Abstract Mobile academics have traditionally been conceived as cosmopolitan subjects who favor cultural diversity and search for new professional opportunities abroad. Their return to the homeland could therefore be interpreted a sign of parochialism, which narrows down their limits exposure global resources. In this article, we compare returning non-returning with respect parochial and/or tend...

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T he tragic events of 11 September 2001, and the subsequent anthrax letter contaminations had drastic effects on many aspects of US society. Terrorism became the most significant threat to national security because of its real and potential damage to our infrastructure, economy, and people. In response to this challenge, federal authorities began actively implementing comprehensive strategies a...

AI Technologies are applicable to Homeland Security, particularly in problems of analysis, discovery and prediction. We describe relevant AI techniques including Link Analysis, dynamic Decision Support and Agent Organization modeling, whereby anomalous activities may be detected and threats deterred. We also discuss application of techniques in local government and to security matters close to ...

The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented herein. The authors acknowledge the United States Department of Homeland Security for supporting the work reported here through the National Center for Border Security and Immigration under grant number 2008-ST-061-BS0002. However, any opinions, findings,...

Terror is a modern war strategy which uses violence as a means of communication in order to achieve political objectives. In today’s security environment narrowing the propaganda field of terrorist organization is the primary goal for the security forces. In this sense, providing and maintaining public support is the most necessary ability for security units. Rather than enemy and threat-orient...

A plethora of solutions to homeland security problems have been proposed, during the last years, by academia, national governments, and industries. In this chapter, we focus on homeland security solutions based on efficient Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-based audio signal pattern recognition. This is of interest for efficient surveillance of the perimeters of large areas, in order to detect the...

This article considers the special perception of phenomenon ‟Homeland” (‟Fatherland”) in consciousness German nation using example works by writer Bernhard Schlink. Topicality problem indicated is due to constant reference writers, poets, philosophers and sociologists certain components that make up concept ‟Homeland.” The connection between historical periods history their presentation prose S...

The phenomena and condition of being in a diaspora has been analysed from various perspectives by the scholars diaspora-studies. Although term “Diaspora” originally referred to Jews who were dispersed their ‘promised land’, word acquired new meanings over years it is now applied any community or group that displaced native ‘original homeland’ two more countries. key issues are often considered ...

This paper discusses the determiners slik and sånn ‘such (a), like this/that’ in American Norwegian (AmNo), extent to which pragmaticalised uses of these determiners, carrying information about speaker’s attitudes speaker-hearer relations, can be found. It is shown that are used, but their distribution differs some respects from homeland variety; notably, AmNo, lexical variant more common than ...