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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"combatant"”.
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A comparative analysis of small combatant ships
Thesis (Ocean E)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1980.
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Combatant moral equality in historical and practical context.
… morality of war is called the moral equality of combatants (MEC). The current concept of MEC emerged as a property of the laws of war in the modern era, though its development is traceable in the history of just war. The morality of the concept has been questioned by revisionist scholars who seek …
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Surface combatant planning since the end of the Cold War
U.S. Navy surface combatant requirements progressively dropped from 238 in 1988 to 116 in 1998. This reduction was part of the U.S. military transformation in the post-Cold War period. This thesis examined the major factors that influenced the change in surface combatant planning since 1990, i. e. …
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Design evaluation of naval combatant secondary structure under hydrostatic lateral load
Thesis (S.M. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2003.
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Design impact of propulsion plant variations on a small combatant ship
Thesis (Ocean E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1988, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1988.
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Refinement of Surface Combatant Ship Synthesis Model for Network-Based System Design
This thesis describes an adaptable component level machinery system weight and size estimation tool used in the context of a ship distributed system architecture framework and ship synthesis model for naval ship concept design. The system architecture framework decomposes the system of systems into …
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The March of Judicial Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Enemy Combatant Case Law
… cosmopolitanism and its prevalence in enemy combatant case law. The author draws upon the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan law to describe judicial cosmopolitanism as form of legal discourse through which judges show a willingness to extend …
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Rebuilding Relationships after Civil War: Relational Justice and Ex-Combatant Reintegration in Liberia
… a focus on relational justice. Keywords: ex-combatant reintegration, non-relational community. Palava Hut, peacebuilding, relational community, relational context, relational justice, transitional justice.</p>
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Behavioural, microhabitat, and phylogenetic dimensions of intrasexual contest competition in combatant monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini)
… substrate. I find that hind leg size in another combatant monkey beetle, the species complex Scelophysa trimeni, varies across gradients of flower size among several spatially distributed populations, suggesting that variation in flower size (the contest substrate) mediates selection for weapon …
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When Do Ties Bind? Foreign Fighters, Social Embeddedness, and Combatant Repertoires of Behavior During Civil War
… to civilian victimization, I argue that combatants' interactions that occur on and off the battlefield are contingent on actors' embeddedness into local conflict conflicts. Using existing data on foreign fighters in civil wars, data from interviews with 50 subjects in Bosnia, combatant …
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Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.
… examines narrative representations of female non-combatant identity authored by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. between 1916 and 1955, a historical moment consonant with World War I, the interwar era, World War II, and its aftermath. Their depictions of the material reality of war …
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Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of an inverted bow on the hydrodynamic performance of Navy combatant hull forms
… bow by comparing the motions of an existing combatant hull, the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate (FFG-7), with a modified version of the same hull with an inverted bow. The bow of the FFG-7 was redesigned by developing a set of basic curves that define the parametric surface of the new …
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AFRICOM's Impact on International and Human Security: A Case Study of Tanzania
… was to add to existing evaluations of the U.S. Combatant Command for Africa (AFRICOM) by taking an in-depth look at its impact through a case study of Tanzania and sought to answer three questions: What is the impact of AFRICOM on executing U.S. national security policy in Tanzania? To what …
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Performance measurement of a carrier battle group: a case study of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet's participation as a performance planning and reporting pilot project for fiscal year 1996
… Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). Combatant military organizations have experienced, and will experience, some of the greatest challenges of changing from the management of inputs and outputs to defining, quantifying, measuring and managing for outcomes. The central core of this …
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Wireless electronic scoring of kendo competition matches using an embedded system
… resistor pads located on the outside of the combatants Kendo armor. These pads sense the amount of force applied by each combatant as they strike their opponent. The system also utilizes Window Comparator Chips to determine if the strike is of sufficient force. If the force is sufficient the …
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Manning and automation of naval surface combatants : a functional allocation approach using axiomatic design theory
… ship being designed is a naval surface combatant. The ship design process is traditionally viewed as a highly coupled collection of interrelated physical attributes often determined in an ad hoc fashion. Therefore, lack of understanding and documenting the design progression frequently …
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An assessment of uncertainty due to adversary mobility
… planning for a face-to-face confrontation with a combatant. Adversarial freedom of maneuver and the fixed nature of asset defense leaves limited room for error or half-assessments, yet past analysis of regional defendability presumes a static, symmetric adversary, rather than a nimble, cunning …
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Real options for naval ship design and acquisition : a method for valuing flexibility under uncertainty
… States Navy is facing a need for a novel surface combatant capability. This new system of ships must be deigned to meet the uncertainty associated with constantly changing required mission capabilities, threats, and technological advances. Flexibility in design and management will enable these …
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Resource Burden of Logistics to Navy Ships Under Threat Scenarios
What is the fully burdened cost of supply to combatant ships in remote locations? Currently, there are directives that require an estimate of the fully burdened cost of energy in a number of analyses in acquisition, but the approved method(s) for estimating this cost are still being developed. …
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