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Showing 1 to 20 of 499 for “"homeland"”.
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The homeland and travel behavior
… the importance of my family members to visit our homeland and their travel behaviors. After the data is reviewed, I will try to reflect on how much I relate to their answers. I decided to hold interviews with six relatives to achieve the set goal. The results showed that my hypothesis was wrong; …
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Risk Quadruplet: Integrating Assessments of Threat, Vulnerability, Consequence, and Perception for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense
<p>Risk for homeland security and homeland defense is often considered to be a function of threat, vulnerability, and consequence. But what is that function? And are we defining and measuring these terms consistently? Threat, vulnerability, and consequence assessments are conducted, often …
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Leveraging poison centers’ capabilities for homeland security
… underutilized as a resource and as a partner for homeland security. The lack of utilization has clinical and monetary implications across the healthcare and public health enterprise. This thesis investigated the question do poison centers improve outcomes during public health emergencies? If so, …
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Homeland Security: Institution Building and Agency Cooperation
… the development of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its efforts to have local law enforcement departments integrate the DHS goals into their agency missions. The DHS has evolved into a homeland security societal sector with partners at the federal, state, and local levels. …
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Securing nuclear and radiological material in the homeland
… This poses a potentially serious threat to our homeland security. This research reviews the present statutory and regulatory scheme for NRAM, and outlines a dramatic new approach that will better ensure our homeland security.
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New models for homeland security and public safety
The standard approach to mathematical optimization is to construct models which assume 1) perfect knowledge of the algebraic form of the optimizable function, and 2) that the problem parameters are not subject to external random influences. In many practical settings, these assumptions are often …
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Novel Materials for Use in Homeland Security Research
… ring pyridazines that will act as a model for homeland security research in polymer studies and medicinal research. Synthesis and characterization of several aryl-substituted 5,6-fused ring pyridazines have been completed. The fulvenes, pyridazines, and thallium salts are important compounds …
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Homeland Security and Terrorism in Selected European States
… increased throughout the world. The face of Homeland Security is now heavily focused on the prevention, preparedness, response and recovery of terrorist attacks not only in the United States, but also amongst some of America's oldest allies. This thesis studies the level of change in homeland …
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Spectroscopic radiography with monoenergetic neutrons for homeland security applications
In this thesis, I discuss the hypothesis, testing, and applications of a radiographic system which uses the spectral analysis of fast neutrons generated in the 11B(d,n[gamma])12C reaction. Neutron radiography in current use systems employs a total count analysis to reconstruct hydrogenous content …
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The Affordable Care Act: a prescription for homeland security preparedness?
… Our ability to obtain health care is part of the homeland security preparedness puzzle. If the Affordable Care Act increases health insurance coverage and helps to control costs as promised, it has enormous potential to bolster homeland security simultaneously. This thesis asks, How will the …
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Resilient Communication : A New Crisis Communication Strategy for Homeland Security
… comprehensive crisis communication strategy for homeland security. The case study revealed the need for homeland security leaders to reframe crisis communication by considering disasters as the norm, not a rarity. The case study also found significant benefits to utilizing a complex systems …
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Programming homeland security: Citizen preparedness and the threat of terrorism.
… tests the necessity of terrorism in articulating Homeland Security citizenship. Chapter 1 orients the study, reviewing relevant literature. Chapter 2 examines the USDHS Ready Kids program's Homeland Security Guide, mapping a baseline for how Homeland Security citizenship is articulated with the …
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Regional Readiness For Intelligence Information Sharing To Support Homeland Security
The Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age was created to produce recommendations on how to best leverage intelligence and information to improve security without compromising existing civil liberties. Their second report proposed that the government set up an …
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DIASPORA - HOMELAND RELATIONS AND THE QUESTION OF ARMENIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
… identity within the framework of diaspora-homeland relations, viewed through the prism of geographic concepts of space and place. Based on observations and in-depth interviews, the study focuses on a classical diaspora case – the Armenians, particularly, its two largest communities in …
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Obsessive-compulsive homeland security: insights from the neurobiological security motivation system
… on the securitization process within the homeland security field. It proposes a model for how activation of the neurobiological security-motivation system can lead to securitization in response to a security speech act. It explores the model by qualitatively analyzing three examples of …
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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory
… permanently secure Indian Territory left Indian homelands ripe for violence and lawlessness. The thesis concludes by evaluating the cost of the conflict. One-third of the Cherokee Nation perished during the war; nearly one-quarter of the Creek population died in the conflict. By war's end, …
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Terrorism ideology and perceptions of homeland security in Tennessee law enforcement
Homeland security is a concept that has become firmly embedded in American society since the events of September 11, 2001. While recent research has begun to study the implications of homeland security in state and local law enforcement, few have focused on perceptions of homeland security …
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