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Cyberwar as a Phenomenon of Asymmetric Threat and Cyber-Nuclear Security Threats

Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, 2019
The work deals with the topic of cyberwar as a phenomenon of asymmetric threat and cyber-nuclear security threats in modern world politics, potential threats to international politics and global security issues, counter-terrorism policies are discussed.
Аліка Гучуа, Торніке Зеделашвілі   +1 more
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Porous Organic Polymers: From Molecular Design to Scalable Technologies

Small, EarlyView.
This review introduces porous organic polymers (POPs) for a wide range of applications, including energy storage, gas adsorption, catalysts, adsorbents, biomedical applications, sensors, and other exciting fields, and critically analyzes the synthesis and modification, and how structural topology influences the composites' architecture of POPs, along ...
Hossein Mashhadimoslem, Hadi Shayesteh, Simindokht Zarei‐Shokat, Rokhsareh Bakhtiari, Sheyda Abedi‐Banaei, Zahra Sheikhlouiharzand, Parnia Mohebimanesh, Seyed Mohammad Amin Ojagh, Bahareh Bakhtiari, Ali Maleki, Theo G. M. van de Ven, Sohrab Zendehboudi, Ali Elkamel   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forces of Habit: Global SOF's Role in Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking

Journal of Strategic Security, 2014
Illicit drug trafficking is a prominent national security issue in a globalizing world. Drug trafficking intersects with major security issues such as rogue and narco-states, weak and failing states, insurgencies and terrorism, transnational organized ...
Paul Rexton Kan
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“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study investigates how participants manage the decision to end or continue their conversation when directly asked about their preferences. The dataset consists of 19 conversations where the researcher explicitly asked if the two participants wanted to continue their conversation, thus causing some potential interactional trouble for the ...
Emmi Koskinen
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing Accuracy and Cost: Trade‐Offs in Large Language Model Quantization for the Systems Engineering Domain

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed within the systems engineering domain, optimizing these models to balance performance accuracy and cost for given computational resources becomes essential. One process for finding the right balance is quantization, a process that involves converting model parameters from higher ...
Ryan Bell, Raymond Madachy, Ryan Longshore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accelerating Mission Engineering: Evidence of a Stratified Landscape and a Path Toward Unified Practice

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mission Engineering is maturing as a Systems Engineering discipline, yet adoption of its common frameworks remains stratified. This study examines whether selective adoption is observable across ME scholarship and develops a framework to address identified barriers.
James Moreland, Nathaniel Ambler, Casey LaMar, Maegen Nix, Craig Sawyer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Warfare Studies and Russia’s Example in Crimea

Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2015
Although Hybrid Warfare is an old concept, theoretical studies in the western countries mainly began in the post-Col War era, focusing on asymmetrical threats against conventional superiority of western countries such as USA or Israel.
Mehmet Seyfettin EROL, Şafak OĞUZ
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Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
wiley   +1 more source

IRREGULAR WARFARE IN AFRICAN CONFLICTS

Scientia Militaria, 2011
Irregular wars have erupted in African states since colonial independencefrom Western European countries in the 1960s. The end of the Cold War in 1989and the changing nature of international politics did not bring about politicalstability in African ...
Rialize Ferreira
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