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India\u27s Security Environment: Towards the Year 2000
In January 1996, the U.S. War College\u27s Strategic Studies Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted a conference on Asian Security to the Year 2000. In his presentation to the conference, Dr. Raju Thomas examined India\u27s defense perspectives and prospects. From the standpoint of national security, India\u27s post-independence history divides neatly into a turbulent first half, which included conflicts with China and Pakistan, and a relatively more stable period since 1971. That stability has been rattled by significant challenges (Kashmir, Sri Lanka, etc.), as Dr. Thomas points out. Five years ago, the collapse of the Soviet Union seemed to presage a more troubled era. Certainly, it caused as broad a reassessment of strategic policy in South Asia as elsewhere in the world. Dr. Thomas analyzes India\u27s security environment and the three levels of challenges that India confronts in this post-Cold War period--internal, conventional military, and nuclear. While the challenges in each arena are profound and interrelated, he finds considerable room for optimism that the early years of the next century will see continued stability in South Asia.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1874/thumbnail.jp
Energy and Security in the Industrializing World
Provides detailed analyses of the related concerns of energy needs, the economy, and national security for developing countries—Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, India, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, and Taiwan.
The essays serve to underline the dangerous problem of nuclear proliferation for several of these countries have uneasy relations with their neighbors. In their detailed reviews of these eight nations—their plans and their capabilities—the contributors have provided a valuable source for a neglected area of international affairs.
Raju G.C. Thomas is professor of Political Science at Marquette University.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_energy_policy/1000/thumbnail.jp
PERFORMANCE STUDY OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS ON NON EXPANSIVE SOILS
As part of infrastructure development huge investment is being made on expansion of National highways and important roads across the country. For improvement of Highways two types of Pavements are commonly used in India viz., Flexible Pavements (Bituminous) and rigid pavements (Concrete). Flexible pavements are widely used in this country from the considerations of economy The performance of Flexible pavements depends largely on properties of original ground on which the pavement rests, the quality of materials used in the construction of various layers of pavement and quality assurance as per relevant specifications. In general any road after construction is basically evaluated by the performance in terms of unevenness index and structural stability over a period of time. The evaluation of these two important parameters will facilitate the clear understanding of performance of various materials used in the construction and to undertake suitable rehabilitation measures if necessary. Keywords: Expansive Soil, Flexible Pavement
Counting Giant Gravitons in AdS_3
We quantize the set of all quarter BPS brane probe solutions in global AdS_3
\times S^3 \times T^4/K3 found in arxiv:0709.1168 [hep-th]. We show that,
generically, these solutions give rise to states in discrete representations of
the SL(2,R) WZW model on AdS_3. Our procedure provides us with a detailed
description of the low energy 1/4 and 1/2 BPS sectors of string theory on this
background. The 1/4 BPS partition function jumps as we move off the point in
moduli space where the bulk theta angle and NS-NS fields vanish. We show that
generic 1/2 BPS states are protected because they correspond to geodesics
rather than puffed up branes. By exactly quantizing the simplest of the probes
above, we verify our description of 1/4 BPS states and find agreement with the
known spectrum of 1/2 BPS states of the boundary theory. We also consider the
contribution of these probes to the elliptic genus and discuss puzzles, and
their possible resolutions, in reproducing the elliptic genus of the symmetric
product.Comment: 47 pages; (v2) references and minor clarifications adde
Pilot scale studies on the beneficiation of complex sulphides by flotation column
Experiments using pilot size flotation Column as cleaner cell were conducted to evolve a suitable flow sheet for the production of bulk sulphide concentrates of Cu-Pb-Zn. The flotalion circuit consisting of roughing, scavenging, and two stage cleaning by conventional flotation machines
was compared with the circuit where two stage cleaning operation was replaced with single stage cleaning by flotation column. It is clearly demonstrated that a single stage cleaning by flotation column is more efficient and sufficient to obtain bulk concentrate suitable for further
processing. Of the two types of sparger systems used viz, TURBO and MICROCEL, the former was found to be better to achieve high quality concentrate
Beneficiation of Gold Ore by Flotation Column: A Pilot Scale Study
During the first phase of the study, laboratory size
flotation column was installed within the premises
of flotation plant of M/s BGML to study the
amenability of column technology for the benefIciation of gold. Encouraged by the results, semi-commercial flotation column designed and developed by NML Madras Centre was installed in the flotation circuit to evaluate its performance and also to instil confidence. The results obtained both by laboratory and semi-commercial size
flotation columns clearly indicated that the
columns can perform better than the conventional
cells. It was observed that high quality
concentrates assaying 40 to 50 ppm of gold could
be achieved by flotation column, whereas
conventional cells could produce hardly 10 to 15
ppm of gold concentrates
Making On-Demand Routing Efficient with Route-Request Aggregation
In theory, on-demand routing is very attractive for mobile ad hoc networks
(MANET), because it induces signaling only for those destinations for which
there is data traffic. However, in practice, the signaling overhead of existing
on-demand routing protocols becomes excessive as the rate of topology changes
increases due to mobility or other causes. We introduce the first on-demand
routing approach that eliminates the main limitation of on-demand routing by
aggregating route requests (RREQ) for the same destinations. The approach can
be applied to any existing on-demand routing protocol, and we introduce the
Ad-hoc Demand-Aggregated Routing with Adaptation (ADARA) as an example of how
RREQ aggregation can be used. ADARA is compared to AODV and OLSR using
discrete-event simulations, and the results show that aggregating RREQs can
make on-demand routing more efficient than existing proactive or on-demand
routing protocols
Nicotine stomatitis and its relation to carcinoma of the hard palate in reverse smokers of chuttas
Clinical surveys and biopsy studies demonstrated a close correlation among reverse smoking, nicotine stomatitis, and carcinoma of the palate
La Vida e historia del rey Apolonio [¿Zaragoza, Juan Hurus, 1488?] y su trayectoria genérica*
En el artículo se analiza la diversa trayectoria genérica de la Vida e historia del rey Apolonio [¿Zaragoza, Juan Hurus, 1488?] desde una triple perspectiva. Por su origen, remonta a la Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, narración de origen clásico próxima a las novelas griegas. Su recepción hispánica se aleja de su género de creación, pues el texto es traducción de un capítulo de las Gesta romanorum, y se presentaría, impreso junto a los Siete sabios de Roma, como una historia ejemplar. Por último, la crítica moderna ha optado por insertarlo en la serie de los «romances de materia clásica» y en el género editorial de las «historias caballerescas breves»
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