Second, the DoD budget declined significantly. DoD’s mission critical systems became dependent on commercial products using advanced technologies that lacked the reliability requirements of mission critical systems. In addition, DoD stretched the life cycles of many weapon systems, surveillance systems and CI systems. For example, the twenty year old F16 design had been due for retirement aroun...

JEL Classification: F16, F43 This study examines the impacts of CO2 emissions on economic growth of Vietnam for the period 1986-2015 by using Autogressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model. The results reveal that there is cointegration relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth. In the long run carbon dioxide emissions have a significant negative impact on Vietnam economic growth. There...

We analyse the behaviour of a multi-sector small open economy with involuntary unemployment due to fair wages. The equilibrium level of employment depends in an intuitively appealing way on the sectoral structure of the economy. It is shown that induced changes in employment are a driving force behind many of the comparative static results. Fair wage variants of the Heckscher-Ohlin and the Rica...

Within a small open economy fair wage model with unemployment of unskilled workers, we show that exogenous unskilled immigration increases the welfare of natives if the elasticity of the inverse labour demands exceeds a positive finite threshold. This threshold depends positively on the displacement ratio of native workers by immigrants and negatively on the share of immigrants in the unskilled...

On October 18, 2003, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) successfully launched the DMSP F16 satellite with the first Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMI/S) instrument aboard. The SSMI/S is a conically-scanning passive microwave radiometer that includes seven temperature-sounding channels with weighting functions peaking below 30 km (channels 1-7), and six peaking betwe...

Abstract To investigate the mechanism of fault slips in coal mines, a biaxial shear experiment was carried out under unloading condition based on F16 Yima city, China. Two rock samples were used and each sample composed two triangular sandstone blocks which put together to simulate fault. One do slip tests it called slip-test sample. The other for comparison with one untested, named non-slip-te...

Within the current climate context, freshwater resources have become scarce. Agriculture, especially in rain-fed conditions, should deal with need of increasing yields to contribute food security under limiting water availability. Exploring underutilized crops such as Chenopodium quinoa (quinoa) has a unique opportunity some these possess ability tolerate several abiotic stresses, including dro...