By the mid-1990s, the ―machinery of death‖ was not only working, but in fact, humming. 2 Year after year, hundreds of additional persons were added to death row, and the number of executions climbed to heights not seen in many decades. 3 In 1994 alone, 315 new death sentences were imposed—a record never exceeded, and matched only once (in 1996), after executions resumed in 1976 following Furman...

Timeliness is usually an indispensable attribute of planning and problem solving for resource allocation in command, control and communication (C3) systems. The success of such a system is judged on its ability to respond to scheduled and unscheduled tasks within a permissible time period. The response is based on a plan that covers the following activities: resource allocation, plan execution ...

Data-defectives are always occurred during collecting urban traffic flow information due to all kinds of sensors’ failures. To mend the defective urban traffic flow information data, a new approach named SARBF neural network fitting is presented. It combines analysis based on spatial autocorrelation and RBF neural network fitting method. The complete data is determined to mend the defective dat...

the yankee is an american national phenomenon. he had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. a myth was woven around him and a cult of the yankee developed by the permeation of the yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. the present article is an attempt to observe the yankee myth, i...