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Inspections to Avert Terrorism: Robustness Under Severe Uncertainty

Moffitt, L. Joe; Stranlund, John K.; Field, Barry C. - 2005

Protecting against terrorist attacks requires making decisions in a world in which attack probabilities are largely unknown. The potential for very large losses encourages a conservative perspective, in particular toward decisions that are robust. But robustness, in the sense of assurance...

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Analysis of the Colby quarterly econometric model of the U.S. economy using the economic effects of September 11th

Culpen, Alison - 2002

The economic repercussions of September 11th are unique in that never before have economists needed to forecast and examine the impact of an event of such magnitude. This paper explains many of the economic effects of September l Ith, from the initial aftermath to recent developments. These...

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Three Essays on the Objective Function in Economics.

Goldstein, Daniel A. - 2007

This dissertation consists of three largely independent essays. The first finds a significant correlation between the price of crude oil and significant terrorist attacks by groups of Middle Eastern origin against Western nations. In particular, such terrorist attacks are considerably more...

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Repression and Newtwork Science: Tools in Fight against Terrorism

Wright, Dominick' E - 2010

The dissertation, Repression and Network Science: Tools in Fight againstTerrorism, explores what determines post …‐terror repression in democracies andwhat alternative tools network science may ultimately reveal to for compellingauthorities to rely on … terrorism. Chapter 2 takes the opposite view, using highpoweredstatistics to evaluate a single case. At question is the tool in …

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Simulations in 3D tactics, interdiction and multi-agent modelling

Green, A. R.; Piper, I. C.; Keep, D.; Flaherty, C. J. - 2009

within a complex 3D environment. This approach, we believe is needed to ‘solve’ the counter terrorism problem presented by …

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Der Einfluss von persönlichen Netzwerken auf die Adoption von Innovationen

Jan Kuhlmann - 2008

Trotz intensiver Auseinandersetzung der Adoptionsforschung mit dem Einfluss von interpersoneller Kommunikation auf die Adoption von Individuen sind nur schwache oder widersprüchliche empirische Belege in der Literatur zu finden. Am Beispiel eines innovativen Anästhesiegeräts untersucht Jan...

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Reaching Up: The influence of gender, status, and relationship type on men's and women's network preferences

Stallings, Monica M - 2010

networks through a framework of network preferences when seeking career-related advice with specific focus on three key … men’s and women’s network preferences. I find that both men and women most prefer seeking advice from same-sex multiplex … personal networks because it highlights the complex psychology that drive network preferences regarding gender-based homophily …

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Individual QoS versus aggregate QoS: A loss performance study

Xu, Ying; Guérin, Roch A - 2005

This paper explores the differences that can exist between individual and aggregate loss guarantees in an environment where guarantees are only provided at an aggregate level. The focus is on understanding which traffic parameters are responsible for inducing possible deviations and to what...

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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Compliance in Restaurants

Kalkan, Kutay; Kwansa, Francis; Cobanoglu, Cihan - 2010

In order to improve the security of customer data, the credit card companies have come together to create a security standard, called Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which involve mandatory requirements for merchants that accept credit card transactions. All restaurants...

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Finding Optimal Targets for Change Agents: A Computer Simulation of Innovation Diffusion

Maienhofer, Dirk; Finholt, Thomas A. - 2002

We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold … illustrate these interdependencies we outline how the impact of an actor targeted by a change agent spreads through the network …

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