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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"CIA"”.
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Mannleysuárásir Bandaríkjamanna og CIA í Pakistan
… leiddi af sér mannleysuárásir Bandaríkjamanna og CIA í Pakistan, árangur þeirra og áhrif á hryðjuverkamenn og almenna borgara. Rannsóknarspurningin er því: ,,Hver er árangur mannleysuárása Bandaríkjamanna og CIA í Pakistan, hver eru áhrifin á hryðjuverkamenn og almenna borgara og hvert er …
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Nixon's Wars: Secrecy, Watergate, and the CIA
… for decades; and (4) the involvement of the CIA in the events surrounding Watergate, which demonstrates the secrecy and autonomy prevalent in the intelligence community, often to the detriment of American democracy. </p>
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Soldiers Without Uniforms: CIA Paramilitary Operations in Afghanistan
… conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been a long and controversial one. Having first been championed by William Donovan during World War II, the deployment of CIA paramilitary forces has been widely debated for decades. While some scholars have insisted that the CIA devote …
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Understanding Ethical Leadership in Intelligence: Themes in Accountability, Self-Development, and Communication Among CIA Leaders
… within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Based on interviews with ten former senior-level officers from across different departments, the study analyzes how these leaders understand issues of accountability, self-development, and communication. The research also provides insights …
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Agency without an adversary: The Cia and covert actions in the nineteen-eighties and beyond
The CIA and its covert actions have been oft criticized. After serious Congressional oversight was established in 1976-77 (The Year of Intelligence) covert actions by the Agency tapered off. Did this mean the loss of a powerful tool because of Congressional meddling in foreign affairs or simply the …
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BECAUSE: A Son’s Odyssey to Expose a CIA Coverup and Find the Father He Never Knew
… family, country, duty, and truth, as well as a CIA cover-up of his father’s death. As the details of a love story about moral injury, post-traumatic resilience, and the consequences of truth-telling evolve, a son connects with the man he barely knew, learning a new kind of love and faith as he …
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By Any Means Necessary: The Quandary the CIA Now Faces In Light of Employing Enhanced Interrogation Methods to Combat the War on Terror
The outcry of torture being used during CIA interrogations of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay and other sites certainly jolted international humanitarians. With modern warfare evolving towards unconventional warfare, the notion of interrogation has become more controversial and linked …
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A cash-in-advance model of production
… in the empirical application of cash-in-advance (CIA) models is introduced. CIA models posit that individuals and firms hold cash to purchase goods over a period. However, there has been no research into how long a period is. Existing empirical studies use quarterly or annual data in simulations …
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Characterization of Rheumatoid Arthritis-Specific Immune Responses and Evaluation of a Novel Peptide Immunotherapy in the Collagen Induced Arthritis Mouse Model
… study RA, mice with collagen induced arthritis (CIA) are commonly used; however, it remains unclear whether this pre-clinical model adequately represents disease-specific autoimmune responses. Therefore, this thesis first evaluated the suitability of CIA mice for studying RA-specific immune …
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Political crime: an application of Merton's theory of social structure and anomie
… In this thesis, I apply Merton's theory of social structure and anomie to two CIA case studies: MKUltra (1950-1973) mind control/behavior modification experiments, and MHChaos (late 1950s-1974) a domestic counterintelligence program. Anomie theory focuses on the disjuncture between cultural …
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Biophysical Investigations of the Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Pathway Late Acting Proteins
… cytosolic iron-sulfur ([Fe-S]) cluster assembly (CIA) pathway matures cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur dependent proteins found in eukaryotic cells. [Fe-S] clusters are involved in life-sustaining processes such as: DNA replication and repair, transcription, translation, and nucleotide and amino …
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Money, transactions and the business cycle: inspecting the mechanism
… two monetary models - the cash-in-advance (CIA) model and the real-resource-cost (RRC) model - using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) framework, with perfectly competitive markets and flexible prices. The CIA model is built on the quantitative assessment developed by Cooley …
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An analysis of information complexity in air traffic control human machine interaction
… as a cognitive interaction algorithm (CIA). The CIA is comprised of multiple functions which formally describe each of the interaction processes required to complete a nominal set of tasks using a certain machine interface. Complexities of competing interface and task configurations are …
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Does hair curl variation influence the efficacy of scalp cooling in the prevention of chemotherapy-induced alopecia in breast cancer patients? A randomized controlled pilot study
Background: Chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA) is a common side-effect of breast cancer treatment. Scalp cooling is reported to reduce CIA; however, it is unknown whether the efficacy is influenced by hair curvature. Methods: This 20-month randomized controlled trial recruited females, (18-65 …
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Modulation of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology by Collagen-Induced Rheumatoid Arthritis in APP/PS1 Mice
… of collagen-induced rheumatoid arthritis (CIA) on cognitive function, amyloid plaque formation, microglial activation, and cerebrovascular pathology in the cortex and hippocampus of the double transgenic APP/PS1 mouse model for AD. Wild-type or APP/PS1 mice that received type II collagen …
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Early Leader Effects on the Process of Institutionalization Through Cultural Embedding: The Cases of William J. Donovan, Allen W. Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover
… development of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the careers of three significant leaders are used to understand the institutionalizing effects of those leaders, how they created those effects, and what happened to those effects over time. The …
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Counselor Effectiveness and Correlations With Select Demographic Variables for Masters Level Counseling Students
… Rated-Counselor Interaction Analysis (SR-CIA). It was hypothesized that counselor effectiveness would be negatively correlated with prior teaching experience and level of religious participation. Data was collected using a demographic survey from masters level counseling students …
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Night music (compositions, performance and improvisations) –and– Developing a chromatic-intervallic approach to jazz improvisation through reflexive practice. An exegesis
… technique—a chromatic-intervallic approach (CIA). Improvised melodic approaches in jazz music from the 1920s until today have primarily been driven through the development of tension within melody lines by using variations of the scale/chord method and harmonic substitution. The CIA examined …
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