause of failures in gas-turbine propulsion systems. In this work, we explore the feasibility of using “grain-boundary engineering” as a means to enhance the microstructural resistance to HCF. Specifically, sequential thermomechanic...

Cutting-edge wireless networking approaches are required to efficiently differentiate traffic and handle it according to its special characteristics. The current Medium Access Control (MAC) scheme which is expected to be sufficiently supported by well-known networking vendors comes from the IEEE 802.11e workgroup. The standardized solution is the Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF), that include...

The relationship between the Lower Danube River level and Romanian annual catches of Pontic shad (Alosa immaculata, Bennett 1835) were analyzed. For analysis of long term data on the Danube River water level and Pontic shad catch, combinations of different methods were applied using statistical programs, SPSS 13.0 and MATLAB 6. Periodograms, containing cyclic patterns, were obtained using Fouri...

Estimation of abundance is important in both open and closed population capture-recapture analysis, but unmodeled heterogeneity of capture probability leads to negative bias in abundance estimates. This article defines and develops a suite of open population capture-recapture models using finite mixtures to model heterogeneity of capture and survival probabilities. Model comparisons and paramet...