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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"target state"”.
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Diplomacy derailed : the consequences of U.S. diplomatic disengagement
Advocates of diplomatic engagement with states of concern argue that talking to both allies and adversaries is essential for advancing U.S. foreign policy interests. Critics of this approach argue that engagement with these regimes is tantamount to appeasement and signals acceptance of behavior …
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Power and Humiliation in Foreign Policy: The Effects of Economic Sanctions
… and analyzes the effects of punishment on the target, including subjugation, humiliation and resistance. Seven cases of economic sanctions are studied: Cuba, Burma, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Iran where the United States, either unilaterally or as the leader of a coalition, sought to …
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Coercive Levers in Chinese Economic Statecraft: Attributed Across Earth, Rarely Apparent
… of coercive lever exercise in Chinese economic statecraft. Whereas the economic statecraft literature presumes larger economic powers dominate smaller economic powers, this study considers cases in which asymmetric interdependence in specific sectors allows relatively less developed states to …
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
… that insurgent groups with bases in neighboring states (transnational sanctuaries) are relatively more difficult to defeat than comparable groups without such bases. Insurgents with transnational sanctuaries benefit from relative protection from attack by counterinsurgents, they may recruit, …
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A Bayesian Framework for Multi-Stage Robot, Map and Target Localization
… for a mobile robot to localize itself and a target, while building a map of the environment. The proposed technique builds upon the Bayesian Simultaneous Robot Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method, to allow the robot to localize itself and the environment using map features or landmarks in …
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Nuclear bargaining : using carrots and sticks in nuclear counter-proliferation
This dissertation explores how states can use positive inducements and negative sanctions to successfully bargain with nuclear proliferators and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. It seeks to answer the following question: How effective are offers of inducements and threats of sanctions - i.e., …
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Strategic Third-Party Actors in Economic Sanctions
… sanctions are a potent tool of coercive statecraft for states wishing to induce change in their targets' behavior. However, the sanctioning state and its target are not the only relevant stakeholders or strategic players in the dynamic. Third-party actors, be they other states, …
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Sensitivity of state aid allocation to measures of needs and resources in local governments
This analysis examines the sensitivity of state intergovernmental aid, per capita, to measures of resources, infrastructure, social services, social problems and demographics in Northern and Southern local governments in 1982 and 1992. Time-periods chosen are based on the potential for domestic …
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Turkey and the European Union: Creating Domestic Norms through International Socialization
… of Turkey is the most controversial candidate state for European Union membership to date. Not only does Turkey face obstacles with the technical aspects of the enlargement process such as changes in domestic policies, the legal system, and economy, but the proposed accession of Turkey to the …
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The Dynamics of Border Disputes in State Making: The Fragile Borderlands in the Northern Region between Nigeria and Benin Republic in West Africa
… would open doors for more crisis between African states. However, sixty years after independence, border disputes continued to persist. This study investigates why border disputes persist between Nigeria and Benin Republic despite available regional and bilateral mechanisms, the area in contention …
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Accurate belief state update for probabilistic constraint automata
… that more accurately monitor and diagnose system state while maintaining reactivity. Mode estimation addresses this problem by reasoning over declarative models of the physical plant, represented as a factored variant of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), called Probabilistic Concurrent Constraint …
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Selective excitation of adsorbate vibrations on dissipative surfaces
… a suitable electric field to populate the target state/mode maximally. The complex OCT fields were analyzed by Husimi transformation, resolving the control field in time and energy. The adsorbate/surface systems investigated were CO/Cu(100), H/Si(100) and 2H/Ru(0001). These systems proved …
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Ecological Community Changes and Ecosystem Functioning During Structured Wetland Development
… with MR, including the influences of starting state, construction, and saltmarsh community structure changes require further study to provide guidelines for optimal restoration practices. Here, the ecological changes during the early stages of saltmarsh restoration via MR at Steart Marshes in …
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Bearings-only tracking automation for a single unmanned underwater vehicle
… requires some sort of estimator to determine the target state. The guidance algorithm is developed based on the relative positions of the observer and the target. In order to develop the guidance algorithm, the effectiveness of a variety of course maneuvers are presented. The effectiveness of …
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ATPG based Preimage Computation: Efficient Search Space Pruning using ZBDD
… we must enumerate all solutions for the target state during the search. Similar sub-problems often occur during preimage computation that can be identified by the internal state of the circuit. Therefore, it is highly desirable to learn from these search-states and avoid repeated search …
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A Case for 'be going to' as Prospective Aspect
The focus of this thesis is the feature of current relevance as it is expressed by the English present perfect and the present be going to construction. I propose that be going to expresses the current relevance of a future situation in the same way that the present perfect expresses the current …
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A Case for 'be going to' as Prospective Aspect
The focus of this thesis is the feature of current relevance as it is expressed by the English present perfect and the present be going to construction. I propose that be going to expresses the current relevance of a future situation in the same way that the present perfect expresses the current …
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Experimental Design for Optimal Shift Intervention in Causal Model
Transforming a causal system from a given initial state to a desired target state is an important task permeating multiple fields including control theory, biology, and materials science. In causal models, such transformations can be achieved by performing a set of interventions. When the space of …
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Discrete Transition System Model and Verification for Mitochondrially Mediated Apoptotic Signaling Pathways
… in which the goal is to determine if a target state or protein concentration in the model is realizable for a signaling pathway. Another interesting problem is to examine faulty pathways and how a fault can make a previously unrealizable state possible, or vice versa. Such analysis can …
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ADAPTIVE TUNING OF A PID CONTROLLER USING NEURAL NETWORKS
… the PID controller parameters toward a desired target state. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed technique was compared to one of the traditional tuning techniques, the Ziegler and Nichols method. The evaluation was based on subjecting both techniques to different model uncertainties. …
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