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The Strategic Defense Initiative: A Critique and Primer

Jungerman, John A - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1988

As a critique of SDI, the article covers all aspects of SDI development and implementation. From the politcal, legal … and moral concerns presented by SDI to the technical difficulties in implementation of such systems, the ABM issue is …

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"ARE WE THERE YET?" ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF INSPIRE TO EIA AND SEA STUDIES

CRAGLIA, MAX; PAVANELLO, LARA; SMITH, ROBIN S. - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 14 (2012) 01, pp. 1250005-1

This paper reports the findings of a survey in 2009 of European practitioners who face problems related to accessing and using spatial data when preparing reports for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs). The survey was designed to be comparable...

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Hydrological Drought Assessment in Northwestern Iran Based on Streamflow Drought Index (SDI)

Tabari, Hossein; Nikbakht, Jaefar; Talaee, P. Hosseinzadeh - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 1, pp. 137-151

streamflow drought index (SDI) for overlapping periods of 3, 6, 9 and 12 months at 14 hydrometric stations in the northwest of … the hydrological drought analysis based on the SDI showed that almost all the stations suffered from extreme droughts …

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SDI: Two Views of Professional Responsibility

Cohen, Danny; Lorge Pamas, David - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1987

A juxtaposition of two competing views regarding the development and implementation of SDI, the article takes its two … positions from two separate sources. These opposing opinions are for either the implementation of SDI on defense grounds or the … cancelling of SDI to prevent destabilitization. …

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Science Advice to Presidents: From Test Bans to SDI

Greb, G Allen - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1987

This paper looks at the interplay between the scientific community and the office of the President. In particular, the breakdown between policy formation and the scientific community as well as the politicization of scientific advisory position have decayed a once strong partnership.

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Reykjavik: The Breach and Repair of the Pure War Script

Mehan, Hugh; Skelly, James M - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1987

This document examines the fundimental changes innegotiating techniques and posturing by the US and USSR that appeared in the days following the Reykjavik conference on nuclear arms. Predictions and prospects follow.

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The Greatest Story Never Told

Gitlin, Todd - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1987

regarding the rise and decline of the SDI program in the 1980s. It also explores the implications of ABM technologies and the …

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A conceptual framework for privacy policy negotiation in web services

Wu, Chen; Potdar, Vidyasagar; Chang, Elizabeth - 2006

Research into privacy in web services based service-oriented environment gained attention in recent years. Business Transaction Level Data (TLD) privacy is important because in web services the interaction between the Service Provider and Service consumer is far more complicated than in the...

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Open standards-based system integration for asset management decision support

Mathew, Avin D.; Purser, Michael; Ma, Lin; Barlow, Matthew - 2010

Over the last decade, system integration has grown in popularity as it allows organisations to streamline business processes. Traditionally, system integration has been conducted through point-to-point solutions – as a new integration scenario requirement arises, a custom solution is built...

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Efficient data access for Open Modeling Interface (OpenMI)components

Bulatewicz, Tom; Andresen, Daniel - 2011

Data management for linked (or coupled) simulationmodels can be a challenging task when deploying togrid environments. In cases where the linked models conformto a standard interface for data input and output, generalpurposedata providers can be used to supply data to themodels from online...

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