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Asleep in the Arms of God
… in the form of a short novel, Asleep in the Arms of God is a limited-omniscient and omniscient narrative describing the experiences of a man named Wafer Roberts, born in Jack County, Texas, in 1900. The novel spans the years from 1900 to 1925, and moves from the Keechi Valley of North Texas, …
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Assertive Disarmament: the Other Arms Control
Assertive disarmament is the use of military force to delay or terminate the progress of nascent or ongoing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon programs along with, perhaps, their associated ballistic missile programs. Such capabilities in the hands of hostile powers increasingly threaten the …
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A Survey of Strategic Arms Control
… will detail the American experience in strategic arms control as it has been conducted in the post-World War II strategic environment. No single political enterprise has so involved the large powers or lent itself to the degree of public debate that has been generated by arms control. It has …
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Fluorescence Imaging for Nuclear Arms Control Verification
… the need of nuclear warhead verification for arms control treaties. Specifically, this technique uses fluorescence imaging to determine fissile material attributes in verifying, during the dismantlement process, an uncanned nuclear warhead or warhead component without revealing sensitive …
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Varying Priorities in Strategic Nuclear Arms Control
<p>Since the beginning of strategic nuclear arms control negotiations in 1969, Moscow and Washington have entered discussions with priorities to be met, though these differed greatly from one another. There were many driving factors for both world powers in seeking limitations and restrictions of …
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The Institutional Design of Arms Control: To What Extent Does Institutional Design Increase the Longevity of Arms Control Agreements?
<p>The technical institutional design of arms control agreements remains a rather unexplored area of arms control. But the increasing uncertainty of future arms control efficacy requires a re-examination of the agreements’ institutional design to determine which components contribute positively to …
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Sonar Jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race
… moths are an example of a diffuse evolutionary arms race - a situation where groups of prey and predator species evolve increasingly sophisticated means to out-compete the other. Chapter one provides an overview of this arms race. Bats capture night-flying insects using highly sophisticated …
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Modal analysis and control of flexible manipulator arms.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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Modeling, design and control of flexible manipulator arms.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Monitoring and Fatigue Analysis of Suspension Bridge Rocker Arms
… deck is connected to the towers by eight rocker arms. The rocker arms have pin-ended connections and therefore are expected to primarily be subjected to axial loads. One of the rocker arms developed fatigue cracks and fractured in 2015 causing the deck to descend 150 mm at the expansion joint. …
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Modeling, estimation and control for serial flexible robot arms
… on single link manipulators and planar robot arms rather than spatial multi-link robots. This dissertation presents a systematic approach for obtaining natural frequencies and mode-shapes for $n$-link spatial serial structures based on transfer matrices. The method is validated with …
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A Stochastic Analog to the Richardson's Arms Race Model
… thesis, a stochastic version of the Richardson's arms race model is developed through the method of birth-death processes. The expected value of the model is explored and shown to be analogous to the original deterministic arms race model. The numerical method of randomization is then expanded and …
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Controlling the circulation of small arms in international law
… have shown an influence on the conventional arms control. A series of negotiations to control the trade of small arms, in particular the diplomatic conference on the arms trade treaty in July 2012, provide some evidence of this increasing influence. The negative impact of the widespread …
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Seducing and Suborning the U.S. Navy Profession of Arms
<p>The U.S. Navy Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) scandal, also called the Fat Leonard scandal, was the worst scandal in U.S. Navy history and involved admirals, officers, enlisted members, and civilians engaged in unmistakable and visible unethical gift misconduct and inappropriate contractor …
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Moths fight back: arms race in the cloud forest
Moths and bats engage in a coevolutionary arm race, where the same signals bats use to find moths are being used by moths to avoid bats. Moths evolve not only behavioral but acoustic responses to avoid predation by bats. This research examines one small component of a complex, multispecies arm race …
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Arms Race, Military Expenditure and Economic Growth in India
… the effect of defence on development. First, the arms race between India and Pakistan is analyzed by using a Richardson action-reaction model and cointegration techniques. The empirical results provide robust evidence to support the existence of an enduring arms race between India and Pakistan, …
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Visual servoing for pose control of soft continuum arms
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Signatures and forgeries: optimality in a coevolutionary arms race
When species interact antagonistically, ‘arms races’ played out on coevolutionary battlegrounds can drive the rapid evolution of intricate and complex adaptations in each species. However, evolution in one species may prevent optimality in these adaptations from being realised in the other. In the …
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Welcome to the Club: IGO Socialization and Dyadic Arms Transfers
… the effect of shared IGO memberships on dyadic arms transfers. IGO socialization is one of many proposed causal mechanisms by which IGO memberships might reduce interstate conflict. This thesis argues that the institutional socialization hypothesis (ISH), which asserts that shared IGO …
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