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Showing 1 to 20 of 3041 for “"Defense"”.
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Victim-defense attorney interactions in court: the defense attorney perspective
… explored the relationship between victims and defense attorneys. Understanding these interactions is critical to developing positive interactions between victims and defense attorneys, as well as promoting positive outcomes for both criminal defendants and victims. This study focuses …
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Japan's Missile Defense
… some years, Japan has pursued its own missile defense system in cooperation with the United States. The Japanese government claims that the missile defense (JMD) program is purely defensive and will not pose a threat to other countries. JMD may seem justified by North Korea's development of …
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The impact of declining defense budgets on Japan maritime self defense force
… thesis is to analyze the impact of declining defense budgets on the JMSDF. Because of the huge debt of the Government of Japan (GOJ) and financial structural reform, the GOJ is trying to reduce all expenditures, including defense expenditures. Conversely, Japan and countries in its vicinity …
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A Defense of Impermissivism
This dissertation is a defense of Impermissivism, which is the thesis that there is never more than one rational response to a single body of evidence. Permissivism is the view that there is sometimes more than one rational response to a single body of evidence. It faces a troubling arbitrariness …
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In defense of Mencken.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1969
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In defense of ethics
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1983.
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Ballistic Missile Defense: A History and Reevaluation of Missile Defense in the United States
… States to develop and deploy ballistic missile defense are nothing new. Under the context of Mutually Assured Destruction and the Cold War, a "limited” missile defense was proposed. Given technological and political shortfalls, the deployment of a "limited” missile defense was delayed until …
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Foundations of a defense digital platform : business systems governance in the Department of Defense
In 2010, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) spent more than $35 billion on information systems development and sustainment, with nearly $7 billion to defense business systems investments alone. It is not surprising given the scale of expenditure and complexity of the enterprise that its …
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Elsewhere: In Defense of Daydreaming
<p>Much like music, organic life is an absurd, improbable, and serendipitous instance. I set circular, electric, acoustic, and magnetic forces in motion and allow them to coalesce freely in the hopes of synthesizing unexpected moments of beauty, connection, and harmony.</p>
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Automated Defense Against Worm Propagation.
… can stop new worms. In this thesis, an automated defense system (ADS) is developed to automate defense against worms and contain the worm to a level where manual intervention is possible. This is accomplished with a two level architecture with feedback at each level. The inner loop is based on …
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On Geopolitically Tailoring Missile Defense
… U.S. has been researching and developing missile defenses since the end of WWII. Today, ballistic missile defenses have achieved great technological achievements but are not applied appropriately to counter the changing security threats. I choose this topic because I am commissioning into the U.S. …
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In Defense of Ugly Women
My thesis explores why beauty became so much more important in nineteenth-century Britain, especially for marriageable young women in the upper and middle class. My argument addresses the consequences of that change in the status of beauty for plain or ugly women, how this social shift is reflected …
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Scapegoating : in defense of oneself.
… Political Testament" and Milosevic's courtroom defense transcripts. Both men used scapegoating to unify groups of people and to create righteous identities to enable them to be on the "good" side of a conflict. These tactics advanced their agendas and allowed them to feel guiltless even while …
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Japanese defense policy, 1945-1970
Since the end of the Occupation, the defence policy of the Japanese Government has been based on a bilateral security treaty with the United States. Japan has also built up substantial ground, sea and air forces. Yet the Japanese have taken no active part in regional defence organizations. In spite …
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Japanese defense policy, 1945-1970
Since the end of the Occupation, the defence policy of the Japanese Government has been based on a bilateral security treaty with the United States. Japan has also built up substantial ground, sea and air forces. Yet the Japanese have taken no active part in regional defence organizations. In spite …
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A defense of intentional realism
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.
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