British policy toward the spanish civil war 1936-1939

One of the tasks which face decision-makers is, therefore, to manage the tensions that arise from the incompatibility of the values and interests of the national community with those of the other actors in the international system

The Future of Journalism

The news industry faces monumental challenges: • More people are getting news and information on line •Advertising revenues are down • Major media companies are in or have gone through bankruptcy • Minute-by-minute reporting is changing the way newspapers, especially, report the news • Layoffs and consolidation stretches news staffs to cover stories in-depth What do these challenges mean for the future of news? What will be the impact of the changing media landscape on our democracy? How will these challenges influence the careers of future journalists? John Foreman, publisher, News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana Will Sullivan, interactive director, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nancy Foreman, executive producer, WCIA-TV 3, Champaign-Urbana Bryan Murley, assistant professor of journalism, Eastern Illinois University Moderator Jeff Lynch, interim dean, College of Arts & Humanitieshttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/humanitiescenter_meaningfulwork0910/1000/thumbnail.jp

Short hedge example with futures

"Original authors: Joe Parcell and Vern Pierce""This guide describes how to place an output (short) hedge in the futures market to reduce the price risk associated with selling an output used in your business."--First page.John Kruse (Associate Extension Professor, Division of Applied Social Services), Marty Foreman (Instructor, Division of Applied Social Sciences)New 12/00; Revised 2/1

Positional Verbs in Colonial Valley Zapotec

This paper describes the system of positional verbs (e.g., ‘be standing’ and ‘be lying’) in Colonial Valley Zapotec (CVZ), a historical form of Valley Zapotec preserved in archival documents written during the Mexican colonial period. We provide data showing that positional verbs in CVZ have unique morphological properties and participate in a defined set of syntactic constructions, showing that positional verbs formed a formal class of verbs in Valley Zapotec as early as the mid-1500s. This work contributes to the typological literature on positional verbs, demonstrating the type of morphosyntactic work that can be done with a corpus of CVZ texts, and contributes to our understanding of the structure and development of the modern Zapotec positional verb system with implications for the larger Zapotec locative system

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Optimized supply routing at Dell under non-stationary demand

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80).This thesis describes the design and implementation of an optimization model to manage inventory at Dell's American factories. Specifically, the model is a mixed integer program which makes routing decisions on incoming monitors (a bulky item which incurs great shipping costs) from Asia to Dell's factories in America as well as inventory transfer decisions from factory to factory. The optimization model approaches the inventory allocation problem by minimizing inventory routing costs plus shortage costs across all sites subject to constraints which define the specifics of Dell's supply chain. Shortage costs are assessed using a per part per day back order penalty, however a more precise assessment of shortage costs using actual costs from a combined MIT/Dell study is also presented. The software implementation of the optimization model has been field tested and validated and is now being adopted on a global level for use in balancing supply to all of Dell's factories worldwide. The software design as well as the implementation results are discussed within this thesis. Also, an adaptation of the model to a global scale is presented. This extension of the model, which assumes a "global warehouse" upstream in the supply chain, allocates inventory from the China to regional facilities throughout the world subject to supply chain constraints and the understanding that regional teams will tend to balance out their own region's inventory using intraregional balancing decisions.by John William Foreman.S.M

The 2-loop matter power spectrum and the IR-safe integrand

Large scale structure surveys are likely the next leading probe of cosmological information. It is therefore crucial to reliably predict their observables. The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures (EFTofLSS) provides a manifestly convergent perturbation theory for the weakly non-linear regime, where dark matter correlation functions are computed in an expansion of the wavenumber k over the wavenumber associated to the non-linear scale knl. To push the predictions to higher wavenumbers, it is necessary to compute the 2-loop matter power spectrum. For equal-time correlators, exactly as with standard perturturbation theory, there are IR divergences present in each diagram that cancel completely in the final result. We develop a method by which all 2-loop diagrams are computed as one integral, with an integrand that is manifestly free of any IR divergences. This allows us to compute the 2-loop power spectra in a reliable way that is much less numerically challenging than standard techniques. We apply our method to scaling universes where the linear power spectrum is a single power law of k, and where IR divergences can particularly easily interfere with accurate evaluation of loop corrections if not handled carefully. We show that our results are independent of IR cutoff and, after renormalization, of the UV cutoff, and comment how the method presented here naturally generalizes to higher loops.Comment: 27 pages, 7 figures; v2: JCAP published version; some typos correcte

Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator: Demonstrating Novel CubeSat Technologies in Low Earth Orbit

NASA\u27s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator (PTD) project will test the operation of a variety of novel CubeSat technologies in low-Earth orbit, providing significant enhancements to the performance of these small and effective spacecraft. Each Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator mission will consist of a 6-unit (6U) CubeSat weighing approximately 12 kilograms and measuring 30 centimeters x 25 centimeters x 10 centimeters. The PTD project led by NASA\u27s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, in collaboration with NASA\u27s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio and a commercial partner will benefit future missions by demonstrating the operation of new subsystem technologies on orbit. These technologies include propulsion systems that provide the capability to maneuver small science platforms and send small spacecraft to deep space; novel technologies to stabilize spacecraft, and laser communications systems that will greatly increase the amount of data that can be transmitted from the spacecraft to the ground. As small spacecraft increase mobility and capability, NASA benefits by flight-qualifying these subsystems, providing access to low cost, highly capable, science and technology platforms that can operate from the near-Earth to the deep space environment. The PTD mission is funded through NASA\u27s Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP), which is chartered to develop and mature technologies to enhance and expand the capabilities of small spacecraft with a particular focus on communications, propulsion, pointing, power, and autonomous operations. The SSTP is one of nine programs within NASA\u27s Space Technology Mission Directorate. This paper will include an overview of the PTD project, the PTD spacecraft bus interfaces and capabilities as an adaptable, commercially developed small satellite bus for LEO technology demonstration, potential types of payloads, expected timeframe and flights, and how the PTD project will be a pathfinder for novel small spacecraft technologies to be flight demonstrated for science, commercial, and governmental use