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Intelligence, Crises and Security
This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies ranging from the 1920s to the ‘War on Terror’. Long regarded as the ‘missing dimension’ of international history and politics, public and academic interest in the role of secret intelligence has continued to grow in recent years, not least as a result of controversy surrounding the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 2001. Intelligence, Crises and Security addresses a range of themes including: crisis management, covert diplomacy, intelligence tradecraft, counterterrorism, intelligence ‘overload’, intelligence in relation to neutral states, deception, and signals intelligence. The work breaks new ground in relation to numerous key international episodes and events, not least as a result of fresh disclosures from government archives across the world. This book was previously published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.
Evidence
"Evidence casebook with practice, problems and rules"--
Low-rank Solvers for Unsteady Stokes-Brinkman Optimal Control Problem with Random Data
Abstract: We consider the numerical simulation of an optimal control problem constrained by the unsteady Stokes-Brinkman equation involving random data. More precisely, we treat the state, the control, the target (or the desired state), as well as the the viscosity, as analytic functions depending on uncertain parameters. This allows for a simultaneous generalized polynomial chaos approximation of these random functions in the stochastic Galerkin finite element method discretization of the model. The discrete problem yields a prohibitively high dimensional saddle point system with Kronecker product structure. We develop a new alternating iterative tensor method for an efficient reduction of this system by the low-rank Tensor Train representation. Besides, we propose and analyze a robust Schur complement-based preconditioner for the solution of the saddle-point system. The performance of our approach is illustrated with extensive numerical experiments based on two- and three-dimensional examples. The developed Tensor Train scheme reduces the solution storage by two orders of magnitude.
Family History of Nathaniel Z. Martin, 1841-1992
Christian Martin (b. 1669) was born in Switzerland. He married Ells/Elizabeth in 1672 and they had six children. Their son, David Martin (1691-1784) was born in Switzerland and married four times. He fathered twelve children. He came to Philadelphia in 1727, settling in Weaverland, Pennsylvania. David's descendant Nathaniel Zimmerman Martin (1841-1923) was born in Weaverland. He married Maria S. Sauder and they had seven children. Descendants still live in Pennsylvania.
Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques
Balancing theoretical and practical elements of marketing research and showing students how to implement research themselves, this book covers the traditional principles and skills involved in marketing research, such as primary and secondary research, sampling, analysis, reporting and presentation.
Eigenvalue Algorithms for Symmetric Hierarchical Matrices
This thesis is on the numerical computation of eigenvalues of symmetric hierarchical matrices. The numerical algorithms used for this computation are derivations of the LR Cholesky algorithm, the preconditioned inverse iteration, and a bisection method based on LDL factorizations. The investigation of QR decompositions for H-matrices leads to a new QR decomposition. It has some properties that are superior to the existing ones, which is shown by experiments using the HQR decompositions to build a QR (eigenvalue) algorithm for H-matrices does not progress to a more efficient algorithm than the LR Cholesky algorithm. The implementation of the LR Cholesky algorithm for hierarchical matrices tog...
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Striving and Surviving
Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and consumption practices of transnational family members in the United States and Honduras, especially as the relate to the American Dream; and she explores the ways in which families negotiate caretaking responsibilities, both financial and emotional, while striving and surviving in a transnational space. This is the first daily life study of undocumented immigrants and the first transnational analysis of Honduran families.
The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
Easy to use and filled with addictive--and highly useful--information about the people whose names will be carried into the future on the backs of the world's reptiles, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike.
