______________ 1See Appendix A for a list of the Department of Defense Directives (DoDDs) relevant to continuity of government activities. 2See Federation of American Scientists, 1999a. Press interest in federal COG programs increased after the cold war. See Emerson (1989) and Gup (1991, 1992). 3Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution seems to provide the constitutional authority for milita...

The PHARMAC Board decided in October 2005 to list the TNF inhibitor adalimumab on the Pharmaceutical Schedule under Special Authority for patients with severe treatment-resistant rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Implementation of this decision was subject to obtaining specific advice from the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC). This advice has since been given, and publiclysubsid...

Web data repositories usually contain references to thousands of real-world entities from multiple sources. It is not uncommon that multiple entities share the same label (polysemes) and that distinct label variations are associated with the same entity (synonyms), which frequently leads to ambiguous interpretations. Further, spelling variants, acronyms, abbreviated forms, and misspellings comp...

This paper summarizes a security analysis of the DRE and optical scan voting systems manufactured by Election Systems and Software (ES&S), as used in Ohio (and many other jurisdictions inside and outside the US). We found numerous exploitable vulnerabilities in nearly every component of the ES&S system. These vulnerabilities enable attacks that could alter or forge precinct results, install cor...

How are articles about art historical actors interlinked within Wikipedia? Lead by this question, we seek an overview on the link structure of a domain specific subset of Wikipedia articles. We use an established domain-specific person name authority, the Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), in order to externally identify relevant actors. Besides containing consistent biographical person d...