Next year's Quadrennial Defense Review (or QDR) will be the most important since the end of the Cold War. A frank appraisal of the nation's strategic future in light of September 11, 2001 (9/11), experience in the war on terrorism, and ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan indicates a need for substantial adjustment to the strategy reflected in QDR '01. Such adjustments in defense strategy ...

This study aims to examine its sustainability status. used survey techniques and interviews with seaweed cultivators collect data. Sustainability data on cultivation include social, economic, ecological aspects. The Rapseaweed approach (Rapid Appraisal for Seaweed) has been modified from Rapfish Fisheries) evaluate the status of in a multidisciplinary manner. Analysis K. alvarezii using MDS met...

In recent years, several countries have carried out large-scale technology foresight exercises. While these have been extensively discussed in the literature, less attention has been given to how foresight objectives are served through consultative processes which are not necessarily designated as ‘foresight’ but nevertheless seek to provide direction to publicly supported research and technolo...

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation based on the array of three-component electromagnetic vector-sensors is considered within a biquaternion framework. A relationship is established between the biquaternion covariance and the combination of both complex covariance and cross-product. By exploiting this relationship, the DOA estimates can finally be obtained by diagonalizing the biquaternion co...

High-frequency (HF) radars are routinely used for remotely sensing ocean surface currents. However, the performance of the most widely used direction-finding HF radar is degraded due to the effect of the inevitable deviations of actual antenna pattern on the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. In this paper, we quantify the DOA estimation error resulting from the deviation of the actual ante...

Modern management of sea transportation which are integrated is needed, the system consist of system improvements based on shipping traffic demand, policy and safety cruise, cruise business management modernization and development of related industries. In the last 5 years, the marine accidents are clusterred into ship collision, fire, engine problems, and leakage of the ship. This paper propos...

We present a pipe inspection robot using a newly developed spherical ultrasonic motor (SUSM) as a camera actuator. The novel SUSM has improved the range of movement compared to previous SUSMs, and the robot can point a camera in any direction. In this study, we determined a method for controlling the rotational direction and strategic control from the kinematics and characteristics of ultrasoni...

Correspondence: Dr W Bryan Callaghan, 139 Greenbank Road, #200, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 9A5. Telephone 613721-6463, e-mail [email protected] Plastic Surgery is the official journal of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons (CSPS). One of the Journal’s fundamental roles is communication to members of important information regarding the practice of plastic surgery. In this regard, changes in ...

On a warm Monday mornirg in Pocatello, Idaho, Mark Brown surveys the bustling activity in his cramped metal-fabrication shop. As owner and president of Premier Technology, Inc., Mark uses a few moments between cellular phone calls to reflect on the rapid growth of his small company and to consider a few alternatives regarding the future direction of the business. As the temperature and welding ...