We invoke a neo-Foucauldian model of the panoptic gaze to understand the practices of military visuality and of newly emerging efforts to resist and subvert deep-seated and long-held governmental secrecy over military/intelligence activities and their sites of operation. The case studies set out in the second half of the paper are attempts question excessive secrecy underlying the military pano...

the main purpose of this article is studing un’s actions to counter international terrorism giving to development of it after cold war.we are going to answer the question in descriptive-analtical way that what was un’s practical actions to counter it and weather it was successful.to answer the main question of this article first we will diccuss the development of terrorism after cold war and ne...

This paper presents efflux time experiments performed in the absence and presence of aqueous solutions of Drag Reducing Agents (DRAs) when a liquid is emptied from a large open cylindrical storage tank through an exit piping system. The drag reducing agents studied are Dodecyl benzene sulfonate anionic surfactant and a mixed solution of surfactant and sodium chloride counter ion. The variab...

We consider lossy counter machines, i.e. counter machines with counters whose contents can spontaneously decrease at any time. They are not Turing-powerful, since reachability is decidable for them, but they still have interesting undecidable properties: For a lossy counter machine it is undecidable if there exists an initial connguration s.t. there is an innnite run. Lossy counter machines can...

This work was part of the course EC520. The objective of this project is to develop an algorithm for the detection and enumeration of crabs on beach. The basic method is background modeling and background subtraction. Based on several previous frames, the background of current frame can be estimated using median model or non-parametric model. Morphological operation is applied to foreground ima...

Artificial insemination is a well-established part of modern agricultural practice. A viable semen sample is judged by the total number of spermatozoa (sperm) in the sample and the motility of the sperm. In this paper, we report the development of a reusable measurement cell and electronics for screening semen samples based on the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) and Universal Frequency to Dig...

Achievement gaps between underrepresented minority (URM) students and their white peers in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms are persistent across many white-majority institutions of higher education. Attempts to reduce this phenomenon of underperformance through increasing classroom structure via active learning have been partially successful. In this study, ...

Counter reachability games are played by two players on a graph with labelled edges. Each move consists in picking an edge from the current location and adding its label to a counter vector. The objective is to reach a given counter value in a given location. We distinguish three semantics for counter reachability games, according to what happens when a counter value would become negative: the ...

Losses from the proton and antiproton beams of the Fermilab Tevatron have been shown to produce a halo which contribute to backgrounds to physics signals in the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). To provide a measure of the beam halo and losses, we have installed arrays of scintillation counters on both sides of the CDF detector. We describe here the physical configuration of these counters, ...

Chen et al. in 2004 proposed a new hierarchy structure, called the enhanced pyramid network (EPM, for short), by replacing each mesh in a pyramid network (PM, for short) with a torus. Recently, some topological properties and communication on the EPMs have been investigated or derived. Their results have revealed that an EPM is an attractive alternative to a PM. This study investigates the node...